Pika
@Pika@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I'm setting up a Windows 11 laptop for my uncle. Is there a sneaky way to make it block right-wing bullshit websites? 1 day ago:
This is a sticky situation if you try to implement it. At best you temp hide it from the uncle, at worse you double down the ideology because of conspiracy theories and end up hurting your relationship with your uncle, plus Anything you can do locally he could find workarounds for if he wanted to, especially since his friends will know the sites still exist.
He would likely accuse you immediately though as the last person to touch the system is always the one at fault, and you are the one setting it up.
To answer the question though, you could edit the host file to block known propaganda networks(by directing them to invalid ip’s which would make it look like its down) but, that setup is not very effective and unless you can block all of them, hes just going to find ways around it or alternatives, and this system likely wouldn’t survive most current day browsers that are pushing secure DNS such as firefox since cloudflare is going to know how to access it still.
I still don’t think it’s a good idea though, too many things that could go wrong out of it, plus hard pushing an agenda has never been a good way at convincing someone their mentality isn’t right, this will just re-enforce his mentality.
- Comment on What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer? 6 days ago:
Ignoring my phone because I prefer to text anyway, so you not answering was a massive relief to me. Chances are if you text instead I’ll respond, or can leave a voice mail, but honestly if I didn’t leave a message or sent a text, it wasn’t important enough/mission critical in the first place.
- Comment on If You Want Me To Support You, Form A Union 1 week ago:
hard agree
People act as if the everyday person has this imaginary power. That’s going to make things better. No. Collected efforts have this power that makes things better. And for some stupid reason, at least in the US, we are extremely against using that power.
people would rather try to support it as an individual instead of support it as a collective, so instead of it being an actual impact, it’s only like a drop in the bucket that the companies can ignore. all for a pittance of extra income.
- Comment on What are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses? 1 week ago:
They only expose approximate, not precise, locations, so they shouldn’t be a risk like GPS that exposes precise locations?
Be aware, this is VASTLY dependent on your ISP. Smaller ISP’s especially DSL based ones in rural areas are notorious for giving almost exact address when you reverse look up it.
My old ISP used to do that. like I had to try super hard to mask my IP if I went somewhere like IRC or Chatango that disclosed the full address to people joining, because if someone wanted to they could have looked up my address down to the house just by following the remote lookup because it would show my address instead of their nearest hub.
Thankfully now it shows me somewhere in NY which I feel a lot more comfortable with, but still don’t take for granted that it’s only an approximate.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 week ago:
It likely is going to fall under child neglect. I don’t know of an actual law specifically for locking a kid in a car.
As for the exceptions thing, that is the same in the states, it usually falls under law(s) categorized as “Good Samaritan laws”. They are moreso meant to protect the bystander if they see someone in peril but, breaking the window to save a kid or pet that is clearly in distress would normally fall under that. Personal injury also usually fall under these laws, like if you accidentally injured someone getting them to safety when it was clear they were in a dangerous location, the laws usually apply.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 week ago:
So many steps were taken here that made no sense. Like why would the mom even think it was ok, and why did the office tell the mom “Yea they can wait in the lobby” like I assume she didn’t give an age or anything cause no office worker is going to knowingly allow this to happen, or allow a 1 and 2 year old to just sit in the lobby.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 week ago:
please don’t pancake vs waffle me, especially considering that I have clarified to you what I meant by that post. Just because I explicitly state neglect in one, doesn’t mean the other isn’t neglectful. Neglect still falls under bad choices, however I would not call intent to kill just a “bad choice” which is was the point of the comment in the first place. Not debate over if its neglect or not.
As for your analogy, I don’t really think that is a safe analogy to apply to this situation. A child left without food and water for a week will always lead to death, a child being left alone for a few hours in a climate controlled area will not. It’s a false analogy.
instead I will respond with a fairer analogy. “Would it be considered neglect to leave a child unsupervised for 3 hours but leave food in the fridge” which I would still say is yes, but it’s weighed significantly less then someone who decided to go on vacation for a week leaving food in the fridge as was your first analogy.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 week ago:
Firmly agree with the statement that it was irresponsible because yes it was regardless.
However, disagree with the statement that a climate control system is not meant to be operated while idle. That is an old myth that I expect came from back when there was fewer electrical components in the car so not turning the ac /off/ before turning the vehicle off would risk damaging the cars electrical.
To a vehicle’s climate control system it doesn’t give a damn if it’s driving or idle. Now, while being idle, you have less fuel efficiency, And if you don’t have the engine running, it will drain more battery than needed, which will make your battery less efficient. But as for actual wear and tear on the components, running it at idle is almost no difference than whether you’re driving with it on.
Again, though, didn’t claim it wasn’t irresponsible either way, But it’s highly unlikely that Climate system would have failed if the vehicle had stayed on.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 week ago:
I’m not. I’m just saying that one imstance is significantly worse than the other. Just because I’m saying that doesn’t mean I agree with either instance, But out of the two available instances, this one is the preferred instance over intentionally putting a child in a vehicle for two and a half hours with no AC.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 week ago:
It’s defo irresponsibility regardless, 2+ hours in a car no supervision is garbage parenting regardless, I’m just saying that it’s not like the parent intended the children was going to be in the heat, which in my opinion changes things drastically from someone making a poor choice with neglect or even an intent to kill, to someone who just made a really bad choice without the expectation anything bad will come out of it.
The parenting here was absolutely stupid either way, but one has a much worse intent and consequence than the other.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 week ago:
Correct yea, the 90 minute timeframe was without AC.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 week ago:
She has pleaded not guilty to all charges and is being held in lieu of $1,080,000 bail,
My initial thought for this was “How do you plea Not Guilty willfully leaving two children in a car for 90 minutes.” but then I found this later on
However, her 2022 Toyota Corolla Hybrid is equipped with an automatic feature that turns the engine off if it has been left running for one hour while in park, police said. Police estimate that the engine turned off around 3 p.m. and the children were left without air conditioning until Hernandez returned around 4:30 p.m.
Still super shitty, but also I think change the tone a little. Her expectation was that the car was going to be climate controlled for the procedure. Still stupid of her, and kids shouldn’t be left alone that long, but it defo let me understand the “not guilty” plea
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 1 week ago:
For clarification/elaboration. The car was running when she left them. Her mentality was that they were going to sit in the AC the entire time, but unbeknownst to her, the car had an auto-shutoff feature that turns off the car after 60 minutes of idle in park. Not that it makes it much better, but it’s not like she intended the children to be in the heat that long.
- Comment on Guess I'm banned by Know Your Meme now. [yippee.wav] 2 weeks ago:
this is how I manage blocks. Temporary bans unless it’s a repeat offender.
- Comment on Which button does which function? 2 weeks ago:
This is like the third or fourth post in a few days I’ve seen that show the “blank” image on it. Did an image handler suddenly change how images are served or something? No image shows.
- Comment on Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!! 2 weeks ago:
The argument here is that they don’t need to open source or switch over to an FOSS license.
They just need to not actively prohibit people from doing custom servers and they need to release their own server files wheb their support period ends.
, If that ends with violating a license agreement they have with another company that is exclusively a that company problem because as shown in the past, law supercedes agreement and contracts.
- Comment on Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!! 2 weeks ago:
Definitely keep signing, I’m really concerned at the speed it rose , and I’m really hoping there wasn’t something else at play here.
- Comment on Subnautica's Original Creators Have Been Removed From Unknown Worlds "Effective Immediately", As Krafton Makes Concerning Leadership Changes 2 weeks ago:
I mean I wasn’t planning on getting sub 2 after the shitshow that was below zero, the studio is clear they didn’t understand what caused the magic in the first game, and failed at delivery in the second one.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
is it not possible to delete/turn off the user/boot password requirement all together and then save and reboot then try setting it again? I’ve never seen a mb that cared about user password entry, admin gave bios access and from there any setting was able
- Comment on HyTale just got cancelled, HyPixel studios winding down over the next few months 4 weeks ago:
I think you might need to reread the rest of my comment, because I think we’re on the same mentality.
