FanciestPants

@FanciestPants@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who will carry on the knowledge of what the a:\ and b:\ drives were?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmmm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Homeless looking guy sounds like he has way more chill than I would have in this situation. Good for that guy. I hope he had a winning night too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I just use a projector, do i still have to worry about the maker of the tablet that connects to the projector doing the same thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They make phones. I had to look this up since I had never heard of this company.

  I would find it weird to be referred to as Nothing staff, or a Nothing employee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the oldest game anyone here has played in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to a gamestop a few months ago to see if they had any games for my Gameboy Advance. The dude at the register said I might have better luck at the “retro game” store in the next town over. I nearly spit out my Crystal Pepsi at him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The number 1 cause of death from chocking is having some sort of obstruction of the air ways.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The number 1 cause occurs in more cases than the number 2 cause.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if those companies had any say in whether their products were used, but this wasn’t supposed to be for advertising. It was supposed to be a gimmick for what was stated to be a message on the economy, but the orange atrocity personified saw a squirrel and the whole address ended up being the same whiny bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bet y'all are very familiar with this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, but does it run Linux?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time Crisis GunCon PlayStation Controller⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a guncon3 somewhere around. It works with a pair of sensors placed on top of the TV, like in the PS Eye and XBox Move era. No CRT was required for that.

  The length of the cable between the sensors was made for something like a 40" screen though, so if you play on a larger screen they sit a bit toward the center instead of in the corners where they are supposed to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The justices of the supreme court ruled that Trump was immune and effectively above the law while being president. What is now stopping Biden from bringing a gun to the next debate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not assert that the court gave full immunity for all things, but will now suggest that not every crime is a violation of the constitution, or could not be committed while carrying out a function of the constitution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The justices of the supreme court ruled that Trump was immune and effectively above the law while being president. What is now stopping Biden from bringing a gun to the next debate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would immunity be necessary if the act is not otherwise a crime?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of ‘dead internet’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With proliferation of AI generated content, people aren’t able to identify other human generated content, or be certain that their online interactions are with a bot or human. This scenario has apparently been called the dark forest internet because people will try to preserve their communities by more restrictive curating, effectively hiding both from other humans and bots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys should check out the reddit clone I've been working on⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it okay to openly say that you’ve cloned another product, or promote a product as a clone of another? I honestly don’t know the legal precedents, and know that there are many sites that have copied elements of other products that they intend to compete with, but reading the post title gave me a sinking feeling of Reddit lawyers perking up.

  The site looks nice, and I really hope that I’m just being paranoid about possible legal exposure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taylor Swift has won the Superbowl!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was playing the “take a shot everytime Swift endorses Biden” game. I am angrily sober…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nic Cage through the years⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I could tell, his “appearance” in The Flash, which is in quotes because I’m fairly certain it was all CGI with no dialogue, was an incredibly deep cut inside joke for a Tim Burton Superman movie that never got released. His “appearance” in The Flash should not be considered a Nic Cage performance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not this guy again⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not familiar with KajaGooGoo, but I remember the Goo Goo Dolls. Sounds like either would have been a fun opening act for Gaga.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Voice - Donate your voice to teach machines how people speak | Mozilla⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice try, Ursula

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose A or B⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Infinite uncles means the population of earth is completely unsustainable and the collapse of every system is imminent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pentagon Scientists Discuss Cybernetic 'Super Soldiers' That Feel Nothing While Killing In Dystopian Presentation⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someday in Hollywood they’ll have to make a new film genre for pre-apocalyse movies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If we’re setting the calendar back 200 years, I’d have to guess that one of the contributing factors is records keeping and reporting. The definition of what is considered a “mass shooting” has also been fluid over the past 50 or so years.

  These are not likely to be major contributors, but from Hollywood’s depictions, mass shootings may have been pretty common around 150 years ago.