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- Comment on Do criminals or terrorist measure themselves by how much bounty is put on their heads? Did Bin Laden think he was king shit because he was the top guy on all wanted lists? 11 hours ago:
I’d imagine for criminals, being the 101st Most Wanted is the sweet spot. If you robbed a bank or something, you probably got away with a lot to be Most Wanted, and there are bigger fish who the feds are after. More popular and you have more people after you and have to go into serious hiding. Less popular and your crime probably didn’t net you much.
- Comment on Do criminals or terrorist measure themselves by how much bounty is put on their heads? Did Bin Laden think he was king shit because he was the top guy on all wanted lists? 11 hours ago:
Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, some men just want to watch the world burn. Was there any meaningful improvement to anyone Bin Laden cared about after 9/11, or did he expect there to be? Seems like for a terrorist by definition is looking to cause maximum terror, not improving anyone’s life.
- Comment on AMD changes rules, denies researcher $10,000 bounty after taking 124 days to patch security flaw 6 days ago:
The flaw of not using HTTPS for the downloads is so basic it’s shocking they didn’t have internal tooling to raise this before it was shipped. I’m not familiar with AMD’s bug bounty policy but they should have at least paid $1337 to the researcher for raising this to them.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 2 weeks ago:
Yes exactly the same feeling for me. That was so cool and unique, there were also amazing puzzles with that mechanic.
- Comment on What’s your favorite video game that most people didn’t like ?? 2 weeks ago:
I enjoyed Zelda Skyward Sword upon release, despite having to get the new controller that supporter more motion on the Wii for it. The dungeon on the ship in the desert that involved time travel was a standout level and i really enjoyed it at the time. Granted I haven’t played it in 10 years, it’s a good game. I am glad though that the backlash resulted in Breath of the Wild, and without Skyward Sword, Breath of the Wild would have never happened.
- Comment on Steam Key Giveaway 3 weeks ago:
Ooo Dungeon Baller looks neat, is that game even out yet? I’d like to check it out if you have a key available.
- Comment on A Memory From the 90s 3 weeks ago:
I used to work with a guy that worked at Apple Computers in the 80s/90s in Japan I think when they were getting into the market there. He described an anecdote from that era where Apple had a high volume of returns and were trying to figure out why, since the hardware was functioning when it was received. Turns out most of the returns were because the coiled cable for the keyboard would get messed up and not coil properly, which was inconvenient but acceptable in the western markets, whereas in Japan that was unacceptable for the average consumer.
- Comment on When a judge tells the jury to ‘forget XYZ,’ how can the jury possibly do that? 4 weeks ago:
Did they know you knew they fucked a cow? I hope you used that as leverage in every confrontation with them.
- Comment on I should not have liked the world’s first smart home. [Tom Scott] 4 weeks ago:
Or a 10 year old who has to keep up the tradition for the estate
- Comment on On the show Mr. Robot, just started watching I'm on episode 9, are all the hacks or whatever actually possible in real life? 4 weeks ago:
IIRC, there was a plot where Elliot needed to break his drug dealer out of jail, and they left USB sticks in the parking lot of the police station, but when the cop plugged it in, it was obvious that it was malicious (command prompt pop up) because they didn’t have time to make it hidden, so that thread didn’t end up working out.
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 5 weeks ago:
It’s like people only do things because they get paid. And that’s just really sad.
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 1 month ago:
Doordash support is absolutely the worst. My credit card gives me free credits towards Doordash every month, but for some reason I can’t use it, and calling doordash and speaking with support is a nightmare. I have been given ever excuse possible about what the problem is, without any effort taken to actually address it.
I don’t necessarily blame the support agents, they just don’t seem to have any ability or knowledge to actually look into account level issues, which is a company issue. Trying to debug the issue, you start to notice a lot of other weird things with the app and their processes which seem like things are held together with shoestrings behind the scenes. At this point I have just given up, since I felt like I spent more effort on the phone with their support than the credits are actually worth.
- Comment on How come some Corporation or some Business don't sponsor a protest? Like McDonald's sponsoring that No Kings protest. Or a hotel giving free room and board to protestors and so on? 2 months ago:
Just like Michael Jordan said: “Republicans buy sneakers, too.”
- Comment on How should a news article website financially sustain itself? 2 months ago:
Buzzfeed News used to be high quality journalism, funded by ad driven low quality Buzzfeed content. I am not sure if it was financially sustainable since they had to do layoffs, but I think partially that could be because Buzzfeed’s audience moved to Instagram and TikTok and stopped interacting with “Which Game of Thrones character are you?” quizzes.
- Comment on Will I get notifications if lemmy users comment on my post? 2 months ago:
And notifications if you @ mention them in a child comment, like this: @tlekiteki@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another. 2 months ago:
What’s that?
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 2 months ago:
According to the modlog they were banned already for “DM Spam”
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 2 months ago:
And Coca-Cola Zero Sugar is no joke. Zero Sugar in every can. Share a Coke with a friend today
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 2 months ago:
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 2 months ago:
I got the same thing, but assumed it was because I made a comment yesterday about the brand in mention, and this is someone’s idea of an April Fools joke?
- Comment on "Moebius strip" 2 months ago:
Double the twists, half the surface area
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 2 months ago:
IMO, Lina Khan was maybe the best appointment of the Biden presidency and as FTC chair, pushed hard for consumers, even for unlikely winnable battles. Unfortunately the click-to-cancel ^[apnews.com/…/ftc-click-to-cancel-30db2be07fdcb8ae…] rule was struck down by the Court of Appeals, but I think if she were still in that position she’d fight the ruling. You’re right that the legislature needs to do their job and formally outlaw these practices, rather than having this be brought up by the FTC and struck down on a procedural matter.
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 2 months ago:
What info are y’all giving away when signing up for a gym membership where it could even go to collections? Is this for an annual contract? If you’re not on a contract and rack up unpaid months, it seems unlikely to me. Especially for a physical business where a late payment of $20 would deny you entry until you pay. I guess states with poor consumer protection laws this can happen if you sign up for a year or more and don’t pay I guess?
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 2 months ago:
Sorry to say but you got scammed. They could have tried to take you to small claims court, but the burden is on them not you. The credit card company sided with you, if they have a problem, then can take it up with Visa or whoever, not you.
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 2 months ago:
Why would you take a credit hit. It seems like once a year, something random comes up in a credit card statement, and requires a dispute. Those aren’t sent to credit agencies AFAIK, although i’ve never been ruled against any, so I’m not 100% about this.
- Comment on Air Canada Express flight AC8646 CRJ-900 at LaGuardia crash footage 2 months ago:
Yeah, that sucks. This was the best audio i could find of ATC (sorry for IG link) and seems like they immediately realized the fuck up, but the truck kept going.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 months ago:
FWIW, Brave still supports manifest v2 and the full version of uBlock Origin. Chrome has uBO Lite since they only have manifest v3 now. Firefox and LibreWolf don’t have to deal with this, and still support the real uBlock Origin. I’m not sure what exactly Brave “shield” is doing, but I think if you use EFF’s privacy badger on Firefox and block third party cookies, you are getting the same thing.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 months ago:
ok
- Comment on I'm sorry it has to be like this 3 months ago:
- Comment on Why are people like my grandpa so against seeing the whole world and learning a different language? 3 months ago:
Assuming the Grandpa watches Fox News / OAN / Newsmax, they’ve sold him the lie that immigrants are taking their jobs and going to ruin the middle class, meanwhile it’s they who are having the middle class vote against their interests, gutting healthcare, breaking up families, dissuading workers to unionize, etc. Basically this politically cartoon:
