hperrin
@hperrin@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Oranges? In this economy? 17 hours ago:
Finally!! My lemon mortar cannon has a purpose!! I told my wife I would need it one day!! Now to find the old man’s route and set up in a hidden bush. It’s diesel powered, so I’ll have to be far enough away he doesn’t hear me warming up the engine.
- Comment on As ChatGPT Linked to Mental Health Breakdowns, Mattel Announces Plans to Incorporate It Into Children's Toys 3 days ago:
Imagine not only does your search engine tell you to eat rocks and glue, but your Barbie does too!
- Comment on Is it weird I sleep with an old blanket I've had since I was a young girl? 6 days ago:
That’s not weird in the sense that it’s unusual, because that’s so usual we have a term for it. And it’s really only weird if you consider it weird. There’s nothing wrong with finding comfort in a familiar object.
I personally have a Game Boy Color my dad gave to me when I was recovering from surgery when I was 11. I keep it on my TV stand. I was incredibly distraught when I pulled it out of storage and the batteries in it had leaked all over the circuit board, damaging the board beyond repair. My dad actually got me another one on eBay that I harvested the circuit board from to replace mine. I don’t play it, but knowing that it now works and I could play it if I wanted to gives me comfort. I even put the old board in the other Game Boy just so I know that I still have all of the original parts.
I think it’s probably something most of us do, and I don’t think you should feel any shame in it.
- Comment on You fell off man, get better memes 6 days ago:
- Comment on TCL releases new Palm Vein Smart Lock in the US 6 days ago:
There is a 100% chance some dude is going to set this thing to only unlock from seeing his dick.
(It’s because that’s me, that’s what I’m going to do with it.)
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 1 week ago:
Check out the new Corvette.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 2 weeks ago:
And a partridge in a pear tree!
- Comment on Can deliberate noise harassment still be a crime if it's done every day from 7:30 AM till 10:30-11:30 PM? 2 weeks ago:
Get like eight to ten shitty things delivered to his house every day. Either something he’ll have to pay for like a pizza, or something just completely useless, like a cheap spare part for something he doesn’t have.
Obviously, use his name and don’t use your real phone number. He’ll have to deal with all the trash constantly.
Won’t really solve your issue, but it’s good revenge for him being an asshole.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 weeks ago:
My friend Greg does. I don’t get it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that it’s a common suffix among all of their passwords. That kind of thing is easy to search for in a password leak database.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s probably not safe if they use that for everything. Someone could match emails and password suffixes, then they’d only have four letters to brute force. So all it takes is two leaks that your friend is on and he’s at real risk.
Generally, this would be avoided by whatever site storing their passwords as hashes instead of in plain text, but you can’t rely on that.
They should just use a password manager.
- Comment on Avocado 2 weeks ago:
Are they flipping out because that’s ridiculous and false?
- Comment on For the second time in my life, I'm going to eat soap.😋 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never understood why people want the excrement from attractive people. Regardless of where it came from, it’s still excrement.
(I’m considering gray water as excrement.)
- Comment on At troubled UnitedHealth Group, a highly unusual pay package—potentially worth $60 million to its boomerang CEO—heads to a June vote 3 weeks ago:
It’s probably best you don’t understand that. Else you’d be a greed monster.
- Comment on Microsoft Shifts Xbox Gaming Handheld Ambitions to Third-Party Windows Handhelds, Postpones 2027 Launch Plans 3 weeks ago:
Cool. I’ll just be over here happily playing my Steam Deck.
- Comment on At troubled UnitedHealth Group, a highly unusual pay package—potentially worth $60 million to its boomerang CEO—heads to a June vote 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if he’ll be able to collect in three years, or if something unexpected will come up.
- Comment on "Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda 3 weeks ago:
Play it just to sabotage my own teammates.
- Comment on This ad that claims that windows 11 is 3 times faster than windows 10 3 weeks ago:
Tons of OEMs are. Way more than in 2012.
- Comment on This ad that claims that windows 11 is 3 times faster than windows 10 3 weeks ago:
It definitely is depending on what you’re measuring. I’ve personally seen at least three times more people pushed to Linux each month since Windows 11 was released. Probably more. Windows 11 is the fastest Windows version at creating new Linux users, easily.
- Comment on Is this incest? 3 weeks ago:
Welp, that’s enough internet for today. Bye, everybody.
- Comment on Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry 3 weeks ago:
Oh no wouldn’t that be a shame. /s
I’m sorry but if your industry requires that you commit a bunch of crimes to make money, it’s not a legitimate industry, it’s a criminal industry. We’ve had these for a long time, and generally they’re frowned upon, because the crimes are usually drugs, guns, murder, or theft. When the crime is intellectual property theft, apparently we forget to care. Then again, same with wage theft.
- Comment on Are standing seats on airliners actually going to be a thing? 4 weeks ago:
No. Severe turbulence happens once in a while, and the people standing at that time can get really injured. That’s why they tell you to stay seated with your belt on unless you’re going to the bathroom.
- Comment on Inspired by a friends current vacation 4 weeks ago:
Was your tent just a sheet over a single string?
- Comment on I'm looking for a tutorial video, "On today's episode of Will It Blend, we have a blender, some water, and some used lithium batteries" 4 weeks ago:
No water necessary if they’re charged.
- Comment on demon named racecar 5 weeks ago:
People named Lana: 😒
People named Kcidymkcus: 😏
- Comment on Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I think we agree on that point. I didn’t mean to make it sound like it’s intentionally trying to trick you.
- Comment on Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con 5 weeks ago:
When it’s trying to convince you that it’s right using tricks of confidence, I’d say it’s behaving like a con man. At least it’s indistinguishable from the behavior of a con man.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 15 comments
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 5 weeks ago:
Music. I have some data CDs I burned in the mid 2000s, that I booted up a few years ago (Linux live CDs). I don’t have any data CDs from the 90s though. IIRC, ISO 9660 does have error correction.
- Comment on RIP obsolete tech 5 weeks ago:
I have CDs that I burned in the 90s that still work fine. I’m assuming the blu-rays I burn now will probably last as long, which is decades longer than I need them to.