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- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 hour ago:
Yeah and “we can do it,” until the men come back home and take the jobs back.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 1 day ago:
My personal rule is female adjective is okay, female noun is not.
- Comment on Based on a true story 1 day ago:
a loan for a used car sounds wild to me.
Predatory car loans has entered the chat.
I don’t know about Carvana, but plenty of scummy dealers will give insane rates to people with no credit check, repo the car while they’re still underwater on the loan, and sell it to someone else. You can have two or three people paying off the same car.
Oh, also, they somehow encourage the most gullible people who can’t afford their loans to just let the car get reposessed instead of attempting to sell it back to the dealer.
- Comment on Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today 3 days ago:
For anyone struggling, lemmy web interface added the colon into the URL for the blog post link. Here’s a clickable version without the colon:
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 5 days ago:
Didn’t some magazines ship software with plastic records that could be played on a conventional record player?
- Comment on The Great Tech Heist - How "Disruption" Became a Euphemism for Theft 1 week ago:
Yeah except one is a private entertainment establishment, and the other is a public transportation service.
- Comment on The Great Tech Heist - How "Disruption" Became a Euphemism for Theft 1 week ago:
The perfect consumer-facing example of this is Clear at the airport.
Instead of waiting in line to have your ID checked by a TSA agent, you let an iPad take your picture and then have an agent walk you to the TSA agent and vouch for you.
The whole iPad thing is marginally faster if at all than just checking your ID by hand, so really they just found a way to monetize cutting the line. This provides zero net benefit to society except for extracting money from people for something that’s supposed to be free.
Also, when everyone has Clear, we’ll be back in the same boat with long lines and they’ll probably charge more for Clear+ or some shit.
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- Comment on New Portal pinball table may be the closest we’re gonna get to Portal 3 2 weeks ago:
Took me 5 minutes to learn spoiler tags, hope I didn’t ruin it for anybody.
- Comment on New Portal pinball table may be the closest we’re gonna get to Portal 3 2 weeks ago:
:::It’s some cute fan art of Chell and her companion cube basking in the rain in the wheat field at the end of Portal 2 while Exile Vilify plays:::
- Comment on New Portal pinball table may be the closest we’re gonna get to Portal 3 2 weeks ago:
We can’t keep sucking Chell back into the lab. Let her be.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 2 weeks ago:
Oh huh. I just remember him winning the new shareholder vote for which I believe the stakes were “gimme money or I leave” despite there being no legal requirement to pay him.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 2 weeks ago:
Yep. There was another shareholder vote and he won it.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 2 weeks ago:
They just paid fucking 60 billion dollars to him to keep him from quitting. Maybe a smidge of sunk cost fallacy.
- Comment on Resistance Against Large Corporations is Competition 2 weeks ago:
“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
- Comment on I named my bat §kPetBat§r 2 weeks ago:
I thought only LLMs were supposed to hallucinate
- Comment on Removing Watermarks From Images With Gemini Is Now Way Too Easy 2 weeks ago:
Depends on how you sell them, but yes. Don’t assume that you aren’t hurting an individual when you steal IP.
- Comment on Not that I would. But could I go up to the capital building and do the exact same thing Jan 6th morons did down to a T? Since Trump pardoned them, or does it apply for a few while the rest are screwed 3 weeks ago:
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
He pardons specific offences, not entire types of crimes.
- Comment on X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage. 3 weeks ago:
No. You see Twitter was keeping them contained. This is like the power going out at Jurassic Park.
- Comment on Failed ransom plots in the past might've succeeded if Cryptocurrencies existed. 3 weeks ago:
“Um it says that you’ll never ask for this code”
- Comment on Failed ransom plots in the past might've succeeded if Cryptocurrencies existed. 3 weeks ago:
With modern deepfakes, you don’t even need to actually kidnap a physical person.
- Comment on Do tell!!! 4 weeks ago:
Don’t ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you’ve been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.
- Comment on Is using MicroSD cards a good way to store data that you can destroy quickly incase an adversary is about to seize control of it? 4 weeks ago:
It’s to help you forget the key and effectively destroy the data.
- Comment on YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription 4 weeks ago:
Check out Nebula. Lots of YouTubers host there. Subscriptions go straight to the creators, and they cut the sponsor blocks out of the versions they post there.
- Comment on Is using MicroSD cards a good way to store data that you can destroy quickly incase an adversary is about to seize control of it? 4 weeks ago:
Just encrypt your data and don’t tell them the key that you’ve memorized. If you have trouble forgetting things, use a hammer.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 weeks ago:
for free, essentially!
Say that to the Facebook Portal a fantastic product five years ago that is now having its features gutted because Meta couldn’t figure out how to make money off of it.
- Comment on jorts 4 weeks ago:
I saw someone make a denim dress which they called a jress, and I just about had an aneurysm.
- Comment on That would be cool if movie theatres had VR headsets that I could wear and it would provide closed caption subtitles. 4 weeks ago:
The theater I used to work at had a light up marquee sign in the back that displayed captions in reverse. Then they’d hand out these little semi-transparent plastic sheets on flexible arms that you could clip to your arm wrest. So just adjust the plastic until it’s in your field of view and reflecting the marquee in the back, and you had subtitles cheaply and without bothering anybody else.
- Comment on New USA fashion trend just dropped! 4 weeks ago:
Guy in the middle is a mole. No heels on the ground.
- Comment on Meta admits Instagram error flooded Reels with violent and pornographic content 5 weeks ago: