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- Comment on I’m 43 but everyone at the workplace thinks I’m 25. Is this something I need to change? 3 days ago:
I guess it doesn’t help you to say it now, but this was a terrible way to deal with a slight nuisance from what has to be a small group of people of stupid people. This has the potential to cause far greater intrusion and judgement from your coworkers than your lack of marriage and kids ever would have done, and this especially with a crowd that love gossip. You’ve potentially handed them the juiciest gossip they’ll likely ever get and given how dull the workplace can be, they’ll be milking it for years if they find out.
I think you’re pretty much in it for the long haul now, ahich will take work to maintain, and also depending on how long you work at this place with these guys, you better hope your unusually youthful appearance stays at a consistent 18 years behind your real age a doesn’t hit a sudden inflection point where it suddenly all catches up because that’ll be tough to account for.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
So, if I’m to take their message as intended, in addition to avoiding sports and education, I ought to avoid religion too? Are there more pages to this saying something along the lines of “… Except my favourite religion?” Otherwise, I mean, I’m confused what they want me to do here?
- Comment on If an oven only has fan forced mode do i still need to set it to the fan forced temperature in recipes? Ie 160 instead of 180. 1 week ago:
Yikes wtf? That’s a terrible idea, recipes for fan forced already compensate the temperature so everyone will be getting it wrong. That’s crazy.
- Comment on Someone purchased the old domain of a FOSS app, then it's using it to deceive users to download adware 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like you unintentionally fit the brief anyway.
- Comment on The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane. 3 weeks ago:
At least it’s broadly kind of informative in description of some of the categories before the ‘continued’ section. That may seem a low bar but I guess efforts to educate on this topic have set such a drastically low bar in decades past that it’s encouraging to see it lifted slightly off the floor. The categorisation scheme takes a bit of a nosedive when they get to marijuana which for some reason has its own category, also for all the drugs and categories they describe they make the mistake of failing to describe the effects that make people want to use the drugs in the first place. I can see why they might be hesitant to do that, you don’t want to actively encourage people to use the drugs, but I remember when getting similar lessons on the topic thinking that it was an obvious omission because it’s hardly like people took the drugs, repeatedly, because of how much they enjoyed the “impairment” especially as I has my own first hand experience running directly counter to it. The failure to address the positive sensations taking such drugs produces that have caused people throughout all of human history to seek drugs out, damages the credibility of the information since it clearly sought to discourage at the cost of objectivity.
- Comment on The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane. 3 weeks ago:
I think my surprise here is that given the program’s reputation, and your experience with it, it seems there was quite some gulf between theoretical intent and practice. Educating children about drugs, probably seems relatively uncontroversial to most, I think you could get a lot of people with otherwise pretty different views on drugs to get behind the idea. The way the D.A.R.E. program went about it and the content of the program and the accuracy of the education they attempted to deliver seem from a distance to have been very questionable. This is why it’s so perplexing to me why you hold such a surprising level of respect for D.A.R.E., I mean sure the intent could have been education, but it doesn’t sound very much like the intent and the reality had a lot of overlap. I’m careful with my wording here because where I grew up we didn’t have ‘D.A.R.E.’ specifically so I can only form judgment based on what one hears and reads about the program.
- Comment on The way my daughter's middle school health class classifies drugs is insane. 3 weeks ago:
Given your experience and the way they made you feel from the practitioners’ sheer ignorant and biased approach I would have thought you’d definitely be the first to call the program “dumb” as the very least of the criticisms to be levelled at it.
- Comment on Anon makes a satanic pact 3 weeks ago:
In any case, this would seem to indicate that God ain’t all that reliable anyway and just doing good or at least not doing harm it seems isn’t enough to protect you. The reason presumably why this would be “bad” is because the coworker in this case has had their free will taken from them, this implies though that this happened to them despite their having done nothing at all that we know of all because unbeknownst to them someone they worked with made an accidental satanic pact. God it seems, was apparently totally unable to prevent this and protect the coworker. Frankly if this can happen, by accident, to a totally innocent party in the whole affair then at that point, I wouldn’t really be too worried about what God’s reaction would be as they’re evidently either powerless or capricious so you might as well carry on as if God and Satan really aren’t involved at all and this is all just a coincidence especially because funnily enough, it’s also totally indistinguishable from what things would look like if it was a coincidence. You can make of that what you will.
