skisnow

@skisnow@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  AI slop with the audacity to block anyone with Privacy Badger enabled, like, “we worked hard to produce this AI slop so we deserve to make money scraping your personal data”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tips⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  for some people this is meaningless bullshit, in that they are struggling to pay for groceries

  Good point, and I think this runs to the heart of a lot of ragebait meme stuff like this. It wasn’t written for that audience, it was written for people driving an Audi TT on a VW Polo salary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Minnesota National Guard is attempting to recruit high school kids by insinuating their parents might be deported if they don't sign up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d kind of be surprised if this was real, especially with that name.

  Pulling the ladder up behind you is not at all rare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky just verified ICE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally every post they make is going to have a thousand people telling them to go fuck themselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wokeness ended, check mate leftists ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t expect you to know who that model is because I didn’t know either, but what I did do was skim the comments first before posting a giant tirade and getting wooshed… ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I always used to hear these things in pop culture about both Taco Bell and Chipotle fucking up your stomach and representing some kind of test of physicality, and I thought it was supposedly because they were very spicy. And then I visited the US and tried them and discovered that no, it’s not spicy, it’s just extremely poor quality to the point of being unfit for human consumption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Jensen Huang can go fuck himself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  wow, I didn’t need any more reasons not to support Oracle but thanks anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget you can block communities that irritate you. I’ve got plenty blocked that aren’t even things I’m opposed to, but just don’t want my feed to be full of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy: Beans ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely if it’s full of missing women’s driving licenses it’s not a sock drawer, it’s a missing women’s driving licenses drawer. Is the sort of reply I’d post if it were reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z’s Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wait I see, you’re in training for when they add Extreme High Horse Riding to the X-Games. Careful you don’t fall off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z’s Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I predict it will be a Chinese skateboarder, on the moon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z’s Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I gotta say, I was kind of expecting to get some pushback from people who had their own favourite skaters who turned out to have a billion YouTube views or something, but I wasn’t expecting this number of replies to be people butthurt over some imagined attack on their own identity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z’s Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The guy compares my post to White supremacist rhetoric and I’m the one clutching pearls? lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a toxic garbage heap way before 2016. I remember creating an account to try building karma there back in about 2011 when doing that was seen as a good way to land senior job roles. Gave up very quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole point of StackExchange is that it contained everything that isn’t in the docs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z’s Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck me, all I said was there’s no culturally significant skateboarders any more and you’re bringing a whole racism thing into it

• Gen Z’s Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can still smell them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still slightly wary of them after (mildly) burning a knuckle attempting a whole strip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will the government be able to put 2 & 2 together⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is particularly dumb because there’s a plenty long history of courts ordering sites to be blocked for piracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The frustrating thing is they genuinely believe they’re the good guys

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom with the real questions ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I find crazy is that at least half of all monitors today are the same res as CRTs from a quarter century ago. I had a $250 no-name brand CRT that handled 1600x1200 quite beautifully in the 1990s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom with the real questions ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Never met her but there’s a chance she might genuinely not have known.

  My grandparents and great-grandparents thought a lot of family stuff was worth something but they never actually got it professionally valued. One thing that really stuck out was an ornate silver tea set that looked really nice, was in great condition, was a complete set, hallmarked, turned out to be worth fuck all because nobody actually wants silver tea sets in the 21st century, but they were a big thing a hundred years ago so there’s millions of them out there flooding the market.

  There was also a minor hoo-hah over inheritance of the family piano, which then turned out to be a mass-produced budget model that was no longer physically able to be tuned to concert pitch without risk of damage. Turns out budget pianos don’t become antique, they just become old and you have to pay someone to take it away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I go crazy will you still call me Superman?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I defy OP to link me to a source of someone both:

  1. unironically making fun of Superman for having a rock as his weakness, and

  2. not already being challenged immediately on their statement within that same source

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a fucking chatbot. We should be worried when it can’t be persuaded to say mad things.

  I’m willing to bet that at least half of these “look at the mad things Grok said” pieces were planted by Elmo’s own media team.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love science⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At school, topics are divided into Arts, Science and Humanities. The majority of Bachelor’s degrees are titled Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science.

  Using the word “Science” colloquially to describe anything that isn’t the Arts or Humanities is entirely consistent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Otherwise I have a new piracy idea

  New in what sense? It’s literally what they’re already doing.

  The problem from a legal standpoint is that the rules on what qualifies as commentary are fuzzy enough that you have to actually go to court for a decision, which nobody likes doing. Even the copyright holders are slightly wary of it, on account of the longer-term implications if they lose and set an unfortunate precedent.

  jdsupra.com/…/reaction-videos-and-copyright-law-b…

  Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc. A YouTube show used viral clips from Jukin Media’s library while adding comedic commentary. The court found that some segments were transformative and fair use, while others were not. The decision emphasized that each clip must be analyzed individually based on its purpose and editing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a clause in most countries’ copyright laws that allow you to use material for the purposes of “commentary”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s so hard about C:\users\skisnow, it’s pretty intuitive

  Except it only plays out like that if you follow their entire plan for how you want to structure your files and do it exactly how they want. Yessir, I put my pictures in Pictures and my documents in Documents and my music in Music and my videos in Videos like a good boy and everything is taken care of, until the moment I have to do something very very slightly different to Microsoft’s plan for my life, like get a second SDD.

  Unless your talking about OneDrive or some shit.

  You mean the OneDrive that gets bundled with every Windows along with an account that you have to really fight the computer to not give you? Why wouldn’t I be including that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The more Windows tries to manage my files for me the less I’m able to find where anything is.

  I wish Windows 2000 still ran modern games.