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- Comment on I Fought AT&T and Won — Here’s How You Can Too 7 hours ago:
The worst thing about AI Slop is it’s overuse of in a list header, it kills it for me. I used to use emojis all the time like a run off sentence and put more thought into it, but now it’s just ruined.
- Comment on The feature I want most from my next phone is to screen voicemails that mention improving my Google search results (or other keywords that indicate spam) 9 hours ago:
It’s really great, and you can just keep them on the line if it’s an actual person.
- Comment on Get ready to be embarrassed: YouTube will start using your view history to guess if you're an adult 14 hours ago:
Listen to some classical music
- Comment on Hypothetically, if the police seized your electronics (for an unrelated investigation) and found out you have a lot of pirated content, what would happen? 1 day ago:
IANAL and not really sure if this would hold up for digital assets, but if there is a search warrant, anything in plain view is up for grabs: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_v._California. I would assume anything on the hard drive can be evidence in court if it is in plain view of the assets of the search warrant.
But also, for simply possession of pirated content, I don’t think the state would charge you, but you could be open to civil litigation if the copyright holders find out somehow.
- Comment on Goosebumps: The Game will be removed from sale on August 8, 2025. 1 day ago:
Yes this was the game! The CD I had contained both games. The other game was Attack of the Mutant. This was the hockey game ingrained in my memory: youtu.be/7vQ0qBVhjME?t=2269
- Comment on Goosebumps: The Game will be removed from sale on August 8, 2025. 2 days ago:
Was that a point and click interactive video one? I remember one story with dead hokey players or something? I think I got that CD for free from a box of cereal and have great memories playing it while home sick from school one day.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 4 days ago:
Anddddd…, it’s already been breached: www.404media.co/women-dating-safety-app-tea-breac…
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 5 days ago:
Payment processors: “I deal with the god damn customers so the
engineersbanks don’t have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can’t you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?” - Comment on Where can I find Trumps drawing in the letter to Epstein? 1 week ago:
I have seen this picture, but it has not been released by the WSJ, CNN, NYT, etc. The WSJ article describes the letter and this matches the description, but this is a recreation based on the description. What OP is asking for is why can’t they find a scan of the actual letter and the reason is because it hasn’t been published.
- Comment on Where can I find Trumps drawing in the letter to Epstein? 1 week ago:
You’re right, best I can tell, WSJ only described the image, but has not published it. Here is an archive of the WSJ piece that Trump is suing about: archive.is/IUWMu
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 1 week ago:
How about a nice game of chess?
- Comment on came across some family heirlooms today, hahaha! 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure you still had to pay your phone provider who may have charged $0.10/call unless AOL was using 1-800 numbers to dial to?
- Comment on Taking screenshots of everything is no different than elders printing out emails. 4 weeks ago:
Molecules of water? hair follicles? Grains of rice?
- Comment on Taking screenshots of everything is no different than elders printing out emails. 4 weeks ago:
There are web browser addons which can change the export to a png, but if all else fails, imagemagick after saving the image takes less time than screenshotting and cropping.
- Comment on Poop In A Box 4 weeks ago:
Also in this scene, why was there an empty spot in the grid for the robot to blend into? If it took the place of another robot, what did it do with the remains of the other robot without time. A lot of “don’t think about it too much” in this movie.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 4 weeks ago:
Seems like the store is down or not loading, at least for me. My bank account is happy at least.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, regardless of their education and experience, if you have this concern about a person, you should get a new roommate, assuming there’s more to your question than just a hypothetical.
All the time, there are shitty significant others who install a keylogger or screen recorder to monitor their spouse, because they’re fucked up. A lot of the time, they don’t have any technical background, and are the equivalent of script kiddies. They do this because they’re shitty people, not because they have a degree in computer science.
- Comment on Mastodon: New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content 5 weeks ago:
I think I read somewhere that this would be the default for new instances if they don’t have one of their own. On an existing instance, the server admin would have to remove the existing license which would then load this license. So this could affect more than just mastodon.social.
That being said, since this was brought up, it has been put on pause while it is reevaluated
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate? 5 weeks ago:
Seriously, I’ve had multiple conversations with my BIL where he comes over to me and says something insane, and my response is just “huh okayyy…” and I walk away without saying anything else. I don’t care to be polite anymore.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That’s so mischievous, that would drive someone insane trying to troubleshoot the issue. That being said, I feel like we’re above the idea of creating walled gardens.
- Comment on star wars clone wars trying to find a season a episode number 1 month ago:
And this kinda explains/retcons how Ahsoka was able to take on all the clone troopers during Order 66 as they show at the end of that episode.
- Comment on Why do americans assume they invented the internet? 1 month ago:
You’re getting a lot of comments correctly pointing out that ARPANET was actually invented by the US in the 1970s and was the precursor to the Internet. I think it’s your question which is phrased incorrectly, and not the point you’re trying to make. Assuming this and rephrasing your question to mean the World Wide Web (not the Internet), you’re correct, that was created by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN in the 1990s, approximately 20 years after ARPANET. This brought along Hypertext websites, and basically was another step in the foundation of the internet as we know it today.
So rephrasing your question to “why do americans assume they invented the web (websites)?”, it’s mainly because the underlying infrastructure of the internet was originally developed by the US government, so even before websites existed, domain names were heavily American leaning, with
.govbeing US Government websites, and.edubeing US Universities, etc. Other countries at the time had ccTLD for their country code, like.uk,.au, etc and when it came time to assign domain names, they chose to use.co.ukor.com.aufor example, rather than.com.I assume that americans rarely encounter a
.com.auor other ccTLD domain names, and largely are going to.comwebsites. They probably assume that the.auTLD was tacked on to support Australia because they didn’t invent the internet. - Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
How many sites are we talking about? I have like 600 passwords in my password manager, it would be insane to try to remember each of the rules for when I changed the password last.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 2 months ago:
This was a triumph
I’m making a note here
“Huge success”
It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction
- Comment on 1955 was as old in 1990 as 1990 is in 2025. 2 months ago:
This relevant XKCD is a teenager now
- Comment on 1955 was as old in 1990 as 1990 is in 2025. 2 months ago:
I’d like to see a remake of The United States of America where Donald Trump is never the president.
- Comment on People currently in their 60s and 70s grew up in the '60s and '70s 2 months ago:
This feels like less of a shower thought, and more of a dozing off to sleep thought doing math in your head.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 2 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months 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