deafboy
@deafboy@lemmy.world
I’m sceptical about all this. In fact, I’m sceptical about everything!
- Comment on The Fantastic World of Monsterfuckers | Tale Foundry [20:18] 5 days ago:
Monstertrucks. I read it as monster trucks, but when I realized my miatake it was too late.
What a way to start a weekend!
- Comment on Drinking coffee from a cup made of coffee 1 week ago:
coffee grounds are essentially just a binder used in agar mix to harden it
Oh, yes. I forgot about the agar. Is this the same thing that’s used as a food for bacteria in a petri dish?
- Comment on Drinking coffee from a cup made of coffee 1 week ago:
I remember a video where they’ve discussed the viability of 3d printed utensils. The conclusion was - don’t. For the love of our bacterial lord, don’t! It has too many pores for a life to grow in.
I consoder this a part 2 of that story.
- Comment on How to respond to societal collapse | Sarah Wilson | TEDxSydney 2 weeks ago:
I’m at 1:14 and already smell the bullshit, let’s continue…
5:33 and there are already 2 very close doomsday dates proposed. The religious vibes intensify…
6:31 She correctly assumes that various systems are interconnected, and will crumble if one falls down, but does not seem to account for the one strength human beings posess (we suck in all other aspects), and that’s adaptation and our ability to coordinate when immediate short term danger is under way.
6:42 Overcomplicated societies crumbling under their own weight! That’s more like my jam. Although, that’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
12:45 Appeal to nature, appeal to the go back to the good old times.
Jesus christ, this has been a 15 minutes long setup for a logical fallacy.
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 2 weeks ago:
Some people stuggle to learn a second language their entire lives. These badasses did it for a gig!
- Comment on how to make pickle pepsi at home for free 2 weeks ago:
I want to see this guy as an NPC in some game.
- Comment on Why do people hate reality? 3 weeks ago:
"We think that the internet is real."
- Peter Sunde
- Comment on Chat Control 2.0: what if Signal supports user-made Add-ons, one which encrypts all messages? Could that circumvent Chat Control 2.0? 3 weeks ago:
There’s no legal solution to a technological problem. Laws are always temporary, for better or worse.
- Comment on bruh, i just realised that the last time i played Garrys Mod,Obama was still president lmao 1 month ago:
The last time I watched the “Don’t date a robot” episode of Futurama, it was a fiction.
- Comment on Optimizing VLF Antennas 1 month ago:
Maybe. Maybe I could finally try to listen to the lower parts of the spectrum…
Nope. Back to the pile…
- Comment on monthly challenge 2 months ago:
Let me help.
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 2 months ago:
What I really don’t get is people delivering with someone else (also an adult) in the vehicle
If you could spend the boring part of your job chatting with friends, would you decline?
- Comment on I Saved an Electron Microscope from the Trash 2 months ago:
I’m always amazed what people in other parts of the world can discover dumpster diving, in surplus auctions, or in estate sales. Around here people rarely just throw out useful stuff and the estate sales are dominated by the old furniture and framed pictures of saints.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 2 months ago:
People don’t browse the PSN store, because it’s crap. I mean, the steam store is pretty bad, but I still manage to just browse and bookmark some games there to get back to later.
- Comment on Is there a place online where I can apply for a bunch of free books? I was thinking of creating a library in my local county jail to help educate and pass the time in a healthy way? 2 months ago:
When I hear people talking about books, they often speak of them as if it was a comodity. Do some people just read a random book every once in a while?
What am I missing?
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 2 months ago:
Yes. The most clever gangs even incorporate and offer legit security services for the government.
Although, it took them a while to realize that this is the best exit strategy, so the '90s were a bit crazy in the eastern europe.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 2 months ago:
They are a dangerous cult fueled by a ton of repressed feelings. But so is Tate! If they wanted to fight each other for a while that would be pretty sweet.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 2 months ago:
It’s not supposed to be a secret. Most companies here publish it on their invoices, so you can pay them. Some nonprofits even display it on their websites to accept donations.
Even the some governments publish the treasury account numbers for anyone to see.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 3 months ago:
They list this as one of their main goals, right on their website.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 3 months ago:
SEPA payments are push. Not pull. A vendor could request recurring payments, but you have to specifically authorize them. They are very rarely used, except maybe for monthly utilitiy payments.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 3 months ago:
Since our launch in 2010, we have achieved many wins: billboards objectifying women pulled down, sexualised childrens clothing withdrawn from sale, sexually violent games banned, Andrew Tate’s pimping courses removed from Spotify, and an age verification trial underway to help protect kids from exposure to porn. Last year saw a record 34 wins.
On one hand, they help tighten the grip of economic fascism, on the other hand they also piss off Tate… #confusedboner
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
People hear “technology” and imagine Facebook, when in fact technology means not dying after scratching your foot on a dirt road.
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 3 months ago:
Nope, it’s a CityEL. Originally made in Denmark in 1987. The manufacturer went bankrupt several times. Each time someone else took over up until 2018. The design has never canged much. There has been something like 3 iterations of the top cover and 3 different motors throughout the years. Mine was made in 1995 and utilizes a motor originally intended for a forklift.
When I’m done with it, it will hopefully get a proper registration and will be able to recharge either by connecting directly to the DC output of a solar panel, as well as the standard grid outlet, and a type 2 charging station.
For anyone who’s interested in joining this low power EV cult, check out these videos by @bleeptrack
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 3 months ago:
Yes, you can see the french doors in the background. The car itself is a little more than 1 meter wide, with rear-view mirrors sticking out even further. I got something like 5cm to spare on either side.
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 3 months ago:
Can’t speak for the rural people of the US, but when you’re working on a bunch of projects, while the life keeps getting in your way, causing delays, stuff tends to… pile up. For example, I have a car in my living room at this very moment.
Did it seem like a good idea at the time? Sure. 24x7 access regardless of the current weather means more time to work on it.
Did I work on it? Nope.
Was there a wasp nest embedded inside, releasing a steady flow of young wasps inside the house? Absolutely!
- Comment on If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people? 3 months ago:
Sometimes the victims even pay the attackers money upfront and install the wiretap themselves. looking at my IPTV box suspiciously, while the robotic vacuum hums in the background
- Comment on If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people? 3 months ago:
The best thieves steal from the poor.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Wasn’t microsoft the only phone manufacturer to ship a standard uefi on their devices? I mean before they eventually scraped what was left off of nokia.
- Comment on Steam beta gets native Apple Silicon support — the only public Arm version of Steam 4 months ago:
Asahi linux already ships a VM to run steam on macbooks. And the VM is not even doing the heavy lifting. They do cpu instruction translation on the go, the VM is there just to solve some memory allocation quirks.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Nomophobia
There is a religious figure in the sacred texts of the AllatRa cult, called Nomo. In this context, nomophopbia would be a good thing. Especially once you find out whom in the real world he’s supposed to represent.
