adarza
@adarza@lemmy.ca
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 3 days ago:
i run with scripts disabled by default. it gets annoying at times, but most sites and pages i go to work fine. a few are true ‘apps’ and are whitelisted. random sites that don’t work i just search for an alternative source if i really want to read it. i have separate browser installs with fewer restrictions that i use specifically for certain things (like webmail or the little online shopping i do).
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 3 days ago:
website wouldn’t need to embed any JS code.
other than the 20 trackers and ad scripts.
- Comment on My T-shirt size is L 5 weeks ago:
so, you’re logged in, have a purchase history that includes clothing, and azn is trying to make a sizing recommendation?
- Comment on Amazon vows to crack down on piracy on its Fire TV Stick range 1 month ago:
they aren’t “cracking down on piracy”. they’re mad that a relatively small portion of their userbase is using their cheap devices to stream third-party content that they make no money off of–and so they’re trying to shut down that functionality.
they’re moving away from android anyway, so newer revisions of their hardware won’t have this same ‘problem’
- Comment on YouTube is expanding its ad-blocking powers — closes loopholes that allowed some users to bypass restrictions 1 month ago:
yt-dlp
it or a front-end to it is always #2 on the list of applications to install on my own new os installs–right behind firefox.
i don’t use yt much, but it’s sure nice to have. i can just drag over or copy/paste urls or video id right from a serp and never have to give google a even single page view.
- Comment on News of the day 1 month ago:
anything that comes in a box.
- Comment on Every news result on duckduckgo links to MSN 1 month ago:
here when i search for something or someone ‘newsworthy’ i get links to other sites ahead of msn, those links do go to the expected sites, and the favicons (that are all msn in the posted image) are also correct. in fact, only one first page out of the five searches i tried even had an msn link at all–at #9.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is in Talks With Government Over Amtrak Project 2 months ago:
more of biden’s infrastructure bill money to steal… congressionally approved and allocated money. early site prep has already begun, even.
letting muskrat anywhere near this has great potential to really fuck-up the entire northeast corridor for a decade or two–or longer, for passengers and freight.
- Comment on There Is No ‘Energy Emergency,’ a New Lawsuit Claims | In suit, 15 Dem states called Trump’s declaration illegal & federal agencies are rushing permits for fossil fuel projects under false pretenses 2 months ago:
well the tech billionaires didn’t “donate” that money to the “inauguration fund”. it was investments. plentiful and cheap power for data centers is one of the returns they expect.
- Comment on There Is No ‘Energy Emergency,’ a New Lawsuit Claims | In suit, 15 Dem states called Trump’s declaration illegal & federal agencies are rushing permits for fossil fuel projects under false pretenses 2 months ago:
‘false pretenses’ is basically a subtitle for the entire administration
- Comment on Broke again, me hearties 2 months ago:
more like ‘day 1’ on the left, and ‘day 2-14’ on the right.
- Comment on E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program 2 months ago:
One of the most successful voluntary initiatives introduced by the U.S. government, the program has saved 5 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity, more than US$500 billion in energy costs, and prevented 4 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
- Comment on Pinterest users left confused by mass account suspensions 2 months ago:
did someone let an ‘ai’ mod tool loose over there?
- Comment on Trump orders Corporation for Public Broadcasting to end federal funding for NPR and PBS 2 months ago:
and the cpb was set up by congress specifically in a way that denies the president the ability to do shit like this.
- Comment on Me when I zoom past traffic on my e-scooter 2 months ago:
make the overhead train a 12 lane freeway and it’s any random metrohell in texas.
- Comment on What is this for? (Wrong answers only) 2 months ago:
it’s the emergency water dish for the dog. looks a little low, better fill it up a bit.
- Comment on OMG no please don’t call me. 2 months ago:
when a company puts its reps at a disadvantage by always being grossly understaffed and having hour+ wait times… who’s the ‘horrible’ people? the company or the caller?
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 2 months ago:
it’s just sensible. if you take from one end, you run the risk of unexpectedly grabbing the ‘light end’ and accidentally dropping the partial carton on the floor next time you take it out of the fridge.
- Comment on Anon dreams of onigiri 2 months ago:
anon really, really likes japanese rice balls.
- Comment on I will step on you and spill your food, my small friend 2 months ago:
AtLeastTheyPutASpaceBetweenEachWord
- Comment on Sitting on the toilet 2 months ago:
and then there’s the filthy-rich who may have a designated ‘butt washer’ on the payroll.
- Comment on *Doesn't look like anything to me.* 2 months ago:
all entirely whole pepperoni slices and far too many of them to be mass-market or chain pizza… and no burnt bits anywhere. it wasn’t even modeled after a real slice.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 months ago:
and if you manage to evade physical harm, sickness will surely catch up with you. the black death was not a ‘one and done’ pandemic. it lingered and persisted here-and-there for centuries after the widespread pandemic (known today simply as ‘the plague’) that claimed 50m+ lives, including half of europe’s population at the time
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' finera;l 2 months ago:
drowsy donnie.
- Comment on Need a tiebreaker 2 months ago:
you’re gonna need to go two-tone. even tossing just an empty tp tube into either runs the risk of the bag breaking.
- Comment on Academic email signatures 2 months ago:
with what little email i send these days, this is me. i come from the era where every byte mattered, and i tend to keep mails as short, direct and to the point as i can.
- Comment on Believe It Or Not, Black Licorice 3 months ago:
‘once you go black…’
- Comment on What's a highly-rated, critically acclaimed TV series that you couldn't get into, or have no interest in? 3 months ago:
the first season of ones like survivor, bb, tar, were better than every season after. before all the strategies and stuff got worked out. it was ‘new’ to you and to those on the shows. now it’s just same-old, same-old every single season.
- Comment on Comma use guide 3 months ago:
works great when verbally giving someone a phone number… almost always messes 'em up. instead of usual cadence of ‘312, 867, 5309’… try something different like ‘312, 86, 75, 309’ or ‘3128, 675, 309’.
- Comment on What's a highly-rated, critically acclaimed TV series that you couldn't get into, or have no interest in? 3 months ago:
the office. the documentary/handheld camera style cinematography is nauseating to watch. see also: parks & rec and similarly-shot titles.