muddybulldog
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- Comment on ARK: Survival Ascended Launch Trailer 1 year ago:
I hate the fact that I know I’m inevitably going to but this.
- Comment on Lemmy redirect service - now with support for post links 1 year ago:
Mixed feelings on this. Cool tool, great idea. On the other hand, it’s also an effective tracker. Not privacy friendly.
- Comment on Why You Can't Currently Download Ubuntu 23.10 - OMG! Ubuntu 1 year ago:
Seems completely appropriate and acceptable.
- Comment on Ad blocker Cause Invalid Traffic For Content Creator on Youtube 1 year ago:
$4 would get you an egg sandwich, a coffee and a pack a smokes in ‘83.
- Comment on Can we create a new Internet ? 1 year ago:
Because the alternative makes a lot more money.
- Comment on User data stolen from genetic testing giant 23andMe is now for sale on the dark web 1 year ago:
Credential stuffing is, first and foremost, a user issue. There’s only so much you can do when people use the same password for all their different websites.
That being said, there are some “above and beyond” steps a platform can take and most companies definitely don’t.
- Comment on Windows 12 May Require a Subscription 1 year ago:
Two thoughts on StackSocial. Even if they legitimately are an MS partner that bar is so low as to be irrelevant. I know, I’m an MS Partner. All it takes is an email address and two (maybe three) checkboxes to become a Partner at the lowest levels. Additionally, the product isn’t actually being sold by SS. the vendor is “SmartTrainingLab” which appears to only exist in the context of selling cheap keys via Stack Social and it’s clone, other clone, e-commerce sites.
As for selling Windows at a loss… They’ve always been split-brained on that front. They only just stopped giving away free upgrades to Windows 10/11 in the past few weeks despite that offer having expired over seven years ago. The real Windows Desktop OS money has historically been from the fees that OEMs pay for licensing. That’s why the retail price is so high; it establishes the baseline from which OEM discounts get negotiated. The $199 actually is pretty reasonable considering inflation, etc. Windows 3.1 was $149, Windows 95 was $209 and Windows NT 4.0, which current Windows is descended from, was $319. I wouldn’t even pretend to know what they’re going to do on that front but a subscription service seems highly possible, though I see it most likely being bundled as part of the Microsoft 365 products; you get the upgrades for “free” with one of the (product formerly known as) Office 365 consumer subscriptions OR you get ad-laden upgrades for free OR you pay $99 upgrade pricing.
- Comment on Windows 12 May Require a Subscription 1 year ago:
It eludes me why people purchase these grey market products over just running unactivated. They’re not valid licenses, they just overcome the technical limitations of non-activation. Generally speaking, you’re supporting criminal enterprise for the sake of being able to change your wallpaper.
- Comment on Bike Riders of lemmy, you okay with me riding my eScooter in the bike lane? 1 year ago:
Highly depends on the quality of the sidewalk. While I love the aesthetic of my neighborhood much of the sidewalk is barely maintained brick and cobbles. Wheelchairs are safer in the road in many areas.
- Comment on Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian? 1 year ago:
Beauty of FOSS is anybody can just remove it.
- Comment on Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike 1 year ago:
Nothing. It’s one of the alluring aspects of using third-parties. You pay a flat fee, people do work. You avoid all the overhead of HR, benefits, workers compensation and unemployment insurance. If you want someone gone there’s no process, you simply tell the third party that Joe doesn’t need to come back to work, ever, and you’re done.
Amazon and Google are not alone in this practice, nor is it exclusive to Fortune 500 companies.
- Comment on Why do you hate Microsoft? 1 year ago:
The backslashes were actually IBM’s fault. MS DOS 2.0 README
- Comment on Frasier (2023) | Official Trailer | Paramount+ 1 year ago:
Love the bug report that just got filed… “ It responds to itself, adding an additional link to the github each time. As if it’s begging for someone to do something to put it out of its misery.”
- Comment on Frasier (2023) | Official Trailer | Paramount+ 1 year ago:
“Why not?’ — John Blutarsky
- Comment on Frasier (2023) | Official Trailer | Paramount+ 1 year ago:
Should we start a pool on how far it gets?
