wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on boioioioioinggg 12 hours ago:
People doing crazy shit instead of just finding a ladder.
- Comment on one beer 1 day ago:
But I need my armpits for THE STINKING
- Comment on NSA's SIGINT Enabling Project includes sabotaging cryptographic standards. 1 day ago:
To surface some important info from the link: IETF standards votes are open to anyone on the mailing list, and a number of NSA workers are voting for the first time on any of these standards in favor of weakening one particular one.
Given that it’s effectively open to the public, the creator of the linked site is urging people to sign up and vote in opposition.
It’s a quick read and all the relevant links are there for involving yourself if you wish.
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers for them. 4 days ago:
So your complaint, for posterity
Pretty much. It’s an unfunny failure of a caricature of these fuckers, based off what is years old news, that does nothing but stoke impotent feelings of elitism.
It’s self-making your own circus for the bread and circus distraction from doing anything useful about the problem, and I find it awfully similar to public masturbation at this point.
A more succinct comment, and what I probably just should have went for my initial comment given this is a shit post community, is the meme of Squidward saying “brave today, aren’t we?”
It’s boring and overdone.
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers for them. 4 days ago:
No shit Sherlock. So why are we trying our best to turn them into the clowns to make a circus to go with the bread instead of talking about how to do something? Why are we helping them make things worse by just turning them into a punchline.
More so, why are we settling for such a weak ass punchline about a version of the problem that’s from multiple years ago?
This limp dicked masturbatory elitism just downplays the seriousness of the situation while stoking a futile feeling of elitism that goes nowhere. “Look, aren’t we better than these hilariously sad excuses for a cum stain? Time to go be smug and continue sitting on my ass doing nothing.”
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers for them. 4 days ago:
Neither did the constant media and internet frenzy focusing on the stupidest aspects of their bullshit. Are we going to start talking about the two scoops of ice cream again? Look at the birdy and ignore the gutting of the board of education.
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers for them. 4 days ago:
Man, I sure do love when people put words in my mouth I never said. That is one bad jacket there.
There are plenty of more recent and more relevant examples of this type of bullshit without having to go back years, and this is some of the weakest "call out"s of these stains on humanity I’ve seen in a long time.
Next time you want to masturbate about how much better you are than Trump’s useful idiots, get some better material at least.
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers for them. 4 days ago:
Are we really still giving any attention to the tiki torch carrying fucks? How long ago was this shit again?
- Comment on *laughs nervously* 5 days ago:
Sink is right there, what’s the problem?
- Comment on League of Legends Classic | Announcement Trailer 6 days ago:
Jesus Christ this blight has been around that long?
- Comment on Physical copy of GTA VI has arrived 1 week ago:
Blu-ray drives can be expensive, but USB DVD drives are only ~$20.
I’d also expect anyone who would care about the “physical” edition of the next GTA only being a download code in the box would have a disc drive on the device they wanted to install it on.
- Comment on SBA #154 Krabsweek 2 weeks ago:
Hello seaman! Have a se-
- Comment on When Windows users find the Threadiverse 2 weeks ago:
Don’t need classes to make functions (depending on the language of course).
- Comment on When Windows users find the Threadiverse 2 weeks ago:
I’ll openly admit that I’ve made comments that could be interpreted as this comic. That said, I don’t hate Linux or look to “dunk on” people, I just see a lot of really uninformed takes about Windows being tossed around and can’t help but try to correct people.
Like someone said something abysmally wrong and very confidently, I asked them when the last time they used Windows, and they said it had been over a decade. I get that people pull that sort of thing online all the time, but when I see it it bothers me.
So I end up making the occasional comment defending Windows from blatant misinformation in a Linux thread, or insisting that the Linux experience still isn’t as smooth as it needs to be for non-tinkerers.
Usually someone will pop up and call me uninformed or something, which is rich given I’ve been casually messing with Linux since before USB thumb drives were ubiquitous, and I have a little more than a decade of career experience in IT support and systems admin/engineering/architecture neck deep in a Microsoft environment.
I love Linux and open source software. I want it all to succeed. But Windows does have its place, it is valid for certain use cases, and is not anywhere as awful as it’s made out to be. Especially if you have the tech chops to switch to Linux, de-crappify-ing Windows is of comparable difficulty and I have not had any of the supposedly unavoidable Windows issues people regularly cite in around a decade.
Switching to Linux is a more than valid choice, but I hate to see it happen only because someone isn’t getting good troubleshooting information for a Windows issue.
