Zink

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To cosmic shreds, I say!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, have we just been living inside the worst possible Star Trek episode this whole time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The admins have decided that most of us can take so much more absurdity before we break. This experiment is sick, I tell you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Their name is Spike.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But then I could go around asking “what do you want?” with a suspicious smirk in my face!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The speed of light⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are stating that backwards.

  You can definitely say that everything with mass has energy. And yeah the two are kind of interchangeable.

  But that does not mean that a photon HAS mass. It just means that we can calculate how much mass its energy is equivalent to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The speed of light⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For what it’s worth, there’s a damn good reason that Einstein’s name is associated with being super smart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The speed of light⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh it gets even weirder than that.

  One observer can see two events happen simultaneously while another sees them happen at different times.

  And EVEN WORSE than that, thanks to length contraction at relativistic speeds, you could have one observer think that a train is contained entirely within a tunnel, but another observer sees the train sticking out both ends of the tunnel at the same time without ever fitting entirely within it.

  and/or: One observer objectively masures that object A is longer than object B, while another observer objectively measures that object B is longer than object A.

  The two observers are not just hanging out together, of course. They are moving ridiculously fast relative to one another.

  The speed of causality is a hell of a drug.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The speed of light⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they do move, but it’s slower than you might think. The voltage / EMF / potential travels super fast on the same order of magnitude as the speed of light, but the net motion of the electrons in a DC current flow slower than WE can move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guerrilla plantfare⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the word “relatively” in the previous comment is doing some heavy lifting.

  If you are going to spend a few hours of your limited free time to plant the shrubs, even if the materials and transportation are free to you, compare that with the relative cost of a small environmental fine to a trillion dollar company building a billion dollar data center.

  The people at the top might not even realize anything happened, if anything even does happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ride of a lifetime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One foot in each world here!

  I still have my tech job (embedded systems) and in the next few days I am literally going to be building a chicken coop and finishing a filter upgrade on my pond.

  I’ve referred to this meme several times in the past few months to describe myself, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried that in Morrowind years ago. I’m not sure if it was the same mod, or some version of the game with lots of graphics settings, but yeah.

  I loved Morrowind so much. I played it so much that I took over a house and turned it into a museum for all my hoarded items and ridiculously valuable concoctions and trinkets.

  Having unlimited view distance and seeing how freaking small the world really was completely blew my mind.

  Along with the fog, the walking speed must have been even slower than I remember!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bummer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🤌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comic sans gang⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s that way with Webb since it focuses on infrared, but I thought hubble used the visible spectrum.

  After a brief search, it looks like Hubble uses the entire optical spectrum which includes some IR and UV along with visible. It depends on the specific image, but the deep field stuff looks like it was a combination of visible and IR, which makes sense considering red shift. But the bluer objects were captured in the visible.

  So they inevitably had to compress the spectrum for the photos, but speaking as somebody who has taken tens of thousands of photos in RAW format, all the colors in every photo are translated data. :) (that also goes for the screen displaying the final image using a mix of three wavelengths rather than the actual colors of the original light)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comic sans gang⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my all time favorite wallpapers is the Hubble Ultra Deep field.

  Checkmate athei astronomers!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bummer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Skyrim came out closer to the Dreamcast (9/9/99) than today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conservative values⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet, if you paint the steamroller a gaudy fake gold color and have it being driven by every conservative you’ve heard about in the last year, it gets way more true!

  I’m an old straight white guy with a pretty normie-looking family, and I know damn well that almost every LGBT+ person out there shares more of my values and gives more of a shit about my marriage than the conservative grifters out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am as disgusted with consumer marketing and advertising as anybody, but sometimes the logo or the brand on something CAN be a positive sign if it indicates the product comes from a company that has earned the trust they have.

  I don’t have a Steam Deck and probably never will. However, I am glad to see it being popular if for no other reason than what Valve and the Deck have contributed to gaming on Linux.

