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- Comment on Nintendo Wins $4.5 Million Judgment Against r/SwitchPirates Mod 'Archbox' * TorrentFreak 5 days ago:
Location, location, location. Be somewhere that has lax or absent laws enabling foreign entities to prosecute you for this sort of thing and has no extradition treaty with Japan and/or the US. And remain anonymous and avoid identification. This guy was a reddit mod and lived in friggin’ Arizona, both of which were bad moves on his part. So I imagine Nintendo or the courts subpoenaed reddit for everything they had on the guy and they eagerly complied.
If you lived in, say, Cambodia and only distributed your stuff through decentralized or anonymized channels and did not seek fame or fortune for yourself it’s pretty likely nobody would actually be able to bring the hammer down on you for it.
- Comment on Uhhhhhhmmmmmmmmm 6 days ago:
- Comment on You shall not drink! 6 days ago:
The extra grit in your drink puts hairs on your chest.
- Comment on You shall not drink! 6 days ago:
Just take your P-38 and/or P-51 can opener and cut the top off. Easy.
- Comment on fedi is freedom 1 week ago:
Luckily there is no algorithm here, at least in the commonly expected sense with modern social media. You can sort and filter posts by various schemes, but it’s clearly deterministic and the post rate around here is slow enough that you can get it to consistently return the exact same result set in the exact same order multiple times.
Your instance is not tracking what you view, hover, and click on in order to profile you to serve you more of anything else.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah, well. I’ll 3D print you some GTA themed swag and put it in a box that also doesn’t include the game, except I’ll do it for $375. How about that?
- Comment on he did that 1 week ago:
- Comment on Toyota orders workers to train humanoid robots but says humans won't be replaced 1 week ago:
I’m going to invent a new printer. It’s state of the art. It’s a clockwork man that sits down at your desk and types on your typewriter for you, all with fingers and everything.
What? You’re saying that idea is self-evidently moronic? What a coincidence, so is this.
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 1 week ago:
Except in a few exceptional circumstances this is surprisingly not the case. People drive at a speed they perceive as appropriate for the design of the road. Wider roads, wider lanes, straighter roads, open sightlines, and bigger shoulders will make people naturally settle on driving faster. This is why just blithely reducing speed limits with poxy signs on problem roads famously doesn’t accomplish anything. It’s also why people go bombing down the stroad in your local commercial district at 55+ MPH in complete contravention of all the signs everywhere that probably say something around 35. The damn thing looks like a highway to peoples’ monkey brains, so they treat it as such.
People certainly talk about how “my strategy for speeding is to take the speed limit and then you can go around 5/10/15/whatever over and the cops probably won’t care,” and if you sit there in the passenger seat and actively press them on it they may actually drive that way for as many as several consecutive minutes. But most of them just fall back to their perceptual “intuitive” speed for whatever road along with everyone else. Especially if they see everyone else passing them.
- Comment on .🤨. 1 week ago:
The origin of the Mormon religion is practically a parody of itself. It’s also a sterling example of why education is so important in developing people’s critical thinking skills so they aren’t all credulous morons.
- Comment on Should the next President of the US pardon Trump for all his crap like Ford did Nixon? 1 week ago:
Does this include digging most of them up and propping them up on trial in the manner of Pope Formosus?
- Comment on About to ruin your whole day 1 week ago:
Flashing is a misfire event detected. Your engine may have managed to cough out whatever was causing that cylinder not to fire. A blockage in the fuel injector most likely, at least if it managed to cure itself.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yes. For a typical American dishwasher installation, anyway, where the dishwasher is connected to the hot water line which is in turn connected to your storage tank water heater.
First, your water heater is already full of hot water that you’ve already paid the energy cost to heat up. It’s therefore nonsensical to deliberately pump cold water from the line into your dishwasher only for the dishwasher to have to heat it up (using energy/money) and then have your water heater also heat up the displaced water inside it that was just pumped out.
On dumb dishwashers that don’t do anything to sense the internal water temperature, this will also moderately improve your wash performance. (GE calls this feature “Automatic HotStart,” for instance. Other brands call it something different. These machines will pause and run their little internal water heater coil at full blast until their current charge of water is at a temperature their programming considers acceptable to start the cycle.)
Modern dishwashers use a surprisingly small amount of water per cycle. Usually somewhere around 3.5 gallons for the entire thing from start to finish. This is contrary to what your parents think, who will insist to you they can totally hand wash an entire sink of dishes with “less water” than that wasteful dishwasher, which they absolutely cannot. Your dishwasher is not consuming water the entire time it is running. It will fill and recirculate that fill’s worth of water inside itself, usually going through 3 or 4 phases of filling and draining throughout the cycle to arrive that that final water usage figure of around three and a half gallons. Therefore it does not readily have access to hot water unless you’ve primed it by running your sink, as what used to be hot water in your pipes rapidly cools off when said water is not flowing. Your dishwasher probably will not draw in enough water in one fill cycle to purge all of the standing cold water that’s in the pipe unless the distance from your water heater to the dishwasher is unrealistically short.
