adarza
@adarza@lemmy.ca
- Comment on uBlock Origin is no longer available in the Chrome store 2 weeks ago:
basically gorhill forked his own project into ‘ublock origin’ and gave the original ‘ublock’ to someone else.
the original kinda fizzled out after that person tried to solicit donations. ‘ublock’ was then sold to ‘adblock’ and restarted-sorta.
a few years later, eyeo (known for ‘adblockplus’) bought ‘adblock’ (and with it, what became of the original ‘ublock’).
- Comment on Amazon shuts down Chime, its Zoom alternative 5 weeks ago:
some you can at least join and use without an ‘app’ or an install, via browser.
- Comment on Shopify pulls Kanye’s website offline over swastika merch 1 month ago:
so he got shut down for what? not including the composition of the fabric? the country of origin? but not for what was on it?
- Comment on Google Announces Willingness to Develop AI for Weapons. 1 month ago:
can’t wait to see the new captchas they use to ‘train’ it.
- Comment on Micro SD card suggestions 1 month ago:
for the cards…
sandisk extreme ($139 at bby) is a good choice. the switch-licensed card is the same price, and i think it’s the same card inside. the switch one also has a discount for bbyplus members (look on bby site for that).
the samsung pro plus costs a bit less and works well, too ($89 at bby).
for where to get them, safely…
buy in-store from a major retailer to avoid the potential problems with amazon’s co-mingled inventory.
- Comment on Microsoft experiments with ‘Drag Tray’ — share menu appears when dragging a file in Windows 11 1 month ago:
there’s a one-line registry-based ‘fix’ to re-enable the old (full) context menu in win11.
- Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 2 months ago:
definitely, getting tangled in politics and buying the white house definitely paid for twitter.
- Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 2 months ago:
overpay (by a lot) for the company.
a bazillion stupid-ass decisions.
chase users away.
chase advertisers away.
the stupid rebranding.
can’t make money. :::shocker:::
the ‘richest’ guy in the world whining about not making more. fuck off, old spice.
- Comment on Elon Musk complains about China’s ban on X 2 months ago:
and tomorrow it’ll be… ‘we’ll leave tiktok alone here if you let xitter into china’ ??
- Comment on Microsoft bundles Office AI features into Microsoft 365 and raises prices 2 months ago:
didn’t google just do the same thing?
not enough people springing for the ai-addon by itself, so they just force it on everyone instead, at a ‘lower-but-still-higher’ price.
- Comment on Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled 3 months ago:
problems with their shit has been paying the bills here for over twenty-five years now.
- Comment on Cable ISPs compare data caps to food menus: Don’t make us offer unlimited soup 3 months ago:
a few cents per month per megabit/sec is what their ‘cost’ is to provide the pipe and bandwidth to a subscriber.
- Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 3 months ago:
well then, perhaps governments should start blocking more ‘mergers’?
- Comment on Ted Cruz wants to overhaul $42B broadband program, nix low-cost requirement 4 months ago:
the overpriced orbital pollution that’s already over-saturated in many regions?
- Comment on Trump’s FCC chair is Brendan Carr, who wants to regulate everyone except ISPs 4 months ago:
can’t do shit right now with a 3-2 democrat majority, at least.
and your future boss’ scotus already ruled agencies can’t do shit without congress, and congress ain’t getting any substantial legislation done for at least the next two years.
- 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 4 months ago:
they don’t make them anymore, anyway.