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- Comment on Should I just lie on job applications and say I have a college degree? 14 hours ago:
I’ve already been in the industry, but it’s really not feasible at this time to get decent jobs without degrees I feel… The competition has really increased in the last few years and with AI putting pressure on everyone it’s only gotten worse. I’m pivoting to a field that’s not susceptible to idiots replacing me with a bad machine.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The chopping/grip advice is missing a critical component: your two farthest forward knuckles on your non-knife hand should be contacting the knife blade at all times. This gives you precise control and you know exactly where the cutting surface is. It takes a lot of practice to do properly, but that is how the pros do it. I recommend this video from Jacques Pepin for an example: youtu.be/nffGuGwCE3E
- Comment on 7 for me 2 weeks ago:
Right but look at the image, there’s a clear difference between the boxers and what looks like normal or jeans shorts. The long pants have similar styling.
- Comment on 7 for me 2 weeks ago:
Why are like half of these wearing full on pants? OP, do you actually sleep in like jeans shorts?
- Comment on Generational differences 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Valve's invite-only Deadlock has an even more exclusive top-secret hush-hush version 4 weeks ago:
It’s designed from the ground up as a competitive multiplayer experience. A pve version would be an extremely different game.
- Comment on [Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems 5 weeks ago:
Bethesda doesn’t need any more money, spend it on an indie game.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Yeah man, pull that ladder up behind you!
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Except what he actually wants is for AI companies to be free to slurp whatever they want, but for average joes to still have the book thrown at them for pirating the Adobe suite.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Aren’t there already pretty specific laws about what amount of a work can be copied before it’s plagiarism?
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 2 months ago:
The books are way better if you care to try.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 2 months ago:
No, but that’s a local program processing and saving data entirely on your system. It’s a world of difference from what a web browser does, which is oversee a whole suite of protocols connecting you to remote servers and transmitting data back and forth in requests that build on and reference each other. With the complexity of modern web interactions, there’s a ton of reasons why a browser might need to store your data and share it with others, even ignoring profit-seeking motives.
And let’s remember that the last thing Mozilla got heat for was the introduction of a method to anonymize bulk user data for sharing & selling purposes, as opposed to the granular, extremely invasive tracking that 99% of websites are doing these days.
I see a company that needs to make a decent amount of money in a crazy competitive environment, that’s trying their best to do so in the way least destructive to user privacy and choice.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 2 months ago:
I more meant that the average user actually wants a significant amount of data collection and telemetry, as part of their normal web usage. There are some true privacy geeks who are actually maintaining near-anonymity on the modern internet, but there’s a lot of people who get riled up about things like this while using Android phones, or signing up for loyalty programs, using corporate social media, etc.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 2 months ago:
You’re not totally wrong here, but the fact is that these updates are a complete non-issue that has only resulted in so much backlash because of the self-selected Firefox audience of people who know enough about tech and privacy to care, but not enough to understand what’s actually threatening. The updates were a minor change in language that didn’t change the status quo, but idiots like the guy who thinks that incognito mode somehow stops a site from gathering information on you flock to these articles and start crying doomsday.
Mozilla is the only big web company that’s even close to on the side of consumers and it’s sad to see them eat shit for no reason.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 2 months ago:
Which is a ridiculous thing to want for most users and exposes how little so much of the self-identified “techie” crowd actually understands about how this stuff works.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 2 months ago:
What do you think a browser does?
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 2 months ago:
The terms were never actually bad. This is them responding to the backlash, yes, but that’s just because everyone freaked out over nothing. They’re not “rolling back” anything, and this comment is just more disinformation.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 3 months ago:
I’m a Valve stan but it’s disgusting how they’ve abused and neglected TF2. It would unironically be significantly better if they just rolled back every change since 2016.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 3 months ago:
Yeah you’d think that if you never played before it ruined the entire game.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 3 months ago:
Most players are using casual mode which is terrible. The community servers in TF2 are a pale shadow of what they once were.
- Comment on Why I am not impressed by A.I. 3 months ago:
I mean, I would argue that the answer in the OP is a good one. No human asking that question honestly wants to know the sum total of Rs in the word, they either want to know how many in “berry” or they’re trying to trip up the model.
- Comment on EA will shut down the Origin app on April 2025 — company asks users to migrate to the new EA app 4 months ago:
I mean, you still own the games, you just won’t be able to access them through Origin. You have to download a different launcher. I don’t think you really have to do anything else to “migrate”.
- Comment on Employees Enter Sensitive Data Into GenAI Prompts Too Often 4 months ago:
Honestly chances are slim that this hasn’t already happened, given how liberally the bots will spit out verbatim code snippets with zero attribution.
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 6 months ago:
If you never played Magicka you should give it a shot.
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 7 months ago:
Should be the standard anyway. Reading email and texts from work, or responding to calls, is work. Unless your contact specifies on-call hours, you should ignore your boss outside of working hours.
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 7 months ago:
Switched back to Linux this week and I couldn’t be happier.
- Comment on UFO 50 is a retro gamer's dream - I highly recommend it 8 months ago:
I think this is very deliberate. Having played at least a chunk of all 50 games, there are only two or three that I think would have benefitted greatly from more instructions or tutorialization. Figuring out how each game works and being surprised when you find a new way to use the very simple controls is part of the experience.