modifier
@modifier@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Mumbai billboard collapse: Eight dead and dozens injured 5 days ago:
Dude
- Comment on Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them 5 days ago:
(At the time of the layoffs, Electrek reported that Musk got rid of the entire team because its Tinucci did not lay off enough workers on her own.)
This single anecdote tells you just about everything you need to know about how Elon Musk approaches any kind of interpersonal interaction. His emotional IQ is non-existent.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 week ago:
Yes, and it’s a great use of AI. Ai is great for this sort of surreal shit, whether for Humor purposes or just to be wowed. This is a much better lane for Ai.
- Comment on Passions. 1 week ago:
See, now this is good use of generative AI.
- Comment on They say your body is the only instrument that doesn't require any lessons 1 week ago:
I just know that my brain unilaterally decided to made room for this fact in deep storage immediately, I just wish I knew how important whatever got tossed to make room was.
- Comment on #justgradschoolthings 2 weeks ago:
Fuck goddammit this is the worst thing for people with imposter syndrome to see. This is fucking insidious. Hilarious but insidious.
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 2 weeks ago:
Plex server on a purpose built Linux box with about 34tb. I mostly use Usenet for sourcing stuff, because it’s so quick and comparatively private, but I also use torrents for some harder to find stuff. I also buy a lot of the more obscure music I want from Bandcamp and just download the highest quality version.
I ran in parralel with my streaming services for a month, just in case I ever had trouble finding current shows we’re watching, but I’ve never had trouble finding good quality rips of shows the same day they are released.
I just can’t tell you how good it feels to look at my TV, movies, and music collection and know that it’s mine. Every episode and song and film is mine to store and protect, and not subject someone else’s license agreements.
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 2 weeks ago:
I canceled my Hulu+Disney+whatever package this week, as well as my Netflix. Piracy all the way.
- Comment on figs 1 & 2 3 weeks ago:
Doctors estimate that I am approximately 8% nachos by now, but you’re right, we have a devil of a time distinguishing the nachos from all the non-nacho stuff that keeps me alive like bloody and oxygen and Krokodil
- Comment on Treat yo self 5 weeks ago:
I can’t stop salivating at the idea of soggy corndog breading, not like that, like my body is preparing to barf.
- Comment on clearly aliens 5 weeks ago:
This fact was knocking around my brain already and I suspect I have Destin Sandlin to thank for it.
- Comment on Why I Lost Faith in Kagi 5 weeks ago:
I feel that if you don’t pay for a product, then you ARE the product. Even if Kagi isn’t perfect, the payment model should be supported to foster this kind of internet.
I agree with you, and I would just balance your statement out a bit and say that while the payment model should be supported, we should be wary of weak business models or predatory marketing that open up the door to just a different flavor of enshittification.
- Comment on Why I Lost Faith in Kagi 5 weeks ago:
I think the author makes that clear early and repeatedly and it isn’t ever framed as anything else than a walk through their thought process. I’m surprised you even felt this comment necessary. The article anchors heavily on privacy as a focus, and if you don’t care about that so much then all you have to worry about is a company that spends a couple hundred k of their startup money on t-shirts.
So…even if their search is perfect, and you don’t care that they really just want to charge you for search while they use you to train their AI, it is a paid service, so criticism of their ability to manage money is valid as an overall product review too though.
- Comment on Rate me, dudes 1 month ago:
Same. I actually thought that was the joke at first, until I realized this is probably app-specific behavior, and not widely known.
- Comment on Snikt 1 month ago:
Same exact thing happened to me except instead of adamantium it was my virginity and instead of becoming super-powerful I became a dad.
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 2 months ago:
Now pull the other one. It has got bells on.
- Comment on Good job man 👍 2 months ago:
If you want to get all the way in, there is nothing suggesting the person who originally posted this is a woman. Just that they are dating one and have guy friends.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram are currently down. 2 months ago:
I am feeling a lot of personal satisfaction that I had no idea this was happening and has to read about it on Lemmy.
- Comment on delicious 2 months ago:
Sfunny, it looks quite similar to Soylent Green but is in every way its opposite.
- Comment on Protesters Gather Outside OpenAI Headquarters after Policy Against Military Use is Quietly Removed 2 months ago:
Just commenting here to say hi to all of the historians of the future that will be digging through the old internet archives to try and piece together how humanity destroyed itself.
Hey folks, by now most of us could see it coming but felt helpless to stop it.
- Comment on Real! 2 months ago:
I’m in the process of learning German so my mental shorthand way of thinking about Dutch is that it’s basically German with extra As and Os.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra 2 months ago:
Precisely.
- Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown 3 months ago:
I don’t even know how to use this thing but I bought one reflexively when I got the sense it would likely be outlawed in the future.
- Comment on Your honor this is bullshit 3 months ago:
My first instinct is to agree with you.
My second instinct is to think that most of what I tend to think of as bullshit cold legalese is actually exceedingly precise, which I have to admit is a good quality to have when it comes to matters of law.
- Comment on Tucker Carlson interview with Putin to test EU law regulating tech companies 3 months ago:
Which part?
- Comment on Reddit chooses New York Stock Exchange for long-stalled IPO 3 months ago:
You need to signal your willingness to ruin it if you want Wall Street to take you seriously.
- Comment on NASA lost contact with its Mars helicopter 3 months ago:
Definitely exceeded my expectations.
- Comment on How is Russia not Financially Crippled? 3 months ago:
I beg your pardon. I thought your comment was a dark observation on the softening effect of Global Warming on Russian winters.
- Comment on How is Russia not Financially Crippled? 3 months ago:
They are technically still on the way, on day 117 of an epic, unplanned, and wholly uncontrolled kite-surfing misadventure.
- Comment on How is Russia not Financially Crippled? 3 months ago:
Oof, pyrrhic as fuck