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- Comment on Former Daily Mail editor tells hacking trial allegations are 'preposterous' 1 day ago:
He added that he is sure if he was told there was evidence a journalist or agent had blagged information, he would “have been pretty furious”.
I’m sure he would be furious. Evidence is the last thing that they want.
The only preposterous thing in this enquiry is the fact that it took so long to get to this point.
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 2 days ago:
When I first started I used to work at an absolute dumpster fire of a place, and even that only had one right wing guy and he was a conspiracy theorist who thought that the COVID vaccine contained nanobots. The guy who is supposedly an IT professional thinks we have nanobots.
He didn’t last very long. Not because he was a conspiracy theorist, although for my part I would have been perfectly fine if that had been the reason, but because he was actually kind of useless at his job. It turns out that if you think we have a microscopic robotic technology then you’re probably not as well versed in the industry as you are pretending to be.
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 2 days ago:
I wouldn’t use cute names anyway because I’d forget what they actually were. It’s way better to use descriptive names so that you actually look like you know what you’re talking about. Generally speaking you don’t see cute names as much as you just see bad names.
In the past I’ve read code that says things like
prefDoUserAccountProccessing_b(e)only to find out that it’s some old bit of code that isn’t used anymore because it’s for an old legacy SAP system. That’s apparently what the_bindicated, because obviously. - Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 2 days ago:
I’m on Twitter because a long time ago it was a good place to get contacts and industry updates. The only reason I’m still on Twitter is because I haven’t used it in about 6 years have forgotten the password and can’t log into delete the account.
But anyway being in cybersecurity isn’t about being invisible, if you were invisible you wouldn’t be in the industry, you’d just be a hermit living in the woods. It’s about being aware of security threats and taking precautive action for yourself and your employer. Me posting videos of my rat completing puzzles, doesn’t compromise either of these requirements.
- Comment on Keir Starmer says he is ‘not prepared to walk away’ after call for resignation 2 days ago:
Has he tried doing the things he promised in his manifesto? Maybe then people wouldn’t want him to resign.
- Comment on JD Vance visits Milan, Italy 3 days ago:
Poison probably not, but there a lot they could do tonthe food.
- Comment on JD Vance visits Milan, Italy 3 days ago:
I’m sure the other 39 cars will be a lot of help.
You wouldn’t even need to bother with the bomb, just shoot him when he gets out of the car his smug face is a pretty big target.
- Comment on Veganuary 4 days ago:
Famously everything other then cheese and onion is vegan, including Smokey Bacon somehow.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 5 days ago:
I can’t work out any other interpretation. What does Donebrach think it said?
- Comment on Anon is worried about AI 5 days ago:
By the way there is a seahorse emoji.
- Comment on Anon is worried about AI 5 days ago:
I think AI is very hidden miss and translating. It’s very much seems to depend on the language.
We had an instruction booklet that was originally written in Chinese translated into English by an AI (I hope it was by an AI because otherwise there is a very incompetent human doing it). It had phrases such as “don’t always tie down when not tightened loosely” and “insure at all times to always” and “warning can be hot when hot do not touch when hot or off and not on”
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 week ago:
The map is just wrong. How did they gather this data, it just what the map maker has decided is the case rather than objective reality.
If you come in my house and you’re wearing shoes you’re gonna get told to take them off. I don’t want dirt on my carpet.
- Comment on Ah, customer service 1 week ago:
The level 1 agents are always useless.
I don’t know a single call centre where the level 2 agents don’t constantly complain about the utter incompetence of the level 1 agents, who appear to have never even used a mouse before.
They escalate tickets such as “the users screen is upside down”, and “callers operating system has changed to papyrus needs to be changed back”. Things that could have been fixed by both the first line service agent, and the caller, if either of them had bothered to do a 4 second Google search.
- Comment on Ah, customer service 1 week ago:
Hello my account is locked out.
*Checks the account, last login was 45 days ago
Oh I see here that your last login was quite a while ago so your account has probably been disabled due to inactivity you should have received some emails about that.
Oh, I don’t read emails you should have messaged me on teams.
*Bangs head in desk
It’s an automated system, we don’t know your account is going to get locked out. There are 5,000 people at this company, no one’s going to take the time to explicitly contact you. Read your damn emails.
