MajorHavoc
@MajorHavoc@programming.dev
- Comment on Are the inside parts of toilets universal? 1 day ago:
They are not all the same.
Measure the diameter of the hole at the bottom of the water holding tank. It’s the main difference between older and newer toilets in the US.
Any US toilet repair kit should list what diameters it supports.
- Comment on Toast 1 day ago:
Thank you for your service to the public.
- Comment on Did 70% of Wisconsin voters just delete their own constitutional guarantee to be eligible to vote? 1 week ago:
The guarantee they enjoyed is no longer expressed in the constitution. Or am I missing something?
Yeah. I’m not saying it was wise, by any means!
- Comment on Are disabled people and the elderly going to survive another Trump presidency? 1 week ago:
A lot of people died who didn’t need to, in the United States, during the pandemic of 2020, due to a certain orange jackass making basic mask wearing into a political statement, instead of a matter of human decency to each other.
We’re here to post about. Others are not.
- Comment on Did 70% of Wisconsin voters just delete their own constitutional guarantee to be eligible to vote? 1 week ago:
Voting in the United States has always been primarily a way to protect the power of already powerful people, and secondarily a way to ensure incremental social progress continues at a pace that doesn’t make powerful people too uncomfortable.
A lot of things about the way things are structured in US democracy make more sense with that context, including this, I think.
Specifically, 70% of people both eligible and motivated to vote, voted to ensure eligibility to vote is not extended. This has happened many times throughout history, and only seems odd if we accept the fib that everyone is represented.
In the context of gerrandering, first-past-the-poll “representation”, and various other forms of disenfranchisement; it makes sense that 70% of the people allowed to actually vote, votes in favor of continuing to restrict the vote.
- Comment on Not all PDFs are documents; some are apps! Insurance company sent me a form to sign as a PDF with JavaScript. Is it a tracker? 1 week ago:
For many years malicious PDF files had the shameful honor of being the number one way people’s PCs got infected, and it’s because of bullshit like this.
“Surprise, here’s some Java code to execute on your personal computer without asking!” isn’t being done by anyone who is actually your ally.
We’re just discussing how shitty a shitty person has been toward you, at this point. There’s no good pro-social reason to deliver you an app while calling it a document.
Do we think it’s a virus? Probably not, but maybe. So we think there’s a tracker? Certainly. The average organization shitty enough to build our use this technology layer has over 500 separate relationships with companies that track you.
Someone tried to put a tracker in this PDF.
Whether people like me made it too hard for them is up for analysis.
I guarantee you that someone tried.
They’re not good enough at hiding this stuff yet, to feel confident lying about it, so it likely is disclosed in the fine print somewhere, if you’re feeling patient enough to read all of it.
- Comment on Is there as much enthusiasm for Trump online today as eight years ago? 2 weeks ago:
Also xmas trees are giant cocks. Yep. Huge phallic symbols.
Today I learned!
I’m going to enjoy Christmas trees even more with this knowledge. Thank you.
Though, when looking for a source for others to enjoy, it also turns out it’s complicated.
- Comment on Is there as much enthusiasm for Trump online today as eight years ago? 2 weeks ago:
Somehow they see him as more godly.
Well yeah. Jesus loves to “grab em by the pussy”, apparently.
I’ll admit I haven’t quite found that Bible verse…
- Comment on Is there as much enthusiasm for Trump online today as eight years ago? 2 weeks ago:
Three different billionaires have each spent more than all the normal people combined.
To make it easier to see who out there is most invested in a Trump presidency:
- Comment on What is stopping the vice president from ever murdering the president? 2 weeks ago:
so we’ll see if Vance is similarly loyal.
Yeah. Considering how Trump may have actually intended to have Pence killed during the January 6 insurrection, my money is on “not particularly loyal”.
I like to think there’s still hope that people around Trump and Putin will recognize the clear signs of dementia and not drag the world to war, this time.
- Comment on DayZ creator reveals a "Kerbal Space Program killer" with kittens and challenges license owners to sue him 2 weeks ago:
There isn’t a general, easy solution to the N-body problem.
Lol. Yet.
No doubt it will be discovered by a tool assisted speed runner.
- Comment on Venom: The Last Dance’ Laps Up $22 Million Opening Day — Down From Previous Entries 3 weeks ago:
Wait, they made another one?
I like these. Neat.
- Comment on Microsoft and OpenAI are giving news outlets $10 million to use AI tools 3 weeks ago:
This sounds like an important step toward fully working the right think algorithm.
- Comment on Warner Bros. will be releasing "JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX" on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on December 17 (...which was probably much sooner than they had anticipated). 3 weeks ago:
I can hear the ad executives conversation:
“Could the words besides ‘Joker’ be in a smaller font? Go change all the, besides ‘Joker’, to a smaller font.”
- Comment on Ah yes, regression 3 weeks ago:
Looks like a successfullybtrained learning model, to me. (Sarcasm)
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 4 weeks ago:
This is another mentoring sprint, for my team. So lots of cleaning up “welcome” documents and practicing my elevator pitches for what the team does.
On the personal side, making Raspberry Pi projects with the kids. PhonieBox is pretty neat.
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 4 weeks ago:
OWASP has some free resources that are meant to be widely accessible:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The books are so good. DreamWorks seems like a great team to make the movie. I’m looking forward to this one.
- Comment on Post Office explores taking branch owner-operators to court again 4 weeks ago:
Privatized post offices sound awful.
- Comment on ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Breaks More Records: Highest-Selling R-Rated Movie On U.S. Digital In First Week 5 weeks ago:
“Highest-Licensinged”
- Comment on [Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday 1 month ago:
Yep.
I’m a die hard Linux nerd, but I would still Rather have a console.
But what I really want is a console that just runs Linux so I can keep it updated and fix minor issues without all the bullshit.
- Comment on [Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday 1 month ago:
Just gotta pause faster!
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 1 month ago:
The screenshots sell it well. That’s some funny stuff. I’ll plan to check it out.
- Comment on Which are the lesser-known movies that are well worth seeing? 1 month ago:
A decent number of folks have still never seen “Primer”, since it was kind of an indie classic before it got a cult following.
It’s a a must watch because:
A. It’s just really well made. B. It’s delightfully mind bending.
- Comment on Which are the lesser-known movies that are well worth seeing? 1 month ago:
Yeah. Tucker and Dale vs evil gets way too little love.
- Comment on Something sticky has invaded my life 1 month ago:
Yes, a degrading phone case can do that.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #6 - Forza Horizon 5 1 month ago:
I’m enjoying the screenshot series. Thank you!
- Comment on Twitter's UK userbase has been absolutely decimated since Musk took over 1 month ago:
However useless and abandoned Xitter looks today, we must remember that it is full of bots whose sole job is to make it look less abandoned.
For any advertisers or Xitter users relying on “reach” reading along - however bad Xitter looks, it’s actually much worse.
- Comment on Lionsgate will be releasing "BORDERLANDS" on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on October 22. (That was quick.) 1 month ago:
I thought that’s where I was reading about it…
- Comment on This might also apply to conferences. 1 month ago:
I was told we can’t fucking swear here…