ZeffSyde
@ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump says to move homeless people 'far' from Washington 1 week ago:
The attractive ones are being funneled back to Washington, DC. Those groomers must be making money hand over fist.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 weeks ago:
Man, I had around 10 gigs of vintage mp3s that is created since the days of Limewire/Napster. Uploaded it all to Google Music and lost track of the external I’d had the collection stored on. Whatever, it’s all in the cloud now.
Then it wasn’t.
I really, Really, need to back up all of my Gdocs, just in case that service ceases to be.
(I wonder if ancient crunchy low bitrate mp3s will be an aesthetic, the way that dusty vinyl or worn out tapes are?)
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, they want to be able to ‘People that look like This listen to This’ so that advertisers have more options when they are locking down commercials.
- Comment on Planet of the apes: Beginning 2 weeks ago:
Alternately, a spritz bottle with a few meters of range loaded with cheap Cheyenne/ hot pepper powder water might keep them at bay?
I’m not a local. Pissed off spicy monkeys might need an unfortunate result.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 2 weeks ago:
If you meet quota you get a Waffle Party!
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 2 weeks ago:
Exactly!
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, chances are Jim Bob and Jolene aren’t going to get an entry level job at a data center. They don’t need many janitors or lunch ladies.
- Comment on Yeasty 2 weeks ago:
‘Is Butterbean OK?’ -Johnny Knoxville
- Comment on Yeasty 2 weeks ago:
They ate themselves alive.
- Comment on Piss Post 3 weeks ago:
You never see someone taking a shit while running at full speed. -George Carlin
- Comment on When the government forces you to act like a clown for no apparent reason 3 weeks ago:
Using Augusten Burroughs for their marketing was their first mistake.
- Comment on When the government forces you to act like a clown for no apparent reason 3 weeks ago:
I’ve got nothing to hide ;)…
- Comment on When the government forces you to act like a clown for no apparent reason 3 weeks ago:
Had TSA take me aside and X-ray my laptop for a good 20 minutes last time I flew.
To be fair, the laptop had a sticker that insinuated drug use, but it’s not like I had hidden a thousand doses of Mega LSD under the SSD (which it really looked like they were scanning for).
- Comment on When the government forces you to act like a clown for no apparent reason 3 weeks ago:
I imagine they asked you to power the baby off and on whilst they his behind a blast shield.
- Comment on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse 4 weeks ago:
The avatars smoked so we could walk.
- Comment on Anyone have one of these? 4 weeks ago:
There was this dumb ‘headset’ that retro enthusiasts loved that was just a big old Mah Bell phone receiver that plugged into your '00s era dumb phone.
Combine that with a High Quality landline phone ringtone and you’d be the coolest dork at the nerd party for approximately 5 minutes.
- Comment on Anyone have one of these? 4 weeks ago:
Look out! It’s going to fire it’s laser!
:A bunch of feral cats materialize and chase a red dot around your chest:
- Comment on Anyone have one of these? 4 weeks ago:
That’s how I made collect calls back in the 90s: I was also a parrot, back then. Your experience may have differed.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 4 weeks ago:
It honestly creeps me out that so many people don’t curate what they watch and just consume whatever ‘their feed’ puts in front of them.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 5 weeks ago:
Unexpected European Vacation quote.
- Comment on Japan using generative AI less than other countries 5 weeks ago:
They also embraced QR codes a decade or more before the West did.
- Comment on Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI 5 weeks ago:
Game over man, game over!
- Comment on Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI 5 weeks ago:
They want both of these things.
- Comment on Dik Piks 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 5 weeks ago:
That fiction language Portuguese. /s
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 1 month ago:
I know it’s a typo, but now I want a cozy space ranch game based in the world of StarCraft.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 1 month ago:
: takes off face and puts it in faraday cage:
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 month ago:
For non English speakers, poultry is often used to refer to any edible bird: including chicken, duck, goose, turkey.
It may not be correct, but it be what it be.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 month ago:
Imagine the cumulative collection of micro plastics and prescription drugs that a cannibalistic diet would cause. We already have prions to worry about.
