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lemmy.autism.place is shutting down by Lazycog in c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago

Thanks Blaze!

I was planning to as soon as I get home from work, and also want to try to post some requests + submissions myself to get some activity numbers up.

Man I've said it before and I'll say it again since I'm replying to you: you are a legend on lemmyverse. Thanks for all the work you do to keep the community growing.

lemmy.autism.place is shutting down by Lazycog in c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I messaged the mod of that community asking if they will spin it up elsewhere. I offered to open it up on sopuli if they are not planning to. Love that community!

Edit: I figured @BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place might be busy right now based on their history and might not answer any time soon, so I went ahead and created !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz.

Google's iOS app now injects advertisements for Google Search on third-party websites by Lazycog in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 day ago

Yeah the comment looked like any other post that account made and as you said, LLM generated crap. Full of mid sentence emojis, hashtags, and structured like a summary.

Google's iOS app now injects advertisements for Google Search on third-party websites by Lazycog in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago

I was going to let the comment pass thinking its probably from Mastodon or something because of the hashtags and style. But no, the user is from a lemmy instance.

Microsoft Please Fix by Lazycog in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 days ago

The dude ranted for awhile in the issue thread and closed the issue himself too! lol

Worse that death by Lazycog in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 66 points 2 weeks ago

I feel a bit icky about explaining this, but the demon is transferring their soul - by accident - to the "rainbow dash" figurine.

Aaand here's the rest: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pony-cum-jar-project

"Whoa, check out this squirrel!" by Lazycog in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 70 points 2 weeks ago

That's just the thing - women provide more challenge.

If you had been doing the same thing for hundreds of years you'd be bored of an easy solution as well.

I like the Witcher universe explanation for vampires drinking human blood:

In the books a vampire (Regis) explains that drinking human blood is just for getting high / drunk.

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Store making me feel like an outcast because of privacy concerns (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by Lazycog@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

140 comments fedilink

Okay the title is a bit exaggerated, but honestly not far off. This post is very mundane and a bit long, but thought it fits the community.

I'm visiting my home country and went shopping for pants, there were "30% off everything!" signs with a tiny text underneath that said "member discount" (don't have membership). Not a problem, did not notice and I don't care for such marketing tricks to get you into the store but okay.

Picked up couple of pants, went to the cashier and they asked me "do you have our membership?" - I answered no and expected the follow up question whether I'd like to join, but, to my positive surprise the cashier just happily responded "okay, not a problem!" and continued to bag my stuff.

I stood ready to pay and then the cashier said "now I just need your phone number and you can pay". Hold up. What. I did not expect that, I honestly had a burst of anger inside me (never gonna take it on a cashier, they are just doing their job). I asked nicely why do I need to give my phone number and I was told that to register me as a member so I can get the discount.

I declined and said I don't want to join and would like to just pay.

The entire interaction after questioning why they need my phone number was awkward, as if I had been the first person to decline, the weirdo, aluminum foil hat wearing hermit.

This was just one of many interactions in the recent years that make me feel as if I was a weirdo for not sharing all my info around. The worst is when everyone keeps telling me "its just an app, just download it and use that why do you make things complicated" or "just sign up you don't need to pay anything".

Thank you for reading my mundane rant, would you like to hear more? Just sign up for my weekly mailing list! ~~Your email will be shared with our 12 453 partners~~

8 October 2024 by Lazycog in c/cyanideandhappiness@lemm.ee

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 106 points 1 month ago

Haha upvotes and keeps scrolling

Dog Whistles by Lazycog in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 36 points 1 month ago

I honestly interpreted this as a socially awkward way of trying to do small talk - for example talking about weather

*Permanently Deleted* by Lazycog in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 34 points 2 months ago

Some executive reading your comment right now:

Assistant Therapist by Lazycog in c/memes@lemmy.world

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 58 points 2 months ago

... One Android update later

Me: skips "new on android" screen

Me: wonder what this new button does tap

Google Assistant: heyheyheeey

Anon has a special request by Lazycog in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 66 points 2 months ago

Didn't we have a community for unethical life pro tips? This comment would be a perfect post there.

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How does "Splitser" app make money? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by Lazycog@sopuli.xyz to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

10 comments fedilink

I had no idea where to ask such a question and I tried to read their terms of use / privacy statements / about us page to find info about how this popular cost splitting app makes money to employ people.

They don't even accept donations. Sounds very sketchy, but apparently they don't really sell data or even offer this app to businesses. Does anyone know how they make profit?