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- Comment on How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 10 months ago:
That link linked to /modcoord at perhaps dozens of moderators promised to leave, which is far more impactful than users. I know just from watching kbin, lemmy and other sites grow from this summer on that hundreds to thousands likely left reddit. Unfortunately it's probably a drop in the bucket but Web 2.0 was always probably going to win. The only real way I can see of us getting out of that en masse if when each site inevitably kills themselves through mismanagement.
- Comment on How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 10 months ago:
I actually used to rely on that, using site:reddit.com for most searches. Reddit had some of the best in-depth discussion and tech advice I could find. Compared to the multitudes of blogs, YT videos, and decades-old forum posts that normally came up, reddit usually provided useful info. And it's pretty much the only reason I'm ever on the site now: the only results for some searches are on reddit.
Eventually if the quality of the posts decline, their SEO presence probably will as well. But google has been absolute dogshit for about a year now so who knows what that field will look like in another year. =/
- Comment on How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 10 months ago:
Ever since earlier this year I've had WAY more friends, family and news articles I've seen mention or link to reddit than the past. I don't know if it's confirmation bias since I left reddit or if it just gained popularity at the same time or what. But I used reddit for ~12 years and few other people in my circle used it heavily. Now it seems like it exploded?
- Comment on I wonder how much of youtube content is hardcoded sponsor ads. 10 months ago:
I more meant if you require companies to send you goods to review for your business to work, then you can't be impartial.
- Comment on What is the average temperature of earth? 10 months ago:
Why is it hard? At least to get an approximation since you can't measure everywhere.
We know temperatures of the mantle and both cores. We know their size. We can ignore the crust as a rounding error. This approximation will improve as our measurements get better.
- Comment on I wonder how much of youtube content is hardcoded sponsor ads. 10 months ago:
Untrustworthy. Real reviewers buy the product. If you are reliant on companies to send you product to review then you cannot be impartial.
- Comment on Scientists Destroy 99% of Cancer Cells in The Lab Using Vibrating Molecules 10 months ago:
- Comment on The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked 10 months ago:
Didn't we use things like irc in the past?
- Comment on Raspberry Pi mailbox brings in the mail like the old days 11 months ago:
To pull this off, the Raspberry Pi is programmed to act as a router. Any lookups that are associated with Google’s push service are redirected to a nonexistent IP and blocked from reaching your phone. When the mailbox door is opened and you place a phone inside, an ESP-32 is activated which sends a notification to the Pi that it’s okay to allow push notifications through.
I'm not well versed in networking, but this reads to me as it blocks and sends all notifications to the void and then while in the box the Pi allows new ones through.
The question then is do push notifications need an ACK and if they fail to receive one do they try again? I know cell carriers can tell when you're out of connection and can delay notifications and packets until you reconnect but this is slightly different.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi mailbox brings in the mail like the old days 11 months ago:
With how this routes push notifications to an invalid IP, will they be resent or are they lost? When you put your phone is the box will you get all your missed notifications or just ones coming in while it's in the box?
Also your guests will think their phone is broken or your Wi-Fi is down.
- Comment on Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick departs in just a few days 11 months ago:
At least Raphael is charming.
- Comment on Heres an idea, Fromsoft should make the Soul Reaver sequel 11 months ago:
They could just make a souls-like game set in Soul Reaver. It was already an action game.
- Comment on Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy 11 months ago:
It's not like anyone ever got them to clean them up anyways. Cities tired of this shit should just drive around with a dump truck, tossing all the Bird litter in and depositing it at the Bird HQ or local office. Then send them the bill for collection.
I can't just abandon a bicycle or throw trash on the ground, why is Bird and all of their customers allowed to?
- Comment on Solana Saga smartphone sells for up to $5K on eBay as Bonk frenzy causes sell-out 11 months ago:
I remember when doge coin was a joke and was worth nearly nothing. sigh
- Comment on Reddit moderator rebellion: AI moderation is part of the solution 11 months ago:
Yep. The goal was to kill all the apps to normalize using their crap. Same thing Google is doing with youtube: make adblockers difficult so that paying for YT red is normalized.
