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  1. Comment on Where does your username come from? (Following up on last year's thread) in ~tildes

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    Hah yeah I get that pretty often

    Hah yeah I get that pretty often

    4 votes

  2. Comment on Where does your username come from? (Following up on last year's thread) in ~tildes

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    I wanted a username that I could use across the internet to establish a consistency of presence. My requirements were essentially No numbers Not directly related to anything that could identify me...

    I wanted a username that I could use across the internet to establish a consistency of presence.

    My requirements were essentially

    1. No numbers
    2. Not directly related to anything that could identify me
    3. Not a reference to any media property or person in case I one day change my mind about it/them
    4. Short and memorable
    5. Ideally something unlikely to be taken by other people so that I can claim the name as broadly as possible

    I happened to be eating some kind of potato at the time and the song Let's Call The Whole Thing Off was on my mind due to a funny story one of my college professors told me*. So on a whim I tried this phonetic spelling of that line from the song and it happened to be available everywhere I checked. The only place I don't have puhtahtoe is Minecraft. I wish I had a way to contact the puhtahtoe of Minecraft and offer a trade or deal of some kind.

    Amusingly, like 90% of the time I have heard people pronounce "puhtahtoe" after seeing my name (twitch/youtube stream chat) they just pronounce it "potato". But what can you do.

    * I went to college for a music degree. My clarinet professor said that one time he was a judge at a singing performance evaluation. Some guy came in and sang Let's Call the Whole Thing Off but he had apparently neglected to actually listen to any recordings of the song first. He sang the whole song not doing different pronunciations of the words like potato, tomato, either, pajama, etc.

    6 votes

  3. Comment on Satisfactory tips and tricks? in ~games

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    If you're not using blueprints, do. Once you reach the point where you're building 20+ refineries or 30+ constructors at a time they'll save you huge amounts of time

    If you're not using blueprints, do. Once you reach the point where you're building 20+ refineries or 30+ constructors at a time they'll save you huge amounts of time

    4 votes

  4. Comment on Why US Democrats won't build their own Joe Rogan in ~society

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    This is one of the biggest problems IMO. The left has endless purity tests which are collectively impossible to meet. The right, for all their infighting, line up to kiss the ring when it matters....

    This is one of the biggest problems IMO.

    The left has endless purity tests which are collectively impossible to meet.

    The right, for all their infighting, line up to kiss the ring when it matters. We saw them nearly tearing each other apart over the House Speakership this term but come election day they were all back on the same page.

    28 votes

  5. Comment on Meta’s developing a new AI system to detect teens lying about their age in ~tech

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    The fun thing about this demographic is that a lot of them are naive and you can get them to out themselves. See this streamer for example who did a fake PS5 giveaway for anyone "born after <date...

    The fun thing about this demographic is that a lot of them are naive and you can get them to out themselves.

    See this streamer for example who did a fake PS5 giveaway for anyone "born after <date 18 years ago>" (sorry for Twitter link) https://x.com/rosedoodles/status/1832836638788964587

    6 votes

  6. Comment on 1 bug, $50,000+ in bounties, how Zendesk intentionally left a backdoor in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies in ~tech

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    Imo both Zendesk and the bounty hunter come away looking a little bad. Zendesk for ignoring what was obviously a big data breach in the ticket access bug, and the researcher for not submitting a...

    Imo both Zendesk and the bounty hunter come away looking a little bad. Zendesk for ignoring what was obviously a big data breach in the ticket access bug, and the researcher for not submitting a new report after discovering they could escalate the bug to full on SSO access before telling third parties.

    8 votes

  7. Comment on Moving wikis away from Fandom in ~tech

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    I've been seeing coordinated efforts to move wikis off fandom for years now and I have to assume fandom is aware of the sentiment. Has fandom ever addressed this or made any effort to change...

    I've been seeing coordinated efforts to move wikis off fandom for years now and I have to assume fandom is aware of the sentiment. Has fandom ever addressed this or made any effort to change people's minds? Whenever I hear about them they seem like a completely uncaring big company.

    5 votes

  8. Comment on Georgia voter cancellation site in ~society

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    Wouldn't this be a violation of the first amendment? If someone doesn't like any of the choices offered and there isn't a write-in option then mandatory voting would essentially be compelling...

    I also believe voting should be mandatory)

    Wouldn't this be a violation of the first amendment? If someone doesn't like any of the choices offered and there isn't a write-in option then mandatory voting would essentially be compelling someone to support (associate) with something against their will.

    Edit: Rather than reply to everyone, I'll add this here:

    My thought process was mandatory voting would mean you have to pick someone in each race on the ballot. If mandatory voting just means submitting a ballot but they don't check if you left it blank or not then I get it. But if you are forced to vote and therefore forced to pick from a selection of people you don't want then that could be a violation of freedom of association. Open write-ins would make it fine since that wouldn't mean you would be required to pick someone you don't want.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Switch emulator Ryujinx is shut down in ~games

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    Wow. Is this the first time Nintendo has offered someone a deal to stop working on a project rather than using legal tactics?

    Wow. Is this the first time Nintendo has offered someone a deal to stop working on a project rather than using legal tactics?

    14 votes

  10. Comment on Los Angeles police raid goes bad after gun allegedly sucked onto MRI machine in ~news

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    When cop training includes having it drilled into your head that people will be out to get you and you should always be on your guard, yeah that could induce some mild PTSD. They are literally...

    They all have PTSD for a war that only happened in their head and they're back in enemy territory. And it's literally their neighborhood.

