ChairmanMeow

@ChairmanMeow@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the protests in Iran win/topple the government what will it look like immediately afterwards? Also what would be the good or bad about installing a monarchy again?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of them are protesting for it, judging by the pro-shah chants. Not sure how widespread it is though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some women visually prefer it for cultural reasons. This mostly goes for the US, in Europe it’s different. But most threads I can find state women prefer uncut penises because they feel nicer and self-lubricate better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is going to be the next Pres of Venezula after all this US stuff?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whether or not she is in Russia is disputed btw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A global, world-ending nuclear war is still unlikely at this point.

  There’s a fair few steps in between filled with horrors that we get to pass first. Such as when superpowers realise that since nobody can realistically use nukes, conventional warfare is back on the table (e.g. if China invades Taiwan and the US intervenes, will either side nuke the other’s population centers? Probably not).

  Then follows the realisation that superpowers can use nuclear weapons in a conventional war, but in a more tactical way (as a little treat). Don’t bomb a city, bomb a navy, or an airfield or army base instead.

  Global nuclear war would only happen if a nuclear state is threatened with total destruction. But fully destroying a state hasn’t been the playbook for some time now. Instead, take whatever peripheral stuff you want, and strategically weaken the enemy state in key areas (e.g. take out an important figurehead, like the US did with Maduro, or fund/arm insurgencies like in Syria). Let civil unrest then do the rest and topple the government for you. Then use diplomatic/economic/military pressure to sway the fledgling new government into your sphere of influence. With a bit of luck the country itself isn’t totally ravaged and can become profitable fairly soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How TF2 Still Makes Millions (With No Updates)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Half-Life Alyx came out in 2020 and was pretty good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's Video Game Companies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft doesn’t earn more than 90% of their revenue from gaming, so it’s not on here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People like this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This assumes the user bothers with upvoting, which plenty of people don’t do. They may well downvote what they dislike, and don’t vote on what they do like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A belated Christmas gift to R6 Siege!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their public statement says this isn’t true and a rollback is in progress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"i can hear the difference"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, it was 4 coat hangers. The Monster cable was therefore outnumbered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now, that may seem weird to some, but to me what is really surprising is that some languages found it necessary to use two words to describe what is essentially the same fucking shit.

  Sucking on fingers is an entirely different kink from sucking on toes. So somewhat different I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on your definition. Wikipedia is either ambivalent about it, or lists the thumb as a finger.

  In Dutch, thumbs are fingers, and there’s word for “digit” in the context of fingers and toes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pedo planet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*confused flatfish noises*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL Greenland sharks can live up to 500 years, take 150 years to reach sexual maturity and have a gestation period of up to 18 years. And apparently it takes a year in the back yard to prepare as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*confused flatfish noises*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re sideways facing eyes, but a bit diagonal. Definitely not forward facing though. They’re just a bit bulgy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rush hour traffic in Utrecht, Netherlands⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They actually found that both cyclists and drivers tend to take more risks when helmets are abundant, which in turn leads to more serious accidents instead of fewer.

  Moreover the Netherlands don’t have comparatively more head injuries each year than more car-centric countries, suggesting that cycling doesn’t contribute that much overall.

  And most injuries tend to happen to old people. Drop the 60+ bracket and suddenly head injuries from cycling drops to an inconsequential number.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please tell me this is shopped.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a correlation between height and dick size, but it’s quite small. IIRC for every 20cm or so in height you get 1cm in dick on average, but it varies enough that it’s no certainty a tall guy has a larger dick.

  Also fun fact: studies into penis size correlating with other factors can be broadly generalised into two categories: measured studies, which is where doctors will measure the penis when erect in a consistent manner, and self-reported studies, where people just tell a researcher how big it is.

  Self-reported studies generally come back with results like “black people have larger dicks, Asians have shorter dicks” etc… But in measured studies, it turns out that worldwide penis size is basically all the same. It’s people self-reporting their own size + a correction for what they think they should have (nobody wants to be below average). In places with high porn consumption, penises tend to “be larger”, because that’s what men see and they want to have the same. Only in countries that tend to censor genitalia in porn do you find people actually self-report a size that’s essentially the same as their actual size (which usually happens to be Asian countries). That, plus the whole “BBC” genre in porn, essentially explains the self-reported racial differences in dick size.

  Also fun: self-reported studies overestimate average dick size by approx. 2cm. Self-reported the average is about 15cm, but when actually measured it drops to about 13cm (which also happens to be 6 inches and just over 5 inches respectively; see the psychological effect there?).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Demsoc” is just a shorthand for “democratic socialist”. Similar to how “ancap” is “anarcho-capitalist” and “nazbol” is “national-bolshevik”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You might just have the wrong shape of glasses. I thought for years I had the right shape of glasses on my face, but as it turns out a different shape looked way better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is. It....German?????⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No it’s about the 2014 World Cup.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah Abagnale pretended to be a doctor and conducted 12 “fitness examinations”, supposedly for Pan Am, on young female students. Definitely creepy.

  And then there’s the individual women who accused him of all sorts of stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You should probably know the best con that Abagnale pulled is making people believe he actually did all of those things. Journalists have discovered that the vast majority of his claims are completely fabricated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LICK EM⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  County is the small, shorter word for the small area, country is the big, longer word for the big area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BattleBit Remastered is surprisingly alive - a huge Operation Overhaul update test arrives in November⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suggest you look at someone else for reviews because this review is both inaccurate and somehow also blindingly stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad++ DLL Hijacking Vulnerability Let Attackers Execute Malicious Code⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the NPP maintainers responded with:

  Notepad++ & its plugins are installed in “Program Files” directory by default, which means hackers would need admin privileges to replace any plugin. If a hacker gains such privileges, they could also replace all the DLLs in the system32 folder. By the same logic, once Notepad++ is compromised in this way, any applications or executable binary (*.exe & *.dll) on the system could potentially be replaced. Or am I missing somethings?

  Which I suppose is true. You could argue it is a way to persist malicious code once you do have access, but it seems unlikely and not that useful. Low severity if anything.

  You’d need to have some general attack script that can adjust (or create proxies for) dlls maliciously on the fly, without prior knowledge of which dlls are encountered. Only in that case could the exe maybe detect malicious changes to the dll and stop execution. But a targeted attack using a compromised NPP distribution wouldn’t be covered with such a check.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney going places...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC there were also some trademark issues?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  UE5 by default uses a lot of flashy tech that is supposed to improve performance, but a lot of it only does so in scenarios that are already extremely unoptimized. Using more traditional methods tends to achieve the same fidelity at a fraction of the performance cost. But there’s no time for optimization, and these fancy options “just work”, so there ya go.

  The end result is a poorly running blurry mess of a game, but at least it’s on schedule I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pokémon Company confirms that no, its imagery was not granted for use in disturbing US Department of Homeland Security video | Eurogamer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s something about that meme that just works better in low resolution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh oh lol⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the vastness of space, this is a lot less likely than you might think, and the process itself would likely take millenia anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silent Courier: UK intelligence service MI6 launches dark web portal to recruit foreign spies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how many Labour PMs we’ll see before the next GE.