theneverfox
@theneverfox@pawb.social
- Comment on Another angle of this modern art installation 15 minutes ago:
Are you sure you’re not talking about a traffic circle?
Roundabouts have specific rules, not every circular intersection is a roundabout
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 2 hours ago:
Have you heard of Slate? They sound a lot like what you’re looking for
- Comment on 1 day ago:
That’s kinda how therapy works. It’s 90% getting you talking, and 10% offering compensation strategies they’ve heard before
- Comment on At this point it might be the wisest decision 2 days ago:
Hold up, there’s lots of really big volcanoes around. Coincidentally, if a big one went off it might fix global warming too
Or we could have a super Cardigan event, which would basically light all of human civilization on fire at once
Let him cook.
- Comment on Press a button and this SSD will self-destruct with all your data 2 days ago:
But like… You could just make it physical. Put a couple extra leads on the PCB, charge the capacitor, and let the button close the circuit mechanically. You might have to do a couple tests, but that’s better than having storage with a delete button on it
What does a delete button add? It’ll take minutes. Might as well put an e-stop button on your desk that connects to your computer by USB
It’s basically security theatre
- Comment on Press a button and this SSD will self-destruct with all your data 2 days ago:
I mean, you could probably pick two strategic pins and fry the wells… You might have to do a few of them to make sure that your hit every bank. If you blow through the insulation between them, I can’t imagine any method could recover the data. And it shouldn’t take much current
The liquid thing was just because… You know, solid state drive
- Comment on Press a button and this SSD will self-destruct with all your data 2 days ago:
Why are you wiping the data? Why not just slag the whole chip… Hard to read an SSD in liquid form
- Comment on Press a button and this SSD will self-destruct with all your data 3 days ago:
I mean, it could just be a capacitor. It’s easier to fry something than make it delete itself
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Relationships are like a ying yang. The people have to fit together
There’s people out there into that. Find one of them, not someone who will settle for that arrangement
- Comment on apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people 6 days ago:
Yeah, honestly I think it’s a little dumb, but they seemed to be having fun with it. It’s not even like it’s that hard to read, they put way more effort into it than it takes to read it
We need to be way more ok with people getting a little weird with it
- Comment on Anon has a bully 1 week ago:
I have a party trick where I light my hand on fire and transfer the fire between shapes on a surface
It’s not that hot, and it’s super easy to light and put out. It’s still, you know, fire, but panicked flailing is enough to put it out
Sure, you could get third degree burns from it, but only if you just let it sit there. If you tried to wipe it off or smack it out, which I think is the natural human reaction, it would just go out, possibly flinging little drops of fire around to get similar treatment
If anything, it’s the nerf form of napalm…
- Comment on Anon sees through the lies 1 week ago:
You can drink a little amount of salt water and probably come out ahead… Drink too much and you get into a death spiral though
- Comment on Adding stickers to my fruit so it's harder to recycle 1 week ago:
They do make edible stickers with edible adhesives for produce… They’re usually not that sticky though
- Comment on Is a budget 3-2-1 home-server backup (one NAS + one cloud + weekly clones) actually enough, or am I kidding myself? 1 week ago:
What’s your risk tolerance? If every moment of data is irreplaceable, there’s so much more you could be doing
If this is just like… Your data, you’re already doing a paranoid amount
If your data is local and backed up in the cloud, your house could burn down or the cloud could accidentally delete your data. If both those things happen at the same time, I guess you could lose your data. That’s a freak accident. Having another backup of any kind is unreasonable, and a second freak accident is borderline impossible
The first backup is smart, but diminishing returns kick in quick
- Comment on This one goes out to Dennis Prager 1 week ago:
Mitochondria are specialized mini-cells
They have their own DNA like bacteria, just floating around inside their membranes. They undergo their own mitosis inside the cell, some cells can have hundreds of them
And they always come from the egg. They’re purely maternal
- Comment on If they need to post THIS it's probably not a place you want to go to 1 week ago:
No, see that has meaning… This doesn’t. No information is contained in 6 7, there is no concept or reference or anything to it
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 1 week ago:
Well in this case, you’re going to have a hard time trolling Trump supporters on the fediverse
I think memeing at the right is one of the few acceptable uses of Twitter at this point
- Comment on If they need to post THIS it's probably not a place you want to go to 1 week ago:
It’s a meme where you say “6 7”, optionally with a hand motion like you’re weighing something
There’s no meaning. That is the full context. Any situation where you do any part of the meme is a valid use of the meme
And that’s why I personally find it uniquely annoying
