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- Comment on Expecto patronum my ass! 1 day ago:
Percy Jackson did this so much better by explaining only imperial gold or celestial bronze can be used to craft weapons that could harm powerful entities.
So naturally some dude loaded celestial bronze bullets into his warplane’s (probably .50 cal M2) machine guns lol
- Comment on Get on my level 1 week ago:
PAF looking at the Rafales in the background:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The last time this was posted, it was PugJesus, and he barely agreed to my live example of Imran Khan.
And as a Pakistani, go fuck yourself. My democratically elected leader is in a jail going blind because American imperialism is universal amongst both parties, and Biden signed off on his removal without a second thought.
Even more insult to injury, Imran Khan won his election against a corrupt, voter fraud heavy, and FPTP system as a 3rd party that upset the duopoly after 70+ years.
Twice. Second time while he was in jail.
So now all that manure you people scream about RCV for 3rd parties in the US is laid barren as propaganda from the DNC & RNC to convince you never to vote independent or 3rd party.
Despite the fact the DNC was caught rigging their own primaries to ensure Bernie, a populist independent, would never win.
Twice.
- Comment on How long and how hard would it be to get a star removed on The Hollywood Walk of Fame? Asking for a friend. 1 week ago:
Removing or vandalizing a Hollywood star won’t accomplish much, and the star that you’re probably thinking of was already damaged daily back in 2016.
Asking this question on lemmy without a darknet is also a stupid easy way to get caught if they feel like investigating you lol/
- Comment on A succulent meal 1 week ago:
No one before the 1930s had access to such a large breed of chicken lol.
They probably would have confused this picture with a miniature Turkey.
- Comment on Anon works in cybersecurity 1 week ago:
See it actually goes like this:
The cybersecurity field sees the CS and software field as a bunch of posers.
The red team (field) sees the blue team as a bunch of posers.
The actual redteam (opsec white hat) sees pentesters as a bunch of posers.
The blackhat hackers sees white hat hackers as a bunch of posers.
Most (skilled) blackhats work for an APT or Nation State, so we almost never get to see a post compromise attack thay actually does anything other than crypto ransom or targeted hardware destruction.
But seriously, this post really depends on what type of cybersecurity work.
I would expect to see this from a bunch of internal company pentesters ;)
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Their direct Revenue from Windows is not a main concern since I think it was something like 20% as you said. The problem though is that their cloud and enterprise offerings rely on the fact that businesses buy into the Windows platform.
Absolute garbage tier software like Teams, modern O365, AD, Azure, etc only sells because its built on Windows. If MSFT loses the home market, businesses have a high chance of following, especially since their QA process relies exclusively on home users.
Companies like RedHat and OpenSUSE already provide such services and plenty of smaller or newer clients have trialed or switched user-end desktop machines over to linux.
All they really need is to reach maybe 10% desktop market share, and MSFT would start facing a slaughter in the coming years as big OEMs start shipping linux from factory.
Anyone who isn’t heavily vendor locked would probably take the chance, especially if they don’t even rely on any Windows specific functionality for work.
But yeah as you said, good riddance. Windows has been such a trash experience for me ever since 8. They ignored all the critical issues and complaints on the stupid insider hub, and then doubled down on ruining the OS further in 10 and 11.
- Comment on But bro please 2 weeks ago:
Nothing, i’m just saying that most people don’t understand this and don’t know that their individual skills with a firearm just won’t matter much if you don’t organize into a proper group with modern vehicles at your disposable.
Point is, if you wanna go down the route of “I need 2A for an oppressive government”, you’ll quickly find yourself getting into the same situation as everyone else. Unless you form a side via a civil war, you’re gonna suffer heavy losses in the initial stage just like everyone else, and commit to long term attrition just like everyone else.
Not saying it’s a bad idea in any way, but there’s a significant portion of the American community that I could not imagine being able to walk 10k despite stockpiling a platoon’s worth of ammo.
- Comment on But bro please 2 weeks ago:
Gulf War 1 was literally the king of all curbstomps and the Taliban fell just as fast to a swarm of CAS, even though they had the NWA completly surrounded.
Only Vietnam survived because surprise surprise they had a hefty mechanized supply line provided by the USSR via China.
Gulf 2 and the aftermath in Afghanistan was still a ridiculously long occupation that all hinged on the idea that the US no longer had any meaningful interest to commit resources and would eventually leave.
Point is, if you wanna go down the route of “I need 2A for an oppressive government”, you’ll quickly find yourself getting into the same situation as everyone else. Unless you form a side via a civil war, you’re gonna suffer heavy losses in the initial stage just like everyone else, and commit to long term attrition just like everyone else.
- Comment on But bro please 2 weeks ago:
IFVs exist for this exact purpose and they typically have minimum 1 per tank if not 2.
You ain’t gonna get very far when theres a 25mm auto cannon spraying and praying in your general direction.
Plus the coaxial 7.62 MGs
Plus the hull mounted M2 .50 cal MGs.
Why do you think separatists and resistance movements have to rely on IEDs and forcing fights in urban environments with a metric ton of cover available?
Why do you think they get steamrolled by mechanized armored units like almost every time that forces them into guerilla fighting tactics like digging tunnels and using mountainous terrain?
