rekabis
@rekabis@lemmy.ca
- Comment on US education 6 days ago:
Conservatism needs its masses of ignorant and near-illiterate electorate who cannot think for themselves and cannot use critical thinking to realize how badly they are being hoodwinked. This hollowing out of the educational system has been done on purpose to bulk up the Republican electorate.
- Comment on US education 6 days ago:
And with the dismantling of the US Department of education, things are going to get a lot, lot worse.
- Comment on Australian's criminal history went viral after annoying the wrong repair guy 2 weeks ago:
Being a good programmer is harder than it seems. Lots of people can code, but many are just script kiddies. Even I consider myself at the lower bounds of what it means to be a software developer - and I don’t consider myself to be knowledgeable in low-level hardware in the least.
Some people, despite their odious natures, manage to unlock talents and skills that others can only dream of. It’s no different than trying to separate a troublesome artist from their art.
- Comment on Australian's criminal history went viral after annoying the wrong repair guy 2 weeks ago:
Maybe someone still in possession of a copy can decompile it, neuter the shutdown code, and open-source the rest?
- Comment on Australian's criminal history went viral after annoying the wrong repair guy 2 weeks ago:
On a personal level, I have never liked Louis Rossmann. There is something about him that I have never been able to define - his cockiness, or brashness or the way he carries himself, IDK - that has always rubbed me the wrong way. If we meet IRL, I am not sure if we could ever be friends.
And yet…
I will always be a staunch supporter of him. I will always watch and promote his videos. I will always be behind him 100%.
Because he fights the good fight. Because he fights the right fight.
And because he is careful in his research, points out where he is unsure, qualifies where there is nuance, and doesn’t pull any punches when faces need punching. His content is invariably not just correct and detailed, but also accurate and precise.
And most of all: despite his career success, he still fights for the little guy. That one of my favourite videos was a detailed rant about how the very career path he had taken was no longer available to other young people because of how restricted individual parts have become, and how in many cases you can now only obtain assemblies that are much more expensive.
- Comment on Dik Piks 2 weeks ago:
I would gladly send a dik pic of my own, provided she appreciates diminutive mammalian ruminants.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Just like the opposite of addiction is not sobriety but connection, so the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.
Because that is what most depression saps out of people - the vitality to do things, to live life, and to give your own life meaning and the strength to forge ahead.
Sometimes people can handle depression on their own. Most of the time, however, help of some sort is needed. Never be afraid or let yourself be shamed for reaching out or accepting help, because we all need help once in a while. As the Good Captain once said, “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.”
And while uncultivated ignorance can still be educated away, beware cultivated ignorance – these people are maliciously ignorant, and are intentionally trying to hurt you.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 3 weeks ago:
Read the comment more carefully… while IT was most certainly not at their posts, this implementation team was actively monitoring the rollout and witnessing the carnage.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 3 weeks ago:
Never said it had to be you.
But a threat to do exactly that would have likely called IT’s bluff long before the four-month mark.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 3 weeks ago:
And in those four months, did no-one think of firing up WireShark to see what was floating across that network during that time period?
Seems like someone dropped the debug/analysis ball…
- Comment on This is the smallest print size i've ever seen 4 weeks ago:
This broken english is printed with impeccable quality.
That’s probably the funniest bit about this whole thing. Absolutely impeccable workmanship, but horrendous English. If only they spent a touch more money for decent translator.
- Comment on This is the smallest print size i've ever seen 4 weeks ago:
Legit impressed with the sharpness of that text at that size. That’s definitely not from any fly-by-night back-alley Indian factory using sweatshop labour.
- Comment on User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any leg 1 month ago:
You’re conflating syncing with backing up
Every syncing service I know of offers versioning. Some offer a high degree of versioning customization (retention, etc.) with their paid tiers, making said sync indistinguishable from a hot backup.
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 1 month ago:
I never had it done for two main reasons:
- Actual cutting of the cornea.
- A cripplingly negative response to anything that surgically impacts my body. Even giving blood triggers an overwhelming need to inject it right back into me.
Knowing what I do about CC and the astronomically high likelihood of global civilizational collapse before mid-century, I should really have something like that done so I can do without glasses if absolutely necessary. Assuming I live that long, that is. Which, judging from the current advanced age of my own parents, is a decent “likely”.
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 1 month ago:
Right? This is an absolutely awesome autocorrect fail.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 month ago:
Imagine if a carmaker sold a premium vehicle with a polished metal and glass exterior that you had to protect under a vinyl wrap to keep it from rusting and chipping under normal use… they’d be a laughing stock!
tesla cybertruck wanders into chat, spots comment, slinks quietly back out with a red face
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 month ago:
I would likely go case-less if it wasn’t for my dry hands, and the occasional need to have my phone sit on my leg (while I am sitting) so I can go hands-free with it.
