mic_check_one_two

@mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ahead of her time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of Theranos. She was sentenced to prison for defrauding investors. She started making claims that she could do exactly what the headline says. She claimed that current blood panels (which usually require a vial of blood for each test) were insufficient and outdated, and that her company could predict or diagnose a ton of diseases and disorders with only a pinprick of blood. She said that her company was already in the final stages of the research, and used those claims to entice investors. She said that her company was going to be on the forefront of a medical revolution, and investors were clambering to get in before they hit the market.

  It turns out she was full of shit, was lying through her teeth, the technology didn’t exist, and they couldn’t diagnose anything with the tiny amount of blood she claimed. Medical professionals had been screaming about the fraud for a long time, but techbros and billionaires were happy to continue jumping on the bandwagon because she kept promising results in the near future. When the fraud finally came to light, Theranos’ valuation went from ~$9B to $0 basically overnight. It was a massive “she stole from billionaires, so we’re making an example of her and actually prosecuting the white collar crime that never gets prosecuted” court case that started way back in the mid 2010’s. It only recently wrapped up a few years ago (I think in late 2022 or early 2023?) and she’s still serving time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the government’s big shift from “spy on our citizens” to “create a private corporation and pay them to spy on our citizens” was largely driven by public scrutiny. Governments realized that people were watching what they did online. And rather than stop encroaching on peoples’ privacy, the various governments simply shifted towards hiring private contractors to do it for them.

  A giant “Spy Agency To Definitely Spy On All Of Our Own Citizens: Fifty Bajillion Dollars” line item on the government budget looks bad when lawmakers go to vote on it. But that same fifty bajillion dollars allocated to “Private Government Contractor 19452046” looks a lot better on paper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the Snowden leaks didn’t change a ton for the end users… But it was a big kick in the pants for the site admins, programmers, database admins, etc who build all of the internet’s infrastructure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and no. The vast majority are just script kiddies who want to be edgy. The real power (and drawback) of Anonymous lies in the fact that anyone can claim to be a part of it. Anyone can hack something, then attribute it to Anonymous.

  The reason Anonymous doesn’t get more huge public hacks is because the people doing the hacking largely aren’t interested in giving attribution to some giant faceless organization that didn’t help with the hack. It’s sort of a catch-22, where anyone can claim to be Anonymous, but the venn diagram of “really good black hat hackers” and “people who are willing to give credit to some faceless organization that hasn’t helped them at all” is two almost entirely separate circles. The best black hat hackers largely aren’t interested in it, because they’re hacking for money or prestige, not politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨be a friend to the animals⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Remove the laugh track, and Ross is a full blown narcissistic sociopath… The only person he seems to genuinely care about is his son, Ben… But even Ben seems to vanish in the later seasons. There are fan theories that Ross completely abandoned Ben (or that Carol and Susan took full custody because Ross was always such a prick) after Emma was born. Phoebe is a manipulative bitch who uses quirkiness as an excuse to toy with people.
  Rachel is a spoiled disorganized mess, who’s need for attention compelled her to constantly keep Ross on a leash without letting him get too close. She broke up with a dude, got her feelings hurt when he had a rebound, then constantly held it over his head after they got back together. When he got tired of it and found someone else, she crashed their wedding in the hopes that he would leave his fiancée at the altar. Chandler regularly uses sarcasm to poke at his friends’ insecurities and belittle them, and masks all of his insecurities with self-deprecating humor instead of actually working to better himself.
  Monica’s obsessive need for control regularly leads her to manipulate or bully others, and consistently overshadows her empathy.

  Joey was too good for the rest of the characters. His only real emotional flaw was that he never really had any deep romantic connections. But that was largely because he was more into the hookup culture, and he reserved his attempts at deeper romance for the few partners he really got along with. He never tried to hide the fact that he was a playboy, even around the women he was sleeping with. He was an idiot, but he at least cared for and about the other main characters, in a way that none of them ever seemed to reciprocate.

