Alexstarfire
@Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
- Comment on ‘Free Willy’ Reboot in the Works at Warner Bros. 4 days ago:
No thanks. I’m good.
- Comment on Framework proved repairable laptops can work, but almost nobody is willing to buy one 5 days ago:
Same boat here. My workplace gave me my old laptop when they upgraded me. It’s not great, but I don’t need it for much. Just browsing the internet.
- Comment on SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere 5 days ago:
Just that the number may be quite inflated, when referring to electronics. It’s still bad. Especially as someone else pointed out that the housing may be problematic as well.
- Comment on SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere 5 days ago:
That was not the point of my post.
- Comment on SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere 1 week ago:
I imagine most of that weight isn’t the actual electronics, but the housing.
- Comment on Oh no, that's Lenovo saying they think these RAM prices will be the new normal and may never go back to how they were 2 weeks ago:
It’s quickly becoming a “the best time to build a pc was 2 years ago, the second best time is now” situation.
- Comment on US Army Writes Off $1.8 Billion in IVAS Headsets Due to Defects 4 weeks ago:
$180k each? Which company made these cause they sure as hell made bank.
- Comment on A major watchdog says data centers are wreaking havoc on North America's power grid 2 months ago:
If only anyone could have seen this coming.
- Comment on A suspected YouTube interface bug spikes RAM usage above 7 gigabytes, users report severe lag and frozen tabs — bug might be trapping browsers in an endless layout loop 2 months ago:
Yes. I regularly have to either close Firefox or kill the GPU process in it so it’ll free up RAM. Worst I saw it was at 13GB.
- Comment on OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says 3 months ago:
I must admit… I have no idea what that means.
- Comment on OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says 3 months ago:
Before or after the accident?
- Comment on Fourth Most Populous Country in the World Bans Most Social Media for Kids 3 months ago:
There’s a difference. If you want to do those things online, you need some way to pay. Those ways involve knowing the person is of age, not perfect but pretty good. That said, I haven’t done online gambling in quite some time so IDK how crypto facts into this. The same can’t be said about browsing the internet in general. I don’t need to provide any info to just go look at things online. I’m not changing that even if my government thinks otherwise.
Also, those laws came about before the internet. It’s a lot easier to enforce when it’s easy to show someone an ID, and that they’ll forget in the next 5 seconds. Pretty sure people would have a problem if they were forced to keep a list of people who did those things.
I’m sure you’ll say “but no one is requiring a list to be kept” and that may be true, but how would you know if they are? And that’s the problem. We’ve gotten to a point where there are very few entities we can trust with our data, government included. I don’t trust anyone with it anymore. There have been so many breaches I’d be shocked if anyone who uses the internet hasn’t had their information leaked. I don’t have much choice sometimes though. And it’s not like much of my data isn’t already out there in some form because I was on the internet back in the mid 90s.
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 3 months ago:
Not that Google was doing stellar with their rollout, but I haven’t heard anything bad from anyone who’s actually used the service. This is one of the worst things that could have happened with their service.
- Comment on Downdetector and Speedtest have been sold for over $1 billion 4 months ago:
Do people just make up numbers for what companies are worth? I don’t see how either of these are worth much of anything.
- Comment on Find out if you can run a Marathon with the extraction shooter's system requirements 5 months ago:
I know I can’t. My computer also probably can’t run the game.
- Comment on Study reveals that dark web users show significantly higher levels of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and digital self-harm compared to surface web users 7 months ago:
He was still right.
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 7 months ago:
Nope. :( Guess I’ll never know.
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 7 months ago:
What did you type?
- Comment on It's not just you: Cloudflare, and half the Internet, is down 7 months ago:
It’s weird how I’m taking a day off whenever this stuff happens.
- Comment on Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to $50 billion 9 months ago:
No, but there is a recurring subscription fee.
- Comment on PNG is back! 1 year ago:
And yet, PNG has more support. If they start supporting the new spec, seems like an improvement to me.
- Comment on The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible 1 year ago:
Day 1
- Comment on The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible 1 year ago:
Take a guess.
- Comment on Researchers create most human-like robot skin yet 1 year ago:
Reminds me of the hand from Willy Wonka.
- Comment on One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia's GPUs so they can be bricked if they go to China 1 year ago:
It’s called the power connector.
- Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots 1 year ago:
Bet this backfires on them.
- Comment on Netflix aims to be a trillion-dollar company, says co-CEO 1 year ago:
That’s so 90s.
- Comment on Is AI sexist? How artificial images are perpetuating gender bias in reality. 1 year ago:
AI is based on humans, so yes.
- Comment on A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content 1 year ago:
What’s wrong with green Mario?
- Comment on Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity announce new 'AI Phone' priced at under $1K 1 year ago:
I’d pass even if they paid me $1k to use the phone.
