halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on Paul Wesley Admits He Still Wonders If He’s ‘Doing Enough’ to Honor William Shatner’s Captain Kirk 2 weeks ago:
If he tried too hard it might fall into cringe parody.
That might then match Shatner’s terrible acting.
Paul Wesley has done an amazing job at a portrayal of Kirk without the baggage actors often have with portraying existing characters. In fact pretty much all of the SNW cast have done a wonderful job with that.
- Comment on Wiki Documents at Least 44 Instances in Which Sony Says You Own Your Games 2 weeks ago:
Forced arbitration provisions have been thrown out before. So have contract clauses that ban class actions.
A company can put whatever they want in their agreements, whether it is enforceable is a completely different story, and things are tossed out by courts all the time.
- Comment on Forever relics 4 weeks ago:
You don’t have a screwdriver? M.2 screws don’t use any sort of special screw head. They’re almost always a regular phillips screw, maybe even being cut for a flathead to work as well.
- Comment on Mmmm tasty 4 weeks ago:
The name is a reference to bootlegging alcohol. And their original packaging literally had a dude with a moonshine jug on it, same with the modern Throwback label.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo's "hide ai images" option still shows AI images that are clearly tagged on the site 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t this one of the things that embedding C2PA in generated images is supposed to help with? Even though it predates the current AI bubble, it is a provenance system. With a quick search, it seems like many of the big players are on board already.
- Comment on Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt 4 weeks ago:
You can tell these people have never visited an ER in the US when they post shit you could tell was a lie just by accidentally glancing into any hospital window.
- Comment on Elons not a gamer. 4 weeks ago:
I REALLY hope it was Grok that generated it.
- Comment on This camouflaged speed bump 4 weeks ago:
I’ve always seen signs posted next to speed humps and bumps for additional notice they are there, in addition to the paint on them.
It looks like there should be a sign on the right next to the bump, but it’s missing.
- Comment on I too enjoy drinking water 4 weeks ago:
Yup and they come in a few different shapes and sizes depending on your area and flora.
They also cost like 5x as much to build, and limit the types of radio hardware that can be used, usually meaning less effective coverage. All for a handful of vocal NIMBYs complaining about how regular towers look (and almost always also complaining about having poor signal).
- Comment on 64% of lobbyists are former government officials, report shows - Deepcut 5 weeks ago:
That number seems low. What’s their definition for “government official”?
- Comment on Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism 1 month ago:
About 35% of the unfavorable are the lost ones that vote R because that’s what they’ve always done, what their church tells them, and what their one or two propaganda channels tell them. And the other 10% of those are probably Wall Street and adjacent. The ones that actually do have things to lose, since they’re the ones stealing it from the rest.
- Comment on You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out 1 month ago:
Google has been an advertising company for over two decades. Everything else that they do is to feed AdSense.
- Comment on You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out 1 month ago:
They’ve gotta pay the bills somehow. If you’re not paying for it, someone else is, and that mean either selling ad spots, or selling your info.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 1 month ago:
Yeah most of the gaps in population maps are mountains.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 1 month ago:
Those are some nice rolling hills.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 1 month ago:
To be fair… It says it is a Philly Steak Sub… Not a Cheesesteak. As a steak sub that’s not a horrible combination.
But it is still clear what they’re trying to sell and is an abomination.
- Comment on "I don't answer questions" 1 month ago:
“Do you? Or are you trying to copy my answer?”
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 month ago:
Not only upgrading hardware, but maintaining any issues along the way. Hard drives fail, Memory fails, etc. That’s just stuff that happens and can be easily remedied in a normal data center.
Now take all of those issues, and instead of being underwater… move it 500 miles into the vacuum of space. And take the heat dissipation of all that water, and make it a fraction because the vacuum of space is terrible at radiating heat despite the ambient temperature being so cold.
- Comment on Arizona teas at $1.59… we used to be a proper country. 1 month ago:
Somehow everyone in this thread talking about the price on the can out of blond habit… ignoring the Circle K logo ON THE CAN.
These are obviously not the standard Arizona cans with the price printed on the label.
