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- Comment on GhibliGuesser ? 15 hours 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 week ago:
I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today
- Comment on Is dns a good application for the blockchain? 1 week 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. 2 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. 2 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. 2 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 2 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Let me GPT that for you 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
My suggestion is to find a good instance, such as lemmy.blahaj.zone, and go through the list of blocked instances to find one which works for you. Filtering by software and version number should yield an active Lemmy instance.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You could try Truth Social if you’re looking for places where people have a deep hate towards others who are not cis straight white men.
FTFY
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 1 month ago:
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 4 months ago:
Mulva?
- Comment on Production quality often has in inverse relationship to information quality in youtube videos 4 months ago:
I still prefer Veritaisum over a channel like Mark Rober which has almost 4x the subscribers, with content that sounds informational, but is really just dumbed down. Maybe Mark Rober is more aimed at younger kids, but they both are very similar with trying to make math and science accessible, but executed differently and I think Veriatsium done better.
With videos with exclusive access, i’d imagine it’s difficult to do all the fact checking of everything the company is telling you. Tom Scott also dealt with this, and it requires a tremendous effort. If there are lies being spread and the description isn’t updated or a pinned comment on the video set, then yeah, that’s shitty behavior, but generally I haven’t seen that from Derk.
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 4 months ago:
TCP/IP
- Comment on How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down? 4 months ago:
How screwed would one be if the domain they bought was a ccTLD and that country ceased to exist?
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 4 months ago:
Pretty sure when Orange Box was released, it included HL2 and HL2 Episode 1 in addition to HL2 Episode 2. Hard to remember because there were so many good games that came from that one purchase.
- Comment on Trump picks vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy as health secretary 4 months ago:
This is how the worms win.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 4 months ago:
If you’re using one of these models, it’s highly recommended that you replace your NAS system with one that’s still receiving patches from the manufacturer. If that isn’t possible right now, Netsecfish suggests restricting access to your NAS settings menu/interface to only trusted IP addresses. You could also isolate your NAS from the public internet to ensure that only authorized users can interact with it.
Emphasis mine, regardless of this incident, even with a brand new supported model, it shouldn’t be exposed to the internet. Half the reason these security issues are such a big deal is because manufacturers wanted to make things simple and designed it to sit on the open internet, so they wouldn’t have to deal with support requests. Now their customers are exposed because of poor recommendations and the lack of updates.
- Comment on Question about Firefox - any way to open specific sites as if they were an app or program (similar to an option in Chrome)? 5 months ago:
I use PWAs for Firefox and they work ok, although I don’t have the issue you mention. For me, in Ubuntu, if I open a link in a PWA for Google Chat, then the link opens in the PWA firefox window, not my main browser window. Maybe there’s a setting I missed?
Also, the PWA acts like a separate browser, so opening Google Chat requires you to log in again to Google on the same machine. And if you open up a paywalled link, and it opens in the PWA, then you have to log in, even if you’re logged in in Firefox.
Overall 5/7 rating on usability, but did allow me to get completely off of Chrome
