riskable
@riskable@programming.dev
Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast
- Comment on I should call her 3 days ago:
Cesarian kids didn’t get this map.
- Comment on Genderfluid 🚿 3 days ago:
Isekai is just the fantasy version of sci-fi. It presents that, “what if?” question but (usually) with cat girls, swords, and magic.
- Comment on Genderfluid 🚿 3 days ago:
Dancing in the shower without music isn’t nearly as fun 🤷
- Comment on How do industries that provide goods like lumber or livestock maintain output when their goods take a long time to develop but get used/processed in a short period of time? 5 days ago:
Well, they used to donate to politicians that wanted to fund schools 🤷
- Comment on Snarkaeopteryx 1 week ago:
“Sarcasm”
- Comment on "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry 1 week ago:
I’ve heard from copywriters who now fear losing their apartments, one who turned to sex work,
One of these jobs is not like the others!
- Comment on Young people five times more likely to have no friends than a decade ago | IPPR 1 week ago:
expensive rents and unaffordable house prices.
Fix this, and I bet a lot of the other issues will improve considerably.
- Comment on Dana White isn’t a fan of college athletes getting paid: “It’s a problem. Money ruins everything” 1 week ago:
So… Students getting paid for extracurricular activities is wrong because money ruins everything. OK.
By extension, students paying money to attend college is ruining college.
For a logical conclusion: Colleges getting paid for their students extracurricular work (college sports) is also ruining college.
- Comment on Dominos using AI for ads. 2 weeks ago:
Actually, you’re right: They do kinda look like scallops.
Having said that, I think I’ve figured out what they actually are: Marshmallows 😂
- Comment on The Walmart in my town didn’t clearly don’t care lol 2 weeks ago:
Something tells me that boom arm is just a tad too short, compared to the fucking telescope of a camera it’s paired with.
- Comment on Dominos using AI for ads. 2 weeks ago:
Oh please. AI generated images of food are just as realistic as the food in traditional food advertisements.
We’ve all been looking at pictures of painted plastic since forever. Not only that, but photoshopped, painted plastic 😁
- Comment on Dominos using AI for ads. 2 weeks ago:
Have you ever seen a pizza with sausage slices that big‽ That was the dead giveaway to me. I mean, every pizza ad makes the cheese and toppings look perfect but those are little sausage towers.
Now I want a pizza like that!
- Comment on What is my purpose? 2 weeks ago:
I dunno. I think this ant is head and shoulders above the rest.
- Comment on India’s College Boom Is Leaving Graduates in Debt and Without Jobs 2 weeks ago:
Catching up to the US in the wrong ways.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If you’re just looking for the best, most reliable access points, Ubiquiti stuff is fantastic.
I highly recommend their stuff. Unlike most ISP-supplied wifi routers, Ubiquiti access points and routers can actually handle hundreds to thousands of simultaneous clients (connected devices) without having random drops, massive losses of speed, etc.
Their software also makes it easy to deploy loads of their access points in your home without ever having to worry about things like channel overlap, interference with your neighbors, etc.
- Comment on I love it when this happens while I'm scrolling 3 weeks ago:
LOL! I was making a joke.
- Comment on I love it when this happens while I'm scrolling 4 weeks ago:
Yet another comment that says they solved the problem without saying how.
- Comment on Why are expressions like "women artists" or "women writers" used? 4 weeks ago:
In my writing, if I’m going to refer to someone as “female” it’s usually because I’m also going to refer to someone else as “male” in that same context.
This new trend is kind of annoying because I wrote a book about sapient magical sugar gliders and since they’re not humans, I referred to them as “male” and “female”. That made the writing feel way too parochial and, well, awful so I came up with special words for male and female children and adults for the species instead.
Young females were called “kaydees” and the males were “keedos”. The species as a whole was named “kads”.
I actually had a reader say it was “a bad smell” that I used the word “female” too often (they did a search for that but not “male”, sigh).
- Comment on Are there any technology-oriented content creators that are still good? 4 weeks ago:
Wacky!
- Comment on Are there any technology-oriented content creators that are still good? 5 weeks ago:
Don’t call it theft. Theft is what happens when the original owner doesn’t have that thing anymore.
Nothing was “stolen”. AI just lowered the value of generic “thumbnail artists” and probably increased their value as artisans for those willing to pay for a premium service.
That’s what generative AI does: It makes stuff of mediocre quality that’s “good enough” for the masses. However, if you want something better than that, you have to pay a professional.
My hypothesis is that Baumol’s Cost Disease combined with AI is going to result in the collapse of capitalism. Where bespoke service work (e.g. hiring a thumbnail artist) is going to become more expensive over time while generic stuff that doesn’t need to be high quality is going to become cheaper and cheaper, to the point where it’s basically free. We’re almost there, actually.
- Comment on He got caught and did not resist. He complied. 5 weeks ago:
For shore, you pelican’t fish with them around.
- Comment on Are there any technology-oriented content creators that are still good? 5 weeks ago:
What does “AI-pilled” mean? Complaining about a generated wallpaper seems rather nitpicky to me when YouTube does that for everyone now. As in, that war has been lost.
In fact, complaining about AI-generated cover images in general seems rather nitpicky. The actual content wasn’t AI generated, just a tiny little advertising detail.
I dunno: It’s like people complaining about “kids these days.” “Instead of spending a few hours working on a proper clickbait cover image, kids these days are using AI!”
- Comment on *landbastard intensifies at the right of replacing a 2 dollar light switch". 1 month ago:
Ooh, I actually know a little bit about this!
A property owner can put whatever TF restrictions they want in the lease—and they often do! But just because it’s in a contract doesn’t mean it’s legal (e.g. contract to kill).
Let’s say a property owner finds out their tenant is working from home. They claim a violation of the lease and start eviction proceedings. That’s dumb AF.
- This would only ever be used as an excuse for a tenant they don’t like.
- If it came before a judge, even they would be like, “WTF?” And would probably not demand an explanation, but instead would point to mountains of case law that say a property owner can’t dictate what people can and can’t do within a rental property as long as those activities don’t impact the property (e.g. the value).
- That’s when the property owner would have to explain how Joe Schmoe working from home is somehow worse than retiree Judy Anywoman who stays at home all day every day.
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 1 month ago:
IT requires constant learning. If you live to fool around with new tech, go for it.
If you hate learning new things and just want to settle on doing one thing your whole life, IT is not for you.
Whatever you’re doing at the start of your IT career is not what you’ll be doing by the time you retire. In fact, you’ll probably change your entire job/role at least a dozen times throughout your career as technologies change and evolve.
Also, learn Linux. If you don’t like the command line, there’s no future for you. All the things are moving to Linux (in business). It’s where all the big money is too.
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 1 month ago:
So… You still working on rain or have you been promoted to snow?
Wait: You’re not one of those sleet people, are you?
- Comment on Also literally known as the Horror Frog 2 months ago:
It’s not the only animal like this! The Iberian Ribbed Newt (Pleurodeles waltl) will push its own ribcage out of its chest (turning them into spikes) and secretes toxic venom through those bones…
- Comment on This week on Windows... 2 months ago:
If you want unautomatable, ludicrously expensive, insecure mountains of instability… Go for it👍
- Comment on This week on Windows... 2 months ago:
Proving once again that windows isn’t ready for the desktop.
- Comment on Fixed it for you 2 months ago:
The chances this fixes it are… Remote.
- Comment on allegedly 3 months ago:
Oh right! I completely forgot.
It’s happening to the guy in front 👍