Arghblarg
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- Comment on My spoon is too big. 1 day ago:
It’s Tuesday, did you bring your raincoat?
- Comment on 3 days ago:
if jobs had living wages
But but billionaires would be slightly less obscenely rich then, oh no!
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 6 days ago:
They shouldn’t cluster so closely together, it’s a risk. Not that I’m suggesting anything.
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 6 days ago:
Thank you.
If you’ve ensured your home network’s firewall is sane first, there’s no big issue.
If you dual-boot to Windows occasionally to run that one stupid program that can’t run under Linux, and you aren’t downloading stuff willy-nilly from the wild internet, and you haven’t previously installed all sorts of dodgy call-home programs, you can still be safe running while you’re in Windows. Hell, I have a Windows 7 box that runs just fine from my home network to the internet, thankyouverymuch. I even download stuff from there gasp, but I check the files first! Imagine that.
Most people aren’t knowledgeable enough to maintain proper security however so I guess I should just stop commenting on posts like this, as I always get flak from people stating it’s impossible to run an OS more than 2 weeks old on the Internet without being instantly hacked :p.
- Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 6 days ago:
Just block W11 updates entirely.
www.sordum.org/9470/windows-update-blocker-v1-8/
It’s mostly bullshit that one absolutely needs the latest Windows updates; if you use uBlock Origin in your browser and don’t download/run random .EXE/.MSI shit from the internet you’ll be fine. Keep Windows Defender up to date once a month just in case as well.
But really the best option is to switch to Linux.
- Comment on Methane-Tracking Satellite Is Lost, in a Blow to Climate Efforts 1 week ago:
Wonderful timing, as the US regime guts all other sorts of climate, weather and science organisations. :/
- Comment on Elon Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive 2 months ago:
The IA needs to relocate out of the US, now. The EU and Canada should be convinced to fund them.
I’ve donated to them and am willing to do so again, but I’d like it to be after they show they have a concrete exit plan.
- Comment on Chocobo 2 months ago:
None More Black, Hotblack Desiato’s preferred fowl.
- Comment on My Easter decorations include a self portrait (oc) 2 months ago:
You’re such a cute chocolate bunny!
Now who’s that glum one on the left?
- Comment on back off, maaaan! 2 months ago:
Damn, beat me to it. First thing I saw as well.
- Comment on High-risk 3 months ago:
So he’s wearing a … Hazmath Suit?
- Comment on World travelers 3 months ago:
I don’t know, I wasn’t expecting some kind of Spanish Inquisition.
- Comment on put that in your pipe and smoke it 4 months ago:
Ah! Thanks for the correction. I should’ve done a side-search to check before posting.
- Comment on put that in your pipe and smoke it 4 months ago:
It is a plant, just of a sort that has turned to parasitism I suppose for its nutrients. I believe they are part of a larger family of plants named saprophytes.
- Comment on fireflies 4 months ago:
Same for ladybird beetles (ladybugs)! They love undisturbed autumn leaves and are natural pest control, so you should give them any opportunity possible to over-winter their eggs in your yard :)
- Comment on Live: Zelenskyy regrets fiery White House talks as Trump demands immediate ceasefire 4 months ago:
This article seems to imply that it was Zelenskyy, NOT Trump and Vance, who really were the unreasonable ones here. The sheer arrogance in saying ‘You should thank us more!’ … Zelenskyy was right, the US has an entire ocean between them and this conflict, so they are being extremely cavalier about the threat Russia presents.
- Comment on Over 230,000 Canadians Want Elon Musk’s Citizenship Revoked 4 months ago:
A good start, let’s get it over 1 million and make Polliviere take a position on record if he supports retaining a guy who calls Canada “not a real country” yet holds citizenship here… what a farce.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 4 months ago:
“He who saves his country has committed no crime.” -Donald Trump (reading a post-it note handed to him by Felon Musk, quoting Napoleon, or something)
- Comment on Working below minimum wage to save the planet 4 months ago:
Absolutely – I hate how we’ve been raised to think of time in monetary terms; I have to remind myself on days off that “No, I do not need to do anything it’s my day off! I can sleep in… no need to be productive …”
- Comment on Working below minimum wage to save the planet 4 months ago:
Imagine the reduction in e-waste if everyone in high school took a short course in how to use a soldering iron, solder-sucker/braid and heat-gun to replace common bits in consumer electronics. So many things could be saved that get thrown out only due to a bad microswitch or cracked solder joint to a USB or headphone connector …
- Comment on Working below minimum wage to save the planet 4 months ago:
True. It isn’t always about a cost/labour analysis. Sometimes I want to repair something to learn how to do it. Sometimes I want to repair something because even though ‘my time is valuable’, I hate the idea of throwing out something I know will rot in the landfill for a thousand years. Sometimes I’m just attached to the thing and afraid I won’t find a replacement that is as good (which is often the case).
I hate our throwaway culture, it’s good to know how to fix things even if it isn’t technically ‘cost effective’ to do so.
- Comment on We're in the endgame now 4 months ago:
Oh, they know exactly what they’re doing. They are attempting (and apparently succeeding) to bulldoze their way through an administrative coup.
- Comment on When will we have auto turrets mounted on plane engines to stop birdstrikes? 4 months ago:
Easy, use dry ice bullets!
- Comment on Deepfake videos are getting shockingly good | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
With modern face recognition, … If you want anonymity then don’t include your face (or signature) in the video.
Duh, good point :)
Web of trust – it’s always been so hard to make easy enough to use for the non-technical public, sadly… but yeah that might be the only/best way to really give attestation.
- Comment on Deepfake videos are getting shockingly good | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
This is scary indeed. We may someday soon need something like an active tattoo on our face, or clothing, with a pattern that changes each second based on a private/public key pair, so videos can;t be easily faked of our own likeness with a valid visual signature.
That could actually work – a QR code that updates at regular intervals, encoding an ever-changing signature. It could be validated to certify the video of a person was genuine.
Of course that would also mean any authenticated video can never be truly anonymous :(
- Comment on Simple Sabotage Field Manual by the United States. Office of Strategic Services four friends in the US. 5 months ago:
There are multiple PDF copies on archive.org as well, which are somewhat more readable.
- Comment on Europeans watching US/CA relations implode 5 months ago:
…a few years ago two hens from our neighbour across the road decided to visit us daily for about a month… one of them even decided our garden beside the kitchen window was a great place to lay her eggs. They both loved eating the slugs in the yard too. Double-win :)
- Comment on Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models. 5 months ago:
Streisand Effect engage!
- Comment on Europeans watching US/CA relations implode 5 months ago:
Am Canadian, I have wondered this as well – could we ask the UK and rest of Commonwealth to help us out if things get too bad? I hope so… but I don’t think there is any obligation to come to our defense ala NATO if things get shooty.
- Comment on Europeans watching US/CA relations implode 5 months ago:
That’s OK, Canada has enough eggs on its own I think.
If not, I guess it’s finally time to get a few chickens! We’ve been meaning to anyhow.