favoredponcho
@favoredponcho@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 1 day ago:
Everyone that sells their time to make a living is part of the same class. Everyone that makes their money through appreciation of capital is a different class.
- Comment on Desiccant dehumidifiers are fascinating... but not for everyone [29:19] 1 day ago:
Yeah - the video does clarify that the UK is one of the few places the desiccant one makes sense.
- Comment on DAT-protocol 2 days ago:
How do they manage changes to the site and refreshing the peers with the latest copy?
- Comment on Desiccant dehumidifiers are fascinating... but not for everyone [29:19] 2 days ago:
I watched this. It was of interest to me because I must run two dehumidifiers in my house and they use a ton of energy. Unfortunately, this desiccant dehumidifier would use even more energy. Hoping someday someone figures out how to build a more efficient one.
In the meantime, I think manufacturers need to build all dehumidifiers with a repeat cycle timer built in. I find it far more energy efficient to run for some period like 30 minutes till the humidity drops low — like 45%, then shut off for 60-120 minutes while the humidity slowly creeps back up until the cycle repeats. Most dehumidifiers work based on a humidity threshold and will constantly click on and off as the threshold gets crossed. In my experience, this uses a lot more energy and being in a high cost state is completely unaffordable.
- Comment on US | Republicans investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 1 week ago:
Where did I say that Wikipedia was unbiased?
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 1 week ago:
How is this legal?
- Comment on US | Republicans investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 1 week ago:
Wikipedia has no legal obligation to be unbiased.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 1 week ago:
By Linux I mean “FOSS” phone. Android is based on Linux, but it is also loaded with spyware out of the box. If you’d asked me 18 years ago whether there would be a viable FOSS phone by now, I would’ve thought yes. But, postmarketOS still advertises itself as “not ready yet” and Ubuntu Touch is still pretty niche.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 1 week ago:
Are they moving fast? It’s been like 18 years since the iPhone came out and there really isn’t a viable Linux phone.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 week ago:
From Wikipedia:
In 2019, Powell suggested that parenting was a distraction to being productive and critiqued the economic viability of parental leaves; he went on to question whether choosing to not abide by relevant governmental regulations was a risk worth taking.[40] In June 2022, Powell urged employees in a work meeting to reject the usage of preferred gender pronouns; he then opened a Slack channel to debate whether people should be allowed to choose their gender but not their race or ethnicity.[7] The next day, Kraken released a “culture document” which outlined the libertarian values that it asserted were to be obeyed at work.[7] Among other things, employees were prohibited from labelling others’ comments as “toxic, hateful, racist”, etc., and particular emphasis was assigned on how “offensiveness” was not forbidden.[7] Powell and his fellow executives encouraged employees who disagreed with the policy to quit, and offered four months’ severance for those who opted to do so.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 week ago:
The guy is such an asshole. I’d never apply to work there. He had a policy where he personally needs to approve of every single person hired there. He’s a micromanager, Elon wannabe douche. I have some crypto with Coinbase, but I will never add more to it. Eventually, some day I’ll pull it out. The problem is other companies in crypto are also run by raging assholes — Kraken for instance was founded by a total dickhead.
- Comment on Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring 2 weeks ago:
Apple is 50 years old
- Comment on Nobody uses the white emojis 3 weeks ago:
I agree, as a white person, that yellow seems more neutral. But, then people who are slightly not white are always eager to switch. I also feel some people have a skewed idea of how brown they actually are and will pick a shade or two darker than their real skin tone.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 3 weeks ago:
I feel like I’m constantly getting new devices or reinstalling my OSes. I restart from scratch a lot. Going through the steps to harden Firefox becomes tedious. Librewolf starts from where I want to be.
- Comment on Microsoft will kill the Lens PDF scanner app for iOS, Android 3 weeks ago:
Why would anyone let Microsoft read their PDFs? You know they’re scraping all that data and using it to target ads at you
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Lemmy.world got hit with tons of spam early in its life. Someone was uploading CSAM and other disgusting images.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 3 weeks ago:
Remind me later.
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 4 weeks ago:
Don’t request shit you aren’t allowed to have.
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 4 weeks ago:
This is like me saying I have a bucket of guns that are illegal in your state but legal in mine. You come to my state and take the guns back to yours. Who broke the law?
- Comment on This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband 4 weeks ago:
If anyone locates a gofundme for them, please let me know.
- Comment on Pick-ups from the Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo 2 months ago:
I vaguely remember playing Untold Legends back in the day. It was good.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 2 months ago:
I’m not the one making claims. If you want to make a claim cite a source. The original poster hadn’t done that until I called him out, then he went and edited it to add a source.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 2 months ago:
Claims without any supporting evidence aren’t that interesting.
- Comment on Just the usual bike ride in Florida 2 months ago:
Shark Valley, maybe?
- Comment on Los Angeles Pigs' Department thugs straight up mugged a protester in broad daylight 2 months ago:
What was in the bag?
- Comment on Los Angeles Pigs' Department thugs straight up mugged a protester in broad daylight 2 months ago:
What isnit