Ertebolle

@Ertebolle@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  xkcd still has the best approach to this; four random common words

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Me fail English? That's unpossible!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geordie, er, Han shot first⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And this was only like the 3rd worst thing to happen to O'Brien that day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or - as many of us hope for - we manage to make the economics of the fediverse work (don't forget to support your instances, people) and the most valuable users move to blissful ad-free places like Lemmy and Mastodon.

  Indeed, throw in open-source AI (thanks, weirdly, to Zuckerberg) and Wikipedia and you can start to see the contours of a post-advertising internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how everybody is so busy about mining your behavior for ad tracking data and then like 2/3 of the ads I actually see are utterly irrelevant gut doctor / toenail fungus / 17 Most Embarrassing Topless Celebrity Moments crap.

  (I think the reality is that they're mining that data to identify a small number of people susceptible to high-value scams - like getting addicted to an F2P mobile game and spending $1000s on it - and the rest of us just get generic infill)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry Potter actor Sir Michael Gambon dies aged 82⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean that was more-or-less Werner Herzog's natural delivery, they just had him go in and read a buncha lines; somebody decided that Basically Werner Herzog was the right fit for that character and then they went out and got him to do it.

  (I imagine this is how Stephen Tobolowsky gets many of his acting jobs too)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry Potter actor Sir Michael Gambon dies aged 82⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn't discount Harris' innate advantages there too; he was 10 years older than Gambon, aged more poorly (having been an alcoholic hellraiser in his younger years), and his natural delivery - even when he was much younger - had that sort-of wizened wheezing sound to it; "old and physically frail but with incredible magic power" was sort of baked in even before he added any actual acting to the mix.

  But I don't know if there's an alternative who would have been better in that regard; the three I'm aware of them talking about were Christopher Lee, Ian McKellen, and Peter O'Toole, but the latter two would have played him very much like Gambon did, and I'm not sure if Lee could have pulled off "frail" either given his voice + physical stature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry Potter actor Sir Michael Gambon dies aged 82⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the few non-Avengers in the list of all-time highest grossing actors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry Potter actor Sir Michael Gambon dies aged 82⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  One of Chief O'Brien's more elaborate holodeck simulations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry Potter actor Sir Michael Gambon dies aged 82⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  With him, Richard Harris, Robbie Coltrane, and Alan Rickman all gone, the only members of the Hogwarts Professor Tontine left are Maggie Smith and Warwick Davis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My collection of ducks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And because they're 3D printed you can make as many as you want, so you have many ducks to give

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people crave the flat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mortadella Philistine

  My name is Mortadella Philistine

  There's a million meats I haven't seen

  Just you wait, just you wait...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coca-Cola's New AI-Generated Soda Flavor Falls Flat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can't wait until my King Arthur AI-Generated Flour turns out to be a 5 pound bag of uncut cocaine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#1 or #2?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My headcanon is that in public / guest quarters the toilet stalls contain miniature holodeck emitters so that they can instantly change to accommodate the customs / biology of any species. Even assuming that, say, Klingons excrete waste from the same places that humans do, they might prefer to do so while dangling from a bar in the ceiling or something else torturous like that, and find the use of a regular sitting toilet unclean or dishonorable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The official Lord of the Rings special effects studio is making a cozy hobbit game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Stardewification of everything continues - can't wait until Half-Life 3 finally comes out and it turns out that Black Mesa has purchased a dilapidated farm in the countryside that they've taken Gordon Freeman out of stasis to restore for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tensions are escalating⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The pushy evangelical church down the street has the Bajoran flag

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Bribercutter has really gone downhill since the NYT acquisition

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My reaction to "Unity plan pricing and packaging updates"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I sleep much better at night knowing that this is also true for Wikipedia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My reaction to "Unity plan pricing and packaging updates"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  2 Godot 2 Furious

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity will quietly waive controversial fees if developers switch to its ad monetisation service - report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How many times are developers going to put up with being used as sticks for one group of rich assholes to whack a different group of rich assholes with before we start supporting open platforms?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Gamers: pointlessly sacrificing the moral high ground since 2014.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity Software Inc's President and CEO John Riccitiello Sells 2,000 Shares⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He should go work for Epic, they're really just begging to be run into the ground by a shitty CEO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Todd Howard doesn't do what Todd Howard does for Todd Howard. Todd Howard does what Todd Howard does because Todd Howard is... Todd Howard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI chatbots were tasked to run a tech company. They built software in under seven minutes — for less than $1.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  OTOH, if you take that hello world program and ask it to compose a themed cocktail menu around it, it'll cheerfully do that for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zinc batteries that offer an alternative to lithium just got a big boost⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  "Think again, Jimmy. You see the firing pin in your gun was made out of, yep, zinc."

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Danny Masterson Is Sentenced to 30 Years to Life in Prison for Two Rapes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He's 47 now, so when he gets out he'll be 2/3 of the way through his own 70's show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing ONCE, a new line of software products from 37signals: Pay one time, own forever.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want to pay once and own it forever, I want to pay once and then in a few years when it’s gotten buggy or incompatible or whatever I pay you some more money for an upgrade. If I use it a lot maybe I pay you more often, if I use it rarely maybe I pay less often, if I’ve got a lot of bills this month maybe I put it off a few months.

  That’s really it - I’ll happily give you more money occasionally if I keep using it, but the burden of stretching that revenue so that you can make your payroll every 2 weeks ought to fall on you, not on me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Psu Psu Psudsudo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What is root if not supervisor persevering?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Captain's Log: Wheeeee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Scott Bakula's there too, he's just occupying Shatner's body so you can't see him.