I also have a seriously hard time keeping my mouth shut when Linux users claim daily driving a Linux Distro as a smooth process. It is leagues better than it used to be. Mind bogglingly so, and getting smoother every day. But it is still inevitable that you will hit a point of major friction and have to get deep into tinkering, and you will still likely need to make concessions in terms of hardware feature support.
I’m no stranger to tinkering. No stranger to compiling things myself, or even troubleshooting an error all the way down to a specific line of source code and making a PR to correct it.
But I’ve reached a point in my life where I don’t want to be spending hours troubleshooting things that in my mind should “just work”. I want more control than Apple offers, and less tinkering than Linux tends to expect.
So I keep up with the Linux space, use it on VMs personally semi-regularly, and maybe once a year give it a serious try as a daily driver. For now, stripped down/customized Windows installs on my gear is more than good enough.
- Comment on I hope they'll make it more contagious 3 weeks ago:
“no, I prefer my brain to stay asleep thank you. asleep, smooth, and pristinely unwrinkled.”
Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
- Comment on Schools being too soft lately 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, why would you ever hang those upside down unless that’s what you were going for? Or you could just cut or snap off the handles.
- Comment on booty 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t you also need to replace the first letter of most words with R as well?
Roo rust reeze ruh reans ruv roduction
- Comment on Fucking knee. 3 weeks ago:
Or you’re a fan of good music.
… who can also tell the incoming weather with my knee
- Comment on D.A.R.E. 3 weeks ago:
Are you high right now? It’s a shit post in the shit posting community. I took it as a joke about how “sooper serious” the DARE program took itself while being entirely toothless and not particularly educational.
- Comment on ㅣ ㅣㅣ 3 weeks ago:
::|:; - Comment on Email came out of nowhere 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but. Big but.
The devs of the games included in that email signed off on it before it went out. The version the devs were shown had no “runes” included.
GOG has acknowledged that those runes can display on some devices distinctly as the symbol for the SS, so they did not send this email to subscribers subscribed in the German language. Instead of just using a different fucking symbol, or not using it twice in a row.
As far as I understand it, those are pretty random runes, not specifically Slavic at all.
Taken as a whole, it shows that they had some idea of how this would appear, and they went through with it anyway, for no obvious benefit.
Not a good look.
- Comment on Why exactly are nursing aids paid so poorly? 3 weeks ago:
That happens a hell of a lot less than you’d think, even in cases of obvious malfeasance.
- Comment on why is it never the 'close friend' who gets shit on? 4 weeks ago:
I have two friends who first met because one was this girl’s “platonic cuddle buddy” and the other was her fuckbuddy. Neither knew she was effectively getting half the relationship from the other and they both wanted a “full” relationship with her until they both showed up at an event she was at and it came out. When they found out they both “dumped” her and became friends.
- Comment on borger 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, like what is this even about? You can get a waterproof Bluetooth speaker with pause/play, volume, and sometimes even forward and back skip buttons for pretty cheap.
- Comment on Delivery robots are spreading across LA. Residents ‘both pity and hate them’ 5 weeks ago:
Please review the last 100 years of technological development and educate us all on when, exactly, improvements in productivity have resulted in a reduction of the working hours required for subsistence. Extra credit for when it also did not involve threats of bodily or existential harm to the ruling class.
Perhaps, just maybe, people are less concerned with perpetuating the wheels of the machine “at all costs” and more concerned with what happens between now and then. With who will get crushed before they’re stopped, if they ever do, long after our own lifetimes end.
Perhaps it is not the entire world who is stupid while you’re one of a select few intelligent enough to really know what’s going on.
I’m fully in support of the idea of UBI by the way, I just don’t see the hypothetical distant possibility as a reason to discount issues actively occurring in the existent present.
- Comment on If she had lived into the Botox era. 5 weeks ago:
Wait, has anyone ever seen Nigel Thornberry and Princess Diana in the same room?
- Comment on New conspiracy theory just dropped 5 weeks ago:
Why that minion got bedroom eyes?
- Comment on using everything as training data 1 month ago:
How else are people going to know how to navigate them?
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 1 month ago:
That plus the ever growing push for device linked personal ID on personally owned device feels like the real end goal. Governments can already snoop all web traffic. Now they want to close the gap on device level surveillance by pushing more and more people towards renting virtual devices with traceable payment methods. For people who don’t, device link to personal ID means they no longer have any of that mess of having to prove ownership or who took the action.
Removing the tinfoil hat though, I really hope this causes cloud resource cost to drop through the floor.
- Comment on 2/10 people on Lemmy, is that you? 1 month ago:
Thankfully the fediverse is still small enough that blocking people has a noticable effect. On reddit, for every person you block there’s 4 more to take their place.
