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- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 20 hours ago:
Not if you know JavaScript…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
YouTube changes their algorithm every few weeks and some subset of creators freak out about it. This has literally been going on since monetization began.
- Comment on Capital i and lowercase L look the same in pretty much any sans-serif computer font 2 weeks ago:
Yeah…
I didn’t mean RFC Base32.
I meant human-safe alphabets.
Base58 or Crockford Base32 (which is distinct from “base 32”) that intentionally remove I, L, O, and 1.
RFC Base32 still hits the exact problem I’m ranting about.
- Comment on Capital i and lowercase L look the same in pretty much any sans-serif computer font 2 weeks ago:
As a job title: sysadmin
Loathe.
Every now and then there crops up the situation where there is no copy/paste from host to host. And when that involves a fucking product key or some shit… Mother fuckers just base 58 that shit.
What would you rather read and type?
Product key: “I dont fucking know lots of lllllIIIIIIlllIII etc”
Or…
Product key: “CqiDNKttsj1NUubpbVJ2VJL9eMEpRvRFMV3hNPRxtUX7SMox5UQjeEZX3DqqHNAfkSE”
I rest my case.
- Comment on Just say what you want! 2 weeks ago:
Jfc you just do both at the same time.
“Hey, I’m reaching out with regard to ticket 27472. I’ll need to remote into your device. You’ll see a notification that it’s happening. I just wanted to give you a heads up that the notification is expected behavior. Let me know if you have any questions!”
One message.
Do work.
“Hey again, the .zip is benign. Thanks for reaching out! Feel free to open it.”
They respond “thanks sorry I was at lunch”
“👍”
Never speak again.
- Comment on Woman Arrested Mid-Interview After Protesting Against Trump’s Venezuela Strike 2 weeks ago:
American Hero.
- Comment on Fucking Google, websites and permissions shit... 2 weeks ago:
Did you talk about this with your therapist? Bc you should.
My old therapist would refer to frustration as a resource we hoarde. We dump our frustration into a little water bottle, and when we’re not using adaptive coping mechanisms, we table it. But then later something frustrating happens (like your webcam experience), and though it is (truly) a minor setback, you’re stuck with this huge reaction. You got a stop hoarding your frustrations and learn to dump that water bottle out before it overflows.
This imagery is for me helpful because it helps me understand some disproportionate reactions I may have, and also quite clearly doesn’t shy away from negative emotion. Get angry, hell yeah. When it’s… Adaptive. This wasn’t adaptive.
- Comment on Tom's Hardware now hijacks the back button. 3 weeks ago:
Tomshardware.com who is:
Registrar: Lexsynergy Limited
IANA ID: 1466
Email: domains@lexsynergy.com
Abuse Email: abuse@lexsynergy.com
Abuse Phone: +442031370459
Some poor web developer was told to implement this against their will. Hopefully they raised the concern. Report the site as abusive until their registrar takes them down. Should make for a fun week for that POS project manager.
- Comment on Greece, Italy and France ignore ICC warrant as Netanyahu flies through airspace for Trump talks 3 weeks ago:
Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal / I
walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetery now
What we don’t know keeps the contracts alive and movin’
They don’t gotta burn the books they just remove 'em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Rally 'round the family, pockets full of shells.
- Comment on Windows copying Mac feature, but only in certain apps 5 weeks ago:
My MX master thumb wheel scrolls the wrong way on one application and I can’t fix it. Good and mild. Every time ‘ugh, fucker.’
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 1 month ago:
I was studying classical guitar. I was practicing piece and literally YouTube video results for learning the piece before searching for it.
Only network traffic to indicate was downloading a .PDF on my chrome browser. This was in like 2012.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 1 month ago:
Yep. Amazon knew my gf and I were moving in together.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 1 month ago:
People need to realize that Amazon has them locked in.
I needed a tall mini fridge for a garage. Cheapest I could find was fucking $700.
I went into a nearby home appliance store and got the same one for fucking ~$200. Granted I had to pay for an $80 delivery, but it still beats the shit out of every option for a 7 cu ft fridge on Amazon.
- Comment on A bear, exhausted from abuse, attacks its trainer— Hangzhou Safari Park, China 1 month ago:
One of my favorite comedians, Doug Stanhope, has an amazing bit about how anyone who attended the event at SeaWorld where the killer whale killed it’s trainer have been spoiled for live entertainment forever; that nothing will ever top seeing that.
