fletcher_bosom
@fletcher_bosom@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 2 days ago:
This trend started with what’s now called “Web 2.0” around 2000. Before that (“Web 1.0”) websites were largely used only for information dissemination: here’s who we are, what we do, how to contact us. As interactive technologies became more powerful and companies started hiring Web development teams, we started to see personal “portals” that allowed users to see or do something specific to their account or relationship with the company running the site. It was novel enough at the time that developers differentiated these features with the “My” prefix.
Nowadays we all expect the websites for our bank, utility company, phone provider etc. to have individual account management features so it just sounds lame.
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 weeks ago:
Another vote for It Takes Two
- Comment on Do you have to deal with this during your morning commute? 4 weeks ago:
So your kateness is a problem they are supposed to solve for you?
- Comment on Do you have to deal with this during your morning commute? 4 weeks ago:
Strike up a conversation and find out how their day is going. Maybe you’ll get the answers you seek.
- Comment on Do you have to deal with this during your morning commute? 4 weeks ago:
Major “Main Character Syndrome” vibes. Other people have their own lives and their own reasons, ya know?
- Comment on What kind of resistor is this? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a variable resistor, commonly called a varistor. Probably metal-oxide and probably used for surge protection (which explains why is the part that fried). Unfortunately that’s all I can tell you.
- Comment on ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners 5 weeks ago:
Website operators don’t want to have to display cookie banners and users don’t want to see them. So what are we doing?
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 2 months ago:
False dichotomy, much?
- Comment on Science is just fucking around and writing down the results 2 months ago:
Science is the original FAFO
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 3 months ago:
Anti-fascism museum
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Snowflake.
- Comment on For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs? 3 months ago:
In the beginning, there was Atari. Home gaming consoles were small money compared to office productivity software. Then came Nintendo, who demonstrated that gaming consoles could be a billion dollar revenue stream, at the time that Office was saturated and stagnating. MS felt they had the capability to enter and compete in that market and really they didn’t do too badly.
- Comment on Why do people say "as sweet as canned beans"? 4 months ago:
People always tell me I’m a cool as tartar sauce. Idk that’s what they say
- Comment on thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned? 4 months ago:
I like the cut of your jib.
- Comment on Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them 5 months ago:
One wonders how many of these Arkansas farmers voted for unchecked capitalism and “small government” at the ballot box last November…
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 5 months ago:
Half the older age plus 7.
- Comment on White House starts TikTok account as platform in US legal limbo 5 months ago:
Does the president have the authority to put this law on pause?