I’ve read the article, and I read the last development update, which seemed to be leading in the direction that they had fully intended on making a project.
Their previous update is actually what made me have the mentality that I currently have, not the article you posted.
The previous update was a progress update saying that they were beginning internal testing and they released images of what looked to be a fairly progressed game. And they had seemed super hopeful for the future. That is not an update that screams this project’s on the urge of being shut down.
I stand firm with what I said that this game would have had potential. And while they didn’t make the greatest development decisions, I don’t believe the choice to shutter the project was their choice. That’s a lot of wasted effort for a team like that, and if they lasted this long the choice to close wasn’t theirs.
- Comment on HyTale just got cancelled, HyPixel studios winding down over the next few months 4 weeks ago:
I think that’s the longest way I’ve ever seen. “Our parent studio decided this game isn’t financially feasible and told us to stop” I’ve ever read.
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, and unfortunately, like you said, that entire practice is fully illegal in the states. However, most employees are unwilling to report it and then file the evidence of why it was done. Because while there is no mandatory vacation time in the US, if you are provided It as a benefit, it must be something that you can use. And if they are regularly denying your PTO because they don’t have the people to be able to cover it, then they are denying you a benefit which they are legally obligated to provide since they offered it as part of your benefits.
The amount of times that people just decide, oh well it’s only PTO. It’s no biggie. I don’t want to rock the boat. It’s insane. Like my mom lost over 600 hours of PTO because the business closed up and she didn’t fight that they needed to pay it. She doesn’t put two and two together that she’s overall getting paid less because she has the benefit of having that PTO. So if they were to not offer the PTO, they are just paying less.
Your PTO, if offered, is part of your benefits package, meaning that it’s part of your hourly wage calculation. So if you are given PTO and then not being allowed to use it, you are voluntarily being given a demotion.
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 4 weeks ago:
yea, which is the only real reason he posted about it. It’s just a normal day for him, but he realized he can capitalize on it and make it a PR stunt like always
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 4 weeks ago:
FOR REAL THOUGH. Like every person I have ever heard that has complained about PTO, are people who are in positions that either don’t accrue it, or accrue it so slowly that it’s never usable.
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 4 weeks ago:
I doubt he notices a holiday TBH, it’s just the same as the previous day.
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 4 weeks ago:
Remind me how “all these businesses” can be closed if only the federal government actually takes the day off for federal holidays?
Here in the real US (I.E not has make up fantasy land that he wants his user base to believe in), most companies were business as usual. As most companies only really close for Christmas and and maybe Thanksgiving and Easter.
Not to mention that most Federal workers are salary, and their pay includes holidays, if he were to remove the holidays as part of the package, he would need to spend /more/ money on the workers, so it’s not like it would be a plus even in his imaginary world. This is ignoring the fact that a good portion of the federal government is also unionized. so this entire plan would fall short before it even hit the water.
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 4 weeks ago:
I wasn’t aware there was a replacement that was suitable. I will have to look into that, thank you.
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 4 weeks ago:
Nexus Mods is far too late on the monetization aspect. The restrictions placed on mod downloading sucks, and it hard pushes buying a membership. Not to mention they basically gave up on vortex and its a buggy mess even if you run it native.
- Comment on New Nintendo Switch 2 Listings on Amazon Could Signal End of Feud 5 weeks ago:
One interesting detail is that all three games have a delivery-by date that’s a few days past the release date
Ah so basically worthless to a consumer if they wanted it release day then. So this will help existing games, but it’s not going to help anyone who wanted a game release day.
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike 5 weeks ago:
A price hike, after the new Xbox PC relabel launch?? Absolute shocker I tell you