PhilipTheBucket
@PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
- Comment on Uncovered emails showed how Meta struggled to keep Facebook culturally relevant 2 days ago:
Jesus Christ dude. They took a wildly popular platform, replaced the social aspects that made it popular with horrifying ad-spam and didn’t bother to absorb any of the new features or paradigms that other apps were inventing and making popular. So people moved on. It’s not complex. And then, trying to diagnose why everyone might have abandoned it as a result, they say things like:
Second, it feels heavyweight to request someone new as a friend, which makes it hard to rectify the first issue.
Yeah that’s a huge issue. You nailed it, you fucking donkey.
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- Massive Expansion Of Italy’s Piracy Shield Underway Despite Growing Criticism Of Its Flawswww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
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- Comment on Brother has now succumbed to temptation, and is starting to fuck up your printer on purpose if you use third party ink 1 month ago:
I don’t know, man. Maybe it is lies. Cory Doctorow and Louis Rossman are not just random idiots on YouTube, but they are just as susceptible as anybody to reading some hearsay and repeating it.
On the other hand, the claims are very specific. “When you install third party toner, on this particular model of Brother printer, it stops respecting the calibration settings meaning that your colors are misaligned and color prints will look weird.” That’s pretty verifiable. It doesn’t mean it’s true, but it’s also actually not directly contradicted by anything in the Ars article. The article just says that Brother said you can use third party toner. Which everyone (as far as I saw) was agreeing that you can. Your prints will just look bad, after a particular firmware update, for reasons that are completely separate from any theoretical issue with the toner being third party.
IDK. I will not claim to know the truth here. But I’m not convinced by what I have seen so far that the story is definitely bullshit. And the whole thing of sidestepping the issue of “the printer starts refusing to apply color calibration”, and just talking in generalities, is also a little suspicious. That has nothing to do with third party toner being lower quality or something.
- Comment on Brother has now succumbed to temptation, and is starting to fuck up your printer on purpose if you use third party ink 1 month ago:
I mean it was news to me. I didn’t watch the Youtube video or feel that I needed to. I own a Brother printer, I did exactly the same thing both commentators talked about, recommended to people that they buy from Brother specifically because they didn’t do this bullshit. Now I am bothered.
It doesn’t talk to the internet, but I am wondering if having it connected to a Mac is enough to automatically update my drivers someday and start to commence fuckery, and if I should go ahead and figure out how to hook it up to Linux and have it on a frozen driver version just to be sure. I definitely like the way it works right now.
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- Heritage Foundation Presentation Details Plans To Doxx And Target Wikipeda Editors It Claims Are ‘Abusing Their Position’www.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 3 comments
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- Comment on HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls 1 month ago:
I’m a little bit surprised that anyone would do other than what I do: Put the phone on speaker, continue working with the bullshit going on in the background, and then if 2 hours later they pick up, take the phone back up and begin. The length of the hold time should simply be irrelevant, if it’s going to be above a couple of minutes, because you shouldn’t be holding anything up waiting for it.
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- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 months ago:
WTF
Two stupids don’t make a smart.
The government doesn’t control the language, it doesn’t control the encyclopedia. Behaving like it does (in either direction) is a surprisingly dangerous activity to normalize.
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- Hardware quality problems and server supply chain kinks slow Amazon’s $100 billion AI buildgo.theregister.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments