chahk
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- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
In every community, there is always another power-hungry asshole ready to jump on the opportunity to have a tiny bit of control over somebody else.
Mods not modding is nothing new to reddit. The only impact they would feel is if users stopped posting. I don’t see that happening though.
- Comment on TikTok must face U.S. lawsuit over the platform's viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, an appeals court ruled 2 months ago:
social media should go back to being a purely chronological feed, curated by the users themselves, and cut corporate influence out of the equation.
But then how would they make money if they can’t keep users doomscrolling forever to keep serving them ads? Won’t someone think of the shareholders?!
- Comment on Social-media firms are lowering defenses to foreign disinformation campaigns, researchers warn 3 months ago:
Rational person… 70 million people are still voting for a serial rapist even after… no, especially after he has been convicted of a felony.
“Just think of how stupid an average person is, and then realise that half of them are stupider than that.” -George Carlin
- Comment on Ex-Twitter staffer wins $600K over Musk’s click-yes-or-resign ultimatum 3 months ago:
A highly paid exec is hardly an example of “working class collective”.
- Comment on To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Says 3 months ago:
Have you tried 15 more reboots?
- Comment on Paramount and Skydance agree to merge, ending Redstone era 4 months ago:
They will have to rebrand Paramount+ again. Again.
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 5 months ago:
It’s a trap!
- Comment on Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech 5 months ago:
Louis Rossmann’s 20-minute rant on needless cloudification of shit incoming in 3… 2… 1…
- Comment on Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU. 5 months ago:
Nothing and I mean nothing will kill this faster than some leaked chats, emails, and browsing history of a few politicians.
- Comment on YouTube reportedly blocks anti-war videos in Russia at the Kremlin’s request 5 months ago:
Pichai & Co would totally have blocked videos if Hitler demanded it back during WW2. They should embrace their new motto - “Anything for a buck!”
Grow a pair, you spineless shits, and stop kowtowing to brutal dictators!
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They probably mean comic books.
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 7 months ago:
I’m not your buddy, guy!
- Comment on Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF for posting the blogger's story 7 months ago:
Nice try, Nick.
- Comment on T-Mobile's New AI "Profiling" Privacy Toggle Is On By Default 7 months ago:
You don’t need AI to figure out why people go to a T-Mobile store.
Option A: your service sucks, and the hold time on the phone is over 2 hours.
Option B: the glass sandwitch that you sold me cracked because I looked at it funny, and the fucking manufacturer won’t honor the warranty because they didn’t get enough of my money.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Sets Filming Window & Episode Count 8 months ago:
Please. They don’t tease a new show by accident, or on the hopes alone. They also don’t increment the Enterprise letter without some solid buy-in from the network. Legacy is happening.
- Comment on ‘Picard’ Season 2 Was Rewritten After Paramount Deemed It “Too Star Trek,” Says EP 8 months ago:
I’m still salty that we never got an epic Borg Vs. Jorg battle at the end of S3. They totally wasted whatever it was they were trying to set up with Jurati at the end of season 2.
- Comment on OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material 10 months ago:
computerworld.com/…/microsoft-sues-repeat-softwar…
Literally first hit on google (after the NYT links).
- Comment on OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material 10 months ago:
Do musicians not buy the music that they want to listen to? Should they be allowed to torrent any MP3 they want just because they say it’s for their instrument learning?
I mean I’d be all for it, but that’s not what these very same corporations (including Microsoft when it comes to software) wanted back during Napster times. Now they want a separate set of rules just for themselves. No.
- Comment on OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material 10 months ago:
It’s a glorified autocomplete.
- Comment on OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material 10 months ago:
Agreed on both counts… Except Microsoft sings a different tune when their software is being “stolen” in the exact same way. They want to have it both ways - calling us pirates when we copy their software, but it’s “without merit” when they do it. Fuck’em! Let them play by the same rules they want everyone else to play.
- Comment on When should I start showing someone new to Trek new shows? 10 months ago:
I’d recommend release order because there are callbacks and crossovers, cameos, etc. that tie these shows together. You could watch the in any order, but you’d get more enjoyment out of picking up all the references and easter eggs. So, TOS -> (maybe TAS) -> movies 1 through 5 -> TNG -> movie 6 -> DS9 -> VOY -> movies 7 through 9 -> ENT. Then modern stuff like DSC, SNW, PIC, Prodigy, and LD.
That said, there’s no need to watch every single episode of every show. Back on Reddit there were guides of “essential” episodes for each season of every series. Here’s one for TNG. I’m sure you could find this for other shows too.
- Comment on Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show 10 months ago:
detonate
The term is “R.U.D.” - Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.
- Comment on Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show 10 months ago:
It was towed outside the environment.
- Comment on Mike McMahan Calls On Fans To Help Keep ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ From Facing The Same Fate As ‘Prodigy’ 1 year ago:
First off, I want very much for Lower Decks and Prodigy to continue.
That said, I would love to see Paramount+ crash and burn to the fucking ground, taking all the execs and bean counters down with it. Same with HBO Max, or Plus, or Minus, or whatever the fuck they rebranded to this week. Let them ALL fail and be sold for pennies on the dollar so that someone with half a brain can pick up the pieces.
- Comment on How Frasier Is So Rich As A Radio Therapist Finally Explained By Original Show Writer 1 year ago:
Shameless
- Comment on Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series & Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee 1 year ago:
Ha! If you think that any of that money will go to actors and writers, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
- Comment on Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series & Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee 1 year ago:
The Internet and streaming services are fucking lazy and just insert ads every X seconds or whatever, which can often lead to an ad being played mid fucking sentence.
That is not laziness. This is a typical dark pattern, designed that way on purpose to annoy you into paying.
Youtube (without ad blockers) is the absolute worst at this, as it seems to insert mid roll ads specifically to disrupt the video.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x10 "Hegemony" 1 year ago:
It’s cold outside…
- Comment on "We Didn't Know It Was The End": Jonathan Frakes On Directing Star Trek Discovery Series Finale 1 year ago:
Too soon.
