Pika
@Pika@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Reddit is finally entirely dead to me 6 days ago:
They did that about a year or so after I blocked reddit via DNS. No idea why, I don’t use a VPN for reddit, and I hadent given them any traffic outside the once and awhile checking a tech support post, but something about my network triggered it.
No big loss.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 6 days ago:
my aunt used to seek out parking garages that either were proactive at ticketing vehicles that were sticking way out like that, or had a lowered roof at the front to prevent larger vehicles in the first place. She said she was surprised that they existed but said it made actually navigating it so much easier.
- Comment on Are there seach engines that dont depend Google and Bing, if not what are the barriers to entry of new search engines? 2 weeks ago:
Yes there is.
The biggest barriers is data/context. The biggest being the primary index.
Google has a lot of web scrapers/indexers and also offers hosting platforms. They also partner with big hosting companies for index trees to be able to easily show web sites reliably AND have been around for years finding it.
This is actually one of the primary damages that AI is currently doing to the internet field, because not only is it decreasing web traffic for web hosts due to AI summaries and searches, but it’s also forcing web hosts to have to block or restrict indexers. Because these same agents are abusing the user agent system to try to pretend that it’s a normal indexer, so web hosts are faced with either having their platform spammed so many bot traffic that it takes their website down, or block indexers, which means that they don’t appear in web searches. It’s a lose lose.
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 2 weeks ago:
Dominos doesn’t have to be a government entity to have a moral compass and not provide food to companies that are intending to put their workers at risk by delivering to locations that the same establishment has decided isn’t worth the risk to their own employees. There is proper ways of doing this that doesn’t involve risking people who don’t have the ability to easily say no without it effecting their contractor or employment status.
I agree with your statement that they(doordash) /could/ give that alert, but they don’t. The closest to my knowledge that they use is a weather/crime reporting service that only triggers with major crime events(such as a mass shooting) or major weather events (and even that is iffy). Instead they do the opposite: they ding the drivers account if you deny or reject the order, and if you do it too many times they terminate you as a contractor. There is no system in place to allow for an opt out like you describe. If they did that would be amazing and make it a slightly better solution. My opinion is that since doordash knowingly doesn’t provide that system, Domino’s as being the source should step in. Honestly, you could hot swap Dominos with any establishment that DD works with and my opinion would be the same. As it would if you hot swapped DD with any of the other food delivery services because to my knowledge those don’t offer any way for drivers to opt out either, it’s against their self interests.
being said, I thank you for your responses to it, I do understand your POV and what you are saying. I just respectfully disagree and I don’t see that changing.
- Comment on For people who distrust police / the legal system: If you ran a small bussiness and need to hire people, and someone has a conviction but they claim innocence, do you hire them? 2 weeks ago:
the public indecency one is rough. I don’t know if I would hire that individual.
The issue in that situation isn’t the fact that he was caught for it, but the fact that he was willing to do it in public in the first place, so the risk factor there would be will this individual potentially try to do the same at my establishment? I think I wouod hire them if I was in a non-public style buisness such as office work, but if I was in a very public buisness like retail I would pass.
As for the last example with the fraud. In this case, it sounds like the person did do it. But if the person had not done it but was convicted of it, I would need some pretty compelling evidence saying the other direction. Because having someone who’s known to be a fraudster, managing anything with a company is not a good idea.
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 2 weeks ago:
Firstly, I don’t think the statement of I can’t do anything about it is valid here. Those chains could for sure offer a safe way of delivering it to those areas, but they choose not to because of cost, which is somewhat understandable but still bleh to me.
The food deserts, as you described, is going to happen regardless of if Domino’s allows DoorDash to deliver to bad areas or not.As at the end of the day, Dominos decides where they open and how they operate and that’s not changing any time soon.
I can’t wrap my head around any situation where, logically, you should be sending someone in to a risk area that’s known for people getting mugged slash robbed because someone lives there. especially for the wages that those delivery drivers make on both Domino’s and DoorDash.
There are solutions to the problem you listed there and allowing a company to pawn everything off to a company that isn’t putting the proper safety measures in for their drivers is not the solution.
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, don’t get me wrong. DoorDash is as much at fault as Domino’s would be in this scenario.
I just don’t see the comparison of oh, it’s not safe enough for my company to send people there, so let me allow another company to send people there because they are willing to give me money for it.
