quirzle

joined 2 years ago
[–] quirzle@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it incredibly damaging in the long run to have 50% of active users on this platform to be centralized on one domain.

I agree, but 50% is still better than 100%. I definitely appreciate that I'm reading about this while being totally unaffected personally rather than just disappearing entirely like what happens with a banned subreddit.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Unlike coal, energy from the wind or sun is unreliable...

That damned sun. Can never tell which days it's going to come out or what direction from which it'll rise.

fossil fuels are cheap and plentiful, thank goodness!

Yep yep, nothing stays consistently cheap like coal and gasoline.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

These people are literally making it illegal to feed the homeless in places like Texas right now.

Even without the jesus stuff, how is the party of "limited government" and "rights of the people" going to tell me who I can/cannot give the last few slices of my pizza to while keeping straight faces?

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Better late than never?

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Depends a lot on where you were posting.

/r/nfl was notorious for deleting posts from unknown users when new broke to repost it from a mod's account. Had nothing to do with ban evasion or bots, just leveraging the control they had to make sure they had all the biggest posts.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The conclusion sums it up nicely enough:

The Government has proposed a standard, reasonable order that will streamline the flow of discovery to the defendant while preserving the integrity of these proceedings. The defendant has proposed an unreasonable order to facilitate his plan to litigate this case in the media, to the detriment of litigating this case in the courtroom. Normal order should prevail. No oral argument is necessary. The Court should enter the Government’s proposed protective order.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's kinda true of every movie after the first one though.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Same here. I'm working on a couple household projects and a software side project. I've found useful-looking search results several times over the past few weeks and was pleasantly surprised to find I was repeatedly finding the useful content deleted.

Sure, it's annoying on some level...but it's also pretty neat that I've already noticed I default to clicking Stack Exchange links or asking ChatGPT stuff before searching reddit specifically, since my brain's already starting to associate reddit with the disappointed feeling of finding a deleted comment.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (9 children)

To be fair, his statement was also just an observation.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My use case for streamfab was a single season of a show that's free to stream anyway, just wanted a local copy. I wasn't a huge fan though...entirely too clunky and error prone for the price.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I know from experience some of these apps use mac address to enforce the free trial period (e.g., download 3 things for free then be forced to pay). If you have a means to install it in a vm and change the mac...

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