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 5 weeks ago:
Arguing with people on lemmy, people are wrong and the internet and the world totally needs my opinions to correct them.
- Comment on The post title is "Best Tablet for Kids 2024" 1 month ago:
It’s not reviewed and may have harmful content, so please read the harmful content on an app instead?
- Comment on Papyrus 2 1 month ago:
I tried peertube, several instances of invidious and bitc-hute and no luck. Peertube and invidious both have it but refuse to play it and bitc-hute can’t find it.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 1 month ago:
He was a buay man with all the salad and calendar making and had no time to just wait around for a kid to come out whenever they felt like it.
- Comment on She's already got the booty, so she probably doesn't need more crew members. 1 month ago:
Have you seen this a lot?
- Comment on Anon resents his legs 1 month ago:
I like the idea that anon ends up in hell for this and he’s down their next to all the flames and shit and some mass murderer tyrant is like “what are you in for?” and he’s just there because of this stupid fucking meme. I hope hell has enough capacity since they may as well just close up shop in heaven.
- Comment on How does the xz incident impacts the average user ? #xz 1 month ago:
I’m still confused exactly what the circumstances would be where this worked as the attacker intended. Would simply having the infected liblzma version on the system create the vulnerability or does something have to happen to invoke it and then what? What’s he chain of events that would have happened had this worked perfectly and gone undetected? I tried to read some of the more detailed analysis but the stuff went way over my head.
Also, what about Mac OS? Can the package create any vulnerability there if installed via homebrew as it’s reported to have done in some cases? Or is that environment also not right for it to work?
- Comment on 3 days 🤯 1 month ago:
Well I mean what did you just read? He already said those are the facts bro.
- Comment on I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot. 2 months ago:
Around about 2009 or so I had a mobile plan with Virgin that did that same trick (I think this was plugging your phone in to a computer as a modem as opposed to wireless hotspot but same thing anyway) and it was limited to 5 MEGABYTES after which they wanted 15pence per KILOBYTE I couldn’t believe what I was reading. I never ran afoul of it because I checked this out first when buying the plan and made sure never to use that function but it just seemed literally unreal. I’ve been shocked at how much things cost before but that seemed more like a mistake or something, I just can’t imagine they ever actually made anyone pay for that, the negative press would be too bad. It was not unheard of at the time for people to have excess charges on limited plans waived because it was a shock and they were unaware or unprepared for those charges accruing so the idea that someone might have checked emails read a news article checked Facebook and possibly a web video having not read the fine print and ended up with tens if not over a hundred GBP of charges just doesn’t seem feasible. Really fucking crazy.
- Comment on IT nags me everyday to update iOS, but they didn't approve the update... 2 months ago:
On the face of it, option B would seem to be clearly better, but I’m just trying to understand how an approval system can work if it automatically just approves things, that sounds more like slight delay system than an approval system. Maybe I’m misinterpreting, the way I was reading it sounded something like “the process of approving updates would be cumbersome and time consuming for humans to do, that’s why the process of calling things approved is automated” but perhaps what you were saying is the “the process of evaluating whether approval should be granted is automated and done by software that can figure out if the update will or won’t cause problems and then either does or doesn’t approve depending on the evaluation” which sounds great, but I just didn’t think that was actually a thing that could be done by software. Is that actually how it works? There’s software that can determine if OS updates to phones does or doesn’t cause unexpected problems with an entity’s existing systems? I just thought for sure you’d need a human to do that given how hard it is to define a ‘problem’ and how specific the needs of an enterprise would be.
If my initial understanding was correct, that the software just does the job of ticking ‘approved’ for you, so you don’t have to tick it yourself, then I am completely at a loss in understanding how that is any better than simply having no approval process and just allowing updates without oversight since it’s functionally the same, except a little bit slower (albeit only a little slower because it’s automated).
- Comment on IT nags me everyday to update iOS, but they didn't approve the update... 2 months ago:
That’s my point. Updates pose some kind of risk to something and so require approval before they’re allowed on a corporate owned phone. But the update approvals are just automated, so…
- Comment on IT nags me everyday to update iOS, but they didn't approve the update... 2 months ago:
If updates are approved automatically, why have a system where approval is required?