jtk
@jtk@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 7 months ago:
Why can’t decency run the world instead of money :/
- Comment on Vote to Restore Net Neutrality 7 months ago:
Feel like you must have sorted by “controversial” because that wasn’t the top rated type of response I remember seeing, and r/all was the only thing I looked at on Reddit back then.
- Comment on acceptable screws 7 months ago:
The “Alpha Male” of screws.
- Comment on acceptable screws 7 months ago:
I don’t think I’ve ever encountered one, but I can see their value. Where are they used?
- Comment on acceptable screws 7 months ago:
Slotted can go straight to hell before all others.
- Comment on What are the best indie games you've ever played? 8 months ago:
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (ASCII mode) and Neofeud hold a special place in my heart
- Comment on Teslas Can Be Stolen by Hijacking WiFi at Charging Stations, Researchers Find 8 months ago:
So, children and adults that never mentally matured past 8th grade still think they’re cool. Can’t argue with that.
- Comment on Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims 9 months ago:
Infrastructure control. Transportation, communications, banking, etc. He’s going after it all. I’ll never touch anything he’s even remotely involved in.
- Comment on One of capitalisms biggest tragedies 9 months ago:
Even the people that can afford it no longer want to work in the industry because capitalism has made them entirely profit oriented and very unrewarding to be a part of, both financially and spiritually.
- Comment on What game fits this? 9 months ago:
3,277.4 hrs on record
- Comment on Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click 10 months ago:
Are you talking about those security questions? So dumb. After having days-long trouble getting my internet fixed because of them, I started treating those as additional passwords, generate the answers with my password manager, and save them in the notes section of the entry.
- Comment on ifn't 10 months ago:
ifn't (myNum don't= 3 && myStr ain'tnull) - Comment on ifn't 10 months ago:
I would have bought it if they said ifnot instead, it’s the same number of characters and wouldn’t require a major parser overhaul to support.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value 10 months ago:
You can’t coherently convey whatever you think Elon was on about because, whatever he was on about, was complete bullshit designed to make him look smart to the people dumb enough to buy it.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value 10 months ago:
That’s not an “idea”, he’s literally just trying to copy authoritarian states where the people are stuck with the
“influential ‘everything’ app”power concentrating garbage, like WeChat, so he can have that power too. - Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
Not all of them. Certainly not Quakeworld, which is Grandma’s favorite.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
My Menu key just lost it’s virginity because of this comment.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
Don’t worry about it grandma, just be sure not to accidentally press it when you’re fragging noobs.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 10 months ago:
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. I’ve played it at least 100 hours and still have no idea how anyone survives a scenario besides the default shelter one, took me a long time to even figure that one out.
- Comment on xkcd #2875: 2024 10 months ago:
I thought it was midi-chlorian. How else could synthesis coordinate without a standard protocol?
- Comment on I finally found him 10 months ago:
I don’t mean to kink shame but, come on man, other people need those cables to work.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 10 months ago:
It’s not a solution to the problem they say they’re looking to solve. It’s more government control, it’s big brother, it’s everything they say they don’t want, so it’s obviously exactly what they wanted.
- Comment on 11 INTRIGUING ENGINEERING MILESTONES TO LOOK FOR IN 2024 10 months ago:
most models require modified electrical outlets and cost hundreds of dollars to install. That’s why startups like Channing Street Copper and Impulse Labs are working to make induction ovens easier to install by adding built-in batteries that supplement regular wall-socket power.
Surly the batteries will end up costing way more than the outlet installation plus you’d be stuck with yet another proprietary battery that will hard/impossible to replace yourself. No thanks.
- Comment on Headlines be like 10 months ago:
Cries in Gorilla Tag
- Comment on Headlines be like 10 months ago:
Have they tried marketing discolored green ones as “Avocado Diamonds”?
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 10 months ago:
You can use them all, or none of them, at the same time.
- Comment on NASA has some explaining to do 10 months ago:
If prayers were detectable, interceptable, and alterable, there’d be entire branches of science dedicated to them.
- Comment on Firefox Nightly for Android lets you install add-ons from files 11 months ago:
What’s the catch? AFAIK, you can’t even do that on desktop without manual reactivating on every restart.
- Comment on What happens now? 11 months ago:
You’re only allowed to play the game “Debtors’ Prison” until it’s paid off. You get $0.18/hour of play but 20% interest is compounded daily on the remaining balance.
- Comment on YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest 11 months ago:
Isn’t that basically the whole point of the algorithm? Isn’t it behaving exactly as advertised?
You don’t even have to feed the algorithm to get those videos. I have my history turned of so I don’t get any suggestions on my home page anymore, but when I’m watching a video, the suggestions on the side invariably have a handful of right-wing idiots. You can sometimes see how YT might think they’re related to what I’m watching (usually retro tech stuff), but they never actually are. I rarely see the same misfires with the left-wing videos. My guess is the brain-dead right-leaning viewers put that content in the high engagement buckets so they just get randomly suggested more often. I don’t think left leaning people engage much with the left wing media because it’s usually boring politics that don’t infringe on basic human rights, and we already know how bad the right is just by seeing them suck with our own eyes, we don’t need to be told about it over and over to believe it, or to get bullshit “gottcha” material for water cooler conversations. We also already see how the politicians on the left suck in their own special ways without needing anyone to explain it to us. So what’s the point in investing in a video when a few words, or none at all, will do the trick? Algorithms target idiots with unfounded rage, it’s just that simple, I wouldn’t even call it an algorithm, just basic number crunching.