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- Comment on Why would a company force you to use a rental car instead of your own for a drive to the office/Christmas party? 4 hours ago:
This seems like the right answer. Also, if there is an incident and your personal insurance is involved, you might be hit with higher premiums for years, and would have a case to have your employer to have the increase be reimbursed.
The cost of the rental car avoids a lot of bureaucratic headache on both sides that could last years if something were to happen.
- Comment on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea. 7 hours ago:
Wow this is so good. Love the judge in this case:
Proven had demanded a preliminary injunction that would stop McNally from sharing his videos while the case progressed, but Proven had issues right from the opening gavel:
LAWYER 1: Austin Nowacki on behalf of Proven industries.
THE COURT: I’m sorry. What is your name?
LAWYER 1: Austin Nowacki.
THE COURT: I thought you said Austin No Idea.
LAWYER 2: That’s Austin Nowacki.
THE COURT: All right.
When Proven’s lead lawyer introduced a colleague who would lead that morning’s arguments, the judge snapped, “Okay. Then you have a seat and let her speak.”
- Comment on "Mother's Love" (Gris) 14 hours ago:
Gris is an amazing game. Love the soundtrack too.
- Comment on Wear your seatbelt 2 weeks ago:
“Weight has nothing to do with it!”
- Comment on Hollow Knight Silksong (mod recommendations) 3 weeks ago:
I might not be as far (just past act 1), but I haven’t felt the need to grind rosaries (yet). A bunch of times I’d be exploring for an hour and notice I have like 500+ rosaries, and then I get them made into strands till I have to spend them. I don’t think I’ve seen anything on sale for more than 800 rosaries, Maybe it’s different later in the game but at least in the beginning of the game, it doesn’t feel like a chore.
- Comment on Uh oh lol 5 weeks ago:
Even if earth just gets pulled away from the sun a little we are screwed.
I get what you’re saying, but had to laugh at the use of “a little” here. The goldilocks zone in the solar system is roughly the between the orbits of Venus and Mars, and we’re almost right in the middle of it, so “a little” is like 150 million km.
I would imagine that the first issue we would experience would be that the moon would be pulled out of Earth’s orbit first and then we lose the ocean tides and the stable tilt of the earth. It would probably get worse from there.
- Comment on If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get? 5 weeks ago:
I agree with the sentiment but not the price. You can find commercial ones of this size for almost half the price. Ex. a.co/d/63aVKxp
Personally I don’t need it to be fully bezelless, so if that’s not a deal breaker, there are less expensive options available.
- Comment on Aged like milk 1 month ago:
I’m just sad that this means they’re going to have to kill off Clyde in South Park now
- Comment on Providing a checksum without telling you how it was created 1 month ago:
Just did a test of the character counts for different algorithms, here’s the number of characters for each:
Command Characters md5sum 32 sha1sum 40 sha256sum 64 - Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 2 months ago:
You don’t need to memorize it really, just have to generalize the position of the minute hand past the last round number. Is it about 40% between the 2 and the 3, then that’s a 12.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 2 months ago:
I don’t think there’s any legal basis for having “designed in” be truthful, where as “made in” is a requirement for the marking of country of origin for imports.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours) 2 months ago:
“A delayed game is eventually good, a rushed game is bad forever”
- Comment on 2 months ago:
it’s excessive
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Exactly this, the
.zipfile extension is widely known, and now that it’s also a TLD, it can be confusing for some people. There’s no technical vulnerability, but the existence of.zipTLD just gives more ammo for phishing. For example, someone could register a domain namerecent-bank-statements[.]zip(without brackets) and then have a subdomain forchase.comand send someone a link tohttps://chase.com.recent-bank-statements/[.]zipto “Download your bank statements”. If you’re not looking closely, you might not realize there is a.instead of a/and think that this link would go to chase.com When the site initiates a download of a zip file, you might trust the contents thinking it came from Chase and not a malicious link. - Comment on ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it 2 months ago:
Publisher Nexon has now made a statement addressing the situation, saying the ads were submitted by users as part of a ‘TikTok Creative Challenge’, which TikTok describes as an “official creator monetization program that turns your creativity into cash by creating UGC-style ads for your favorite brands”.
“All submitted videos are verified through TikTok’s system to check copyright violations before they are approved as advertising content. However, we have become aware of cases where the circumstances surrounding the production of certain submitted videos appear inappropriate. Thus, we are conducting a thorough joint investigation with TikTok to determine the facts.
