I ask myself this simple question: Are you making things better? I find meaning in helping others, and this is my guiding principle. I hope that when my time comes, I can say that I did make things better, that I did help others.
TomMasz
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TomMasz@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What cover song just takes you to Universe B compared to the original?English40·17 days agoJimi Hendrix’s version of All Along The Watchtower by Bob Dylan. It’s likely to be the only version of the song most people have ever heard.
TomMasz@lemmy.worldto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL a Canadian town Tisdale used to have a motto "The land of rape and honey" which was changed to "Opportunity grows here" in 2016.English3·17 days agoThe canola oil I buy has rape seed in the ingredients. In very small type, of course.
TomMasz@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*?English6·20 days agoCongress hasn’t passed much of anything lately. They just let Trump do his executive orders. But even if they felt like doing anything at all, the GOP has control and can count on a few Dems to follow along.
TomMasz@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla (TSLA) has to replace computer in ~4 million cars or compensate their ownersEnglish14·29 days agoHe knows the words.
TomMasz@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is?English58·1 month agoDoes anyone have the sound on these days? My volume is set to 0 most of the time, I have no idea what any of the sounds are now.
LO is fine for most uses though working back and forth with Office users can be problematic. Two things that I like about are: it offers a database module, which Office for the Mac doesn’t have, and it can open a lot of older file formats that newer apps can’t.
TomMasz@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Meta ends its fact-checking program in the US later today, replaces it with Community NotesEnglish2·1 month agoThere’s no way this can cause the Earth to be catapulted into the Sun.
TomMasz@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why Do Sites Keep Shoving Features We Don’t Want Down Our Throats?English5·1 month agoMy theory is the people making the decisions don’t actually use the products they make and have no idea what it’s like to use them. They hear that another site is using AI, for instance, and decide their own site needs to use AI. But they don’t understand what AI does or why they should/shouldn’t use it, only that they have to have it. Boom, enshittification.
TomMasz@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The pannotype mystery: cracking the code of a forgotten photographic process.English3·1 month agoThe looks like an interesting process. It would cool to see someone create new ones but it won’t be simple given the requirements.
TomMasz@lemmy.worldto Europe@feddit.org•Le Pen Verdict Fuels Claims That Europe’s Elites Are Colluding Against PopulistsEnglish2·1 month agoTypical WSJ bullshit. Seeing the rule of law applied to a politician seems new and scary to them. They can’t understand that applying the law to someone like Le Pen might actually increase faith in the institutions that govern them.
TomMasz@lemmy.worldto Europe@feddit.org•Europe Turns a Blind Eye to Erdogan’s Crackdown Because It Needs TurkeyEnglish8·1 month agoThere’s an old saying, “Politics makes strange bedfellows.” This is that saying in action.
TomMasz@lemmy.worldto Privacy Guides@lemmy.one•23andMe users struggle to delete their highly sensitive dataEnglish13·2 months agoThe site is slow and it takes days after you request a file for it to be downloadable. I have one more to go before I can delete my data.
TomMasz@lemmy.worldto Europe@feddit.org•Europe working on plan to replace US in NATO in five to 10 years: ReportEnglish20·2 months agoTrump hates the very fact that NATO exists. The US will pull out soon, it will help Putin the most.
TomMasz@lemmy.worldto Buy European@feddit.uk•Foma Bohemia still makes 35mm film in the Czech RepublicEnglish4·2 months agoJust a caveat: It works best shot at ISO 200. The 100 and 200 work fine at box speed.
TomMasz@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domainsEnglish3·2 months agoEvery little bit helps.
TomMasz@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Another treasure stolen from usEnglish15·2 months agoThat’s a sad looking pizza roll. Geno is crying right now.
TomMasz@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Meta will roll out its AI chatbot with text-only features in the EU this week on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, nearly a year after pausing.English7·2 months agoNobody in the entire world wants this but Zuck. Nobody.
TomMasz@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Good morning. What's wrong honey? Part IIIEnglish61·2 months agoGod bless us, everyone.
Behold the next generation of voters.