DrBob
@DrBob@lemmy.ca
Recovering academic now in public safety. You’ll find me kibitzing on brains (my academic expertise) to critical infrastructure and resilience (current worklife). Also hockey, games, music just because.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Half Life 3 was a true to life experience.
- Comment on Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers 5 months ago:
That is not a loss in my books.
- Comment on Google Podcasts is shutting down soon, users urged to move to YouTube Music 7 months ago:
I did too. Moved to AntennaPod when they first announced that bullshit. GPod was…fine. I started using it because it was there and it wasn’t enough of an irritant to switch over.
- Comment on What is "FUD"? 11 months ago:
As others have said Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt.
It entered tech lingo way back in the 90s when Microsoft was fighting an early wave of Linux on desktop. They would troll and present themselves as a reliable alternative.
They weren’t the first to do it. IBM’s unofficial motto in the 70s was “nobody gets fired for going with IBM”.