deafboy
@deafboy@lemmy.world
I’m sceptical about all this. In fact, I’m sceptical about everything!
- Comment on monthly challenge 1 week ago:
Let me help.
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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] 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
The best thieves steal from the poor.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 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 2 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] 2 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.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
People believed the weirdest things, like walking with a twig would help you find water pipes
Not only they still do, it’s thought in schools and practiced by the water utility professionals in the field.
They’ve charged me a hundred bucks for their expertise, to which I’ve composed an angry email, asking whether the ministry of magic would be willing to cover the damage if we, somehow, despite their findings, manage to find the pipe where it’s not supposed to be, with the front part of the excavator. They advised us to dig carefully, not addressing the magic ritual part at all.
- Comment on Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses? 3 months ago:
Just as “magic spells” use special rhymes and archaic terms to signal their power, the convoluted language of legalese acts to convey a sense of authority, they conclude.
In a study appearing in the journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers found that even non-lawyers use this type of language when asked to write laws.
“People seem to understand that there’s an implicit rule that this is how laws should sound, and they write them that way,” says Edward Gibson, an MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences and the senior author of the study.
- Comment on Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses? 3 months ago:
They believe that the right amount of good spells recited in the correct order will grant them victory. Unfortunately they’ve studied a different magic book than most people, so their magic does not work on others.
- Comment on Playtron wanted to take on Windows and SteamOS with their GameOS, now they're announcing a cryptocurrency 3 months ago:
Valve, as they aren’t actively trying to scam their potential user base
I love Valve, but let’s face the reality here. They’re operating an unregulated bank and casino.
- Comment on Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days 4 months ago:
I see the price as $21.91 in the search result page. After clicking on it, it returns error 403.
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 4 months ago:
Be careful. Having ownership of your resources allows you to take your stuff, or sell it, and try something else somwhere else. If all the resources are communal, it is harder to escape if the things go south. One of the reasons why is it difficult to leave certain kind of cults.
- Comment on Is dns a good application for the blockchain? 5 months ago:
Bad bot!
- Comment on Why can humans seemingly only imagine like 3 different forms of government in different flavors? 5 months ago:
Multiple good hypotheses here. I’d like to add my own. The governments can be viewed as a modern iterations of religious cults, and there is no bigger taboo in a religious organization than questioning the basic dogma.
Try to question democracy in a democratic republic and you immediately get the weird looks, and irrational dismissal. 9 times out of 10 this self preservation instinct is good and beneficial to everyone involved, because giving a benefit of doubt to closeted authoritarians would be a mistake. That one time somebody really wants to have an honest discussion, it simply sucks.
- Comment on Human Language Gene Inserted Into Mice Led to Some Bizarre Effects 5 months ago:
You won’t believe what happened next!
- Comment on Do you feel like you've reached the end of what the world has to offer? 6 months ago:
The opposite. I’m afraid I will waste my life procrastinating, not even being aware of what it has to offer.
