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billiam0202 ,

Now you've gotten your inventory counts off. There's also a (marginal) cost difference between the two size cartons. Of course, this needs to be balanced against customer satisfaction- there will be a non-zero number of customers who won't want the upsell or to buy an alternative item, and so the question is how much business would you lose vs how much money you'd make offset with the extra time and corporate headache of reconciling inventory?

Not that Sonic shouldn't do this, just throwing out some real-world considerations.

billiam0202 ,

Yeah, I'm gonna wait a bit before bringing out the pitchforks.

A plaintiff in a civil suit can allege anything they want, but that doesn't mean they're being 100% truthful. Any lawyer will slant the facts as much as possible to make their client look as injured as they can to garner the most sympathy- that's just lawyering 101. We have his version of events but don't have Mozilla's, but the fact that he's publicly shit-talking the company (rather than let the legal process play out) doesn't cast him in a good light IMO.

billiam0202 , (edited )

Any decent lawyer will tell you to shut the fuck up once you've filed a suit, so as I see it there are three possible scenarios here:

  1. He's too stupid to listen to his lawyers.
  2. His lawyers are too stupid to advise him to shut up.
  3. They're trying a public pressure campaign against Mozilla to get Mozilla to capitulate before their case goes too far. They're hoping that the headlines of "Mozilla hates cancer patients!" will cause enough bad press that Mozilla will want to get the case over with quicker by settling sooner, especially if Teixiera doesn't have a very strong case.
billiam0202 ,

Yes, yes I did. That doesn't change anything I said. You've only repeated his claims (which his complaint can say literally anything), we don't have Mozilla's side, and he shouldn't be saying a word about this suit to the press.

billiam0202 ,

No it doesn't. Here, let me demonstrate:

I'm accusing you of showing up to my house and kissing my dog (the gay one, not the straight one.)

There. Is that the truth? According to you it must be, because

Accusation = truth

So because it's true, I demand you restore my dog's honor by gay marrying him.

And that's literally how it works in the US. You can make any allegation you want when filing a civil suit and a judge must decide the validity of your claims. Teixiera has given his side of the story when he filed suit; that's all we can say for certain at this point. He could be 100% right, he could be bending the truth a little bit, or he could be completely lying about the whole thing- we don't currently have any more information than that.

billiam0202 ,

Poe's Law is real, lol.

The worst part is I sat there reading your comment for fifteen minutes thinking, "He can't be that stupid, can he?" And then I remembered that Trump supporters exist.

Apple’s App Store breaches EU’s Digital Markets Act (techcrunch.com)

A few months after opening a non-compliance case on Apple and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Commission has shared its preliminary findings with Apple. And the bottom line is that the current App Store rules are in breach of the DMA. Confirmed violations of the DMA can lead to fines of up to 10% of global annual...

billiam0202 ,

"Dissolution" is the word you're looking for.

billiam0202 ,

I would have taught Google everything they wanted to know about Reddit and Redditors for only $30 million.

billiam0202 ,

It certainly had more chemical energy added to it, so... yes?

billiam0202 ,

Following the publication of this story, X owner Elon Musk reshared a screenshot of it, saying it’s “important to allow people to like posts without getting attacked for doing so!”

Thin-skinned Nazis don't like being called Nazis for liking other Nazi content.

A few weeks ago, X’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, said the upcoming change is meant to protect users’ public image — because “many people feel discouraged” to like “edgy” content.

That's the fucking point, Wang. Nazis should be discouraged from liking other Nazi content. Society shouldn't tolerate bigots, much less embolden them- the way you and your boss want to do.

billiam0202 ,

Yes, and... ?

You don't eliminate bigoted and hateful ideology by allowing it to fester in the dark. It must be exposed for all to see.

