_MusicJunkie

@_MusicJunkie@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The problem with GIMP⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll use the cliche meme of “I was today years old when I learned where the name comes from”. Just made the connection when I read this article, and I love Pulp Fiction.

  But I too am not a native English speaker. Just always accepted the clunky acronym as the reason for the name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ASML and TSMC Can Remotely Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember a talk a few years ago where someone engineered controlled detonations to destroy a single server in a rack without damaging any surrounding equipment. Was pretty fun to follow the engineering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily discussion thread: Sunday. Where did the time go? ⌚⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello Melbourneians? Melbourneites? Person from almost the other side of the world here.

  How come this community is so active on Lemmy? I haven’t seen any other city pop up on my feed as often as yours. You regularly get more than a hundred comments each day in these discussion threads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube’s ad blocker problems are just an AdBlock Plus bug⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the traffic plummets, YouTube wins. Serving content to ad-blocking users only costs them money. They don’t want those users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be bowled over if any el stations had them.

  I like that expression, I’m going to steal that.

  These train displays haven’t changed in probably 30 years here. Vienna also has a bunch ofthese public clocks on big intersections and squares.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? Where are you located? I walk past three clocks on the way from my office to the metro station alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You probably don't need a VPN⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s the thing. When that Video was made, almost all of the advertising was focused on the same BS the article is disagreeing with.

  I remember lots of NordVPN ads by uninformed nontechnical creators just reading the provided script. Saying that Balaklava wearing hackers will steal your credit card data just by being in the same cafe as you, and only an expensive VPN subscription can protect you from that.

  This sort of advertising is what Tom Scott critizied back then. IIRC he even said that there are real use cases, but that you shouldn’t believe the fearmongering. Same as the article.

  The fearmongering advertising was the problem, not advertising the service itself.