If it’s not safe to go to, then neither company should be sending there, and anyone that’s assisting in allowing that to go there would be equally at fault.
it sucks for the people who live in that area, but I don’t see where it makes logical sense to cause additional human risk for someone else’s situation for the intent of increasing profits. It’s morbid.
the core issue is exactly like what you just mentioned. DoorDash could do that, however they don’t, they even actively penalize their drivers for refusing routes that go to specific areas. if DD isn’t going to do it, then that responsibility morally falls on dominoes.
- Comment on For people who distrust police / the legal system: If you ran a small bussiness and need to hire people, and someone has a conviction but they claim innocence, do you hire them? 2 weeks ago:
It would matter extremely of what they were convicted of because that is ultimately a risk game.
If the guy was convicted of something related to financial(like fraud, theft etc) or hostility(murder, assault etc) I wouldn’t take the chance, otherwise I wouldn’t really care.
Remember, it doesn’t matter whether he did or not. it’s what society as a whole believes he did. If it’s a risk or liability to the company then it’s a no, but if it’s something that’s like a “oh well OK then” such as an old drug issue, IP violation, disorderly conduct etc, it’s whatever. If the public isn’t going to think differently of the company, and the financial stability of the company is not at risk, then go for it.
Although this also is assuming the guy has credentials, that would be worthwhile.
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 3 weeks ago:
I did just edit it to make my point a little clearer, which changed quite a bit of it. But to answer your question, if that area is an unsafe area, yes 1000%
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 3 weeks ago:
yea, instead they are providing a company food so they can deliver there, that makes it so much better /s
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 3 weeks ago:
yea DD does that with stores that don’t opt out of it. It’s dumb, while you do have the ability to actually partner with them(and in doing so you gain the ability to control when and who places/gets orders), if you don’t have an active partnership, they just send it via the dashers name and give the dasher a temp card to use for the transaction.
- Comment on Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery? 3 weeks ago:
Respectfully, that last part is pretty fucked up.
“We aren’t willing to send our drivers into this area for profit because of safety concerns, but we will send another companies drivers into the area”
- Comment on Amazon started hiding ratings for some products 3 weeks ago:
yea i wonder if that’s the case.
There are a few laws regarding fake reviews and review suppression in the states as well. So I’m almost wondering if it was the classic case of they started implementing something and then legal was like, yo, cut that shit out. That’s not allowed.
But I still feel like it might be something to do with the push for removing explicit content from minors that every platform seems to be doing.
- Comment on Can I still bypass Microsoft account creation when reinstalling windows through the "reset this PC" option? 3 weeks ago:
It depends on the system, some of them once connected to a network won’t allow shift-f10 to open a prompt.
- Comment on Can I still bypass Microsoft account creation when reinstalling windows through the "reset this PC" option? 4 weeks ago:
I want to reiterate the importance of the “pull the network cable” part. If you fail to unplug the cable before the setup wizard detects that there is the possibility of a network connection, on some systems it will actually prevent you from making a local account altogether, as it will force you to connect to a network which will skip the shift-f10 step.
We had this issue setting up demo models on laptops for awhile, if you didn’t disable the wifi adapter before it saw there was networks available(even if they were password protected) it would require a second factory reset to even get to the point where it would let you setup a local account.
- Comment on Do you ever get the feeling of zooming out of your phone into your head and actually realizing everything, instead of just mindlessly watching videos? 4 weeks ago:
I have to agree with this. Cold turkey rarely works for me as well. Finding an alternative to it works wonders. Like my alternative to social media/entertainment is gaming or development. Anything to keep your mind of the engagement.
- Comment on Do you ever get the feeling of zooming out of your phone into your head and actually realizing everything, instead of just mindlessly watching videos? 4 weeks ago:
I had something similar when I was using reddit. Constantly addicted to the site.
I didn’t know how bad it had actually gotten until when the API changes happened I uninstalled the app I was using.
For like the next 2 or 3 months, I would consistently catch myself sliding the side bar open and tapping where the app used to be. In some cases I would get in a loop and I would have attempted it like 6 or 7 times before realizing what I was doing.
The solution like others have said is disengage. The entire point of those platforms are addiction and entertainment. Shorts are even worse than entertainment posts as you can’t use the time waste on an individual level.
I had to fully block reddit at the DNS level to separate as I kept wanting to go back. I’m starting to notice the same effect when I’m on lemmy so as of late so I’m working on that.
- Comment on Why is stack overflow so horrible? 5 weeks ago:
I saw that in the wild a week or two back. Friend was learning a new job, all her trainer was able to say was “just ask AI” and send her to copilot.
I felt so bad for her.
- Comment on Why is stack overflow so horrible? 5 weeks ago:
if it was actually a duplicate, that would be perfect but it seems the majority of the time, its just a question similar and in some cases I’ve even seen them link a question that if you knew anything about it, wouldn’t have been even remotely related.
