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- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 4 weeks ago:
YT is the one mixed, on one hand, the ads are annoying AF if you’re not premium and they’re becoming more user hostile towards ad blocking every day
But on the other hand, hosting and providing bandwidth for video is not cheap. Hosting and providing bandwidth AND allowing users to upload whatever they want no matter the length (I think there’s a limit of 10 hours, which is MORE than generous IMO) OR quality (seriously, who even has the setup to watch 8k videos lol) is REALLY NOT CHEAP
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think it will have as much of an effect on the auto industry I’m afraid, the auto industry is already well used to having multiple regional models to comply with weird country quirks of their own vehicle safety boards.
Any EU mandate will just get through onto the already existing model destined for EU countries. Unless the RU writes it in such a way to force companies to abide by it in all countries even non-EU, but that would be a legal gray area for sure.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 5 weeks ago:
I hope this gets laws enacted that force manufacturers to install mechanical latches on all of their vehicles.
Considering Musk’s love affair with the incoming administration, I wouldn’t bet on it for the next 4 years (hopefully)
In fact I’d be happy to just have the NHTSA avoid being dismantled in the next 4 years
- Comment on Google asks 9th Circuit for emergency stay, says Epic ruling ‘is dangerous’ 2 months ago:
Oh yea, very dangerous!..to their profits.
Both Google, Apple and MS have been hiding behind their screech’s of “privacy and security” for their many user hostile decisions for years now.
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 2 months ago:
He would also ban chromebooks if his opinion of the school computers is anything to go by.
He’s got my vote lol
- Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed 3 months ago:
Disk is king when you need lots of active storage.
When it comes to archival Tape is king. I would never trust an HDD to be left unpowered for years like you could a tape cartridge.
And a single LTO9 cartridge can hold 18TBs for dirt cheap compared to the equivalent HDD
- Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed 3 months ago:
It’s almost certainly tape, a single LTO9 cartridge can hold 18TBs of data for cheap compared to the equivalent drive.
Blu-ray is unlikely, only quad layer BR have a decent capacity at 125GB each and quality ones are hard to find these days. Sony has even stopped making their blu ray based Optical Disk Archival system thing.
- Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed 3 months ago:
Not for long term archival they didn’t. HDDs and SSDs suffer from bitrot among other issues when they haven’t been powered and/or refreshed in awhile.
Tape is still king for long term archival, just about every major company uses it for the long term archival of critical data.
They may also use cloud archival services, because when it comes to backups if you don’t have multiple across multiple mediums and multiple places, you don’t have a backup.
- Comment on No Man's Sky's Aquarius update lets you go fishing across the galaxy 3 months ago:
Man I really need to get back into NMS, the last couple updates have looked really cool
- Comment on This founder had to train his AI not to rickroll people 3 months ago:
Kinda sad tbh, it gets a tiny sliver of personality and they train it away :(
- Comment on Police pulled over a Waymo car that drove in the oncoming lane in Phoenix 5 months ago:
Code enforcement for commercial properties is one thing, a simple traffic citation is another.
The responsible party is usually whoever is driving. In the case of self-driving taxi services, like Waymo, the ticket should go to the company the vehicle is registered under.
Which is super easy to pull up, so easy in fact that other automated enforcement mechanisms, like tolls or red light cameras do this with rental companies all the time. Rent a car and go through some tolls or trigger a red light camera and you’ll get a bill “forwarded” to you in a month or 2.
- Comment on Police pulled over a Waymo car that drove in the oncoming lane in Phoenix 5 months ago:
however, officers have to give them to the company that owns the vehicle. Doing so is “not feasible,” according to a Phoenix police spokesperson
That’s gotta be the biggest crock of shit I’ve ever heard, you write the ticket up, and you mail it to the company.
- Comment on Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan 5 months ago:
Yo ho! yo ho! A pirate’s life for me, Sailing through the broadband, on the digital sea. With torrents and downloads, we navigate the waves, Seeking out the treasure in cyberspace’s caves.
We plunder and we crack, from software far and wide, Our digital fleet sails, with bandwidth as our tide. No map or compass needed, we follow the online trail, In search of hidden files, and secrets to unveil.
Yo ho! yo ho! A pirate’s life for me, With DRM to crack, and torrents running free. We hoist the Jolly Roger, on virtual high seas, Aye, we be the scourge of the modern IPs.
With VPNs to cloak us, and proxies in our wake, The legend of net pirates, just rumors and hearsay. So raise a glass of energy drink, to the life we lead so free, For we are modern pirates, on the vast and boundless sea.
Yo ho! yo ho! With every byte we claim, We’ll sing our shanty proudly, in the digital domain!
- Comment on Google is ready to fill free streaming TV channels with ads 6 months ago:
I think people are forgetting just how bad cable ADs were (still are?)
An hour long episode would be more like 40mins of content and 20 minutes of ADs
- Comment on iFixit is breaking up with Samsung 6 months ago:
Ah Samsuck being Samsuck
though similar deals are going well with Google, Motorola, and HMD
Kinda surprising TBH lol
- Comment on Report: Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Immediately Killed Wireless Price Competition In U.S. 7 months ago:
Things started going downhill after Legere stepped down from CEO
But yea, I’m not too affected by trade in deals either, but for different reasons. I just keep “jumping” every year lmao except for the phone I had prior to this one, it currently sits as my longest in use phone at 2.5 years and mostly just because I was committed to having a foldy for my next phone, but had to wait for the pixel fold to drop because I CANNOT stand Samshit phones in general, but also Samshits foldy offering is WAY too narrow lol
- Comment on Report: Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Immediately Killed Wireless Price Competition In U.S. 7 months ago:
Fr, I always remember seeing phrases along the lines of “T-Mobile, a distant third competitor” all the time and sprint was literally on the verge of bankruptcy. If you think sprint merging with T-Mobile was bad, just imagine what it would be like if they had just gone bankrupt and AT&T/Verizon swopped in and bought large chunks of them for pennies on the dollar.
Remember, AT&T was against the deal and was part of a lawsuit to block it IIRC, so on that reason alone people should have supported the deal because any move AT&T figures is good for them is probably bad for people.
- Comment on Jackbox Naughty Pack Is The First M-Rated Game In The Series 7 months ago:
Thank you Carol!
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot has been banned for use by US House staff members, at least for now 8 months ago:
If what you want is difficult to find publicly, then that also means an LLM is going to be weak in that area as well
What you want is a “general AI” LLM, something capable of stringing together a solution based on past somewhat related solutions. We’re not here yet, so basically you’re asking it to do something beyond what it is capable of and it’s trying its best anyways
- Comment on Microsoft is stuffing pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows again 9 months ago:
To the “Just use edge, it’s as good as chrome anyways” people, this right here is one good example of why not to use it.
Fuck Edge.
- Comment on Fairly Oddparents Gets a Sequel Series With Original Cosmo and Wanda Voice Actors Returning - IGN 9 months ago:
Wait, when did the old one go off the air in the first place? I thought it was another SpongeBob or Simpsons and they just keep pumping new episodes out lmao
- Comment on Fairly Oddparents Gets a Sequel Series With Original Cosmo and Wanda Voice Actors Returning - IGN 9 months ago:
Yo wtf. Hell no, just about every cartoon-turned-live action has been dog shit (at best), how could you even advocate for such crap?
- Comment on Lower Decks: Can anyone tell me what I'm missing? 1 year ago:
The LD characters are much more like “real” people than the other Trek series to me.
This is why I like it, it’s closer to how I expect “real” humans to act even 400 years in the future.
The other treks are more idealized, heroized, professional.
- Comment on Spotify doesn't allow podcast ratings unless you use the mobile app 1 year ago:
Ah shit, I didn’t think of that dammit now I gotta figure out how to save my lists somewhere else ugh
- Comment on Spotify doesn't allow podcast ratings unless you use the mobile app 1 year ago:
Discover Weekly has been a joke for ages too.
Fr, I just listened to the most recent 2-3 months worth on my backlog (I auto-archive my DW lists so they don’t disappear the next week lol) and I think a whopping 2 songs made it on to my master playlist. Usually there’s like 10 or more for similar time periods…I was just blaming it on my tastes confusing the algorithm (I like to jump around genre’s a LOT lmao) but maybe it wasn’t just me after all lol
- Comment on No excuses 1 year ago:
Excuses! Your right arm is perfectly fine