CoderKat

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[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's my favourite for burgers. It lasts way longer without going bad (I find real cheese slices will go moldy before I can use them all), tastes better to me, and is meltier. The meltiness is really nice!

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Same here. Heck, I often even get one day free shipping, which is insane.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

The captions suck too. I subscribed to the same deal as you. I did it mostly to support the creators. But I basically never use it. The creator whose affiliate link I used to sign up? Their own captions are amazing on YouTube (human written with colour and positioning) and auto generated garbage on Nebula.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

It's not really a technical problem anymore. Which isn't to say it's easy to run such a site, but rather to stress that YouTube is like a social media site. The value is in the users (and the content that they create and consume). You could make a perfect YouTube clone, but good luck getting people to use it when their favourite creators don't. And good luck getting creators to care when the users aren't there.

And Lemmy is misleading. Most people don't use Firefox. Heck, most people don't seem to even use ad blockers.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Lol, yesterday it felt like there was at least half a dozen posts about Firefox, mostly claiming that YouTube was slowing them down. Which seemed really bad at first, till I dug into it and saw it was probably an unintended bug with ad handling.

And why were there so many posts? Who wants to see the same post more than once?

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

That's why, when I leave ransom ware outside of offices, I buy the pink ones and put stickers on em.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's what I thought it was at first too. But regular employees aren't usually all that interested in their company being profit driven. Especially AI researchers. Most of those that I know are extremely passionate about ethics in AI.

But do they know things we don't know? They certainly might. Or it might just be bandwagoning or the likes.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

There's already a ton of such exploits. Most servers use Linux and many exploits of corporations this had to go through Linux (though many exploits aren't related to the OS at all -- eg, SQL injection is OS independent). I expect it's more common, though, that attacks on Linux systems are either meant to target servers or were personalized attacks that you're not gonna accidentally download.

On that vein, I also kinda suspect that many people who use Linux may be bigger targets for their employer than their personal PC. Which is actually scary, cause personalized attacks are far harder to defend against. I expect the average Linux user is technically savvy. Not a lot of money in try to do a standard, broad attack on such types (I think most attacks on personal computers are broad attempts that mostly depend on a small fraction of technologically incompetent people falling for simple schemes). But a personalized attack that happens to infiltrate a fortune 500 company? Now that's worth a lot of money. Using Linux won't protect you against those kinda attacks.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Those prices feel so expensive, too. Like, does the news cost more to produce than full length movies and TV shows? Cause all the streaming video apps are far cheaper than 9€ a week. The only thing 9€ is cheap for is if you would have been buying a newspaper daily. Incidentally, newspapers have ads despite being bought, so that might explain why they kept ads in the web version too?

A price like that may have made sense in the pre internet days, when a newspaper was a big chunk of my daily reading due to general lack of alternatives. But these days? I probably only read a single digit number of articles per day about the biggest headlines. And since I get lots of news from social media like Lemmy, it crosses many websites, which is unconductive with subscribing. Plus it feels like a sizable chunk of news articles are just quoting AP or Reuters these days, anyway.

Mind you, I'm also Canadian. We have a fully publically funded news service (the CBC) that isn't paywalled and generally high quality.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, my first thought was "why give Israel any aid?", then I realized that trying to get the US to stop giving aid entity was probably impossible. A compromise like conditional aid is better than unconditional aid. Compromises are unfortunately often necessary in politics, especially with how divided the US is and their historic support for Israel.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago

I wonder actually if Carter was perhaps the only US president in the past century or so that was actually a decent person? Most others that come to mind were pretty awful as people. I'm not American, so I haven't studied literally all the president's or that closely (there's some very forgettable ones).

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Is this picture from Canada, or do they sell Hawkins Cheezies anywhere else? They were my favourite snack as a kid, but I think they might only exist here in Canada?

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