salacious_coaster

@salacious_coaster@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh nooooo, however will I do the needful without Microsoft’s world famous blue ribbon customer support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve formatted and installed W11 on dozens of computers and never had it fail once. My gaming rig is an Optiplex from 2014, runs 11 just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jupiter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is it so swirly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone do the maths?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can anyone do the maths

  Y’all are bumming me out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨413524 Gang, rise up!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. I can only imagine Light Yagami doing 52413 in the Death Note

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Folks not buying PCs from US vendors 'tariff' stockpiles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Why aren’t flat broke US consumers buying our premium AI PCs that offer literally no advantages over their current hardware, and also include horrific spyware?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SLAYYY⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The kind of picture I took for my Myspace profile with Linkin Park’s Numb playing in the background

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the differences between 1) probabillities, 2) possibillities, and 3) plausabillities?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Possibility: it can technically happen Probability: statistically significant likelihood of happening Plausibility: a possibility that passes the laugh test

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft and most other tech giants have long since stopped feeding their cash cows in favor of squeezing them until they’re dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hell yeah bröther⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the sickest burn since “President Poupon”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A slightly different experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And a girlfriend and a mistress, don’t forget those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do Conservatives physically look evil?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of those times when you’re gonna have to acknowledge your own cognitive biases to move on. We all have them. This one is pretty obvious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon loves The Lord of the Rings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Undertale

  Doki Doki Literature Club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Demand from who? Not the users, that’s for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sign me up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, personally. But these are the guys that had a moral panic over a tan suit and Dijon mustard, so I would believe it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sign me up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I continue to have my mind blown that anyone takes this hysterical, cartoonish, right wing fear mongering seriously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crosspost if you agree!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OP: roll for perception Half this thread (rolls 1): What’s this Boomer shit??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It mostly started with the cold war. The US was obsessed with stopping the perceived threat of communism. In the process, it discovered the benefits of power mongering and war profiteering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your defense of the Democrats boils down to “at least we’re not the GOP.” And you’re not wrong. I’ve done my part by voting against the GOP in every election since I was eligible. The Democrats themselves don’t even do that. I wish their effort would at least match mine, seeing as it’s their full-time job. And I wish you held your reps as accountable as your fellow voters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As individuals, we can only influence our friends, family, and kids as best we can. Sometimes that’s not at all. We’re all now familiar with the trope of “Fox News ate my parents’ brains”.

  This isn’t a game or a movie that necessarily has to have a happy ending. Sometimes shit’s just fucked. As long as the propaganda machine is in place, millions of people will be brainwashed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you that the parties are not the same. The GOP are outright evil puppets of the billionaire class. The Democrats are ineffectual cowards who’ve made careers out of paying lip service to the right thing, and every now and then doing something helpful if it’s convenient for them and doesn’t piss off their billionaire donors. A lot of the time that ends up translating to the same results for most people.

  I don’t buy the “sorry, our hands are tied” line we always get from the left. Dems throw up their hands even when they do have majorities. The first meaningful opportunity the Democrats had to obstruct Trump’s agenda, after the left base had been screaming for weeks for their representatives to do something, Schumer rolled over immediately. I can’t take this party seriously anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a rhetorical problem. It’s a propaganda problem. People aren’t being reasoned into right wing politics. It’s being beaten into their heads day and night by talk radio, cable news, local news, and YouTube; and this has been going on very deliberately for decades. The right wing powers-that-be have been busily, patiently, creating a massive, pervasive propaganda machine for a long time while the left sat on their hands. We’re now seeing the results: a world where the right can do and say literally anything they want without consequence. Their base is very literally brainwashed through brute force repeated messaging that nobody can compete with.

  We needed the Democrats to do something about this propaganda machine before it became unstoppable. They already didn’t do that.

  The best thing any of us can do is try to steer kids away from the propaganda before they get sucked in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna mute this one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Working class: “Can we have meaningful reform?” Conservatives: “No.” Liberals: "No 😘 🌈 "

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it’s common. My understanding is it’s actually more common in Europe and elsewhere, and on the rise globally. It’s getting crowded on this planet, and people want easy answers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need clean laundry in the apocalypse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For an effective demonstration, check out Project Zomboid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you here and not on Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still on Reddit for certain communities. But most of r/all and r/popular is just manufactured slop with bot-driven voting. It’s an outrage machine, like Facebook now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is lemmy so political?!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty easy to filter out most political stuff on Lemmy and Reddit and similar platforms. Just subscribe to communities you like and stay out of All. If I go to All, I know what I’m in for. That’s on me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's called seeing through a glass darkly.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did that kayak melt??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No looky for you!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A grammar Nazi takes time out of their day to give someone crap about a comma splice or argue about whether or not it’s appropriate to capitalize the first word after a colon. OPs like this are not “Grammar Nazi” fodder, it’s just language anarchy normalized by terminally online brainrot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what language would be best for me to learn?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The language of wherever you want to spend substantial time. Probably not Russian I would think, but you do you