deafboy
@deafboy@lemmy.world
I’m sceptical about all this. In fact, I’m sceptical about everything!
- Comment on [deleted] 10 hours 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? 2 days 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 Originally made in Denmark in 1987.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? 2 days 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 days 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 week 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 week ago:
The best thieves steal from the poor.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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) 2 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? 3 months ago:
Bad bot!
- Comment on Why can humans seemingly only imagine like 3 different forms of government in different flavors? 3 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 3 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? 4 months ago:
The opposite. I’m afraid I will waste my life procrastinating, not even being aware of what it has to offer.
- Comment on Why are there silly license requirements? 4 months ago:
Yet somehow the same people can be trusted to select the best among them to make the rules for everyone.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I sense huge r/antiwork vibes. I hope it will be at least as much fun.
- Comment on How is the current AI bubble when compared to the .com bubble in the early 2000's? 5 months ago:
Our backup server has a chatbot now. If that’s not throwing things at the wall, I don’t know what is.
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 5 months ago:
We’d be better off going back to barter than trying to peacefully pry the system from their clutches.
Normal people would just start selling the beige shirts…
- Comment on Have you ever used the "column" command? 5 months ago:
Well, you should consider guerilla marketing as a career option, because those t-shirts are seriously on the way as a direct consequence of your post :D
- Comment on Have you ever used the "column" command? 5 months ago:
Jesus, lemmings are a hard crowd to please. I’ve watched it on the peertube, but bought some overpriced t-shirts from her shop. Would that be an acceptable approach? :)
- Comment on how badly could a pelican fuck me up in a fight? 6 months ago:
- Comment on If a hostile country has installed a puppet leader to dismantle your government from the inside and the only thing that would expidite its destruction is a violent revolution how do you combat this? 6 months ago:
Personally, I’m a big fan of leaving. When shooting, or barbed wires are imminent, just pack your family, some essentials and go have a long boring life somewhere else.
- Comment on If a hostile country has installed a puppet leader to dismantle your government from the inside and the only thing that would expidite its destruction is a violent revolution how do you combat this? 6 months ago:
As long as you’re alive, you have options. And the majority of them are usually better than just giving up and dying, either by a civil war or under the occupation forces.
The only thing not clear is the timing. How close is the shit from the fan at any particular moment?
- Comment on If a hostile country has installed a puppet leader to dismantle your government from the inside and the only thing that would expidite its destruction is a violent revolution how do you combat this? 6 months ago:
The goal of the hostile country is to cause chaos and conflict. It does not care if an insider or outsider does it.
The only way to win is not to play.
- Comment on Why don’t more people start profit-sharing companies or co-ops? 6 months ago:
That’s one of the most dangerous myths about marxism and similar ideologies.
It wouldn’t work even if everybody had their best intentions in mind, and did their absolute best to contribute.
