totallynotsocsa

totallynotsocsa , 11 months ago to gaming in Rant: Frustration Related to Ethics of Games Companies

I really thought this was going to be about gamergate and I was ready to just burn down the entire Internet

totallynotsocsa , 11 months ago to technology in A rant, with useful information, about the ‘Web Environment Integrity’ proposal by Google"

And they inevitably turn every service into an ad delivery service. Thus, enshitification. Subscription services directly convert the utility of the application into revenue. It will always make a better platform, but it might not scale as well.

totallynotsocsa , 1 year ago to technology in Plasma-based noise cancellation could silence rooms, cars and planes

The problem with all of these devices is that there is a lot of noise power in the world. A jet engine is loud because the acoustic energy it produces displaces large volumes of air very quickly. To cancel that energy, you also have to move huge volumes of air. Headphones are good at this, in part, because they attenuate so much energy in the first place with an over ear headphone, or well sealing IEM, and place the speaker very close to your ear. A source of acoustic energy which is far D meters from your ear has to produce at least D^3 energy to cancel the same amount of noise. It’s possible, kind of, with very big speakers, but a handheld device just won’t cut it.

totallynotsocsa , 1 year ago to technology in So where are we all supposed to go now?

It’s pretty obvious that reddit has never really spent much money on engineering.

totallynotsocsa , 1 year ago to technology in Slashdot -> Fark -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy

I stopped using 4chan when the probability of getting goddamn CP snuff videos in the browser cache because of a /b/ raid got beyond trivial, so like pretty fucking early on.

totallynotsocsa , 1 year ago to technology in Slashdot -> Fark -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy

Honestly, if spez hadn’t already sold the site to white supremacists, I’d be a lot quicker to defend this.