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- Comment on Toxic comments are associated with reduced activity of volunteer editors on Wikipedia 11 months ago:
Now do Stackoverflow
- Comment on Effects of Stress on Programmers 11 months ago:
I live in my headphones. If anyone chatty is around I put headphones on as an indicator of concentration. (Not that it works)
- Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker 11 months ago:
I paid for Lynda.com, and it could have easily taken in more business if YouTube wasn’t working so hard for Google ads. There are a lot of paid (and free) services that suffer because of YouTubes ad-money business model.
Netflix could use the extra business. There are plenty of services failing to thrive while YouTube exists. Peertube would be wide open if YouTube went the way of most of Google’s stable of apps. PeerTube is wide open even if YouTube doesn’t go away anyway.
People genuinely hate ads. It’s a high degree of enshitification. YouTube could divide into paid content and free content in a simple Freemium model.
Or, add third tier with ads, which any user can opt out of in the same way contributers can. I’d be happy to click subscribe on an ad free experience with less content available to me.
Or, add an option for a couple of free tier items per month, week, or day. Like Medium’s business model.
It’s not hard to stop sucking!
- Comment on Microsoft renames Bing Chat to Copilot as it competes with ChatGPT | TechCrunch 1 year ago:
Putting people on autopilot. The MS way!
- Comment on A lot of societies problems would be solved if they taught about forming healthy relationships in school. 1 year ago:
A lot of blind courage is also missing. People used to answer to a lot of blind requests in a way that demanded a leap of faith and an effort to establish their own character. It also had a healthy dose of just wait and see. These days people can weasel out of uninformed situations quite a lot. So, we lean to shallow decision models with fewer good intentions accordingly.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
He wanted that job!
- Comment on Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here? 1 year ago:
You’re expending resources for greater intelligence with diminishing returns. At some point you’re killing yourself, so hopefully you’ll acquire enough intelligence to end the button cycle.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Imagine life without concern and high expectations your dreams will be profitable. No wonder money makes money.
- Comment on Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices 1 year ago:
I caught a trespasser the other day that said it wasn’t him. Totally believed him too /s
- Comment on YouTube is testing a mystery button that starts playing random videos 1 year ago:
“random” videos
- Comment on Every particle that made up your body is older than you, some of them are older than the universe 1 year ago:
Ah, good point. The universe hadn’t expanded yet.
- Comment on Are you actually horny or do you just need a shit and it's pressing on your prostate? 1 year ago:
Yeah, I’m slipping after 3 days. It’s like putting on beer goggles.
- Comment on We could not stop Gary Thuerk and subsequent followers, so why do we think we can contain AI? 1 year ago:
Spam is primarily contained as an illicit act. Normal corporations can’t engage in spam activities without some regulation. Around the world there are limitations on spam. As we know it, unstoppable spam is nothing in comparison to unstoppable heavy hitter DDOS type attacks.
If legal you would have to pay email providers to get out from under it. Think ads!
- Comment on What got you into coding ? (aside from money) 1 year ago:
Having an electrical background I noticed a lot of logic disappearing into code and still wanted access to it. Also, virtualisation and emulation are a lot cheaper to run.
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- Comment on Are there any people who hates music? 1 year ago:
No, it’s very much a grown man with an awful disposition. (It’s probably more of an undiagnosed condition.)
- Comment on Are there any people who hates music? 1 year ago:
He just switches channel and screams about what he wants to watch not being on.
- Comment on Are there any people who hates music? 1 year ago:
I live with a guy that seems to hate music. Haven’t actually asked him about it because he just yells at the TV or radio if they have music on.
- Comment on Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’ 1 year ago:
He’s a grifter. All he needs is a routine bet from a billion people and he potentially pays back on loans. He thought it might be possible with subscription, but he’s considering a way to emulate previous cryptocurrency manipulation now.
- Comment on Google paid a whopping $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine everywhere 1 year ago:
Relying on people’s apathy is a business model with eras of success. Most people have never changed a setting other than dark mode, and even then that’s probably your average superuser.
- Comment on Does anyone recommend evaporative cooler here ? I know aircon is much better but I wanted something that makes air a bit humid to help with my severe dry eyes. 1 year ago:
Could dry eyes be more related to a pollen count severity? If so you might want an air filter, and some antihistamines.
- Comment on Jeannie was forced to relocate twice in four years. This is her message for the government 1 year ago:
They’re not trying to solve the problem they created. It’s a glorious political football that leaves people screaming for aid for decades.
No different from shooting someone just enough to make them scream and cry all night to demoralise their friends hiding nearby.
It’s a tactic, and the ALP uses it as day to day political fare.
And that’s why they don’t respect the Greens. The Greens plan to stupidly solve all these issues which will leave them with fewer entrapments. What’s politics without mass entrapment?!
- Comment on Why, as a male, when emotionally do I only feel accepted by women but not by men? 1 year ago:
Men will see a potential in gaining something by being adversaries. Even if it’s a worse outcome by any stretch of the imagination they mightn’t be able to overcome evolved and taught practices of harm.
Many men have to be disarmed before they can get out of predator mode. And high functioning narcissists, psychopaths, … - dark triad types will only pretend to come out.
It’s the difference between your average agreeable person and a highly driven academic. You’re probably going to notice shades of ego with the university educated person. The higher the school status the more likely pretensiousness comes into play during interactions. Everything starts to toxify into a contest of intellect and qualifications.
Men have similar prevailing toxicity. So, creating a road block over excessive emotional output is an attempt at a ‘gotcha’. They’re attempting to demarcate/mark their territory at the expense of the emotional person.
- Comment on Why don't we pump seawater into deserts to revive them? 1 year ago:
A lot of deserts get a fresh water pulse occasionally, and things spring back to life. If you take that away it destroys more ecology. You’re better off making multilevel greenspace in the cities.