- Comment on send pics 1 week ago:
I don’t know who you’re calling an idiot back in the early 2000s I had a phone that died because it got rained on. Not even a lot of rain.
Waterproofing is necessary just generally. Even if you assume it’s never going to get dropped in a puddle it needs to be splash proof at least.
- Comment on Anon wants to talk about video games 1 week ago:
Yes the same with sport. There’s too many damn sports there should only be one sport at a time.
All sports players should be required to play in all sports. I want to see baseball players doing ice hockey, but that would probably lead to a blood bath. So we’ll do that one at the end.
- Comment on Do people eat this? 2 weeks ago:
You could make a religion out this
- Comment on Do people eat this? 2 weeks ago:
Is immigration colonisation?
- Comment on Do people eat this? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah because nobody eats that.
- Comment on Deep Time 2 weeks ago:
I tried asking a geologist this question once and just got a funny look.
But let’s say for the sake of arguement that dinosaurs did have a civilisation, if that civilisation was on the level of mediaeval technology then would there be any evidence after millennia and an asteroid impact? If we’re talking about houses made of wood and roads made of cobblestone and no refined metals, would we be able to tell?
There’s an idea that they may have been prior civilisations but they will wiped out and never left any evidence. It would certainly explain why humans are so much more intelligent than the rest of the animals. We aren’t actually special at all, we are just the latest iteration of biological inevitability.
- Comment on Deep Time 2 weeks ago:
From the last dinosaurs to the first humans was 66 million years, it wasn’t that fast.
What is weird is that humans are so intelligent. It’s much easier to evolve big teeth and ripping claws to make you the dominant species then it is to evolve a highly complex brain.
It can’t have been the extinction of the dinosaurs that had that impetus because by the time the first proto humans were around any effects of the asteroid impact would have long since dissipated. So there must have been some other threat that arose that was dangerous enough to require us to evolve to survive it, but was slow burning enough that it gave time for that evolution to happen. It also left no evidence.
- Comment on Deep Time 2 weeks ago:
You can but in practise you would have an immensely hard time enforcing that.
People have taken patents out for FTL drives but if one is ever invented it would be pretty difficult to claim that they have the rights to the invention.
- Comment on Is history about to repeat itself? 2 weeks ago:
That’s the problem in the UK, it only really heavily snows one year in five so it isn’t profitable or economical to really invest in things like snow tires and snow ploughs, so whenever there is significant snow it does kind of cause everything to grind or halt. The alternative is to buy a bunch of snow equipment that needs constant maintenance throughout a winter where it doesn’t get below 3°C, and nothing more exciting than a lot of rain happens.
- Comment on Is history about to repeat itself? 2 weeks ago:
It’s always a bit stupid when people compare weather like this.
They basically go “I live in the high Arctic and frequently enjoy temperatures of -40°C”, so all those people complaining about snow in Hawaii are overreacting.
It’s like they don’t listen to the thing they’re saying.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 2 weeks ago:
What did you have because you can go to a crap pizza place in Italy.
- Comment on But think of the landlords! 2 weeks ago:
That’s terrible. Use the nide grabber and put that right. Wobbling all over the place right now.
- Comment on Slay Girl 3 weeks ago:
Mallard ducks in particular seem to take the view that as long as someone’s looking after the ducklings, it doesn’t really matter whose is whose.
- Comment on What's it like living in 2? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a big country, lots of cultural differences. Unfortunately the education system is pretty bad here.
The only country name we’ve learnt to spell is Portugal. We’re pretty bad at all the others.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 3 weeks ago:
Information on episodic memory are stored in different parts of the brain and recalling episodic memory also involves the emotion centres but I don’t think a happy memory and a traumatic memory are necessarily stored any differently.
How does PTSD fit into repressed memories?
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 3 weeks ago:
You also have to take into account that is a very high possibility that what this guy is doing is being creepy and a “nice guy”, and whether intentionally or not is pushing anybody who might be potentially interested in him away.
I’ve seen it with one of my idiot friends. He’s perfectly nice normal person and you can have sensible conversations with them but whenever it comes to hitting on girls he goes all pick up artist on them. Of course if there’s one group of people who can’t hit on girls it’s people who watch pickup videos on YouTube.