slazer2au
@slazer2au@lemmy.world
- Comment on moms rule 5 hours ago:
The lengths Americans will go to in order not to use the metric system is insane.
- Comment on Amazon to close Quebec facilities, but says it's not because of that new union 6 hours ago:
“Following a recent review of our Quebec operations,” the company said in a statement, “we found that returning to a third-party delivery model supported by local small businesses, similar to the one we had until 2020, will enable us to offer the same excellent service and deliver even greater savings to our customers in the long term.”
It’s cheaper for us to pay someone else to not pay a livable wage then it is for us to pay living wages to our employees.
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 23 hours ago:
No that was patched months ago.
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 1 day ago:
Fortinet dropped an out of band patch for 7.2 today. Which means there is either a critical but or CVE that they haven’t announced yet. Yay…
- Comment on How can I determine how much to contribute to charity to reduce US federal taxes? 1 day ago:
I agree it is a bit reductionist but when people say ‘give money to charity because you can claim it off your taxes’ that is also reductionism.
- Comment on How can I determine how much to contribute to charity to reduce US federal taxes? 1 day ago:
Yep, you are spending $1 to save yourself ~$0.45
- Comment on People who live in hot climates, how do you deal with the heat? 3 days ago:
By pretending it isn’t happening by being distracted by video games
- Comment on Large Language Models in Video Games? 3 days ago:
We won’t see large language models. We will likely see a stripped down version like a small language model (or Domain Specific models if you want the fancy marketing wank term) because a NPC in a fantasy game doesn’t need to know about 13th century Europe or 19th century Asia.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
may be banned in Saudi Arabia due to its inclusion of LGBTQ content.
No shock there.
- Comment on How is TikTok being blocked in the US? 4 days ago:
A publicly listed VPN provider would be a huge red flag. No matter what they said, their primary commitment would be to shareholders.
- Comment on Investigating USB-to-Ethernet Dongles With “Malware” Claims 4 days ago:
TL;DR
It’s not malware. The sandboxes flagging this as malware are doing it because the dongle is installing a driver. Like it should do.
Erik Parker did a vidoe reverse engineering the installer and shows the driver doing what it should.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY87l_uSIuA - Comment on How is TikTok being blocked in the US? 4 days ago:
Generally the large ISP will receive an order to sinkhole the tt domains for their users. And most normal people use a modem supplied by the ISP it will use the ISP DNS server or their phones will use the mobile providers DNS servers.
It will not block a determined person but it will effectively block it for a large chunk of the US internet.
- Comment on Nintendo stock falls after mixed reaction from Switch 2 announcement 5 days ago:
You could say it is falling because the announcement didn’t meet investors expectations but we must never use that as a gauge of success.
- Comment on Nintendo stock falls after mixed reaction from Switch 2 announcement 5 days ago:
They always do. I remember when EA shares dropped by like 3% in a day after an announcement about a game people were like " it’s the end of EA". But then you look at the graph beyond a week and it was still up be several percent.
- Comment on Nintendo stock falls after mixed reaction from Switch 2 announcement 5 days ago:
This is not big daddy N loosing a bunch of money, this is a market correction. People purchased shares 2 days ago expecting an announcement and the price has returned to normal
finance.yahoo.com/quote/NTDOY/?guccounter=1
The shares were at 15.56 and are now at 14.81.
It is still up 2% over the past week, 6% over the last 6 months, an 8.5% over the last year, and a whopping 51% over the last 5 years.
- Comment on General thread 5 days ago:
Reminds me of Stargate Atlantis
- Comment on Is there an equivalent of solar panels for radio waves? 5 days ago:
Somewhere hereish
- Comment on Is there an equivalent of solar panels for radio waves? 5 days ago:
The amount of free air loss would be horrific. Spend the money on a subsea power cable at that point.
- Comment on Is there an equivalent of solar panels for radio waves? 5 days ago:
Isn;t this essentially near field charging like Qi Charging?
- Comment on 6 days ago:
No. You can replicate someones art style.
- Comment on PC Gaming Has Been Outperforming Console For Years - And It's Getting Stronger 6 days ago:
No, just Skyrim
- Comment on Why is Tesla market cap so high ? 1 week ago:
It depends but sometimes they do. Like if a vc takes a public company private it generally takes all shares or if another public company takes over they will exchange the shares for their own. A recent example Broadcom purchased VMware
VMware shareholders will elect to receive either $142.50 in cash or 0.2520 shares of Broadcom common stock for each VMware share.
- Comment on Why is Tesla market cap so high ? 1 week ago:
You assume market cap is a metric that would be used to determine if a company is doing well.
When really market cap is just the share price times the number of shares.
What gives the shares value? The expectation that someone else will purchase it at a price it is being offered at.
- Comment on Do you wish that you could recycle games? 1 week ago:
I’ve learned that over in the EU, people can actually re-sell their games on Steam.
Going to need your source on that mate.
- Comment on Germany’s four-day work week proves to be a massive hit 1 week ago:
Reports from the trial showed that the frequency and duration of meetings was reduced by 60%, which makes sense to anyone who works in an office – many meetings could have been a simple email.
You don’t say.
- Comment on Destiny 2 Has Lost Massive Amount Of Steam Players Since Last June 1 week ago:
- Comment on They fucking geoblocked blahaj.zone 1 week ago:
Geo blocking is the wrong term to use. It implies the platform blocked a country.
This is a country blocking a platform.
- Comment on Not promoting violence or anything. But stupid quest since Iran has an 80 million bounty on Trumps head. If someone would follow thru do they just go to Iran and be like pay up? Why or why not? 2 weeks ago:
Or have a free Disney+ trial account from 6 years ago
- Comment on We overpaid you and need you to pay back $.23 2 weeks ago:
You don’t get to be an $80 billion company by leaving 23 cents on the table.
- Comment on Do you think billionaires fear losing their fortune and becoming "a poor"? 2 weeks ago:
No most of them will have some form of nest egg that will let them live on in luxury. Family trusts/offshore accounts, etc