Limonene
@Limonene@lemmy.world
- Comment on anon discovers the magic of pizza (and yaoi) 13 hours ago:
- Comment on You can trust me 1 week ago:
I’ve had to use these before, when I lived in a dormitory that had frequent false fire alarms. The fire exit stairs took us to a series of one-way locking doors, ending with a “Do not exit, alarm will sound” door. At that point, even if we felt like it might be a false alarm, we had no choice but to go through the door. The first several times, it set off a weak alarm, but did not appear to be wired into anything else in the building. After a few times, it stopped going off, I assume because its battery died. It’s nobody’s job to replace those batteries, so they stay dead.
- Comment on The woke liberals are making our wars gay 1 week ago:
This post is satire. Take a look at the
PTSD: Hell yeah [++++++++++]Nobody likes PTSD. This is a parody of being pro-war.
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 2 weeks ago:
A lot of people fall off roofs during solar installation. But that’s not an externality – these people know the risks, they can ask for higher pay, or choose to wear their PPE properly. The deaths from fossil fuels are mostly externalities.
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 2 weeks ago:
IMO, that’s not a digital signature. That’s a normal signature on a computer. Digital signatures involve cryptography. For example, OpenPGP.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 3 weeks ago:
Congress. For not taxing carbon emissions according to the damage they cause.
(And other countries’ legislatures, but as an American voter, I first need to hold my own legislature responsible.)
- Comment on Pervert cancer 4 weeks ago:
Libertarian. Definitely.
- Comment on Canada should make the USA pay for this 4 weeks ago:
The people emitting the carbon dioxide should pay for it, since climate change is responsible for much of the fire.
(This statement is not in disagreement with the post. See list.)
- Comment on Looking for a game where reading an immersive in-game manual is one of the main gameplay aspects 5 weeks ago:
From the same develeoper: store.steampowered.com/app/716490/EXAPUNKS/
See the game’s manual: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=25…
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 1 month ago:
I was getting marked as “away” in Microsoft Teams every day, even though I was working. I just wasn’t using Microsoft Teams, so it marked me as idle.
I wrote this Autohotkey script after my boss started complaining. It clicks on Teams every 2 minutes:
global running := 0 ^+1:: { global running := 1 while running == 1 { CoordMode("Mouse", "Screen") oldx := 0 oldy := 0 MouseGetPos(&oldx, &oldy) prev_active := WinActive("A") Try { WinActivate("ahk_class TeamsWebView") } Catch TargetError as e { } CoordMode("Mouse", "Window") Send("{Click 80 40 Left}") Try { WinActivate("ahk_id " prev_active) } Catch TargetError as e { } CoordMode("Mouse", "Screen") MouseMove(oldx, oldy, 0) sleep(115000) } } ^+2:: { global running := 0 }
It has the side effect of preventing my computer from entering screensaver/lock screen when I really am away.
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers for them. 1 month ago:
Benjamein has my sympathy. No person should have to watch a commercial.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 month ago:
When you buy software on a DVD, you own the software, at least until you install it and go through the clickwrap agreement that revokes your ownership. With enough lawyers, you could probably poke some holes in that clickwrap agreement anyway. But they probably have more lawyers than you.
In the olden days, we installed software by copying it off floppy disks onto our hard drives. There was no clickwrap agreement, because there was no installer. We owned that software.
GOG advertises that purchasers own the software they buy. www.gog.com/en/news/welcome_to_gog
Lots of open source software can be owned. You have to do something that grants you ownership in the first place, like buying it on a disc. Downloading it for free might or might not, I don’t know. But no FOSS license I know of has any clause that revokes ownership. The GPLv2 has a specific clause that says
You are not required to accept this License
so you can always choose to reject the whole GPL, and revert back to the implicit rules of commerce, “Pay money, receive thing” which confers ownership.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 month ago:
Did Steam shut down games people bought?
- Comment on When your computer says "You don't have permission to edit this file": 2 months ago:
chmod can do 95% of everything I’ve ever needed, just with the “user” and “other” category. Private files, public-readable files, public read-write files, programs I compile but anyone can run… all that is just in the “user” and “other” category of chmod.
It gets 99% if you add the sticky bit (used on /tmp) and the “group” category. Serial ports are owned by root:dialout, and mode 660. To get serial port access, just add the user to the dialout group. For group assignments in college, each partner pairing had their own group they could use. Group work files were mode 660 so groups could edit each others’ work, but other groups couldn’t peek.
For the last 1%, use setfacl. It does everything that explorer.exe’s security tab can do.
- Comment on Evolution Factsberg 2 months ago:
It’s homologous with a human’s middle finger. That doesn’t make it a middle finger.
- Comment on How do I type an apostrophe and use print screen on a European Spanish keyboard? 2 months ago:
“You’re a distinct character” is a compliment, not an insult.
- Comment on You gotta try #19 3 months ago:
- It’s like eating a cracker.
- Comment on NSFW post 3 months ago:
Here are my boobies: Image
- Comment on How should a news article website financially sustain itself? 4 months ago:
I dunno, but it’s not like this.
I’ve tried supporting multiple news sites, but it’s always something. Like the site just crashing before I can get to pay, or an endless captcha, or my credit card being rejected as sussy, but the credit card company claims they haven’t declined anything. I’ve tried multiple credit cards, multiple computers, Firefox and Chromium, always the same.
The Onion is the closest thing to news I successfully paid for.
- Comment on An intelligence of pure malevolence. 4 months ago:
Castielsprostate has been using HP inkjet printers for too long. They need to get a Brother laser printer.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Steam and itch.io are the only ones that treat Linux users as first class citizens.
Steam, itch.io, and GOG are the only ones that offer any Linux games at all.
- Comment on Anon enjoys videogame music 4 months ago:
Counterpoint: The Crosscode soundtrack.
Forest level: accordion, guitar, only a bit of flute, no violin.
Forest level 2: accordion, choir, and xylophone.
Forest level 3: steel drums, guitar, some other kind of guitar.
Ice level: flutes, bass guitar.
Ice dungeon: french horn, synthy violin.
Lava level: (none)
Desert level: Exactly what OP said.
Desert town: Totally different from what OP said.
Beach level: guitar, flute, piano, very little steel drums, no ukulele.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 5 months ago:
Flash had a ton of vulnerabilities. It felt like one zero-day RCE per year.
Flash never had a good FOSS implementation until years after Flash Player was discontinued.
I was very happy about the death of Flash Player, but neutral on the death of the Flash format.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 5 months ago:
I didn’t, but I’m assuming they just haven’t heard anyone say that it’s good to be nuked by NATO.
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 5 months ago:
And don’t forget about people of Jewish ethnicity who are not religious. I respect them too, though I oppose Israel’s genocide.
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 5 months ago:
I agree with this. Ads contaminate your mind, so make sure to use ad blockers. But also help your friends set up ad blockers, because if their minds are contaminated, it will spread to you.
- Comment on Norway anon pirates 6 months ago:
8 years ago, I sat with my then-girlfriend at her parents’ house thinking of things we wanted to watch. We thought of like 20 shows and films, and each one we looked up was not on her parents’ Netflix.
Netflix’s selection has only gotten worse since then.
Nothing anyone wants is on Netflix.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 7 months ago:
Sapphire Safari is sorta like that. It’s basically Pokemon Snap, but porn.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 8 months ago:
Corn ethanol isn’t really renewable either. It works better if made from sugarcane, but it’s still a big food-vs-fuel problem.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 8 months ago:
Renewable liquid fuels have the same energy density.