Stumblinbear
@Stumblinbear@pawb.social
- Comment on Me after I got fired 8 months ago:
That’s just called malware
- Comment on GitHub Desktop or Git CLI? 11 months ago:
You can be a perfectly good dev and not enjoy working in the cli, especially when there are good enough alternatives
- Comment on Twitch to shut down in Korea over 'prohibitively expensive' network fees 11 months ago:
Customers get charged for maintenance between the ISP and their house
They really don’t, customers get charged what they need to be charged to support the network, not just the last mile to your house. Companies don’t get internet connectivity for free, either, paying significantly more than consumers at every turn
- Comment on Twitch to shut down in Korea over 'prohibitively expensive' network fees 11 months ago:
That’s… why they charge customers fees
- Comment on Tax time 11 months ago:
Not exactly, since the IRS provides tons of credits and deductions for things that aren’t inherently trackable, like credits for upgrading your home to be more “green,” asset depreciation, or any other of the thousand random things they incentivize
- Comment on I feel so sotty sorry for the poor rock man 11 months ago:
based landchad evictionpilling the cringe rentoid
- Comment on At SpaceX, worker injuries soar — Reuters documented at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries at rocket company: crushed limbs, amputations, electrocutions, head and eye wounds, and on... 11 months ago:
Not necessarily, but also government spends an inordinate amount of money on extra processes and moves much slower, which could naturally lead to fewer accidents because they’re just doing less, and also the government outsources quite a lot of labor which could include the more accident-prone aspects
- Comment on At SpaceX, worker injuries soar — Reuters documented at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries at rocket company: crushed limbs, amputations, electrocutions, head and eye wounds, and on... 11 months ago:
These numbers mean nothing without a reference to compare with other similar industries
- Comment on A lot of YAML 11 months ago:
TOML is my bestie
- Comment on Samsung is planning a 400-500$ foldable for 2024 11 months ago:
My roommate drops his Fold almost daily since he got it a year or two ago. It hasn’t broken once. I’m honestly astonished
- Comment on Samsung is planning a 400-500$ foldable for 2024 11 months ago:
I used mine to see help put on my license plates in the dark. I get a surprising amount of use out of the ability to fold the screen to point the flashlight wherever
- Comment on Steam Deck OLED announced 11 months ago:
Finally I can buy one
I’ve been holding off on getting a steam deck since I wanted to get their second version rather than being a beta tester for the first
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
I’m not really certain what value nebula provides other than some creators uploading exclusively on nebula. Without nebula they’d just… Upload it to YouTube, which is free, so I’m not sure what the difference is
- Comment on Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to finally go mobile 1 year ago:
So it’s not Firefox
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
Oh sure I’m not a huge fan of the GPU shortages, though very few crypto things need them anymore
a solution for a non-existing problem
Depends entirely on where you live and if you trust your government, but yes the USA and most Europen countries are fine in general. I personally just prefer anything that can be decentralized. That’s why I’m on Lemmy, after all, haha
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
Which shitshow? Imo that’s like saying the internet is forever stained by whatever “shitshow” there was. It’s just a technology, there are good and bad applications
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
One could argue that we’re paying for it without our consent
One could argue that the Flying Spaghetti Monster exists. That doesn’t make it remotely true.
Google doesn’t pay anything in taxes
Uh. Google pays a shitload in taxes. There hasn’t been a single year that they HAVEN’T paid taxes. They paid 11 billion in taxes in 2022.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
Which is really unfortunate because there are some actually useful, neat projects
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
Nebula can only afford to do that because basically nobody who subs to nebula actually watches the videos on it. They did a video about their revenue model and people treat it as a way to support the creators, not to actually watch content
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
They’d absolutely 100% be losing money with a $2 as free tier. Ads make significantly more than that per user per month.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
I mean you didn’t buy it before so why would you now?
- Comment on YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!) 1 year ago:
Honestly, I’d be fine with even 20. Much more than that and I’d be questioning it pretty hard. I watch YouTube tons and know how goddamn expensive cloud bandwidth is so I’m biased
- Comment on YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!) 1 year ago:
Probably because it’s less noisy in small text
- Comment on YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!) 1 year ago:
For reference this is about $20 USD
- Comment on Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA 1 year ago:
Eh, they have about as much power over that as they do any other privacy breaches. It being DNA doesn’t make a huge difference
- Comment on Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA 1 year ago:
“Prove a negative, please!”
Fuck outta here
- Comment on Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Consumer DNA 1 year ago:
They don’t own the DNA itself, but they do own the rights to the resulting sequence. It’s akin to a biography–you don’t own the person’s life, but the author put it down on paper and owns the rights to the book.
- Comment on DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip 1 year ago:
People are “whining” about an out of control tipping culture. Doesn’t matter if you like the service or not, tips are fucking ridiculous right now.
- Comment on DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip 1 year ago:
Car insurance costs go up quite a lot of you do Uber
- Comment on DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip 1 year ago:
I know how to cook, but sometimes I don’t want to cook. I don’t see why this is such a hard concept to grasp, and I don’t know why everyone is so hostile towards people who choose to spend their money on this