This is a secondary account that sees the most usage. My first account is listed below. The main will have a list of all the accounts that I use.

henfredemars@lemmy.world

Personal website:

https://henfred.me/

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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • I’ve been lurking that platform for over a decade and the quality has definitely gone downhill. The interactions with users are extremely inauthentic to the point where I suspect a large proportion of users aren’t even real people.

    Reddit‘s business model is selling advertising views. I doubt it matters to them whether those views come from real people or machines.

    The second aspect of their business model is selling content to train AI, which is basically free money these days from AI zealots, but the data quality is garbage.

    Both of these revenue streams will dry up without a long-term sustainability plan i.e. an actually good website. And even if I’m wrong, hey, I’m happy here. Their success does not diminish my happiness.

    They will train their bots on my shitposts!



  • I think it’s mainly marketing and consumer expectations. Your phone is smaller, so it feels like it should have a smaller adapter to be more convenient. It takes less convincing for a large adapter when you’re already carrying around a laptop in a bag.

    Part of it is also history. It used to be that you needed much higher power dissipation so your adapter needs to be physically larger for a laptop to shed that heat, but nowadays laptops are more efficient and phones draw more power than they used to. Still, the idea that a phone charger should be smaller still feels right to the consumer, and much effort has been expended to ensure that they are small to accommodate consumer expectations.





  • Industry groups argued that those museums didn’t have “appropriate safeguards” to prevent users from distributing the games once they had them in hand.

    Good grief. Some of these games have been on the Internet longer than I have been alive. They are 100-fucking-percent already available on ROM sites. You’re just shitting on people’s enjoyment for the sake of shitting.

    “The game industry’s absolutist position… forces researchers to explore extra-legal methods to access the vast majority of out-of-print video games that are otherwise unavailable,” the VGHF wrote.

    The spice must flow, and I can assure you that it already does.