That makes a lot of sense -- when I'm buying something online I like the excitement of not knowing whether a product will cost 20 or 20,000 "dollars" based on how the scam market is doing that day lol

Agreed, the top suggestion here is a community I've been subscribed to from day 1 and it's always felt dead. Lemmy is good for specific tech niches but outside of that it feels like the same generic meme stream that /r/all is. Also a red flag that nearly all of the communities listed here are attempts to recreate a reddit niche 1:1 which obviously was never going to work as long as the main reddit version is still around

Unfortunately I don't think recommending dead communities with 9 MAUs and 1 post/month is the solution to building up Lemmy's userbase but I respect the attempt

Agreed, regardless of what this is there's a 100% chance that it's a profit scheme and has nothing to do with building anything practical for anyone

It's a reference to Steve Jobs

No I swear I just have an account there for all the SFW stuff!!!

The irony of this comment is you can find the cooking show but not Westworld on HBO lol

This article is literally the first time I've heard that he's running as a Democrat and not a Republican lol

idk about OP but I use chrome because in Firefox I have to manually download my web history and send it to Google so they can log it for my security, Chrome streamlines this process and ensures Google has my data even if I mistakenly wonder onto a website they don't have trackers on

Jamie Hyneman

sweet has POS been reclaimed?

It's worth noting that also according to that article women attempt suicide 1.3x as often as men -- but men are more likely to use guns so they end up dying more. It seems to me guns are a core part of the issue

Science x Capitalism

Y'all better calibrate your AI radars quick if this one is fooling you lol

I'd say there's at least a 90% chance that this was addressed in some background gag in Bojack Horseman lol

I don't think they're saying that method would yield 100% clean data but it would give you all the "necessary" data with the absolute bare minimum storage requirement. At some point people will log into their email and for most people if you have their email password you have the password they use for everything

I'm not a power user but it's way better than Plex imo. The personal media management features are on par with plex without all the bullshit ads / FAST services being shoved down your throat. To me it feels like Plex got too popular and the owners realized that a) they could make a shitload of money off of their existing userbase and b) the more they gear the app around FAST crap the more they can act like it's used for legitimate reasons and not just piracy

Execs are no doubt panicking because the infinite growth they've promised as a result of their 2020 finances is starting to look unlikely and they need excuses to cut down on employees

The buzzword stablecoin sort of lost its luster when all of those stablecoins crashed at the same time as the unstable ones lol

The story is ludicrous

The irony of tagging and asking a bot this lol

It was a vertical drop ride at the nearby Icon Park and the investigstion found that the harness had been improperly modified by the park at some point to theoretically accommodate large people in such a way that if a big enough person sat there it would fail to lock without any alert or warning; the scary thing is that it was probably like that for a long time. One thing the major Orlando parks have going for them is extremely tight safety standards, these side parks always seem like low budget attempts to prey on people who can't afford Disney lol

I imagine a lot of people have jobs where it would be trivial to set something like this up on company resources under the radar and then lose access / get laid off without the company ever knowing it's running

I feel like this reveals an uncomfortable truth about the lemmy user base lol

Agreed, sneaking crap like this in contracts should be grounds for nullifying them since it shows the companies don't have the expectation that people who click the accept button have read through 20 pages of deliberately obtuse legal junk (never mind actually understanding it enough to make an informed decision to agree to it).

That's not even mentioning the shitty condescending attitude of "lol look at this wacky stuff we do....but we're reserving the right to financially destroy you based on the terms hidden in this document alone"

Ya I appreciate the gesture but if this truly is the "biggest" robocall racket I have to imagine a 300M fine is a dropping the bucket

Ya that website is totally useless if you don't already know what Pleroma is, it explains what the fediverse is like 4 times but never explains how the app integrates with it lol

This doesn't make much sense because different companies / services will have vastly different development costs associated with Linux compatibility and there wouldn't be just one global threshold for profitability for everyone

"Oh boy the line went up that must mean I'm on the winning team!"

The problem is that without an effective way to ID bot content then stats like this could be covering up the real trends in human users, particularly in any stat that purports to measure all lemmy instances since we already know there are instances out there filled with thousands of bot users

Good luck trying to get a spicy word like snub in the title with a boring take like that

Look at his post history, he seems to have a weird mistrust of magnets and believes they could just all turn off one day

Ya I wouldn't apply to any role at this company if I saw that, that's a major red flag that their VC money has either run out or is about to lol

Brother Stephen 🙏

The "too good to be true" sell and complete lack of detail / pricing on their website is sketchy imo. I'm immediately suspicious of any org that profits off of piracy in such an opaque way

This title is under a few layers of irony, there are similar pictures floating around of green spaces converted to highways in the US with the same title, OP is suggesting the European version actually is progress

This is exactly something an engineer who works at Google would want to work on, finding new ways to enrich Google is literally their job and there would be great personal benefit from coming up with the best way to implement this DRM crap for profit

I think some folks were more interested in rushing in to be king of the hill rather than actually building communities

I'm sure they've been spending the last week thinking of a way to recap this without showing the full thing, such as just focusing on specific sections instead of showing a time-lapse of the the entire canvas. Similarly I'd be surprised if they released the pixel placement data set this time without major edits