bob_lemon

@bob_lemon@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐸 time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Heat tolerance will also not help against the increases in storms, floods and wildfires that are directly caused by the heat increases.

  Summer being 110°F is not even in the top 10 of why climate change is bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing Amazon is better at (at least here in Germany) is free shipping. But seeing how that is a least partially responsible for creating a cutthroat delivery market, where companies contract out delivery work to barely self-employed drivers for barely any money, paying for shipping doesn’t seem like a bad idea (even though I know the drivers won’t really see any of that money in the end)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an archive of books belonging to a certain anna, which has not failed me yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Incidentally, Aurora Store is unable to find this particular app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a slight difference in that “Ostsee” is the common name. If the German chancellor decides to call it “Deutsche See” tomorrow, the name would continue to be “Ostsee”, because that’s how language usually works.

  “Gulf of America” is just a dictator’s wish of a common name. The people of OpenStreetMap decided to use the tag “official_name:en_US” for that reason, while keeping “Gulf of Mexico” for the commonly used “name:en-US”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jewish Leaders Call for Boycott After Elon Musk's Nazi Salute, Holocaust Jokes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The US and Gaza might suffer, but I got this really nice high horse to sit on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll show them⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you not have to actually use patents to keep them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Musk gesture, activists project 'Heil' on Tesla plant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re probably referring to § 86a StGB, which makes it illegal to use symbols of unconstitutional or terrorist organisations.

  Symbols explicitly covers flags, badges, uniform patches, slogans and greetings (for obvious reasons).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Musk gesture, activists project 'Heil' on Tesla plant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, yes. We definitely know how to support someone literally doing a Hitler salute.

  And we’re confident enough that there is no valid reason to ever use that gesture that we elected to prohibit it by law, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Frills PCB Brings USB-C Power To The Breadboard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You connect power there.

  This device literally does exactly this, coming from a USB C connector.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s not pretend they’re not doing that as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yevgeny Prigozhin had the training, the alibi, and the jacket but what was his motive?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Prigozhin with a folding chair would be an amazing plot twist for when people get bored of the Ukraine war.

  Seems unlikely though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Cyberpunk Netflix animation confirmed as 2077 tops 30 million sales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe we get something with a story instead!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colin Anderson Calls GTA 2 the ‘Unsung Hero’ of the Franchise | Retro Gaming News 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  World be worth getting for the multiplayer alone. That was always good fun, unless you were among the people that could not connect to anyone because you forgot to sacrifice your unborn child to the sun god of some strange networking reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's called a wedding ring, but surely it should be called a marriage ring⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  German also has Trauring (and related wird) going back to that root. Although it’s rather archaic and not used nearly as much as Ehe or Heirat. And then there’s Hochzeit for just the ceremony.

  I never realized how many words we use for wedding…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, this does nothing for game dev. But I don’t think it was supposed to.

  The fact that this is a genAI Model generating a reasonable, context aware image a whopping 20 times a second is nonetheless pretty impressive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worms Armageddon Anniversary Edition: A Retro Revival | Retro Gaming News 24/7⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played it as a kid and then some friends reintroduced me to it on uni, including time of custom maps and game modes (the rules of which had to be enforced by ourselves)

  Like maps where you only had rope, but there was a crate spawn every turn.

  Or where you had to rope over a spire in the center of the map before you were allowed to attack, with a 45s turn timer to make it even spicier.

  At some points, we even projected the game above the blackboard while doing coursework, which was as about as productive as it sounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With Shared Software, Landlords Are Teaming Up to Raise Rents⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  over thirty-one thousand landlord clients managing over 19.7 million rental units

  In case anyone is still wondering why housing is fucked, this is it right here. That’s an average of over 600 rental units per landlord.

  People renting out their old house for a small profit are not the issue. Like a lot of things, it really only breaks once corporations get involved.