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- Comment on Corn? I DAUHN REMEMBAH EATING ANY CORN! 5 days ago:
High kicks, high kicks
- Comment on Developers keep Spotify Car Thing alive with custom firmware 2 weeks ago:
Hah. When they first came out, I had a feeling this would happen. I bought 3 when they were on sale.
Its genuinely useful in my old car, but it has incredible potential for all kinds of random gadgets. One already serves as a little desktop controller for my audio at work.
- Comment on The grand prize 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
I was very on board with your comment until the Meyers-Briggs pseudoscience BS and then you lost me
- Comment on Google is testing verified checkmarks in search 1 month ago:
This is so stupid. God forbid they actually police their ads for malware. No, instead let’s push the responsibility onto the individual, by adding get another “Papers, Please”-esque stamp that very few people will know about and even less will actually use.
Hard pass. The day I saw them promoting malware above legitimate search results is the day I turned on ad blocking for my entire org, and a stupid little pay-to-verify badge isn’t going to change that.
/end rant
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
But neither have seamless voice chat/screen sharing, which is a staple of Discord that users are very used to.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
This is a fantastic read. I wasnt around for the prime days of forums but I did experience them a bit.
I’m becoming extremely concerned about the number of topics and projects that are migrating to Discord. My main issue is that it is not and never will be publically indexed, and among other problems, is itself a corporate walled garden we consider to be “one of the good ones”.
I really hope we find and establish a “low executive cost” solution before the next time Discord fumbles (which is inevitable) and we can claw some of that activity back.
But people are so used to seamless voice and video chat nowadays - and that’s a technical hurdle that AFAIK, no open-source self-hostable projects have come close to solving.
- Comment on OpenBudgeteer: a selfhosted budgeting app made for Bucket Budgeting 1 month ago:
Oh, I need this thread. I’ve been all over the place ever since Mint shut down.
- Comment on What else is there 1 month ago:
- Comment on SpacebarChat - a selfhosted, Discord-compatible communication platform 1 month ago:
I’ve been trying to find a more privacy-friendy alternative to Discord but I keep coming back to the issue of screen sharing. No other platform does it as smoothly.
The best I’ve found is using Parsec with some virtual audio cables to avoid voice feedback.
- Comment on What's a good method for a non-technical person to short the terminals of two 0402 resistors ~1mm apart? 1 month ago:
A noble effort.
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
I went to a conference this weekend, and it slowly dawned on me how every single one of the vendors was selling their app hosted on AWS. That’s all it is. Just different flavors of AWS.
Even if you dont interact with AWS directly, every business needs business services - you can bet that no matter what you’re buying or who you’re buying it from, some of your money is going directly to AWS marketplace.
- Comment on Snow Leopard 2 months ago:
In my defense, my pattern recognition works a lot better with depth perception and movement
- Comment on the magic within 2 months ago:
I recently stumbled upon SDF and it honestly filled me with so much hope and inspiration, that something so cool and benevolent could be held sacred for decades and has persisted through all the changes and enshittification, it felt like climbing a mountain and finding a perfectly preserved monastery with libraries full of wisdom still stewarded by living digital monks.
And yet when I share my enthusiasm with anyone, they say “i don’t get it, just looks like an outdated website to me…” -_-
- Comment on Green light wavelength-selective organic solar tech for greenhouses 2 months ago:
If this works, could you theoretically cover crop fields in solar panels as well? That’s a ton of usable space
- Comment on They almost got me! 2 months ago:
I’ve joined a few of these before and gotten payouts in the range of $100-$350, from Google and Meta.
- Comment on "REM sleep is the next AI" 2 months ago:
This is just the game “Hypnospace Outlaw”
- Comment on Average game chat censorship 2 months ago:
If you’re a fan of shenanigans, have some friends to play with, and know how to avoid the script kiddies, it can be quite fun.
- Comment on Average game chat censorship 2 months ago:
Recent changes in GTA Online moderation now censor words like “meth” and “cocaine” in chat…
…in a game where large portions of the gameplay are focused around selling meth and cocaine.
- Comment on Conservative 2 months ago:
Ah, yes, neoliberals
- Comment on Would you like a receipt? 2 months ago:
I scan all my receipts and keep a digital record so that someday I can look back through them all and chart the prices of things I regularly purchased over time
Also useful for the occasional class action
- Comment on Linkwarden - An open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize and preserve webpages | August 2024 Update - Added More Translations, Code Refactoring and Optimization and more... 🚀 2 months ago:
I need to try this, it looks great!
- Comment on I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ? 2 months ago:
As much as I’d love to be picky I’m barely hanging on here, I’m buyin whatever is on sale
- Comment on Remember when 15% was the expected, not the minimum? 3 months ago:
I hate how every transaction now forces me to pass monetary judgment.
I’d much rather a gratuity be pre-baked into menu prices, so I can easily make purchasing decisions that reflect my financial situation, rather than being surprised at the end.
I hardly go out to eat at all nowadays, partially due to this.
- Comment on penetration tests 3 months ago:
This is clearly evidence that Jimmy Neutron is the peak male form
- Comment on Kids 3 months ago:
Never been a big fan of kids, but for some reason this post clicked with me. I think I get it.
- Comment on Ceci n'est pas une pipe 3 months ago:
I love this screensaver. You can install it on newer machines if you know where to look.
- Comment on New memory tech unveiled that reduces AI processing energy requirements by 1,000 times or more 3 months ago:
Possible solution to the Von Neumann bottleneck? Or does this address a different issue
- Comment on Genocide apologists deciding if they can counter a Wojak meme by accusing the poster of antisemitism 3 months ago:
This photo makes me sad and I’m not sure why
- Comment on New youtube layout? 3 months ago:
I’ve been getting very close to ditching YouTube. This change showed up a few weeks ago for me and pushed me a bit further.
If they succeed in inserting ads into the video stream I’ll bail alltogether. I can fit a subscription to Brilliant, Dropout, and several creator Patreons into the cost of a YouTube Red subscription, and I won’t have to deal with these attention-optimizing UI changes.