Goes on to explain that the incident is everything he wants to bring to a comedy special.
Read the transcript here, it’s too long to paste. The bit I’m talking about is the last block of text, “I just wanna close strong…”
Anyways this reminds me of that bit.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for it 1 month ago:
Here’s a very simple example.
What’s 3^3?
Or,
Well it’s 3x3x3
Which is 3+3+3, 3 times.
Which is 3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3, which is 27.
Which solution do we prefer?
3^3 = 27?
Or
3+3+3
+3+3+3
+3+3+3
=27?
Which one uses more lines?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for it 1 month ago:
Linus from LTT asks Linus if he’d ever heard of software developers being terminated based on how many lines of code they’d written .
Linus Torvalds responds “Anyone who thinks that’s a valid metric is too stupid to work at a tech company…”
It’s clear Torvalds doesn’t know who this is about when questioned.
Linus hints to him it’s about Musk.
“Apparently I was spot on [about Elon Musk being such and individual who is too stupid to work at a tech company].”
- Comment on Understanding Kratom’s Effects, Risks, and Withdrawal Through Personal Experience 2 months ago:
I can just think of this
Glad you’re ok.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward? 2 months ago:
Most obvious reason that comes to mind is cooling. All the HVAC in the world isnt going to be able to stop 50 floors of server rack heat from spilling onto the 51st floor, etc.
This is also a nightmare for fire suppression systems.
- Comment on Laptop Suggestion - highest “Quality × Performance / Price” - 2025-11 2 months ago:
In many Linux users opinion, yes. The Lenovo Thinkpad is goated. I’d share that opinion. Very happy with mine and it’s 6 years old.
- Comment on Laptop Suggestion - highest “Quality × Performance / Price” - 2025-11 2 months ago:
If you need AI, you need a minimum of 4gb VRAM in your GPU. But really… 8gb…
Get a Lenovo Thinkpad new with 8gb VRAM and 32gb ram.
- Comment on Laptop Suggestion - highest “Quality × Performance / Price” - 2025-11 2 months ago:
Now is the time to scope out used Lenovo thinkbooks if you’re good installing Linux on it.
Businesses everywhere tossing them out now that win10 support is dead.
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 2 months ago:
Depends. Startle response is pretty beast.
In general pretty quick. Anywhere from instant to about 1 hour.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 2 months ago:
“whatever happened to catching a good old fashioned passionate ass whoopin and getting your shoes coat and your hat tooken?”
It’s not often violence warms my heart. Seeing people pull over so they could kick this piece of shit makes me feel like people aren’t all that bad.
- Comment on What is an efficient workflow to separate and organize bulk scanned PDF documents? (At work; software is limited.) 2 months ago:
Am I understanding this that you have some number of .pdf files that are 40-60 pages each and within them, there exist documents varying from 2 to 10 pages, and your task is to parse them?
If so, how many .PDFs are we talking here? You said on paper it’s like 8cm high? So like 1000 pages ish?
So like 20 .PDFs?
Just… Do it, dawg. The amount of time you spent on this post you coulda finished 1 of those PDFs. That’s 5% of the task. Do that 19 more times.
If you’re asking “can Adobe Acrobat break a 60 page .pdf into some number of .PDFs based on page numbers I tell it to,” the answer is yes.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 2 months ago:
Yep, while I have enough service. If I’m good and load a playlist before I leave it usually makes it through the dead zones.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 2 months ago:
It is pronounced like pony; pown.
This isn’t even a debate. It’s canon.
- Comment on How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving ? 2 months ago:
You think any given gated community lacks the cash to towe a pile-up?
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 2 months ago:
I genuinely have never paired Bluetooth headphones to my phone. So I haven’t worn headphones for a phone since the 3.8mm jack was taken from us.
I listen to music when I drive and I wear headphones on my PC.
Walking? 99% of the time that’s exercise like hiking, and I raw dog that shit. Listen to nature and and my surroundings.
- Comment on Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane? 2 months ago:
I was just gonna say “they became incels, who then bought alpha male culture”
- Comment on Are you friends with any AI bots? 2 months ago:
F… friends?
Go outside. What the fuck is wrong with you?