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- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 14 hours ago:
To this day nearly a third of my Jellyfin library is stuff I downloaded through ourTunes over the dorm LAN in 2004/2005.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 5 days ago:
Insert tasteless parody of the “First They Came” poem
- Comment on When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working... 6 days ago:
The book is even better than the movie, don’t rob yourself of a great time.
- Comment on Redditor advises people in DC hide Air Tags in their clothes to help family identify them if they go missing. 6 days ago:
Literally a few days after Tim Apple gifts Trump a golden sculpture?
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
Sorry, I thought you were the kind of person who could handle a little casual disagreement. I don’t mind that you think security was the primary purpose of phone OS app land, but everything I’ve watched phone companies do over the past 20 years demonstrates to me that a desire for control was the main intent. You don’t have to agree.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
The app store and permission model hasn’t stopped malicious code from making it onto users devices. So if security was the concern, I’d say that’s a failure. But I think the primary concern was control. Control by manufacturers (And eventually, thereby states) of what people see and do on their phone. Make sure they have to pay for access to features. Easily surveil what they do.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
If it was primarily done for security then it was a massive fucking failure. But I maintain that security was merely a secondary concern.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
You’re in a virtualized container that only exposes some directories, also those directories are mostly hidden from you, also within this container you generally don’t have any permissions to them, and also every application completely obfuscates it’s folder access via some file access API.
It’s crazy to me how hard consumers got fucked right from the start on phone software and how normalized we are to it.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
Never discount the sheer volume of text and dialog contained in the average mid-90s JRPG!
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
Being really good at guitar hero was the final motivating push I needed to actually learn real guitar. Today I enjoy being a consistently mediocre casual guitarist.
- Comment on Experiencing one of NY's fine luxuries 2 weeks ago:
Saint Vitus is one of the top things I miss since leaving.
- Comment on Experiencing one of NY's fine luxuries 2 weeks ago:
Back in the day on the very rare occasion that I had a 7 or G train car all to myself, I’d belt out the loudest operatic singing voice I could manage. There’s nowhere on Earth more isolated than an empty NYC subway car, gotta seize that opportunity.
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 2 weeks ago:
Proud Noman from Nomansland reporting for duty
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 weeks ago:
When you lease access to information, you literally don’t gave any stuff.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 weeks ago:
People sometimes don’t believe me when I tell them I’ve literally never used Spotify.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget to tell them to go to the shows!!
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 5 weeks ago:
No we do fractal districts. They get infinitely more detailed as you zoom into them.
- Comment on It's just loss. 1 month ago:
It’s by biomass.
It’s from this article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/21/human-race-just-001-of-all-life-but-has-destroyed-over-80-of-wild-mammals-study
Which is discussing this research: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1711842115
- 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:
I agree, really I should have written “We have to do both.”
- 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:
Actually the majority of atmospheric oxygen is produced by phytoplankton, which are mostly bacteria and protists.
- 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:
We should do both.
- 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:
Counterpoint, end all meat & dairy subsidies completely.
- 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:
Just eat plants.
- 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:
A surefire way to zap a bunch of ideologically-motivated activists into a puddle of fatalistic nihilists.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 1 month ago:
Don’t wait, you’ll thank yourself after you switch. In very frequent cases Windows games literally run faster in Linux under Proton. Get that state-sponsored spyware out of your home!
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 1 month ago:
Why not just run a community build of Firefox, like IceCat?
- Comment on Milking dust 1 month ago:
Lost World had some fun stuff (Despite diverging from it’s book even worse than the first movie) but you’re really not missing much, none of the sequels come within a mile the original.
- Comment on Milking dust 1 month ago:
Eh, if Michael Chrichton were still alive today he’d probably condone it all so long as he got his royalty check.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 1 month ago:
Laws don’t even have to change if nobody is enforcing them.
- Comment on no way right 2 months ago:
