Fuzzy_Red_Panda
@Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 1 day ago:
Yes they do. Millions of them do.
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 2 days ago:
This made me wonder though…the car obviously has cameras on the outside, and there’s also a way to communicate with the support team from inside…so is it a stretch to think that these cars could be auto-recording everything that’s happening inside the car?
Should we - as riders - have any expectation of privacy in a car with no driver?
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 4 days ago:
There’s dozens of us!
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 1 week ago:
+1 for philips.
The problem is most of what the big box hardware stores in the US are selling are junk brands. And they won’t even offer basics like a philips 75-watt-equivalent soft-white led in their stores.
The junk brand bulbs will fail in my kitchen light fixture after a year (they start flickering). The philips bulbs have never failed for me.
A properly designed and produced led bulb should last like 20 years.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 week ago:
And then there are people like me, who aren’t opposed to paying for access in theory, but will never be okay with having the videos I watch be tied to an account. It’s inconvenient and I don’t trust Google with my watch history, even when the option is turned off.
Also I wouldn’t pay until: Youtube stops showing ads for hate groups; stops its manipulative recommendations and push towards right-leaning and extremist content; stops manipulating creators to all make the same kind of video in order to please the algorithm; removes hate content and extremist content; stops auto-flagging and removing fair-use content.
- Comment on California governor signs law to protect children from social media addiction. 1 week ago:
The law bans platforms from sending notifications without permission from parents to minors between midnight and 6 a.m., and between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays from September through May, when children are typically in school.
Wait, they hardcoded the school season and school hours into the law? What about schools that don’t follow those schedules?
- Comment on Serious Putty 5 weeks ago:
If you wrap silly putty around serious putty and detonate, does the silly putty act like shrapnel during the explosion?
- Comment on Commercial spyware vendor exploits used by Kremlin-backed hackers, Google says 5 weeks ago:
I’ve said it before and I will say it again: NSO group is a terrorist organization.
- Comment on Why 🤷♂️ do users 👨💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭? 5 weeks ago:
A single emoji at the end of a post never hurt anybody 🤫
- Comment on EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone 5 weeks ago:
A telecom company with the hubris and arrogance to call themselves “Everything Everywhere”.
- Comment on Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models 5 weeks ago:
I keep seeing this posted but I have yet to see anyone mention which brands are actually doing this.
- Comment on Government should “urgently” legalise e-scooters says shared transport charity - says serious safety incidents are rare 1 month ago:
Sadly this is a term that has caught on even though it makes no sense. I wish people had latched onto “non-electric” bike or “NE” bike instead, but here we are.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 1 month ago:
No worries! ^_^
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 1 month ago:
Yeah. I guess we shouldn’t expect that to change any time soon?
If that’s the case, maybe public votes is the best way to go.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 1 month ago:
You should not be ashamed of your vote history.
I agree, people shouldn’t be ashamed of their vote history unless they are trying to harass a person or community with a pattern of downvotes.
I still don’t want to be harassed for my voting though, nor will I be pressured into defending my votes if a user brings it up.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 1 month ago:
Who determines the quality of one’s posts though?
The users? Users are reactionary and often vote based on how a post influenced their feelings. It probably works on Stack Exchange because the scope of the forum is solving technical problems.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 1 month ago:
Downvotes can be useful in certain contexts, like when you visit a thread and are looking for factual information, such as the answer to a tech question. I don’t want to accidentally follow someone’s bad advice because the bad advice didn’t have any downvotes nor any responses as to why it was wrong.
It’s not perfect, but voting is a quick, often effective method of fact checking.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 1 month ago:
It would encourage harassment the same way comment history does: someone goes looking for it, sees it, and attacks the person over it.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 1 month ago:
Aren’t we all supposed to be Linux nerds in here?
No! :) The most Linux I use is a Steam Deck.
I feel votes should be visible to admins but otherwise anonymized and private, or else I fear vote-harassment will be a forever-problem on Lemmy. As a woman who has been harassed on Twitter and Reddit in the past, I strongly urge the Lemmy community to embrace privacy on this issue. If there’s any way to make votes more private between users, we should do it.
If we don’t and users get harassed, they might leave. Lemmy needs more women. And you all are great but Lemmy also needs people who aren’t Linux nerds! Lemmy needs diversity.
- Comment on This hand-crampingly tiny GBA clone has a 0.85-inch screen 1 month ago:
I wish people would stop making this stuff. Yeah it’s cute but no one plays games on these for longer than a minute. It’s ewaste being churned out while our planet is burning. We have to be more responsible than this.
- Comment on People are returning Humane AI Pins faster than Humane can sell them, report says 1 month ago:
This is what happens when you sell a bad, broken, unfinished product.
I think they are in the “find out” phase of FAFO.
- Comment on What song would cause you to do this to yourself ? 2 months ago:
I have nothing personal against Adele but something about her singing voice feels like she’s grinding glass into my eardrums. It’s painful to listen to.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
If some sites only need me to click the one checkbox to prove I am a human, why aren’t ALL sites using this method?!
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Of course, but CAPTCHA says no, do it again, to hell with those bicycle handlebars!
- Comment on HP forced to ditch popular printer range following user backlash 2 months ago:
Hi. It’s me. I still burn CDs and print onto them direct as part of a niche art hobby. Unfortunately that means owning an Epson inkjet printer.
- Comment on Youtube stopped working for me today when using uBlock Origin in Firefox or Vivaldi with anti-ad enabled. 2 months ago:
Yep. Google treats their service like television, but it’s not television. We all watch the videos on computers and computers are owned by users and each user gets to decide what their computer does, full stop.
The ad model for youtube will always be circumvented by the fact that our computers can run whatever code we want it to (despite Microsoft’s and Apple’s efforts). If that means that youtube goes subscription only, so be it. If that means youtube can’t sustain itself as a business with ad revenue, then so be it. It would mean that decentralized alternatives gain popularity and it would most likely be to the benefit of everyone who isn’t a corporation.
Youtube has a stranglehold on creativity, open speech, and fair use. Youtube will demonetize a video for saying too many swear words. They’ll demonetize or restrict a video for talking about non-sexual lgbt content. They’ll take down legal and legitimate videos for copyright infringement even though it’s fair use.
Youtube is bad for creators and it’s bad for users.
- Comment on 3D technology has gone too far 2 months ago:
Completely agree. They could also build traffic-calming infrastructure on this stretch of road that doesn’t necessitate tricking people into a false reality like ridiculous pothole decals do.
- Comment on Kami 2 months ago:
Take my angry upvote
- Comment on New apartment Internet has no port forwarding, admin login 2 months ago:
Sorry you have to deal with this. I know it wasn’t in your list of options, but you could attend HOA meetings, bring up the internet issue and see if they’ll change the current setup, or you could get elected to an HOA board and start pulling the strings of change. That’s more of a long-term goal though.