ExLisper

@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They are not showing ads for fun. They are showing them to sell stuff. People save $5 on Netflix and then spend $1000 on stupid shit they saw in the ads. Paying more for content without ads lets you escape the consumerist mindset and save money long term. Of course majority of people don’t want that. They are hooked on quick dopamine from buying another toy on Amazon and ads help them find new shit to buy. Other people simply can’t afford to avoid ads and are constantly brainwashed by then into buying one brand over another. Yes, I guess they do get cheap content in exchange but I still find it sad. The entire industry could die tomorrow and we would loose nothing of value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The crazy thing is that most people don’t care. They will calmly close all the popup ads, obediently sit through YT ads and happily click on sponsored links on reddit. I know one guy who will close and re-open YT app to skip an add. Sometimes he has to do it 10 times in a row before the ad skips but he still thinks it’s justifies using YT app. People are weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an app on F-Droid. Nothing special, basically something I wrote for myself. I was thinking about putting it on Play Store so I can share it with friends that don’t use F-Droid but with those new requirement I’m 100% not doing that. Fuck Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will never not be angry they we are made to believe these types of comments are genuine discourse. Why is it defeatism is always the top comment even when your talking about a pedophile president?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Delusional people expect everyone to be delusional with them. “3 days after SNAP is cut there will be revolution in the USA!”. Yeah, for sure buddy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Line Feed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Milk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The question is not what ‘cereal with milk’ is together but what milk is to the cereal. It’s a beverage. It was a beverage before it was poured over the cereal and it is still beverage after it was poured. It’s exactly the same as water on a sloppy stake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know that but it’s nice to know I was 100% right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What if we make self hosting super easy? Like select the services you want to host, choose a domain, pay and bam, you’ve got your self hosted instance of lemmy/mastodon/pixelfed and so on?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eleven⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  2014 to be exact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But hosting servers cost real money so creating thousands of them may not be cost effective for spammers. Paywalls are the best defense against spammers. Of course this is all hypothetical. Self hosting will never be mainstream. Or maybe? 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hardly anyone supports it: www.passkeys.io/who-supports-passkeys

  So to use it I will have to log in with my google/microsoft account everywhere? Thanks but no thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, it works for now because no one really tries to spam lemmy. If it gets popular enough companies will pay bot farms to post here and admins want be able to keep up with moderation. Bots will simply join the biggest instances. The only solution would be to defederate the main instances and have everyone pretty much host their own server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Become unrecognizable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All the things on the list are free. Just don’t waste time watching TV/playing video games and don’t have kids.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Become unrecognizable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, so read more, workout less and saw stranger’s face onto my own. Got it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grocery shopping. "Please have courage."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Japan I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grocery shopping. "Please have courage."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  LOL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God ****** dammit, here we go again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone should make a list of all the leaked credentials that got leaked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but think of the value they will create for the shareholders!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protip: Don't lose count⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What I do in a situation like this is reach slowly to my pocket, pretending I’m going to grab my wallet but instead I take out the remote detonator that triggers the bomb I implanted in my attackers ass 3 months earlier. Look on their faces: priceless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does Oracle actually do? | Good Work [11:47]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A friend of mine was working on decommissioning Oracle at his company for the past year or two. The company bought some software that was using Oracle years ago. Turns out it was relying heavily on DB procedures and to ditch Oracle they had to move all this logic out of it first. They tried to do it couple of times before but failed. The software works so this work had low priority and would be scraped eventually to focus on more important things. On like a 3rd try they finally managed to do it and are now Oracle free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weeks of research⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I grew up we didn’t even have science fairs. We just had to learn things and pass tests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m kidding but since we’re just playing I would say:

  Let’s imagine you want to know who will win the next election. You create detailed simulation of the entire population and run it until the voting day to see how they will vote. If the simulated population realized they are in a simulation the will obviously start behaving in a different way then the real population thus making your simulation useless.

  So I would say unless the goal of the simulation is to see how fast will it realize it’s just a simulation you would try to avoid them finding out.

  Then again, checking if people will realize they are in a simulation is a valid reason to simulate them so it’s possible we’re in a simulation that is supposed to find out it’s a simulation…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I will prove that we’re not in a simulation:

  If we’re in a simulation then whoever is operating it would not want us to know if we’re in a simulation or not.

  Anyone trying to check if we’re in a simulation or not would be stopped by the operator.

  I wasn’t stopped by an operator hence there is no operator and we’re not in a simulation.

  Q.E.D.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nukes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can Cows and Solar Power Coexist? We’re About to Find Out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all, if the solar panels don’t capture methane produced by cows this doesn’t solve anything (and they don’t).

  Second of all, cattle ranching is the main driver of deforestation in Amazon and putting solar panels on top of if is not going to help.

  Just eat less beef people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it has local storage then it doesn’t get uploaded anywhere.

  It also has BT so the offline mode could be simply “record to SD card and view videos using some app via Bluetooth”.

  Online mode with notifications and two-way talking has to require internet access so I definitely wouldn’t trust it with or without subscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's learn some words in the Finnish language⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never realized this. Thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can’t afford a vacation, an AI app will sell you pictures of one⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was kidding. I never saw the new one. I hate it when they remake movies that don’t need a remake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Wałęsa winning presidential elections. But I just kind of remember it happening and people talking about it, not actually seeing it on TV. It’s really hard to say what was the first live broadcast I remember. Fire in shipyard in Gdańsk happened in 1994, so when I was 10, but there was a song about it so maybe I remember it from the music video and not news from the day?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And what car did you learn in?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And EVs.