ViatorOmnium

@ViatorOmnium@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leave it to a Bezos-owned company to confuse customers and mislead them for profit.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the more a news source depends on ads revenue the shittier it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When life gives ya lemons.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tree Shrews also seem to enjoy it. Though they have a genetic mutation that makes them less sensitive to capcasin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Periodic reminder to get your library cards and fill out museum surveys.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you happen to live in Berlin, Vöbb's digital subscription is 10 euros year but it gets you things like statista and pressreader that would would cost hundreds of euros per month combined.

  And if you don't it's possible your local library also has a similar offer.

  A well run library is an amazing thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The trick is reading checkboxes before pressing them.

  I don't know what people expected the option

  ☐ Make this chat discoverable

  Allows it to be shown in web searches

  to do.

  I also don't know why it would have been implemented in the first place, but at least it was very clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quokkas!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus fuking upside down Christ!

  Do we need to unleash the emus to cull the Australians population again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zero-hours contracts: Peers accused of ‘trying to block stronger UK workers’ rights’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  said the Lords was “doing the bidding of bad bosses” and ought to “get out of the way” of the plans.

  I think someone didn't notice who the "lords" are yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Off topic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hyperrealistic acting also doesn't help. Lots of actors insist of mumbling in a way that makes it hard to understand even if in a cinema.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I try to spice it up with some VB Macros but it's still ultimately just a spreadsheet.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not both. I once wrote an abomination that read and wrote data into a Google Spreadsheet, interacting with formulas in the spreadsheet in the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that an "Americans are big tech's guinea pigs" kind of thing? I still didn't get any video ruined by a dubbing AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It's almost like most customers prefer function over form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨See their point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I listen to almost everything except what I listened at 14. At some point I figured out my peers had terrible musical taste and I started listening to what I actually enjoy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This comic hung in my office for years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Journalists are not the source of the claim the LLMs are the path to AGI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They are hoping people are going to be afraid of being caught with one. (yeah, idiots)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the manufacturer and seller are in China and they want to make an example out of someone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'A game, once sold, belongs to the customer': Prominent EU politician stands up for Stop Killing Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was Nicolae Ștefănuță from the Greens–European Free Alliance which was always going to be one of the political groups more likely to support this initiative.

  We need to convince MEPs in the PES and EPP to really get a directive approved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents urged to get children vaccinated after measles death in Liverpool⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If a child dies of measles in a school all parents of all unvaccinated kids at school should be jailed for manslaughter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨you miss all the shots you don't take⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes more sense when you consider that reviewing papers is expected but not remunerated, while scientific newspapers charge readers an extortionate fee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Tesla Tries to Crash into Oncoming Traffic On The Highway… Again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point I'm assuming everyone turning on Tesla's self driving is trying to commit murder-suicide with a side of life insurance fraud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So does not allowing food companies to sprinkle lead and uranium in food. What's the point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The reactions to the Satanic Temple using pro-religion laws, and social media posts about public displays of established religions like Muslim prayers, show that most Americans do not approve displays of any religion except their own. With that in mind, the reasonable compromise is that there shouldn't be religious displays inside of state institutions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How would most people react if that was a group of Muslims? Or if the Satanic Church tried to do a small prayer there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If any work it's a bug. "Dating" apps don't want to be dating apps, they want to be hookup apps because that's how they can keep repeat customers.
  The only way dating apps would remain dating apps under for profit companies is if they found a way to charge a subscription for long term relationships.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nudify app’s plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, docs show⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That's the thing, Software Engineers have choices.

  Yes, all big companies will do some dubious things.

  But then you have big tech that does all those dubious things and is also breaking democratic institutions everywhere with a sledgehammer.

  And then you have Palentir, which are literally Hollywood movie villains.

  At this point they are light years of their livelihood depending on it. There's no way they don't notice where the bombs are falling, they had plenty of time to look around and have decided they don't care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nudify app’s plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, docs show⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They have two types of people:

  • Software Engineers and Computer Scientists that don't care who gets hurt as long as they get to work on their interesting problem. I call them the Wernher von Braun club.
  • The ones that are also prospective customers

  The Venn Diagram might be close to a circle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let’s Encrypt ends certificate expiry emails to cut costs, boost privacy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That's why monitoring and digital calendars exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Fairphone turns into a dumbphone at the flick of a switch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with most dumphone modes is that "normal" Phone and SMS (RCS makes the latter better, but your provider needs to support it, and it usually adds one more Google dependency) are useless if your social network extends past one country, and that's not that uncommon in Europe. I would need to at least be able to include Signal for it to work for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Repost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes classics are classics for a reason. And by classics I mean crabs 🦀.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah failed successfully⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Relevant comic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Dairy Queen sell food?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Amd they need to do something with calves. Cows only produce milk after giving birth, and dairy producers are not going to keep a freeloader around. /s