riskable
@riskable@programming.dev
Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 4 days ago:
“With your powers dispersed, I can go back to playing games on my NES!”
- Comment on What's wrong with this picture? 4 days ago:
It’s from the alpha
- Comment on What job do you need this hard hat for? 1 week ago:
Any place with screws loose or loose nuts.
- Comment on The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump 1 week 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 weeks ago:
It’s a skill that opens doors… Or maybe not 🤷
- Comment on Snap, Crackle, Transubstantiate 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Are you sure they were actual Jeez-Its and not just styrofoam?
- Comment on You have got to be kidding me... 3 weeks ago:
Gold foil over shit
- Comment on The $900 Ayaneo 3 is the most exciting PC handheld the company’s yet made 3 weeks ago:
If it runs Windows it’s still garbage.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
“I will never call you Dad. In fact, I will never call you at all.”
- Comment on BDSM 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
Soybeans are offended!
- Comment on Your palms start to sweat, and the fear becomes much more intense. 4 weeks ago:
+1 Doom Points. The apocalypse draws closer.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 4 weeks ago:
Nope.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Your marbles.
- Comment on Par for the course 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
- Comment on There was a time when everyone had common sense 1 month ago:
That’s the thing that hasn’t changed: Some folks have a DIY attitude/initiative and others have a defeatist mentality.
I have no doubt that if you took someone from 50 years ago who could disassemble their car’s engine and put it back together again and raised them up in today’s environment they’d be the ones learning Python and how to fool around with Linux.
Maybe amateur radio folks (from 50 years ago) would be more appropriate for the analogy but you get the idea. Smarts and ignorance are orthogonal concepts.
- Comment on I don't have to check the price because I know I can't afford it. 1 month ago:
For a second there I thought the image was a picture of cheese cubes on a skewers being dipped in cheese. Then I looked a little closer and saw it was bread 🙄
Someone (with money) needs to make the cheese-covered cheese-on-a-stick happen! Let us know how it goes. I’m sure that not all cheeses will work well for this purpose. Here’s my ideas:
- Smoked Gouda dipped in proper Mexican (white, not orange LOL) Salsa con Queso.
- Extra Sharp Cheddar dipped in sweet cream cheese frosting (like you’d put on cinnamon rolls).
- Pepper jack dipped in a mild cheddar then chilled and coated with caramel/butterscotch hard shell topping with just a smidge of finely shredded Parmesan sprinkled on top before the topping becomes hard.
- Comment on Clips from what I'm playing 🟥⚔️🟦 Beat Saber [CW: Flashing lights, VR perspective] 1 month ago:
That’s actually just a silly Star Wars reference. “It’s an older code but it still checks out.”
- Comment on Clips from what I'm playing 🟥⚔️🟦 Beat Saber [CW: Flashing lights, VR perspective] 1 month ago:
It’s so fun! I’ve been playing every day for three years now and I’m still
addictedhaving loads of fun with it 😁👍 - Comment on Clips from what I'm playing 🟥⚔️🟦 Beat Saber [CW: Flashing lights, VR perspective] 1 month ago:
Oh if I wanted to show off my BS skills I’d post this replay:
replay.beatleader.com/?scoreId=20047904
😁
- Comment on Clips from what I'm playing 🟥⚔️🟦 Beat Saber [CW: Flashing lights, VR perspective] 1 month ago:
I just remembered that I made a gif demonstrating how to spin in Beat Saber!
- Comment on Clips from what I'm playing 🟥⚔️🟦 Beat Saber [CW: Flashing lights, VR perspective] 1 month ago:
Yes! I play on a hard floor wearing socks. I spin all the time! 🕺
In fact, sometimes I slide into position to play! 🤣
- Comment on Lenovo Legion Go S leaks suggest one model will be a budget SteamOS handheld - Liliputing 1 month ago:
Yeah! 2025 year of the Linux desktop (for everyone else; it was 1999 for me 😁)
- Comment on Clips from what I'm playing 🟥⚔️🟦 Beat Saber [CW: Flashing lights, VR perspective] 1 month ago:
Beat Saber is the best! If you use the BeatLeader mod it automatically saves and uploads replays whenever you beat your previous score on any given map.
Here’s my Christmas present to everyone to demonstrate this fantastic ability:
replay.beatleader.com/?scoreId=20010657
(Make sure to watch the whole silly thing in all it’s glory or you might miss some of the “special moments” 🤣)
I’m 46 and I play every day 👍