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- Comment on If the movie Falling Down with Michael Douglas was made today in these times would it be too meta on the current society? Or would it be seen as trying to push an agenda? 3 days ago:
Some of that plot sounds like You Were Never Really Here which is a great movie though, although less of a critique of modern society like Falling Down is, and more about a guy destroying a human trafficking network.
- Comment on If the movie Falling Down with Michael Douglas was made today in these times would it be too meta on the current society? Or would it be seen as trying to push an agenda? 3 days ago:
Didn’t he snap because he was in traffic to work and his AC broke, and then at a corner store, the clerk wouldn’t give him change so he could use a payphone? The McDonald scene is iconic, but by that part, he’s already smashed up a convenience store and stolen a gun from a gang, so he was beyond snapped.
- Comment on On Copilot, the logo for Analyst looks like anal beads. 3 days ago:
#TheyKnew
- Comment on Did you know there was a Super Mario 64 GBA port? No, neither did I :o 2 weeks ago:
In case you’re curious how this was made: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRtOTU9Y0bk
- Comment on Now with more privacy!* 2 weeks ago:
Do you need an account to turn on enhanced privacy features?
- Comment on Was Alex Jones right about anything? 2 weeks ago:
Ok that makes sense. Still it sounds like he was regurgitating the findings of a study of frog behavior in polluted environments, and then creating a conspiracy theory around it. How was anything he added correct information on top of the preexisting evidence?
- Comment on Was Alex Jones right about anything? 2 weeks ago:
Wasn’t his thing with the frogs turning gay that the government was putting something in the water turning frogs and people gay? Maybe I don’t have a complete understanding of his hypothesis but how was he right about this?
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 weeks ago:
It may seem like not much changed, but it was one of the motivating factors for the big push for TLS everywhere after it was revealed that PRISM was tapped into and mirroring unencrypted communications. Also Signal probably wouldn’t be as popular as it now, with people still using unencrypted communications.
One of the NSA’s missions is to protect all of the federal government’s computer networks from cyber-terrorism. You could argue that in light of what Snowden revealed, the increased focus of security and encryption did more to protect all of the federal government’s computer networks from cyber-terrorism than any other NSA initiative ever.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 weeks ago:
FWIW, his passport was revoked while on a layover in Russia from Hong Kong to Cuba for an intended final destination of Ecuador. This is what caused him to seek asylum in Russia because that was his only option. His involvement with wikileaks during this time is suspicious knowing what we know now, but it seems to me he either got stuck in Russia because of the US or because of Wikileaks, and he didn’t knowingly have a relationship with Russia before getting stuck there.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 2 weeks ago:
I kept getting spam from Hello Fresh for 75% off if you reactive your subscription, so I did and promptly cancelled again. I repeated this for 6 weeks, for 6 meals for 2 people for $28 each week. It was great while it lasted.
- 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 ?? 5 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 ?? 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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] 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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? 2 months 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? 3 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. 3 months ago:
What’s that?
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 3 months ago:
According to the modlog they were banned already for “DM Spam”
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 3 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. 3 months ago:
- Comment on i just got an ad in my lemmy inbox. 3 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?