Pika
@Pika@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on How do you introduce the Fediverse to other people? 22 hours ago:
I don’t. I passively mention lemmy when I’m discussing my activities, and if they show interest I go into further detail. They have never shown an interest past “Whats a lemmy”
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 22 hours ago:
I don’t think this policy is enforceable in my state. Not that we have much of a mixed language anyway.
I don’t think its appropriate to have as a rule in general. I can understand having a universal language for work related topics if there is someone who doesn’t speak the language present (or isn’t fluent), but a straight out ban on all other languages but the target language? that’s just unneeded and creates a hostile work environment.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 3 days ago:
I hadent heard of him until BL4 was released, but man does he seem like a real big piece of work lol
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 4 days ago:
I use that coupon every once and awhile, but that still makes it 3$ more than what it used to be, and requires me to use a coupon when I could redeem for points or use something else. And thats also forcing me to use their app. Which the app itself is actual trash now. They removed the search bar for items, they added point expiration(ok this was awhile ago) they now charge you immediately upon placing the order, despite not actually starting the order until your GPS detects you are at the establishment. Theres no ability to cancel and order once placed, regardless if its started being made. Their FAQ page intentionally lies to you telling you that every purchase is final, despite the fact that if they haven’t started making the order, it will eventually refund the purchase. They added a waiver for class actions to the apps TOS meaning if you want to sue you must use third party attribution. It massively harvests data. All for the benefit of paying more for something that I used to be able to spend 12$ not even 10 years ago on.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 5 days ago:
Agreed, I almost exclusively go to dominos for that carryout deal. I can get 3 meals worth for < 10 or one meals worth for twice the price. It’s a no brainer.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 5 days ago:
Sorry I havent been on lemmy as often so delayed reply.
My standard order is 2 bacon mcdoubles(currently $4.89 a piece), a large fry($4.99) and a lemonade($2.49) or a Mcafe($5.99), so it ends up being $17.29 for my food or 18.64 after tax, or if I wanted a cafe it would be 19.76 or 21.34 after tax.
Just 5 years ago I could get 2 bacon mcdoubles, 2 large fries, a 20 piece nugget and a lemonade for about 18$ (granted that was with a deal).
Back in 2016 I could get that same bacon burger meal above for a little over 12. I can’t warrent it.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t gone to a mcdonald’s by choice in almost 4 years now. When my meal rose from 12-13$ to 17-18$ I stopped going. Just for the chuckle I put that same meal into the app, it’s now 22$ after tax. yea no I’ll just go to apple bees or dominos and get more food for less.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 2 weeks ago:
It depends on how you are looking at it. Since you called it “Investment properties” I have to assume you plan to maximize profits on it so I would have to say yes it is. However if you are renting the property out for market value and only doing a modest increase to cover costs and the mortgage I don’t think it is. Obviously you need to cover expenses for the property or else someone else who won’t do the same is going to obtain it.
- Comment on Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons? 1 month ago:
agree with this as well.
- Comment on Philz Coffee Being Sold to Private Equity Firm for $145 Million, Employees Reportedly Getting Screwed Out of Their Stock 1 month ago:
I don’t think it is unfortunately because this is completely legal as long as it was laid out in the terms of the stock when it was purchased.
This isn’t preferred stock that we’re talking about, this is common stock and most of the time that type of stock is given out to employees as like an incentive program and generally hold no actual weight in the company itself and is the least priority when these types of sales occur.
Basically, if they wanted to initiate litigation on this, their argument would have to be either that they were misled of the type of stock that they were purchasing, or that they didn’t adequately state the financial risks of the stock.
By all means, I think they should try, especially that guy that said that they invested $10 million into that company and is losing it. I just don’t think it will go anywhere.
- Comment on Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons? 1 month ago:
I didn’t have this experience, because I very regularly had college classes that didn’t start until 5, 6 in the afternoon, but I would expect that if your college doesn’t offer those type of classes, that they likely have some sort of college sport and that’s a pretty big income source for them, because that’s the main reason that most high schools still run Early in the morning to early in the afternoon, despite it’s been proven that’s during a period that is not good for actual information retention, with newer generations.
- Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again 1 month ago:
honestly, my opinion of epic is starting to improve more and more with every legal case they open.
They are bringing what everyone knew was going on into official record and forcing the countries to do something about it. I’m rooting for em
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 1 month ago:
Lets make sure we are on the same page then, cause I don’t see the issue with my post.
I am using the term “Graceful Degradation” which is meant as a fault tolerance for tech stacks to allow for a critical component to be removed.
This critical component people are talking about is Javascript which is used for all dynamically loaded content, and used for fallover protection so one service going down doesn’t make it so the entire page goes down (also an example of fault tolerance).
The proposed solution given would remove that fault tolerance for the reasons I provided in the original reply, while degrading the users experience due to reduced page load (users reloading the page inconsistently vs consistently to get new information) and increasing maintenance costs and overhead on the provider.
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 1 month ago:
personally I think this is mostly due to for some reason people tend to give up on visiting a website if it takes more than a second or two to load, so instead they load a mostly blank page (which gives the sign that its loading) and then use javascript to load the rest of the content in.
that and fucking ads galore
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 1 month ago:
my only issue with this ideology is, this setup would essentially require a whole new processing system to handle, as instead of it being sent via events, it would need to be rendered and sent server side. This also forces the server to load everything at once instead of dynamically like how it currently does, which will increase strain/load on the server node that is displaying the web page, while also removing the potential of service isolation between the parts of the web page meaning if one component goes down(such as chat history), the entire page handler goes down, while also decreasing page response and load times. That’s the downside of those old legacy style pages. They are a pain in the ass to maintain, run slower and don’t have much fallover ability.
