riskable
@riskable@programming.dev
Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Ah, so cute. Here’s what you need to do: Find what you like to do, then pick a realistic career path that you think you could do and do that instead. I highly recommend picking a career that lets you work from home. That way, you can skip the commute, do your laundry, and face existential dread at the same time; it’s better for the environment 👍
Comfort and happiness are what happens after work. You have to work to attain it! It’s the capitalist dream.
- Comment on purpose 4 weeks ago:
What would happen if bedbugs went extinct? Other than mass celebrations, I mean.
- Comment on Think about it 4 weeks ago:
That’s a good point. Many do seem to worship the holy blunt 🤔
- Comment on Think about it 4 weeks ago:
I believe the lesson here is that marijuana just isn’t toxic enough to kill anyone.
- Comment on Acorns! 1 month ago:
Since they don’t have fingerprints they ID the pecker.
- Comment on Could your body adjust if you separated your macros into meals? Like all carbs for breakfast, all fat for lunch and all protein for dinner? What would happen? 2 months ago:
I think it’s part of a, “stabilizer diet”
- Comment on Could your body adjust if you separated your macros into meals? Like all carbs for breakfast, all fat for lunch and all protein for dinner? What would happen? 2 months ago:
I highly recommend not eating your keyboard. The most commonly-uaed macros probably taste like finger cheese.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 2 months ago:
Forget small phones… I want bigger phones! Why do we keep making phones that appear to be made to appease people with small pockets‽
Bigger screens are better! Give me a great big tri-fold phone with a week-long battery (as long as it’s under 10lbs it won’t be a problem!). Actually, fuck that: Where are our backpack phones? We used to have them in WW2 and now we have the technology to make them even better!
I want the power to unfurl my monster phone to turn it into a portable 3-monitor gaming rig. Make it run regular Linux too so I can actually automate things and decide where I want to store my stuff (not in Google or Apple’s clouds!).
- Comment on Blazing Lava Gown 2 months ago:
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 2 months ago:
“With your powers dispersed, I can go back to playing games on my NES!”
- Comment on What's wrong with this picture? 2 months ago:
It’s from the alpha
- Comment on What job do you need this hard hat for? 2 months ago:
Any place with screws loose or loose nuts.
- Comment on The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump 2 months ago:
Disobey in advance: Put up a pride flag (even if there’s no LGBTQ folks in your home). Hand out banned books to children (and especially tell them it was banned!). Hire some minorities. Tell kids that religions that preach hate aren’t cool.
Point it that billionaires never have normal people’s best interests in mind. That no one should ever be that rich. That earning any income outside of a presidential salary is unconstitutional and downright corrupt.
Tell them that Elon Musk is an illegal immigrant. That selective enforcement of the law is evil. That the people that voted for Trump won’t be spared. That fascism will end up taking away everyone and everything they love. That it will corrupt their favorite institutions. That it will turn their children against them and break up their families. That making desperate enemies to endless violence.
Don’t shut up about it either.
- Comment on After completing my first job I'm thinking of quitting my regular job and doing plumbing full time 2 months ago:
It’s a skill that opens doors… Or maybe not 🤷
- Comment on Snap, Crackle, Transubstantiate 2 months ago:
Hmmm… For a sustainable alternative press some very fine paper pulp into a cracker-like shape, let it dry, then shove it into your mouth.
As an alternative you could just take a bite out of a cereal box, making sure that the inside-the-box side of the cardboard is what hits your tongue first 👍
- Comment on Snap, Crackle, Transubstantiate 2 months ago:
…or you could just slice off a thin piece of styrofoam and shove it into your mouth. Same taste and texture!
- Comment on Snap, Crackle, Transubstantiate 2 months ago:
Are you sure they were actual Jeez-Its and not just styrofoam?
- Comment on You have got to be kidding me... 3 months ago:
Gold foil over shit
- Comment on The $900 Ayaneo 3 is the most exciting PC handheld the company’s yet made 3 months ago:
If it runs Windows it’s still garbage.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
“I will never call you Dad. In fact, I will never call you at all.”
- Comment on BDSM 3 months ago:
Just need to remove “8” from that message.
- Comment on Is there anything my girlfriend and I have to consider when traveling to America based on our skin differences? 3 months ago:
Soybeans are offended!
- Comment on Your palms start to sweat, and the fear becomes much more intense. 3 months ago:
+1 Doom Points. The apocalypse draws closer.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 3 months ago:
Nope.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 3 months ago:
Hall effect sensor expert here! No, the magnets in the joycons that are used to attach to the display/body of the Switch 2 would not interfere with hall effect analog sticks.
Two reasons:
- The magnets are too far away (sensors are usually only sensitive within 10-12mm directly above/below)
- The mounting/attachment magnets would be perpendicular to the magnets in the analog sticks (if you imagine the flux lines they wouldn’t cross the sensory boundary).
Regardless, it would be trivial to place a tiny little piece of ferromagnetic blocking tape wherever necessary to prevent interference.
- Comment on iykyk 3 months ago:
Your marbles.
- Comment on Par for the course 3 months ago:
He started labelling random shit as masculine/feminine.
FYI: This is totally normal in France.
- Comment on There was a time when everyone had common sense 3 months ago:
I think each generation is less “ignorant” because they are more “informed” by the learnings and failures of the generations before.
One has only to point a finger at the previous generation to figure out who is responsible for, “kids these days.”
- Comment on There was a time when everyone had common sense 3 months ago:
I just want to point something out: Knowing not to drink battery fluid is not common sense!
Common sense is something that anyone would “just know” by instinct. Like not running out on to a highway with vehicles traveling at high speed. No one needs to teach that because it’s obvious from a glance.
If someone had never encountered a highway and never heard of such a thing they might wander out onto one when there’s no traffic. Would that be a failing of common sense? No! Because that type of decision-making requires some education/experience.
Lead tastes sweet! I haven’t tried it (haha) but there’s a reason why loads of children get lead poisoning by eating it every year. If you didn’t know that it’s poisonous and haven’t been educated about not eating/tasting random things you might just try the lead acid of a car battery! Especially if it’s really old and has become less acidic (that’s what sulfation does: Reduces the acidity).
“Common sense” is actually just a practical form of, “basic education”. Not everyone gets it and everyone always has gaps in their knowledge. What’s common sense to one person isn’t to another.
TL;DR: Common sense is a myth. We’re all born ignorant.
- Comment on There was a time when everyone had common sense 3 months ago:
The problem isn’t the lawsuits it’s the cost. Litigating anything is prohibitively expensive. Nobody but the rich and business can afford that so what you end up with is some huge percentage of cases being settled out of court without anyone (other than the parties involved) knowing about it.
It’s a big reason why settlement figures and jury damage awards are rising… You have to pay for the lawyers!
…which is interesting because lawyer pay is actually dropping and has been for some time now. The biggest firms are collecting all the money and most of that is flowing to the top. So most lawyers are in the same boat as the rest of us where wages aren’t keeping pace with inflation so they’re getting poorer and poorer every year.
That’s happening despite the fact that litigation costs are rising. Something is severely broken in regards to the economics of our criminal and civil justice system.
