tmyakal
@tmyakal@infosec.pub
- Comment on How do I get one of those jobs where I send an email and then go to a meeting then draft an email then leave work and get paid $98,000/Year and have a badge on a little cord that says senior deputy analytics coordinator supervisor of marketing and sales? 4 days ago:
Even without a degree, supply chain and logistics is the answer. I didn’t finish college, and I’m comfortably making six figures. I literally spend five hours a day playing on my phone. No one cares, and my boss tells everyone how great I am.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
That’s the appeal of the game. These characters having protracted discussions about existentialism, the nature of free will, and death, and Goofy’s just there going “Gawrsh, Sora!”
- Comment on What's with black superheroes and lightning powers? 1 week ago:
Can someone name 10 black superheroes with lightning powers?
Miles Morales / Spider-Man Storm (plus other weather, but lightning is there) Static Shock Black Lightning Thunder Black Vulcan
Off the top of my head, I can only get to six. But I don’t think I could come up with that many white heroes with lightning powers.
- Comment on What if people stopped working at the Mega corporations.. 1 week ago:
If only there were something between mega-corps and Mom-and-Pops… you know, something where people cooperate and all the people working there can reap the benefits of their work.
- Comment on POV:You are about to pull your car in a middle of a busy road picking up a friend instead of looking for a normal parking spot: 1 week ago:
I’ve pulled into open parking lots and left my car to go get assistance twice. The first time, a cop left me a parking ticket. The second time, the lot owner had my vehicle towed.
Being courteous to other drivers has been disincentivized.
- Comment on PlayStation Plus price increase announced for new customers 1 week ago:
PS+ does have higher tiers with more benefits. The mid-tier one gives access to a ton of PS4 and PS5 games, and the top tier adds older games and cloud gaming.
And even base PS+ has SharePlay. That’s got to be my most-used feature, but I never see people talk about it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Vanilla Sky. It’s a remake of the Spanish film Open Your Eyes.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m not a big fan of Cameron Crowe’s, but this movie was a hell of a ride. And Diaz’s performance was no small part of it.
- Comment on Its a circus and we're the clowns 3 weeks ago:
I have never gotten a job from referral or recruitment. I think I might be too autistic for that.
- Comment on How prevalent are cash transactions in the USA? 3 weeks ago:
U.S. dollars literally say “this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private.” That sounds to me like a cashless business should be illegal.
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 3 weeks ago:
From the article you linked:
Shareholder wealth maximization is a standard of conduct for officers and directors, not a legal mandate. The business judgment rule [which was also upheld in this decision] protects many decisions that deviate from this standard.
This is why the Golden Age of American manufacturing throughout the '50s and '60s was able to raise so many families into the middle class: business decisions were made for the good of the business as a whole, because a well-trained and fairly-treated workforce was more productive and less likely to strike. Preserving the maintenance of the business is what improved shareholder value.
Union-busting and Reaganomics gave us Jack Welch and the pump-and-dump bullshit we see now, not a hundred year old court ruling.
- Comment on The bosses are never going to just hand workers a 32 hour workweek. 3 weeks ago:
Different companies have different policies based on their needs. I worked at a factory that couldn’t get enough skilled labor in the door, so they instituted mandatory overtime for two years: everyone had the option of 5 days at 10 hours or 6 days at 8.5 hours. Everything beyond 40 was time-and-a-half, but if you didn’t work at least 50 hours in a week, you got written up.
Some people absolutely loved it because it was “extra” money, but a lot more left for other factories, only exacerbating the problem.
- Comment on Is it possible to not know who a famous person is? 5 weeks ago:
Tig Notaro used to have a show where celebrities would come on, she would interview them, and at the end she had to guess who they were. So, yes, even famous people who live in LA don’t necessarily know who other famous people are.
- Comment on Autism 5 weeks ago:
Magic Missile normally burns a level one spellslot. If its cost is decreased by 2 points, does that mean your Magic Missile recovers level one spellslots?
If so, your DM is way too nice and also likely to deeply regret giving you such an ability.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Patois is a catch-all for non-standard languages, like a pidgin, a creole, or a dialect. It’s not one specific dialect.
OP is saying MAGAs speak in a unique language that only shares superficial similarities to American English.
- Comment on Batman fans, would you want to see a TV-MA Batman show where it takes inspiration from the Silver Age? 1 month ago:
Unfortunately, then you need to buy a book written by a sexual predator.