- Comment on This one goes out to Dennis Prager 2 weeks ago:
It also requires an egg, just with the nucleus removed
We’ve done similar things before, these mice have 3 parents. The mitochondria come from the maternal line and have their own DNA
- Comment on I feel like a buffet would fix this 2 weeks ago:
The crazy thing is, most narcissists would be kneeling down next to him, screaming for help and going “it’s going to be ok buddy, I’ve got you”. It’s such an easy moment to take control of
His brain is just cooked. He’s grumpy because he got woken up and it’s not time for him to talk. He looks pissed
- Comment on Why I uninstalled ublock origin, this is WAY better!! 2 weeks ago:
You’re also putting money in Google’s pocket… They’ve been caught doing things like this to cheese their metrics
Once a customer burns through their ad buy and sees they got a ton of clicks, they’re going to think “oh shit, this worked great”. Even under closer inspection, it looks like the ad worked, but that they’re failing to make the sales
So they’re probably going to buy more
This idea only works by helping inflate the advertising bubble, until it pops you’re just supporting ad services
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but not spiritually
Teflon doesn’t react with basically anything. It won’t stick to anything but itself, which makes manufacturing difficult, initially we could only make pure Teflon pieces
Every other kind of PFAS is super toxic. Some part of the molecule is reactive, usually very reactive so it sticks to things, and the rest won’t react to anything. That causes nasty problems in biology
Teflon itself isn’t that much of a problem because even if it’s around forever, it doesn’t react with anything… The byproducts of working with it are what are poisoning people and causing all the problems
Anything coated in Teflon are going to have the nasty shit under the Teflon so I’d generally avoid it, but the real take away is that chemical companies are just dumping this shit into water sources knowing it causes super cancer
- Comment on She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise 2 weeks ago:
No, that’s the opposite
You can season nearly anything with oil. Except aluminum, which needs a Teflon coating or it gets nasty very fast. Except Teflon is non reactive to nearly everything
Except pfas. You can dissolve Teflon in pfas and spray it onto aluminum
- Comment on Why don't all the "illegals" or just some put a tracker on them that goes back to their spouse or something? That way we can go to whereever the place their held at a protest the shit out of it? 2 weeks ago:
How? An airtag isn’t going to work from inside you, and they’re going to search you. They also like to bounce people around to make them hard to track, so that tracker is going to end up wherever the person was processed
This just isn’t practical with current technology
- Comment on He makes a great point 3 weeks ago:
I speak dog. It’s mostly expressions and context really, but it’s very easy to tell exactly what they’re thinking, and they can read human expressions so you just have to exaggerate them the way you do for kids
It’s more about trying to understand them than anything else. Most people don’t make the effort
- Comment on Y'all seem to have lost track of the correct response to people crying about dead baddies 3 weeks ago:
It’s more like 7000 people really fucking everything up, the 1% just sounds better then the 0.00001%
- Comment on Guess why this happened? 3 weeks ago:
The secret is, you’ve got to drop to your bottom line immediately. I’m going cannibal after the first missed meal, gotta keep those calories up before they get wasted
But seriously, you have to listen to people who have lived through living in war zones or through the collapse of a country. People band together, because that’s what people do. Yes, it’ll be hard, people will die, but humans are shockingly resilient. A small trickle of calories can keep a person going for years… Things will be harder, but the darkest possible timeline isn’t as dark as you think
- Comment on [RANT] Why is so much coverage of "AI" devoted to this belief that we've never had automation before (and that management even really wants it)? 3 weeks ago:
Because AI is the first form of automation that doesn’t run on humans. Theoretically.
Now, can AI replace humans? No, obviously not at this stage. It can help humans do more, but only an idiot would trust it to do something important without a human in the loop
Is it? Yes. They are firing people and letting AI attempt to make the difference. They’re cutting entire departments in some cases
- Comment on "Ahahaha! I am on-line once again! Tremble, world, before my electric heating coil of doom!" 3 weeks ago:
No, no, no… The problem is the wrong people listened, then took inspiration from it
- Comment on Guess why this happened? 3 weeks ago:
Listen… Yes they have really disturbing plans, and we’re in a collapsing empire period
They’re also very stupid. They have not done the ground work to do a cyberpunk takeover of society after the collapse. They’ve just met in backrooms and circle jerked about it… They’ve been doing that for a century
The future is going to be very chaotic, and that means the people will no longer trust the institutions. At the end of the day, everyone is subject to the will of the people, and the people are generally like sheep - you have to move slowly and speak in a calm voice if you want them to move in an organized fashion
They have done the opposite