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- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 1 day ago:
Can you have your job pay for an iPhone while you have a different personal phone? I’m a big fan of keeping a work device that’s separate from a personal device.
- Comment on In which ways the dot com craze of the late 90s and the current AI market differ? In which ways are the same phenomena? 1 day ago:
Tying into this, I feel like in the late-’90s/early-’00s there were a lot of people using the internet every day and some of the benefits and potential were already obvious. Office jobs were extensively starting to use email already and many people at home were checking email at least once a day and looking at online news. E-commerce was basically an improved mail-order catalog, but the improved selection, availability, and prices really were an improvement. Instant communication was an immediate benefit and digital media was showing obvious promise.
I don’t feel like I see nearly the same widespread use of “AI” today. Some of the things that are getting big money don’t really seem like they have a lot of practical application. I don’t think many people have a daily need to generate images or videos. A lot of the things that seem more promising, like improved translation or voice to text, also might not be very profitable, as in people probably won’t want to pay much for them, and they definitely won’t be unless the astronomical resource costs currently projected come way down.
I think where they’re very similar is there are a lot of companies rushing to slap the craze into their business, transform the business for the craze, or create a new business capitalizing on the craze, whether or not it actually makes sense to do so and whether or not the technology is actually useful for the stated purpose yet.
- Comment on FlatEarthers will work around it 1 day ago:
On a globe, yes. If the earth were flat as depicted in the above map with Antarctica as the edge then no. This simply points out one of the many illogical points to flat earth conspiracies.
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 4 days ago:
The only place I ever saw it was at Costco or a little specialty health food store mom used to go to when I was little. I haven’t been to the latter in decades, and Costco got rid of theirs a couple years ago. I think Costco’s reasoning was mostly about them being underutilized compared to the cost. My parents were never coffee drinkers, though, and I started trying when I was dating my wife but also started getting ulcers soon after, so coffee hasn’t been something I’ve really paid attention to.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 5 days ago:
No, I think that was always pretty obvious. There are other times (like this with Cracker Barrel) where it’s more up for debate
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 5 days ago:
Cleaner, not cheaper. Waffle House has always been cheaper. If you’re on a road trip with kids it’s nicer to feel reasonably confident you’re taking them into clean restrooms.
- Comment on Opinions on Jurassic Park as a Zoo 5 days ago:
I’d never considered how much this applies to the general “tech bro” mindset beyond the chaos theory parts of the book
- Comment on Mozilla Integrates Google Lens for Visual Search in Firefox Desktop 6 days ago:
Upvoting for awareness, not because I’m happy about it
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 week ago:
People have been suggesting this as a strategy at least since New Coke debuted. We can’t always definitively say that was actually the plan, but sometimes we can like with IHOP.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 week ago:
Cracker Barrel was usually cleaner than Waffle House, though, if that’s important to you while on road trips
- Comment on The Secret Service traced swatting threats against officials. They found 300 servers capable of crippling New York’s cell system 1 week ago:
While forensic examination of these devices is ongoing, early analysis indicates cellular communications between nation-state threat actors and individuals that are known to federal law enforcement.
- Comment on The Secret Service traced swatting threats against officials. They found 300 servers capable of crippling New York’s cell system 1 week ago:
They have images in the link. They sure don’t look like actual phones. I hope more information comes out about what was being used and where they were sourced. Were they devices that have a legitimate use as well or something more custom for nefarious purposes? They don’t look like they take a lot of room, so this might not be the last time we hear of something using this or similar equipment. Doesn’t seem like it would be hard to put these all over the world.
- Comment on The Secret Service traced swatting threats against officials. They found 300 servers capable of crippling New York’s cell system 1 week ago:
There are images in the link; they’re not actual phones.
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 1 week ago:
“Please drink a verification can”
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 1 week ago:
Does it taste different than what you get in cans/bottles for home use?
- Comment on It's got the juice 1 week ago:
Crabgrass was once a food crop and not a weed?
- Comment on Day 429 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
I’ve certainly considered it just for the upgraded image/TV compatibility and I think the price is reasonable, but their products always seem out of stock and I would assume the original devices are still less-expensive, though less compatible with current TVs
- Comment on Day 429 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
There’s a part of me that would be tempted to buy a Nintendo 64 if I ever found one, just for the authentic experience with Mario Kart 64, Goldeneye, and a few others.
