nephs
@nephs@lemmy.world
- Comment on A good deal of IT work, too 10 months ago:
After a while using duckduckgo for everything, my work browser was hooked to Google, and when I went to use it the results were shit, and the ads were just overwhelming. Reconfigured it to duckduckgo.
Life is better.
- Comment on 'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture 10 months ago:
What did you do about email?
- Comment on Discord file links will expire after a day to fight malware 10 months ago:
If its going away now, it isn’t quite long enough…
- Comment on Tesla Vision fails as owners complain of Model 3 cameras fogging up in cold weather 10 months ago:
The eye is the fucking whole argument for the stupid creationism. The most complex piece of machinery in the human body and shit.
That man thinks he’s god, to create similar functionality.
Has he fucking tried to keep his eyes open in fucking cold weather?
Why not just use humans eyes outside of earth’s atmosphere?!
He’s just so fucking stupid. Rich and stupid. The shit he spends his “hard earned” money would be so much better and efficient if spent controlled by mostly anyone else.
- Comment on Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago 10 months ago:
Your link doesn’t work for me. Is this the same?
- Comment on Interesting how artists don't make enough money from their creations, so our solution is to make certain information illegal to share, rather than give them a universal basic income. 11 months ago:
Unfortunately, “society” doesn’t control most of the value of anything. The monopolists do.
So the only really valuable kind of art is the art that can be used for speculation and money laundering.
- Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. 11 months ago:
It sparked from me wondering who’s this “they” OP was referencing to. Pretty much impossible to pinpoint.
And then, I associated that with “us vs them” rhetoric lines. I didn’t even accuse OP of anything.
I just wrote what that shower though made me think about. Maybe it was just another shower thought.
- Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. 11 months ago:
I agree wholeheartedly. :)
My commentary was an observation about “us vs them” way of reasoning, only.
I’m happy for your lemmy karma success!
- Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. 11 months ago:
I definitely do. Wikipedia is amazing.
But. Unfortunately, everything is political: reuters.com/…/us-security-wikipedia-idUSN16428960…
My point wasn’t even judging Wikipedia. I just think “us vs them” is a horrible framework for reasoning.
- Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. 11 months ago:
You got 1000 upvotes. At that scale anything is a political statement. 🎉
- Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. 11 months ago:
Nazis, terrorists and/or communists. In abstract, no definition or distinction. Just don’t think about it too much.
- Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. 11 months ago:
Any argument based on “us vs them” is flawed by default.
- Comment on Has HP printers always been this bad? 11 months ago:
youtu.be/ACX_VfsjkZA youtu.be/KGszSj0BLeg (and more)
If you want well articulated rage against the hp machines, do follow Louis Rossmann.
Right to repair matters!
- Comment on Lemmy active users down, comments steady and posts up 11 months ago:
W
- Comment on Job Hunting Sucks. This Programmer Filled Out 250 Applications to Find Out Why 11 months ago:
archive.ph/T8y86 Down with the paywall.
- Comment on Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool 11 months ago:
Remember when you could download a car?
- Comment on Mazda’s DMCA takedown kills a hobbyist’s smart car API tool 11 months ago:
DMCA is broken, intellectual property is a scam.
- Comment on Qualcomm announces first-ever mass-market RISC-V Android SoC 11 months ago:
It is.
- Comment on Silk tougher than Kevlar thanks to genetically modified silkworms 11 months ago:
Chinese got the food and people logistics sorted, too.
Speed trains go bzzzz
- Comment on Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech 11 months ago:
In our society people are acknowledged human through consumption, and that need is hammered onto our heads by ads and beauty norms everywhere.
Belonging is a human need. Sometimes some cheap makeup is all it takes.
But also, the rich people are stealing from us in so much worse ways. A rich teen stealing from a rich corporation is kind of karmaeic, and really, even if she was caught, nothing significant would happen, whilst a poor girl doing the same would suffer a lot more.
Ergo, if you see something, no you didn’t.
- Comment on Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption 11 months ago:
They need the content to be available for Google indexing reasons, it can only really be blocked through the client.
A smart enough backend system can access/crawl/index it, just like Google can. And then make it available to the public without the front end annoyance.
- Comment on Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption 11 months ago:
Without paywall
- Comment on YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end “$600 less than cable” ads 11 months ago:
At some point prices have to adjust to material reality and someone will lose money. Sometimes expected growth is not possible.