dan

@dan@upvote.au

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leonardo DiCaprio meets a woman⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

  Source: reddit.com/…/leonardo_dicaprio_still_refuses_to_d… (sorry for Reddit link)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  or just cut the nails using an oscillating tool? No need to be petty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  typeface (I think that’s the name?);

  Logotype.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Open Source is so great...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes the open source equivalent is better. SmartTube is a much better app than the official YouTube app for Google TV / Android TV even though there’s just one developer working on it.

  Similarly, pirate TV/movie apps often have a much better user experience than the legit ones. Compare Weyd, Syncler, or Stremio+Torrentio to the Amazon Prime video app for example.

  In both cases, the people who work on them usually care about the user experience and use the app day-to-day themselves, rather than being told to do whatever makes the most money for the company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Really Dark Truth About Bots.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for maintaining it! I signed up, now I just need to see if anyone’s willing to guarantee my single-user instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Really Dark Truth About Bots.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the info! I didn’t know about the Fediseer project - I don’t think it existed when I created my Mastodon and Lemmy servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Really Dark Truth About Bots.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  the fediverse seems to be far more resilient against bots, since we can defederate from an instance that gets taken over,

  It’s very easy to spin up a new instance though, so I’m surprised there’s not a lot of spam. AFAIK most servers still federate with any new servers by default. That’s important to ensure equal treatment and that new servers are not disadvantaged, but it can also have issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horse denier⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  also birds… they’re just spy drones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Mastodon precious?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Frendica and GNU Social/StatusNet date back to 2010. That’s nearly 15 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No meme today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll be sure to buy myself something nice for Christmas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Prices will go up before black friday

  It’s before Black Friday now :P

  Amazon show a “lowest price in 30 days” badge if the price is the lowest in the past 30 days, so companies that sell their products on Amazon will sometimes raise the price 30 days before Black Friday.

  Some companies will make units specifically for black friday. Usually cheaper, less features, and sometimes less reliable.

  This has always been the case. Same with outlets - some items at outlet stores are specifically made to be sold at the outlet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Things like this take a while to finalize, so you’re good for now. Just wait until Black Friday to buy anything, since it’s so soon and lots of computer stuff goes on sale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I screen, you screen, we all screen for I screen.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Become a network admin and you can stare at blinking lights instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In California the property tax can only increase a maximum of 2% per year, so at least there’s that. (this law was put in place so that older people don’t get priced out of their house due to house values going up a lot)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  there was about 22% inflation

  I’m not disagreeing with you, but I just wanted to note that inflation numbers (more specifically, the CPI) is an average across multiple industries - supermarkets, rent/mortgage, furniture, cars, flights, health care, and several more. It’s possible for inflation to affect some industries much more than others and I wouldn’t expect everything to all go up at the same rate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In California at least, houses made with a wooden frame are usually on top of concrete (either a concrete slab under the whole house, or a concrete perimeter under the exterior walls), and the frame is bolted into the concrete along the entire perimeter.

  Older homes often aren’t bolted into the concrete, but it’s common to retrofit this to improve earthquake resistance. The government here has a program (Earthquake Brace and Bolt) where they cover part of the cost of doing this work.

  Masonry (houses made of bricks, stone, etc) are much less common here, since they perform much worse in earthquakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But count is in the name⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s for asking questions, like “420?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I left a bowl of candy out once, and some teen boys took the whole bowl.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just need to keep it steady⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d drain the batteries quickly. Wifi uses a relatively large amount of power, and low-power wifi variants like HaLow aren’t widespread yet. I guess it could have a power cord, but then why use wifi when it could just plug into the phone instead?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just need to keep it steady⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You should try the Bowers and Wilkins system in the BMW iX some time. In the USA it’s $3,400 extra compared to their mid-range Harmon Kardon system (which itself is an upgrade from the base system), but it sounds amazing. 30 speakers including one in every head rest, two subwoofers under the floor, and 4 bass shakers in the front seats. 1615 watts total. Sounds better than some home cinema setups I’ve heard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  uBlock Origin, not uBlock. They’re different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saddam Hussein is everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow I haven’t seen this in a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The grand prize⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like how there’s so many comments about the value of the cube, and no two comments have the same value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New mobile features are sh*t these days⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have an iPhone but quite a few people at my workplace are on that plan with Apple where you can upgrade every 12 months: www.apple.com/shop/iphone/iphone-upgrade-program

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate that that happens⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the fact that that poem is 100 years old, I would have thought that English would have evolved to fix these issues by now. Oh well.

  We need a new language I guess. Maybe it’s time to switch to the most popular language in the works (in terms of number of native speakers): Mandarin Chinese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New mobile features are sh*t these days⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet people always want to upgrade to the latest one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ding, fries ain't done⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel old lol… The title references this video which is over 20 years old now (the original predates YouTube)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Seeks Out Racist Language in Property Deeds for Termination⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The article didn’t say if it was an LLM or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodwill is out of control⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Use Vinnie’s instead (what we call St Vincent de Paul in Australia)

  Or a local store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one is you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a Slackware user to me.