NutWrench

NutWrench , 1 day ago

Yup. Just surprised Pikachu faces all around at Netflix.
"But we were assured by our marketing department that customers would just pay any amout we wanted!"

NutWrench , 1 day ago

I've got the 5TB version of this drive as a backup for my gaming laptop. Haven't had any problems with it.

NutWrench , 17 hours ago

Elmo thinks the "X" makes it "extra cool."

NutWrench , 4 days ago

Nah. It's not going to be "AI." It's going to be YouTube results, followed by Reddit results, followed by "Sponsored" results, followed by AI-written Bot results, then a couple pages of Amazon results and finally, on page 10 or so, a ten-year-old result that's probably no longer relevant.

NutWrench , 4 days ago

Yeah, if it's in "The Cloud" it's NOT yours and it can disappear or be modified without your knowledge or consent at any time.

Buy some external storage and keep copies of everything you care about.

NutWrench , 7 days ago

"I do not understand. Why does Zuckerberg simply not EAT his competitors?" - Lurr of Omicron Persei 8.

NutWrench , 8 days ago

These are the kind of ads you make when you have a profound lack of self-awareness.

NutWrench , 8 days ago

Once these companies have your money, they don't care what you want. Don't give your money to companies that abuse you like this.

NutWrench , 8 days ago

There are many independent developers who deserve your money more than EA. Vote with your wallet.

NutWrench , 8 days ago

If that picture was of a Windows installation, Windows would be a Sumo Wrestler instead of a kitten.

NutWrench , 8 days ago

They're also using YOUR bandwidth to download these ads.

NutWrench , 8 days ago

Musk probably thought calling it "X" made it sound edgy and cool. I bet it really annoys him every time it's called "the social media platform formerly known as Twitter."

NutWrench , 10 days ago

Company-wide email: "We've had our best year EVER and it's all thanks to YOU!"

Me: "Great. Can I have a raise?"

Company: "Oh, we can't afford THAT."

NutWrench , 10 days ago

Yup. And there's also a HUGE difference between being anti-Semitic and just being against genocide. And our "news media" is determined to deliberately conflate the two.

NutWrench , 13 days ago

Stockton Rush got a bargain on the carbon fiber he bought from Boeing because It was approaching the end of its shelf life and it was no longer acceptable for use in aircraft, let alone submarines.

Rush also made a number of claims about the involvement of Boeing and other companies, claiming they were "involved in both the design and construction" of his submarine. Those claims were not true. Boeing made it clear that they had NO involvement in any part of the sub's design or construction and they had simply sold Rush the carbon fiber.

NutWrench , 13 days ago

Google has also gotten lazy. Their first dozen or so searches are either YouTube or Reddit results. (And that's only when they want to pretend they're a search engine).

NutWrench , 15 days ago

All Musk wants is that bong-hit of attention he gets from getting his name in the news. This is why he blew 44 billion on Twitter. He really doesn't care if Twitter or Tesla succeed or not. He gets bored with his toys quickly if they don't provide him with the attention he craves.

NutWrench , 16 days ago

Yup. This is the lazy devs "difficulty" setting. Harder just means, "Enemies take more damage / Enemies deal more damage."

NutWrench , 18 days ago

Such a "clever businessman." Embezelling $17 million in taxpayer dollars to enrich himself.

NutWrench , 18 days ago

This is a terrible idea.

NutWrench , 19 days ago

Let's see: Communism
A system of government where the country's wealth is concentrated into a small, ruling class of billionaires, who use the media they own to keep the lower classes fighting with each other while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the farking money.

Oh wait. that's capitalism. I don't know how I got those two systems confused.

NutWrench , 22 days ago

"self-driving cars" are not going to be a thing within our lifetimes. It's a problem that requires MUCH smarter AIs than we currently have.

NutWrench , 22 days ago

Damn. YouTube is just SO desperate to squeeze every bit of ad revenue they can, wherever they can.

NutWrench , 22 days ago

Ads are a way for corporations to steal your life from you, 60 seconds at a time.

NutWrench , 23 days ago

It's just another example of news orgs running interference for a twenty-something dbag "entrepreneur"who has no idea how his business works.

NutWrench , 23 days ago

In the 1999s-2000s we used WebWasher. It was basically a proxy server which you ran locally on your computer and it had all the filters. You just set up your browser's network connection to point to WebWasher and it acted as the gateway to the Internet.

If browsers somehow decided to kill all their plugin support, you could still use that to filter your content.

NutWrench , 24 days ago

Given how easy it is to create shell corporations, how does any of this prevent the CCP from running TikTok through another proxy?

I.e. is all this posturing just a colossal waste of time?

NutWrench , 24 days ago

"We're gonna ban Internet stuff" is something said by people who have no idea how the Internet works.

