Boozilla

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[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

This is unfortunate news for all the protein bros who never understood excess protein simply gets excreted by the kidneys (and can even stress them if taken to extremes, as some protein bros do).

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 21 points 6 hours ago

This is a good look under the hood on why so much mainstream software actively sucks these days. They put so many fucking resources into dark capitalist shit, and zero into making it a good user experience.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 18 points 7 hours ago

That was a fun and interesting read.

When we buy an ebook, they are selling us a "license" to use it on their terms. We technically don't own the book. Which is horseshit. Kudos to Pixelmelt for oursmarting their obfuscation techniques.

I use Kobo and Calibre because A-Z sucks so bad. And if an ebook is exclusive to A-Z, I'll just never read it. Fortunately 99.9% of the ebooks I've wanted are on Kobo.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

It's a very diverse field with myriad platforms. A game dev's day will be very different than a dev working for a bank. Most of my work career has been boring soul-sucking "move dollar amount x from here to there" corporate bullshit that paid the bills. As a hobbyist, I've taken a crack at coding for games, music, custom postscript generation, ray tracing, etc.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 132 points 21 hours ago (25 children)

They never learn. This is what happens when clueless MBAs make your strategic decisions.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Smart to zig when everyone else zags.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Talking more than listening.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's a fun thought experiment. I'm going to cop out and say I just wish my country had more than Republican and Republican Lite to vote for.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Reminds me of so many people I came up with. They carry so much debt driving fancy cars that wear out and maintaining too-large homes they didn't really need. Most people are struggling too much now for that nonsense. But it used to be very common and normalized.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

Too many people equate AI with LLMs only. LLMs are mostly bubbled bullshit, with a few limited use cases. But AI is a much broader topic. The really scary AI is the stuff we hear little to nothing about.

People also forget how dramatically tech can advance over time. Spoiled impatient Americans in particular want a finished product or they quickly write it off as "garbage". They forget every product we own and use was once "garbage".

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I'm 56. I hang out with 5 to 6 friends 10 times a month on average. Mostly to play tabletop games. Sometimes I meet one or two for lunch.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Comfortable clothes for myself. I'm pretty much invisible to most other people, which is fine with me.

 

This is not an anti-Kindle rant. I have purchased (rented?) several Kindle titles myself.

However, YSK that you are only licensing access to the book from Amazon, you don't own it like a physical book.

There have been cases where Amazon deletes a title from all devices. (Ironically, one version of "1984" was one such title).

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html

There have also been cases where a customer violated Amazon's terms of service and lost access to all of their Kindle e-books. Amazon has all the power in this relationship. They can and do change the rules on us lowly peasants from time to time.

Here are the terms of use:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201014950

Note, there are indeed ways to download your books and import them into something like Calibre (and remove the DRM from the books). If you do some web searches (and/or search YouTube) you can probably figure it out.

 

I feel like an idiot for not knowing about these.

Every 2-3 months I have to snake out our shower drain with a 25' snake. Giant PITA.

After some web searches, I stumbled across these hair trap devices. They come in both external and internal configurations. Many different types to choose from.

I purchased an internal one, installed it, and am going to give it a try. In theory I can just pop it out and clean it instead of snaking the pipes. Folks tell me they work well. If this one doesn't work I'll try another type. They are fairly inexpensive.

 

We mostly watch news and sports in my house. So unfortunately, live TV. Occasionally we watch other things. I mute the commercials and browse my phone when they're on.

But I would love a TV that is smart enough to auto hide & mute every kind of ad. Even little logos on the athletes' uniforms. Hide the ads on the pitcher's mound. Hide the billboards and signs in the stadium. Show some cool little generic animation, music video, or slide show during commercial breaks. Hide the damned popup window ads and scrolling ads that some channels do. Remove product placements from movies and shows. Basically make all ads completely vanish.

 

Not asking for tech support here, just wondering if in theory it would be possible to create a plug-in or even a complete browser that blocks ads in a way that's impossible to detect. One model that comes to mind is a quarantined / containerized non-blocking virtual browser which queries the web server directly, then the UX filters the content from that container and presents it to the user ad-free. As far as the web server can tell, the containerized browser is just vanilla Chromium.

 

Some of the satire on there was gold. Had a wonderful lampoon vibe.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Boozilla@lemmy.world to c/reddit@lemmy.world
 

What a pointless fluff piece. It's the Motley Fool, so no surprise there. And I love how Huffman sounds like a 5th grader giving a book report. "All good companies should go public when they can."

How can anyone take these clowns seriously. I look forward to watching their IPO fail spectacularly, if it ever even happens.

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Star Wars’ Sam Witwer on growing up in Glenview

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