MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on Shape up. 1 day ago:
I point out, not even China does this (in the vast majority of cases, I’m not gonna claim it’s never happened)
- Comment on Shape up. 1 day ago:
People who go on holiday to the USA have something wrong in their brains.
The landscapes, food and historical locations would be cool to see, but man, it’s bloody dystopian.
- Comment on Clock logic 1 day ago:
This is what the minute and second hands are for, though
- Comment on Too soon? 2 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 4 days 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 4 days ago:
“No war but the class war” strikes again
- Comment on It's Wednesday! 6 days ago:
It just hits differently auf deutsch… meine Kerle.
- Comment on All I Want for Christmas Is You 6 days ago:
~some-~
- Comment on Checkmate theists 1 week 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 2 weeks 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" 5 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…