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FriendOfDeSoto
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- FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is it okay for a member of the autism spectrum like me to use the R word?English3·1 hour ago
- FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why is there no unified time zone for online communication?English3·3 days ago
Because the earth doesn’t stop turning and somebody will always be asleep.
- FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•My spyware got enshittified, now comes with a subscriptionEnglish71·3 days ago
WhatsApp used to cost money until then Facebook bought it.
- FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why is USD susceptible to counterfeit in comparison to CHF?English41·6 days ago
Is this our various currency questions sock puppet? Asking insane questions or incredibly boring ones they answer themselves?
- FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoFediverse@lemmy.world•Quadruple moderation is killing lemmy. It’s a Gift to RedditEnglish2·7 days ago
Seriously, I would stop doing that if I were you. Not for the esthetic or because there is inherently anything wrong with doing that. You’re going to become bycatch when people look to catch bots and sloppers in a wide net.
- FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why don't normal jobs pay people in RAM sticks?English15·7 days ago
Because they’re normal. Next question.
- FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoFediverse@lemmy.world•Quadruple moderation is killing lemmy. It’s a Gift to RedditEnglish204·8 days ago
Any post formatted like that comes straight out of an LLM. No user, no matter how dedicated or how mad, would take the time to format headers and bullet points.
Reposting stuff from reddit and posting whatever the LLM spat out. As far as I’m concerned, you are a contributing factor to a stagnant user base here.
- FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why is there no "region free" currency?English2·8 days ago
Why should there be? Who needs this?
Crypto may be the closest to this idea. And it gets used a lot for speculation, drug trade, and to finance the North Korean economy. Nobody is looking at that thinking this is the future.
- FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Paywalls on local news sitesEnglish1·8 days ago
Your eyeballs are unprotected for the printed ads. Your browser needs a couple of plugins and they’re gone.
- FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Would 'Project Vulcan' from Austin Powers actually have done anything?English12·8 days ago
It’s a comedy movie parodying the stylistic exaggeration that is part of the Bond movies.
It’s going to be a hard math problem to get this bomb to go off near molten lava but not in it. The bomb will probably not be able to generate its full destructive potential if it melts first. Also, there is more atmospheric pressure down there and we didn’t build bombs for that. But even if you accounted for all that, worldwide eruptions sound like a stretch. The shock wave in air of a 50 kiloton explosion would probably be in the 10 mile range. That’s going to be lower in a thick liquid medium and a not insignificant part of that energy would also want to travel back up the drilled shaft. So this will probably affect an area of the world but far from all of it. And there is no guarantee it would work or be instantaneous. Pressure buildups that lead to eruptions can take ages. It’s a bad plan.
- FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What would you do if your adult son or daughter was rich and didn’t tell you, and you didn’t know how?English2·9 days ago
What happens when you cross a sock with a puppet?
Do we have to retread this one? What’s next? People drowning in UK puddles and superhero personality critique?
- FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Number of trackers and cookies I had to go thru after installing a currency converter appEnglish11·9 days ago
Out of interest, why do you need a whole app for that? What does it do that you couldn’t do on search?
- FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Can you purchase a burner phone anonymously in the US?English7·10 days ago
They probably looked at who users burner phones and quickly realized it’s mostly people cheating on their spouses or people of the criminal variety. None of these groups are going to start a political movement. And cheaters gonna cheat and one more obstacle for the criminal folks isn’t a bad thing. Tourists are a rounding error.
Sure, in the past we had phone booths and boxes. The majority of landlines were registered to a name, a business, or an institution. There isn’t really a long established right to have a burner number. People used to voluntarily list their names and numbers in a book. And no cheating farmer Bob had a secret line put in the barn so he could talk to his side piece.
I’m going to guess the Aussie rules apply to most of the countries we group under the label western. And there is a danger that they harvest your data but it is more likely a government requirement to register ID. Like with private car ownership in the US as well if I’m not mistaken. It’s not wildly outlandish as a concept.
Don’t look into what they make you do if you want to own a firearm.
- FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•"We value your privacy" could both mean we care, or we monetize itEnglish22·10 days ago
Funny enough it almost never means they care.
- FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Isn't the weather forecast supposed to get worse?English1·10 days ago
The further into the future you are trying to predict the weather, the more the reliability drops. The last time I heard a meteorologist talk about it, it was 5 days into the future for a specific location. Anything more than that was as reliable as reading tea leaves. You can say it’ll rain in Asia 10 days from now but you cannot say with any certainty it’ll rain in this village.
The climate which we ruined will provide us with punishment. Warmer oceans will give us stronger tropical storms. But they’ve gotten pretty good at detecting and outlining their likely paths. That sort of predicting is likely to improve with more storms and more data. Another suitable punishment is torrential train causing flash flooding. In the places with good satellite cover, they can see that and warn people with an hour’s lead time or thereabouts. The time span is short but the prediction accuracy is good.
We as consumers are not good judges of the weatherpeople. We look at our phones and form an opinion. But we don’t investigate where the data came from, which LLM may have added its hallucinations, and what other corners may have been cut to get us this information, which we don’t pay for. So we see it’s pissing down outside, the forecast was for blue skies, ergo the weatherpeople are getting worse at their job. When it is more likely the quality of the free data declined or somebody asked ChatGPT and Claude.
- FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•you know what's mildly infuriating? a reposter botEnglish14·12 days ago
I agree with you. I think it’s a bot and thus should be banned, as per the rules.
Just block and move on is okay for trolls and sock puppets. I don’t think that’s a good strategy for bots. You don’t see them any more but they keep posting using bandwidth. They’re building up a profile with engagement that will make it harder to get banned down the line when they start using the account for something worse.
- FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Are East Asians good at planning because their writing in their languages also requires planning?English8·12 days ago
Language has an influence on how one thinks. But this shower thought smacks of too great a generalization to me.
- FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.websitetoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•One of the lowercase m is actually an r + n, and the other isn't.English241·12 days ago
For your own mental health, I would suggest you stop living in this sub.
This is not a picture of you, right? Maybe you didn’t doxx her but there is really no need to continue this being spread online for a post in this forum.