BarbecueCowboy

@BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the longest discontinuous marriage?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With ancestry, yeah, that's going to suck and it's the bigger database, but with familysearch, you've got an API:

  https://www.familysearch.org/developers/docs/api/resources

  Not sure what your limits are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the longest discontinuous marriage?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The data is mostly already there and publicly maintained. Ancestry/familysearch/etc should get us something interesting at least, data is a little bit light outside the us but someone would just need to go through it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Israel has been near 100% loyal to the US since the two countries became friends. That doesn't mean they're perfect obviously, but their support of the US is near flawless, even when they probably should have thought twice.

  And then, on the other end, the government of Israel's key enemy is an organization that has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization by multiple countries including the EU.

  From a political standpoint, there's no compelling reason to do more than lip service. Have to remember, politics doesn't care about people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How well can an employer be certain of a remote employee's geographical location?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, common VPSes are monitored too, it's a very easy add. Alert on IP ranges from a publicly maintained and easy to find list is not a hard ask. If you ran it through AWS, it would probably pass a lot of basic checks. Using residential IPs will probably get you a bit of time, but I can't imagine there being a good way to do that without it being very hard for the VPN provider to keep up and very easy for a security company to just make a new list of IPs and assume the whole range is bad.

  Your best defense here though is that your cybersecurity team probably doesn't care that you're doing this once it's determined that you aren't a malicious actor as long as you aren't creating too many alerts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How well can an employer be certain of a remote employee's geographical location?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your cybersecurity team is going to be annoyed with you using a VPN if you have one. Any monitoring they have will probably have something that will ping on using common VPNs, but at most companies, consequences there likely won't make it to HR. May make it to your manager though if they think it's a sign of compromise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is a ticking time bomb⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Every person who isn’t a murderer is just a murder away from becoming a murderer. Timebomb!”

  Never thought about it that way, welp, might as well get it over with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is alcohol legal if it's much more harmful than marijuana?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this is a really common comparison, but I feel like this is also kind of weird. I personally believe both should be legal with obvious constraints in the realm of drunk driving/etc. Basically, do what you want with your body as long as you aren't risking undue harm on others.

  Main point though, I don't feel like it's a sound argument to equate the legality of alcohol to the legality of marijuana. Making either illegal is shaky on their own merits and trying to put both in the same category makes both look unfavorable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RimWorld - Anomaly (DLC) Store page is up⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It's a shame, I was really pulling for 'RIBWORLD'

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL: Gabe Newell has a second hobby next to Valve⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I really think Gabe woke up one day and just decided he wanted to own the best of every vehicle.

  I'd put good money on him having plans he's working on to some day own the fastest plane in the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diablo® IV is coming to Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There's always the main story of Diablo, but for a lot of us, the real game, and the reason we kept coming back was to get those cooler items. It's what turns Diablo from a play once experience to a put 100s of hours into it experience for me, and now it's turned into a pay $30 experience which feels really bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diablo® IV is coming to Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, I love the franchise and have really fond memories, but this one feels like a free to play game, but then they also want $70 for it. A game with a premium price point can be okay and a game with microtransactions can also be okay, but trying to be both is going to result in those of us who've been around awhile just taking a pass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Brought Its Delightful Musical Episode to Life: ‘You’re Like, Wait, Spock Is Singing Now?!’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of the issues with having TOS characters in this show. I know they kind of have to be, but their story is already established and that seriously limits how they can be used. Unless we have some more time travel or other weirdness repeating itself, the relationship was doomed to failure from the start.