Quexotic
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- Comment on You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections] 9 hours ago:
I dunno, I did going in but what I got from it was his method of explaining it to people that truly don’t understand.
- Comment on You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections] 9 hours ago:
I’ve always liked this man. Today I love him.
- Comment on Some PCs are failing to boot after this month's Windows Update 15 hours ago:
- Comment on I Can’t Sell You Laptops Anymore (video) (enshittification of computer repair) 6 days ago:
This is not enshittification. This is a calculated attack. It’s class warfare.
- Submitted 1 week ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 0 comments
- Comment on Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome 1 week ago:
Yes and I have read them but the problem is that if you get people to start running random powershell from sources they don’t recognize, and you can’t tell me that the average Joe knows what GitHub is, that’s not a good thing.
It’s already a threat vector that’s being exploited in the wild.
Add to that that even though it’s verifiable, this also makes this guy a target for supply chain attack.
This is bad all around.
At the very least he could have signed the scripts which he did not.
Let’s say somebody tries to run this at work and they actually succeed and they manage to get it to run so that means they have bypassed the restriction that keeps them from running unsigned scripts and so right there they’ve made their machine more vulnerable so there’s that too.
Look, I recognize what the guy’s trying to do and it’s admirable but he should use a signed installer or put something in the Windows store (ok maybe MS wouldn’t like that) or at least use some sort of modern cryptographic protections. This guy (The article author really, I don’t blame the actual scriptwriter so much) is having people paste code and run it.
- Comment on Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome 1 week ago:
Anyone that’s pasting shit like
& ([scriptblock]::Create((irm “raw.githubusercontent.com/…/main.ps1”)))
Into elevated powershell windows should be summarily fired and prosecuted.
- Comment on Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome 1 week ago:
On Windows, all you have to do is open PowerShell as administrator and copy-paste this command:
& ([scriptblock]::Create((irm “raw.githubusercontent.com/…/main.ps1”)))
…said the Nigerian prince. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
I’ve read enough.
No.
- Comment on Need help choosing a NAS. 2 weeks ago:
I went with qnap. Synology, I think, can’t be trusted to stick with that policy reversal.
- Comment on How ATSC 3.0 aims to win over cord-cutters in 2026 3 weeks ago:
Converter box? I literally checked the date on the article, I figured OP was confused.
Why would I pay money for something I don’t use anyway? Lol.
I feel they’ve vastly overestimated the market here.
- Comment on Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself" 3 weeks ago:
I was hoping it would be more obvious what I was getting at, but apparently the flu is hitting me harder than I thought.
I’m suggesting that the existing Automobile industry will not welcome their efforts.
I hope they succeed.
- Comment on Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself" 3 weeks ago:
Look at the frame under the hood. 100% not safe for impact.
- Comment on Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself" 3 weeks ago:
This reminds me of a guy that used a portion of the energy generated by his car’s alternator to generate hydrogen and oxygen and feed it into the air intake, achieving over 100mpg efficiency in a stock vehicle.
He died mysteriously shortly after that.
- Comment on AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer 3 weeks ago:
If they have our rights, they should be subject to the same laws, including whatever incarceration or capital punishment exists in that state.
- Comment on AMD and Nvidia are talking about local AI, good news for PC gamers and memory prices 3 weeks ago:
Fantastic. They’ll make US pay for it. There’s no way they don’t turn this into something more evil.
- Comment on Grok can't apologize. Grok isn't sentient. So why do headlines keep saying it did? 3 weeks ago:
Nothing easy is worth having.
We might not get there… But we might!
- Comment on Microsoft Edge is getting a Copilot-inspired redesign 3 weeks ago:
I’ve actually made this mistake. If the article doesn’t load the thumbnail and you try to be nice and load it manually, and you do it just wrong enough, you will turn your link post into an image post. With certain clients, it’s fairly visually confusing.
- Comment on Grok can't apologize. Grok isn't sentient. So why do headlines keep saying it did? 4 weeks ago:
Not at all. In fact fuck AI. What I’m saying is that the owners and runners of xai are being actively hostile and reckless whereas chat gpt, Claude and a host of other AI runners are at least trying and I think that distinction is important.
Frankly I think that the whole deal is a scheme to create a new techno feifdom that will make all of us slaves. At best it’s a huge cash grab.
My point is that xai is making the case for AI regulation for us.
Obviously chat GPT, despite their efforts, is also driving people to suicide and murder suicide and all sorts of AI psychosis and that’s with them actually making some kind of effort.
I’m not sure if it’s a good faith effort but they’re making some kind of effort…
- Comment on Grok can't apologize. Grok isn't sentient. So why do headlines keep saying it did? 4 weeks ago:
And yet, mid journey and chatGPT at least resist or refise requests like this…
- Comment on Wendy's Firefox order kiosk borked 4 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t be the first time, actually.
I was at a rallys and the drive through ot cc machine or something was busted. I was pinned in and had to convince the person behind me that it was a lost cause. Glad they didn’t have a gun, they fully lost the plot and started screaming and such.
Twas fun.
- Comment on Wendy's Firefox order kiosk borked 4 weeks ago:
At this point if there’s not a human to take my order I just turn around and leave. I set the expectation before I go in so everybody’s ready to depart in case that’s what happens. At those prices and at that low a quality, I refuse to be their hired help operating their menu system.
- Comment on Foreign tech workers spurn US as if it were a rabid dog 4 weeks ago:
At this point, there are a good percentage of citizens that would leave if they could! This is no shock.
- Comment on This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers 4 weeks ago:
Thanks. I forgot to post this URL somehow. Adding now!
- Comment on This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers 5 weeks ago:
Are HikVision cameras being used to surveil people on a level never before seen in this country? Serious question, I truly don’t know…
It’s all well and good to prove someone wrong, and it seems you’ve done this with only one of his arguments but only partially. It seems a safe argument that security ought to be default for something that gets placed anywhere and everywhere. He should never have been able to make that video due to the high quality of the security of the devices.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 13 comments
- Comment on [Self-promotion] My partner just released a (free) game about a monster in a winter forest 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for the reply. I did indeed pass TF out, but will look for it later today after the seasonal festivities.
- Comment on Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’ 1 month ago:
Wow. That… That sure is special. 🤢
- Comment on Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’ 1 month ago:
And because of entities like Google, legal and ethical rarely intersect.
- Comment on Microsoft Will Be Ending Support For This Popular Software In October 2026 - SlashGear 1 month ago:
Yeah. Guilty. I shoulda called that out to save some clicks. Lol. Publisher.
I don’t really know of anyone that uses it… Even when I was working in an endpoint team, I don’t remember anyone ever asking for it. Hmm.
- Comment on Microsoft Will Be Ending Support For This Popular Software In October 2026 - SlashGear 1 month ago:
Please add the name of the software to the end of the title.
Not mad or anything, but it’ll save some clicks.😁