  Also, the show was ultimately about six rich white people, who occasionally cosplayed as relatable lower middle class folk. In a city as diverse as NYC, you would have to work to find a city block so completely deprived of melanin. The series was 10 seasons long, and black people only had speaking roles in like 25 episodes… And a lot of those were because Ross and Joey dated the same black woman for like 10 episodes in the last season. They also very clearly lived in a nice part of the city, (some have estimated that Monica’s apartment would run for ~$3-4M when the show was airing) and their financial struggles were only ever superficial to make them more relatable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll sell games for 227, 375, and 510 UbiPoints^TM^. The UbiPoints^TM^ are only redeemable on their online shop, and are only purchasable in units of:

  • $10 for 50 UbiPoints^TM^
  • $50 for 275 UbiPoints^TM^. That’s 10% more UbiPoints^TM^ for free!)
  • $150 for 938 UbiPoints^TM^. That’s 25% more UbiPoints^TM^ for free! Our best deal ever!
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep throat⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m calling it now: There will be a non-zero number of MAGAts who briefly go gay to own the libs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨forbidden dots⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the amount of compression and relative temperature. Near freezing, ice is compressible. Because the increased pressure causes the freezing point to rise, which causes it to melt. And liquid water takes up less space than ice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I really wanted to like my Link, but it was plagued by random FPS lag spikes that made it unplayable. Sometimes a game running at a perfect 60FPS would just suddenly drop to like 2-3FPS for a minute or more. In my router and on my PC’s traffic data, I could see my PC was still sending the same amount of data to the Link. And on the Link, I could see it was receiving the data. So everything was sending and receiving just fine. But the FPS would just suddenly tank for no discernible reason. It made the Link unusable after a while. And the only real response I ever got from Steam about it was “have you tried updating the firmware on your Link?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Sony really nailed the haptics with the PS5 controller. The high-fidelity motors feel nice while still having punch, and the adaptable triggers give a nice satisfying squeeze when game programmers use it properly.

  The newer God of War games had a few good examples, with the adaptable triggers getting harder on more “difficult” stuff. If Kratos was using a lot of strength for some quick time event, the triggers got harder to pull. It was a nice touch that helped add immersion and suspense to a game that was already very visceral. When Kratos cleaved into an enemy during a kill animation, feeling the trigger relax afterwards was a nice satisfying capstone to the “you just beat the crap out of this enemy” animation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually prefer Sony’s symmetrical design, but that’s probably because the PS1 was my first console. That’s the controller I grew up playing, so it’s the one I’m most familiar with using. The Xbox 360 generation definitely tends to prefer asymmetry though, which is really just a matter of preference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… What is a console, but a prebuilt running custom firmware and manufacturer’s OS? You can literally install Linux on a jailbroken PS5. Old consoles were obviously bespoke pieces of hardware that wouldn’t match any computer OS… But modern consoles are closer to prebuilt PCs than they are to old consoles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are some shows so dark?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm. The most important test for my mixes is the car test. Get your buddies together, and hopefully they have a variety of cars. Play it in a nice car with great speakers, play it in a shitty beater with a blown out cone in the passenger door, and as many in between as you can get. The more homogenous the listening experience is across those cars, the better your mix will sound on a variety of systems.

  For most people, their car is the best sound system they own. It’s also where people do a lot of listening, because very few people drive in complete silence. So if it sounds like ass in the car, people will stop listening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are some shows so dark?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate that motion smoothing is turned on by default these days. I know it’s because sports fans want it enabled, but it makes literally everything else look like a garbage low budget soap opera.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'all seem to have lost track of the correct response to people crying about dead baddies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Talking about Cheney? I’m not sad he’s gone, but you had me way more excited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come the fuck on.... please?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Radcliffe is in the uniquely special circumstance, where he has more money than God but he also wants to keep making movies. The result is that he only does the movies that he wants to do. He doesn’t attach himself to movies just for clout or money, because he doesn’t need either of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember being upset that all of the other classes got to watch it. We heard from friends in other classes that an attack had happened and they were all watching TV now. My teacher refused to put it on, and kept teaching as usual until parents started showing up to pull their kids out of school early.

  Thinking back, it’s probably good that we didn’t watch it; We were only 8 years old, after all. All my friends in the other classes watched the towers fall live, while I only got the recap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want a windows-like experience, Linux Mint is hard to beat. It will feel very familiar.

