Zephorah
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- Comment on Meta could make social media posting immortal — and we should all cancel our Facebook accounts right now 6 hours ago:
No it won’t. It will be the veneer. Like preserving the makeup and hair product but not the person it’s painted on.
- Comment on YSK that murder is now legal in California. Fully legal. Slaughter a family of four by driving over the speed limit. Go home. 2 days ago:
She’s 80, rich, and stated in public that she feels bad. This is, apparently, how you get away with manslaughter.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 3 days ago:
Freakonomics covered this back around their inception. The data shows wine tasters and critics generally rate expensive wine as better. In a blind trial where expensive was replaced with two buck chuck and a $5 option, researchers proved there’s not much difference in ratings when the price isn’t known. Tell them two buck chuck is the most expensive thing on the table and it’s then rated as such.
I believe this was part of their coverage on experts not being experts, iirc.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 3 days ago:
So, like the $5 Trader Joe’s wine tasting with wine enthusiasts.
- Comment on Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model 4 days ago:
The issue here is going to be discord users picking one, en masse.
- Comment on Free Tool Says it Can Bypass Discord's Age Verification Check With a 3D Model 4 days ago:
FOSS
Pick the best replacement option and run with it.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 5 days ago:
Increasing RAM (from 16) and SSD space (from .5TB) on a laptop now is easily +$1k and up.
- Comment on No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare 5 days ago:
We need open source, non subscription camera/app tech. For safety and for keeping an eye on Pops when he ages out.
- Comment on I'm fed up with Copilot, and I'm not sure it can be fixed 6 days ago:
This is both expected and mystifying at the same time.
How dead in the head do you have to be to RELY on such things?
- Comment on No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare 6 days ago:
The only way this stops is if people give up their RING cameras.
- Comment on TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It's Providing User Data to ICE 6 days ago:
That’s a yes.
If they could say they were not then they’d just say it.
- Comment on Are TikTok and X tracking you across the internet? Our privacy tool can tell you 6 days ago:
I just assumed that’s the entire reason for phone number collection. Oh, look, this person on FB Messenger is the same on YouTube on Signal on …
- Comment on Is it just me or is there a lot of Spam and abuse on Lemmy lately? 6 days ago:
No. I blocked all the anime, furry, porn, and any aggressive subs that consistently read like screaming. If that matters, maybe do the same.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 1 week ago:
What is the free and open source alternative?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Good odds that type of thing is happening more than is being told.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
To what end? What authority? At this point it could be you or me in a mask with a body cam, for all the credentials authorities are showing these days.
Spoiler: it was a random thief in need of hardware.
- Comment on Why is GOG not as succesful as a Gaming Alternative? 1 week ago:
Is this a new feature? USA.
- Comment on Why is GOG not as succesful as a Gaming Alternative? 1 week ago:
There is that. I can even stream a Steam game on windows to a Linux computer. It’s quite versatile.
- Comment on Why is GOG not as succesful as a Gaming Alternative? 1 week ago:
GOG is missing critical convenience features. Like the ability to buy and gift games. Or even just buy a gift card for their games. This would be a yearly buy for my nieces and nephews but there’s no availability. I keep asking. It keeps not being there.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 week ago:
Fusion, mostly. Latino coworker from Texas told me Burritos are neither Mexican nor American, but a beautiful Texas border food fusion. Anecdotal, but the guys son is a professional chef.
- Comment on A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content 1 week ago:
How about just AI content. A logo tag at the top of every web page, and every vid. Especially cat vids. It would be nice to be able to tap into them again.
- Comment on A lot of the laid-off staff from the Washington Post should start a news cooperative. Seriously! 1 week ago:
Exactly. What’s stopping these dis enfranchised journalists from massing together to form a new news organization?
They don’t need WaPo or NYT. Call it The Amendment or some such.
- Comment on 32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital 1 week ago:
We’ve all seen some of the cool elements on RedHat. I especially like the local farmer trucks rolling through towns with fresh veggies. And watching how much easier it is to grow tea there than in my backyard.
But let’s not play pretend.
- Comment on 32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital 2 weeks ago:
I’m aware. I still think they’re the country most in need of labor unions.
- Comment on 32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital 2 weeks ago:
China needs unions.
- Comment on Five French Ubisoft Unions Call For Massive International Strike Over 'Cost-Cutting' and Ending of Remote Work 2 weeks ago:
Ending remote work adds cost.
- Comment on Parents are paying $2500 to falsify vaccine records. It’s endangering babies like Riley 2 weeks ago:
The best way is to figure out who they are, by maybe posing as an interested parent, and then report to their respective licensing boards.
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, there are a fair amount of Linux users on Lemmy.as for the millions who’ve never heard of Lemmy? I’m not confident they are not. Especially given the crap we have to clean out of my parent’s computer every couple months.
- Comment on What is immersion to you? 2 weeks ago:
A good story with solid world building.
DA Origins. ME trilogy. Dishonored 1 & 2. D&D games always have some of that with complex character building to make up the difference when the story is less than stellar.
Like fun fiction, only you participate instead of reading.
- Comment on Cost of living is up. Paychecks are not. And workers are not OK. 2 weeks ago:
You may be joking, a little, but as people get more desperate they will go for whatever easy target they see. That is you, or grandma pushing those tasty groceries to her car, or the house back from the road in a town with no cop shop.
Just do everyone a favor and practice at a range, don’t simply leave it in a safe.