chasteinsect
@chasteinsect@programming.dev
- Submitted 1 week ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 34 comments
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 2 weeks ago:
Valve is a shitty company.
Does valve make some good things? Yes. Do they make shitty things? Yes. Not hard.
You just stated the exact nuanced position I was defending from the very beginning, while simultaneously insulting me for holding it 😂
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 2 weeks ago:
It’s not.
Look, you are not necessarily wrong, in holding the opinion that Valve’s monetization practices are so horrible, that they ruin the company’s entire reputation. It’s a valid moral boundary. But at the end of the day, it’s just an opinion, not some objective law of the universe and other people can weigh the scales differently without being an evil person. Yet you portray it as the TRUTH. And it’s a bit ironic, that when people disagreed you started talking about echo chambers and attacking the community. This is why you got downvoted.
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 2 weeks ago:
I feel like you’re straw-manning here.
I never said it’s okay. All I’m saying is that a mega-corporation can simultaneously exploit psychological loopholes for profit (loot boxes) while actively pushing open-source ecosystems (Linux), providing great value to consumers and fighting other pc gaming monopolies (Microsoft). Look at the whole picture.
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 2 weeks ago:
Maybe just maybe it’s because it’s not as black or white as you make it seem? Especially talking about a company that did so much for Linux and looking at what their competition is doing…
- Comment on If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked. 2 weeks ago:
Last week, we published our team’s findings about an exposed Elasticsearch cluster that contained over 160 indices and held 8.7 billion primarily Chinese records, ranging from national citizen ID numbers to various business records.
Last December, the team uncovered an unprotected database containing 4.3 billion records, some of which included LinkedIn-derived personal information. The 16TB-strong instance contained emails, photos, employment histories, and other personal data. A single collection alone contained 732 million records, including photographs.
In July, Cybernews covered one of the largest data leaks in history, after researchers discovered several collections of login credentials, containing 16 billion records. The team found 30 exposed datasets, each containing tens of millions to more than 3.5 billion records.
The leaked data included login info for just about every online service, including Apple, Facebook, Google, GitHub, Telegram, and even government platforms.
Damn…
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 2 weeks ago:
It was…oh my god. Do you have ANY idea how awful the vanilla youtube experience is?
Whether or not that matters depends on how much and how you watch it.
Ads while I listen to music = annoying I want to navigate fast to different videos on PC to find something and almost every time an ad appears on a new video = annoying I’m watching some chill drive or walk while reading a book and a loud ad appears = annoying.
But when I just go and watch 1-3 videos before bed on my ipad? I don’t care if I get those 2-4 ads, I just mute and wait those couple of seconds. I have no youtube adblockers or different clients on ipad / phone for that reason.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 2 weeks ago:
“Based on these reports, users see a message stating “Comments are turned off,” which appears across a wide range of videos”
Seems like a win to me.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Terry Davis was right…