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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so funny going through the control panel, getting to more and more esoteric settings, and seeing the UI getting older and older. I ditched Windows after Windows 7 but remember seeing menu themes that looked like they haven’t been updated since Windows NT

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had to guess, i think most of it comes down to not wanting to understand how society works, and finding it easier to think everything should come for free to them. If I couldn’t afford my car payments and someone told me that if you’re a sovereign citizen, you don’t have to pay, I could see how desperation could lead people to think they could get out of obligations. There’s also probably a large group of influencers and scammers who are incentivized to spread this misinformation, which is how it spreads.

  It’s also likely that for minor infractions, they’re let off with a warning from an officer who doesn’t want to deal with them, and this emboldens them to think they’re correct in how society functions, until they get an officer who won’t put up with them, or do something so egregious, it can’t be ignored.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue I had with slingshot was in whatever version released for the switch at release, maybe in 1.3? Tbh I have not tried with the slingshot in newer versions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  having played maybe 500 hours with controller only, maybe I don’t know what I’m missing, but the controls don’t seem that bad. Only thing which comes to mind as terrible is the slingshot, i never even try to use that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They even don’t support HTTPS on the older articles for that authentic 2009 internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And some of the time it’s not to see if you’re shoplifting, it’s to catch cashiers who don’t scan an item, but take your money, and pocket it. Far cheaper for the store to have one security guard at the door holding up everyone after they paid, then to review security footage of cashiers, or pay cashiers a decent wage where they don’t feel like they have to steal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A completely useful compulsion I have.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  According to this I am chaotic neutral, not sure what that means? I aim to balance the weight evenly, when pulling out of the fridge, the carton stays level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Marlon Brando in Heat?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I may have turned off the dumb AI Overview, but at least trying “is natalie portman in heat” actually gives relevant results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “shit i always do that i always mess up some mundane detail” ~ Tesla Engineers probably

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know you’re not defending the administration, but I wouldn’t consider the administration’s position to have any merit. They sent him to the prison and are paying for him to be imprisoned there. Giving them an inch of credibility on technicalities just means they’ll continue to do what they’re doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, he is from El Salvador and in 2019, an immigration judge granted him withholding of removal status due to the danger he faced from gang violence if he returned to El Salvador.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Google is really damned if they do, damned if they don’t here. Third party cookies are very privacy invasive, but replacing it with Chrome watching everything you do and acting as an ad broker is also not great. As long as Google is providing targeted advertising (which you could opt out of in privacy sandbox) then there’s not a really great solution.

  I do think they dragged this along enough that all sites now operate properly with third party cookies disabled, so that’s a benefit at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attacking My Landlord's Boiler - videah's blog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This assumes as a tenant you have physical access to the boiler room. From the video, it seems like this person might have that access, but not everyone might.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the 2 hour refund limit on Steam affect game design?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right yeah enjoyable entertainment is my requirement, why pay for something and waste my time if I’m not having fun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla speeds up odometers to avoid warranty repairs, U.S. lawsuit claims: Reuters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Marty: “Are you telling me you built a time machine… Out of a Cybertruck??”

  Doc Brown: “The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?”

  Marty: “So you picked a Cybertruck??? What the fuck doc, it’s hideous. This is heavy, doc”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the 2 hour refund limit on Steam affect game design?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t heard of the game but see that it’s going for $27. For me at least, buying a $27 game, I’d expect 10 hours minimum of enjoyable gameplay, which throws the free refund out the window if it would deliver.

  It could be possible that they wanted to increase their game length to justify the price and stretched things if the first 80 minutes were tedious and slow. I’m sure there’s some consideration to front load the enjoyment into the first few hours, with or without the refund, but I would assume lesser priced games would focus on that and not one going for this price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla speeds up odometers to avoid warranty repairs, U.S. lawsuit claims: Reuters⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even when back to the future enters public domain, if someone ever makes a version with the cybertruck, I’m going to be pissed at you first. The only exception is if the cybertruck can’t make it to 88mph and breaks down and the Libyans kill Marty so we don’t have to suffer any longer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can even get every achievement in a game, and return it for a full refund, granted you can beat the game in under two hours. Someone did it with resident evil 3 remake: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp8a5EjAcGs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did movie credits move from the beginning to the end?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they change the rules after the first Star Wars, or does Disney still still go against the union rules?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump extend TikTok ban enforcement deadline by 75 days, to continue work on a deal to sell it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Won’t this push it past the 100 day extension period congress did authorize in the original bill that was signed into law? Even if Trump said he won’t enforce the fine for Google, Apple, and Oracle for distributing the app, Democrats should make it clear they will go after those companies once Trump no longer controls the DoJ.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GhibliGuesser ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  wow this is hard, although I got 150km away on one which made my day (I have nothing else going for me)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure how true it was, but there was a YouTuber claiming that their videos were getting entirely demonetized because too many of their viewers had Ad blockers enabled. So even though 75% of people were seeing ads on the video, Google was keeping that ad revenue, withholding it all from the creator because 25% weren’t getting ads. The claim the youtuber made is that this will probably predominantly impact creators with a more tech savvy / privacy aware audience, resulting in less of that niche content.

  Anyway, this is anecdotal, but I wouldn’t put it past Google to pass the issue to the creators for the actions of their consumers, even though it’s not their fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a shame J. Walter Weatherman was killed when Michael left the door open with the air conditioner running.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDash and Klarna partner to offer buy now, pay later for takeout.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is dns a good application for the blockchain?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What? No. What problem will will this solve?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I remember when it was $75 but didn’t jump on it then. Back then I didn’t think they’d ever charge for basic functionality that was offered for free for 10 years. I don’t regret not getting it though, this is the kick I need over to Jellyfin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Was the price the same then as it is now? $120 USD? Based on the article, the price will only raise at the end of April.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting Nicole-ed feels way more awesome than how getting scammer spam usually feels.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Every one of the posts today that I’ve received have the url https://lemmy.laitinlok.com/pictrs/image/e1be7d9e-9e3e-4ba9-9c08-1ff084b554e1.png. If everyone has the same links, then logging people’s IP would get you the same information as logging IPs from a public post in any popular community. I think that would only make sense if each user was receiving different URLs, for the attacker to log the requested resource and their reference of which user they sent that URL to. I can’t confirm this suspicion on my own, but if the URL I posted is the same one you got today, then I doubt there’s any attempt to match users to their IP addresses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Nightly Preps Progressive Web App Support⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yess finally. Switched off of Chrome after seeing uBlock Origin was going to go away, but I have a lot of PWAs which has been hacky to get working.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did sites end up making money from API restrictions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically, each of these sites used open standards and APIs as a way to grow their service. Eventually once they got to the user base they wanted and beat out the competition, they could tighten the screws, lock things down, since the users didn’t have any place to go, they were locked in.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis…

  In terms of specifics, it’s unclear if they were ever profitable before locking things down, since the main goal at that phase wasn’t making money, it was growing active users and killing competitors. I would have to imagine that with the locked down APIs, they are more profitable, and they never really cared about the community and good will, only when it was beneficial to grow their user base.