The classic tracks usually vary some in newer versions of Mario Kart. Typically I’d say it doesn’t make a difference, mostly cosmetic, but sometimes it’s significant. SNES Rainbow Road is one I’d say is dramatically easier in the remakes, and I’ve seen comparisons showing wholesale changes on others to the extent they’re hardly even the same track. It mostly seems to impact the SNES and GBA tracks, though. Not as many real differences in tracks that were already 3D models.
- Comment on Anyway I started blasting 2 weeks ago:
Maybe, but one would think organic would show a difference then since the rules are much stricter for organic products and they seem to require some external verification to get the label. Since this is all anecdotal it’s probably worth asking if the person experiences a difference between organic and conventional wheat from North America.
- Comment on Anyway I started blasting 2 weeks ago:
Ah, that’s too bad. I can absolutely sympathize with all you’re going through, including not getting much help from doctors. As much progress as we’ve had medically over the past century+ it seems like medicine is still just scratching the surface of what can be wrong, so as we get into more unusual things there’s a lot they just don’t know and can’t answer. I’ve had stomach issues for over 15 years and the diagnosis I’ve had is “Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)” or more recently “IBS-D” to indicate diarrhea-predominant as opposed to constipation-predominant. It’s not life-threatening but can be very disruptive. Sometimes the name bugs me, though, because it just seems to be a catch-all for when they’ve rolled out all the serious things they can test for like Crohn’s disease, cancer, or celiac’s. I have friends with the same diagnosis but very different symptoms and triggers, and I’d say it’s pretty clear we don’t actually have the same condition.
I’ve tried all sorts of diets and medicines, things that worked at first but stopped, and at least now have some sort of equilibrium. The pills don’t cure whatever the underlying cause is but at least it keeps things more controlled. Maybe that’s the best I can hope for right now. Avoiding certain foods, taking my pills, and hoping nothing external happens to upset the balance. It sounds like you’re finding your equilibrium at least, so I hope that keeps working for you!
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 2 weeks ago:
“Yeah, let’s try it. [Korean-style steak sauce is] not something I’ve made before,” says Mancuso, remembering his script, “so I could definitely use the help.”
Then at the end of the article they embed an Instagram video from 2023 of Mancuso making a Korean-style steak sauce. *chef’s kiss*
- Comment on Anyway I started blasting 2 weeks ago:
Do you live in North America? Have you tried eating products with European wheat? I haven’t done much research into if there’s any serious research on this, but I’ve seen some anecdotal instances (including a close family member) where people seem to have problems eating wheat and do better with a gluten-free (wheat-free) diet, don’t have celiac’s disease, but have been fine eating otherwise similar foods when made with European wheat. It seems different varieties are typically grown on each continent, so I’m guessing there’s some sort of subtle impact. Again, I haven’t looked into this yet so it’s basically just anecdotal as far as I’m concerned.
- Comment on xkcd #3142: -Style Pizza 2 weeks ago:
However, its method of preparation is polarizing, and it has been negatively compared to Lunchables.
When I was a kid I was pretty excited to get the “pizza” Lunchables
- Comment on Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse 3 weeks ago:
I thought Misskey and its forks already supported quote posts?
- Comment on Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains 3 weeks ago:
That’s a good point; modern pages would choke our old 2G/3G plans!
- Comment on Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know why Facebook puts so much junk in the links, but there’s a setting for Safari to remove that automatically.
- Comment on Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains 3 weeks ago:
It might be related to the setting to remove tracking information from shared links? I’ve appreciated not having to manually take that crap off.
- Comment on Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t know that was something that’s been available in Chrome. Also not entirely sure what I would use it for since I’ve mostly seen it with rips of Blu-ray movies and shows, never smaller files. I thought its main advantage was holding multiple video, audio, and data streams.
- Comment on Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains 3 weeks ago:
It’s a subtle thing, but I really appreciate that when sharing a link from Safari on iOS it puts the address on the clipboard without the “m.” automatically, so I don’t have to edit it out.
- Comment on Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains 3 weeks ago:
I think they used separate style sheets. Going way back in time, to the early days of smartphones and back when non-smartphones had mobile web browsers, most websites would serve either a separate style sheet that gave a simplified layout for tiny screens or even an entirely different, simplified page. Early adopters to mobile browsing tended to hang on to that separation much longer than newer sites that took advantage of CSS that could adapt to the screen size.