kent_eh
@kent_eh@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 15 hours ago:
likely in jail too (his own words)
Yes, but not for the reasons he claimed.
He would be in jail for actual criminality, not for his political opinions.
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 1 day ago:
Thanks. I hate it.
- Comment on USA President term limits 3 days ago:
Assuming he doesn’t change the rules and appoint himself president forever, then the limit is 2 terms, consecutive or not.
Even if a person started their presidential mandate partway through a 4 year cycle (as happened after Nixon stepped down and after Kennedy was shot), it’s still 2 terms, not necessarily 8 years.
If Trump dies in the next 4 years, Vance could serve out the current term and would only be eligible to become president for one additional term.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 weeks ago:
The risk of the payment system getting shut down and people being unable to make payments for a while is real. And it is one good reason to be less reliant on digital payments.
Exactly.
Part of the card processing system goes down often enough that it should just be good business sense to always be capable of accepting cash.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 weeks ago:
Stores where I live have had to go cash only a few times a year when one or another issues shuts down their ability to accept cards.
You would think any functioning capitalist would have a backup method of taking your money.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 weeks ago:
And who carries enough cash around to be useful any more?
I do. Maybe not physically in my pocket, but between my wallet and my home there’s enough cash to buy a tank of gas and a few days of groceries.
Parts of the debit/credit processing system are fragile enough that I’ve seen them down randomly for signifigant portions of a day.
Cash has got me food when other people have been stuck without the ability to pay more than once in the last couple of years.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
Rich countries tend to have better functioning waste collection and disposal services.
These days it is a lot better, but it wasn’t always that way.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
If anything he’s being a bit generous.
- Comment on What do I put down on my resume? 2 weeks ago:
Or even “experience using …”
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
Plus, launching that sort of payload is going to be insanely costly.
And causes its own additional air pollution as part of the launch.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
A lot of ocean trash comes by river from poor countries.
Also by river from wealthy countries, and has done so for centuries.
The scope of the task of removing it is far bigger than OP can imagine.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 3 weeks ago:
Libraries rent out ebooks too
Libraries loan out ebooks and other media.
/pet peeve.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 3 weeks ago:
They also argued that there’s a “substantial market” for older or classic games, and a new, free library to access games would “jeopardize” this market. Perlmutter
And if that market demand isn’t being catered to, or is being actively refused to be served, is there any wonder people are finding other ways to get that stuff?
All they’re doing is hoarding this old software and preventing its use based on the speculation that they might eventually figure out a way to profit from long gone developers work.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
That is exactly the reason.
Those caps also prevent the small percentage of people who would abuse the system from having as much of a negative impact on other users.
Back when the company I used to work for offered an unlimited voice calling deal (we’re talking 25 years ago on the old analog cell system) there were a few people who decided it would be a good idea to use their phone as a baby monitor, which tied up a voice channel for days at a time. There being only a dozen or less voice channels on most towers at the time made that kind of thing a signifigant cause of congestion.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to Netscape? 3 weeks ago:
could’ve sworn that the browser was also called just Mozilla at one point
If I remember correctly, at one point Mozilla referred to itself as “the godzilla of Mosaic” or something like that.
Mosaic being the first widely available web browser.
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 3 weeks ago:
But think of the shareholders
I have many thoughts of the shareholders.
Most of those thoughts are quite violent.
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 3 weeks ago:
I got nothing to hide.
I’m willing to bet that they have curtains on their bedroom window…
- Comment on Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump 3 weeks ago:
Some pictures make me want to cheer for erosion.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but it’s easier to enforce EU regulations when the headquarters happens to be within the EU.
- Comment on Windows MR Headsets No Longer Work In Windows 11 24H2 1 month ago:
That’s why I choose open source whenever I can.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
Chromium isn’t as problematic as Chrome.
- Comment on Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025 1 month ago:
Clarkson’s Farm. And until recently, The Grand Tour.
Can’t think of any others from the last few years.
- Comment on How come the US does not put a bounty on Putin like they did Bin Laden? 1 month ago:
the US is really fucking hoping Putin dies of old age or is voted out domestically
Or is killed by disgruntled Russians.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 1 month ago:
And the author is getting paid.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
Keep digging, “Leon”.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
expect quality at Amazon to decline.
They’ll have to dig a new basement for it to get any lower.
- Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text 1 month ago:
They tried to do the same to me on Instagram.
Nope, it’s not worth that level of privacy invasion.
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 1 month ago:
if there is a warrant issued for his arrest, his secret service detail would need to arrest him.
Also if he tried to flee the country, I would expect.
- Comment on An out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man’s exoskeleton useless 1 month ago:
On the other hand, there is a very valid reason why things like batteries are so expensive to replace and why you can’t find replacement batteries for a lot of products a certain amount of time after production ends.
On the other other hand, there are tons of commonly available industry standard batteries that a manufacturer could choose to use, if they wanted to.
- Comment on An out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man’s exoskeleton useless 1 month ago:
But people don’t want that.
Until something goes wrong and they discover (usually too late) that they actually did want that.