(The latter actually is the case for the dishwasher at my office, which is fed by an undersink “low boy” water heater that’s directly next to it and only separated from the dishwasher by a grand total of about 18 inches of pipe.)
- Comment on Genius idea. Somehody should share this with the antivaxxers 2 weeks ago:
That’s not the issue. If it were confined to just the adult ones, anyway, it’d be little harm and no foul. The problem is these twerps also don’t vaccinate their kids, who have no say in the decision making process, and die of easily preventable diseases. The antivax crowd themselves also become disease carrying vectors putting those who can’t be vaccinated at risk, i.e. immunocompromised people.
If said morons confined themselves in their on cabins in the woods it likewise would not be a problem, but inevitably you find them coughing all over everybody else at Walmart instead.
- Comment on Life is hard 4 weeks ago:
Your blower motor probably does work, but the resistor assembly hooked up to the knob that controls its speed is most likely blown. This was the case with my truck when I got it and is rather common. Thirty four bucks will solve that problem for you, and it just plugs right in.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
He can attempt to raise the ire of geese if he likes. He’ll reap what he sows.
Hashtaggoosefact:
Canada Geese have teeth.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
That really strikes me as a B ark sort of idea.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 1 month ago:
The US it is federally legal to manufacture your own firearm. There are some state level restrictions depending on which one of those you’re in. In the rest of the world it’s probably considerably more regulated, but then again in the rest of the world it’ll be tougher to get your hands on the all the other parts you’d need as well.
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 1 month ago:
3D printed guns do not “get past metal detectors.” This is not nuance. It’s not a matter of techicalities. You just told a bold faced lie, and you did it speficially to try ro fear monger.
Printed guns still require metal springs, metal pins, metal bolts, metal barrels, and metal ammunition.
- Comment on Maybe it's time for Penguin 1 month ago:
- Comment on Hyperpigmentation 1 month ago:
Because you’d be in jail.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 1 month ago:
It’ll pretty much only do anything against a camera using a flash in the dark and even then that’s probably only marginal. In normal daytime illumination everyone and every thing will still be able to see your plate just fine.
I think I’d rather get a color e-ink display from China and mount it in a fake license plate frame, with a microcontroller behind it displaying a random assortment of plate styles and numbers as you drive along. If you see the 5-0, flip a the switch to lock it to your real plate number until they go away.
- Comment on I'm interested. Any ideas? 1 month ago:
Knife monopoly is when you go around the board and try to collect all the knives.
So far, I appear to be winning.
- Comment on "I don't answer questions" 1 month ago:
“I invoke my 4th and 5th amendment rights” is a much better idea.
- Comment on Air Compressor Regulator 1 month ago:
Some tools do have specific pressure requirements. You can try running an HVLP paint sprayer at the full 120 but you’re really not going to have a good time doing it. Low pressure is right there in the name, come to think of it.
If you’re using a nail gun with smaller nails you’ll probably need to wind down your pressure, too. If you’re using little brad nails and give them the full Monty you might find that they don’t remain in the workpiece but have rather affixed it to your bench instead.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Allow me then to introduce you to Rock of Ages, an Atlus game (and its sequel) where this is the whole idea.
Sisyphus has had it exactly up to here with this shit, and realizes that he has at his disposal a large round rock and an even larger hill. Which by definition most of his enemies are located at the bottom of. Hilarity naturally ensues.
- Comment on Air Compressor Regulator 1 month ago:
it decreases the load on the motor as it starts up.
Uh. How, though? The regulator is on the output end and has nothing whatsoever to do with how the motor and pistons put air into the tank. The compressor is going to pressurize its tank up to its pressure shutoff setpoint as fast as and indeed at the only speed it’s capable of running. If the pressure setpoint is even adjustable (it probably isn’t), diddling with that is only going to accomplish making your motor start and stop a bunch of times as you stairstep it up to whatever your maximum pressure is.
Big time commercial or industrial compressors rated for constant duty cycles may and sometimes do have variable speed motors, but I’ve never seen a consumer model with one.
- Comment on Air Compressor Regulator 1 month ago:
I set the regulator on my compressor when I got it, and I haven’t had any occasion to touch it since. It’s set to 120 PSI, and it’s been somewhere in the neighborhood of twenty years.
Unless your compressor is either especially precise or especially crap I think you can safely ignore that whole song and dance. In the exceedingly rare instances I do need a lower pressure output I have a dinky little inline regulator I just attach to the bottom of whatever tool I’m using, which is inevitably a spray gun. The impact gun, air chisel, needle scaler, die grinders, drills, air chucks, strafer, and golf ball cannon get the whole enchilada all the time.
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 1 month ago:
Luckily, it most certainly is not. Tesseract is a (probably now very defunct) third party client.
- Comment on Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here? 1 month ago:
It doesn’t help either that the default web UI doesn’t actually clear off your notification bell even if you’re marked all replies as read until you force refresh the page. That’s kind of annoying.
Other interfaces like Alexandrite and I presume Photon do it a little better.
