halcyoncmdr
@halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
- Comment on Do jobs still do "shadowing" to learn the skills before you apply like welding or carpentry or computers? Or is it too much of a hassle for the person you are "shadowing" along with the company? 2 days ago:
Every job I’ve ever had did some sort of shadowing period. From retail, to call center work, to on premise IT.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 4 days ago:
It literally has a link in the notification box telling you it needs to restart, to help you schedule a time and adjust active hours, and explains what that means without having to go to an online help page.
Not sure what else you want.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 5 days ago:
Don’t leave security updates hanging for over a week then. That’s when the system starts trying to actively fix your inability to utilize ANY of the update delay and scheduling options included in the OS.
Microsoft and many other companies release updates literally the second Tuesday of each month. The update cycle is so common and decades old that there is literally a name for it, Patch Tuesday.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 5 days ago:
There’s nothing “random” about it.
Microsoft releases their updates (except really time critical security updates) during Patch Tuesday, the second Tuesday of each month.
You can delay restarting after updates do the initial install, which it does in the background after downloading by default, for 7 days before it starts pushing you. The restart is needed when files that are currently in use need updating, not all updates require that.
At any point you can also schedule an update time for it to finish the install. And you can set active hours for it to not update during times when you usually use your system.
If you continue to ignore finishing the update process, it will eventually consider it critical (after like a month of delayed updates) and will force an update on its own because you’ve been delaying it for so long, you are not attempting to schedule it, and you are not telling the system to pause updates. So you’re literally ignoring every option given to you to manage updates.
Your system “randomly” updating means you are not utilizing the options to schedule and plan times the system can regularly update, AND are not keeping your system anywhere near up to date manually.
- Comment on No one talks about the REAL victims 1 week ago:
It’s far from zero. But it’s nowhere near the likes of places like reddit or twitter that allow Russian bot traffic at will because that pumps up the fraudulent numbers they then report to shareholders.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You’ve clearly never played a Kojima game, long cutscenes are just Kojima’s style.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I don’t know if I will have the patience to watch 50 hours of cutscenes even in second monitor mode.
I see you’re not familiar with the Hideo Kojima method of storytelling. He’s still got the Guinness Record for it.
- Comment on Don't fear the Unknown; the Known is probably worse. 1 week ago:
Not just us, up to 90% of the flora and fauna might be taken with us along the way. Depending on how bad we get it before we are wiped out and stop making it worse.
The Chicxulun asteroid wiped out only 75% of flora and fauna… And the planet is pretty damned different than it was before that event.
- Comment on Spookie 2 weeks ago:
This gives off Apple Pie with a slice of cheese.
Apparently that’s actually good, but on the surface those people look insane.
- Comment on Paul Wesley Admits He Still Wonders If He’s ‘Doing Enough’ to Honor William Shatner’s Captain Kirk 5 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
I REALLY hope it was Grok that generated it.
- Comment on This camouflaged speed bump 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Yeah most of the gaps in population maps are mountains.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 2 months ago:
Those are some nice rolling hills.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 2 months 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" 2 months ago:
“Do you? Or are you trying to copy my answer?”
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 2 months 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. 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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.