  If you enjoy gaming (which I’m assuming you do, considering the article) then maybe Bazzite would be a good option. It comes with GPU drivers (which have historically been a giant pain in the ass for Linux) ready to go. It’s an immutable distro, which is… Contentious in the Linux community. It means you won’t be able to accidentally break your OS, but it also means it isn’t as customizable. The newer users appreciate the safety net, but the experienced power users see it as overly restrictive coddling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, detecting the VPN isn’t really difficult at all. VPN providers sometimes try to cycle through IP addresses to make it harder, but there’s only so much they can do.

  This isn’t really noteworthy, especially when you consider how many services require a sign in when you’re on a VPN anyways. It’s shitty, but not really surprising; They want to be able to tie your traffic to you, not just to a random VPN server. Hell, even without signing in, they probably have your browser fingerprinted. If you’re privacy focused, you probably have a lot of privacy based extensions, in a privacy based browser. And that makes you easy to fingerprint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thats all⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AKA “The First Season Sayan”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thats all⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tater tots

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Louvre security vs CVS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, it’s the “annoying and invasive, but easily cracked DRM” of the retail world. It annoys legitimate customers, while doing very little to actually deter theft. Most of those beep tags can be quickly and easily removed with a strong magnet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does markdown treat linefeeds as spaces?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That comes from typewriters, before kerning was a thing. Each key press moved the paper an equal distance, so every single character was evenly spaced. Even narrow characters like i or l had the same amount of space on each side of them. Monospaced font is easier to read when sentences end with a double space. But with modern kerned fonts, the double space is pointless.

  Phones sub in a period for simplicity, so you don’t need to reach for the period key. It doesn’t actually include the double space at all; it removes the first space and replaces it with a period. If you’re “supposed” to double space after each sentence, why does your phone remove that first space?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They need to bring you in to feel their power over you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My mother-in-law’s job has a similar policy, except the range is 50 miles… She lives almost exactly 49.9 miles away from her job. The company refuses to budge, (“if we gave an exception to you, we’d have to do it for everyone”), and requires her to come in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I pulled my hip flexor :(⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My worst back injury was from picking up a loaf of bread after a long day of very heavy work. I had been slinging 300 pound pieces of gear all day long. Lots of heavy lifting, bending, pushing, pulling, etc… I handled all of it just fine. Got in the car, baby-wiped my face and arms to clean up a little bit, and headed to the grocery store on my way home.

  20 minutes later, I was at the store. I just needed two things: Milk and bread. I headed to the back to grab the milk, then went past the bread aisle on the way to the registers. I stooped down to grab the bread, and felt a little twinge in my lower back. I barely even thought about it. Then the closer I got to the registers, the worse it got. By the time I was to the registers, I was hobbling around like an old man who needed a walker. Hell, I felt like I needed a walker; I was cursing myself for not grabbing a shopping cart, because I had nothing to hold onto.

  That was on a Friday at like midnight. I suffered through two days of agony until my doctor opened on Monday. Doc was just like “oh yeah, that just happens sometimes.” Doc, can we make it fucking not happen? He said it was probably because I worked hard and then cooled down.

  Apparently it’s an extremely common phenomenon, where industrial athletes will get injured after work. Because they’ll be good about staying safe during work… Then they get injured by something stupid and small after cooling down. Because when you’re warmed up and being mindful about how you lift, your risk of injury is low. But then you head home, cool down in the car, and some muscle or tendon decides “nah, I’m done stretching for the day. Time to rip instead.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clowns be clowning⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, catbox is notoriously spotty. It’s outright blocked in many areas, and I have to VPN to a different location to even access it. Not sure why it’s so popular here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm 5, who are you??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Currently working my third overnight shift this week, in what is normally a “regular business hours” job. So… Somewhere between 1, 4, and 8.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨last chance to look at me hector⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  .ml is a weird beast, because it looks extremely inviting to the average user. There’s very little discord, and the users are generally very friendly. But when you dig deeper, you realize that it’s because the .ml mods are extremely heavy-handed, and work diligently to remove any comments that would go against the groupthink. If this was on my feed (and the post was 11 hours old when I saw it), it’s because the mods explicitly allowed it to stay up, because they support the message.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 still has secrets fans haven't found, says director⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The simple answer is that he isn’t the main character. He may be who the first chapter followed, but he’s definitely not the main character in the story. Things really pick up in chapters 2 and 3, and you’ll quickly realize that Gustave was just along for the ride.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨last chance to look at me hector⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This post was literally directly below in my feed:
  Image