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- Comment on Users shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default 4 days ago:
- Comment on degree in bamf 6 days ago:
They’re mentioning the race and gender basically to say “a privileged person”. Having privileges obviously influences your character. And race+gender correlate with privileges.
So, while there’s no direct causation, and us white males who aren’t chumps don’t need to be offended, it’s often good enough of an explanation why a particular white male might be a chump.
- Comment on It Appears Users Are Getting Bored With TikTok 1 week ago:
I imagine, that’s most governments. The political pushback will be lessened a lot, if people lose interest, so then a block is more likely to go through.
- Comment on oops 1 week ago:
I mean, if you don’t mind the quality, you can just crop it…
- Comment on oops 1 week ago:
Today, we had a meeting with one of our customers and they couldn’t get their mic to work, but we decided to continue anyways.
So, the whole meeting was us just talking and then watching them give a thumbs-ups into the camera or typing into chat. It was very surreal… - Comment on Nokia tells Reddit it might be infringing on Nokia's patents. 1 week ago:
Wow, I did not know, they changed their logo. Yeah, not a fan…
- Comment on Nokia tells Reddit it might be infringing on Nokia's patents. 1 week ago:
Seems like they switched to this logo:
It does kind of feel like the logo of a consultancy/legal/finance group to me. But I could also imagine this looking decent when embossed onto a phone…
- Comment on Balatro Hits One Million Copies Sold In Less Than A Month, Mobile Port Incoming 1 week ago:
This year has been so strange, with seemingly a new hype title every two weeks or so. I wonder what lead to this…
- Comment on Mozilla Axes its Privacy-Friendly Location Service - OMG! Ubuntu 1 week ago:
They had no method of getting new data for two years already, because Google disallowed location collection like that on Android. It was just a matter of time before the service would be turned off.
- Comment on Pets are mental health barometers 1 week ago:
Personally, I found it already helpful to force myself to go for a walk every few days. In my case, I was able to get rid of my car, so now grocery shopping is my mandatory walk.
And the weirdest part is that I’ll now sometimes want to go grocery shopping, even though I still have plenty food at home. I think, after doing it for a while, my brain understood that the being miserable part isn’t normal/necessary and that the walks do make that better.
- Comment on Is there some sort of Indie Game Showcase? 1 week ago:
or even something hosted in person with actual demos like E3. Does anything like this exist?
The GamesCom in Germany always hosts the Indie Arena Booth, which has tons of indie devs densely packed in tiny booths, where you can play demos.
Since the pandemic, they’ve also had an online offering, where during the GamesCom, you can explore a virtual space with virtual booths, which will then also link to playable demos that you can download from Steam.
- Comment on Leaked SpaceX documents show company forbids employees to sell stock if it deems they've misbehaved 1 week ago:
Sounds to me like the scam is to attract workers with stock benefits.
- Comment on Minecraft expands its subscription drive with the Marketplace Pass 1 week ago:
I wanted to know just how icky it is (beyond selling community-made content), in particular, if you could stop paying and not lose all those items you got. And fuck me, they did choose the non-icky option for my question, but the sentence where I found the answer is kind of even worse:
And remember, once redeemed, these limited-edition pieces will stay in your wardrobe, so get them while you can!
So, they’ve solved the technical hurdle to keep the content around forever, but then decided to arbitrarily limit availability to exploit people’s fear of missing out.
- Comment on Can ChatGTP help me with a programming problem with Python and GTK? [video] 1 week ago:
Yeah, biggest challenge here, as with many “no-code” solutions before, is that it needs to be essentially perfect to be worthwhile. As soon as something doesn’t work, you’re just left with a slew of logic that you don’t understand and you really ought to start over fresh to give yourself a chance at learning…
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 1 week ago:
Honestly, I expect them to just remain in violation, unless they get sued or reprimanded by one of our user protection organisations.
But yeah, they can serve different frontends or just with different configuration for different user groups. They probably do that already, e.g. to display a cookie banner for users in the EU.