- Comment on Reddit moderator rebellion: AI moderation is part of the solution 11 months ago:
Yeah, an AI telling you your post will get deleted sounds like a great way to suppress specific information. Political ideas the mods/admins don't like? Pushing back against right-wing hate? Calling out blatant advertising? I can think of lots of ways this will probably be abused to steer conversations into advertiser-friendly topics.
- Comment on The Insomniac Hack Reveals The Ugly Truth Of Video Game Hype - Aftermath 11 months ago:
Yep. When the industry can cut off the only way for games journalists to reliably make money (pre-release review copies) then they are totally controlled by the industry. A real journalism industry would see one company not given a copy or blacklisted and the refuse to cover their release entirely in solidarity. Otherwise none of them can be trusted.
- Comment on Tesla Tech Allowed An Abusive Husband To Break A Restraining Order, And A San Francisco Judge Sided With The Automaker 11 months ago:
Maybe she didn't have the funds to buy out an expensive car.
- Comment on Comcast Discloses Hackers May Have Stolen Data on 35.9 Million Xfinity Customers 11 months ago:
They have a monopoly is a huge part of the US.
- Comment on Comcast Discloses Hackers May Have Stolen Data on 35.9 Million Xfinity Customers 11 months ago:
Should be a fine of $10,000 per customer whose data was breached. Plus any costs associated from each customer for stolen identities. Plus cost for identity protection services for each customer.
Comcast: we'd go out of business!
Good. Then the government can auction off your infrastructure (really the US's since we paid for most of it) and the next company won't fuck around with data.
- Comment on Why would someone openly say that they oppose human rights? 11 months ago:
I understand. Some people think fetuses are babies, people, at that point. And they see abortion as murder. And if you think a fetus is a person, then it IS murder. It's a completely valid position. Not one I think is correct, but it's easy to see how they get there.
Unfortunately for them, most of those people have so little regard for actual babies and do so little to protect them that their stance rings hollow. And they also aren't willing to extend legal benefits as if they were babies. So their actions contradict their stated values and they aren't taken seriously.
- Comment on Why would someone openly say that they oppose human rights? 11 months ago:
Most people disagree it's a baby. It's still a fetus in the vast majority of cases. All laws agree with that since no laws grant fetuses rights, they merely restrict a woman's choice.
- Comment on Regarding Avocado Toast 11 months ago:
Even then, that's $1.5-$3 for a single meal, plus your cost of toast. Compared to people in cities everywhere getting $5-10 breakfast sandwiches and then $7 coffees, etc. Or just people spending $4/lb on cheap ground beef (that's the ALDI near me, 80/20) to make hamburger, hamburger helper, etc. Avocado toast isn't expensive by any metric.
- Comment on Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final 11 months ago:
He's small time. He's ruining one big-ish social platform. While people like Zuck are ruining many!
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 11 months ago:
The difference is that Tesla said it was autopilot when it's really not. It's also clearly not ready for primetime. And auto regulators have pretty strict requirements about reliability and safety.
While that's true that autonomous cars kill FAR less people than human drivers, ever human is different. If an autonomous driver is subpar and that AI is rolled out to millions of cars, we've vastly lowered safety of cars. We need autonomous cars to be better than the best driver because, frankly, humans are shit drivers.
I'm 100% for autonomous cars taking over entirely. But Tesla isn't really trying to get there. They are trying to sell cars and lying about their capabilities. And because of that, Tesla should be liable for the deaths. We already have them partially liable: this case caused a recall of this feature.
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 11 months ago:
That was the penalty for the felony charge for the driver of the car that ran off the highway into a surface street. It's almost certain that drivers insurance also paid out their maximum.
In addition, Tesla is recalling all those cars to change the system that pretends to ensure a driver using autopilot is actually paying attention.
And a civil suit will likely follow from the 2 victims families.
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 11 months ago:
Holy shit. My car doing that once and I'd be a nervous wreck just thinking about using it again.
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 11 months ago:
Tesla should be playing wrongful death suits every time autopilot kills someone. Their excuses don't excuse the blatant marketing that leads people to believe it's a self driving car.
- Comment on Severe blizzards blanket Moscow in decades-worth of snow, causing chaos on roads 11 months ago:
Lake effect in Great Lakes region. Here's a few feet for your nitecap.
- Comment on xkcd #2868: Label the States 11 months ago:
I like Central Carolina and Kennesaw.