tiramichu

@tiramichu@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waffles shaped like genitals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Cockwaffles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You just have tonask yourself “If it was a daughter asking her mother for personal grooming advice, would things seem different?” and if the answer is ‘yes’ then it’s easy to recognise there might be a double standard there in society which shouldn’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He is cooked⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Email has bits of both in the chain.

  Using the olden-days of desktop email apps as an example then:

  • 1. You compose an email and push it to your email provider
  • 2. Your provider pushes the email to the provider of the recipient address (including retying if necessary)
  • 3. The recipient user “checks for new emails” and pulls down new ones from the provider to their local app
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He is cooked⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The cause of this for SMS is not the phone, but the network, and the underlying technology. SMS is push-based, compared to Internet messaging which is pull-based, and uses a backoff-based redelivery mechanism. Once your message is sent and has been received by your carrier, deliver is attempted, but if the recipient handset is unavailable the carrier will try periodically to redeliver, and if it still fails the wait period between delivery attempts will increase the longer the recipient is unavailable. May be every five minutes for the first hour, but then once an hour for the next 24, for example.

  Each message is its own distinct entity which is treated separately for delivery, just like letters in the post. That’s why it was possible to get this sort of odd-seeming scenario where you have a newer message that made it through, while an older one is still stuck in retry somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plant Slurs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My definition: aggressive spread and resilience to removal.

  Weeds that are pretty might get more of a pass than ones which are ugly, poisonous or thorny, but ultimately, even the most beautiful flower becomes a weed when it’s suddenly everywhere and you are fighting constantly to get rid of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rate my one year old homelab.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, brilliant.

  At first you are thinking “this is going to be so nice and compact and tidy” and then…

  Love it though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨goodbye plex⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Swiftfin is what I’m using for Plex on my Apple TV

  It’s perfect for me because it supports direct stream and decoding of the file for playback on the Apple TV - because the Apple TV is capable enough to do that.

  This is ideal because my NAS server is a venerable but now very long in the tooth HP Gen 8 microserver from 2014, so it doesn’t have the chops for reencoded streaming anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo’s Anti-Consumer Anti-Piracy Measures Also Reduce The Value Of The Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure why this article.is trying to imply Nintendo messed up and don’t know what they’re doing, and bricking will somehow lose them money.

  From Nintendo’s perspective, turning the used market into a minefield of bricked consoles can only be a good thing, because it forces people to buy new, and buying new is money in Nintendo’s pocket.

  And the conclusion that people won’t buy the console for their kids because of this? “Sorry kids, but Nintendo are bad so we cant play your favourite Mario - you’re getting a steam deck instead!” Like heck! A tiny minoruty maybe, but people will generally buy their kids what they ask for.

  Nintendo know exactly what they are doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Srsly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like to be home by 11, so there’s room for a little chill time before I actually have to go to sleep!

  Getting home and immediately going to bed is the worst!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is no such thing as truly objective YouTube search results⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The “problem” they are trying to solve is “how do we keep people on the platform clicking and watching more videos for longer?” and the “solution” to that doesn’t necessarily involve showing you what you actually wanted to find.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Lemm.ee's last weekend. Thanks to Sunaurus and the other admins for keeping this place going while y'all could! See everyone around the fediverse.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  o7

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  [The proposal] defines a deepfake as a very realistic digital representation of a person, including their appearance and voice.

  The government said the new rules would not affect parodies and satire, which would still be permitted.

  Seems like they’ve already thought about this, and the law will cover only digital clones, not human lookalikes, and there are still fair-use carve outs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fun Lunch Fridays⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🤮

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the creepiest publisher in indie games. Critical Reflex are “midwives bringing monsters into the world,” backing projects no one dares to touch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The beginning of this headline had me mislead.

  I read ‘creepiest publisher’ and with the state of the industry these days I thought it was going to be some exposé piece on a toxic culture of workplace misogyny and sexual harassment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Child Welfare Experts Horrified by Mattel's Plans to Add ChatGPT to Toys After Mental Health Concerns for Adult Users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, of course it will be online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Defending the Internet: How Cloudflare blocked a monumental 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cloudflare presumably don’t want to give away the identity of their customer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if only 1% of people used adblock, then that’s 1% of millions of dollars of ad revenue. It’s easily enough to put several people on this as a full time job if they want to.

  I’m sure Google saw it as only a minor issue at first, but the number of people using adblockers is presumably going up all the time.

  The irony being of course that adblock usage is skyrocketing only because companies like Google have made the Internet so thoroughly ad-polluted it’s intolerable to go without one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If unused Chip Dip gets thrown out or composted then it was never actually chip dip.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Put hummus in your sandwiches or something, it’s a great condiment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Demon Slyayer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “All publicity is good publicity” , maybe…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow yeah. That must have been a really infuriating gameplay issue, no wonder players were upset with it.

  A shame the game was so rushed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What was the bug and workaround? :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Matrix org isn’t obligated to run a public instance at all - they could stick to developing the spec, and let other people run instances.

  And honestly maybe they should, because then we wouldnt have this huge consolidation problem on matrix.org in the first place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tunic is awesome and I wish more people talked about it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To me, the unspoken premise of the game is that you’re a kid in 1986 with a parent or cool uncle who went on a business trip to Japan and brought you home a Famicom and a copy of the original Zelda - months before the console even launched outside Japan.

  The ‘Alien Language’ game manual is therefore supposed to mimic the feeling of trying to read the Japanese manual that came with the game, muddling through as best you can with the pictures, and a few random English words they included just because English is ‘cool’ in a gaming context.

  It’s a very cool mechanic, honestly my favourite thing about the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube "search results"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are incentivised because showing accurate results for what you asked for isn’t necessarily the best way to keep people on the platform.

  By pushing certain types of videos, such as opinionated content or loud shouty videos for low attention spans, YouTube hopes to keep you engaged for longer than they would by being accurate.

  There’s also a direct advertising reason to funnel certain types of video. YouTube creators earn different amounts of money for the same number of views depeding on what category (e.g. financial, gaming, writing advice, cookery etc) YT has auto-categorised your video as. We can infer from this that advertisers are willing to pay more money for ads in some categories than others, and therefore YT is directly incentivised to push those more lucrative categories in search results, even if they aren’t what you wanted.

  Plenty of reasons why they want to mess with results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Announcing: Piefed.zip - our new Piefed instance!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Congrats on the new service.

  I’m a UK user and unlike lemmy.zip, piefed.zip appears to be accessible to me.

  I assume this is simply because you haven’t got around to geoblocking it yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Promoting that the nunber exists as a actual thing people should use is good, yeah. :)

  The actual number isn’t so important, though. If ever needed to call the non-emergency number I’d search it up, which fortunately I can do given I’ve got loads of time because it’s not an emergency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure.

  If they’ve got a problem with non-emergency callers dialing 911, surely it would be best to try and reduce that problem through other means (such as fining persistent inappropriate use of 911)

  I don’t want to talk to a fucking robot when I’m on the floor dying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been a good couple of years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved that app and I still miss it (and reddit) in some ways, but the API Apocalypse was when I decided I had to take a moral stand and quit. No way was I going to be railroaded into the first-party app full of ads and nonsense.

  I haven’t looked back since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*pat pat pat*⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  God literally used the scale up tool on a seagull. I guess it was a Friday afternoon in the animal design bureau.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*pat pat pat*⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are huge!