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- Comment on YSK that cholesterol is only found in significant quantities in animal products. 1 week ago:
You know this will only make people want to dig deeper, right? Whoever is paying you off to pretend like nothing is going on should’ve really told you to use an alt or something.
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 1 week ago:
Can we stop with this subtle EU propaganda slop? I LIVE in an EU country and I have the exact same problem with modern movies. This has nothing to do with who gets to make the laws, there are only two reasons why everything needs subtitles now:
- Because of advancements in microphone technologies, actors don’t need to speak as clearly and are getting lazy as a result.
- Movies producers are assholes who think that everyone has a 50000$ surround sound home theater system and master the movie soundtracks accordingly – which makes explosions and action scenes sound WAY TOO LOUD on normal people sound systems.
- Comment on YSK about qalculate, an opensource, versatile calculator with nice cli 1 week ago:
I love how new versions of the CLI have the result automatically update as you type. Nice to see people going above and beyond to make CLI’s pleasant!
- Comment on YSK that cholesterol is only found in significant quantities in animal products. 1 week ago:
Banned from community? Post score in the negative? What are the mods trying to cover up here?!
- Comment on YSK: there's a browser extension called "SingleFile", which allows you to save a page into a single HTML file. 1 week ago:
Also recommending ArchiveBox – it takes the shotgun approach to archiving websites, making snapshots with a bunch of different tools, singlefile being among them. You can use it as a one-shot command, or run it as a web server which provides a UI for archiving web pages. Linkwarden is similar.
- Comment on YSK: You should enable peak refresh rate in Android 1 week ago:
IMHO the only reason to go above 60Hz is for better responsiveness in competitive games. Otherwise it’s just a meme, definitely a total gimmick on smartphones.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 5 weeks ago:
It depends on the phase. Sometimes you get constructive interference and they add up instead.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 5 weeks ago:
I personally like to listen to both sides of the story so that I can absorb 2x the disinformation
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 1 month ago:
Sounds like a very elegant way to fuck over screenreader users
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- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 1 month ago:
IDK what you mean by “domain host” but the thing about cloudflare ('s most prominent service) is that it’s essentially a voluntary MITM between you and your clients. They see ALL traffic going between your server and your clients. This is not normal. Normally traffic between server and client is encrypted with HTTPS. By using cloudflare’s proxy your are adding a backdoor to that encryption. Your registrar cannot normally see this traffic. Your certificate authority cannot normally see this traffic without issuing a malicious cert. But cloudflare can. And, if they wanted to, they could even inject malware to deanonymize users, spy on journalists, steal data, etc. As a matter of fact, they already do, but instead of calling it “malware” they call it “analytics”, so it’s okay 👍
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 1 month ago:
Cloudflare is harmful. Sure, maybe they’re doing a Good Thing™ today, but who stops them from turning around and selling all of the data they proxy to AI companies tomorrow? There is rarely a good reason to use cloudflare. If you care about blocking bots, there are self-hostable tools like Anubis. If you care about hiding your server’s IP, you can use a VPN that allows port forwarding or rent a VPS. Do not use cloudflare. Cloudflare should not be used. By using cloudflare, you surrender your digital sovereignty for a mirage of convenience and safety.
(Yes, I understand the irony of posting this from a instance that uses cloudflare)
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 1 month ago:
Yes indeed. It seems so far that the best defence is to join utterly unhinged communities and participate in degeneracy so severe that no publicly traded company would want to scrape you. Something something become ungovernable.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 1 month ago:
which I sometimes need because sometimes I do feel real bad
I kinda get what you mean. Sense of belonging and communication with people who understand you is important, never sacrifice your community in favor of some ideological quirk! Sure, there are good reasons to avoid reddit and discord, but they’re not good enough to cut yourself loose from people who make you feel like you belong!!
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- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 1 month ago:
I have fairphone, it comes with unlockable bootloader. Don’t get the new ones tho, they suck. 3+ was the last good model before they drank the koolaid and removed the headphone jack.
- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 2 months ago:
I’m an /e/os user and all I can say is even though it sucks the least among its competition, it STILL SUCKS! Not to downplay the immense effort put in by the devs and maintainers of course. Providing a privacy-respecting phone OS to ordinary people isn’t just a good deed, it’s necessary for a vibrant and diverse digital society. But still, we can all strive for better.
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- Comment on What a shocker! 2 months ago:
Unpopular opinion but games with community-driven multiplier (i.e. people hosting their own servers) is infinitely better than matchmaking multiplayer running on the dev/publisher’s servers if only for the sole reason that players have a choice of what kinds of communities they want to build and what things other players should be allowed to do instead of being forced into a sterilized commercial monoculture. I should be able to say “KYS KYS” in game if the people I’m playing with are okay with it.
- Comment on Planet of the apes: Beginning 2 months ago:
based thailand has toy guns that actually look like guns. None of that rainbow vomit laser blaster nonsense.
- Comment on Cutting sucks 2 months ago:
Food is fuel and construction material.
I live in the netherlands rn and basically at some point in history there was a guy called Calvin who convinced almost everybody to see food this way. To this day traditional dutch food is the blandest, saddest assortment of dishes imaginable. Thank god for immigrants bringing in some flavour.
- Comment on On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android. 3 months ago:
The reason they don’t want you to unlock your bootloader is because of security…
…security of their revenue stream, that is.
- Comment on Genius 3 months ago:
I guess if he’s getting paid to do the interviews then it’s technically passive… wait no, then the whole interviewer thing would just count as advertising for his vending machine business
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 5 months ago:
Huh, this person doesn’t like starbucks
They must be autistic
Peak .world behavior right there
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 5 months ago:
Convenience? The fuck are you talking about?? Have you never heard of soluble coffee? I carry a jar of soluble coffee in my backpack when I go to uni. They have those instant water boiling taps on every floor in my faculty building, I can make myself a mug just like that. Is it good? No. But certainly better than starbucks.
But whatever, I’m not going to argue with someone who’s trying to convince me that the thing I do almost every day with no issues is actually impossible.
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 5 months ago:
It has always striked me as a rich people thing
Fastfoods marketing themselves as luxury brand is a relatively recent trend. A decade or so ago starbacks, mcd’s, etc. really were “cheap, fast, tasty”. Fast food used to be a convenience for when you were on road trips and couldn’t make your own food.
All these different fastfood brands built up such a large reputation around themselves that they practically became a part of our collective conscious. At some point they realised that instead of selling food, they could sell their brand. And that’s when it stopped being cheap, stopped being tasty, and generally became a “rich people” thing.
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 5 months ago:
So I used to think that people hated on starbucks because “hurr durr real men only drink black coffee” and starbucks had extremely sugary and milky drinks that had barely any actual coffee in it. “No problem” I thought, “I like sugary drinks!”. So I went to a starbucks at the shopping mall close to where I live and ordered something and it was literally just a glass of ice cubes with like three sips’ worth of milk and syrup squirted into it. It genuinely felt like the barista forgot one of the ingredients or something. I thought it was a fluke but when I was at that mall at a different time I got a different iced coffee and it was the same stuff: glass full of ice cubes with a squirtling of syrup and milk. What even is the point!?
- Comment on The only way to be 5 months ago:
No that’s not capitalism, that’s corporatism which is totally a different thing trust me bro! ^/j^
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 5 months ago:
I can’t believe nobody has posted this edit yet
- Comment on Moar garlic 5 months ago:
I refuse to measure garlic by any unit smaller than a whole head. Recipe says three cloves? Pretty sure you mean one head of garlic there buddy.
