riskable
@riskable@programming.dev
Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast
- Comment on Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world 23 hours ago:
Oh please. There’s nothing wrong with a bunch of girls horsing around.
- Comment on Can people tell sex of a dog just by looking at the dog? 1 day ago:
would it be awkward for one of them to misgender the other’s dog?
Story time!
I was on my way into PetSmart to pick up my dogs from a routine vet appointment when I saw a man standing on the sidewalk right in front of where I parked. He had a dog with him of a breed I’d never seen before (probably a mix of many). This dog looked super neat with a mostly white head with a cool black stripe over one eye.
“She’s a pretty dog!”
Him, looking actually angry: “He’s a male.” (Or something like that)
I then looked up at him and noticed he was wearing a MAGA cap. I didn’t notice before because his dog was so striking.
Without skipping a beat, I replied…
“It sucks being misgendered, don’t it?”
I don’t know if he was a bigoted, anti-trans asshole but he was wearing the uniform.
The look on his face was… Dumbfounded. Honest, I was hoping for shock and horror but it was good enough 👍
- Comment on Give the people what they really need 2 days ago:
Isn’t that just… Vinegar?
- Comment on Wrong answers only - what is this? 2 days ago:
Yeah!!! Damned fine use of that wall space and a great demonstration of your hard-won mad skillz 👍
- Comment on Wrong answers only - what is this? 4 days ago:
Like someone else stated, it was an EPIC pussy magnet that demonstrated your car audio prowess. Only a special few knew the secrets…
Photo of an RJ-9 to dual 1.8mm jack adapter
Photo of a car cassette audio aux adapter featuring a 1.8mm plug
- Comment on Wrong answers only - what is this? 4 days ago:
I recently stayed at a rental property that had this (actual photo):
Photo of a NuTone Intercom with a built-in CD player and FM tuner
I tried to get it working but none of the remote panels worked. They were all disconnected somehow (owner probably cut the wires to prevent shenanigans by guests cranking the volume then leaving it like that). The CD player worked (central panel only) but oddly, it couldn’t pick up any FM stations. It would tune to them (“scan” feature worked) but they only ever produced static. I suspect the capacitors used in the amplification circuit dried out or something got corroded after being in a “regular ocean salt spray” area (it was on a beach) for such a long time 🤷
- Comment on Wrong answers only - what is this? 4 days ago:
Wow! This brings back memories… It was a Soul Crusher: A primitive technology used to commune with the dead over long distances. I’ll explain…
These devices used the “Afterlife Toll” (AT) command set, invented by someone named “Hayes” which I believe was just a nickname or mistranslation of Hades. With the correct invocation, you could whisper into the great beyond. Here’s an example:
ATDT 6665551234Translated: “Afterlife Toll, Death Touch <helliphone number>”. After this invocation, the user would hear the pleasant sound of souls being crushed in order to make the afterlife connection.
Of course—due to the popularity of such devices—crushing souls over long distances could get expensive so a number of Incorporeal Service Providers (ISP) sprang up to make it cheaper and easier than ever to crush souls from anywhere.
Cool fact: This is where the term, “soul crushing machines” comes from! These days, soul crushing is fully automated and far beyond the measure of Beings Per Seance (BPS). Nearly every computer is shipped with an ethernet connection and practically everyone is walking around with devices that can commune over WIFI (Wailing Incorporeal Fidelity).
In fact, our Incorporeal Technology (IT) is so advanced, you can have a soul crushing experience from anywhere in the world at all hours of the day, every day!
- Comment on SUPERGIRL | Official Trailer 6 days ago:
Hollywood really is out of ideas.
Give more interesting writers and scripts a chance, losers!
No wonder no one wants to go to the movies anymore.
- Comment on Avoid back issues. Use your arms when lifting things 1 week ago:
These dudes could do pushups without using their arms.
- Comment on A Republican Farmer Relies on Immigrant Work. He Sees His Party Erasing It. 1 week ago:
“Come on! I know I joined the immigrant-hating party but I didn’t think they were going to hurt my form of immigrant exploitation! Indentured servants and slaves, people! Not deportation!”
- Comment on What is the probability that the atoms that I am made of once formed someone's penis? 1 week ago:
Well, if you were a pussy you wouldn’t have asked this question 👍
- Comment on 😐?? 1 week ago:
It will break down into mostly carbon dioxide and water after a 20-200 years depending on how much UV light hits it (and friction). There won’t be anything for worms to eat!
- Comment on 😐?? 1 week ago:
It was a joke! Dry humor.
- Comment on Me emitting 20KG of CO2 by using Google search to spellcheck individual words 1 week ago:
The core of the earth is very warm already though.
