JackbyDev
@JackbyDev@programming.dev
Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.
- Comment on Anon gains a superpower 3 hours ago:
But do we have reason to believe that it’s not just giving them lies to get them to touch it? Is it tempting because it can do things or is it tempting because it tells people it can do things?
- Comment on respect dandelions! 6 hours ago:
- Comment on Anon gains a superpower 9 hours ago:
Is there textual evidence for it granting powers other than invisibility and immortality though? I see this topic come up every few years and my recollection is that it typically sort of comes back to “we aren’t sure.”
- Comment on Anon gains a superpower 11 hours ago:
The ring tells people lies though, no?
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 18 hours ago:
My S3 is garbage. I only wanted to try and stream videos to it (without motion tracking) but even that seems too hard.
- Comment on I'd choose 4 tbh 23 hours ago:
You can be happy and sad at the same time. It doesn’t say you can’t be sad.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 1 day ago:
I have an old Gear VR and a Samsung S3. I don’t believe there is any way to use it today. It wants to connect to Facebook to log in, but their auth token has expired.
- Comment on I have finished comedy 1 day ago:
What’s the meaning of hinge henge!?
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 day ago:
Getting done with my work 10% faster means I have more free time. It’s not the complicated. If you’re hourly or self employed then the amount of time you work is more directly correlated with your pay than when your salaried. On a salary you get an amount of work to complete and are expected to complete it, however long it takes. Time manipulation abilities give you more bang for your buck in that scenario. If you’re hourly it’s actively worse. If you’re selling your work directly then you still have to complete more things to get more cash. I’m more interested in improving my quality of life by getting more free time.
Like if I could work twice as fast, I don’t wanna do twice as much work in a day. I’d rather work 8 hours and have 20 hours of off time than work 16 hours and have 16 hours of off time.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 day ago:
Every time you fast forward through something, the remote will remember it and always fast forward through that thing happening. While you’re fast forwarding you’ll be in auto pilot and give boring monotone responses to questions asked.
They should make a movie about that.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 day ago:
Everyone is already mortal. Nothing changes.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 day ago:
Still useful. Even if you only get like 10% more time during working periods that’s still a nice boost. Especially if you’re salaried.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 day ago:
As a third party ref I am ruling that this does give you the ability to talk in Mandarin while in a non-human form.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 day ago:
But,
- Comment on On trees... 2 days ago:
So trees are the “evolve to crabs” meme and wood is like a crab shell. Or, I guess just exoskeleton, because things that aren’t crabs also have hard shells.
- Comment on Is a DRM-Free Ebook always better than a physical book? 2 days ago:
Depends on the file format.
- Comment on On trees... 2 days ago:
Are at least all woody plants related?
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 days ago:
You’re right, and Anubis was the solution they used. I just wanted to mention the IP thing because you did is all.
I hadn’t heard about Anubis before this thread. It’s cool! The idea of wasting some of my “resources” to get to a webpage sucks, but I guess that’s the reality we’re in. If it means a more human oriented internet then it’s worth it.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 days ago:
So many companies let perfect become the enemy of good and it’s insane. Recently some discussion about trying to get our team to use a consistent formatting scheme devolved into this type of thing. If the thing being proposed is better than what we currently have, let’s implement it as is then if you have concerns about ways to make it better let’s address those later in another iteration.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 days ago:
They said this tool is useless because of how trivial it is to work around.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 days ago:
Leave your doors unlocked at home then. If your lock stops anyone, they weren’t good thieves to begin with. 🙄
- Comment on you are now witnessing the peak of online discourse 3 days ago:
Because you said it’s hardly a Lemmy thing when the screenshot is from Reddit lmao
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 days ago:
No, I don’t think blocking IP ranges will be effective (except in very specific scenarios). See this comment referencing a blog post about this happening and the traffic was coming from a variety of residential IP allocations. lemm.ee/comment/20684186
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 3 days ago:
I hate this argument. All cyber security is an arms race. If this helps small site owners stop small bot scrapers, good. Solutions don’t need to be perfect.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 5 days ago:
What about them?
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 5 days ago:
Obviously, I’m not saying you’re obligated to. I’m saying if you want to financially support them donations are better.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 6 days ago:
PSA, whenever someone asks you to buy something for a fundraiser just donate instead. Especially if you don’t want what they’re selling. They’ll get 100% of that instead of like… I honestly don’t even know, but it can’t be more than 25%.
- Comment on Cut up those shitposts 6 days ago:
Around the time of the first Reddit exodus there was the person who said they needed to not poo for three days and was wondering what to do about it. Then there were bean memes but that’s not really unique to Lemmy. Recently there was the one where everyone made German jokes because Americans can’t read them when we come online.
- Comment on Cut up those shitposts 6 days ago:
Poop knife was a meme about something else, but to answer you, this is how you can do it.
- Flush.
- Get a strip of toilet paper.
- Lay it such that it is over the poo on the edge and also in the water.
- Because you recently flushed and the end is in water, the entire strip of toilet paper should now be wet and clinging to the edge.
- Flush again. The toilet paper gets sucked and/or pushed down and should get the poo with it.
- Comment on No we can talk here 6 days ago:
But is this even plagiarism of Terry Pratchett? Every reply seems to mention different books and that it’s not from them. Unless this is a quote from Terry Pratchett it isn’t plagiarism. Two pieces of media can be similar and not be plagiarism.