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New comment by RankingMember in "What's Getting Pwned"

RankingMember — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:06:25 +0000

Definitely wouldn't mind them switching up the theming too- the sites they generate all have the same default theming.

New comment by RankingMember in "Sixteen years after Deepwater Horizon, deep sea life shows few signs of recovery"

RankingMember — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:58:34 +0000

The most galling/depressing thing to me is that our population is so overwhelming that if even just 1% of us are bad actors, that's still so many that catastrophes like this (environmental and otherwise) become mathematically inevitable.

New comment by RankingMember in "Shimano Bicycle Museum Review"

RankingMember — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:05:32 +0000

I understand there's probably just not the data in API you're pulling from, but it'd be cool if smaller races like the Philly Classic could also be tracked in your app. When you're at the race, it's a little hard to find where the peloton is at a given time so I was using your app to try to find it, but no such luck.

New comment by RankingMember in "America.gov"

RankingMember — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:04:29 +0000

[_"Try: How can I help ensure the security of our elections and stop the caravans?"_]

New comment by RankingMember in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

RankingMember — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:41:39 +0000

As someone who used to be into console gaming but has been out basically since the PS2, this is an interesting summation of the current state of things. Do you have any color you'd add with regard to the Steam Machine and its potential?

New comment by RankingMember in "Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream"

RankingMember — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:01:32 +0000

https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/

New comment by RankingMember in "Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini"

RankingMember — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:54:15 +0000

Yep, I remember playing everything without a 3D card and then being completely blown away when I got my Voodoo2 and all the pixelation and jerkiness was suddenly gone. I left the little "3DFX" splash screen enabled for a while there just because I was so enamored with the whole experience.

New comment by RankingMember in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

RankingMember — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:46:51 +0000

I followed the same progression and am also now contemplating going back to Android with my next phone. Cramming ads in Wallet, the way ads pop-in in YouTube, and the overall clumsiness of Liquid Glass have me really questioning whether the "just works" aspect of Apple's first-party cross-compatibility is worth it.

New comment by RankingMember in "What happened to the Snowden archive"

RankingMember — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:01:39 +0000

My hopeful side sees a future where he's pardoned and can live here as a hero.

New comment by RankingMember in "Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test"

RankingMember — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:34:26 +0000

I'm not a photographer and I think the bokeh makes the picture look bad because the tree looks so weird that it's distracting. I'm not one who normally thinks about bokeh, but it's glaringly bad.

New comment by RankingMember in "There's no point at which turning your brain off will work"

RankingMember — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:07:13 +0000

> Even if I agree that you have to use your brain, when my boss is literally telling me to stop questioning whether AI automation is the right answer in team meetings/chats I'm just going to shut up and give them what they want.

Some would tell you that you need to find a different job with a better boss, but I'd say that this is quickly becoming something very hard to escape from. Investors want line to go up, and they all talk to each other about this "AI" thing that lets them cut staff and keep productivity, so naturally we're all getting it crammed down our throats.

New comment by RankingMember in "ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market"

RankingMember — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:21:12 +0000

Basically printing money just like tobacco companies used to be (and now are again with smokeless products). I'm not generally in favor of morality police laws, but this is so egregious it's beyond morality to me- it's vulnerable peoples' firmware getting exploited to give predatory actors their money.

New comment by RankingMember in "The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution"

RankingMember — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:23:12 +0000

Not a surprise at all, but our laws aren't written in stone and can be amended.

New comment by RankingMember in "The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution"

RankingMember — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:46:44 +0000

Not all of your neighbors seem to agree

https://wjla.com/news/local/data-center-noise-fumes-create-f...

Material wealth is only part of the picture. I'd rather have a Honda Civic and a quiet, clean place to live than own a Ferrari and have to pick and choose when I can go outside so I avoid the noise and particulate pollution from a nearby data center.

New comment by RankingMember in "The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution"

RankingMember — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:37:57 +0000

It's like we're on a 100 year cycle over here, gilded age part 2 and a return to letting those who aren't rich eat straight industrial pollution so the rich can keep getting richer.

New comment by RankingMember in "The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution"

RankingMember — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:36:03 +0000

The people that treat political parties like sports teams are awful and a big part of why we're where we are today, but with the current state of affairs and the choice being between essentially fascism (Republicans) and 1990s conservatism (Democrats), it's not a hard choice. I couldn't agree more with what I think you're implying though, which is that this is a shit state of affairs where we're constantly voting for the lesser of two evils. We need ranked choice and open primaries, imo.

New comment by RankingMember in "The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution"

RankingMember — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:31:46 +0000

The people in power are making a lot of mistakes right now. You ignore popular will at your peril. The more the bought-and-paid for Supreme Court and politicians weaken the power of the individual voter through shit like Citizens United and gerrymandering, the further they push people towards "uncivilized" methods.

New comment by RankingMember in "The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution"

RankingMember — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:28:27 +0000

We need ranked choice like yesterday. It's not a magic fix-it solution, but it is a giant step in the right direction. I'm so tired of the whiplash between these two parties.

New comment by RankingMember in "The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution"

RankingMember — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:27:34 +0000

It's about numbers. A small group isn't going to do anything directly to the data center, but it can raise awareness that other people do indeed care. This, in turn, can slowly (over multiple demonstrations) grow the size of the demonstrations to a critical mass that cannot be ignored.

New comment by RankingMember in "iPhone Duo"

RankingMember — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:52:22 +0000

Yeah I fully admit I'm yelling at clouds here. I have looked at Garmin and they're likely to be be what I eventually settle on. I have my own issues with their design philosophy, or more particularly, the design philosophy of their operating systems and back-end UX, but they're a far sight better aesthetically to these eyes. The watches by "nothing" are also pleasing to the eye but don't seem to be really be good at doing what i want (responsive heart rate monitoring, sport features).