- Comment on 😐?? 1 week ago:
The second question is silly: “what makes a towel dirt?” Worms, of course!
For the towel to become dirt, you need a nice composting environment and 2+ years. It’ll go best if you turn it from time to time.
The final step is for the worms to eat the leftovers. Then the towel has officially become dirt that’s indistinguishable from the other dirt that surrounds it 👍
- Comment on Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive 1 week ago:
So your image file of grandma—the last one of her smiling before she died—will be given the cartoon treatment just before OneDrive spams an ad for itself, saying you’re out of space and deletes the file.
- Comment on where? 2 weeks ago:
Beware horse girls! It’s a trap!
- Comment on Greek Court Bans Kosher and Halal Slaughter 2 weeks ago:
Me: “Religions often require pointless cruelty and suffering!”
Catholics: “Yes.” (Shrugs)
Me: “I was talking about kosher and halal practices… requiring that animals not be anaesthetized before being slaughtered.”
Catholics, grimacing: “Oh! Right! Yeah…”
- Comment on What??? Nativity scene with a crucifix in the background? 2 weeks ago:
Have to hang em out to dry after surgery.
- Comment on Why is Windows still bloated 2 weeks ago:
MacOS wasn’t rewritten, it was ported. It’s now bigger than before.
Whoah there! Mac OS was entirely rewritten from scratch (based upon some combination of FreeBSD and NextSTEP) when Steve Jobs rejoined Apple. Or are we pretending the eternal shame of Mac OS 7 never happened?
- Comment on What??? Nativity scene with a crucifix in the background? 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, lots of people were crucified at the time. Many with the same name as Jesus and many for the same crimes!
In this case, though… It was merely the pubic execution of a leprechaun.
- Comment on This happen to anyone else? 2 weeks ago:
This just means (usually) that your system synchronizes with something that doesn’t support special characters (e.g. mainframes).
Remember kids: Mainframes suck. They’re awful legacy garbage that holds back adoption of superior, actually secure technologies. Soooo many things that make you go, “WTF?” in IT can be traced back to having to support legacy systems (like mainframes).
- Comment on So stylish you could wear it all day 3 weeks ago:
Why would I want my hat to grow hair?
- Comment on Pro-gun activists hand out free AR-15 magazines outside the Virginia State Capitol ahead of debate over a bill that would limit the sale of these magazines 3 weeks ago:
Each one should have a picture of Charlie Kirk on it. To celebrate his legacy, of course! So everyone can understand the lesson he taught the world. So others with the same beliefs can follow in his footsteps!
“It’s worth the cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths […] so that we can have the Second Amendment”. Charlie Kirk, 2023.
- Comment on NHS and MoD will be urged to buy British tech to drive growth amid Iran crisis 3 weeks ago:
YEAH!!! Run the entire British government on Raspberry Pis!
Perfect announcement for Pi day 👍
- Comment on Tax the Rich All You Want. It Won't Fix the Deficit. 3 weeks ago:
Deficit? That is only tangentially related. Tax the rich the most because the can afford to pay the most.
Also, wealth should not grow so much that a few people are worth more than the bottom 2/3rds of the world. Tax them until the situation is drastically better. Then we can talk about maybe cutting down the amount.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
There will be an explosion of AI services like ChatGPT that do exactly the same thing but much cheaper. They’ll run FOSS AI models that didn’t cost them billions of dollars to train and run on purpose-built hardware (i.e. not GPUs). “Big AI” will pivot to government contracts.
As that fifth year comes around, companies will be announcing products that have these purpose-built chips inside them that can do a whole heck of a lot of stuff without requiring a constant connection to the Internet. Think: Toys, appliances, and very fancy cars.
Every single piece of software will have been rewritten by AI so many times with so many clones it’ll be hard to distinguish good stuff from bad. The situation will become so problematic that every app store/repo will insist upon some kind of supply chain certification and possibly 3rd party verification.
AI tools that search the Internet on behalf of the user will crush ad-based businesses like Google and Meta. The AI will automatically filter out the ads and other cruft from search results and return just the search results the user wanted in the first place. This will result in free search engines becoming even worse and paid search will become a necessity. It’ll probably get incorporated into plans like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc bundled plans where you pay for a certain amount of photo storage/whatever and get premium search as last of the bundle.
- Comment on New study reveals differences between 'Demon Slayer' bamboo muzzle and actual bamboo 4 weeks ago:
👹🎍
- Comment on New study reveals differences between 'Demon Slayer' bamboo muzzle and actual bamboo 4 weeks ago:
In short: The anime left a scientist bamboozled.
- Comment on Finally tried this minecraft thing. Hows my build? 4 weeks ago:
The most fowl of homes.