    When cop training includes having it drilled into your head that people will be out to get you and you should always be on your guard, yeah that could induce some mild PTSD. They are literally taught that they may need to defend themselves against the people they're "protecting" and "serving."

    My brother is a LEO and one of the phrases he picked up during his training is "I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six." I don't know if that was something one of the instructors said or if it was somehow spread among the recruits but that part is somewhat moot. Some LEOs are literally coming out of training with that mindset.

    9 votes

  11. Comment on Huawei announces phone with tri-folding screen in ~tech

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    I'd really like to try one but not at the prices they're offered at

    I'd really like to try one but not at the prices they're offered at

    9 votes

  12. Comment on Are mandatory arbitration agreements the new normal? in ~talk

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    Another recent example of companies pushing the bounds is LG with their claim that customers agree to arbitration because of writing on the box of their fridges. This is egregious because it's...

    Another recent example of companies pushing the bounds is LG with their claim that customers agree to arbitration because of writing on the box of their fridges. This is egregious because it's common for people to have fridges delivered and installed without ever seeing the actual box.

    https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/consumer/lg-refrigerators-failures-update/3465620/

    13 votes

  13. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~tech

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    Until recently I would have agreed with this but I have a family member who somehow installed one of those VPNs that gets advertised a lot. I then had to "fix"their internet because the VPN had...

    . I have to assume that anyone who has enough digital literacy to install a VPN also has the knowhow (even if they don't utilise that) to assess the legitimacy of the media they consume.

    Until recently I would have agreed with this but I have a family member who somehow installed one of those VPNs that gets advertised a lot. I then had to "fix"their internet because the VPN had done the thing where it shuts down the internet connection if it gets interrupted. When I asked the family member why they had installed the VPN they couldn't explain other than saying they had heard it makes browsing the internet better.

    4 votes

  14. Comment on Tildes growth in ~tildes

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    I think it's ok for Tildes to stay small or grow slowly. There are more than enough examples showing how focusing on growth is bad thing overall. The very actions you say drove you away from...

    I think it's ok for Tildes to stay small or grow slowly. There are more than enough examples showing how focusing on growth is bad thing overall. The very actions you say drove you away from reddit are the result of a company that put growth ahead of everything else.

    As for missing stuff because Tildes is small - just use other sites in addition to Tildes. I use Tildes, Bluesky, Mastodon, and still some reddit and twitter for stuff that hasn't moved off of it yet.

    80 votes

  15. Comment on Elon Musk’s X sues Unilever, Mars and CVS over ‘massive advertiser boycott’ in ~tech

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    Weird, I seem to recall Musk very publicly telling advertisers to go F themselves.

    “We tried peace for 2 years, now it is war,” Musk tweeted on Tuesday.

    Weird, I seem to recall Musk very publicly telling advertisers to go F themselves.

    68 votes

  16. Comment on Former US President Donald Trump backs out of ABC debate, says he will only debate Kamala Harris on Fox in ~society

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    Yeah I'm not claiming it makes sense. They almost seem to be implying they want Biden to still get up there and debate even though he dropped out.

    Yeah I'm not claiming it makes sense. They almost seem to be implying they want Biden to still get up there and debate even though he dropped out.

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Former US President Donald Trump backs out of ABC debate, says he will only debate Kamala Harris on Fox in ~society

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    I'm seeing a very highly numerous and consistent message being pushed that Trump agreed to debate Biden, not Kamala so Trump isn't really backing out of this. One of my local news stations tweeted...

    I'm seeing a very highly numerous and consistent message being pushed that Trump agreed to debate Biden, not Kamala so Trump isn't really backing out of this. One of my local news stations tweeted their article covering Trump backing out and it got 45 replies as of a couple hours ago, mostly from people parroting this message. I don't recall other Trump news, even the most polarizing getting more than about a dozen replies in the past

    16 votes

  18. Comment on Over fifteen million passwords were temporarily inaccessible in Chrome's password manager in ~tech

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    I have a fire safe in my house with some printed passwords and MFA recovery keys and an extra yubikey that can get into my password manager.

    I have a fire safe in my house with some printed passwords and MFA recovery keys and an extra yubikey that can get into my password manager.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on Steam - Game Recording Beta - A new built-in system for creating and sharing your gameplay footage in ~games

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    Right, that's a good step in the right direction and we'll have to see how well it works in practice. Ideally the timeline-enhanced games will provide options to players to enable/disable specific...

    Right, that's a good step in the right direction and we'll have to see how well it works in practice.

    Ideally the timeline-enhanced games will provide options to players to enable/disable specific types of moments.

    For example, let's say a PVP game is set to automatically record every time you complete an objective, every time you level up, and every time you get a kill. If you're someone that doesn't care about kills and only wants to record objectives you would be upset if you completed an objective in a cool way but then that was overwritten because during the rest of the match after that your timeline was flooded with clips from killing enemies or leveling up.

    3 votes

  20. Comment on Steam - Game Recording Beta - A new built-in system for creating and sharing your gameplay footage in ~games

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    The Xbox One had something that was basically identical to the game markers early in its lifetime. It sounded like a really good idea on paper but it ended up leading to tons of people asking why...

    The Xbox One had something that was basically identical to the game markers early in its lifetime. It sounded like a really good idea on paper but it ended up leading to tons of people asking why they had dozens of clips they don't care about clogging their library of game recordings. Hopefully Steam will have a more a more elegant offering.