These two assholes have succinctly summed up the problem: assholes advocating for a white Christofascist ethnostate are emboldened by the lack of consequences that anonymity provides. Musk doesn't want freedom of speech, he wants freedom from accountability of speech.

billiam0202 ,

Regressives should be silenced. Anyone who says "We need to return to a time when X" really just means "I don't like that my race/gender/nation/sexual preference/religion doesn't have as much control as it used to".

billiam0202 ,

The point was to be able to send clips from your games directly to social media.

billiam0202 ,

Oh look, this asshole is trying to start shit with Apple again.

Elon Musk claims Apple has threatened to remove the Twitter app

billiam0202 ,

I wouldn't either, except there wasn't proof this was happening except Musk saying shit.

I cannot make any post/comment containing the string [slash]etc[slash]passwd on lemmy.world (lemmy.world)

When I try to submit a post or comment containing the string [slash]etc[slash] passwd, the submit button goes into a loading state and spins indefinitely. The request is blocked by Cloudflare with status code 403. I can't even search for the forbidden string. You have to check dev tools to find out what went wrong, this error is...

billiam0202 ,

You mean a buttbuttin?

Edit: Boost for Android won't let me post it either.

billiam0202 ,

Bigots will use anything to justify their bigotry.

billiam0202 ,

Abby Normal.

billiam0202 ,

I saw someone suggest that MS has thought about this, which is why they require a TPM chip for Win 11 and have recently started forcing Bitlocker enabled by default. Obviously, however, it's not nearly enough.

billiam0202 ,

You're gonna get lots of suggestions, lol.

I'd say look at Zorin. It's a Ubuntu-based distro so it has lots of support, and also has several baked-in themes to customize your desktop the way you want it right out of the box. You can make it look like Windows 7/10/11 or macOS without any other apps or themes, which might help your transition.

billiam0202 ,

And they have the wrong number of fingers and knives.

billiam0202 ,

And that's how BioSkynet starts.

billiam0202 ,

Does it "require" Chrome, or does it require a Chrome user agent? I also have one of those sites for my job, but changing the user agent for that site in FFx works flawlessly.

billiam0202 ,

*GrokAI

You know, Xitter's shittier AI.

billiam0202 ,

Without knowing what specific comment it was, I'm going to guess it was on how advertisers make pizza look better in ads than real life?

billiam0202 ,

You probably live in one of those "socialist" countries that has, like, consumer protection laws and stuff.

billiam0202 ,

That's because a good search engine is diametrically opposite of advertising.

  • A good search engine shows you only what you want to see and shows it quickly.

  • Advertising shows you want its sponsors want you to see, for as long as possible.

Good free-to-the-user search engines aren't profitable. Advertising is massively profitable. Google can only try to thread that needle for so long before our "line must go up infinitely" corporate culture forces them to sacrifice the one for the other.

And that's just talking about Google itself, not even mentioning the issue with SEO and how human nature causes websites to game the system to be more visible.

billiam0202 ,

Wait, a system where the government provides a service subsidized by taxes, and where if the citizens don't like it they can get a private option, and the existence of the government option would force the private options to be innovative and competitive if they wanted to continue existing?

Man, what a healthy approach to industry. I wonder in what other ways we could carefully apply this method?

billiam0202 ,

Literally can literally be used metaphorically:

The use of literally in a fashion that is hyperbolic or metaphoric is not new—evidence of this use dates back to 1769.

So getting upset about the way a word has been used since before the founding of the US is literally the dumbest thing someone could be mad about. 😁

billiam0202 ,

Not bad at all.

For the first week doc said no erections- turns out not getting hard was the hardest part. After that, it was like a month or so of no unprotected sex. It's been a few years so I might not remember correctly, but I think he recommended like 15 to 20 ejaculations in that time frame. And I'm going to humble brag here- I've been blessed with a wife whose libido is way higher than mine. But that month, knowing that each orgasm was one step closer to her not having kids again- she made it her mission in life to knock those orgasms out as fast as I could get it up.

I didn't really have any swelling that I can remember- I iced my scrotum for a few hours but it didn't hurt too bad so I stopped after that. Some acetaminophen helped with the residual pain, and I think I had to take it easy for a couple of weeks- don't lift anything heavy to strain your groin muscles.

