zoostation @ zoostation @lemmy.world

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That's right, I was referring to the browser/client developer. The browser cache is treated as ephemeral storage so it's not a safe assumption that a previously downloaded file is still there.

It's simpler code to re-download the file than retrieve what cached version may or may not exist in memory or on disk. Developers often like to keep code simple at the expense of some kinds of efficiency, like this.

An image is usually small enough to be downloaded in no time on a fast connection, which is what developers usually have and don't stop to think that others might not have.

A video is probably being streamed so earlier segments may no longer be present locally.

Spotify will force you to listen to an ad by pausing it if you mute the volume, then resuming it when you unmute.

I quit Spotify long ago so I don't know if they still do it today, but they do have a way to force ads.

10 or more years ago I would have said yes. But in this current version of capitalism, any powerful new technology will be used to benefit the very rich only, at the expense of the rest of us. It will hurt us more than help us at this moment.

Yes, there's supposed to be a higher legal standard for the state sending you to prison than a private party banning you from their forum.

Chris Cornell, Nothing Compares 2 U

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Yes, the same conservatives who always complain about government red tape keeping anything from getting done and who also were offended by the government cutting through red tape and getting something done quickly when it was important.

Thanks to all who answered, I will go for it because my body is mostly microplastics at this point anyway.

Bunch of mediocre people really sweating right now.

It's not a coherent argument, people just don't like paying rent so they lash out in frustration. If you can't own you have to rent, if you have to rent you have to rent from someone. It's just a fact of life. Just like food is also a requirement to live and you need to pay someone for that too if you're not self sufficient. There's good people selling food and bad people selling food. It would be dumb to consider all food merchants evil in principle just as it's dumb to consider all landlords evil in principle.

Yeah the CVS self checkout software is horrible. The Target version is great.

You transport yourself to the store, walk around the store, pick the items up off the shelf, take them around the store, take them with you to checkout, take them to your car, bring them into your house, and put them away. But moving the item 36 inches from your basket to your bag is something you're too enfeebled or important to do yourself?

Google sucks, but Apple sucks too. And if you hate them both, Android is the better choice for a smartphone because you can use it with minimal interaction with Google whereas any Apple device firmly has you in the Apple ecosystem.

If you're one color and you're living in a culture where you're surrounded by a majority of people of a different color who don't treat you as one of them, then you're going to identify more with the community of your own color.

This reminds me of that infographic that explains the difference between equality, equity, etc.

Good thing you're not judging. If it was the passive aggressive criticism it looks like on the surface, it might contribute to this very topic of people feeling safer keeping to themselves than speaking freely and saying the wrong words.