adespoton

@adespoton@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And bars/pubs used to be fine with the regulars hanging out in the corner, only buying a pitcher of beer each per night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help figuring out my pressure washer?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Likely the nozzle then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help figuring out my pressure washer?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it plugged into a socket rated for 120VAC/20W? Is there a ground fault on that socket (a fault, not a GFCI sensor, although that’s also a consideration)?

  Is it connected to a rigid hose (not one of those collapsible ones)?

  Have you tried using it with the motor turned off? Do you get a steady stream of water with no air bubbles?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day"⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using that phrase with people I’m talking to in a different time zone for years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people get rid of or sell stolen jewelry? I ask cause the news says the the Louve thieves can never sell it because it so known?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Third option: the thief wanted it for themselves and has no plan to sell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak supports interim ban on AI superintelligence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I support an interim ban on global thermonuclear war, too. And on time travelling flowerpots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t fluff your pillows or make your bed or wash the linens? Bed stuff needs daily maintenance; hopefully flashing the firmware on your smart pillow wouldn’t be daily, but you want to keep the bed bugs away, Shirley?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because that’s when you have the time to do the maintenance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My first months in cyberspace⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember 1995 well… the year the Internet was sold to entrepreneurs.

  I remember dialling in to an internet connected mainframe on a 300 baud modem. Elm for checking email, gopher for gopher sites, ftp for file transfer. IRC and usenet newsgroups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Before the printing press was before organized timekeeping or most automated machines.

  This meant there was plenty of space for introverts doing isolated manual labour that we now automate.

  What did they do at the end of the day instead of visit at the pub? Probably collapse in exhaustion.

  For those who had more power, there was always religious orders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a great list of global media for me to ensure I’m watching.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s normal. And for some reason it makes me think of Caught in the Crowd by Kate Miller-Heidke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is known about darkrooms?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that about covers dark rooms? Although I’ve never used one for colour photography; I doubt many people have though, as that’s been mostly done by automation in full darkness since it became a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I find a post I saw about a local alternative to Perplexity?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you saw it in Lemmy, try using the search function with keyword perplexity?

  I think I remember the article you mean; I think it was about local agentic search. No idea where that was though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s what comes with more users. As people you don’t know start writing in styles you’ve only seen parroting arguments you disagree with, the urge to shut things down increases.

  Plus, there ends up being more stuff to read in the same amount of time, which leads to shallower reading to cover it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RealBlindingEDR Tool That Permanently Turns Off AV/EDR Using Kernel Callbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why any EDR worth its salt has detected both this and the attempted abuse of the signed drivers it uses since early 2024. Many will also block it from running.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do they force you to take the 3 national subjects in egypt?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get the feeling you’re planning to leave Egypt as soon as possible after school?

  When immigrating to another country, you’re expected to learn the same details for that country, on your own time. Knowing the Egyptian version will provide a baseline making it easier to learn the material for the place you’re moving to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It lasted most of history. It seems like every time society shifts to the left, it only lasts for a few generations before it dies under autocratic control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Street Racers "bad people"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are people with no moral compass, no imagination, a demonstrated lack of intelligence and a demonstrated lack of care for anyone but themselves bad people?

  Do we even need to consider labeling them as such? The other descriptions of their behavior should be damning enough on their own, surely?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You heathen! Compression wreaks havoc on the mid-tones, even if it’s the Virgin cold press with no steaming!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you only use Monster steamers? Gold plated to transfer the steam without losing the lower frequencies?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop sleeping through everything?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A few things:

  1. Prepare for sleep sooner, with dim light and a quiet place, and no screens.
  2. drink a bunch of water
  3. don’t set an alarm, but tell yourself when you want to wake up.

  It might not work the first time, but after a few attempts it will. Oh, and no food or stimulants within 3 hours of your bedtime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if they fire me, no manager is going to ask me how I’m holding up or what my plans for the future are.

  One of my coworkers fell victim to downsizing. My manager made sure to stay in touch with them to see how they were holding up, and shared with the rest of us (with permission) when they figured out what they were doing next.

  The company also provides a year of psychiatric support (third party) for any employee who falls victim to downsizing.

  It’s one of those reasons that that’s where I work (still).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the encryption restrictions were relaxed in 1998.

  However, certification for import/export of nuclear weapons and other dangerous goods was still needed for strong encryption (such as phone SIM cards) as recently as 2006. To get on that list of people who could legally transport SIM cards not for personal use over the US border, you needed the same background check and government clearance as someone transporting enriched uranium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are eugenics bad seen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a neurodivergent person, let me just say that I have a great life. Why should you, or anyone else, get to make uninformed decisions about who gets to live based on inaccurate information?

  Also, just look at bananas to see where eugenics ends up. Crops devastatingly vulnerable to disease, ans companies like Chiquita creating slaves of entire nations that manage them. It’s not hard to extend this wrt humans.

  But really, the main reason is how tightly linked eugenics programs through history have been linked to fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Hacked Monster Energy and You Won't Believe What They Think You Look Like: The Energy Drink Giant That Forgot to Lock Its Doors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or the energy drink of choice.

  Kool-aid is great because you get to choose the ingredient proportions yourself, unlike the knockoff grape drink with the poison in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would one exit a black hole?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d have to build them first.

  Anything more complex than an atom is going to be disintegrated before it even enters a black hole due to the intense energies at play at the interface.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These days, experience. I know it will pass, just like it always has before. And I don’t want to rob future me of all the potential opportunities just because current me feels like nothing is worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your CV is not fit for the 21st century⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, companies are being bombarded with AI- generated CVs at a massive scale, and so have turned to AI filters to filter out all the slop. This has resulted in filtering out a lot of qualified people as well. But in an employer’s market, that doesn’t really matter to them.

  Once you get past the filter, everything is mostly business as usual; many hiring managers are probably even unaware that their HR department uses AI filters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Math Hack You Didn’t Know Was in Your Credit Card⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m insulted they thought I didn’t know what a LUHN check is.

  Of course, my current credit cards don’t even have a magnetic stripe, so the original purpose for the check digits is history. Still useful for ither situations where the number might get garbled though.

  The other thing useful about credit cards is that the first set of digits refer to the issuer, not your account. Once you strip off the issuer code and the check digit, there’s much less that’s unique to your card.