tmyakal

@tmyakal@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's coming sooner than 2050⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the real reason tech is pushing self-driving cars. If you don’t need to see the road, you can look at more advertisements.

  And they’ll sell it as a cost-saving feature, like smart TVs and Kindle tablets. “We can provide this at a reasonable price because the costs are subsidized with advertising.” You can buy a car with a traditional windshield for $80k or with an AdShield ™ for $40k.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon delivers a prophecy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no such thing as an ethical billionaire. Just because you like his monopoly does not mean he’s a good dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice for moving to NY?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, NY’s Tuition Assistance Program is available to anyone who has lived in New York for at least one year and enrolls in a SUNY or CUNY school. In the Capital District, that would include the Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, the Schenectady County Community College, and the University of Albany. There’s also certain programs that they’ll cover full tuition for as long as you work in the state for five years after graduation. And there are an absolute ton of private colleges in the area, if you’re not into any of the state’s programs.

  And it’s a great area to be in. Like I said, two hours from the city, but it’s also near Saratoga and the Adirondacks. Lots of historical sites and museums, camping/hiking, and a ton of concert venues. Since it’s on the way between Boston and NYC, a ton of bigger acts will stop in when they’re touring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we need legal genders at all?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  remove the difference, remove the need to “make amend with a mandatory quota”

  Have you seen what’s going on in the US lately? Abolishing DEI programs that recognize race or gender helps whoever has the most institutional power. White men have run the world for their own benefit for centuries. You think taking them off the leash now will result in a gender-neutral equitable utopia?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we need legal genders at all?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious how you create GENDER EQUALITY without forcing people to acknowledge and correct for systemic biases. It’s not like there was GENDER EQUALITY before such laws existed.

  The idea of affirmative action laws is that, systemically, white men in western countries were born on third base thinking they hit a triple, and everyone else needs some amount of help to catch up to their institutional and generational wealth and power. A law can’t correct for that difference if the difference is no longer recognized, and that means white men get to retain their position.

  It’s why the Trump administration focused so hard on dismantling DEI efforts. Their position is that we’ve achieved equality and these programs are an unjust bias. Obviously bullshit, but it’s what you immediately end up with if race and gender are not legally recognized characteristics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice for moving to NY?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Capital District might not be a bad choice. It’s about two hours north of the city, so day trips are viable, but the cost of living is easily cut in half.

  Plenty of good schools, and if you take a gap year first to establish residency, New York will kick you an extra $5k per year to go to a state university. And the job market is actually not terrible: GE in Schenectady, Regeneron in Troy, and Global Foundries near Saratoga have all announced expansions recently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IYKYK⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For true irony, you could order from Sticker Mule. The owner is a hardcore Trumper and currently running for office in New York.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IYKYK⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought I was the only one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawful evil⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is untrue. Margins for restaurants are razor-thin. They could only raise wages and eliminate the need for tips by raising prices, but then people wouldn’t eat there because everywhere else looks cheaper. Because customers are dumb and don’t think about how much tips cost, just what the menu price says.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Work Hard, Enjoy Never⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm. I’m alive, except on the inside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Work Hard, Enjoy Never⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sitting here, crossing my fingers that my father dies quick and soon. If he lives too long, he’ll need to sell his house to fund his elder care, and then I’ll never own a home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Proceeds to append an exclamation mark*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I felt like a celebrity when my old IRC handle popped up on bash.org for one line. I didn’t even say anything funny, just the “what?” that set up someone else’s joke, but it was cool to see me there.

  The internet was so much better when it was just, like, ten people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ineffective Democratic leadership ain't going away unless we make them.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This post is about Chuck’s role as Senate leader specifically, not as a senator. When the new congress is in season next year, he intends to continue to be the chief spokesperson of the Democratic party.

  Not useless per se, but the position is elected by the other senators within the party, not by the people. So if you don’t want him representing the Democratic party to the White House and the Senate, you should start calling your representatives and complaining now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say, "You'll have to wait". It's a bullshit argument against Universal Healthcare.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an appointment with a primary care physician on Friday. It’s my first one since 2004. Because I usually couldn’t afford insurance, and when I finally did get it, I couldn’t find a doctor that was: taking new patients; covered under my insurance; and less than 50 miles away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Crossing my fingers that my wife and my insurance agent are plotting to kill me on a train, so they can afford the life they deserve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the great thing: they keep raising the retirement age. Soon, I’ll be able to buy a house at 45 with a 50-year mortgage, literally work until I’m dead, and let the bank take the house because I still owe $150k.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'all might not be ready for this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And Tom Waits had the same name on a song twenty years before that. I don’t think I’m off base assuming OP meant the Semisonic one and not all the other songs with the same name that weren’t '90s Billboard top 10s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'all might not be ready for this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That song didn’t come out until '98. I guess Marty could play it, and they could change the name of the band leader to Marvin Semisonic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m hoping this means they legalize over-the-counter ephedrine again. I was a skinny little speedfreak back when I could pop three of those per day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t need self-driving trucks for this. This is already how intermodal shipping works: a driver picks up a container and takes it to a rail yard, it gets loaded onto a train, and then when it gets near enough to where it’s going, another driver takes it from the rail yard for final delivery.

  The reasons for not doing intermodal are the same as not being able to do self-driving trucks: oversize loads, document-controlled shipments (haz-mats, for example), and mixed deliveries along a route. Almost everything else could be put on a train, but it would take some infrastructure upgrades and likely unattainable levels of cooperation from shippers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About to ruin your whole day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my state vehicles need to be re-registered every two years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About to ruin your whole day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My state won’t let you register a car that has a check engine light on. So, yeah, checkmate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't overdosing on Illegal Narcotics a crime? Technically they are in your position. If they blood test you for acting weird in public, they get you for public intox...and driving you get a DUI?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, locality-dependent, but it happens. My state will give Narcan to anyone who is willing to take a class on recognizing and treating an overdose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon can't go home again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone remember BIGmog?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employers ditching health coverage⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like they are actively trying to prevent me from finding a doctor

  They are. The less you use their services, the more money they make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich ppl live longer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Alcohol on its own does not cause social occasions or reduce loneliness. Plenty of people drink alone, and plenty of people gather socially without drinking.

  That said, while the advice from a health standpoint is that no amount of alcohol is completely safe to drink, humans do risky shit all the time for fun or convenience. More people get hurt in car accidents than develop alcohol-related diseases, but no one is stopping driving. The difference in outcomes between people who have zero drinks per day versus 1-2 drinks per day is much less than the difference between 1-2 and 5+ drinks. So occasional/light drinking is still relatively low-risk. It’s just not actively good for you as previously thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich ppl live longer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OP is referring to the j-curve historically seen in studies about drinking. Because researchers didn’t control for people who stopped drinking after years of abuse or people who couldn’t drink because of other health issues, it looked like having 0 drinks per day led to worse health outcomes than 1-2 drinks per day. Because of that, many health organizations spent decades telling people that 1-2 drinks per day was better for you than 0 drinks per day.

  Someone finally controlled for those variables a few years ago, and the j-curve vanished. Most health organizations now say they’re is no amount of alcohol that is safe to consume.

  So it’s got nothing to do with Gen Z drinking habit specifically, and the science has been corrected since. But a lot of people still internalized and parrot the “1-2 drinks is healthy” thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assmold fans being moldy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to be buddies with a retired NYPD patrolman. One of the most funded and well-trained municipal police forces in the US. With regular range testing, they were expected to hit their targets 40% of the time.

  I’ll say that again: in a controlled environment, against unmoving targets, an NYPD officer can usually miss, and that’s fine. Does anyone think they suddenly get more accurate once adrenalin is pumping and a teenager is running away from them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is strong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is either that or one of the scariest and most confounding things. Different strokes for different folks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brilliant‼️⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Big difference between serving alcohol and selling alcohol. When I was doing 3rd shift, we’d get out at 5AM, head straight for the gas station, and pour tallboys into paper cups and drink in front of the store.

  First bus home came by at 6:30. I was usually pretty buzzed by then.