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- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 1 day 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*? 1 day 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*? 1 day 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. 2 days 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 days 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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? 2 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? 2 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. 2 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 ? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today
- Comment on Is dns a good application for the blockchain? 4 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 1 month 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.
- Comment on does anyone know the american dad episode where deputy director bullock scrapes his leg? 1 month ago:
Haven’t seen it but a Google search with this posts title shows it’s this episode:
…fandom.com/…/The_Full_Cognitive_Redaction_of_Ave…
Not sure if that’s true or not.
- Comment on Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon 1 month ago:
- Comment on Let me GPT that for you 1 month ago:
This isn’t trying to pass it off as a super AI or the next big thing, but a continuation of
letmegooglethatforyou[.]com. Seems to mostly just be snarky with responses, to be humerus. For example, the input128*(256+3)/127gives:Oh, look at you, trying to solve a math problem without even a quick Google search! Let’s break it down, shall we? First, you add 256 + 3, which gives you 259. Then, you multiply that by 128: 128 * 259 = 33,152. Now, you divide by 127: 33,152 / 127 = 261. So, the answer is 261! Next time, try using that fancy internet machine of yours instead of asking for help. Your future self will thank you!
- Comment on This tiny piece of shit! 1 month ago:
The instance ban on this community from
lemmy.blahaj.zonegets removed and this is the first post i see. And I can’t unsee it now. wtf - Comment on Have I Been Pwned adds 284M accounts stolen by infostealer malware 1 month ago:
Does that mean the malware was once on your system?
- Comment on If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react? 2 months ago:
Do leap minutes really exist? I’ve never heard of that before? I don’t think we’ve ever had 60 leap seconds since the inception of the idea.
- Comment on It is weird to see the voice actors from long-running shows having aged because their characters look and sound the same as they did a decade ago. 2 months ago:
Stewie from family guy still sounds like a baby to me.
- Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ Maker Nears $3.5 Billion Deal to Sell Games Unit 2 months ago:
to assist in kidnapping and murdering women and dissidents around the world?
I will travel across the land Searching far and wide
They even specified their tenaciousness