All in all, I don't regret it and highly recommend anyone who is done having children to get one.

billiam0202 ,

it’s always sad seeing such long-standing icons of the internet shut down.

A reminder of how much fun Web 1.0 was, not the walled-gardened, enshittified, corporatized, ad-riddled rage baiter it is now.

billiam0202 , (edited )

Lots of people hate on Ubuntu for Snaps, but that's your own preference. Any of the Ubuntu-based derivatives should work just as well. I would recommend Zorin or Mint, and probably throw PopOS! in for good measure.

billiam0202 ,

From the article:

they don’t just think they’re the smartest people in the world, they think that everyone else is stupid.

And that sums up techbros in one sentence.

Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads (www.techradar.com)

Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....

billiam0202 ,

Actually, that's probably the one excuse that wouldn't fly. The only company that cancels more stuff randomly and with no reason than Netflix is Google.

billiam0202 ,

Yes, but they had the veneer of "low ratings" to hide behind. Netflix cancels their content with no warning and no explanation.

billiam0202 ,

At least you aren't locked into a contract and can cancel whenever you want.

For now.

billiam0202 ,

From what I could see, the releases are specifically for Majora's Mask, and not the tool used to recompile N64 games in general.

billiam0202 ,

Also Dude, Ameriga isn't the preferred nomenclature. Traitor-American, please.

billiam0202 ,

This guy is a chump and I wish someone would have called him out on his BS.

It's no wonder. He's a Republican, so that automatically makes him a assbag. Also, Toyota has a Camry manufacturing plant in Georgetown, Ford assembles Escapes in Louisville, and of course GM makes Corvettes in Bowling Green, so it's no surprise that he'd be regressive towards automotive tech (even though Ford and SK are spending like $4 billion to build two battery manufactuing plants outside Louisville).

billiam0202 ,

This is so infuriating, especially when it’s so easy to show that voting against progressive initiatives also hurts their own constituents…

"I don't care how much it hurts me, as long as the people I hate are also getting hurt!"

billiam0202 ,

what State’s have battery fabs? not KY, obviously - but, others, presumably?

Set to start production next year:

https://www.blueovalsk.com/kentucky

billiam0202 ,

Learn how to use your distribution's package manager.

Also

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

covers what, about 60% of Linux desktops?

billiam0202 , (edited )

They wouldn't abandon a child.

They would use the child as much as possible to save themselves. Noisemaker for a search party, small hands to reach into tight spaces, easy bear escape mechanism, etc.

billiam0202 ,

However, because of the widespread press coverage of the previous "suicide", it makes sense that if additional whistleblowers were being killed, that the methods would grow increasingly complex and obfuscated.

This only matters if 1) you don't want anyone to know it was you, or 2) you want people to know it was you to send a message, and you're not afraid of any repercussions.

billiam0202 ,

Combined with social media spaces that refused to shut that shit down immediately because it was too profitable to.

Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites (www.theverge.com)

In February, HouseFresh managing editor Gisele Navarro called out publishers like BuzzFeed and Rolling Stone as some of the culprits that publish content about air purifiers despite a lack of expertise — but Google rewards these sites with high rankings all the same. The result is a search results page filled with SEO-first...

billiam0202 ,

This is exactly why people started appending "site:www.reddit.com" to their searches. It was much easier (but not guaranteed) to find organic discussion and reviews of products.

Of course, nothing gold can stay, and this tarnish appeared by way of pigfucker Spez making Reddit worse by allowing corporations to flood the site with bots in the name of boosting MAUs for the IPO. That said, I can appreciate the position Google is in- how do you get to be a search engine of such size that your users can trust your results you deliver to them, filter out SEO spam, and have the whole system automated due to costs?

Or rather, I would appreciate that position, if Google were more interested in quality search results than in spam advertising.

billiam0202 ,

throttle growth

You don't want line to go up? That smells like commie talk!

billiam0202 ,

Hey man, nuke-the-world requests take time to propagate you know.

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