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- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 2 days ago:
Good. 30% left to go.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 1 week ago:
I have no clue on the reasons people like Bluesky (or threads). None at all.
- Comment on What if we started uploading YT videos to PeerTube? 2 weeks ago:
The “we started uploading” is a can of worms.
At some point, the “we” will be sued unless the legal paperwork with consent from the authors is well done. Not to mention the ton of copyright materials and music that are actually licensed for use on YouTube but not anywhere else, not to mention everything that is clearly worthy of copyright strikes but YouTube failed to notice they were serving.
While YouTube may have the legal muscle to deal with copyright infringement and appease the rights owners with some checks, a network of volunteers is not equipped to play those “games.”
- Comment on Getting a Steam Deck to emulate retro games? 2 weeks ago:
It emulates the switch pretty well, at least in some games (I have not tried more than half a dozen).
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 2 weeks ago:
Of course they don’t. Hiring junior devs for their hard skills is a dumb proposition. Hire for their soft skills, intellectual curiosity, and willingness to work hard and learn. There is no substitute for good training and experience.
- Comment on Mastodon is working to add the controversial 'quote posts' feature | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
As much as I love the Fediverse, it’s amazing that Mastodon users see this feature as a threat. By the way, any decent app implemented quoting years ago.
- Comment on What are some examples of original fediverse software, not emulating existing platforms? 3 weeks ago:
A nice example is castopod.org
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 3 weeks ago:
This is all I need to never even look at a Jeep… how pathetic can these idiots get?
- Comment on Content curation in the Fediverse is better! 3 weeks ago:
Never had a reason to block an instance, here or in mastodon.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 4 weeks ago:
I have no issue in paying creators with my YouTube Premium subscription. What annoys me is seeing creators feed the algorithm with “regular posts” or create filler videos for sponsors when they have nothing to say.
That and seeing explainer videos from someone who learned something five minutes before recording… the number of copycats and regurgitating the same news content is depressing.
The same goes for the epidemic of faceless AI videos narrating generic content… horrible. The “don’t recommend channel” must be worn off by now, from me alone. :-)
Fantastic exceptions from talented creators make it worth it, so I am happy.
- Comment on Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying 4 weeks ago:
British humour gets me every time 😂
- Comment on Apple ordered to open encrypted user accounts globally to UK spying 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Really love podcasting. Last one I created was a decade ago, give or take, gotta do another soon. :-)
But I think you pretty much nailed the current state of affairs.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 4 weeks ago:
Weird, I had a bluesky add-on on my experimental friend’s installation and have not noticed any messages other than the ones people I followed participated in.
I have since deleted it, so cannot figure out what they have done differently.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 4 weeks ago:
He was the founder… I did not know he had left.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 4 weeks ago:
I find it odd that people follow Jack Dorsey into another sewer in troves. They seem to like the previous Twitter experiment, while I find it repugnant.
The lesson today is that I don’t get the social media phenomenon. My bad. I hope they have a ton of fun.