one_old_coder
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- Comment on This tiki mug my friend made me 2 days ago:
Your friend would make a lot of money with those. I have never played the game but the mug is still awesome.
- Comment on Retro yet? 1 week ago:
You can add the video iPod that I used to watch movies in the subway. You could even find movies on TPB with the good resolution. Fun times.
- Comment on A fun anti-monopoly law and anti-enshitification measure would be that once you hit 50% of market share you are forced to link to alternatives on your page 1 week ago:
Companies already have to do this when they break the law. They write a stupid hidden page where the text is 3 pixels high. Doesn’t work.
- Comment on Office.eu officially launches in The Hague as Europe's fully sovereign office platform 1 week ago:
It doesn’t seem to be E2E encrypted though.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 1 week ago:
you’re not going to be able to access your bank
You would need to create yet another version of HTTP to handle that (a few years) and banks would have to handle it globally (at least 5 years from my own experience). It will never happen like that.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 2 weeks ago:
It’s not dramatic if it’s funny!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
AFAIK the only algorithms that can do this is JPEG-XL which can compress a JPEG and still recover the original file. But that not really lossy compression.
- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 2 weeks ago:
I don’t believe they are networked. No article mentions this. I have those in France and see employees “update” the tags with a handheld device, which suggests that there is no network at all. Maybe an underpowered bluetooth or NFC, but definitely not a network.
- Comment on Copilot AI ‘Microslop’ Chat Ban Is Not Censorship—Says Microsoft 3 weeks ago:
Censorship is not censorship – says Microslop.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Nice shitpost bro, that website is hilarious.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 3 weeks ago:
I think you actually can make a reasonable scientific case for the existence of the supernatural
Can you explain how you would use the scientific method on the supernatural?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
ai;dr
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 3 weeks ago:
He actually believes that ghosts exist while proclaiming to be an atheist who thinks the scientific method is flawed. He’s pretty retarded and we’re pointing it out.
- Comment on Human Zoo 3 weeks ago:
I forgot that part. Bamboula was the equivalent of the n-word in the 80s. Those biscuits were sold in supermarkets, and they made TV ads and other stuff. Fun times…
- Comment on What's up with expired domains being unavailable? 3 weeks ago:
If it’s not a cooldown period as that other guy said, you may contact the
scammernew owner, he will ask for a billion dollars and it’s up to you whether that domain was important enough. Consider finding a new one right now if you can. - Comment on Human Zoo 3 weeks ago:
France beat you, we made one in 1994 and most people don’t know about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboula%27s_Village
- Comment on What's up with expired domains being unavailable? 3 weeks ago:
Try to buy it to see who is holding it to scam people.
- Comment on UK fines Reddit $19 million for using children’s data unlawfully 3 weeks ago:
$2 billions of revenue in 2025.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I hate AI as it is, but those robots can have precision up to a few nanometers, which humans will never be able to do. Those machines are not replacing anything here.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
IMHO you’re right. Most people don’t know that “one arm robot” do exists and can be programmed to do a lot of stuff with great precision (some up to almost a micrometer/nanometer). They already have eyes (precise cameras on the side of the robot) and don’t need legs or torsos because they don’t need to move.
- Comment on A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox 3 weeks ago:
The epitome of “I’m so quirky lol (heart emoji and shit).”
- Comment on Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot 4 weeks ago:
Or one organic dildo trying to fight a mega-dragon-dildo 10 times its size.
- Comment on Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot 4 weeks ago:
It’s a clone of Digg which was a clone of forums, and it’s full of ads and bots. It’s the trashcan of the internet. I don’t know why people still lurk there.
- Comment on Meta Employee Deleted 9TB of Torrented Files, Adult Film Producers Claim 4 weeks ago:
To be fair, if I had the money, I would make my own porn NAS too.
- Comment on 29 years since our homecoming queen was taken from us 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for the explanation. A great show indeed.
- Comment on 29 years since our homecoming queen was taken from us 4 weeks ago:
I don’t get it:
[Twin Peaks] premiered on ABC on April 8, 1990
- Comment on Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow? 4 weeks ago:
Same answer as that other guy. I tried Pop OS for a few months, and while the automatic tiling is tempting, it’s really buggy even with the new version. Linux Mint is the easiest IMHO and looks a bit like Windows 2000. I love it so far.
- Comment on For Americans, what do you really think of Latin Americans? 4 weeks ago:
I actually do think about the Welsh all the time.
- Comment on *crunch crunch* Très délicieux mes amis! 4 weeks ago:
It’s funny that this meme lasted for so long. In 40 years, I have never met anyone eating frogs or any restaurant selling those things.
- Comment on Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne 4 weeks ago:
FOMO, fear of missing out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomo