JoMiran
@JoMiran@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram explode after Meta ends fact-checking 1 week ago:
Welcome to the club y’all. What took you so long?
- Comment on Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup 4 weeks ago:
The problem is that in the process of monetizing something, the tendency is to handicap the service that made you popular to begin with by either moving some features into the paid tier or degrading the service in order to steer users into a paid tier. If demand existed for a brand new, guaranteed to never enshittify, Twitter clone that costs $10/month, then we would have one.
The fact is that social networks have to give away access to their systems because the real product is community and engagement, and you cannot have that without significant user volume. Once the users have freely given the company the product, then the company can start monetizing their means of transport, and the only way they can do that is by paywalling quality of life features. Thus, enshittification begins.
- Comment on Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup 4 weeks ago:
Then you do not know what enshittification is.
- Comment on Pornhub Is Pulling Out of Florida 4 weeks ago:
This legislation is brought to you by NordVPN.
- Comment on Reddit bans posting UnitedHealthcare shooter’s manifesto 5 weeks ago:
Israeli politicians and pundits call for violence and genocide against defenseless civilians in Gaza and nobody bats an eye but one member of a tier of people that make enough money to hire their own private army gets capped, and everyone loses their mind.
If your job requires you to ruin people’s lives or cause their untimely death, it is reasonable to assume that you would need private security. I hate to victim blame (not really) but it seems to me that it was UHC CEO’s own fault that he got taken out by an amateur. I’d say do better next time but…
- Comment on Google pulls bad McDonald’s reviews after Luigi Mangione’s arrest 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Blizzard are delisting Warcraft I and II from GOG, so GOG adds a special discount and will keep them updated 1 month ago:
Will I ever play these games again (I played them a lot when new)? Probably not. Did I buy the bundle in order to support GOG? Yes. Yes I did.
- Comment on Kenyan workers with AI jobs thought they had tickets to the future until the grim reality set in 1 month ago:
Wambalo and other digital workers spent eight hours a day in front of a screen studying photos and videos, drawing boxes around objects and labeling them, teaching AI algorithms to recognize them.
Human labelers tag cars and pedestrians to teach autonomous vehicles not to hit them.
Imagine doing CAPTCHA for eight hours a day.
- Comment on America's drinking water systems have a hard-to-swallow cybersecurity problem | More than 100M rely on gear rife with vulnerabilities, says EPA OIG 1 month ago:
If you want to know one of the main culprits…
- Comment on LG’s first 480Hz OLED gaming monitor is $1,000 2 months ago:
I thought it would have been obvious but the number of downvotes says otherwise.
- Comment on LG’s first 480Hz OLED gaming monitor is $1,000 2 months ago:
What’s the point if the human eye can’t see beyond 30fps?
- Comment on Check out Proton-Sarek if you have an older GPU for Windows games on Linux 2 months ago:
:-(
- Comment on Check out Proton-Sarek if you have an older GPU for Windows games on Linux 2 months ago:
I run a Nvidia 1080, 1070 and 1650(?) on my linux PCs. Is that the age-range of GPU for Sarek?
- Comment on Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children 2 months ago:
How in the world is the KGB, an institution disbanded before HTML was created, a problem for anyone on the Internet? MS13 and ISIS are fring examples used as boogiemen to obfuscate and distract. Anyway, the point of the laughter was the use of KGB. Is the Stasi tapping iPhones?
- Comment on Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children 2 months ago:
…KGB, MS13 and ISIS…
- Comment on Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children 2 months ago:
I have no problem giving everyone access to means of socializing online. We have or have had BBS, Usenet, IRC and many more ways to do this. The problem with “social media”, IMHO, are the algorithms and addictive design concepts as well as the fact that these platforms are designed to extract as much information from the user as possible. The information provided is not the product, the user is.
- Comment on Norway to increase minimum age limit on social media to 15 to protect children 2 months ago:
“This legislation is sponsored and brought to you by our good friends over at NordVPN…”
- Comment on Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC 2 months ago:
Arguing against a ban or regulation, the paper says that “usage-based pricing can improve broadband affordability and, in turn, foster increased adoption. Under flat-rate pricing, all consumers pay the same amount regardless of usage, potentially leading to overuse by heavy users and cross-subsidization by light users. With usage-based pricing, consumers who use less data pay less, consumers who use more pay more, and no group of consumers cross-subsidizes usage by other users. Service that was unaffordable to some consumers under flat-rate pricing may become affordable to those who use less data, thereby expanding adoption among that cohort.”
Except that in markets with a single provider they use data caps a s a way to charge more for the same service. In Austin I had a choice between multiple providers and ended up paying $50/month for uncapped bidirectional 500mbps service. In Wyoming, the same service costs $349 because there is only one provider.
- Comment on HP ink cartridge DRM bypass demonstrated using physical man-in-the-middle-attack 3 months ago:
The ‘best printer’ category winner every year is whatever Brother laser printer is on sale during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale.
- Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed 4 months ago:
What I meant by drives are NAS. I buy the drives on sale spin up a new array, migrate the data, and redirect the mount point.
I use to cold store until I realized that unless I have access to it, it might as well not exist. Now I keep everything live, even backups going back to 1997.
The only data I have “lost” are copies of my old warez CDs from eastern Europe because I have no idea where I have stashed them, and a pack of Zip Disks because I have no functioning Zip Drive.
- Comment on Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed 4 months ago:
I have a crate of old hard drives going back to the late nineties. Am I the only person that migrates the data to new drives regularly? At this point it is a yearly tradition for me to pick up larger drives during the Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales. Why rely on old 4tb drives when you can move them all to fresh 14tb drives?
- Comment on Spray Paint Simulator looks like it will suck me in as badly as PowerWash Simulator did 4 months ago:
I remember when SkillUp tweeted something making fun of the upcoming Powerwash Simulator. I told him that I unironically thought it would be amazing and I dared him to play it. Soon a bunch of people chimed in to agree, so he gave it a shot. Next thing you know, he was hooked.
Such a satisfying time killer.
- Comment on Popular APRG 'Last Epoch' to get Steam Deck Verified with a big update on September 19 4 months ago:
Last Epoch is so good.
- Comment on With SteamOS coming, Microsoft needs to up its game in the handheld gaming market [if it's going to compete] 4 months ago:
They can’t even offer a linux native XBox XCloud client that launches directly from Steam. How hard can that possibly be?
Also looking at you Geforce Now.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII arrives February 11, 2025 - Gameplay reveal trailer live 4 months ago:
Cool. I’ll pick it up in three to four years.
- Comment on Grab a load of hit digital board games in this new Humble Bundle 5 months ago:
Dune and Wingspan alone are worth the price of admission. I have Root too but I am yet to play it.
- Comment on Sci-fi coffee sipper Satisfactory gets a 1.0 release date, boasting its toilets will be fully flushable 6 months ago:
That headline is a brand new sentence.
- Comment on CD Project devs want to "call out" big problems like homelessness and the wealth gap in Cyberpunk 2077 sequel 6 months ago:
The video game is fairly tame when it comes to themes like this, when compared to the source material and genre as a whole.
“Cyberpunk was a warning, not an aspiration.” – Mike Pondsmith
- Comment on The Kingdom Hearts games are now out on Steam, don't ask me to explain them 7 months ago:
