blind3rdeye
@blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
- Comment on What the fuck happened to YouTube!? 1 month ago:
The tides will turn though. I’ve been denouncing google for years, and I’ve find it quite striking how the pushback has disappeared recently. It use to be that any negative comment about google was met by a small army of google fans. That just isn’t the case any more.
- Comment on pringles 1 month ago:
With the stuff about ‘super computers’, this seems more like a shitpost than a science meme.
- Comment on Aluminum 1 month ago:
Perhaps so, but one might argue that human tech relies more on iron than any other metal - because of its magnetic properties. We need iron to generate and manipulate electricity.
- Comment on Aluminum 1 month ago:
Titanium perhaps - but that is more different to get.
- Comment on Anon sets the mood 1 month ago:
A person would have to be very old indeed to be out of range for knowing about HDMI cables.
- Comment on Olympic casual GigaChad 1 month ago:
They removed the soldier’s hand!? That’s serious dedication!
- Comment on Flowchart for STEM 2 months ago:
Poor and middle-income people earn money. Rich people just take it from the people who earn it.
- Comment on Anon watches game of thrones 2 months ago:
A bit like Frodo et al.
- Comment on Get in the Hilux 2 months ago:
That definitely is not what I was saying. What I’m saying is that mocking and taunting people does not help social cohesion. It can cause reluctance and spite. We just don’t need that.
- Comment on Get in the Hilux 2 months ago:
It’s good that you are getting support. I do think your jokes here are a bit in bad taste though. It isn’t likely to make anyone feel good about supporting others, or about being supported.
- Comment on History is written by the victors 2 months ago:
Attention spans just keep getting shorter.
- Comment on Anon is baffled by Mel Gibson's continued career 2 months ago:
I still remember part of a review I saw when this was new. It said:
Jesus suffered for our sins. Now its your turn.
- Comment on gotdamn 2 months ago:
This diagram helps to show that you and Hadriscus agree on the order of the posts, but not on how to describe it. That’s pretty interesting to me.
- 4, 2, 1, 3 – labeling the posts from top to bottom with which order they should then be read. So the first post is read forth, the second post is read second, etc.)
- 3, 2, 4, 1 – listing the order that the posts should be read if they were understood to be labelled in 1-4 top-down. So we should read the third post first, the second post second, forth post third, …
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- Comment on CBT 2 months ago:
Yes - tortured using a burning hot gas-light, from what I understand.
- Comment on A compromise 3 months ago:
Whenever I see this gif I think of this SSBM version.
- Comment on Anon catches his wife 4 months ago:
Should it bother you? Was yoru girlfriend being dishonest to you, or mistreating you? In the end, if you’re fine with it, then its fine.
- Comment on Solve a puzzle for me 4 months ago:
That has happened. But clearly that is not how chat-bots and image generating AI work. Even putting aside the style and peculiarities of the results, the AI programs are far too fast for that to be done by a person. Even if a person just read a message and then did a direct cut-and-paste from wikipedia, that would take far too long to be convincing as a chat-bot.
- Comment on Zero to hero 4 months ago:
In some countries, zero is neither positive nor negative. But in other, it is both positive and negative. So saying the set of natural number is the same as non-negative [integers] doesn’t really help. (Also, obviously not every would even agree that with that definition regardless of whether zero is negative.)
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 4 months ago:
I found this story to be informative, about why Germany closed their nuclear power plants. I think that context can defuse a lot of arguments about Germany’s decision.
- Comment on There it is 4 months ago:
Cool picture. But Chrome? Why?
- Comment on Anon gives dating advice 5 months ago:
I thought it was all just a single statement. “Pleasant to look at sex is better. [The sex] will make you happier and more confident.”
- Comment on I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is 5 months ago:
That’s my understanding too. And because people kind of like the sound of it, they might use it slightly more broadly than that - but not as broadly as ‘rad’ or ‘sick’ or even ‘pog’. I was there for the rise and demise of ‘pwn’, and it definitely was never as widespread as pog is now.
- Comment on It’s physically impossible, try it 5 months ago:
or did they?
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 5 months ago:
Over the years, Microsoft has been quietly taking away control from the users.
There’s been a transition from normal settings that you can do whatever you want with, to “yes / remind me later” settings that Microsoft uses to badger you until you submit, to finally just no setting at all - just quiet compulsory data collection and surveillance; with various bits of mysterious software that you can’t uninstall or disable or halt - because you’re not the admin - Microsoft is.
It wasn’t always this way.
- Comment on Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar 5 months ago:
Yeah, it’s a minor annoyance… another minor annoyance on top of all the others. And another personal data leak (or siphon) to go with all the others.
This on its own is not worth switching OSs for - but as a piece of a larger picture it’s yet another reason to consider it. And for some people this may be what tips the scales in their evaluation.
- Comment on every comment section 5 months ago:
Is there a sign up sheet or something for that? I don’t want to miss out on getting a turn.
- Comment on Homer 5 months ago:
Isn’t Homer meant to be an illustration of privilege? Like, he’s pretty useless, but still gets essentially everything he wants.
- Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons 5 months ago:
“… and then just keep giving them that same choice over and over again for as long as it takes for them to finally do what we want.”
- Comment on Amazing advertisement for Threads by Instagram! 8 months ago:
A lot of instances have agreed to pre-emptively defederate from Threads. I reckon that’s probably wise. In fact, I think it might be the majority of instances; but not the majority of users, because mastodon.social and some other big ones aren’t doing it.