How could they not see this coming? Of course this will be gamed and abused. This is what happens when you fire your marketing department and outsource it to TikTok.
- Comment on Can anyone relate? No? Me neither, then. 2 months ago:
What is the context of this picture??
- Comment on New York City commuters could soon start seeing ads for beer and other boozy beverages on subways and buses, ending a seven-year ban by the MTA. 2 months ago:
Funny how alcohol ads were banned, but Nazi-inspired ads were allowed to happen: theguardian.com/…/nazi-inspired-ads-for-the-man-i…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
IANAL and not really sure if this would hold up for digital assets, but if there is a search warrant, anything in plain view is up for grabs: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_v._California. I would assume anything on the hard drive can be evidence in court if it is in plain view of the assets of the search warrant.
But also, for simply possession of pirated content, I don’t think the state would charge you, but you could be open to civil litigation if the copyright holders find out somehow.
- Comment on Goosebumps: The Game will be removed from sale on August 8, 2025. 2 months ago:
Yes this was the game! The CD I had contained both games. The other game was Attack of the Mutant. This was the hockey game ingrained in my memory: youtu.be/7vQ0qBVhjME?t=2269
- Comment on Goosebumps: The Game will be removed from sale on August 8, 2025. 2 months ago:
Was that a point and click interactive video one? I remember one story with dead hokey players or something? I think I got that CD for free from a box of cereal and have great memories playing it while home sick from school one day.
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 2 months ago:
Even the link with the unlocked article code didn’t work, here’s an easier way to read the article: archive.is/sZYDO
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 2 months ago:
Payment processors: “I deal with the god damn customers so the
engineersbanks don’t have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can’t you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?” - Comment on Where can I find Trumps drawing in the letter to Epstein? 2 months ago:
I have seen this picture, but it has not been released by the WSJ, CNN, NYT, etc. The WSJ article describes the letter and this matches the description, but this is a recreation based on the description. What OP is asking for is why can’t they find a scan of the actual letter and the reason is because it hasn’t been published.
- Comment on Where can I find Trumps drawing in the letter to Epstein? 2 months ago:
You’re right, best I can tell, WSJ only described the image, but has not published it. Here is an archive of the WSJ piece that Trump is suing about: archive.is/IUWMu
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 2 months ago:
How about a nice game of chess?
- Comment on Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop 3 months ago:
Still this seems like a HackerOne problem, they’re acting as the middleman and I assume are taking part of the payout. What are they doing to earn the money they’re taking? The reason to go with HackerOne is to facilitate the interactions with people and pass the reports. It shouldn’t be a Curl maintainers responsibility to spot obvious AI slop. Maybe this is just the tier they’re on with HackerOne, but considering this is HackerOne’s business model, I would imagine that if huge companies are also dealing with this, then HackerOne will loose a lot of clients.
- Comment on Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop 3 months ago:
In the blog post, Daniel does discuss why that is a heavy handed approach:
People mention charging a fee for the right to submit a security vulnerability (that could be paid back if a proper report). That would probably slow them down significantly sure, but it seems like a rather hostile way for an Open Source project that aims to be as open and available as possible. Not to mention that we don’t have any current infrastructure setup for this – and neither does HackerOne. And managing money is painful.
- Comment on Anon describes experience 3 months ago:
That’s bs and also reminds me of a joke about two mathematicians at a bar:
longish math joke
> Two mathematicians are in a bar. The first one says to the second that the average person knows very little about basic mathematics. The second one disagrees, and claims that most people can cope with a reasonable amount of math. > > The first mathematician goes off to the washroom, and in his absence the second calls over the waitress. He tells her that in a few minutes, after his friend has returned, he will call her over and ask her a question. All she has to do is answer one third x cubed. > > She repeats “one thir – dex cue”? > > He repeats “one third x cubed”. > > She says, “one thir dex cuebd”? > > Yes, that’s right, he says. So she agrees, and goes off mumbling to herself, “one thir dex cuebd…”. > > The first guy returns and the second proposes a bet to prove his point, that most people do know something about basic math. He says he will ask the blonde waitress an integral, and the first laughingly agrees. The second man calls over the waitress and asks “what is the integral of x squared?”. > > The waitress says “one third x cubed” and while walking away, turns back and says over her shoulder “plus a constant!”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Maybe you can check the manual if the laptop has a CMOS battery. If it does, you’ll have to take apart the laptop to remove the battery for a few minutes, which will reset all the settings.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Are CMOS batteries still a thing? Removing that and the laptop battery should wipe the BIOS to the default settings