rekabis
@rekabis@lemmy.ca
- Comment on how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me? 2 weeks ago:
Great summary.
- Comment on how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me? 2 weeks ago:
Legally they cannot.
gender supremacists:
“Hold my beer and watch me do exactly that. Again and again and again without any censure or pushback, purely because I am being a gender bigot against men, and for no other reason. We have full societal and legal ability to employ open misandry, because opposition of any kind is misogyny by default.”
domestic violence happens to men too.
71% of non-reciprocal (only one person being abusive) physically violent (actually striking) domestic violence involves women striking men.
As in, 71% of those victims are men.
And under those same conditions (non-reciprocal physically violent DV), two-thirds of victims that were injured seriously enough to require hospitalization were men, yet almost 100% were also arrested as the “perps”, even though they were the only victims.
Losts of people have problems with these facts. Wild how bad anti-reality ideological indoctrination has gotten.
- Comment on how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me? 2 weeks ago:
There are fake job postings.
IIRC, there was one very recent (mid-2024) study of job ads that strongly suggested that 60-75% of them were never meant to be filled. As in, the company posted them for entirely unrelated reasons.
It’s why these are called “ghost jobs”: they don’t exist.
- Comment on ‘Do not store guns in your oven’: Loaded gun stored in oven fires multiple rounds after getting overheated 2 weeks ago:
…Da Fuq?
Who… who does shit like this? Is it really that easy for any Cletus to own a gun in the States?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
A vegan that
keeps catsallows cats outside isn’t exactly approaching the situation from a purely vegan-based mentality.There, FTFY.
Absolutely nothing wrong with cats that are 100% indoors, not only do they have no effect on the wildlife, but their lifespans are something like ⅓ to ½ longer due to the lack of accidents or conflicts.
- Comment on ‘Who dreams this crap up?’: Kevin O'Leary slams new rule that allows employees to ignore their bosses after hours 3 weeks ago:
I have watched more than a few of his CBC pieces. Where employees and work-life balance are concerned, the man is toxic AF.
I mean, sure; if you are looking to become obscenely wealthy his attitude makes a lot of sense. But not all of us want to become parasites sucking the lifeblood out of other hard-working, working-class Canadians. Some of us just want enough to be comfortable, because smelling the roses and enjoying life is more important than spending a lifetime grinding to accumulating “stuff” only to die without having enjoyed any of it. You can’t take those obscene levels of wealth with you when you die, and all that accumulating those “brownie points” do is impoverish those from whose labour you coerced and forcibly extracted it.
- Comment on Please pick a password starting with ad and ending with min 4 weeks ago:
16 characters was the minimum length a password should be due to how easy it was to crack… something like ten years ago.
Now it’s something like 20 to 24 characters.
Seriously, if your company is defining maximum password length and demanding specific content, it is failing at the security game. Have the storage location accept a UTF-8 string of at least 2048 bytes - or
nvarchar(max)
if it’s a database field - and do a bitwise complexity calculation as your only “minimum value” requirement.Look at how KeePass calculates password complexity, and replicate that for whatever interface you are using. Ensure that it is reasonable, such as 150-200bit complexity, and let users choose whatever they want to achieve that complexity.
- Comment on Anon doesn't know what she's doing wrong 1 month ago:
We had one lady who got a security guard fired because she said he made her feel uncomfortable
I have seen guys report women to HR because of actual, verifiable sexual harassment (physical touching, etc.) and be laughed out of the HR office because “women cannot sexually harass a man” and “men always want it”.
They asymmetric societal standards currently in place are insanely misandric and bleedingly hypocritical.
- Comment on Carebear countdown 1 month ago:
where they help young adults and millennials deal with feelings of depression, disillusionment, and cynicism?
You mean by eradicating the Parasite Class, dismantling vampire/vulture Capitalism, crashing the housing market by 75+%, and closing the wealth gap, thereby giving them a future that is not only affordable but also worth living and striving for?
That sounds absolutely wonderful.
- Comment on dumbass 2 months ago:
Yeah. As much as I love to be accurate and pedantic, even I don’t touch this subject with a dirty barge pole.
- Comment on I don't have AC but my apartment lease covers unlimited water usage and the water is very cold. How can I best use this to cool my home? 2 months ago:
- Find a pair of vehicle radiators that are as close to a box fan in size as possible.
- Zip tie them to either side of the box fan. As the fan blows: it will draw air in through the “second radiator” and blow it out through the “first radiator”.
- Hook the out of the first radiator to the in of the second using flexible hoses. Cheap garden hoses might even fit.
- Hook other hoses to the in of the first radiator and the out of the second.
- Run water on through the first radiator, out of the second. This makes the most efficient heat transfer possible.
- Comment on Sony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitable 2 months ago:
8Tb optical disks don’t exist. Much cheaper to just do spinning-rust or cloud.
