binarytobis
@binarytobis@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hold on one sec baby Delores might fucking win this one. 1 week ago:
Been watching Great British Bake Off recently, the exiting js really refreshing.
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 1 week ago:
Song-based radios for new music discovery on a service where they don’t silently drop huge swaths of music from my curated “liked” list. Tidal, Qobuz, and Bandcamp failed to meet this requirement in different ways.
Spotify isn’t even good, but I don’t have another real option yet.
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 1 week ago:
I used Tidal for a few months, then found out it had silently removed ~10% of my music from my “liked” list. Completely unacceptable. They should at least keep a list of titles so I can go back and fix it. People say all services do this, but I’ve been keeping an eye on it and Spotify hasn’t done it since I hopped back.
Qobuz was painful to use and new music discovery was hopeless. No idea if they were removing tracks too.
Bandcamp seems cool, but I prefer to listen to music via song-based-radios, so that’s a no go.
Not sure what I’ll do if I have to drop Spotify again over ads.
- Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970 2 weeks ago:
My grandpa recorded absolutely everything on VHS in the 90s. He had so many bookshelves full of movies and shows he meticulously catalogued. I wanted to ask him if he ever actually watched any of them, but I didn’t want to break his spirit.
- Comment on That's the feeling. 2 weeks ago:
Proton feels like they really want to be Google, but don’t have enough market share yet to enter the “removing ‘Don’t Be Evil’ from the mission statement” stage.
- Comment on That's the feeling. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I can handle incompetence. It’s the malicious exploitation that was getting to me. I don’t feel that any more with Linux. Give it time, I guess.
- Comment on So What's Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin? Manga Gets TV Anime 2 weeks ago:
Magic is omnipresent, so I assume that plays a role somehow.
Tbh I always thought the 7 days thing was a little too hard to swallow. It’s otherwise a good read though, so I always pretended like it was a few months at least.
- Comment on Warning: Your AI-Generated Password Is a Major Security Risk. Here’s What to Use Instead 2 weeks ago:
If someone I knew told me they asked an LLM to generate their password, I would no longer talk to that person.
- Comment on [Zack Freedman] You can copy and 3D print perfect spare parts! (Legally) (Probably) 2 weeks ago:
One thing I think he missed, in my experience, is many of the critical dimensions may be in the user manual as a drawing. For example, the hole spacing for mounting the drives is standard so either the mount or the drive manufacturer might have called out the position and size. This would be way better than measuring, especially if they are using metric and you dimension in inches.
Great vid though.
- Comment on GoldenEye 007: The Accidental Masterpiece Trapped in Licensing Limbo 3 weeks ago:
I’m mot convinced this isn’t an elaborate attempt at gaslighting me to think this game existed.
- Comment on Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Every time I played a Pokemon game throughout the years, I thought “This time I’m going to fill the dex!” But there was always some you just couldn’t reasonably get so I always gave up. Big disappointment, it’s really the reason I didn’t play the last few.
It’s impressive you managed it in Gen 6.
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 3 weeks ago:
If they thought it was an honor, why kidnap them? Surely they would come willingly?
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 3 weeks ago:
I just feel like if they were acting honorably, they would have invited the victors instead of kidnapping them via what I assume was a cowardly ambush (based off the fact they have no memory of it), and freezing them until their loved ones were dead.
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 3 weeks ago:
I watched the animated Predator movie the other day, and was miffed that
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they would kidnap people who won against their hunters, freeze them for who knows how many years (thereby effectively ending their lives as they know it) and bring them across the galaxy to fight for their lives again. Respect that the winner won you sore losers. Absolutely no honor.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Never start a land war in Asia?
- Comment on Major airline bans ‘barebeaters’ across all 24 daily flights from UK airports 3 weeks ago:
Is the main image above this article AI generated? It feels like it but I can’t pin down exactly why.
- Comment on Dear Faith VIII 3 weeks ago:
I was also wondering why I kept seeing the same “Faith” email pop up over and over again. Makes sense if it’s a series, though I feel they should link to each other if so.
- Comment on Make sure you know what your kid is getting themselves into 3 weeks ago:
Tbh, if I saw my dad absolutely fucked up after hitting my cape pen as a teenager, it would probably have rattled me enough to make me stop for a few years at least.
- Comment on Bomb has been planted. 4 weeks ago:
Why does his knife have ammo?
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 4 weeks ago:
I went to Wendy’s the other day, and they have this automatic pre-recorded English-fluent woman cheerfully ask for your order. While an actual person didn’t indicate that they were ready, I know they won’t do a second intro message either way, so I started to order. A heavy spanish accent comes over the speaker “Fucking wait, god.” My only thought was “Fair enough” and I waited.
Whoever implements these systems is crazy. We don’t pay people enough to be policed that heavily.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 4 weeks ago:
As a customer, I would feel much more comfortable talking to someone who doesn’t sound like they have a gun to their head.
- Comment on Is spreading. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases 4 weeks ago:
Reminds me of Nuclear Gandhi.
- Comment on Stereotyping is wrong. 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes I think about dating again after so long, and I imagine my girlfriend wanting to wiretap our place with an Alexa in the kitchen.
- Comment on Always there, just waiting. 5 weeks ago:
I bought a couple a friends some really nice cloaks once, but I don’t know if they actually wear them ever. Too afraid to ask.
- Comment on What was your social media path? 1 month ago:
When I was in school back in the early days, I tried typing a random “wherearemypants.com” and it led to this forum run by some random guy in Texas for him and his friends. I made an account and just insinuated myself into this group of adults, and honestly, it was the golden age of social media for me. Absolutely nothing was monetized, just people sharing links and chatting about stuff.
Eventually he shut it down and I ended up on myspace>facebook>reddit>lemmy.
- Comment on L shows off his investigative prowess 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 director agrees with No Rest for the Wicked lead that Early Access is "a positive thing" for games like their two RPGs – when it works 1 month ago:
Early access doesn’t really work for me. I’ll pick it up, play at half-baked game until I run out of content, then never touch it again. I’m sure Valheim and 7 Days to Die are really good now, but my initial pass wasn’t good enough for me to ever say “Ah, let’s spend more time on another playthrough!”
Maybe other people get something out of it.
- Comment on Bri'ish Cuisine 1 month ago:
I’ve never put chicken stock in a rice cooker, but I kind of need to know.
I did steam some nachos in there one time. They came out perfect. When I excitedly told a few friends, they all universally gave me concerned looks. I decided to retire the recipe while I still had people around me who weren’t ashamed to be near me.
