AstaKask
@AstaKask@lemmy.cafe
- Comment on ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners 5 days ago:
Website operators don’t have to display cookie banners. They can just not use tracking/ad cookies. Simple af.
- Comment on ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners 5 days ago:
GDPR doesn’t annoy anyone. The incompetent developers who made the banners do. There is absolutely no need for them.
- Comment on UK government should end rail outsourcing ‘racket’, says union 6 days ago:
For-profit corporations running critical infrastructure is just a hostage situation.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Also nice to not have to pick hair out of your mouth.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 1 week ago:
I swear social media people with a very limited grip on what “scam” and “grift” means are more obsessed with Star Citizen than us who actually play it. I log on to do some space trucking when I need to relax, or want to check out whatever new has been added. I’ve gotten more value out of that game in the last couple of years than any I’ve bought since. Many AAA games I don’t even remember playing.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 1 week ago:
Tbf. many Marantz receivers sound fucking awesome. Although mine’s from the 90s and cost me ~80€. Still blows anything I compare it to out of the water. A modern 1000€ Bluesound Powernode I used to have sounded anaemic in comparison. As a collector of obscure punk and prog vinyl I think it sounds best on a Frankensteined together system with some character that allows you to crank it loud.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 2 weeks ago:
Why would a Chinese for-profit corporation differ from any other? Except for the Chinese ones having backing from a garbage authoritarian empire. Maybe they can get free slaves from the state?
- Comment on Bruh... 2 weeks ago:
Seventeen dicks according to Natalie Portman.
- Comment on 24 wounded in Israeli raid in East Jerusalem to confiscate 'thousands of unregulated eggs' 2 weeks ago:
Conquering territory, genocide. You know, coloniser stuff.
- Comment on There's a 0% chance the tiktok generation avoids using nukes on itself. 2 weeks ago:
After working with high school kids for a while I can tell you that the climate and social justice talk is mostly performative. Also way rapey-er than I remember us being in the early 00s.
- Comment on When you're cooking and it does its thing. 2 weeks ago:
This, or just the smell of my cast iron pan heating up.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 2 weeks ago:
I mean sure my cooking is better than most restaurants. Maybe they should go out of business. I very rarely tip. I pay the price that you put on the menu. That’s the deal.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 2 weeks ago:
You don’t have empathy, you’re just weird.
- Comment on Japan needs to possess nuclear weapons, prime minister's office source says 2 weeks ago:
Sure, maybe. I would like to remind everyone that this woman is a member of an insane cult called Unification Church which control politics in many parts of Asia. Not much better than Islam, Christianity or Judaism ofc. but I don’t think we need more of these lunatics running around.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 6 is "progressing really well", Bethesda shout from the kitchen as they baste a GTA-shaped turkey 3 weeks ago:
After being burned on Starfield, I’m gonna be really careful about buying games developed by Bethesda in the future.
Dodged a bullet by not buying Battlefield 2042 & 6 after seeing EA/DICE lied through their teeth. Now that they support slavery and murdering homosexuals I don’t see myself buying anymore of their games ever.
- Comment on Christmas Animals 3 weeks ago:
Disability as a subculture or identity is just really cringe. Especially the deaf/blind organisations lobbying against curing childrens deafness/blindness.
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 3 weeks ago:
The UK should do a major spelling reform and troll the shit out of the U.S and their then “archaic” English.
- Comment on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 3 weeks ago:
utskitet av kalk och vatten…
- Comment on Ms Rachel forced to hire security over Zionist threats 3 weeks ago:
A cult fixated on the purity of their bloodline, conspiracy theories, and the devine right to their mythical fatherland. Where have I heard this before?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s decentralised, but can’t federate. From my experience it’s just cryptobros trying to sell their latest shitcoin to each other.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 4 months ago:
I’ve had the privilege of working with users with actual computer training. Old ladies who started working on terminals in the 70s and 80s. They were awesome, because they actually understood what they were doing. They could give me an accurate description of what they were doing when shit went wrong. They had real concerns and realistic requests for improvement. And they never blamed the computer when they encountered something they didn’t understand. They’re all dead or retired now.
Todays computer illiterate workforce is doomed to be incompetent because they don’t understand how their main tool works. Nobody bothered to train them.
- Comment on Argentina wants to monitor social media with AI to ‘predict future crimes’ 4 months ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if there’s some kind of leaded gasoline-like issue affecting people today (microplastics or some shit). Something has gone horribly wrong with peoples brains.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Religion is the closest thing to true evil that exist on this planet. Insane cultists shouldn’t be allowed around children. Not even their own (they tend to mutilate them in order to mark them as members of their insane cult).
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 4 months ago:
No. Soldiers are very much protected from such orders in most countries. They can’t be held responsible for refusing to follow an illegal order.
I mostly hear the argument from civilians helping their employer commit crime.
- Comment on It shocked the market but has China's DeepSeek changed AI? 4 months ago:
No. It’s still just a very convincing auto-complete. People who claim it’s even AI are uneducated and easily manipulated by marketing.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 4 months ago:
Same in most of the world. Sucks that these machines brought tipping to places it didn’t exist before. Used to be only shitty tourist trap restaurants asked for tips in Stockholm. Now all the machines do.
Remember kids. Never tip, ever.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 4 months ago:
The “I’m just doing my job” defence. Nice.
- Comment on ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’: the Australian push to have all adopted people told their full history and identity 5 months ago:
This magical ability to “maintain an identity” you speak of, is not a real thing that exist.
- Comment on ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’: the Australian push to have all adopted people told their full history and identity 5 months ago:
Identity. Most overrated fad thing ever. People with no personality trying to find meaning in completely irrelevant information. Oh, you’re a gay martian? That’s cool I guess, but can you juggle?!?
- Comment on Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order 5 months ago:
I don’t think anyone has ever thought Belgium was cool. Been to Brussels plenty of times and I think it might be the least cool city in all of Europe. Except for FOSDEM of course. That is pretty damn cool.