stoly
@stoly@lemmy.world
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 3 days ago:
even then, many bluerays are just cheap upscales with no other changes. I made that mistake once with a boxset only to find that it was a very obvious DVD
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone 5 days ago:
This is the bizarre thing. Google’s founders got out of the game back in like 2010. Why the hell is he still trying to run the show? Step out of the way and let some new creativity get involved.
- Comment on In the US we have signs that say No Shirt No Shoes No service. When did this become a norm? Also if I am wearing a shirt and shoes but no pants can I still enter? 5 days ago:
I believe that the no shirt no shoes was originally targeted at rural areas where someone might be working on the farm and come in as they were to buy some groceries. Time? Probably 1950s with the larger health and hygiene movements of the time.
- Comment on Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums 6 days ago:
I specifically got one with no WiFi to avoid any issues like this.
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 1 week ago:
These people are not in danger. Any harm to them is reputational. Reputation is the only thing they have in life.
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 1 week ago:
Step one being “make the judge mad” is a bad idea.
- Comment on Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety" 1 week ago:
or they see that things will collapse soon enough and are bailing like rats leaving a sinking ship
- Comment on Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety" 1 week ago:
The MBA class has long been this way.
- Comment on Rufus blames Microsoft for allegedly blocking latest Windows 11 ISO downloads 1 week ago:
Yeah you can still get the windows update tool for win 11 but it’s hard to find.
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 1 week ago:
Don’t forget Bernie and AOC.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 2 weeks ago:
It’s not a simple thing. You really need some personal tie like ancestry or marriage, go to a university, or be sponsored for work.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 weeks ago:
Is that a JE reference?
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 weeks ago:
I remember seeing an article about how the xlsx format description was several hundred pages in length.
- Comment on 'No One Should Have a Copyright on Vance Being Booed': Video From Olympics Blocked on X 3 weeks ago:
Probably DMCA. The Olympic committee is very jealous and very aggressive. They control all recordings strictly.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 3 weeks ago:
It is a scummy thing to do but the leaders of the gaming industry, Gabe aside, have always been psychopaths.
- Comment on Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from 4 weeks ago:
There will be a lot of medical literature with photos of children’s bodies to demonstrate conditions, illnesses, etc.
- Comment on Hard to answer the question when you don't even understand the question 4 weeks ago:
I’ve literally had this happen. Doing a doctorate in engineering rn and this is real.
- Comment on It always makes news when the "Doomsday Clock" is moved by a second or minute. What would actually happen if it got to 00:00 4 weeks ago:
As I understand, this clock measures how habitable the world remains for humans. If we get to the end, we’d say that humans can’t easily survive anymore.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 4 weeks ago:
I’m also fairly sure that Gen Z has been moving on for a while now.
- Comment on Haha that's really cool, funny number man 4 weeks ago:
Or the heavy statistics….
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 5 weeks ago:
They are companies run by right wing shitbags. How many genocides were conducted on Facebook?
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 5 weeks ago:
The smart ones work in research and teaching.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 5 weeks ago:
All this article is showing is that a large number of CEOs are swayed by hype and make poor decisions. What other poor decisions are they making all the time?
I am thoroughly convinced that the MBA is the most useless degree ever because when you look at how large businesses run so poorly, and are run by MBAs.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 1 month ago:
I specifically remember the exodus from DIGG as the start of reddit sucking.
- Comment on Good night sweet prince 1 month ago:
And it takes longer to season aluminium!
- Comment on Good night sweet prince 1 month ago:
That’s when it’s most useful because now it’s nonstick.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 1 month ago:
How much longer will 15 year old answers be useful?
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 1 month ago:
The Redditification of SO
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 month ago:
The better option is a fancy japanese toilet that opens and closes itself as you enter and leave the room.
- Comment on They should make a reboot of Freakazoid where he gets his powers from the 2025 internet instead of the 1995 internet. 2 months ago:
was this on MTV?