- Comment on How do I ACTUALLY get hired by the United States Postal Services (USPS)? 1 month ago:
I worked there twenty years ago, so things may have changed. But back then, you had to take a civil service exam.
They’d do them 3 or 4 times a year, usually on a Saturday at the nearest big city. On the exam, you demonstrate your ability to read house numbers, understand traffic laws, and in general not be a complete idiot. Then you pick your top three post offices you’d want to work out of.
When one of those offices has an opening (which can take months), they interview candidates starting with the highest-scoring people who took the exam and working their way down until the local manager finds a good fit.
- Comment on Valid crashout 1 month ago:
New York State gave them a contract to be in every rest stop on our main highway. I was opposed on moral grounds initially, but when I found out about the Sunday thing, I was flabbergasted at how boneheaded a move it was. Literally travelers can’t get food on the highway one day per week.
- Comment on Taxes are cool 2 months ago:
Nothing inherently wrong with taxation. The problems are how taxes are determined, how they’re collected, and how that money is distributed.
- Comment on You're cured! 2 months ago:
D.D. Palmer “received chiropractic from the other world” from a deceased physician named Dr. Jim Atkinson.
- Comment on Funny Insults 2 months ago:
…his wife is in a coma.
- Comment on Dubiousness 2 months ago:
Reminds me of a guy I used to work with. Any time he got frustrated with our manager, he’d mutter to himself, “Everyone gets one.”
The way he explained it to me is, everyone is allowed to murder one person. You might suffer some real bad consequences as a result, but if you can stomach those consequences, no one can really stop you from doing just one murder.
- Comment on We're just scanning for the bear... 2 months ago:
Doesn’t the Jurassic Park power-restore scene align with this, too? Muldoon gets wrecked by a raptor on his side, while Ellie immediately notices/dodges the one that pokes through the wiring.
- Comment on Just like Drax in that Guardians of the Galaxy scene 3 months ago:
Nope, it’s a default Windows ability. You can find it under the Accessibility settings, called Mouse indicator.
- Comment on If only 4 months ago:
Felt like less racism
To you. I promise you, racism has always been a huge problem.
- Comment on Five years from launch the PS5 is a roaring success, so why doesn't it feel like it? [Eurogamer] 6 months ago:
gameplay didn’t evolve
Massive understatement. The PS5’s biggest titles were remakes and direct sequels. Coupling it with the “upgraded” versions of PS4 games like Ghost of Tsushima, Last of Us Part 2, and GTA5, even the marketing seemed to boil down to “This is just a really nice PS4.”
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick 7 months ago:
reliable and familiar that won’t break the bank.
This is why car companies are not going to offer EVs that people actually want without government intervention. I remember GM leasing EVs back in the '90s to some acclaim. But they didn’t let anyone buy out their leases and they discontinued production by the end of the decade because most of their money came from service. And a bare-bones electric car has very few service requirements.
Manufacturers need the bullshit features because they need something important and breakable for consumers to come back with. Even if it’s just planned obsolescence driving another purchase, like it sounds like the article’s author is heading towards.
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 7 months ago:
I don’t think Valve really wants to be in the hardware market. That said, with the success of the Steam Deck and the numerous Deck-alikes like the ROG Ally or Legion Go, I have to believe they’ll try to talk manufacturers into doing a Steam Machine 2 at some point.
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 7 months ago:
The TV movie standard of everything being available
TVs and movies are not universally available. Dogma is a pretty famous case of being universally unavailable for over 15 years. It was only announced this year that a new licensing deal had been reached. There are plenty of lesser-known shows and movies that are just gone forever.
But that is a case in favor of piracy and physical media. Films like 1922’s Nosferatu only survived to today because of bootlegging. If we’re expecting Netflix to: one, be around as a company for 80 years until their films enter into public domain; and two, maintain their originals on their servers for that entire time, then we’re setting ourselves up for some pretty big disappointments and some rather huge holes in our cultural history.
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 7 months ago:
Rights-holders can make these products available whenever they want. Nintendo added many old “abandonware” games to their subscription catalog that had been unavailable for much longer than ten years. If someone else is putting them out for free, they’re stealing Nintendo’s lunch.
There are very few cases where copyrighted material would have no owner and no legal mechanism to determine ownership.
Not saying I support the current system. I think current US copyright law is ridiculous and a net negative for our culture. Just clarifying that “Well, no one was selling it” is not a legally defensible position when it comes to copyrighted work.