skisnow

@skisnow@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not so much that it’s ChatGPT in of itself, as it’s ChatGPT and therefore, as per usual, sounds superficially clever until you actually read it and realize it’s meaningless nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'No One Should Have a Copyright on Vance Being Booed': Video From Olympics Blocked on X⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Copyright is a compromise, not an absolute. It has all kinds of provisions for things like commentary, public interest etc which generally speaking does allow short clips of a greater work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I find people who keep making cracks like that far more tedious, unoriginal and unpleasant than any of the groups you just listed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dream!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Likewise Singapore is mostly immigrants. This guy is wrong by such a huge degree that I don’t think it’s even a mistake, I think he knows he lying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yet everyone swears they existed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they’re exactly what their username implies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s sad how the internet has somehow made the quality of ostensibly professional journalism so much worse. It was supposed to make things better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more that context is important. The thread is about “Police Unions”, so it’s not surprising that people would read “Company Union” as meaning a union at a commercial enterprise by contrast, rather than the highly specific definition that you’ve used that distinguishes a company union from a trade union.

  You can either prance about in the thread about how dumb everyone else is, or you could edit your original statement to clarify what you meant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Draw!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can take it literally at face value. They want to know about you, so they asked. The idea that an interviewer would conclude that “renovated my house” is a wrong answer that get you blacklisted, is something that person seems to have just decided for themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still bitter at Steam for taking a bunch of my single-player games off me that I’d already paid for when I moved to another country, and refusing to refund me because I’d already played 10 hours. Also the support guy treated me like I was a criminal for even trying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Draw!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There isn’t a single question you can possibly ask in an interview that doesn’t have a million threads like this complaining about it and assuming the worst about its intentions or what the interviewer will conclude from its answer.

  The general rule seems to be that any kind of question that you might do badly on, is a bad question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Where are those numbers from? They disagree with shotonwhat.com/skyfall-2012 . The IMAX release was done as a film print, which likely wasn’t made from the regular HD cut.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  state controlled media is very bad

  Hard disagree: if there’s one thing we’ve seen over the many decades, BBC News for all its various stumbles has done a good job of setting a high bar for all the commercial news TV in the UK.

  Just compare it to the absolute trainwreck that is US TV news media. Sky News for example is a Murdoch station just like Fox News, and yet they don’t have even a fraction of the amount of crazy on there because the British people have come to expect their news presenters to act like adults and make at least some attempt at impartiality.

  Even if you don’t like the BBC’s output, you still get the benefit from its effect on the independents, and it’s not like anyone’s forcing you to watch it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  15 years ago I’d have called this a conspiracy theory given how the evidence seems to be anecdotal, but given literally every single other thing we’ve learned in recent times about cartoonishly evil and lying the tech bros truly are, it seems entirely likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  China was spying on me in case I had any useful state secrets. America is spying on me because they are actively exploiting every data point in my life for profit and control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet my LinkedIn is still full of people complaining about how much the EU over-regulates

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Video sharing is not a technically difficult problem in 2026. It really is just about making the money work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IP bans are ineffective against anyone who isn’t a 13yo using their parents’ WiFi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Engineer at Elon Musk's xAI Departs After Spilling the Beans in Podcast Interview⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not the only company doing it. Whole thing is dodgy AF.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s weird is I saw this meme years ago with the same photo but the kid’s name was Cody. I don’t know what happened in between then and OP, I can only assume some in-joke that got lost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well acshually… anything above 6x wasn’t actually what it said on the tin. CD data starts from the inside ring, and there’s a physical limit to how fast you can spin a plastic plate before it tears itself apart. So you only got the full 52x speed at the very last part of the burn, and even then only if you filled the whole disk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jensen Huang can go fuck himself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.