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- Comment on Is there any security in the communication with Voyager I? 2 days ago:
it doesn’t use any common protocols or software that anyone outside of NASA would be familiar with.
Suddenly Lemmy hates Voyager because it’s not FOSS…
- Comment on Why does the Music Industry allow Spotify/Apple to profit off of them? 4 days ago:
Well hopefully not. I didn’t know it had been tried before, that’s interesting.
- Comment on Do spam calls "I wanna buy your house" ever work? Has anyone ever sold their house like that? 5 days ago:
Sometimes they just really are giving away a MASSIVE YACHT!
- Comment on If a contestant on Jeopardy! gave the correct response "Alexandre Dumas" but pronounced the surname as "dumb ass", would the response be accepted? 6 days ago:
If they gave the response “Alexander Dumas” wouldn’t it be rejected, regardless of pronunciation, because it wasn’t in the form of a question?
- Comment on Why does the Music Industry allow Spotify/Apple to profit off of them? 1 week ago:
I guess, but for your average consumer that’s not going to be an attractive option.
- Comment on Why does the Music Industry allow Spotify/Apple to profit off of them? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I know, but I feel like execs are more likely to want to go it alone and have exclusive artists than have to work out a way to share with each other.
- Comment on Why does the Music Industry allow Spotify/Apple to profit off of them? 1 week ago:
Why don’t the Big 3 (Universal, Warner & Sony) just come together and make their own streaming service with all their music,
Careful what you wish for. It’s long been a concern of mine that we’ll see a fragmentation of the music streaming market, with the same results as in TV.
You know how one show you like is on Disney+ and one is on Netflix and two are on Amazon, and one is on Paramount and so on…?
Imagine that with your favourite bands z except you need a Warner subscription to listen to one band, a Sony one to listen to another, etc.
It’s bad enough with some things not being on one music service while they are on another one, or with songs being there and then gone and then back again for utterly opaque reasons. If the labels get the idea that they can cut out the middle man and gate off their artists from any service but their own, it’ll be awful.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes, indeed.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
And who gets to decide what’s evil and what’s not?
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
Of course he should be prosecuted.
Regardless of what the victim has done or was doing you can’t have a society where it’s regarded as ok to intentionally walk up to someone on the street and murder them. That way lies anarchy and madness.
- Comment on Do you think being left-handed gives any unique qualities or advantages compares to other right handed? 3 weeks ago:
May also have been a subtle way to help protect in case the castle was stormed. I’ve certainly heard of castles where the steps were sometimes irregular heights - those who lived there would be used to it, but invaders would not and would find it harder to move effectively. A differently spiralling stair might have the same effect.
- Comment on Would social events be better if phones didn't have data? 3 weeks ago:
I’m in the same boat as OP, and while I think you’re probably right, I do also think that were I in better shape with fewer responsibilities now, I’d still prefer the experience of being at a gig/club night without phones.
Only a personal preference of course, not saying people are wrong if they prefer how things are now.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 5 weeks ago:
Ah, good shout, thanks I’ll do that 👍
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 5 weeks ago:
Maybe, although it’s multiple people, so seems like it wouldn’t be a camera fault.
Possibly it’s how they are getting to me - I don’t get them directly, they come to via someone else, and I think the someone else may be getting them via WhatsApp (which I don’t use).
So in fact it’s maybe the compression from WA, rather than an issue with HEIC? I should have thought of that before!
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 5 weeks ago:
Maybe they’re doing something else to their files then, but seriously they are grainy as hell.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I hate this too - one of my clients regularly supplies images as HEIC files and they are always crappy to work with. Plus the images just seem much lower quality, which is a problem when they are being used for professional purposes.
- Comment on Is there a 'ama' sub? 5 weeks ago:
No problem!
- Comment on Is there a 'ama' sub? 5 weeks ago:
There’s one at !askmeanything@lemmy.ca :-)
- Comment on Many TV stations put a banner ad in the picture these days 1 month ago:
Ha, I bet :-)
- Comment on Many TV stations put a banner ad in the picture these days 1 month ago:
I thought the strip across the bottom was called a chyron? Not heard it referred to as a bug before (not saying you’re wrong though).
- Comment on Is there any reason to use the "new" sorting option on Lemmy, except to filter spam? 1 month ago:
I always sort by New, but I also only use Subscribed, rather than All. So it’s an up to date list of topics in my curated interest areas.
- Comment on When did we stop saying "things are fire" to "things are cold"? 1 month ago:
Alright, alright, alright, alright…
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 2 months ago:
That’s a good point, actually. I hadn’t thought it through enough.
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 2 months ago:
To be fair to those people (which, I really don’t want to be), I’m pro-choice but strong against the death penalty. So I guess it swings both ways.
- Comment on Is Liz Cheney seriously Dick Cheney's daughter? Why is she so old? Isn't that impossible? 2 months ago:
Do your own research.
- Comment on Is Liz Cheney seriously Dick Cheney's daughter? Why is she so old? Isn't that impossible? 2 months ago:
Dick Cheney - January 1941
Liz Cheney - July 1966 - Comment on Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future? 2 months ago:
You maniac, you made up! God damn you all to hell!!
- Comment on I didn't know HOW bad Google search has gotten. 2 months ago:
Yep, and thanks, I should have done that myself. Although setting that up as the default search takes a little more detail.
- Comment on I didn't know HOW bad Google search has gotten. 2 months ago:
Not sure if this will help for that specific search but I recently discovered a change that you can make to your browser’s search defaults that makes Google search a lot better (for me at least)
Details in this thread: lemmy.world/post/19104187
- Comment on Question about Firefox - any way to open specific sites as if they were an app or program (similar to an option in Chrome)? 2 months ago:
Oh wow, that’s great, I didn’t realise it was back on the agenda - thanks a lot! 👍