SpikesOtherDog
@SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
- Comment on Games that won't launch and won't give you any errormessage 1 week ago:
Symantec has watched me execute the same script I wrote dozens times before suddenly deciding that it is malicious.
- Comment on CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google 1 week ago:
It checks user agent to see if you are using something generic in a user agent switcher. It gives me fits sometimes if I leave it on chrome from Firefox too long.
- Comment on Is there any way I can realistically send a message to Donald Trump and have him read it? 2 weeks ago:
If you send an open letter and it gets enough views.
- Comment on What are the possible ways a computer can kill you? 2 weeks ago:
I actually did #2 because I was fixing one. If you REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING and have ALL THE TOOLS AND PROCESSES NECESSARY and the power supply is worth a few hundred dollars, it MIGHT be worth it.
Guess what? I still blew one up.
Stay safe friends. Recycle it and buy a new one.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Sorry you have to keep your head down like this. I hope you feel safe. Save texts like this somewhere safe, three places at least.
Life will get better. This man’s shade may haunt you, and I suggest you get therapy for it. You don’t have to be him, and once you are on your own you can call him whatever you want.
- Comment on "Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence 4 weeks ago:
There could be a user-centric back end that you could tie in to an account, if it matters. You would export your history to the backend and then log in to the data from the new frontend. That prevents a denial of service caused by numerous large data collections attempting to forward their data all at once.
That then causes me to wonder if data could be hosted separate from the services. That would mean that there would have to be individuals willing to provide that storage and bandwidth.
- Comment on "Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence 4 weeks ago:
Have you ever seen the advertisements on the pirate bay? There is a market for everything.
- Comment on "Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence 4 weeks ago:
Defederated from instances that federate with and support Turkish laws? I don’t like it, but it makes sense.
That makes me wonder if it is possible to federate with a and b, who are not federated, and not pass traffic between.
- Comment on "Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence 4 weeks ago:
Suppose the fediverse becomes widely used. At some point, people will figure out how to profit from it. Although it is a decentralized platform, I can see particular instances becoming dominant and walling off other instances.
How can we prevent users from being stuck behind walled gardens like this? Is it possible to make accounts portable, so if a particular instance becomes unusable one could easily move between them?
- Comment on Help me out: which looks better for the Duck - the neck tie or the bow tie? 5 weeks ago:
Kids agree on bow tie.
- Comment on New Google TV update will track your movement 1 month ago:
I was referring to running a second device. Running the TV off osmc would rock, but not happening.
Frustrating fact: I have to wait for my LG TV to boot. It shows a picture, but takes a minute to load the OS and produce sound.
- Comment on New Google TV update will track your movement 1 month ago:
I would gladly factory reset my television and run off osmc or something if that becomes the norm.
- Comment on Is it unsafe to use a tablet with a big dent in the middle of it? 1 month ago:
I’m not concerned either. Think about the compression on batteries before they pop the case.
You should worry more about tears in the outer lining of the battery. The dent might damage that cell, leading to bloating. If you consider the life of the tablet, it might just expand anyway. I say use it now while you can.
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 1 month ago:
I abandoned Newegg because of all the negative comments about not being able to return stuff.
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 1 month ago:
I found that sometimes I need the right terms to find what I need. I’ll search several times in rapid succession to narrow down what I want.
I wanted an oversized hoodie for my wife that didn’t look like ass and didn’t choke her.
Started with oversized hoodie, oversized woman’s hoodie, oversized hoodie deep neck, finally oversized hoodie v neck was what I wanted. Then I scrolled a few pages to see the options.
It’s really bad though when looking for memory or storage. 1TB nvme? That works. 1TB SSD? Nope. 1TB SSD SATA mostly works, just have to make sure it’s ACTUALLY 1TB.
- Comment on Like Elon Musk, 1 in 3 bosses admit they are pushing RTO because they're so upset about wasting money on all those empty desks 2 months ago:
It’s nice to find the rant in your head written out. A previous employer of mine dropped two properties in favor of a store front.
- Comment on Do spam calls "I wanna buy your house" ever work? Has anyone ever sold their house like that? 2 months ago:
I always ask for about 3x my estimated tax value. They ask why, and I tell them that I want to but another house that isn’t falling down around me.
- Comment on Are there humans who require heating lights like pet reptiles? 2 months ago:
Some people need sunlight fixtures in their home due to low vitamin d.
- Comment on Amazon starts selling Hyundai cars, more brands next year 2 months ago:
Given the Kindle Fire, ads will stream to the occupants if nothing is playing over the audio system. There would be no way to install a third party sound system because it is also the computer.
- Comment on Green crosshair highlights in Excel spreadsheet will not go away, no matter how many online solutions I've tried! 2 months ago:
Send a pic of what you are seeing.
- Comment on Claw machine deckbuilder Dungeon Clawler arrives November 21 and it's going to grab you 3 months ago:
My older teenage son got into the game pretty hard for a month or two on beta or whatever and got me to play.
The mechanics are fun. I’d like to see more story.
- Comment on Nightmare Blunt Rotation 3 months ago:
Sounds like parents behind the shed during a girl scout meeting.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Many of us tried. Not exactly loic-level mischief, but it was a concerted effort.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Sounds like Reddit should disable post comment/s.
- Comment on Can a laptop docking station be used on a KVM switch? 3 months ago:
You will probably only see issues if you are using conversion cables, like from HDMI to DP.
I have seen issues with Tripp Lite not detecting video signal on a DP KVM if the device isn’t selected during boot, but the issue is resolved once you hit Windows.
- Comment on Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why 3 months ago:
We just finished. We were 0-10 on knocking on doors. Eventually they gave up and kept on trucking.
- Comment on Badgers 4 months ago:
Ugh. Searats again? Didn’t we just send them packing one book ago?
- Comment on you filthy casuals wouldn't understand 4 months ago:
This device is totally capable of running Minecraft, assuming it’s an older version.
It contains one of two computers.
The older computer was manufactured around '07, has a dual core processor, and may have up to 2g of ddr2.
The newer version I believe was manufactured around 2012 and has a 4 core processor with up to 8 gigs of ddr3.
Both are capable of running Windows, but I wouldn’t put 10 on the older one.
- Comment on Anon gets a pizza 4 months ago:
Vegetables are a portmanteau of vegetation and table, as they are vegetarian for the table.
All fruits are vegetation for the table, or vegetables. It’s just that not all vegetables are fruits.
- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 4 months ago:
Yeah, I was thinking more of having a dedicated border device, and limiting the number of neighbors. You would also have to trust you neighbors to run software that self assembles a network, especially in a crowded area.