- Comment on Apple 15 relegated to USB 2.0 unless you buy the Pro 1 year ago:
USB-C is a connector and, by itself, says nothing about the protocol in use. That’s the important part.
- Comment on migrated to lemm.ee from reddit 1 year ago:
Welcome. Have a seat and stay a while.
- Comment on Starfield, DLC and Game Pass Ultimate 1 year ago:
GPU is base game only. As there’s a separate upgrade purchase available for the Premium Edition it’s expected that future DLC follow the same paid path.
- Comment on Community discovery on self hosted Lemmy instances 1 year ago:
True dat. I’ve been running it about seven weeks and am pulling about 700 communities. Most have near zero traffic but the high volume ones do add up.
42G /mnt/sp4dot1-data/appdata/mylemmy.win/ 12G /mnt/sp4dot1-data/appdata/mylemmy.win/postgres 30G /mnt/sp4dot1-data/appdata/mylemmy.win/pictrs
- Comment on Community discovery on self hosted Lemmy instances 1 year ago:
I use [github.com/Fmstrat/lcs](Lemmy Community Seeder). Every four hours it checks the top posts on instances you specifies and automatically subscribes you to communities that appear there but you aren’t already subscribed to. You can tweak it to ignore specific communities or instances.
- Comment on Whats stopping someone from creating a instance that host illegal content? 1 year ago:
Federation is enabled by default. Defedersting takes explicit action…
- Comment on A Gen Xer's Thoughts on Strange New Worlds 1 year ago:
Battlestar Galactica, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits; just to name a few successful TV reboots (and some, accompanying films) of the same name.
The original Star Trek and SNW have more in common, quality and continuity than any two seasons of ST:Discovery.
It’s worthy of the name, in my opinion.
- Comment on A Gen Xer's Thoughts on Strange New Worlds 1 year ago:
Biggest issue I have with this edition is the Strange New Worlds tag.
Should be just… Star Trek.
A true descendant of the show I grew up with.
- Comment on UI Idea for one-click Lemmy account migration 1 year ago:
It won’t be anything even close.
Indexes are unique to each instance. Post ID, Comment ID, Vote ID. There’s no way to correlate this information between two instances other than to do a full text match, post by post, comment by comment, vote by vote, to determine if what is being imported or “new”.
Even if you go that router, then there’s the quandaries that follow… if you import what is effectively a “new” post to your new instance, do the comments (which aren’t yours) come along, or do you simply end up importing your post with no interaction history.
That’s just off the top of my head.
If you’re lucky you’ll get to keep your cake day.
- Comment on I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course) 1 year ago:
Your ALL is amplifying the highest engagement posts from the largest instances, particularly lemmy.world, which is definitely US-centric due to it being the largest open registration instance during the exodus… Go ahead and switch to your instances LOCAL and see what original content is being posted on sopuli.xyz. Quite a difference. sopuli.xyz/?dataType=Post&listingType=Local&page=…
- Comment on I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course) 1 year ago:
- Comment on I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course) 1 year ago:
How many of your subscribed communities lie outside of lemmy.world? Very possible you’ve pigeonholed yourself. World almost certainly has a heavy US bias as it was the largest instance with open registration during the exodus.
Lemmy is made up of a ton of instances, many of which have near zero US-related content. Those posts from smaller instances may not rise to the top of World but they do elsewhere. Whereas World posts are going to rise across most instances, due to sheer volume. Where the posts come from is not as indicative of diversity and where the comments and votes come from.
- Comment on I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course) 1 year ago:
Lemmy is much less US-centric than Reddit.
- Comment on The elitist attitudes surrounding Apple products is so unbelievable. 1 year ago:
I have much bigger things to worry about. Like this hole in my sock that I’ve only had three months. Now that’s an outrage.
- Comment on YSK how to close a folding or pocket knife with a liner/frame lock. 1 year ago:
This is information I could’ve used LAST WEEK!