BelleOfTheBall

21 ms·

61.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
Except those people will most often prefer to go watch a minute-long video on YouTube or an even shorter TikTok clip or just scroll mindlessly through their social media of choice even if nothing new shows up. What Quibi failed to understan
62.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
The CPU and GPU usage during video playback is pretty big for me, I noticed that Firefox could get pretty intense on resource usage when playing longer videos. Not sure how much impact it will have on battery life but fingers crossed.
63.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
Couldn't you just stick to Discord on mobile and only open it when a notif comes? That way you don't see any changes in the icon, like on desktop. Plus, the notification settings in general are pretty flexible, one of the few thin
64.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
Does that really matter if they lose their habitat? No matter how many of them there are, without a place where they can thrive, the bears will just die off.
65.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
This is a false equivalency. Putting on a seatbelt poses no danger and requires no effort. Giving police military-grade vehicles and weapons, on the other hand, costs money and isn't safe, considering their track record.
66.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
> Is there any particular reason to think such a thing couldn't happen in America, where rifles and explosives aren't hard to get? Is there any particular reason why a clear edge-case scenario should be our basis for arming po
67.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
Many of the countries in the East of Europe seem to be in the process of turning against the EU, from Hungary to some mild anti-EU sentiments in Poland, etc. Although I did read some Polish people suggesting that EU's financial benefit
68.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
> Google and Microsoft Edge are more private even though neither has any privacy. This line in their post gives away how overblown that stance is. There's simply no way for DDG to be as bad as Google, much less worse than Google. St
69.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
I had no idea that grapefruits had so much risk associated with them if you're taking medication. Most of the ones listed in the article are actually hugely popular, I wonder how many people took some innocent stuff like Tylenol and th
70.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
They'd get rid of their union 'problems' and face a whole other crisis. But that wouldn't really stop Amazon and I'm sure bad PR isn't as expensive as having to pay out workers who got injured because they coul
71.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
> It’s thought that any underground lakes on Mars must have a reasonably high salt content for the water to remain liquid. This means that any lifeforms in that water are unlikely but is it possible that the water remains liquid through
72.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
I'm like 90% sure there was an article about Shopify employees stealing customer data just recently. Not FAANG, granted, but it's still a traditional way of data leaking or accounts being stolen. Inside jobs aren't exactly a
73.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
IoT terrifies me and I'd never buy one of these internet-connected gizmos but let me play devil's advocate: you could be coming home from work and, as you know you're about 6 or 7 minutes away, you instruct the machine to mak
74.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
What a fascinating way to fight a totalitarian crackdown. The article doesn't seem to talk about its feasibility against the government though. Is there no way they could stop it, bar actually damaging people's satellite dishes?
75.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
I'm honestly most bothered by the fact that this is yet another slice of media that gets the "you rent it, you don't own it" treatment. I want to own my games, damn it, I don't want to rent it for a month. It's
76.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
Fingers crossed it won't be as awful as WTSocial. That place looks outdated by about 10 or 15 years and it was literally made last year. I actually much prefer Wikipedia's current design over that, if I had to compare the two.
77.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
Amusing how the article still has a "Brexit" tag despite Cleese insisting that he doesn't want to talk about it and that his "self-imposed exile" has nothing to do with it. Sorry if I'm cynical but it's ki
78.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
That's a gross exaggeration of how much pull Apple has. I'm no fan of it or how much data these new devices will collect but saying "the school you attend, the church where you worship" is some Twitter-comments level of
79.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
My most hated part of Goodreads is that if you type something in search and try to click the middle mouse button to open the resulting, highlighted book in the new window... it just copies the page you're already on. It's a site f
80.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
I'm astonished there's not an equivalent for this literally everywhere. Even if some articles seem not terribly important at the moment, as progress marches on many could become relevant again and losing access to those is simply
81.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
I still remember when Red Faction: Guerilla was hyped up as an amazing feat because it had destructible environment and they promised you could use physics and destruction to pass missions in unusual ways. Sadly, it turned out to be, as it
82.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
Wouldn't that be an enormous timesink though? You basically have to memorize the dictionary... and then memorize it again but in a more complicated way.
83.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
Plays in general are probably the easiest form of writing to distill into stereotypes since they rely heavily on dialogue and that's bound to get repetitive when thousands of works are written. I can think of a dozen plays right now wh
84.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
The Reddit experience overall is incredibly subpar. I can't remember the last time I opened the site without using the unofficial Reddit Is Fun app or the RES extension on desktop. They make the experience so much better and keep me wo
85.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
How viable would that be in terms of maintenance? I presume it'd have to have a lot of failsafes or personnel that's assigned to some of the distant or at-risk grid sections, to keep things running smoothly and do repairs fast if
86.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
A lot of the post-war abstractionists are treated that way by people. From de Kooning to Reinhardt to Yayoi Kusama, they all get dismissed for one thing or another but I think all of them have some unique stylistic choices that breathe life
87.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
I assume that it could work as a temporary solution but the article hints that this problem will likely become global soon. So, instead of moving numbers, it's easier to add some and increase the possible combinations.
88.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
Which is absolutely a big issue with our policing system. Most of the time they just arrest easy targets like sex workers or people who could be charged with 'public misconduct' or something like that.
89.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
Telegram doesn't store messages on the device, you don't need to "tell the other person's device" anything, it's deleted from the Telegram cloud.
90.
by BelleOfTheBall 6y ago
It is encrypted by default but end-to-end is only for calls and Secret Chats (one-on-one). You can delete any message at any time without a trace for both sides, which protesters often do, really don't think the government needs messag

More ›