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  • Baku@aussie.zonetoMemes@lemmy.mlYoutube is harassing us!
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    2 months ago

    One helpful thing I found is that it can skip “non music sections”, ie those cringey silent scenes they put in YouTube videos. If that’d existed a couple of years ago, I probably wouldn’t have switched to Spotify. I mainly switched because I was sick of random 10 second pauses for dramatic effect in the middle of songs, often right before the chorus








  • I’m 17, and either dislike or don’t know most of them. Here’s my thoughts on most of them, if anybody’s curious:

    Star wars - don’t like it

    James Bond - never seen it

    Lord of the rings - never seen ir

    Sherlock Holmes - don’t like it

    Batman - hate it

    Superman - never seen it

    Spiderman - don’t like it

    Mission Impossible -never seen of it

    Mario - played and enjoyed Mario kart, that’s about it

    Zelda - never seen it

    Pokemon - never seen it

    Indiana Jones - don’t like it

    Back to the Future - I saw it but don’t really remember anything from it, mostly forgettable

    The Karate Kid - I watched it when I was too young to care, but I think I’d like it if I watched it now

    A Nightmare on Elm Street - liked it

    Friday the 13th - I know it, but can’t remember if I’ve seen it

    Child’s Play - watched one of them, got bored halfway through

    It - liked it

    Rambo - liked it

    Rocky - never seen it

    Jurassic Park - seen it, no strong feelings

    The Matrix - got bored by the 30 minute mark and turned it off

    The Terminator - never seen it

    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - don’t like it

    Transformers - never seen (or played?) it

    The Simpsons - seen most of it, love some of it

    Barbie - heard the song, nothing more

    GI Joe - not a clue who/what that is

    He-Man/Masters of the universe - as above

    Mickey Mouse - I sometimes watched Mickey mouse club house before school, but wasn’t a huge fan

    Toy Story - I watched (and liked) the first two

    Looney Tunes - liked it

    King Kong - I’ve heard of it but don’t know if it’s a toy or a tv show or what

    Godzilla - I saw one of the sequels and enjoyed it

    Planet of the Apes - never seen it

    Mad Max - never seen it, but I live in Australia and like the outback, so this gets quoted at me at least monthly

    The Muppets - I think the Muppets had a cameo in toy story or something, but I don’t really know much about it

    The Godfather - I really really tried to watch and enjoy this earlier this year. I turned my phone off so I wouldn’t get distracted, I sat down, I ordered a pizza, I did my very best to watch and enjoy it, but I was so mind numbingly bored by the hour and a half mark that I gave up

    Ghostbusters - I think I’ve seen bits and pieces

    Alien - no, but I have seen ET

    Star Trek - I don’t know or care what the difference is between this and star war

    Robocop - I watched one of them on late night tv a few years ago, when I was around half the age it was classified for. Barely remember it

    Frankenstein - never seen (or read?) it

    Dracula - never seen

    Tarzan - never seen

    Conan the Barbarian - never even heard of it

    Jaws - I saw one

    Harry Potter - hate it

    The Incredible Hulk - hate ir

    The Dollars Trilogy - not a clue who or what this is

    Sesame Street - don’t like it

    The Hannibal Lecter series - don’t know who or what this is

    MASH - I’m pretty sure this was always on after the Simpsons finished at 7, and everybody loves Raymond was on before. I didn’t like either of them. But then again, I was 5 or 6 and only interested in the Simpsons and nothing else, so I probably wasn’t the target audience







  • Baku@aussie.zonetoFunny@sh.itjust.worksOrdered a trick pizza
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    3 months ago

    And they lead to cynicism and a “can’t be arsed” attitude. After all, if I know people are going to complain about my work no matter how much time and energy I put into perfecting it, why would I even bother? And now, every time I get a complaint phone call, there’s going to be a seed of doubt in my mind, maybe this person is just trying to get free shit, at the expense of me


  • I feel a bit split about this. Seems it is an actual law, and it kind of makes sense. You probably don’t want random components from unknown people and places in your multi million dollar space equipment. But it feels rather arrogant to just demand such things.

    Is NASA actually a customer? Did they pay for a license to use curl (genuine question - I’m not familiar enough with it to know if enterprises and organisations require a paid license)? Are they planning on becoming a paying customer? Do they make donations to the project? If not, it feels kind of rude to send a demand letter to the lead developer of a free piece of software straight up demanding a formal letter stating where the free software is being developed and maintained (for free), or if outside the USA, that the free software has been tested in the USA. Oh, and a bonus demand that such information be returned within 5 business days (naturally with an implied “or else”, just to really make sure those pesky people maintaining open source software for free really get the memo)

    In any case, why don’t all their scary 3 letter spy agencies go and figure it out on behalf of NASA themselves? It’s open source, they could just like, read the source, test the source, and audit the source themselves. Or fork it and make any modifications they’d like to ensure its safety

    I don’t blame the person sending the emails, obviously, they’re just following orders, but the whole email reads as very entitled and arrogant, assuming NASA don’t provide any compensation to the project and projects maintainers for their use of curl


  • Baku@aussie.zonetoFunny@sh.itjust.worksNope
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    3 months ago

    The meal box kit things seem to be the worst for that shit here. They don’t let you cancel your first box, even if you want to do so 10 minutes after you sign up, and you have to cancel a week or sometimes 2 before they prepare (not even send) your box. Then when you do cancel, they have 3 or 4 rounds of questioning where they’ll swap the position of the “yes I’m sure” button, as well as changing the colours to try and trick you into clicking “no I want to stay”.

    I also signed up for an online news site once. It was a $1 trial for a month or something like that. Annoying, but I wanted to read an article no other news site had. Then the only way to cancel is to call them. Being ADHD as fuck, it was on my to-do list, but I forgot I even had a to-do list and I forgot. Then the subscription renewed at like 30 bucks a month. They weren’t even transparent about the renewal price, I didn’t see it anywhere when I was signing up, so I assumed it’d be around the same price as Spotify or something.



  • Baku@aussie.zonetoFunny@sh.itjust.worksNope
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    3 months ago

    TP link’s Tapo Cares thingy for their camera (basically a subscription for cloud camera storage and a few extra app features) has a 28 day free trial with no card needed. It’s also 28 days per camera, rather than 28 days per account, which I thought was nice

    Whatpulse offers free trials sometimes, 14 days and don’t require card details. They’ve given me 2 on the same account