finitebanjo
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- Comment on I want a name for this 12 hours ago:
Thank god, I was wondering if this was a symptom of a larger disorder whenever this happens to me.
The worst is when I’m reciting word for word technical information about chemistry or physics, because I often like to explain how things work to friends and family while I work on stuff, and then I’ll get interrupted or distracted and have no memory of wtf I was just saying for the last several minutes straight.
- Comment on From Deadpool and Wolverine to Dune: Part Two, all 10 of the highest-grossing movies of 2024 are sequels – and it's the first time that's happened in at least 50 years 12 hours ago:
A dark future long in the making is here for films.
- Comment on Just a little guy 22 hours ago:
I wouldn’t let kids hold stuff like that tbh.
- Comment on sad spinosarus 1 day ago:
And hows the wife, then?
- Comment on sad spinosarus 1 day ago:
somebody cropped the meme to bits
- Comment on Petrichor 1 day ago:
Wish we could be sensitive to H2S, would have saved a lot of lives.
- Comment on Reminder for all Lemmy moderators and admins. 2 days ago:
Nah mate
- Comment on Not voting for genocide, explained 2 days ago:
The second and third options were basically the same, imo.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 4 days ago:
OUR Energy Sector…?
- Comment on Journalist asking the hard questions 5 days ago:
Is commander in cheif an active military position?
Pretty sure that’s a bit of a loophole, he rides on Airforce One.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 6 days ago:
Ah, well, the biggest thing you have to worry about is that most vulnerabilities that would allow users to get ROOT access have been patched for old and new TVs, so you might want to be selective if you don’t want to do it the hard way. You need to know which TV OS you’re dealing with before you can look for the necesary tools.
The hard way is removing the SoC processor from the board, buying a custom mount for it, and using the debug pins to flash the OS. Most of the legwork has been done already for this method. www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/i-hack-u-boot
Something to keep in mind is that the processors in smart TVs are almost always pathetically slow. Also, the streaming services compatible with these TVs require hardware encryption so if your modified OS mimics the old one but isn’t verified then they will refuse to run. You would get better performance from using a computer connected to the HDMI port, or even a Raspberry Pi as your TV Box.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 6 days ago:
Yes. What brand or model number do you have?
- Comment on A guy just got arrested in Houston US for allegedly being an ISIS member. I grew up in Reagan and 911 era are these people just saying this or are they actively buying bombs? 1 week ago:
From a randon article:
Williams said that while in custody, Said admitted to researching how to conduct an attack on local military recruiting centers, offering his home as sanctuary for ISIS operatives, bragging that he would commit a “9/11-style” attack if he had the resources and attempting to produce ISIS propaganda.
“We stopped a potential terrorist attack from happening right here in Houston! Any day we can publicly say that is a good day,” FBI Houston said.
Said is being held in custody but appeared in court for a preliminary hearing on Tuesday, his attorney, Balemar Zuniga, told Fox News Digital.
“The indictment only alleges that he supported a terrorist group through the production of videos and propaganda,” he said, noting that federal prosecutors mentioned the plotting of terror acts but have not charged him with such. “None of that is alleged.”
So no, he is being charged with conspiracy to commit a crime with a recorded confession, but it is possible the confession was coerced (but unlikely because he was actually producing content online on ISIS’s behalf.
- Comment on IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. 1 week ago:
I use an open source video codec library in Windows 10 but I’m away from my computer for a while and cannot tell you.
- Comment on why are fax machines still used by medical systems? 1 week ago:
Its not the fax over phone line that was compromised, its the internet connected printer. In fact, HP even has services where you email to your own printer in order to print.
- Comment on why are fax machines still used by medical systems? 1 week ago:
Unfolding a Xerox copy faxed over a phone line wont infect your entire network.
Opening an email, tho…
- Comment on I swear to god 1 week ago:
Centaur World is a story about a war horse that accidentally falls into Centaur World full of happy cartoon centaurs that happen to speak horse or whatever.
- Comment on I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there. 1 week ago:
Hmm
Looked it up and you might be right. But believing you at face value would also be the same fault that lead to this spread to this myth’s spread.
- Comment on I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there. 1 week ago:
The Sun rises in the East and sets in the west.
With East on your right and west on your left you would be facing north.
You can tell which side of the equator you are on by the way water swirls. Northern Hemisphere water drains clockwise. If water draining has no spin then you’re on the equator.
Sometimes the moss on trees is enough of an indicator, as moss growing on only one side of a tree means no sunlight reaches it and the moss faces the direction opposite of the equator.
- Comment on Windows 7 and 8 now dead for gaming, as new Steam update pulls support 1 week ago:
TBF an online Windows 7 copy is just asking to be Hacked given Microsoft support ended in 2020 and security updates after that required a paid subscription which ended in 2023.
- Comment on Leeches! 1 week ago:
Maggots, too.
- Comment on Little dude ATP 1 week ago:
There is also a Mycotoxin ATP Inhibitor called Tri-Nitro-Propionic Aci, which causes complete organ failure after a couple of days of being unconsious. It generally only gets produced by certain fungal strains such as tropical Arthrinium, but can also be a very small percentage biproduct in some biofuel production methoda which utilize propionibacteria to conver grains and grasses similarly to how yeast creates alcohol.
- Comment on Sexual Kinks 1 week ago:
More specifically in the presence of stressful environment such as captivity.
- Comment on Enshittification only hurts product itself, not users. 1 week ago:
TBH move reddit to the front of Netflix and Chrome and Windows behind Minecraft then its good.
- Comment on "Candyman" Star Tony Todd Has Died 1 week ago:
Guy got paid for ever bee sting, a true legend.
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 1 week ago:
Democrats didn’t campaign on their economic plans. They dove deep into MURICAN PRIDE, fighting against dictators and drug cartels, and continuing the work of the Biden Administration. They played advertisements like THIS on TV in September. They campaigned in states that they lost in by trying to appeal to Republicans.
Less democrats total voted this year than 2020.
- Comment on I keep hearing that the Democratic Party should've paid more attention to the young white American demographic. Does this mean there was a point to the "All lives matter." movement? 1 week ago:
“All Lives Matter” and “Blue Lives Matter” both advocated against new police accountability practices.
This is why I think Black Lives Matter should have just called itself the Police Accountability Movement, take the wind out of the racist sails, but everybody kept downvoting that suggestion.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
My people are them. We’re our own enemy. Idk how you could possibly fail to see how life is in the USA, to instead think it is like isolated minority sects or a bunch of fantasy guilds or some wack shit like that.
You cannot tell the ones deserving to die from the ignorant buffoons. There is no effective training to fight “the other ones”. There is no preemptive strike in good conscience. There is no guarantee of any violence on American shores unless we create it ourselves. More and more and more people will go hungry and cold in the streets for decades and it might still never devolve to the point of “death squads”.
So speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
Canadian Immigration is pretty full up at the moment.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
Is that you Iniko?
