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- Comment on Pray they don't alter it any further 16 hours ago:
Netflix baited me into a “new” sci-fi horror show. When it got to the end I looked up when the next season would be out.
Not only was it cancelled, it was cancelled without conclusion ten years ago.
Apparently it was only “new” to Netflix, but that didn’t stop them pushing it as new content.
- Comment on Pray they don't alter it any further 16 hours ago:
I still have Netflix, the streaming landscape is marginally less fragmented here. But fucking hell is it a bizarre chore just trying to find where on the home page “continue watching” and “my list” are today.
- Comment on The AMOC is based on the difference in the percentage of salt in the northern and southern hemispheres' ocean water which is based on the stream's circulation 2 weeks ago:
Schouldn’t
- Comment on KHAAAANNNNN!!! 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t realise dark owls were such a problem for early humanity
- Comment on histories mysteries 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) 3 weeks ago:
Avoiding spyware doesn’t mean you’re opposed to labor-saving technology
They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices. “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,” says Binfield, “and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages. Those were their only concerns.”
- Comment on [BBC News] Claims that smart motorways tech leaves drivers at risk 3 weeks ago:
The agency’s operational control director Andrew Page-Dove says action was being taken to “close the gap between how drivers feel and what the safety statistics show”.
This sounds like a threat
- Comment on weed 3 weeks ago:
Are y’all referring to native plants ad weeds? I use it pretty much synonymously with “invasive species”
- Comment on I want daylight savings time to end. Who do I whinge to? 4 weeks ago:
aussie.zone/post/8630436 Unfortunately Australians largely disagree somehow
- Comment on ⌛⌛ 1 month ago:
I am sorry for insulting your people
- Comment on Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers 1 month ago:
It’s not clear from your post whether you’ve read the article. In case you haven’t, it’s not really about printers.
- Comment on ⌛⌛ 1 month ago:
Oh look there’s a whole Wikipedia page on it
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_glass
Possibly an accidental byproduct of metal working
- Comment on ⌛⌛ 1 month ago:
Maybe tektites? Natural glass formed when lightning strikes sand. I only remember the name because they share it with the jumpy spiders from Zelda
- Comment on Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers 1 month ago:
I appreciate the ambiguity in your comment created by the missing pronoun.
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- Comment on Linux share on Steam bounces back to nearly 2% for March 2024 1 month ago:
Consent has no relationship with technical ease.
I don’t know that Steam doesn’t record it anyway, but sharing OS is explicitly part of the data they show you that they will take if you agree to the Steam survey, which certainly implies they’re not doing so if you don’t consent.
The website situation is (arguably) different, as a User Agent is something your browser is giving the website on your behalf (in theory). From the website’s perspective, you are voluntarily sharing that information and any issues with that are between you and your browser.
- Comment on Police stopped Brad on his morning walk for wearing a hoodie. Ten minutes later, he was dead 1 month ago:
The inquest heard that due to shortages, only Officer B took a body camera that day, but did not wear it for any of the searches he conducted. He told the inquest his priority was “to get out of the car quickly due to the way Bradley was walking”.
If we ever want to be able to have a just police force, this sort of thing needs to be considered sufficient evidence of intent to commit a crime. Either you have a body camera on, *or you are a civilian
The whole the article is incredibly damning; an illegal stop, a “proactive policing” policy which can so obviously only ever lead to injustice, violation of the right to walk away, targeting without sufficient evidence, police lying about callouts on the radio
- Comment on turkey pot pies 2 months ago:
Where I’m from “mince pie” is dried fruit and spices, while “mince” is equivalent to the US ground beef (or less commonly other meats), and a “meat pie” is made from beef mince.
It made for frustrating Christmasses as a child because mini meat pies (“party pies”) are delicious and available at every other celebration.
- Comment on turkey pot pies 2 months ago:
Then I take it back. I have never been as disappointed as the first time I was offered a “mince” pie
- Comment on turkey pot pies 2 months ago:
This meme does meat pies dirty (unless “mincemeat pie” is one of those horribly deceptive terms like “mince pie”)
- Comment on I see your Outlook (new) and I raise you Microsoft Teams classic (work or school) 2 months ago:
Who could have ever guessed that naming different software the same thing would ever come back to bite them
- Comment on Transportation 2 months ago:
Oh man I thought I understood the whole joke but missed the “cell wall” pun
- Comment on Are We Watching The Internet Die? 2 months ago:
Will we ever stop referring to the Web as “the Internet”?
- Comment on Horseshoe theory 2 months ago:
This reads like it was written by an LLM
- Comment on STEM 2 months ago:
I would argue our society disproportionately economically rewards TE fields and S&M (no not like that) get lip service because if they didn’t get a mention it would be far too obvious how disconnected economic value is from societal value
- Comment on What the actual f*** is this Rockstar? 5 months ago:
I stumbled on this recently
I can hardly claim to know enough about captchas to weigh up the cost / benefit, but I was delighted to come across a captcha that didn’t try to force me to train an AI
- Comment on What the actual f*** is this Rockstar? 5 months ago:
I’ve had to do a lot of Jira captchas over time. They were so horribly ambiguous that I had a failure rate of about one in two. So I tried the audio captcha and was met with the sound of a demon being murdered and nothing else.