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 weeks ago:
Wow I guess I get to finally dump Discord as my last proprietary chat app.
There are lots of self hosted alternatives like Mattermost, Mumble, and Matrix (decentralized).
There’s also the new Freenet River demo: freenet.org/quickstart/
Maybe I’ll make my own discord clone lol.
- Comment on If vegetarians eat vegetables, and humanitarians eat humans, what do Bavarians eat? 3 weeks ago:
Sausages and Potatos from their Bavarian Foodtruck
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 4 weeks ago:
why/how do these guys design a product this way
Its just one of many business applications that MSFT provides as you get vendor locked into the Windows platform.
Technically it was the successor to skype for business, and skype itself was its own product that was acquired by MSFT.
It doesn’t matter how crappy it is because MSFT can sell it to you as part of a complete package with stuff like Azure, M365, etc, and you would find it annoying to pay extra for a better platform like Slack.
Does it mean Microsoft can keep running any app which necessarily doesn’t appear on my task manager?
iirc it shouldn’t be hidden in task manager but it might be easier to use process explorer from sysinternals: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/…/process-explorer
Haven’t touched hot garbage windows in a long time so I don’t remember if teams has a non obvious process that runs in the background.
- Comment on Anon time travels 4 weeks ago:
Same man. Got an old R730 with like 16 slots that I could fill to the brim, but I was like “nah it’s not like I need that much”.
Then I realized how much Linux caching was doing when I did fill it up with only a handful of contsiners and VMs.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 5 weeks ago:
Collecting every item in Rabbids Go Home.
Stupid game made me think there was a secret moon level. I feel like the devs actually forgot to put in at least a trophy or something because it unlocks nothing.
- Comment on Cloud saving huh? 5 weeks ago:
It would be hilarious if they reuse X11’s original server model and just start trying to stream draw events to and from the cloud.
- Comment on I'm just here for the memes 1 month ago:
Overused image with obvious fallacy implicating voters 2k upvotes
And then top comment is usually someone pointing out how utterly stupid the post is.
Optionally by FlyingSquid or PugJesus
- Comment on u WoT m8 1 month ago:
“The M4 Sherman was a capable tank, but it was the far superior T-34 that won WWII”
“Oh this is from War Thunder’s russian bias”
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 1 month ago:
You forgot the part where they bribed some Venezuelan defense officials to stand down. Everyone saw this regime change coming, they just didn’t expect the US to get directly involved.
That entire Chinook formation could have been shredded by a single infantry group equipped with some cheap stingers (or equivalents).
Some of the local reporters even claimed that Maduro’s own security convinced him to leave by helicopter, where Delta was already waiting for him.
They key note here is that Maduro was not well enough supported within his own circle. If you want a recent example, they could have done the same thing to Assad since he fled without even notifying the CO of his army.
Countries like Russia and NK have a complicated internal political structure that revolves around the leader ensuring he can never be couped. The US wouldn’t be able to just buy them off to create such a situation.
- Comment on PFP Evolution 1 month ago:
Another day of weebs trying to vindicate themselves within the gamer community smh my face
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 month ago:
Most of these answers here are not viable because the US has leverage in almost every nation on earth.
Venezuela, Iran, Russia, China, etc are the exception, hence why they are sanctioned (and constantly suffering problems with every new CIA project) bar China which is locked in a trade war and has a sizable military to back themselves up.
You would realistically require a counter world power that offers an alternative to the US system, which used to be the USSR which no longer exists.
China is poised as the next superpower, but they haven’t made any significant moves in that regard because they are wary of the USSR’s downfall, and have no intention of engaging the USA in that manner (yet).
Everyone in the UN, despite all their cries, will fall in line when threatened, aside from the aforementioned exceptions.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 1 month ago:
This is even funnier considering the fiber element in toslink is actually plastic which was chosen to make it really cheap since the distance was not of concern like a proper multimode fiber cable made with glass.
- Comment on Niche species 1 month ago:
The superior mountain goat that’s actually a goat:
- Comment on Solidarity 2 months ago:
“What kind of insane court system did the devs of ace attorney dream up?”
looks at Japan’s 99.9% conviction rate
“Oh”
- Comment on AI Overview 2 months ago:
Or just coaxe Gemini with some prompt magic lol
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 2 months ago:
Does Elite Dangerous count lol?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I don’t know why people are freaking out over this article. It’s pretty well known that lots of animals (especially within their own class) have eggs that can be fertilized by different species. It doesn’t matter like 99.99% of the time because the resulting cell is unviable and will not develop into anything because the merged DNA is incompatible and will fail to generate into a developed organism.
The exception to this are hybrids (like a mule), rare cases where similar enough species can actually create a viable fetus, but the resultant hybrid is usually sterile and unable to reproduce its own offspring: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_(biology)
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Microsoft spent two years and $1B developing the Kin mobile phone line, which failed after just 48 days in 2010(May 14-June 30) due to poor sales. They blamed Verizon for not promoting it enough 2 months ago:
The running joke is that after the Bell monopoly was broken up, AT&T just
changed its namedropped references to the name “Bell” and reacquired competitors to become a monopoly again. - Comment on To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments 2 months ago:
Cant even call this ragebait after reading this thread lol, its just a sea of half assed complaints that no one cares about.
