linearchaos
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I am a Meat-Popsicle
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
#BannedAtTheOltmpics
#FiredFromThePowerPlant
- Comment on Am I the only one who's "shorts" feed is all basically softcore porn? 3 weeks ago:
All magnets and “chefs” over here
- Comment on How do you keep your homes clean? 5 weeks ago:
Put a large air cleaner in on high. Beat the couch cushions outside, shake down blankets outside, carpet wash the furniture and carpets. Scrub hvac vents and air handler ducts. Wet wipe your walls and base boards. Clean you dryer vents. Dust is everywhere. Light mop daily with a spray mop.
Change your HVAC filters every month until it gets better. If you don’t have HVAC, get more air cleaners and stay on top filter replacements.
It’ll take ages, but it’ll get better.
- Comment on What produced the old dead channel tv static audiovisuals on tvs? 5 weeks ago:
Nah, the antenna is tuned to pick up vhf/uhf, but the wire / traces and even the legs of the amplifier are sufficient to pick up cmb
- Comment on Email admin 1 month ago:
I run a catchall account. Every vendor gets [vendor]@myemail
Stops spam, stops data theft, stops phishing stops data brokers. Makes tracking data on me useless.
To be honest, it works so well, I can’t imagine not having it.
- Comment on Do bike tires increase pressure in summerm 1 month ago:
- Comment on How does delisting a game make/save money? 1 month ago:
And on top of the tax breaks everyone’s talking about, they also don’t have to keep developers, community staff, or support on the payroll anymore.
- Comment on What would be a good glue to repair this spatula with that wont he toxic or come undone in a dishwasher? 1 month ago:
If I wasn’t going to throw it away, I’d probably fill the handle completely with food grade silicone caulk and score the s*** out of the plastic plug before I forced it together.
But unless I had a damn good use for the rest of the tube of caulk there’s no good reason to burn a $10 tube of caulk for a $2 spatula.
- Comment on Is Chuck E Cheese a restaurant or entertainment center with a restaurant inside? 1 month ago:
And if you took the food away kids would still want to go there. If you took the entertainment away nobody’s going there for the pizza.
- Comment on This is $87 worth of shopping. Please feel free to use the space below to critique my purchases 1 month ago:
Also if note keep an eye on value when selecting sizes. Rice and grains go down in price per weight drastically when you buy larger quantities. I buy extreme bulk for flour and rice. The flower lasts me months the rice lasts me years and I’m paying less than half as much for my rice and flour
- Comment on Please Stop 1 month ago:
It’s the whole web 3 concept of the community powers the infrastructure to run the community. It’s an enticing concept, The people using the service pay with their CPU and internet connection to use the service. It makes what would be a rather expensive infrastructure almost free.
With blockchain they’re doing some smart things, you can wrap code around the ledgers, in the end it’s just varying fancy levels of receipts verified and secured by the community. It’s verifiable but anonymous.
But then you’ve got cryptocurrency doing complex math burning through tons of electricity looking for unicorns to add to the ledger, in a massive pyramid scheme. Okay, it’s not exactly a pyramid scheme. Whoever starts a given currency makes the vast majority of the money off of it when the coins are easy to find, but at some point it is pretty close to any other given financial system, with the benefits of being anonymous and verifiable.
The bitcoins are just entries on the ledgers. But then s*** like NFTs are on ledgers. Someone sells you a receipt for a JPEG on a URL. It’s all only worth what someone will pay you for it. And without a whole bunch of regulation, it’s not exactly a safe market.
- Comment on 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G mobile data made some sens as it represents generational leaps in the technology itself but then Xfinity wants to advertise "10g" internet... 2 months ago:
If the end user was getting 10 gig I wouldn’t even be all that mad about it.
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 2 months ago:
Deploying Wazuh, it’s so freaking great.
- Comment on Why do companies love chrome so much? 2 months ago:
They probably get better metrics off of you running corporate logins and edge. Edge is equivalent to Chrome It supports all the same plugins.
It’s probably just secops picking the low hanging fruit dissuade you subverting network security.
- Comment on 🎵that's life🎵 3 months ago:
Oh, shit, was that supposed to stop at school?
- Comment on 🤢... 3 months ago:
I’m surprised the market isn’t absolutely filled with UV toilet brush cleaners.
- Comment on CNN blocks Firefox with uBo 3 months ago:
The California stuff still has yet to play out in courts but the European law covering it was actually pretty significant. And it was enough of a pain in the ass that they recently said they’re going to repeal it.
- Comment on CNN blocks Firefox with uBo 3 months ago:
Heh, we had this problem with a work product a month ago. it’s the suppress cookie popups feature.
Legislation in some areas requires people to opt in to cookies, but add blockers block the banner pop, so from a legal compliance standard they’re not in compliance even though it’s something the users are doing.
