desmosthenes
@desmosthenes@lemmy.world
pragmatic, multidisciplinary creative & full stack dev. I tweet & make art, dev, design, politics; play path of exile. https://marko.tech
- Comment on Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says 2 days ago:
I did too but seems it’s a yearly subscription with a half year left
- Comment on Apple quietly released this year's BEST laptop 4 days ago:
that’s some serious performance
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 4 days ago:
then again google maps and waze already do this too
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 4 days ago:
/uninstall
- Comment on Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots 1 week ago:
and I’ve replaced amazon with normal shopping
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 1 week ago:
80 on 80 or gtfo
- Comment on Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants an AI agent in every board meeting 1 week ago:
sad to see I’ll never buy logitech again. gotta tell all the walmart homies not to either
- Comment on Steam Next Fest is back for October 2025. What good demos have you found? 2 weeks ago:
rome burns and nero fiddles - i’m no exception
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 3 weeks ago:
fuck google for spyware google play services and severe integration of them into android thiugh ^^
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 3 weeks ago:
walk fast, carry stickers
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 3 weeks ago:
that’d be a nope from me
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 weeks ago:
<3 graphic designers unite
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 weeks ago:
^ this
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 weeks ago:
fan subs are best
- Comment on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information 3 weeks ago:
I ended up building my own ingestor and discovery (finds RSS feeds ancross the web, adds it to a queue for me to review) application with over 15k sources and always growing. I serve the content through a public front end if anyone is interested: startyparty.dev - all articles link out to their sources. all media plays in the app.
- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 3 weeks ago:
on google based phones if using google services, the product is you
- Comment on Musk becomes first person to hit $500 billion net worth, Forbes list shows 4 weeks ago:
sycophants riding them coat tails; enablers scratching each others backs in a small circle
- Comment on Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before" 4 weeks ago:
they gotta make that 55b back now
- Comment on Scientists Studied the Genes of a Woman Who Lived 117 Years. Here's What They Learned 4 weeks ago:
“three servings of yogurt she reportedly ate every day”
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 4 weeks ago:
man’s paid for the antichrist to be president
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 4 weeks ago:
they don’t make good games anymore anyway
- Comment on Memecoins Are Coming to the Stock Market 5 weeks ago:
fall of democracy; thanks crypto ai bros
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 5 weeks ago:
- www.gutenberg.org
- openlibrary.org
- www.planetebook.com
- archive.org
- www.smashwords.com
- books.google.com
- www.freetechbooks.com
- www.getfreebooks.com
- www.openculture.com/free_ebooks
- www.goodreads.com
- www.oreilly.com (trial)
- annas-archive.org
- pdfcoffee.com
- singlelogin.re
- www.ereaderiq.com/freebies/
- www.bookbub.com/ebook-deals/free-ebooks
- digilibraries.com
- www.overdrive.com
- manybooks.net
there’s so many others and of course torrents
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 5 weeks ago:
calibre ftw always and forever
- Comment on Nearly 3 in 5 American workers say they're behind on retirement savings. The other two are working until they drop dead 5 weeks ago:
yup
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X calls for delay in Australia’s child social media ban citing ‘serious concerns’ about policy’s lawfulness 5 weeks ago:
same reason tich folk buy and run media and press companies
- Comment on YSK How to opt out of LinkedIn using your profile to train generative AI 5 weeks ago:
my hero
- Comment on Billy from the retro gaming YouTube channel The Game Chasers has passed away 5 weeks ago:
RIP :(
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
hell no
- Comment on [DISC] Berserk - Ch. 383 - Anadi-avidya 1 month ago:
holy shittttttt