rekabis

@rekabis@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disgusting money driven mindset⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Only connections can comment on this post.”

  Yeah, they’re clearly butthurt from all the constructive criticism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Men: never go to a female therapist, they will NEVER be able to understand you from a man’s perspective. All they see is abundance, with men chasing them and paying attention to them, and will never understand how few choices those men in the bottom-80% are left with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The rectum is considerably larger than your mouth, and can hold a lot more shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon airs out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, fuck. Not just squick, but full-on nightmare fuel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people were never meant to operate machinery of any kind, much less machines physically larger than they are.

  Like, don’t even let this person touch a lawnmower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if some mysterious force started to jam every radio frequency, how would modern day society adapt to this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My phones/tablets would be dead in the water, but I avoid wifi for almost everything not actively mobile. So all my iron - even the laptops - are hardlined.

  Unless they’re looking to employ Carrington-event-class interference, my networks are fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the cable sizes in this infographic are all the same gauge?

  They’re not. They are clearly marked as different gauges, except the left most two which have different plug types… one is two prong, the other is three prong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is daisychaining multiple extension cords considered unsafe, even if only done to the length of a standard cable?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  a 50ft 12 gauge extension cord is about $40

  $40USD would be $58CAD.

  A 50-ft 12-gauge extension cord costs $112+ CAD anywhere in Canada. A 100-ft is $200+ CAD. Like… fffffuuuuuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, most of the fridge is already there. You just need to disassemble, sandblast the metal and paint (if the paint is in poor condition), replace the insulation with closed-cell spray foam, replace the refrigeration system with a modern Freon-free system, reassemble and put new seals on.

  An old fridge can be quite simple, structurally speaking. It’s in the 70s and 80s when fridges started getting compact, difficult to repair, and disposable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The fridge will likely operate far less efficiently than a modern fridge unless you have it rebuilt.

  With that said, a rebuilt fridge - with a more efficient cooling system and better insulation and all seals redone, etc. - does not cost significantly more than a new midrange fridge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My microwave is a 1977 Amanda Radarange. It can boil a cup of water in ⅕ of the time a modern microwave can.

  Now granted, it has zero fancy settings and a simple number pad that does nothing but set how long you want the microwave to run.

  But honestly, this simplicity is a large part of it’s charm. No connectivity needs, no features locked behind paywalls, no extraneous bullshit or never-used features. Just a tool that does only one thing, and does it exceptionally well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries programming in Java⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  C# has had string interpolation for, what - nearly a decade, now? It arrived with C# v6, which was released in 2015.

  Meanwhile Java just pulled their implementation out of the latest beta earlier this year because they couldn’t get it to work right.

  Don’t know about you, but I think that Java is largely resting on its laurels as of late. That the only real reason to go for it is it’s third-party library system, and not much more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $325k for a 3bdrm 2bath detached SFH in good condition?

  Awww, that’s adorable. Even after taking the exchange rate into account, that would be like going back to 1998 in my corner of Canada. Right now, a house like that on a 0.21 Ac plot of land would be running you $1,300,000 CAD. In places like Vancouver? $4,800,000 CAD on average.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a tube-based distribution system I started using during COVID to keep my distance from those plague incubators that came calling, and just never stopped using it.

  I live in a moderately cold climate, and Halloween evening nearly always drops to around -5℃ to 5℃. So it’s much nicer to just sit in a cushy armchair by the window with a warm blanket over my legs and drop candy through the tube. A surprising amount of adults, teens, and tweens are tickled pink by that system, although a lot of little kids need a surprising amount of direction to get their candy.

  And yes, I always drop either two pieces or - for those in dark hoods and carrying scythes - full-sized snickers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t consider that causing harm.
  but I still don’t give moral consideration to plants in either case.

  So you are species bigot, and a hypocrite for refusing to take the ideology to it’s logical conclusion.

  Cool beans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plants scream when eaten:

  • sciencealert.com/plants-really-do-scream-out-loud…
  • science.howstuffworks.com/…/plants-feel-pain.htm
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any that’s the hypocrisy of Vegans. Milk and honey are the only two animal-based food sources that don’t involve the killing of animals. And in the case of most cow breeds, milking is actually needed as they have been bred to produce far more milk than their calves drink. And with careful management of the hive, you can harvest a lot of honey from a mature hive without negatively affecting the hive itself - it just delays/defers new queen production and swarming, which is desirable anyhow - no beekeeper who has hives primarily for crop pollination wants to have hives swarming each and every year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phoenix police beat and arrest innocent deaf black man who has cerebral palsy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ACAB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dream job⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The military will need skills like that once modern civ collapses later this century.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK there is a software that blocks remote connection tools used by scammers!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can certain remote connections be whitelisted?

  I have a number of non-tech family members that I remote assist and remote administer. Clearly, I need to be able to log in remotely via RustDesk whenever needed, and since RustDesk has no auto-updater, I would need to whitelist the website (and their GitHub page) as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great summary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A vegan that keeps cats allows 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.