- Comment on Will people show off their old computers and phones in say, 30 or 50 years in the future? 3 months ago:
I was behind a kid the other day in Chipotle that had a walkman with the original headphones. It’s definitely a thing. People are currently kind of obsessed with old blackberry
I think the key is for it to become a retro thing new stuff has to change. People aren’t hipstering over an iPhone 4 because it’s not that different from current phones, I guess its smaller right?
An iPod wheel however, still gets people’s interest piqued.
I still carry around a game boy advanced, but I replaced the reflective screen with a backlit screen and a replace the game cartridge with a multi-cart.
- Comment on Goodbye MatPat, thanks for everything 3 months ago:
The only reason I knew it was M.A.S.H. was the font/color.
In this case, I don’t feel too bad being missed. Keep your head down and stay out of the news :)
That said, I watched Theorists with my tween. Kinda sad seeing MP go, but not as sad as MP was.
I expect the channels will go tits up without his personality. The new hosts are pleasant but honestly unremarkable. The show was far less about the content and more of his performance. If you thought the idea was crap, you subliminally blamed it on him. There are plenty of other personalities out there doing what they’re doing and almost all of them go on unknown because they don’t have screen chemistry.
- Comment on Goodbye MatPat, thanks for everything 3 months ago:
Yeah, I used to wash MASH with my parents because one house TV’s and primetime. It was ok. I watched the finale, It was ok.
I was a hell of a lot sadder when the dropped Hogans Heroes from syndication.
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 3 months ago:
Even if the employer wasn’t a total piece of shit, metrics should be able to cover the gamut of performance outcomes.
It’s pretty easy to weaponize that though. The whole industry is already more than capable of producing tight deadlines for no particular reason.
Personally I prefer just a binary acceptable or unacceptable. Instead of handling merit-based increases, You do merit-based promotions. I always hated the here’s the unreachable goal to get your full raise crap.
- Comment on When people say that apps are stealing your data, what exactly does that mean? 4 months ago:
The basic idea is that you build a dossier on everyone. You discover what kind of food they eat, where they live, The size and makeup of their family, their sexual preferences, pregnancies, what kind of porn they watch, where they shop for groceries, where they shop for electronics. You tie together purchases with their credit card to purchases in other apps or even brick and mortar stores. You figure out where they owe money with their education looks like. You look at these things even altogether at some point in your life and go why the hell do I care.
Then 20 years down the road when Chinese companies start pushing out American banks all of a sudden you can’t get a loan for a house or a car . Or maybe you’re going for a job at some point in this data is leaked back out now it’s part of your indelible history.
Perhaps somebody takes it all and throws it into a large language model, All of a sudden they’ve got clarity into your post history on all social media even stuff you thought was private because they know your phone serial number or your home IP address.
Corporations and governments don’t have any business knowing about your private life. They shouldn’t get to make decisions based on your private choices and preferences.
- Comment on Do Huawei phones have a secret backdoor that the Chinese government can access? 4 months ago:
They’re definitely grabbing analytics and statistics. But so is AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Apple, Amazon, Samsung, Google, Microsoft.
If the Chinese government asked any of those other companies to give them all the data they have on you in particular, They probably tell them to get bent.
But if the US government told them to do it, they would comply and then have a gag order slapped against them to keep them from telling you it happened.
Huawei is beholden to the Chinese government. So it works kind of in the opposite way.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 4 months ago:
Yeah I’ve been using searxng, It takes the aggregate of Google and Bing and all the rest and gives you rankings based on the aggregate.
As long as the same exact company doesn’t advertise in all the browsers they don’t end up getting higher return.
- Comment on And I will die on this hill. 4 months ago:
Most of the super famous classical composers were born with in 90 years of each other. On one hand thay were brilliant musicians, on the other hand It was also this thing that was happening right then.
I’m fairly certain if the circumstances were different we still have a bunch of people doing the same work.
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 4 months ago:
Dude I want a 34" wega so bad but they’re ridonculously expensive
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 4 months ago:
I appreciate the ECO ramifications. But it’s a hell of a lot easier just to firewall the smart ones. I suspect even a pihole might be enough
- Comment on How to remove smell from lunch box? 4 months ago:
The problem is we are very very sensitive to rotten food.
Water and soap will do very little to remove any of that if that’s bound itself to the plastic.
You could use a high pH solution to try to tear up any organics. An extended soak in week hydrogen peroxide or a soak in a light lye solution might get the job done.
Ozone, sunlight, retrobrite, barkeeper’s friend, vinegar they’re all trying to do the same thing destroy those organics left on the plastic. But in some cases that stuff just binds and there’s not that much you can do about it.
- Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable. 4 months ago:
No, that’s the new American dream… Oh wait You said painful yeah…