My problem is that any phone without a case (and about 99.999% of cases out there) has the phone being as slippery as an enraged hagfish. It literally leaps out of my hands with most operations, which is why I need a case – to grip it effectively.
And now with my iPhone 15 pro max, I have been in a desperate search for any case which is sticky enough. As in: with the phone in the case, place it face-up on your open palm without gripping it and tilt your palm 30-45°. If it slides off, the case is too slippery. I’ve had sticky cases before, but it seems that everyone suddenly stopped making them some time after the iPhone X.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
but you’d already be hard pressed to read the data off a deck of punch cards or reel of magnetic tape
Even something like a 3¼″ floppy is getting hard to find a drive for, because not many USB drives were made, and non-USB drives need a motherboard with floppy compatibility. Which would be more than a decade old by this point.
- Comment on Exposure might cause suffocation 2 months ago:
This one is identical to the pic, and comes in various different sizes: www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/…/85791225.EJUG5
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 months ago:
Holy shit, those prices. Like, I wouldn’t be able to afford any package at even 10% the going rate.
Anything available for the lone operator running a handful of Internet-addressable servers behind a single symmetrical SOHO connection? As in, anything for the other 95% of us that don’t have mountains of cash to burn?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yes, but in many to most cases, no.
People from suppressed cultures/families who suddenly experience freedom have a tendency to go after anything that spits in the face of their former repression, purely for that freedom. As in, they are motivated by the freedom to choose, and not by whether or not they actually like the act in question.
Which is why the former is much more psychologically healthier – it rarely generates regret, whereas the latter has the potential to generate regret once they “get [it] worked out of their system” and realize that they don’t like the act itself - and may actually hate it or how it’s changed them - and have only been attracted to their ability to choose it or its ability to be offensive in the context of their prior repression.
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 2 months ago:
We have high technology because we don’t have anything else to leverage.
I suspect a world with strong magic is liable to leverage that to the exclusion of technology.
A now-ended iseki story on Reddit’s HFY subreddit called “Wait, is this just GATE?” Asks the question of what would happen if a universe of only technology and no magic (ours) made contact with a universe of pretty much only magic and almost no technology beyond that found in the Middle Ages. It contains some tropes (used mainly as comedic relief or irony) and plenty of references to current magical-universe plot elements from games and novels, but is a surprisingly fresh and compelling examination of the cross-universe idea.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Not hopeless, just overcompensating from the freedom.
OP needs to strongly consider whether he:
- actually likes doing those things, or
- is just entranced/aroused by being able to do things that would be otherwise forbidden by his family and culture.
Either is OK, but when being the source of that behaviour, the former is a lot more healthy than the latter.
- Comment on 7 for me 2 months ago:
Depends if I have my shower directly before going to bed. If so, it’s 20, otherwise 4.
- Comment on Anon has a female friend 2 months ago:
There’s a significant number of things that you’re ignoring or are not privy to, where women are harmed by men.
You mean, like… domestic violence?
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 2 months ago:
I knew of an African-American named Le-a.
Not spoken as “ley-ah”, but as “ledasha”.
Because you are supposed to say the dash.
- Comment on What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide? 2 months ago:
- get a sniper rifle
- train to take out targets at a large distance
- know where and when ICE will be, especially where they will muster before one of their “raids”
- in many cases, there will be little to no difference between ICE and LEO. Both are putting on brown shirts and violently attacking their own communities.
Fascism can only be perpetuated when fascists do not fear being killed. If you are not with them, they will gladly kill you – it’s time you took steps to protect yourself and your community.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
He’s gone even further off the rez: “Tariff supporters are socialists”.
Like, no. It’s the exact opposite.
- Comment on Anon has a female friend 3 months ago:
Our current western culture is one of violent misandry.
Women are being released from almost all historical expectations and constraints, which is wonderful and good. This is actual progress in action, however lopsided and gender-supremacy-like it might be.
Meanwhile, men are still constrained by all the historical expectations set out for them, yet have been completely stripped of all benefits that have traditionally accrued with those expectations being met. And yet, we are still being violently nailed to the wall - invariably by women ignoring and/or outright demeaning us - when we fail to meet those expectations.
This massive asymmetry that men experience is what is creating subgroups of disaffected men. Because 1ncels don’t just leap out of the ground, fully formed – they are a direct response to the unintended consequences of women trying to eat their cake and to have it as well. Think about that next time women refuse to date down, or demand a “666 man”, or expect the man to pay on the first date, or any other archaic and gender-bigoted expectation.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 3 months ago:
This ignores that the inventor has less motivation to actually invent. Author have less motivation to create.
Tell me you haven’t read the entire book without actually saying you haven’t done much more than browse a few pages.
