kent_eh
@kent_eh@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Why Chrome only? 1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks 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] 2 weeks 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 2 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. 2 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? 2 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? 2 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 2 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 2 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... 2 months ago:
Because it’s really cheap.
- Comment on We overpaid you and need you to pay back $.23 2 months ago:
Or maybe the same is “click here to claim…”
- Comment on We overpaid you and need you to pay back $.23 2 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 2 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? 3 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? 3 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 3 months ago:
Anyone else hear AC/DC when they saw this?
- Comment on Important life choices 3 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? 3 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.
- Comment on Electric Cars Could Last Much Longer Than You Think - Rather than having a shorter lifespan than internal combustion engines, EV batteries are lasting way longer than expected 4 months ago:
8 years on an internal combustion engine is nothing if you preventative maintenance properly.
Also depends on the type and amount of driving you do.
- Comment on I live in the green part 4 months ago:
The first 2 on the legend look darker than the following 3 .
I agree with the previous commenter. Colour coded maps are useless for about 25% of the population.
- Comment on Is it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"? 4 months ago:
Leaving it open ended and subjective is setting up for failure.
Having a specific list always misses something, and bad actors will find ways to abuse the gaps in that list.
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 4 months ago:
Most of the culture wars bullshit is originating from a tiny but disproportionately noisy number of people.
But then, because their claims are so outrageous, the media picks up onbit and runs with it, without bothering to be proportional to the number of people causing the problem in the format place.
- Comment on Can't install app because it isn't "certified" by the government 4 months ago:
Presumably because it’s much cheaper.
There are reasons why it’s cheaper, and none of them improve your life.
- Comment on How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves. 4 months ago:
Thanks. I hate it.
- Comment on USA President term limits 4 months ago:
Assuming he doesn’t change the rules and appoint himself president forever, then the limit is 2 terms, consecutive or not.
Even if a person started their presidential mandate partway through a 4 year cycle (as happened after Nixon stepped down and after Kennedy was shot), it’s still 2 terms, not necessarily 8 years.
If Trump dies in the next 4 years, Vance could serve out the current term and would only be eligible to become president for one additional term.