AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦 @ AlmightySnoo @lemmy.world

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It wasn't technically illegal nor was it fraud since it had an exemption from the Volcker Rule you're referring to.

In the case of SVB it wasn't fraud though, it was more poor risk management; they didn't hedge against an increase in interest rates and that, together with the bank run when people learned about it, killed them. But yeah, the common pattern is failure.

Need to thoroughly confirm with more feet pics though.

It's not only shit, it's incredibly slow. On my Thinkpad T480, the CPU fans immediately turn on and get really loud when browsing on the new Reddit UI. Those of us who knew the internet pre-"web 2.0" know that it's complete nuts for a website to bring a 4 cores/8 threads CPU to its knees just to render mostly text and a few pics, we're not even talking about sophisticated content with videos.

The reason is that the new UIs are full of Javascript which does way more than just adding a bunch of effects (which normally even a Pentium 4 should be able to handle with no issues): tracking. They're doing a bunch of stuff like collecting every few milliseconds the locations where you tap, how long you're staying on a given page, "eye-tracking" (basically building heatmaps of where you "look" the most on a given web page so that they can decide whether to show some ads there etc..), a bunch of A/B tests for marketing purposes + the associated data collection that is done on your browser etc... and that's what's wasting your CPU cycles.

Google Lens is definitely a real lifesaver when you want to instantly translate the menus.

Forgot to mention this one, and this will probably be the first non-free app I'll be recommending, but Genius Scan is simply great for scanning documents with your phone. I paid like $10 for it in 2017 and I've been since then using it all the time to scan my receipts to claim my expenses whenever I go on a business trip as I sometimes end up losing them.

There probably might be a FOSS alternative for that one? On PC there's ScanTailor (https://scantailor.org/ ) which is open-source, so maybe an app using the same libraries could be on Android too? But yeah you could also just take photos of your documents and wait until you get home to your PC to post-process them with ScanTailor.

Stylus to apply your own CSS overrides to certain websites. Also DownThemAll as a download manager and to download stuff on a webpage based on filename patterns.

That's one way of trying to achieve planned obsolescence, but at the same time Android 8 is 6 years old now and I imagine the API might be too different for the devs to justify maintaining builds for it? I wonder what other browsers are still being made for Android 8, apparently Firefox?

The OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite 5G is great if you want a new budget phone, you can look up reviews on YouTube for that phone. Trying to find a used flagship is another good idea.

Margot's budget phones thread has also good recommendations: https://lemmy.world/post/4846313

Installing it right now. I didn't know about this game, and I loved Age of Empires when "Microsoft Gaming Zone" was still a thing. TIL!

laughs in emerge

To be fair, most IE 5 and 6 users didn't know what a web browser was either and here we are.

Pleasantly surprised that Arch tops the chart. Then again, and I might be wrong about this, but to me a clear bias in the ProtonDB data is that those who submit reports to ProtonDB are usually users who are likely used to submitting bug reports and stuff, so obviously not your average "freshly migrated from Windows" gamer.

Unpopular opinion here: I kind of hoped they'd go through with it, as that would completely kill Chrome and Chromium and would lead to a repeat of IE vs Firefox, except Chrome would be the new IE. The fact that they backtracked means that they too saw that people would be massively flocking to Firefox.

There are lots of translation, copywriting and voice acting jobs on freelance websites but obviously that won't pay much as the requirements are usually just knowing English (but they do prefer native English speakers, + obviously another language if doing translaiton).

Nim: https://nim-lang.org/

I'm an atheist but since they're calling to dig into history, and since religious books are technically accounts (though very inaccurate) of what their writers witnessed and knew at the time mixed with superstition, it's always ironic to me how even the Quran never mentions Palestine and instead always says "children of Israel".

Is it even a guarantee if it can be revoked at any time? smh

The founding emblem of the Houthis says:

"God is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, Cursed be the Jews, Victory to Islam"

Basically the same as Hamas. But yeah let's keep calling them "rebels" just like we call Hamas' terrorists "militants".

Honestly the format is good for stuff like quick business headlines and rumors that you could use if you're trading (basically free "squawk", given that professional squawk services cost a lot). It's also good to quickly spread the word during protests or similar.

But I agree that all of that is still offset by the huge amount of smugness and "ratio" competitions.