MisterD
@MisterD@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 1 week ago:
When Hitler needed to track the unwanted in his concentration camps, IBM was there.
Today, Trump has selected IBM due to our experience in this field of Fascism.
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 4 weeks ago:
But management can claim a win by forcing ONE IT person to go to the office.
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 4 weeks ago:
Meanwhile in Quebec, they call them patates
- Comment on New underground wells could store carbon dioxide pollution for Microsoft and Amazon 2 months ago:
Why not just bury quick growing vegetation instead?
Carbon capture is done automatically
- Comment on New underground wells could store carbon dioxide pollution for Microsoft and Amazon 2 months ago:
Perrier water for the next generation
- Comment on Startup Says It'll Use Huge Space Mirror to Sell Sunlight During Nighttime 2 months ago:
Let’s make global warming worse.
- Comment on Bluetooth 6.0 adds centimeter-level accuracy for device tracking — upgraded version also improves device pairing 2 months ago:
Apple uses a modified version of Bluetooth
- Comment on Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Your Data Safe | Pompous billionaires, authoritarian regimes, and opaque oligarchs are hoarding our data. Only an alternative online ecosystem will stop them. 2 months ago:
Remember kids: unless the social media site is owned by a US company, it’s a bad social media site.
The billionaires in the US are good guys and don’t sell your info.
/s
- Comment on What kind of laptop charger do I need for my laptop 3 months ago:
LPT: if buying a new laptop, only get one that can charge via USB PD. If it can charge with a proprietary charger in addition, that ok.
Otherwise you are going to be in OP’s situation
- Comment on Court blocks the FCC's efforts to restore net neutrality... again 3 months ago:
The correct term today is Nazis
- Comment on LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells 4 months ago:
Meanwhile, the irony is that WIFI stands for WIred FIdelity
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It’s needed for some shows like Big Bang Theory to know when a joke was " funny "
- Comment on Stay Mad 4 months ago:
I don’t expect either to last 4 more years. Especially Trump.
If Trump does win and dies while destroying the world, imagine what younger dictator would follow…
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
That’s what I thought until windows 7
- Comment on Germany just now approved new laws that make setting up solar on your balcony super easy 6 months ago:
Should not be an issue. The inverters that feed into the grid need to follow the phase and frequency of the grid. If the grid is down, there is nothing to follow and it will not feed any power into the grid.
- Comment on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites 7 months ago:
- Comment on Using StartAllBack? No Windows updates for you, says Microsoft 7 months ago:
I’ve been doing windows since 3.0 (aka ~1990) Me last version is windows 7, too.
I’m going to Linux. I’m done with fighting windows unless I’m paid.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
They will drag in all of Tilly’s friends and STD storylines… in the 31st century???
Come on… Starfleet Academy is going to suck.
- Comment on China and Norway Lead the World’s EV Switchover 8 months ago:
There are electric 18 wheeler trucks about to be available in about a year. It is estimated that the truck would be paid off in 2 years by fuel savings alone.
Replacing diesel trucks will probably bridge the gap
- Comment on Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News 8 months ago:
Built-in Meta services?
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
I can see MS paying Adobe to NOT release Linux versions of their software.
- Comment on Russian police arrest over 100 people nationwide in crackdown on Navalny support 9 months ago:
Protecting Putin’s feewings…
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 9 months ago:
Edge? Think Clippy.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 9 months ago:
But what about AI ? It has to be everywhere! Somebody please think about adding AI to Firefox! I need it to do ???
/s
- Comment on Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? 9 months ago:
They all want to FULLY control the end user.
- probe and profile the device used
- force unstoppable ads
- require GPS location and maybe 2fa to make sure it’s you that is watching the ads. -web assembly alone will make script blocking impossible and enable scammers to run anything they want.
The end result will be something like the DVD menus from the 90s and 00s. The difference is that it will have full access to all the data on your computer or device.
- Comment on Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US 9 months ago:
They’re going to need that money to settle the lawsuit from Gina Carano funded by Elon Musk.
- Comment on Ketchup alignment 10 months ago:
Where does ketchup on the wall fit?
- Comment on The free fediverses should support concentric federations of instances 10 months ago:
And small niche communities might not be so small once merged and would guarantee the survival of the communities.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
But my friend has the new iPhone. I don’t want look bad.
/s
- Comment on The free fediverses should support concentric federations of instances 10 months ago:
We can’t even merge similar/identical communities across federated servers and now we have this idea?