Spuddlesv2
@Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 month ago:
So along with all those positives you listed, the big negative being it’s a death trap.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 month ago:
This Fiat? www.euroncap.com/en/results/fiat/punto/15461
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 month ago:
They are just being clear and accurate with their comms. No need to over think it.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 month ago:
I can’t tell if you’re being downvoted by dorks who don’t realise you’re joking or by dorks who DO realise you’re joking and feel attacked. Either way, sad, silly down voters.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yes Windows 11 is small enough that this one dude knows all there is to know about it. It is impossible this (former) core developer is wrong, lying or has an axe to grind.
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 2 months ago:
If anyone truly believed it was ever a “true free speech” platform, they must be incredibly, incredibly naive or stupid.
- Comment on Forty-Niner is an upcoming open-world wild west survival game 2 months ago:
“Gorgeous“?!
- Comment on Experimental Video Game Made Purely With AI Failed Because Tech Was 'Unable to Replace Talent' 3 months ago:
Ahhh so the secret to using ChatGPT successfully is to tell it to give you good output?
Like “make sure the code actually works” and “don’t repeat yourself like a fucking idiot” and “don’t hallucinate false information”!
- Comment on UK starts early trials of World's first pothole preventing robot 3 months ago:
Bets on this actually reducing the cost of maintenance? I’d hazard a guess that it will cost more, fix less, and result in fewer local jobs. But the VC-backed overseas startup CEO will profit, so that’s something I suppose.
- Comment on Electric car sales are booming in Australia, but it's not where you think it is 3 months ago:
Outer suburbs. There, saved you a click.
- Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. 3 months ago:
Splitting hairs isn’t going to change anything. TikTok is absolutely 100% a social network. It uses more video and less written word but that’s about it. YouTube hasn’t died (and neither has Facebook for that matter) but it was very different in its earlier incarnations. It has become more social as time has gone on, in an effort to remain relevant. It has largely copied TikTok.
TikTok in turn will become a boring old platform used by Old People (millennials, Gen Z) and kids will (already are) on to something new.
- Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. 3 months ago:
The same was true of Facebook my not-so-socially-savvy friend. Kids will stop using it once they realise grandma is on there because it is no longer cool.
- Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. 3 months ago:
Aboomersayswhat
- Comment on The Lifeblood of the AI Boom 3 months ago:
Electricity. Lots and lots of electricity.
Look at that, it didn’t require a whole-ass article.
- Comment on NBNCo reveals plans to uograde speed tiers 3 months ago:
You might be shocked to learn that NBNCo was set up and designed to be “profit driven” too then?
- Comment on It’s true, Kelly Wilkinson was cop shopping. She was looking for a Queensland cop who cared | Lucy Clark 4 months ago:
Or possibly we should focus more on helping the victims and then once they’re properly sorted out we can start looking at how to further assist the perpetrators.
If situations like this, and more generally movements like metoo, have taught us anything it’s that men in positions of power can make it difficult or nigh on impossible for women to be heard. Let’s help them first.
- Comment on It’s true, Kelly Wilkinson was cop shopping. She was looking for a Queensland cop who cared | Lucy Clark 4 months ago:
I shouldn’t have used your specific circumstance as an example and I apologise for that. I have absolutely no idea what you’ve been through and shouldn’t ever have made assumptions or attempted to use it to try to make my point.
More women would definitely help. Cop culture is massively macho, male dominated, even if there are some women in some positions of power.
Someone who decides to hit their spouse or child is a piece of shit. Someone who hurts any other innocent person intentionally is a piece of shit. Drug dealers are pieces of shit. The list is endless.
If someone with a drug dependence hurts another person while intoxicated then that’s a criminal matter. Part of their sentence would undoubtedly be rehabilitation, as it should.
If someone hurts another person then that’s a criminal matter. Part of their sentence would undoubtedly be rehabilitation.
If someone hurts a spouse or child… etc.
I don’t think singling out one group of criminals for special treatment is the answer.
No one wakes up one day and decides to be an awful human, for sure. It takes time and practise, and people around them ignoring it or even enabling it.
- Comment on It’s true, Kelly Wilkinson was cop shopping. She was looking for a Queensland cop who cared | Lucy Clark 4 months ago:
What the reddit is this shit.
