LordMayor
@LordMayor@piefed.social
- Comment on YSK: about SomaFM, a listener supported, ad free, internet radio thats been going for 26 years 2 weeks ago:
Soma is one of my favorite ways to learn about new music. And, their Christmas stations are a good alternative typical playlists.
- Comment on Are there any apps/instances that default to local only and you have to opt-in to federated instances? 2 weeks ago:
No, I didn’t know about those. Thanks, I’ll check that out.
- Comment on Are there any apps/instances that default to local only and you have to opt-in to federated instances? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. I want All to be just other instances that I’m interested in. Not every available (federated) instance.
- Comment on Are there any apps/instances that default to local only and you have to opt-in to federated instances? 2 weeks ago:
The only problem with that is not seeing posts from other instances I don’t want to block.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’d prefer Subscribed to be personally curated communities, Local to be instance curated, and All to be a place to get a broader picture of, well, everything.
I’d just find it easier/more natural to opt-in to other instance content rather than opt-out.
- Comment on Are there any apps/instances that default to local only and you have to opt-in to federated instances? 2 weeks ago:
Essentially, yes. I think you still see comments from users on that instance if they comment on a post on an instance that isn’t blocked.
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- Comment on Trash bags are one product that you buy just to throw away 2 weeks ago:
And, you never have to clean your dish soap.
- Comment on Fortnite Developer Epic Games Lays Off 1,000 Employees, Blaming 'Downturn in Engagement' 2 weeks ago:
Epic about to sue somebody.
- Comment on Smart Glasses Companies Are Getting Shamed Into Covering Their Cameras 2 weeks ago:
People wearing smart glasses should be shamed.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Huh. I wasn’t going to buy it at all. Now, I’m not sure. Damn.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 3 weeks ago:
Amazing how much they will try to bend reality to their conception rather than the other way around. It’s a mental illness
- Comment on Trump administration to slash fee to renounce US citizenship from $2,350 to $450 3 weeks ago:
To people that wealthy, $2350 would be nothing. No rich person is keeping their US citizenship because of that fee. And, they’re avoiding taxes just fine as US citizens.
More likely, they want to make it easy for liberals to flee hoping it will help secure a majority for them.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 3 weeks ago:
But, if you’re a CEO, and lawyer tells you, “no, the contract is solid. Honor it,” what are you to do? Why, ask an agreeable LLM for an answer that conforms to your world view because, obviously, you’re right because you’re the CEO.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 3 weeks ago:
I loved Subnautica. I’ve replayed it more than any game I own. I got it for free from Epic (the only way I get games from Epic). I bought it for Switch. I bought Below Zero. The franchise was shaping to be a “here, take my money” deal.
I don’t want Subnautica 2. I mean, I want a Subnautica 2 not Krafton Subnautica 2.
I reserve some blame for the original owners/devs. If they hadn’t sold out, if they had followed more of a Hello Games model, they could’ve coasted indefinitely churning out cool games to loyal fans.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 3 weeks ago:
Nah. The therapeutic effect is from the confession not from the shitty advice or even confirmation or absolution.
Everyone wants attention. It’s one of our basic needs. But, it’s better for you to get it from positive things. Getting it from negative things is like getting your calories from soft drinks.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 3 weeks ago:
It’s been done with real postcards. Not that you can’t try a different take.
This site has been around since 2004:
Just don’t open it to comments. People don’t need that and it’ll get ugly.
- Comment on YSK that if you hesitate between Ketchup and Mustard, you should pick Mustard. It's healthier. 1 month ago:
Ketchup is high in sugar. That alone makes mustard a healthier choice. It’s not some pseudoscience.
The YSK is poorly worded but not wrong.
- Comment on Alternatives to Mattermost 2 months ago:
And, people have been asking them to clarify it and they just say, “no.”
They’re acting very suspiciously.
- Comment on US committee is reconsidering all vaccine recommendations 2 months ago:
Makes wonder if that is exactly what it would look like to aliens. 👽
It could be how our species responds to overpopulation pressures. Though, I think wealth concentration is a more likely cause.
- Comment on Netflix Becomes Max-Level Patron Of Blender's Development Fund 2 months ago:
There have several reports recently of Netflix pressuring writers/directors/producers to create shows and movies tailored to distracted consumers. Basically, telling them to repeat plot points in dialog so that people ‘watching’ while doing other things can keep up.
I’d put that in the evil category along with advertising and media company consolidation.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 2 months ago:
This will be a glorious failure.
- Comment on You can checkout, but you can never checkin. You will only ever check in, or check-in 2 months ago:
I logged all of my work for years and it shows that I’m not a logger.
- Comment on What are super-computers used for ? 2 months ago:
Galaxy collisions, protein folding, mechanical design and much more. Big simulations of real world physics and chemistry that require massively parallel computation, problems that require insane numbers of calculations running on multiple machines that can pass data to each other very quickly.
Every supercomputing center has a website where you can read about the research being done on their machines.
No, these can’t be done at similar scale on your desktop. Your PC can’t do that many calculations in a reasonable time. Even on supercomputers, they can take weeks.
- Comment on In a 38-page essay, Dario Amodei warns of civilization-level damage from superintelligent AI, questioning whether humanity has the maturity to handle such power 2 months ago:
Fucking delusional twat. Either he’s on some serious drugs or this is some PR bullshit made to sound like he’s genuinely worried that Nobel laureate-level AI is right around the corner so that people will throw more money into his
pocketcompany. Or both, could be both. But, I think he’s simply an asshole. - Comment on I am surprised that no one has started selling shell headphones for sleeping. 2 months ago:
But, shells are sharp and wearing them that way is going to slice your ears off, anyway.
- Comment on Epic and Google have a secret $800 million Unreal Engine and services deal 2 months ago:
The only thing I respect about Tim Sweeney is that he has enough money to buy better looks but still looks like that. I mean, yeah, he looks like an insufferable dork/prick but he could afford to look like an insufferable dork/prick with hair, designer clothes and roided physique.
- Comment on I am surprised that no one has started selling shell headphones for sleeping. 2 months ago:
Might as well slice yours ears off. Same effect.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 2 months ago:
There are bots. Some are self-identified and some even put ‘bot’ in the username. There are bots that just repost from Reddit, bots that post only articles from a specific site/publication—like the BBC bot.
There’s not as much use for Reddit-like karma farming bots because karma isn’t really a thing on Lemmy/piefed/etc. But, there are definitely bots that that post agenda-pushing content or SPAM pushing content.
I assume any account with only posts or extremely high post to comment ratio is a bot. I wish they would force participation requirements for posting.
You also have troll accounts and weird accounts that will make one controversial post and then ghost.
- Comment on LMAO too much ID tv here. If I wanted to bury a body in my yard, should I still call the hotline so I don't hit a gas line or something? I nominate this for stupid question of 2026 2 months ago:
If you hit a line you’ll be found out. Call the hotline dig the hole then install something like a clothes drying rack after depositing the body.
Make sure to put sod around it or a concrete pad otherwise it will be obvious that the hole was too big for the pole.
- Comment on I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work? 2 months ago:
Make a list of all the things that went bad and turn them into questions for the interview.
For example, you say management is new and half the staff have left. Ask the new employer about turnover rates, how long people have been in their current position, how long with the organization, etc.
If they don’t offer it, ask to interview people in the position for which you are replying and people with whom you would work. Ask the how quickly they advanced, how the supervisors
Remember, you are interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you.
Don’t wait for them to fire you. Get out there, now.