Moonrise2473
@Moonrise2473@feddit.it
- Comment on Elon Musk and Wikipedia are feuding 1 day ago:
Do you think he got obscenely wealthy paying armies of people?
He’s famous for firing people, not hiring
- Comment on Microsoft to remove the Location History feature in Windows 3 days ago:
List of applications that depended on it:
- Comment on Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO 3 days ago:
They’re not apple, if they increase the price it means they think most of the competition will increase the prices or nobody would buy their stuff
After all, the margins are thin and the tariff is high
- Comment on Ads are coming to bit.ly links 1 week ago:
They’re useful for printed media
“Find more info at bitly/event” instead of “find more info at facebook.com/unnecessarilylongurlthatnobodyisgoingtotype”
Or for a qr code where it needs to be small and somehow your URL is too long
But yes, relying on a third party company for something that needs to last a long time isn’t really smart. There are many books that have online content now inaccessible because they used a link shortener that’s dead or that doesn’t let you update the redirection without paying a ransom (need to pay $120/year to bitly if you need to change the redirection)
- Comment on Ads are coming to bit.ly links 1 week ago:
I remember blackberry using bitly links in their developer emails in 2013, and at the time it was possible to see the stats of any link by just adding “+” at the end of the link (now requires authentication or maybe only paid users can lock that page)
It was dismaying to see that it got only 50 clicks or so lol
- Comment on Ads are coming to bit.ly links 1 week ago:
It is (was) a service that redirected a short URL like bit.ly/customurl to www.example.com/extremely/long/path/to/share/and/type?parameter=crazy&anotherparameter=long
perfect for sharing
- Comment on Ads are coming to bit.ly links 1 week ago:
Well, they give the option to remove the ads altogether for just $120/year 😉
Although literally nobody would pay that ransom (100000x the actual server expense) to remove ads from their own links
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 25 comments
- Submitted 1 week ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 2 comments
- Comment on Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website 1 week ago:
This level of incompetence is unheard
- Comment on CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google 1 week ago:
No it exclusively works with recaptcha github.com/dessant/buster
- Comment on CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google 1 week ago:
A reminder that recaptcha is no longer free, but since a few months ago now the website owner needs to pay $0.001 each time a verification is performed
cloud.google.com/recaptcha/docs/compare-tiers
Free tier is only 10k verifications per month and must link a valid credit card so they can charge you immediately when you reach higher level.
Hopefully this kills the product in the long term as bots solve recaptcha faster than humans, so it’s just for slowing down humans than actual security. I personally use a browser extension that solves them with a click in a second.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 2 weeks ago:
That’s “useful” when you can effectively only use it for Baidu, rednote, TikTok (the local version that’s isolated from the rest of the world) and WeChat
- Comment on Who's going to watch departure times on the departure board? Let's use it for ads! 2 weeks ago:
yes, they say (weirdly only in italian and not in any other language) that the departure board can be accessed via their chatbot on whatsapp
- Comment on Who's going to watch departure times on the departure board? Let's use it for ads! 2 weeks ago:
Rome
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 51 comments
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on Looking to build a new htpc. This is all that ever comes up. 2 weeks ago:
Don’t understand this.
There isn’t an htpc mode on ubuntu, and you’re restricting results from australia. It seems normal that the results are irrelevant.
Maybe you’re searching for this, to install over vanilla ubuntu: github.com/dudewheresmycode/TenFootGnome
- Comment on Keep getting permanently banned on Reddit subs 3 weeks ago:
They’re making you a favor
- Comment on Google's AI is using past tense to describe a sporting event that takes place in 3 days. And it knows who won too. 3 weeks ago:
Like apple “intelligence” that when asked who won the super bowl (not an obscure event), failed 38 times out of 58 onefoottsunami.com/2025/01/…/not-so-super-apple/
- Comment on Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics 3 weeks ago:
It’s a bit biased
- Comment on Triggering newsletter header to sell video games? Check! 3 weeks ago:
Instead to an european user today they sent:
- Comment on Zuckerberg 'Loves' AI Slop Image From Spam Account That Posts Amputated Children 4 weeks ago:
It is ridiculous, slop like that should be permabanned. Ah, right, they tried to do that in-house with that “proud black queer mom of 2” fake account and others
- Comment on The steam mobile app telling me to open the steam module app to login to the steam mobile app . 5 weeks ago:
i finally managed to extract the OTP secret.
OMG, WTF. So needlessly hard. If Epic Store did the same of Valve for their OTP, the forums would be filled with hate and outrage
- Comment on Google is now forcing gemini in their gmail app 5 weeks ago:
Need to pay an auditor to check the code support.google.com/cloud/answer/13465431?hl=en
- Comment on Google is now forcing gemini in their gmail app 5 weeks ago:
for FOSS projects, google itself could sponsor the certification, if they really cared about security and not just closing the garden. The code is public and they could definitely write automated tests to check all they need to check, and at every single commit, and not just yearly, done in secret by some auditor.
For google drive integration, i saw that most devs are just removing support for it because doesn’t make sense to pay $500 yearly to support it when there’s a million of better alternatives
- Comment on Google is now forcing gemini in their gmail app 5 weeks ago:
I replaced gmail with fairemail for similar reasons. I can’t stand their interface, designed to maximise clicks on the wrong locations.
Main problem is that now google requires developers of email clients to give $4000 in annual fees (level 3? or level 2 for just $500 is enough?) at their friends at KPMG to do yearly audits of the code, so they will kill most alternatives in few years now that oauth is mandatory
- Comment on Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me 5 weeks ago:
What I hate the most is that in order to know the pricing I have to watch a 2 hours demo, and at that point I already know that it’s unaffordable because they’re starting to do calculations “this is how much you’re going to save”.
Saw a 100% offline quoting tool that, they wanted $1000 per month because "you and your team will save 200 hours per month so this tool pays back in less than 2 weeks"
- It’s offline
- We have to pay for the server
- It requires a month of training and data fitting (at our expense)
- Doesn’t require any additional update and once set can be left like that for decades
Why the hell it’s a subscription???
- Comment on Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me 5 weeks ago:
I always wonder if those actually work
“We help you find real verified customers 100% guaranteed” - says the ones that mass mailed a honeypot address that’s visible only to bots (so it’s not real, not verified and lands directly in spam dragging down your email domain reputation)
- Comment on We overpaid you and need you to pay back $.23 1 month ago:
I’d absolutely pay that 23 cents PayPal invoice as there’s a fixed 35 cents fixed fee on every transaction plus 3%, so if you pay it, it costs them 13 cents