- Comment on Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise 3 months ago:
when it wasn’t actively sexually harrassing T’pol
I never understood that need. T’pol was already fiercely exotic, what with her flawless face and remote Vulcan disdain. They could have put her into a spacesuit for the entire series and she would have still been attractive AF purely due to her personality and strength of character. About the only improvement I would have liked to see is more of her character arc being in conflict with her Vulcan upbringing, particularly in trying to deal with those infuriatingly irrational humans, and her emotional entanglement with Trip.
- Comment on Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable. 3 months ago:
Good. The sooner the poison of religion is relegated to the dustbin of history, the better. The Abrahamic faiths are just the worst of the bunch.
- Comment on What do you do with Nazi memorabilia? 3 months ago:
The real trick is in finding the genuine collector, and not just another Nazi in a collector’s Trenchcoat.
- Comment on What happens if I never activate Windows? 3 months ago:
Unless you airgap the machine, Windows 7 is now becoming more and more insecure and out of date.
It’s like using Debian 9 or earlier in production… not something you want to do unless you enjoy being pwned.
- Comment on What happens if I never activate Windows? 3 months ago:
I have always bought surplussed business hardware, which back in the day came with COA stickers still attached. My latest iron had two attached for some strange reason. So when Windows 10 came along with its “Upgrade Win 7 key to 10” plan, I fired up a VM (for this exact purpose) and went to work. Now (after moving them to 10 and then 11) I have a handful of Win11 Pro licenses for whatever machine I need to license.
Slowly moving away from Windows due to their AI and spyware shenanigans, but hey. Likely always will run at least one Windows rig, even if I have to spend the first day or two after install castrating it.
- Comment on Introducing: The Minimal Phone 4 months ago:
If I wanted a truly minimal phone, I would go for the Rotary Un-Phone.
- Comment on Calculus made easy 4 months ago:
Calculus was never an issue for me. I could do double-integral calculus in my head clear into my forties. I’ve just gotten rusty since then, likely with a spot of practice I could pull off that party trick again.
No, the only part of math that ever struck fear into my heart was trigonometry. Sin, cos, tan, that kind of stuff. For some reason I have never been able to grok, on a fundamental level, the basics of trig. I understand things on a high/intellectual level, just not on an instinctual level.
- Comment on If you've been fooled, does that make you "a fool"? 6 months ago:
I trust the floor of my bedroom to be there when I get up in the dark.
Technically, you have an infinitesimally tiny but non-zero probability of experiencing a quantum tunnelling event at the macro scale that will have you drop through that floor without damaging it to land in the room below.
- Comment on [United States] Gender wage gap persists in 2023: Women are paid roughly 22% less than men on average 6 months ago:
When you’re directly comparing the pay of a male executive against that of a female barista, it is very much meaningless.
Employment choices and decisions factor very heavily into how much people get paid. Take those choices and decisions into account, and the so-called “wage gap” almost completely disappears.
- Comment on Public trust 6 months ago:
We should have the attitude that protecting others is good.
This flies in the face of North American “exceptional individualism”.
Asian societies are largely collective. You do what you can to serve others, putting the needs of the community ahead of your own, and this leads to tighter-knit, stronger, and more resilient communities.
North American society is based on “muh rights” individualism, where the person is most important, and society needs to serve their needs, and not the other way around. This leads to weak, ephemeral, almost non-existent communities that are there only in name, or by a fluke of geography that makes completely random people cluster together without ever making serious or deep social connections.
Of the two, the former might end up being stifling to creatives and neuroatypicals, but the latter cannot survive any significant challenge without a significantly negative impact on the “community”.
- Comment on Denmark to start conscripting women for military service 6 months ago:
True equality, FTW!
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 8 months ago:
Even within a brand, you usually contend with at least two different battery packs - 12v and higher - and even more if you keep your tools in good condition and their connection types are obsoleted before you buy more tools.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 8 months ago:
Corded can be great! I have corded Bosch for anything in my workshop - why would I need batteries for a location with dozens of sockets? - and use batteries mainly in the field or where cords would start to get impractical. Plus, where the manufacturer only makes a battery version of the tool. The Bosch PROFACTOR GDS18V-740N, for example, only comes in a battery version. No corded version exists.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 8 months ago:
Only if you go for the strict definition.
Any exchange of labour for money under an indentured system where you are under constant violent threat of homelessness, destitution, starvation, and even death if you don’t work, is a certain type of prostitution born of desperation.
TL;DR: most of us whose paycheques are signed by someone else are labour prostitutes.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 8 months ago:
I’m in that fifth house that no-one ever seems to talk about: BOSCH.
J/K, I’m mostly Bosch, but I look towards whichever manufacturer makes the best version of a tool I currently need. For example, my chainsaws and yard/orchard power tools are Stihl, my lawnmower is Husqvarna, my circular saw, worm drive saw and abrasion/steel cutoff saw are all Skilsaw (not Skil!), and my oscillating multi tool is Fein.
Plus, many of the domestics are vintage, from before production was outsourced out of America, which makes them much more reliable and robust than modern tools. Even some of the other tools are vintage – my Stihl 076 Super can cut through a 60cm log like a hot knife through butter. And I have both 36″ and 72″ bars to go with it.