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- Comment on I have some very old CDs, mostly retro video games. Is there a way to pull the games and data off the CDs for preservation? 2 days ago:
Before you spend effort on this, check archive.org and see if the software has already been archived.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 5 days ago:
Oh yeah, I sympathize with that problem. I have no sympathy for Reddit though. We all should have invested our time in something that had the users’ best interests in mind. Something like the fediverse.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 5 days ago:
Is this post better suited for c/mildlyinfiriating or c/fuckingawesome?
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 5 days ago:
a fed-up user who deleted their own posts when leaving the site.
9 times out of 10 that is also Reddit’s doing.
- Comment on Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives 1 week ago:
I am shocked, shocked to discover an AI company breaking the social contract and behaving badly.
- Comment on The way two of the usb's are one way while the other is another way 1 week ago:
That’s the kind of shit OT god would have done and Lucifer would’ve pointed out the absurdity of.
- Comment on US education 2 weeks ago:
The title is “Science 4 for”, so it’s the fourth in the series.
- Comment on Don't we all? 2 weeks ago:
Judging by the buttons on his shirt, probably not.
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 2 weeks ago:
This is a good reminder to delete Google Photos.
- Comment on You don’t see articles like this about moms with three two jobs who still manage to take care of their kids. 2 weeks ago:
Replace “$4.2 trillion tech giant” with “cocaine”
- Comment on US | FCC to eliminate gigabit speed goal and scrap analysis of broadband prices 2 weeks ago:
Ooooh, I get it. Underachieving is how you make America great again.
- Comment on well? 3 weeks ago:
Dude. Relax. It was fiction.
- Comment on well? 3 weeks ago:
We should all be celebrating our good fortune, protection against a dark forest strike!
- Comment on Businessman Josh Kraft, son of Billionaire Robert Kraft, is running for Boston Mayor. He is accusing the mayor of worsening traffic by building bike lanes 3 weeks ago:
I wrote a huge explanation and then deleted it. The TL;DR is that all cars are are traffic. Bikes are too, but look around, what kind of traffic do you see?
- Comment on Nonsense 4 weeks ago:
Satanic Night Jar? Fuckin badass band name.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 2 months ago:
It makes me miss Fark. Does something like that exist on Lemmy?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Having worked on products that are renamed to something equally ambiguous, I’d say they are trying to make it more difficult to find because they are trying to redirect customer attention to other places, and are deliberately making it difficult to talk about or search for. Unfortunately this is a very successful strategy. It’s also very user hostile, and product engineer hostile. My heart goes out to any engineers that work in this product.
- Comment on TIL 3 months ago:
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 3 months ago:
This is interesting. I haven’t heard somebody use “Apache” as a reference to httpd in a long time due to the rise of nginx and because Apache.org does so much more than just httpd.
But I agree. Apache httpd 0.x was one of the softwares that first showed me how much better Linux is than Windows. IIS at the time was an insecure confusing monstrosity. I wonder if it still is.
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 3 months ago:
All my coworkers. Full volume.
- Comment on Val Kilmer, Actor Renowned for Receding Into His Roles, Dies at 65 4 months ago:
Madmartigan!
- Comment on Movie theaters are trying everything to bring audiences back — from pickleball to cocktail bars 4 months ago:
It’s like a dream come true. When I was 7, I went to see Empire Strikes Back at a local theater in Sandusky Ohio, and as soon as I walked in and saw all the posters and smelled the popcorn and saw the theater lighting, I thought to myself “this would be absolutely perfect if only I could play pickleball.” Ever since then, whenever I feel like playing pickleball, I go to my local movie theater. It’s just astounding that there has not once been a pickleball court. But now the day has come. Finally we are getting something so obvious that it’s a wonder it’s taken so long for it to come into being. Pickleball in movie theaters. Because when I think of movie theaters, there’s nothing I want more than to play pickleball.
- Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 4 months ago:
Can you explain why it’s not possible to stabilize the voltage on the receiving side before the power is sent to the battery?
- Comment on What's your favourite classic movie you think everyone should have seen once in their life? 5 months ago:
[Tadamasa Goto’s] claim to infamy was alledgedly ordering a hit on the esteemed Japanese film director Juzo Itami in May 1992. Itami had directed a film called Minbo no onna, which, unlike all previous yakuza films in Japan, portrayed the yakuza as money-grubbing, ill-mannered louts, not noble outlaws. Goto was not pleased with the film and especially disturbed by the implications that yakuza did not live up to their threats. On May 22, five members of his organization attacked Itami in the parking lot in front of his house, slashing his left cheek and his neck, inflicting serious injuries upon him. Itami became a vocal supporter of the new anti–organized crime laws the Japanese government put in place that year and a general pain in the ass to organized crime. He was a living symbol of what the yakuza really did, not what they pretended to do. He allegedly killed himself a few years later by jumping from a tall building.
Tokyo Vice, chapter 21
- Comment on What's your favourite classic movie you think everyone should have seen once in their life? 5 months ago:
I think about this most times I eat ramen, and I eat ramen a lot.
- Comment on Hexagons Are The Bestagons. 5 months ago:
I thought so too until I read this www.boristhebrave.com/2021/05/23/triangle-grids/ which touched on my biggest gripe with hexagons:
When working with hexes, you quickly realize their edges are a huge pain. They don’t line in a straight line! That makes it impossible to subdivide the grid with a line. You cannot build a big hex out of lots of little ones.
Triangles solve that. Squares also do not have that problem. Triangles work better on the surface of a globe than squares though.
- Comment on place yer bets 5 months ago:
Thankfully I live in the USA where we’re totally safe because we reject science! But don’t you try coming here for safety, we hate everybody else. You’ll probably just be sent to gitmo.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 5 months ago:
The ad bubble needs to pop.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 6 months ago:
I live in a northern border city. What benefit should I be on the lookout for?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
This person obviously hasn’t seen Cars 2.