corsicanguppy
@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on API error knocks PayPal, Venmo offline around the globe 4 weeks ago:
- Not sure the point
- Not sure the relevance
- Not sure the timing.
Its like a kid on the transit bus talking about dinosaurs.
- Comment on GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with hundreds of classics being 're-released' 5 weeks ago:
DRMs
Not pluralized. We don’t say “4 managements”
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 5 weeks ago:
Teslas (and almost all other EV’s) have electronic only doors
- but Teslas don’t.
- we never pluralize with an apostrophe.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 5 weeks ago:
Continuing to not support an EoL model that you already don’t support due to EoL (or even dropping support for an EoL model that no one expected you to support in the first place due to EoL)? Non-issue.
Dropping support should mean opening the source. I think there’s a movement about that.
- Comment on Microsoft tests wooden data centers in a bid to cut carbon emissions 1 month ago:
FIRE’S FAVOURITE FOOD !
- Comment on Samsung update bricks phones, giving harsh reminder of data backup importance 2 months ago:
Huh. This is an S10. Duck and cover I guess.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 2 months ago:
I’m not supporting a company just for charity. Companies aren’t people.
- They make something I want
- I buy it
An epic release isn’t what I want.
- Comment on Ikea is testing a secondhand marketplace, but only in two countries 3 months ago:
And if you find them old enough, they contain actual wood!
- Comment on [Interview] Signal's Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash and the 'edge lords' at OpenAI 6 months ago:
Usually, no.
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 10 months ago:
This from the guy who can’t remember what he wrote, nor can he scroll up.
You fell off the high horse a ways back. Pay attention.
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 10 months ago:
I wish I could see a liberty ad.
The only crap I see is “before you buy something on Amazon, see this” garbage.
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 10 months ago:
Sail the seas, m’boy!
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 10 months ago:
So creatives aren’t happy. Customers aren’t happy. Broadcasters seem happy.
End-stage enshittification confirmed?
- Comment on Kevin Hart Says He Won’t Host the Oscars Again: Awards Shows ‘Aren’t Comedy-Friendly Environments Anymore’ 11 months ago:
I see what you did there. Bold move, as it’s risky.
- Comment on Kevin Hart Says He Won’t Host the Oscars Again: Awards Shows ‘Aren’t Comedy-Friendly Environments Anymore’ 11 months ago:
Did you totally leave out a word or did you misconjugate?
- Comment on Battlestar Galactica Reboot Moves Forward at Peacock With New Showrunner 11 months ago:
And Firefly has no reboot.
- Comment on I hate that I am become this person but: are delivery drivers just allowed to call and say 'please come and meet me' now? 1 year ago:
Yep. Tip only after worthy service has been rendered. (Former waiter)
- Comment on I’m sick of streaming. Films were better on Blu-ray 1 year ago:
I have dogma on DVD. I’m happy.
- Comment on I’m sick of streaming. Films were better on Blu-ray 1 year ago:
It’s really looking that way.
I’m aware that an underground VPN exists among a few of my old workmates. They asked me to join but I’m a goody-goody (twice shy on that) so no, but the torrents still flow.
This will come back. The fat cats know, and they’re getting ready.