- Comment on Is the sea calm beneath the surface during a storm? 1 month ago:
Kagi Privacy Pass.
What is Kagi Privacy Pass?
Privacy Pass is a powerful privacy feature that allows you to use Kagi Search with greater anonymity. When enabled, it lets you perform searches more anonymously while still verifying that you’re a valid Kagi subscriber. Think of it as a digital token system - similar to getting tokens at an arcade, where once you have them, you can use the services without showing your ID each time.How does it work?
When you enable Privacy Pass, instead of logging in with your Kagi account for each search, you use special cryptographic tokens. These tokens prove you have the right to use Kagi’s services without revealing who you are. This means your searches can’t be linked back to your account or to each other, providing an additional layer of privacy.https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-pass.html
So your browser generates tokens from your logged in session. Then when searching it uses a token instead of your session id for your Kagi searches. So your search on Kagi’s end looks the same as every other privacy pass token search, not individually identifiable.
Privacy Pass does not work on the limited Starter plan. That plan is limited to 300 searches per month, so they have to be able to track your specific usage.
- Comment on Is the sea calm beneath the surface during a storm? 1 month ago:
Gotta admit that Kagi has been a breath of fresh air. Worth the cost, and the ability to have your searches use anonymous tokens instead is a big plus as well.
- Comment on Capital of Estonia after a visit from Swedish football fans 1 month ago:
Philadelphia almost exclusively damagea their own town. And they do it the most when they win.
- Comment on Capital of Estonia after a visit from Swedish football fans 1 month ago:
Philadelphia has to grease the light poles because Philly fans riot after basically every game, especially when they win.
- Comment on Only boomers can use this bench. Meanwhile, they're trying to get rid of their own property taxes. 1 month ago:
You’re not wrong… But the crossover age range of the vast majority of billionaires and seniors is a damned circle, it’s both a class and age thing simultaneously. Boomers are usually defined as those born between 1946 and 1964, so that age range would be 62-80 as of 2026.
Nearly half of the 3,323 billionaires worldwide in 2023 were between 50 and 70 years old. Moreover, more than 40 percent were above 70 years, whereas around 10 percent were below 50 years.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/621046/age-distribution-of-billionaires-globally/And that ignores the much larger number of them that are under a billion but still well on their way up towards it. In practicality, there’s little difference between 100 million and a billion despite it being 90% less.
- Comment on Netflix is garbage 1 month ago:
The stress test I did had 6 transcoding streams going on my Emby server with an Intel Arc A310, without breaking a sweat. It never has more than 3 streams going at a time in normal usage though so I stopped testing at 6.
- Comment on *landbastard intensifies at the right of replacing a 2 dollar light switch". 1 month ago:
domicile
- Comment on Activists Who Spray-Painted Barclays Set to Be Sentenced As Terrorists 2 months ago:
That’s the ONLY thing that’ll Happen!
For those that can’t seem to make 2+2=4…
If you get more time for using pray paint than murder… Might as well just murder instead of using spray paint.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
But he was too narrow minded to even consider that.
The biggest thing that exposes narcissists quickly. They can’t even consider the possibility that their opinion might not be objectively correct.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yeah I’m sure he convinced him as elf it was for a good reason, and the idea isn’t inherently bad.
The primary issue is the clear intention to hide it. If there was a notice when you first accessed tesseract that asked if you wanted to enable “Toxic Mode” as he called it, or if there was some sort of indication when posts were removed by the filter, many of the complaints would no longer apply. The fact it was enabled by default, and hidden buried into advanced settings under a question meant to be ignored, located and phrased like the bullshit useless Windows Settings helper stuff, just means he never intended it to really be found. If you have to hide it because you know people don’t want it… You’re not on the right side of the issue.
The fact he also included a DDOS script in the good ye notice is just proof everyone else was right. He’s a piece of shit, regardless anything else. Only a true cuntwaffle does that.
- Comment on 'Starvation Wages' at Giant US Corporations Force Workers to Seek Taxpayer-Funded Aid 2 months ago:
Any employees qualifying for aid due to low wages while working at large companies like Walmart should disqualify the company from all tax incentives.
