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- Comment on Says a lot about society 1 week ago:
No wonder DEC went broke. My VT220 didn’t come with any hunks crawling out of the screen Ringu style.
- Comment on we are in dire need of new memes to criticize marxist-leninists 1 week ago:
If they’re so awful, why do we need aggressive tarrifs to keep them off of American streets? I don’t think anyone was making people buy them over domestic alternatives…
(muffled sounds of discord)
WTF?! Xi Jinping himself busted down my front door, grabbed my debit card, and put down a deposit on a new BYD. And what’s worse, he picked one in that really insipid grey that you can never find in a parking lot.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 2 weeks ago:
And before that, a bad firmware flash could garble the MAC.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 2 weeks ago:
And before that, a bad firmware flash could garble the MAC.
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 4 weeks ago:
I did exactly that in February.
The thing didn’t scan right anyway, likely due to my phone being a filthy potato with a gradually failing protective screen.
- Comment on Anon launches a space program 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t this basically a stop on the continuum between visiting Colonial Williamsburg and Westworld depending on the labour used?
On both ends, I always figured there was a narrow market of people who want that level of all-inclusive themed experience. You go to London, you can always break out of the package tour and do something “the locals do”.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to stable_diffusion_art@lemmy.dbzer0.com | 1 comment
- Comment on Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons 1 month ago:
And the demolition plans are in a disused washroom in the basement behind a sign that says “beware of the leopard.” That’s an absurd justification.
Normal users are not going to root around in the registry and twiddle things to mske the OS treat them with respect. Most of them won’t search for it, and many of those that do won’t have the skills to deploy a registry hack or identify legit info instead of malware or pranks.
The right answer is a third button-- “No, forever.” We all know it’s the right answer; I’m sure even Microsoft has focus group data. It doesn’t exist because someone in Redmond’s bonus is tied to how many people are cowed into signing up for OneDtive.
I’ve got a CS degree and 15 years of dev experience, and have come to the conclusion that you can’t negotiate in good faith with Windows anymore. It is going to take you down whichever hellpath their biz-dev team demands, and any attempts to fight it are going to be undermined and replaced with a new set of hacks or a differeny gauntlet of dark patterns for a few months later.
Maybe LTSC and Enterprise versions are a bit better, where they might have to preserve the goodwill of big dollar corporate customers instead of chasing some trifling revenue hack, but do we as ordinary users on home/pro licenses not deserve the same respect? And even there, don’t those business customers have to spend undue effort crafting and deploying policies to cram the endless stream of spam back in the box?
- Comment on James 2 months ago:
Classic sulcata assholery.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Or deliver the UBI as a basket of subsidized services and goods.
If, for example, we chose socialized medicine instead of a $5000/year UBI, a landlord can’t very well say “Your rent is going up 30 tablets of lisinopril this month.”
- Comment on puns 2 months ago:
I’ve heard it’s a “pets vs cattle” thing. When you have a small fleet of distinct servers, you name them. When you have a thousand interchangeable boxes, you give them systematic IDs.
Or you scale up to a franchise with a large enough cast. I wonder if anyone uses One Piece character names for servers?
- Comment on o.O Make sure you hit accept. 2 months ago:
That’s potentially a viable attack route: register a billion dead accounts to fill up the database. Reaping them if they never complete an activation step like confirming a ToS or email verification would help protect the server.
- Comment on What does Lemmy do better than Reddit? 2 months ago:
When they call you “queer” and “a CCP stooge” on Reddit, it’s a flame. On the Fediverse, it’s a sign of love and camaraderie, if not an outright cost of admission.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 4 months ago:
I’ve been trying to acclimate my Dad to digital stuff-- get him reading the news online for when the local rag finally goes weekly or closes.
He would have an easier time with a device with 5% less screen, but always-present physical home/back/menu buttons.
I’m not sure what the ideal device would be for him; I’ve set him up with a Kindle Fire with the Play store and a handful of prevetted apps because I had it handy and it seemed more approachable than a 6" phone or a laptop with keyboard and trackpoint. But I’m all but sure the right device is NOT a new phone.
- Comment on What caused the change in electronic terminology? 4 months ago:
What kind of amp uses a full farad of capacitance?
The ones I see tend to be a few thousand microfarads, maybe 20-40k for high end stuff. OTOH sometimes you see innoculous looking supercaps for storing settings; I’ve got dome out of an old Technics tuner that are like 3F… at 3v. Not sure there’s enough oomph to do that damage even at 3F.
- Submitted 4 months ago to guildwars2@lemmy.wtf | 5 comments
- Comment on Plummeting interest rate 4 months ago:
As a Qiqi main, I support your life decisions.
People don’t even bother to ridicule me.
- Comment on Do it for your own reason. 7 months ago:
I know; I’m down almost 20kg over the last couple years by cutting out snacks and caloric drinks and portion control.
- Comment on Do it for your own reason. 7 months ago:
My fitness goals are:
- Get to <80kg
- holds up manhwa volume Him.
- Comment on Chinese video games are on the rise, but I wish they got more respect 7 months ago:
Pulling off a game of pretty vast scope, supporting several very different host platforms, on a multi-year development timeline, and having it thrive in a hypercompetitive market is still an impressive technical achievement.
If all they wanted was to deliver “casino for horny teenage boys”, they could have done far less and still achieved that goal.
- Comment on Why do so many Lemmy instances use weird TLDs? 8 months ago:
There is an entire industry “domaining” that trades domain names like baseball cards. It usually boils down to two things:
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People register pdrq.com because they hope someone will have a wonderful new product named PDRQ later and will pay $10,000 for a domain that cost them $11.
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Even if there’s no direct buyer, there are services that will run low-quality ads on the page. and you can more or less estimate traffic and revenue from typos or dead links pointing to the domain. A three character domain, all letters, will get more than 12 characters with random digits mixed in. If you get $12 a year of random clicks seeing ads for “hot singles in your area offering PDRQ”, you’re ahead and can justify holding it as part of a portfolio.
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- Comment on We all need to heal. 8 months ago:
I thought they’d also test the moulds with clear plastic so it was obvious if there were internal defects due to things like poor flow into part of the mould
- Comment on OH NO NOT THE PENTAGRAM 8 months ago:
The Lord Archmage will need to be disturbed. He’s reading “My Pet Cockatrice” to schoolchildren.
- Comment on No matter what, everyone knows 8 months ago:
'Everyone knows it used to be a Pizza Hut." Everyone also knows they’ll look like a total schmuck if they go into the insurance office it became and try to order a Stuffed Crust Super Supreme.
Transition is a going forward story.
- Comment on top 10 rj34 connectors 8 months ago:
/uj
I never understood why RJ-style connectors didn’t take off in the computer space outside of Ethernet and modems, which tend to be the most telecom-adjacent parts of the business. NIH syndrome? Thicc cable connectors convince people your $5k IBM AT isn’t a toy?
For low-voltage, low-speed stuff, it’s an obvious choice. I think pre-ADB Macs (128/512/Plus) used it for the keyboard, but there’s no reason we needed those awkward mini-DIN PS/2 and ADB cables that always involve fighting with orientation. Maybe even RJ-45 based serial ports.
Hell, why not design a RJ-style plug for USB instead of the joke that is full-size type B? It has an obvious orientation and a locking clip, and it’s about the same size. Don’t even get me started on SATA.