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- Comment on House Centipedes 4 weeks ago:
I’ve come around to liking spiders, maybe a day far from now I’ll come around to liking house centipedes. Gross little helpful fuckers.
- Comment on Can’t upgrade your PC to Windows 11? Buy a new one, is Microsoft’s laughable solution 1 month ago:
Why would anyone in their right mind want to upgrade to Windows 11? The only valid reason is you want to play an online multiplayer game that uses kernel level anti-cheat.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
Why did they let an extension that blatantly undermines their goals onto the chrome store in the first place?
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
Hasn’t it been shown that most people use Chrome despite Edge’s “unfair advantage”?
- Comment on WIRED: Neo-Nazis Are Fleeing Telegram for Encrypted App SimpleX Chat. 1 month ago:
All encrypted apps are one strong-arm subpoena away from sharing their logs with law enforcement.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
I wonder when Steve Jobs first approached software developers with this idea. Clearly pre-2007.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
Don’t download the app then. You don’t need it. Whatever it is. You don’t need it. Whatever bullshit productivity promises someone made to you, it was a lie meant to trick you into installing their spyware. All smartphone apps are spyware. Period.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
I’ve found slashdot, over the last 2 decades, has devolved into climate change denying, capitalist fellating, wildly off topic flame wars in the comments. As a news aggregator, I’ve never seen an article hit slashdot before it hits reddit or lemmy.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
What do you do for work that Discord was the viable option, even though it didn’t have the features you needed unless you dropped $200 in microtransactions?
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
Yeah, 500,000 users. Are you in servers that are hitting that max?
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
Discord has forums built in. I know everyone hates it when I mention it, but there is continuity on Discord and has been for several years now.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
Fewer barriers to entry and faster responses from people using Reddit/Facebook/Discord. Forums are great for indexing and posterity, but they’re absolute dogshit for meaningful information exchange. Unless you know exactly what your problem is, to the point of barely needing help, you probably won’t be able to word your question in a way that experts can understand, and the assistance they provide generally comes with a lot of assumptions that you’re familiar with X, Y, and Z. I can’t tell you how many forum posts I’ve read over the decades that just sort of end without any resolution of the original problem. It’s all too easy to lose pertinent information in multi page threads (esp if the pages extend into the 10s and 100s), and new users, the ones most in need of assistance, are overwhelmed by experts overestimating the new user’s abilities. Discord on the other hand lets you instantly get feedback from experts and allows you to refine your question in real time.
- Comment on Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025 1 month ago:
Prime Video is easily the worst mainstream streaming service. Fuck all for selection, movies that you think are available cost money, and the add-on channels only have select episodes or seasons, never full shows.
- Comment on Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025 1 month ago:
How many shows do they produce that are even worth mentioning let alone watching?
- Comment on Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025 1 month ago:
Attention subscribers! We will be making your experience worse going forward! We’re not even going to soften our language to make it seem like we’re doing you a favor! More ads for everyone!
- Comment on Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 1 month ago:
That’s fine. It’s usefulness dried up decades ago. There are better, free, non Microsoft word processing apps, and notepad always exists for your unimportant note taking.
- Comment on OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion 1 month ago:
Nobody has been able to properly explain to me any actual use-case for blockchain. The most common example people try to use is smart contracts. You know, because contract signing before was this cumbersome process that is only improved if a global network of computers all agree that the contract was signed.
- Comment on OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion 1 month ago:
That’s all it is, is hype. It’s another bubble. A pump and dump scheme for hedgies.
- Comment on OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion 1 month ago:
There’s been too much negative press surrounding OpenAI and Sam A. in the last week, now all of a sudden the company is worth $157B when all they’ve done is lose billions of dollars. Sorry if I sound cynical, but that’s a load of bullshit. Bearish af.
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 1 month ago:
No more dystopian than banning someone from Reddit. If you violate a TOS of any service provider, they’re usually within their right to terminate your access to the service. If Apple wants to truly shut down Russian usership of their products, they obviously have the power to do so. I find it more dystopian that there’s a multinational multitrillion dollar company that has the power to act ethically in this scenario but chooses to just remove apps from the app store, as if Russians aren’t already culturally inclined to look for hacks or workarounds.
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 1 month ago:
Nothing suspicious. Russia is openly engaging in a war of aggression and money laundering. They have a storied history of corruption, kleptomania, and deceitful diplomacy (HUR HUR AMERICA BAD TOO!). An American company is trying to
do the bare minimumput pressure on Russians. - Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 1 month ago:
Apple could still easily release updates for their phones that prevent anyone from connecting to a Russian cell tower or connecting to a Russian IP address.
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 1 month ago:
Tech enthusiasts won’t be slowed down by a removal of an app from the app store, but then again, tech enthusiasts don’t buy iphones.
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 1 month ago:
Why don’t they just disable iphones entirely from accessing Russian cell towers?
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 1 month ago:
The Waymo car wouldn’t let the woman take over.
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 1 month ago:
I’ve provided data for you in my original comment.
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 1 month ago:
I’ve provided data for you in my original comment.
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 1 month ago:
Yes. I’ve provided data for you in my original comment.
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 1 month ago:
Your comment doesn’t really address my point. I’m talking about people who died at work who were threatened with termination if they attempted to leave a dangerous work environment.
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 1 month ago:
Right, but if you die, your family might only see the life insurance settlement from your workplace group insurance. They won’t see any further benefits and they lose a family member.