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 1 month ago:
While I wouldn’t go as far as keying, I fully agree if you park in a protected lane such as a fire lane, bike lane, handicap etc any damages accumated in the lane should be the drivers responsibility.
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 1 month ago:
ah that makes sense thank you, I’ll clarify it some. I didn’t specifically say so but, I don’t personally agree that it should be biker vs car enforcement based, I’m just glad they are doing /something/ about the bikers whom seem to had been just ignored previously.
As for commercial vs personal, I do think it would be better to impose stricter penalty for commercial though, as like you said there is higher incentive to cut corners/break laws, which means the same penalty doesn’t weigh as much when it’s getting you more money or making you look better for a larger company.
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 1 month ago:
I mean no reason both couldn’t be done I agree
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 1 month ago:
I’m not saying let the drivers off the hook, I’m just saying that bikers, from what I’ve seen there usually get ignored or just continue after fines, it’s clear the punishment wasn’t high enough. Hell I was just there in March and saw 3 people get hit and a bunch bikers just ignore the lights. (and ofc a crap ton of pedestrians as well but yea)
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 1 month ago:
I’m curious what’s the double standard here?
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 1 month ago:
I’m glad when someone confirms they read the post ahead of time. Makes commenting easier.
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 1 month ago:
I fully agree, more biking accessible options becoming available wouod be good. it’s not safe from either side.
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 1 month ago:
I occasionally visit new York, and this was long overdue I understand eco friendiness and it’s nice that it’s not cars but, it’s insane there. for those who have never been. The sidewalks and roads are absolutely littered with food delivery drivers. There are walking areas that as a pedestrian you can’t walk because you risk getting run over by delivery drivers on bikes who only care about delivering as fast as possible to maximize their money. In a city with as heavy pedestrian traffic as NY that’s a bad combination.
I fully agree with mandatated court hearings for it, it forces the delivery driver to lose a day’s income instead of just accounting it as a cost of the job. As the previous penalties wern’t doing anything
- Comment on Volunteering enshittification 1 month ago:
Yeah, I agree with this. However, I wanted to add in that in many cases, even without the disclaimer, the volunteer company could legally be able to disclose those pictures.
Because in order for something to be commercial, it needs to be promoting a product or an organization. So a big company just posting pictures, saying, look, this is our volunteer work, doesn’t necessarily require any type of disclosure notice.
As long as the volunteer work was being done in a public location(or even a private location with signs), then it’s free game. It’s more of a cover the grey areas in the law policy and remove the extra work if the intent is to promote a product( like you mentioned.)
- Comment on I'm setting up a Windows 11 laptop for my uncle. Is there a sneaky way to make it block right-wing bullshit websites? 1 month ago:
This is a sticky situation if you try to implement it. At best you temp hide it from the uncle, at worse you double down the ideology because of conspiracy theories and end up hurting your relationship with your uncle, plus Anything you can do locally he could find workarounds for if he wanted to, especially since his friends will know the sites still exist.
He would likely accuse you immediately though as the last person to touch the system is always the one at fault, and you are the one setting it up.
To answer the question though, you could edit the host file to block known propaganda networks(by directing them to invalid ip’s which would make it look like its down) but, that setup is not very effective and unless you can block all of them, hes just going to find ways around it or alternatives, and this system likely wouldn’t survive most current day browsers that are pushing secure DNS such as firefox since cloudflare is going to know how to access it still.
I still don’t think it’s a good idea though, too many things that could go wrong out of it, plus hard pushing an agenda has never been a good way at convincing someone their mentality isn’t right, this will just re-enforce his mentality.
- Comment on What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer? 2 months ago:
Ignoring my phone because I prefer to text anyway, so you not answering was a massive relief to me. Chances are if you text instead I’ll respond, or can leave a voice mail, but honestly if I didn’t leave a message or sent a text, it wasn’t important enough/mission critical in the first place.
- Comment on If You Want Me To Support You, Form A Union 2 months ago:
hard agree
People act as if the everyday person has this imaginary power. That’s going to make things better. No. Collected efforts have this power that makes things better. And for some stupid reason, at least in the US, we are extremely against using that power.
people would rather try to support it as an individual instead of support it as a collective, so instead of it being an actual impact, it’s only like a drop in the bucket that the companies can ignore. all for a pittance of extra income.
- Comment on What are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses? 2 months ago:
They only expose approximate, not precise, locations, so they shouldn’t be a risk like GPS that exposes precise locations?
Be aware, this is VASTLY dependent on your ISP. Smaller ISP’s especially DSL based ones in rural areas are notorious for giving almost exact address when you reverse look up it.
My old ISP used to do that. like I had to try super hard to mask my IP if I went somewhere like IRC or Chatango that disclosed the full address to people joining, because if someone wanted to they could have looked up my address down to the house just by following the remote lookup because it would show my address instead of their nearest hub.
Thankfully now it shows me somewhere in NY which I feel a lot more comfortable with, but still don’t take for granted that it’s only an approximate.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 2 months ago:
It likely is going to fall under child neglect. I don’t know of an actual law specifically for locking a kid in a car.
As for the exceptions thing, that is the same in the states, it usually falls under law(s) categorized as “Good Samaritan laws”. They are moreso meant to protect the bystander if they see someone in peril but, breaking the window to save a kid or pet that is clearly in distress would normally fall under that. Personal injury also usually fall under these laws, like if you accidentally injured someone getting them to safety when it was clear they were in a dangerous location, the laws usually apply.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 2 months ago:
So many steps were taken here that made no sense. Like why would the mom even think it was ok, and why did the office tell the mom “Yea they can wait in the lobby” like I assume she didn’t give an age or anything cause no office worker is going to knowingly allow this to happen, or allow a 1 and 2 year old to just sit in the lobby.