Firstly the article doesn’t say that.
Cops are mostly men and yeah they fucken do hate women. The stats back that up. So changing the “system” (ie the way police forces deal with abuse to get more women involved and in positions of power) is absolutely a brilliant idea. Cops also (statistically) hate their kids so it’s a double whammy.
Pieces of shit that beat their partners and children don’t get a pass because no one gave them a sympathetic pat on the hand and a cuppa. Very few people alive today believe it is acceptable to beat their spouse and kids. They do it because they can, and because they get away with it.
If the court appointed a psychologist to your father then the system DID help him. Too late, obviously, but that suggests to me the issue was with the (almost certainly male) cops not stepping in sooner to get the court involved.
I’m sorry you suffered abuse as a child and I hope your life has been safe and full of love since then.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 4 months ago:
On my iPhone it’s 5 taps, which seems excessive but whatever. It’s impossible to do when I’m driving, and also impossible from the Windows app (yes, really, the feature is not available - community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/…/5027612 )
- Comment on How Australian undercover police ‘fed’ an autistic 13-year-old’s fixation with Islamic State 4 months ago:
Surprised to see the article still using the term Asperger’s. Asperger was a nazi sympathiser and experimented on kids with autism and his name should be relegated to the toilet of history.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 4 months ago:
I died inside when I saw stuff I listened to in high school on “classic rock” playlists.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 4 months ago:
If only it were that clever. I think it’s because their algorithm sees: person listens to 90’s music so person = old, old people like classical piano.
In the same way that I very occasionally play Jason Isbell and after I do so it starts throwing yeehaw-big trucks-and-gurls-in-cutoff-shorts country music at me for months afterwards.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 4 months ago:
Really? Their made-for-you playlists are nowhere near as good as they used to be. The discover playlist is now ass. Radio plays the same 20 songs over and over and over again.
Right now the app is suggesting a Classical Piano playlist to me. I have never listened to classical piano. Ever. Most recently I’ve listened to Tool, Rage Against the Machine and a 90’s metal playlist (I’m on a 90’s kick). Why on earth would it think I want classical piano?
Proof! imgur.com/gallery/e0N5sE3
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 4 months ago:
Spotify tried to shove Doja Cat at me the other day. I have never ever EVER listened to anything that would even remotely suggest I would like Doja Cat. It may be infinite but there is still someone behind the scenes pushing particular songs and artists.
- Comment on Honda debuts new global EV series, Honda Zero, coming in 2026 5 months ago:
Everyone: ewww the Cybertruck is so ugly Honda: hold my beer
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
We all await your commit containing all those simple unit tests with bated breath.
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 5 months ago:
American football is (semi-)frequently called gridiron in Australia. I’d say most people would know what sport you meant if you called it that.
We usually call soccer, soccer but soccer nerds and those with close English heritage will call it football to feel superior.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 6 months ago:
We are all here because we don’t want to be a part of a corporate controlled social platform. Threads theoretically making it more difficult to communicate with their users - something we can’t do at all today - is not going to suddenly change our minds.
If your friends are on Threads now and you’re on Activity Pub then that problem already exists. If they start seeing all sorts of cool content - without any ads - coming from “that Lemmy thing” then yes absolutely a good number will switch. Not all, because some people are lazy, or don’t care, or fearful of different technology, but that’s not going to change just because Threads is federated.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 6 months ago:
I asked how the circumstances are similar, not vague descriptions that suit your existing views. But sure.
XMPP was dogshit back in 2004. A good idea, but nowhere NEAR what it needed to be to actually get mainstream acceptance. ActivityPub is light years ahead.
There were very very few XMPP users in 2004. There are millions of ActivityPub users. If meta was to pull the plug on federation it wouldn’t kill ActivityPub, there would still be millions of us here. We joined Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon because we don’t want to live in a centrally controlled/owned social platform. That won’t change just because we can suddenly interact with Threads users. In fact, if anything, once Threads users hear that we get the same shit they do without the ads, they might decide to join us instead.
Google killing off XMPP integration didn’t kill XMPP. It did that all on its own.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 6 months ago:
The Ploum article again. Please explain how the circumstances with XMPP and ActivityPub are remotely similar.