You may be deleting your comments in the hopes that it will pull some value away from Reddit. That’s not true, in fact, the opposite is more likely. They will still keep the deleted posts in their archives, and they will still be able to train their AI models on the content. The difference is that now they get an extra datapoint: these are the kind of comments of someone who left Reddit and deleted their account/comments. If you deleted them right after leaving, that means they can place your account deletion in time around the API changes, which will also contribute to their AI profile.

Do not confuse any of the content you see on Snapchat as news. It is an advertisement. It is a free service and the content is highly competitive, so it must be enticing to pull you in and it has one objective: to generate revenue.

If you want news, you need to find a new platform with different incentives. Lemmy removes the profit incentive, a news website keeps the profit incentive but add transparency.

If you want to keep up with friends and they’re on Snapchat, then by all means use Snapchat, but the idea that you can use it as a platform to keep up with news is delusional.

Literally all of them. Any big company is doing evil things, and I doubt there is an exception to that rule. Shop local, grocery shop at a co-op, eat local, prioritize products you know are actually made in your home country. Most importantly; just buy less. Repair the things you own, take care of them, borrow from friends. Never buy something “surprisingly cheap”.

I think the problem was that half of the movie was a memorial to the victims of the Charles Manson murders and the other half of the movie was about Brad Pitt and DiCaprio, and the two stories had absolutely zero synergy.

Oh shit I got confused…

In my defense, I’ve never heard of Newcastle until today.

Kind of an odd saying, I’m 100% sure Newcastle uses gas for their grill and not a single fast food place uses charcoal grills. If you brought coal to Newcastle, they would have no use for such a thing.

This will keep happening, no one knows how to make hardened IT infrastructure while also letting 65 year old Suzie in HR stay productive, so we’ll always have loopholes. The best thing you can do to protect yourself is to use fewer cloud services, but obviously that has limits, you can’t cancel your phone plan just because they may get hacked. You could use more encrypted services like Signal where a hacker wouldn’t get anything useful even if they broke in.

I would assume you were misinformed and promptly point you to my previous JavaScript projects to dissuade you of such illusions.

Always. We used steel before then because it wouldn’t react with the drink. We always knew aluminum cans would be cheaper, but couldn’t figure out how to protect the flavor and carbonation until Coors figured out how to line it with plastic. He shared the process for free with his competition because he knew a recycling program would scale really well.

I’m not convinced evil won in that one, mostly cuz the ending made no sense

It will almost certainly be the worst year in recorded history. We have pretty much had non-stop record breaking temperatures since July last year.

Python’s got you covered.

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This is how I proposed to my wife. I said I’d propose at some point in the next year, and that according the the unexpected hanging paradox, we’re doomed to break up at the end of the year. Then I proposed on a random day in the year and she was totally surprised.

I like my job, I don’t particularly look forward to the weekends relative to the week. Often I find long weekends are too long unless I have some major project for them and I start thinking about how I’m going to tackle work problems.

HDMI has a private company that owns the rights to it. They get to decide if you get to call yourself HDMI and they can sue you if you lie about it. They decide what new features HDMI implements. This is a proprietary standard. As a recent example, AMD wrote an open source driver for HDMI 2.1 that would allow 8k on any device using an AMD graphics card. The HDMI owners basically said “no, you can’t distribute this, shut the project down and write something proprietary.” This doesn’t help the consumer at all, and although they didn’t explicitly say it, HDMI probably made that decision because studios pay a lot of money to make it hard to pirate over HDMI.

DisplayPort is an open standard. If you were to write the same AMD 8k driver for DisplayPort, they would say “great, we can’t stop you from using this anyways, so share as much as you like.” Open standards are better for consumers because they can improve more easily.

I’m gonna need someone to explain what that is a little more. I’m super confused.

An idea isn’t a product to protect, you don’t have to declare an idea that hasn’t been made yet. When you get your new job, if you explore this idea on company time, they get rights. If you want to keep the rights, you’ll need to explore the idea outside of company time. If and only if this idea already exists in some form of product AND you plan on using it at work, you’ll need to declare it to your new employer, I’ve seen forms for that attached to letters of offer, if you don’t see it there, ask. The company can refuse for that item though, meaning that if you continue developing that product during work hours, they have some rights to it. IANAL.

This is their only retaliation for the fact that managers have already been replaced by git tools and CI.

I’ve tried it and wasn’t banned. Before the update, EAC would quit right after launch with a message

Your knife goes on the right on your place setting next to your spoon. Your fork goes on the left. If you want to set a place settling with all 3, it’s easiest to put spoons in the middle.