NutWrench , 24 days ago

Elon doesn't care about making the companies he owns work. He's just looking for that next bong hit of attention he gets from keeping his name in the news.

He burned through tens of billions to buy Twitter, turned it to crap (well . . . crappier than it was) and he doesn't care. He gets bored with his toys quickly if they don't get him the attention he craves.

NutWrench , 27 days ago

Well, did it work or not?

NutWrench , 28 days ago

And in the 1970s it was, "we all need to tighten our belts and conserve resources."

Guess which part of society didn't follow that advice at all?

NutWrench , 28 days ago

The biggest advantage of an unpiloted jet is that it can pull far more G forces. If your aircraft can make a 12G turn when most humans pilots start blacking out at 9, you're going to win any dogfight.

NutWrench , 1 month ago

Yup. If you let yourself be exploited, you don't have a "great work ethic." That's just sad.

NutWrench , 1 month ago

Star Trek TOS episodes (1 hour show) were about 52 minutes long, with 8 minutes for commercials. By the time of TNG, episodes were down to 42 minutes. I regularly see ads every 5-6 minutes on YouTube.

Businesses never understand that it's THEIR obnoxious, sh*tty advertising that kills something profitable, and when it finally dies, it's surprised Pikachu faces all around.

NutWrench , 1 month ago

Google has also gotten lazy and is prioritizing YouTube and Reddit results, instead of webcrawler results.

NutWrench , 1 month ago

Evangelicals call it "prosperity gospel" and it's a total perversion of Jesus' teachings. Basically, it claims that rich people deserve to be rich because their wealth is proof that they have God's favor. It's used to explain away why preachers are allowed to own private jets, yachts and diamond mines.

NutWrench , 1 month ago

The entire point of the Fedi-verse is so that one person or small group of people can't ruin the entire platform for everyone else. Anyone who tells you how to moderate your content, backed up by a threat can screw off.

NutWrench , 1 month ago

Middle-of-the-road person: "You are not in a culture war or an ideology war. You are both in a CLASS war, run by billionaires who are the REAL source of your pain. They use the six corporations that control all the news to distract you and keep you fighting with each other so that they . . . the rich . . . can run off with all the f*cking money."

NutWrench , 1 month ago

You don't have to report "both sides" of an issue if one side of that issue is blithering insanity.

News today: "Should we eat horse paste and shove UV lights up our own asses to fight Covid? Donald Trump says 'Yes' but honestly, WHO KNOWS? ¯_(ツ)_/¯ "

NutWrench , 2 months ago

" . . . for U.S. intelligence."

Yeah. Sure. Right. Musk will sell Intelligence to ANYONE who pays for it and US taxpayers will foot the entire bill for constructing the satellite network.

And then all the contractors and politicians will all pretend to be surprised by this and Musk will get the finger-wagging of a lifetime.

NutWrench , 2 months ago

This. Musk disabled Starlink to fark over the Ukrainians. He should not be trusted with any military contracts. Ever.

NutWrench , 2 months ago

This reminds me of a stunt a company pulled a few years ago, where they sold a bunch of bald Bratz dolls and claimed they were "undergoing chemotherapy."

They were really taking a bunch of unfinished dolls and trying to dump them for a quick buck.

NutWrench , 2 months ago

Whenever I'm stressed out about too many ads, I take Fark-It-All. Ask your doctor if Fark-It-All is right for YOU.

NutWrench , 2 months ago

Agreed. You shouldn't have to trust that some third party software built into your TV won't abuse your trust and shut everything down until you do what it's owners want.

I've got an external Roku and if it starts being a dick, I can just unplug it and toss it in the trash and I still have a working TV.

NutWrench , 2 months ago

Yup. News sources have been consolidating for the last 50 years. It used to be that every news outlets you watched was ultimately owned by one of 40 companies. Today, that number is 5. So if five billionaires get together and decide something is not going to be talked about, then it DOESN'T get talked about. This is why the Internet has them so freaked out. They can't control it (yet) so it's a threat to their version of reality.

This is also why our "liberal news media" does such a terrible job of speaking truth to bullshit. It's not necessary to report "both sides of an argument" if one side of the argument is insane, woo-woo dipshiterry. What they're doing there is gaslighting you into thinking that babbling nonsense is "just another point of view" It's not in the interest of billionaires to have informed citizens, capable of critical thinking, so the point of this exercise is to keep us fighting with each other about where the REAL source of our problems come from while they . . . the rich . . . run off with all the f*cking money.

NutWrench , 2 months ago

Yup. That slogan is the end result of a long line of bad company decisions.

NutWrench , 2 months ago

Good for Wikipedia. A lot of "AI generated" content is simply plagiarized from existing sources.