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- Comment on My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate 5 days ago:
Ah interesting!
That explains why I don’t see it!
- Comment on My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate 5 days ago:
I see you took the screenshot on your phone, I just tried it on mine and had no issues getting the proper link, even after updating it as I wrote this comment.
Can you describe more about where you encountered it?
- Comment on My "privacy" browser now adds an extra unique tracking URL to every link that I share, to advertise itself and track the opening rate 5 days ago:
Does this happen when you copypaste the URL?
Because messing with the clipboard is a really scary thing.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO 1 week ago:
PR?
- Comment on Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO 1 week ago:
Some people care more about being remembered as a good person after they have died rather than having the highscore when they die.
Look at Alfred Nobel, the entire reason for creating the Nobel prize was to try and rehabilitate his memory after having invented dynamite.
I could see something similar motivating modern billionaires.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO 1 week ago:
Dear Mr. Bezos, instead of pushing for increased energy use to create more slop, how about making something truly meaningful?
You have the money to do a LOT good, you also have the resources and contact to actually do it.
Here is a suggestion:
Set up a fund with 10 billion USD, have it managed to produce a decent, but predictable return every year.
Take another billion USD, and fund a non-profit organization that will develop the following:
- A semi autonomous garbage collecting boat, powered by solar power.
- A mothership for number 1 with a processing facility that takes the garbage collected by a a fleet of the smaller crafts, basically dry it, filter the water and compact the dry gargabe.
- A high power incinerator at a port that can burn the garbage at a very high temp.
At the end you should have a large fleet of the semi autonomous garbage collectors, a minimum of two motherships and a port side incinerator.
Deploy the garbage collectors and motherships to the great garbage patch and set to work cleaning up the surface.
As the initial funding for the company dries up the funding of the organization should come from the returns of the fund set up earlier.
The organization should accept donations and build more garbage collectors and motherships, and also develop new methods of collecting garbage from the oceans.
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 1 week ago:
But taxing the rich would give them even MORE resources
- Comment on The existence of billionaires is a policy failure 1 week ago:
With higher progressive taxes, not only do we stop billionaires from possibly existing, but the government gets more resources to spend on spaceflight R&D among other things.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 1 week ago:
Like everything in life, most dangers is a matter of quantity.
Listening to music with headphones is a fantastic way to enjoy music, as long as you are reasonable, it is fine to listen to music loud enough to drown out other sounds for periods.
Back in 2022, I got double flat feet, double heel spurs and a bad knee at the same time, walking was agony at the end of the day, so when I had to walk home from the bus stop, I put on some quite loud Sabaton in my headphones, used that to gather strength to move, usually ending up crying hard as I dragged myself up the path to my apartment building.
I still hear ok, sure, I have a bit of bad hearing, but that was something I had found out a decade before.
You won’t go deaf just by listening to music in headphones, they are an important tool in several sectors, especially in music, every live performance artist is wearing in ear monitors these days, they are special headphones that allow the artist to not only hear the other performers and instruments, but also protect their hearing from the extremely loud speakers and crowds at a live event.
Then you have the people working post production, they all wear headphones all day, you have radio DJs, they also wear headphones all day, pilots, air traffic controllers, police, security guards, and similar professions also often wear head phones constantly.
What you are being told about headphones is just fearmongering, but built on a small kernel of truth, loud sounds can and will damage your ears, but that goes for all loud noise, not just headphones.
- Comment on What's a 'common sense' thing that you genuinely don't understand, and have been too embarrassed to ask about until now? 1 week ago:
Thanks, blocked!
- Comment on Contents of Queen's Purse 2 weeks ago:
I remember a documentary about the Queens guard, where they mentioned that she did indeed carry small amounts of cash in her purse.
- Back in 1993 Amtrak ran trial runs with European high-speed trains, Sweden's X2000 and Germany's ICE, here is a well made documentary about the event.youtu.be ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Does anyone know what's inside this building? 2 weeks ago:
Probably
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Several, in hopefully this order:
- Mr. - for a few minutes
- Suspect.
- Prisoner.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 weeks ago:
This is what they will look like for me:
Can’t get smart fridge ads if I don’t get a smart fridge. taps forehead
- Comment on US tech firm Nvidia invests $1bn in Nokia, with sights on next-gen networks for AI 3 weeks ago:
They ended up like Ericson here in Sweden, dropped their handset business to focus on the network side, both Ericson and Nokia are quite successful on that side, especially since the hubub about alleged backdoors in Huawei mobile network equipment a few years back.
- Comment on Nuclear Nightmare is worth every cent (sci-fi horror inspired by The Thing, co-op) 3 weeks ago:
I litterarly just posted a comment about the brilliant BBC documentary Nuclear Nightmares, a documentary about our fear of radiation, you can watch it here:
- Comment on Are you even old enough to remember number 1? 4 weeks ago:
Are you sure it was the T800? I can only find the P800 when googling.
I checks as I had never heard about the T800, but remembered my dad having a P800 for a few years
- Comment on Are you even old enough to remember number 1? 4 weeks ago:
Why would you not include the most epic of Nokia phones, the 3310?
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 4 weeks ago:
Top tip, see if you can get a present box like this, with the printed ribbons it looks really professional.
To print the ribbons I used a Brother label maker with cloth bands you can print on.
One mistake I made was using a sans serif font, a proper serif font like Times New Roman would have looked way classies
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 4 weeks ago:
Well thats what I get when I wake up way too early…
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 4 weeks ago:
The antagonist of the Garfield comic?
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 4 weeks ago:
This is my prepared bottles of rum, dedicated to when I no longer needs to share a planet with these bastards
Currently I have bottles for:
Trump, Putin, Musk, Murdoch and Orban.
The last one is what has been declared “The bottle of the unknown bad guy”, it is meant for when I find out about a person dying and my immediate feeling is “Good riddance”.
- Comment on Condiment udders 4 weeks ago:
I remember having these types of dispensers back in grade school, 30 or do years ago.
- Comment on Donors for Trump’s $300m White House ballroom include Google, Apple and Palantir 4 weeks ago:
I don’t believe they do like the current regime, why would they?
The government is demanding more and more stupid stuff for them to do, taking time and resources from more important tasks.
Creating a more dangerous social climate, causing less people to have enough money to buy their products while increasing cost of material.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 4 weeks ago:
You had to monitor the computer, if any program started or did anything weird, it could cause the entrie disk to be destroyed
- Comment on Donors for Trump’s $300m White House ballroom include Google, Apple and Palantir 4 weeks ago:
You can call it bribes, I call it paying tribute to the king.
The guys know what is going on, they know that their companies futures are in the hands of a vindictive extreme narcissistic idiot of a king. They know that to be left alone they need to pay tribute to the king.
Is it a bribe or a protection racket? Yes, it is.
- Comment on Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain in Richmond 5 weeks ago:
Ok, so you should simply pretend to accidentaly drop the cup next time…
The coffee will end up in the same place, but you won’t be punnished.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 1 month ago:
I buy individual songs on iTunes, I can back them up without DRM to my NAS.
I dislike the entire concept of renting my music.
Since I started using an iPhone back in 2016, I have bought 781 songs, songs that I don’t have to pay to access.
- Comment on Teens charged with murder after deaths of Melbourne boys refuse to attend court 1 month ago:
Why did they get the option to not attend?