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 1 week ago:
Having seen previous lawsuits in this area, I doubt that’s good enough. Like, it’s still clearly designed to be deceptive.
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 1 week ago:
It’s illegal here in Germany. Ads need to be clearly recognizable as such.
- Comment on Xbox Turns To Sports Titles To Combat Dwindling Game Pass Subscriber Sign Ups 2 weeks ago:
Hmm, interesting. I feel like many people who play these sports games play them, because they’re familiar with the real sport. To them, it’s an easier entry into the video game medium, as they just need to learn the controls, not also the rules.
But as a result, they tend to only play one specific sport game (for their favorite sport) and not that many other games. Keeping Game Pass for the whole year for one game, is definitely not worth it. For 2+ games, I guess, technically, but it certainly doesn’t have the same bang-for-your-buck.
So, yeah, I hope they know better what they’re doing than my armchair expertise, but I certainly find it surprising that they didn’t diversify elsewhere…
- Comment on Sometimes when I say danke (thanks or thank you) some of my friends will say (and the spelling is wrong but it's as close as I can get) they will say danata or maybe it's dinata. 2 weeks ago:
Oder “nichts zu danken”.
- Comment on Is there a Mastodon android app that has the option to open mastodon instances in the app 2 weeks ago:
What I could theoretically imagine, is that an extension could give it a custom URL scheme, like
mastodon://mastodon.social/v1/…
, and then the various Mastodon apps could register an intent/open handler for that. But yeah, again, quite a bit of effort.Alternatively, the apps could offer a secondary Share-action, which tries to open the link instead of creating a post from it…
- Comment on Is there a Mastodon android app that has the option to open mastodon instances in the app 2 weeks ago:
As has been said, this is not easily possible, but a workaround in Fedilab is to copy the link and paste it into the search bar inside the app. So, not super convenient, but at least you’ll be logged in and can interact with the post. This might also work with the other apps, I’m not sure…
- Comment on Is there a Mastodon android app that has the option to open mastodon instances in the app 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, you would have to maintain a list of all Mastodon instance domain names, and this list would need to be baked in at build time of the app, so updating it requires updating the whole app and there’s no way to dynamically detect that this link is a Mastodon link.
This isn’t to say that it can’t be done, Newpipe does this for Invidious/Piped instances, but yeah, it’s a good bit of work…
- Comment on Have you started planing this years garden plants yet? You might need these 3 weeks ago:
Native speaker of German or native speaker of Austrian? Because yeah, that’s perhaps the most Austrian word in existence…
- Comment on Have you started planing this years garden plants yet? You might need these 3 weeks ago:
They’re written in German/Austrian.
Paradeiser is tomato,
Kürbis is pumpkin,
Melone is melon,
Salatgurke is cucumber,
Melanzani is eggplant. - Comment on Hey, I'm new to GitHub! 5 weeks ago:
It ain’t called git-hub for nothing. The social network for gits. How else are they supposed to behave?
- Comment on Hey, I'm new to GitHub! 5 weeks ago:
Worst part is that this used to be a separate tab in the repo navigation. I still cannot conceive of a reason why they would move it from there to some random heading in the middle of the screen, except maybe so they can sell more GitHub trainings.
- Comment on efficiency 5 weeks ago:
Generally more than half of the rock is underground, so while it might be only one rock, you see many distinct sides of it…
- Comment on Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot 5 weeks ago:
I could see this simply resulting in every chatbot having a disclaimer that it might be spitting straight bullshit and you should not use it for legal advice.
At this point, I do consider this a positive outcome, too, because it’s not always made obvious whether you’re talking with something intelligent or just a text generator.But yeah, I would still prefer, if companies simply had to have intelligent support. This race to the bottom isn’t helping humanity.
- Comment on Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I mean, at the very least, it’s a solid argumentation. Any judge who’s given a similar case and doesn’t look up, if someone else already dealt with such a case, is just doing a disservice to themselves…
- Comment on Sometimes I want to call malloc, just as a treat 1 month ago:
Nevermind using such frivolous things as a file system.