brax
@brax@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 1 day ago:
I don’t even think they care about image. That was early-game for them. Now they’ve scooped so much data on people that they could probably close Facebook and still manage to track people based on metadata and shadow profiles.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 1 day ago:
I honestly don’t even think advertisers give a shit anymore. If people keep buying what they’re pushing, all they see is dollar signs. If anything, the whole “advertiser doesn’t like this” thing is just some sort of scapegoat.
Like, look at YouTube - you’re telling me that somehow the company pushing some products that nobody gives a fuck about is horribly offended because a guy in a video said “Shitfuck McPussyCock” three seconds in; but they have no issue with the hatred, misinformation spreading, and general stupidity of people like Tim Poole, Ben Shapiro, Crowder, and that other dipshit with the beard and glasses (whose name I have actually thankfully forgotten)?
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 2 days ago:
Instagram is also owned by Meta… so I’m not sure why there’s any surprise there.
Next up, WhatsApp will probably require a full contact sync or something lol.
- Comment on To join Facebook these days, one must record a video selfie 2 days ago:
There’s no way they want to combat bots. You report bot content and they’re like “nah, this doesn’t go against our community guidelines” all the fucking time.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 2 days ago:
I agree with him on a lot of the tech stuff, but there’s some subtle hints of shit that I can’t consciously place that really bother me.
I really started to notice it when he was looking for a new location - the way that he talked to and about some people and things in those videos bothered me. Likewise, the way he moved to a red state because it meant he could pay less in taxes and shit. There’s something more but I can’t put my finger on it.
- Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 4 days ago:
Why are the notable ones all European/Oceanic?
Also hilarious that the only American one is also the only one that mentions sewage spilling out because of it.
I thought America was #1. Up your game, USA. Get those fatburgs going!
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 4 days ago:
Angles have not been proven to exist, so I guess 0 and ∞.
If you can find proof of angels existing, then we would need to have more specifics:
- how big are the angels?
- what type of pin are you curious about? A fabric pin, for example, is much thinner than a pushpin.
- what style of dance might they be doing? A line dance would require significantly more space than, say, the Macarena.
We’d also need to find out if angels are solids, or if they could pass through eachother as that could reduce the space they need and alter the answer significantly.
Not sure what point you’re trying to make - people come from all walks of life… A stupid question to me may not be a stupid question to everyone else.
Would you know how to survive like a Sentinelese?
Could you tell me how to export a list of packages I have installed on my computer using pacman and yay so I can batch install them after wiping my computer?
Could you tell me the typical directory where I could find the word.dot file for any user?
Would you know why you can’t mix DOT2 and DOT3 but you can mix DOT3 and DOT4?
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 4 days ago:
What is “women around me, described using math terms only”?
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 4 days ago:
How is that a stupid question though? Does the average person know that a Klein Bottle is a surface with zero volume?
Maybe they were wondering if it was no ship will ever fit or every ship ever made is would be in it at the same time?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Succinctly it means “I’m going to get rid of you by restricting your ability to get near me, whether by your own will, or physical assault/death.”
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 1 week ago:
Banks are the fucking worst for this. I assume it’s because they’re built on some 500 year old CICS mainframe.
- Comment on If my county passes a new tax for um lets say a new jail. They staff it and build it and everything with the tax money. How come it seems the tax is there forever? Why not get rid of it when built? 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t they need to continue to collect taxes in order to fund maintenance and staff wages?
- Comment on Why do we tolerate it that Luigi Mangione is being held in prison. We know its absolutely the least safe place he can be? 2 weeks ago:
Imagine people getting diagnosed with terminal cancer forming an army?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You know, you are technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.
I respect your technical smartass response to my technical smartass check attempt.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If you are in North America and you draw a line straight up, will you reach the sky in Australia?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I find way too many people talking about “common sense” as if that was even a thing. It frustrates me to no end.
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 5 weeks ago:
New club hit just dropped
“I like my ment tall
With feet that are small”Untz untz untz untz
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
I was actually surprised to see some of it baked into Plasma - the jello windows, the desktop cube, the “explode the window when I close it” and a few other things.
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 5 weeks ago:
With all the political shit going on these days, it baffles me why companies continue to use anything that stores data in cloud servers owned by American companies. I don’t care where the data centres actually are, the parent company is foreign and aside from “trust me bro” I’m not sure what else is preventing them from snooping sensitive information.
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 5 weeks ago:
The thing that used to always piss me off was when you tried to upscale stuff in Photoshop and it looked perfect. Then you bit enter and it anti-aliases the absolute fuck out of it. Like what?!
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure I follow. LibreOffice is at least as good (if not better) than Offics365 unless maybe if you’re doing advanced shit in Excel, or need specifically coded macros.
Considering Microsoft’s push to make everything into a webwrapped application, I think LibreOffice is only going to be a better and better alternative as time moves on.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
Same though haha. I liked the ability to stick a window to the back of another window. I used to have Pidgin chats on one side, and the contact list on the other.
These days it could be handy to have a browser on side and an incognito on session on the other. Could also be handy if you launch a program from the terminal but you want to keep an eye on it, you could stick its terminal behind it.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
I switched over to Floorp a month or so ago - it’s pretty good. My only gripes are:
- The tabs are really hard to distinguish between the active tab and the inactive tabs
- If you have session stuff in the sidebar, it seems to “forget” about it and I constantly have to sign into stuff.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
The other day I set up a shell script on my phone that I can hook into with Tasker. I share a YouTube link to it and I can rip the audio to my music folder, or the video to my videos folder. Basically, I can turn YouTube videos into podcasts on the fly.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
Microsoft “Why do you need folders when you can just dump everything in the root of the folder!” OneDrive
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
I love that Joplin covers all grounds - all the way down to a terminal-based version. I’ve been thinking about switching over to it from Vimwiki
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
It’s been around for like ever. Used to be called XMBC
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
I remember fucking around with Compiz back when it was still called Beryl. It was I think just before Window Vista came out? My computer was too shit for Vista, but had no problem with Beryl - wobbly windows, app previews when you hover the taskbar icon, stackable windows, desktop cube, etc.
- Comment on If trump shaved his head and didn't wear any makeup do you think you would recognize him? 1 month ago:
That neck vulva tho…
- Comment on Is there a good way to import/export/migrate playlists between platforms? 1 month ago:
A few years ago I used the Spotipy Python library to poke at Spotify’s API. I was able to scrape my playlists into CSVs with it.
If I cared more, I could probably hit up YouTube with those CSVs and try to make playlists on there out of them, but I never got that far lol