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think their intent is to have you go buy a PS5, I think their bigger intent is preventing it on Xbox hardware.
I think Xbox’s claims that all PC games will be available on the new system is a big reason for them to not allow it on PC, they have been a firm “We don’t want this on Xbox”, and they can’t uphold that with Project Helix’s claims that it runs PC games.
- Comment on A Game Pass for indie games: meet Indie Pass, a $6.99-a-month subscription launching with 70 titles 5 weeks ago:
I intentionally left addiction out of the equation as I don’t expect the everyday person is going to have that occur to them, and if it did occur that’s only going to make it /worse/ for the devs on the platform as it’s almost certainly going to favor rougelites and proc gen over story and action titles. I see no use of this.
as for my subs? I left the gaming sub field almost entirely. My only gaming sub I still have is humble bundle, because you own every game as long as you had choice the month it was released. I had gamepass ultimate for 2 years as part of the xbox X all access pass thing they did but, I found that there was very little actual decent “I want to play” games. I would play a few of them(like 6-8 of them) a month and then say “ok ill come back to them some day”, and then just not. For the price of a AAA title every 3 months (now a AAA title every other month) it wasn’t worth it for me.
From the consumer side, I feel the same way with this pass, I could take that same amount, and buy 2 or sometimes 3 of the games listed on this and have them to keep, and be helping the devs way more money wise.
- Comment on A Game Pass for indie games: meet Indie Pass, a $6.99-a-month subscription launching with 70 titles 5 weeks ago:
I resound with the other commenters, this is a hard pass for me.
I got enough subscriptions to deal with than have a subscription for the cheaper style games.
This type of model isn’t even going to be helpful to the developers either, it may increase publicity but, the article says itself that it bases money earned on gametime and if people played a lot each dev is going to have diminishing returns… Nobody buys a subscription model with the expectation they are only going to play 1 or 2 games, people play as many games as they can, that way they can get the most out of the subscription. for 6.99 a month, even locking myself down to once a week only, if I played 3 inde titles a week, for an hour each, thats 12 games a month, which means that 6.99 is going to be less than 60 cents to each developer a month, and that is ignoring whatever cost they charge as a platform fee.
Sure the argument can be made that thats still money the dev wouldn’t be getting otherwise but, I see this as more of a disadvantage to inde studios. I think the example they used in the article is very optimistic and not super realistic to what will happen.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 5 weeks ago:
Yea i get what you mean. Also I know what case you are talking about I think, That was the case where they never even noticed he did it until he said something right? I saw a youtube video on that a year or two ago.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 5 weeks ago:
I agree but, that’s a lot of money that takes a bunch of time to setup, for a solution that can be very cheaply fixed and then ignored again.
- Comment on California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park 5 weeks ago:
imo if you are going to start changing how the road is, start blocking it or start damaging the road to force a speedbump or hole. It’s a lot cheaper than spending 1000$, a lot faster and less likely to get caught in the act.
- Comment on New Rumored Xbox Game Pass Tier Includes Only First Party Games 1 month ago:
it would need to be so much cheaper to be worth it. Like current GP ultimate already is a scam and a half unless you were essentially buying a AAA title every 2 months, unless the price of this subscription is at least a quarter the price of ultimate it wouldn’t be worth it imo.
- Comment on What's your opinion on post-game content? do you do it? or are you done with the game when the credits roll? 1 month ago:
I treat postgame content the same as I treat new game+
It’s super unlikely I will look into it unless the game rocked my world.
Many games treat post game content as a grindfest for people who really liked the game but didn’t want it to end, I usually have no interest in it.
The last games I looked into both NG+ and post game content on was final fantasy XV and God of War (the ps4 one), and I didn’t finish either of them.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 month ago:
I don’t think in this case it will really matter since as it’s GPL anyway, so the worst case scenario is some private company takes the code and tries to use it without giving back but I can see the issue with other projects or if they wanted to use a more restrictive license
- Comment on I never saw the twilight zone. To pick it up should I was the old vs new? Or is it much of a difference? 2 months ago:
as someone currently watching through them I agree with this. I started with the old and it’s pretty good, but you can see the age of it.
- Comment on I'd rather a simple "no thanks" 2 months ago:
I hate that companies have to be above and beyond on rejection if they do them.
Like i’m glad they give them but, how hard is a:
Subject: Application/Interview Rejected body: Dear name, We regret to inform you that we have decided not to continue with your application/interview process due to X, We appreciate your interest in this company, HR Name
With X being the reason.