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- Comment on The sun is killing off SpaceX's Starlink satellites 17 hours ago:
So the article says that it can reduce their lifespan by up to 10 days.
A quick check on the lifespan of the satellite, They claim they’re about 5 years.
I’d say the article title got done splainin’ to do.
In other news, how can we help the sun do better, 10 days is not enough.
- Comment on Into the meat grinder! 1 day ago:
Human attempt #32,324,568,693
fail
Human attempt #32,324,568,694
fail
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 2 days ago:
Why not have the meters detect and control a disconnect. with all the solar generation around, someone’s gotta have a bad transfer switch somewhere.
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 2 days ago:
I’d argue that the series had WAY too much death, war, sexism and slavery to get a pass on being children’s books that are beyond scrutiny, that’s just my opinion though.
- Comment on Anon can't go on a field trip 2 days ago:
They left out the word “on” and the best that m137 has to contribute to the conversation is someone did a typo.
- Comment on Grieve with me 6 days ago:
Take a tooth floss pick and dig all the pocket crud out of it, both the top and bottom side. try a fresh cable, if that fails try some deoxit on the port
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 week ago:
I did no such thing!
So are you unable to not stop responding due to contract or programming?
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 week ago:
Ohh, wait, are you another one of those people (or bots) that can’t not get the last word in? I LOVE THOSE!
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 week ago:
hahahahahahah
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 week ago:
Do you want to re-try all the cherry-picking you’ve done to all these people over the years and not be a troll?
We can just call it even, or you can figure it out. or well, maybe you can’t…
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 week ago:
Would you say Nazi Germany collapsing would be a bad thing? Are we Nazi Germany? USA to collapse to the point that they can’t. Does the country and all those juicy resources just disappear? Nawww, people outside of the country are already calling the shots.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 week ago:
ohh yes, he’s 100% troll. Not my first interaction with them. I usually respond back only to talk to other people.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 week ago:
the US to collapse.
You act like that’ll improve the genocide situation. We’re in the middle of a collapse and the new godking is ALL OVER more genocide.
The US will change hands, but it won’t be to the people…
- Comment on 7 for me 1 week ago:
Roll 2 D6, divide by 4
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 1 week ago:
Just another in a long list of decisions Django made that makes me dislike it.
Let the client hash the password to reduce it. then enforce the hash length as the password length. It’s transparent to the user and doesn’t look like a pile of bad ideas.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 1 week ago:
Why not client side hash? JS is more than capable.
- Comment on My password is not accepted because it is too long 1 week ago:
No, there should be no limit. The password should be salted and hashed stored on the server side they should be uniformly like 256 or 512 characters behind the scenes no matter if you send it 5 characters or 50,000. The password that is stored is just a mathematical representation of the password.
As far as DDOS, It doesn’t matter what the limit is, you can send them millions of characters rven if they have a limit. If you’re going to DDOS you’re going to just use SYN flood, pings, for all of the matters you could send headers.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 1 week ago:
- Comment on Something something far-left 1 week ago:
Florida: Let’s expand the work experience program to backfill immigrant labor!
- Comment on Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative 1 week ago:
DDG doesn’t just use Bing, but Bing is one of the things they use.
I suspect that in time, all search reuslts will come from AI. I also suspect that it will eventually get good enough that it won’t matter from a finding what you’re looking for perspective. Ever since backlinks became passé, companies have been trying to do pretty much what AI is trying to do, get meaning from scraping rather than just programmatically give you the best word soup.
Where I really fear for our collective experience is the ability of the AI to sell us on things without it being an obvious sell. “board games 2025” becomes "return a list of boardgames that are popular in 2025, but give the results for pages that include wizards of the coast games near the top of their lists or that show them in a particularly positive light and be sure to include more negative results for game from other companies.
- Comment on EA employees "upset and confused" at return to office mandate 1 week ago:
You know what’s more effective at saving money than tax breaks? Not having a huge office you don’t need :)
just sayin’
- Comment on i broke 2 weeks ago:
My father once said don’t stick your dick in crazy.
It’s one of the more true and less offensive things he told me.
- Comment on i broke 2 weeks ago:
that negative feelings come from places where my mental image of the world conflicts with objective reality.
Used to work in the backend of insurance.
It’s ‘possible’ to double bill for a good reason, but it’s an outlier of a situation.
If you have a shitty insurance company, they’ll stretch money in bad times by only paying places out after multiple requests. They also get trained that if an insurance company drags their feet, the second time they’re billed, they get paid, so they always do it.
Any insurance company worth its salt will catch double billing.
Now, all that said, a LOT of providers double bill and get paid multiple times.
It’s usually assholes all-the-way down.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 2 weeks ago:
High capacity SD have a miserably failure rate with regular use. In PI’s and dashcams many only get a couple of years before they start having errors. USB thumb drives do better but they have heat problems. neither are great for backups unless you just do a lot of write once and store
- Comment on Nintendo of America might turn your Switch into an expensive paperweight if you mod your console or install any "unauthorized" games, new policy warns 2 weeks ago:
They’re just taking notes from the US tech companies.
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 2 weeks ago:
If you make it opt out by default, They could just design the software to not let you enter the page unless you opt in. Often get the page opt out get a nice advertisement for the service.
Even using cookies to help with load balancing is a pain in the ass these days. There’s a fuck ton of legitimate reasons to use cookies, If you want to stop tracking, Make it illegal to track people and sell advertising data based on it.
- Comment on The ones and zeros and tens 3 weeks ago:
I don’t want them to control what I say or think, just what other people say or think, and I want to be the one in charge of all that, or at least be on the side that’s in control of that. – An uncomfortably large portion of the U.S.
- Comment on Over 250 CEOs sign open letter supporting K-12 AI and computer science education 3 weeks ago:
All this AI pressure is coming from somewhere. I think Altman got to all the CEOs and convinced them the day I was the future and they’re all heavily invested stock-wise.
They’re all starving to get more AI and back to the office because their personal fortunes are tied up in those endeavors.
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 3 weeks ago:
The $10 games were trash in 1982. You’re going to spend 30 on something like Q-bert polygon.com/…/atari-et-ads-commercials-videos-198…
in 2025 Money, that’s $99, assuming you got it used I gave you 50-60
is there even anything wrong if a game only takes your attention for a hundred hours
I don’t think so, but you’re the one who mentioned it :)
but I got hundreds if not thousands of hours of gameplay out of Qbert. Can any of the leading games in the last decade do that?
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 3 weeks ago:
$10 in q-bert days is like 50-60 now :)
Can any of the leading games in the last decade do that?
Satisfactory, Dyson Sphere project, Factorio, Minecraft, Dreamlight Valley
Arcade games were great because it’s what we had. Sit a kid in front a Q-Bert now and try to get 1000 hours out of it.
Stuff is getting too big, there’s too much emphasis on making it pretty to sell it rather than making it fun, but I don’t know that we could go back to arcade games. I fear our nostalgia is a half-dose of Stockholm’s syndrome.