  I will probably get their VR headset though, whenever that comes out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shutting down a piracy site⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Usenet is hosted by companies dedicated to it, not individuals. So generally you can use an encrypted connection and max out your bandwidth.

  It’s not just new stuff either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe management⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You would THINK that of all people on the planet, CEOs should understand the enshittification strategy.

  …Or the board of directors, or the major investors, etc.

  If you outsource the entire value chain of your $million/billion business to the $trillions guys, how do you think that will go? What would YOU do in their place knowing you have all the leverage and none of the risk (re: the smaller companies being bled dry and left to rot)?

  It’s funny to see it happen to other predatory tech companies like uber though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accepting Cookies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah sure, give me whatever cookies aren’t already blocked. I love cookies. Is that all of them?

  (closes LibreWolf, which nukes everything except whitelisted sites)

  …pathetic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the fun privilege at work these days of being the guy who sometimes makes things work just by walking in the room.

  It feels like a tale as old as time. I’m one of the few software engineers working on the embedded code in our new product, and occasionally a technician or V&V tester or different discipline engineer will ask me to look at something acting funny. And I fully believe them, not just because they have no reason to lie but because “acting funny” is exactly the lifestyle our system is living!

  Sometimes I get to lean on my experience with the code, then glare at something on the screen and say I don’t trust it, and that leads us to the fix. But about half the time, just sensing that somebody called daddy into the room makes it stand up straight and stop fucking around, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the police are mercenaries, not wild animals. They generally don’t bite the hand that feeds. Besides, they still have 99% of the population to target.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All in one⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah! I alternate between using Dr. Bronner’s and simply reading the ramblings on the bottle if using some old shampoo/conditioner my wife moved on from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Must have apps⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried Double Commander or Superfile?

  I get the inertia against switching when you have a setup you like, but the idea of going the other direction – if I could get the best file manager in the universe but I have to switch to Windows to use it – I just cannot imagine anything that would make it worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just an idea⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Forbin’ time!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just say no⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1980s: Please do not use drugs. They seem great at first but you don’t want to get hooked.

  2020s: Please DO use the AIs. They seem like shit at first, but you DO want to get hooked because we have about a trillion dollars in new mortgages to keep up with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sick of this shit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean to tell me that the people at the top, who confidently know they have already won, don’t run around like desperate insecure dickheads trying to prove that they are the most valuable worker bee?

  On a more serious note, they represent and propagate some of the worst parts of our culture, especially in the US.

  According to them (and most of my upbringing) the indicators of leading a good life include money, possessions, greed, excess, and dominating others.

  Things that are actually good for us are seen as being crutches for the weak. You know, like community, healthy relationships, generosity, and fulfilling work/hobbies.

  I would say it propagates conservative values like innate hierarchy and your worth as a human being equal to your economic output, but plenty of people who don’t consider themselves conservatives get wrapped up in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doomer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point I’m just trying to enjoy what I can in my immediate surroundings. When I am outside tending to my critters, I often wonder if today will be the day the sky is filled with a blinding light from the south then a very chaotic and consequential minute or two after that.

  But deep down that is probably a fantasy. The world is not that exciting. Instead we get to slowly watch how many people the billionaires can starve as long as we still have a working internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨weiner dog⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have two miniature dachshunds, and a 9 year old son. He will occasionally just call them penis dogs and think it’s hilarious.

  I showed this picture to my wife just to joke txt here’s one to not show the boy. Good times. lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its a circus and we're the clowns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say do it, and put a lot of effort into the video but keep it generic and don’t mention the company or product by name.

  Then in a few months when that shitshow goes under you’ll have the video ready to go for the next place!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a AI update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m convinced that much of, if not most of, society sees technology in our personal lives as a way to (ideally) not have to learn anything or put in one bit of extra effort.

  I’ve been getting my hands dirty and doing more things myself over the past few years, and ya know sometimes the journey is more impactful on you as a person than the destination is. Learning things and interacting with the world around you is good.