nimajneb (u/nimajneb)

nimajneb commented on In the belly of the MrBeast kevinmunger.substack.com/... · Posted by u/stafford_beer

infecto · 8 months ago

Not entirely related to MrBeast but related to YouTube. I genuinely miss the older algorithm where after watching a video you would go progressively further down a hole of videos somehow related to the one you just watched. It was quite entertaining and really uncovered fascinating videos.

nimajneb · 8 months ago

I miss YouTube where you could just browse topics, like right around when Google bought it is when I liked it the most I think. I much preferred categories/topics based UI over this spoon fed algorithm. I think there's also a sweet spot in production value that I prefer. I like Technology Connection, Adrians Basement, Cathode Ray Tube Guy (name?), etc level of production much more than LTTs high production value.

nimajneb commented on Xerox to acquire Lexmark newsroom.lexmark.com/2024... · Posted by u/taubek

lanstin · 8 months ago

Yeah, both Xerox and Lexmark are such blasts from the past for me. Surprised they still exist in any form.

nimajneb · 8 months ago

I saw an ad for Packard Bell on Instagram yesterday. I looked it up quickly, apparently they've been selling computers this whole time, owned by different parent companies though.

nimajneb commented on Only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming tomsguide.com/computing/p... · Posted by u/amichail

Larrikin · 9 months ago

I just don't get the obsession with eliminating the numpad. There are tons of interesting looking and innovative keyboards now and they all insist on making them as cramped as possible.

It makes sense on a laptop. But, if I already need to have a clear place on my desk for the keyboard and mouse, I'd rather just use an extra 2 inches to have the full size keyboard with the numpad and arrow keys that are not crammed against the rest of the keyboard.

nimajneb · 9 months ago

I bought a keyboard without the numpad about ten years ago and rarely miss it (I do have the arrows and keys above them). I would miss it with my work keyboard, but I don't miss it on my personal use gaming PC.

nimajneb commented on 20 Years of Blogging on my own website jeena.net/20-years-bloggi... · Posted by u/jeena

nimajneb · a year ago

Thanks for posting. It's fascinating you've kept up with it so long. Same with a couple other commenters in this post. I've had a website is some form for the same amount of time, but while I tinkered with blogs a few times it never made to my main site. Here's mine with it's unchanged design from like ~2005 (I'm not sure when) with just some simple additions of content over time. http://www.benjaminosborne.com

nimajneb commented on 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later pewresearch.org/data-labs... · Posted by u/Kye

nimajneb · a year ago

I've been thinking about this for a couple years. With our (recent) history becoming more and more digital we are losing more of our history. There's lot of creativity of all forms being digital and online only lasting only as long as the creator supports it. No longer are we viewing physical pieces art, but ephemeral pieces art. (I'm including websites made for personal use, by hobbyists, etc).

I know Archive.org archives a lot, but they can't archive everything, especially all the small personal websites.

nimajneb commented on How to get 7th graders to smoke experimental-history.com/... · Posted by u/HR01

Retric · a year ago

I’m referring to throwing up preventing negative health outcomes rather than death. You can throw up from excessive smoking, but it’s not going to help for inhaled or injected drugs.

OD refers to excessive consumption or negative heath outcomes, so yes and sort of. With alcohol people will sometimes throw up before all that much alcohol enters the bloodstream, throwing up may qualify on its own but may prevent things like liver damage but throwing up itself could qualify as a negative health impact.

nimajneb · a year ago

The first sentence is ignoring the affect alcohol has on the liver.

nimajneb commented on Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11... · Posted by u/SushiHippie

segasaturn · a year ago

404Media ran an expose on a new LLM product designed to mimmick real users having discussions on Reddit and plug your product in the comments, called "Reply Guy" (lol)

https://www.404media.co/ai-is-poisoning-reddit-to-promote-pr...

Google is failing, so users start putting "Reddit" on the ends of their search results. Where do we go when Reddit is no longer useful and contains the same AI generated dreck as all the Google search results? It shows how many single points of failure there are on the informational web. Pretty much the only informational resource on the web that's still unscathed is Wikipedia (thanks herculean-level efforts by its editors, mind you), but I wouldn't bank on it in the same way I wouldn't bank on Reddit. The "information age" might be coming to an end.

nimajneb · a year ago

I've started putting reddit, servethehome, etc to my searches. Otherwise the results are lackluster in google or bing.

nimajneb commented on The 40-Year-Old Cable Modem (a NABU network modem teardown) [video] youtube.com/watch?v=8IflO... · Posted by u/handelaar

paleotrope · a year ago

Seems like an example of being too early to the market.

I mean you had BBS' but what else. Did this even do TCPIP? Windows didn't get a TCPIP stack till 3.11 right?

nimajneb · a year ago

I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure you're correct. Interestingly though, I have an PC I got from a college that has Win 3.11 and has a network card in it and TCP/IP isn't enabled or on it. I was trying to figure out how to use the network card, but all I can find are a bunch of other communication standards.

nimajneb commented on How meta built the infrastructure for Threads engineering.fb.com/2023/1... · Posted by u/trojanalert

Jare · 2 years ago

Offtopic but here we go:

Once Threads became available in the EU I, like I assume many others, made an Instagram account from my FB account in order to check it out.

2 days later, and without having posted anything except perhaps a "Hello world", my Insta account was banned for generic reason (breaking the TOS, nothing concrete). I only found out 2 weeks later, as I hadn't even visited the site(s) again. Their "Appeal" button leads to a request to send a confirmation code to my phone, but no code ever arrives (Spanish phone, not a complicated country). There's no button or link to tell them that it doesn't.

I know of others who have experienced the same thing. Move fast and break things indeed.

nimajneb · 2 years ago

Another weird experience I had with this company is when I deactivated my FB account. A few months later a friend texted me and asked if I was going to an event. Apparently he had invited me to it on FB and FB didn't tell him my account is deactivated... So I never saw the invite and the system didn't tell him I didn't see it. I tested this with my wife, you still show up in invitable people and probably invite suggestions even when your account is deactivated. That makes no sense to me.

nimajneb commented on How Lego builds a new Lego set theverge.com/c/23991049/l... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

nimajneb · 2 years ago

Interesting read.

I guess I'm out $90 Jan 1st, lol. This set is amazing.