MisterFrog

@MisterFrog@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨50⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Wtf, I knew this guy was a nutter, but never really knew that much about him.

  The USA is so screwed holy balls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll never forgive the French for going from grave to gram to kg as the base unit of mass.

  All my other base units don’t have a prefix :(

  Such a pity.

  BRING BACK THE GRAVE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If it makes you feel any better, most pipe standards around the world are based on the American system, as well as bloody valve coefficients.

  I am far too aware that 1" is 25.4 mm :(

  And I’m in Australia. Grumble

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save the day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Excel masochists contemplating an attachment to an app from such a shitty company: 👀

  Can’t use OpenOffice Calc at work, so, I shall at least enjoy my kinks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bash Americans again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “No war but the class war” strikes again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Wednesday!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It just hits differently auf deutsch… meine Kerle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All I Want for Christmas Is You⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ~some-~

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate theists⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pineapple on pizza haters are the preachy vegans/carnivores of the pizza topping world.

  No one’s forcing you to eat it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little bit more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Me when some projects I’ve been on decide to use bar as the preferred unit with two decimal places typically shown: My sibling in engineering, at that point why not just use whole number kPa 😢

  SI master race.

  Of course I’ll take bar any day over anything non-metric.

  * Cries in practically all valve manufacturers using imperial valve coefficients. 😭😭😭 *

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What the hell

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This guy seems to think it’s equivalent to “by magic”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because of using Shelter, this will make my phone practically unusable.

  This is fucking ridiculous

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’m the same (not really into that type of posting).

  I basically want what Facebook once was, but with e2ee. Something like: you make a post, only people you’ve added can see it. They can comment, and if they choose, your friends can see that comment also.

  Something to prevent mass scraping and data collection, while retaining the ‘keeping up with old aquitances’ vibe old Facebook used to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate Atheists!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is pretty convincing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wish we had an end-to-end encrypted option where posts are only shared and accessible to people you’ve added. Some of us don’t wish to post our personal photos to everyone on the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparent we do not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, some of us just want to have the biggest instance so we don’t have to rely on people subscribing to things. (Australia, I have 2 accounts)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 2025 version of "Please consider this environment before printing this email" should be "Please consider this environment before using A.I. to respond to this email"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  WHO IS USING AI TO RESPOND TO EMAILS? Like, by the time to “craft” the ultimate response, you could have just written the email.

  This may be my bias as an engineer (not software, but chemical), there’s not really much faffing about in an email. You just politely respond, or politely make a query. It’s not very long, typically, and even if it is, an LLM isn’t gonna help you.

  You don’t have to sugar coat anything unless there’s some fuck up you’re trying to soften. You just go “Hi xyz, could you please clarify when the design temperature is changing here?”.

  Wtf is there you can use an LLM for in an email?

  I have only used it for software troubleshooting, as it’s quite nifty there, even if it’s information is out of date, it gets versions confused, etc, still gets me out of a bind or spits out random ideas to try.

  But emails? Those short form messages, just barely longer than texts?

  Are we actually serious? It’s not a report

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my favourite word on the sign. People used to spell this way (however they liked, and by accent).

  And I can HEAR this person’s voice through the words. Beautiful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We really need some consumer protections around emails.

  Imagine if your landlord could just intercept your mail on the same way.

  It’s part of our identities.

  We’re living in the Wild-West of the internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The US lacks even the most basic consumer protections it seems.

  In Australia, companies still try to give you the run around, but I am extremely confident this wouldn’t fly here. Even though I’m not a lawyer.

  If you literally can’t get a hold of them, they’re breaking Australian Consumer Law, that’s a slam dunk to charge back the card and dare them to take you to your state’s relevant tribunal that hears cases like this. It costs either like $70 to file, you can represent yourself easily, and if you’re low-income, it’s literally free.

  They don’t want to waste money on fighting you. If you’re confident you’re clearly in the right, it’s very easy to get a company to back down.

  This is a great time to remind everyone to take photos before and after getting a rental car, because otherwise it’s your word against them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s SO funny how apparently for almost 20 years we (as in the west outside the USA) decided that using Chinese cloud platforms or networking hardware was dangerous and to be avoided, but private US companies? Nothing to see here!

  Silver lining of the orange man is that maybe countries will wake up and smell the digital sovereignty that we sorely lack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Killing Games reaches its goal of 1.4M signatures, covering the risk of valid signatures going under 1M⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s arguably much more support for that, than stopkillinggames.

  But the political opposition to stopkillinggames is far less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Killing Games reaches its goal of 1.4M signatures, covering the risk of valid signatures going under 1M⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  These two things overlap under capitalism, as doing right by your customers is only required if not doing right by your customers affects your profits.

  We definitely want them to sweat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck it, more surrealposting.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s spaces like this I think of when people complain about modern open plan offices.

  This is so claustrophobic, and luckily for me, I like a bit of chatter in the background.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I will never forgive USB for the ridiculous naming

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad I watched some video on this I vaguely recalled, as I may have accidentally thrown a shaver away because it wasn’t charging…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sending this through, I don’t think this guy is Australian though. Definitely not grown up here anyway.

  What a fucking shit guy though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google hit with $314m fine for collecting data from idle Android phones without permission⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the original commenter means that Google got off with a tap on the wrist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Labour police state⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re they being serious? If so, please do share their name.

  Also, do you mean 2GB?

  Whole different line up on KGB radio I’d imagine haha