kent_eh
@kent_eh@lemmy.ca
- Comment on RIP America 2 days ago:
Canada has also been increasingly welcoming American expat academics and medical professionals.
- Comment on RIP America 2 days ago:
I still don’t understand their end goal. If everyone exept for them is poor and dying who are they going to sell their stuff to?
I’m increasingly believing that they don’t actually care about anyone other then themselves.
Their only goals are self-serving greed.
And the methods they intend to use to serve that narrow goal are extremely short sighted and lacking any peripheral vision.
- Comment on RIP America 2 days ago:
Make no mistake, this administration wants to see people die.
They want to see people suffer before they die.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 5 weeks ago:
Of course, it always is.
But a lot of this type of enshittification can be difficult to learn about without getting your hands on thw product first. Especially if it’s a new model.
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 5 weeks ago:
the CRA website? I’ve been able to access it on Firefox (through Linux) without being hassled.
Same here.
Maybe they’ve got some privacy plug-ins that are preventing the CRA website from functioning properly?
In the past, I have had to add my bank and some government websites to my whitelist
- Comment on Canon requires an account to transfer images from your camera. Forces you to sign up using Chrome. 5 weeks ago:
The problem is, you don’t always know thwy will do this until after you pay your money for them.
- Comment on What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world? 1 month ago:
They already have - having Nukes.
That only defends against a sane leadership with a military chain of command that isn’t compromised.
- Comment on Why Chrome only? 2 months ago:
No, but it is a default app, and the vast majority of people can’t be bothered to install something better.
- Comment on How can I reject MAGAs version of america more then I already am? 2 months ago:
That time was back on November 6.
Or January 20.
- Comment on Does Google scan yt videos to know what products appear in them? 2 months ago:
Google scans YouTube videos for information about what products appear in them
Yes, but not specifically looking for products. They’re scanning to try to learn everything about the video with the goal of better matching suggestions to the interests (as determined by watch history) of viewers.
The intention is (as always) to increase viewer session time because the more time viewers spend on the platform, the more ads they see and ultimately the more money YouTube makes.
Of course, that scanning and view history can also be used to target ads with the goal of increasing ad click-thru and conversion (ultimately also driving the profit goal)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Starting with the late 70s then the election of Reagan
Also around that time televangelist Pat Robertson was an advisor to Reagan and even tried his own run for president.
- Comment on Elon Musk and Wikipedia are feuding 4 months ago:
Not to give them ideas but couldn’t he just fund his own fake Wikipedia clone?
Isn’t that basically what conservapedia is?
(Link is not to the actual site, but rather to an article about them - not giving that shithole traffic)
- Comment on Why hasn't the deep state stopped trump? 4 months ago:
Trump is the derp state
- Comment on Is there any hope for Ukraine to survive as an independent state now that trump is desperately wishing for a peace treaty with Russia, even bypassing Ukraine? 4 months ago:
As a european working in the weapon industry, I love reading american people thinking we make no weapons or the weapons we make are worse.
American exceptionalism has been a major feature of the Americans self image for many generations.
It’s really tiring living beside them and having to hear them constantly blathering about it.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 4 months ago:
Desktop unless I’m away from home or in the shitter.
- Comment on Is there any way I can realistically send a message to Donald Trump and have him read it? 4 months ago:
A billboard in DC or someplace he is visiting
On the route between the airport and MaraLardo.
- Comment on Got these two most awful yt reccommendations when watching the 50501 protest livestreams. 4 months ago:
Click the 3 dots on the right, select “do not recommend channel”.
It works better than I expected.
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 5 months ago:
Having a switch next to the door would be useful if you’re using that socket for a lamp
That is specifically what switched outlets in north America are intended to be used for.
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 5 months ago:
All of them in the UK.
- Comment on The US is actually going to implement a nationwide abortion ban and the measures for how it's gonna be handled are already in the works 5 months ago:
or workforce.
Not even.
They’re constantly trying to find ways to reduce staff and replace them.
- Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 5 months ago:
At my former hob, I saved a ridiculous number of email chains that showed my objections and the management reply to just do it in a folder I creatively named “CYA”.
- Comment on The Top 3 Apps in my Country (Venezuela) are all VPNs... 5 months ago:
Because it’s really cheap.
- Comment on We overpaid you and need you to pay back $.23 5 months ago:
Or maybe the same is “click here to claim…”
- Comment on We overpaid you and need you to pay back $.23 5 months ago:
first they tried to argue the contract shouldn’t have been written that way so I still had to pay.
“So what? You’re the ones who wrote the contract. It’s your fuckup, you pay for that not me…”
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 5 months ago:
Except some models won’t let you do anything until you “activate” your smart TV, which requires an internet connection.
- Comment on How can I use an LLM to generate a 10k word long coherent story? 5 months ago:
Thw 100k word part is released.
The coherent story part is not possible with today’s LLMs, even with a much smaller word count.
Hell, lots of human writers fail at making their stories coherent.
- Comment on If I wanted to make and distribute videos without profit motivate, but also with no or minimum expensive, what would be the best platform? 6 months ago:
but I think they have had issues with filtering neonazis
Any platform that proclaims itself to be a censorship free zone is going to attract nazis and other undesirables.
- Comment on Seut 6 months ago:
Anyone else hear AC/DC when they saw this?
- Comment on Important life choices 6 months ago:
Glass is just borderline
It als depends on the distance and transportation costs to get to a glass plant.
Which is dissapointing, because glass should be relatively easy to recycle into new containers. The core process isn’t much different than making new glass.
- Comment on I don't have a purpose in life and feel like a robot. This cannot be good for my mental health, but I don't know how or what to change. How do I change? 6 months ago:
Purpose isn’t something that is handed to you, it’s something that each of us has to find/create for ourselves.
And true happiness isn’t found by comparing yourself to others.
Its not a fair comparison. You only get to see their directors cut, but you see your own blooper reel.