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- Comment on Why are plug sockets region locked? 1 week ago:
They were introduced and installed and became common and at some point declared regional standards at the time when there were no standards at all. You’d visit your local shop and buy your four lamps in your entire lifetime with a plug that fits the socket and you’d be happy that you have this new electricity thing in your house. There would be no reason for anybody to be interested in what the sockets and the plugs look like in the neighbouring country, not to mention some far away land.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Existence is a fluke in the eternal ocean of time. None of us were here for at least one eternity. Now we are. Then we will be not again for at least one another eternity. Not being is more natural than being.
- Comment on Fuck IMDB and fuck Amazon 2 weeks ago:
Letterboxd has been great for movie buffs but it has gained a mainstream crowd over the years and become less trustworthy with big titles and movies with celebrities that people have the hornies for.
Still too bad to hear about these ambitions of making the big buck out of it.
- Comment on Why does not a CR (Carriage Return) automatically start a new line on some online text editors? 2 weeks ago:
Well, you are free to declare your own flavour and try get it supported by whatever editors and libraries you use. Damn, you can make up your own format that works in any particular way you want to. I bet in this time and age you could vibe code it with functions to your heart’s desire.
But bitching about it to people that are trying to be helpful and explain why it is like it is will not render much other result than said people dropping you into their blocklist for being annoying.
- Comment on Why does not a CR (Carriage Return) automatically start a new line on some online text editors? 2 weeks ago:
Because it is how the format is defined. There is nothing to fix. You write text in paragraphs by default and if you want it to be displayed in any other way you need to declare it. Most formatting is done before the text, like headings and lists, but this newline without a new paragraph is declared with two trailing spaces.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Oh you kids and your modern ways. By dial-up modem and terminal software. Each BBS had their own number to call.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
And UseNet and IRC and FidoNet and file rival by email and whatnot.
The web makes it easier and more accessible for the general public. Not to mention prettier than a green on green terminal.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Back in ancient times when libraries were the natural source of information, a friend had recently learned about The Illuminati and taken it at face value. I’d already dipped my toes in conspiracies and counter culture and I had read The Illuminatus Trilogy and more but I joined him on a visit to the largest city library.
The librarian was amused by my friends request on books about the Illuminati and grew quite engaged trying to find some rare material for him. Then he struck gold with an old book about the Bavarian Illuminati and the supposed continuation in the shadows. He tried to order it from storage, then went “hmm that’s strange” and went on a journey to locate it through the systems and looked honestly dumbstruck and had to announce that it didn’t exist anywhere.
I made spooky noises at my friend’s when we left.
So yeah, OP. Now you too are on the list.
- Comment on How do you keep your shit organized? 4 weeks ago:
IKEA Kallax with a combination of insets of drawers and doors and boxes that fit my particular needs. They are cheap and easy to assemble and weigh next to nothing because they are made of some kind of pressed cardboard material but they still look quite all right.
- Comment on Are there words in reverse order between two languages using the Latin Alphabet? 4 weeks ago:
Are we open for rotation? Cucumber in Swedish is “gurka”, while in Norwegian it’s “agurk”.
- Comment on What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened? 1 month ago:
No problem, main character.
- Comment on What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened? 1 month ago:
Dude, nobody owes you anything for free. Back in the days before internet piracy cost postage and floppies and then phone bills, not to mention making and maintaining contacts. Quit fucking whining for having everything effortlessly at your fingertips.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Get a NAS or use any old computer you can get for cheap and upgrade as you go. Hook it up with a network cable to your router so it doesn’t hog your WiFi bandwidth.
- Comment on these eco-facist stickers 2 months ago:
Eco fascism is strangely a real thing.
- Comment on these eco-facist stickers 2 months ago:
Because they are nazis that dyed their mustache green.
- Comment on these eco-facist stickers 2 months ago:
American eco fascists are the biggest hypocrites of them all. They romanticise race and nationality and hijack environmentalism to blame people mainly from southern continents while propagating genocide and a global third reich.
Meanwhile they are a genetic shit cocktail of who knows where more than a couple of generations back with no origin in the geographic location they reside and they have the biggest ecological footprint of all humans on the planet.
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 2 months ago:
And give in to big DNS? What’s next? Multiple services per server? Insanity!
This was proudly coded in Notepad. - Comment on What do you think goes through an animal’s mind and POV? 2 months ago:
Like the human animal’s mind, except with less self awareness, less reflection, less contemplation, less hypotheticals, less mental gymnastics, less moral quandaries, less planning, less worries, less memories, less relationship drama, less existential angst, less sleepless nights remembering cringe moments… Depending on the other animal species and the individual.
- Comment on Tech support for mum 2 months ago:
Too bad you didn’t inherit your parents brains bud.
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 months ago:
Totalitarians are more alike than different from eachother.
- Comment on Tech support for mum 2 months ago:
She decided on them herself, I know them and they are veeery easy for her to remember. A passphrase would be much more confusing for my old mum that was upset when she got her new phone that the keyboard was not alphabetical and only accepted after resistance that neither was it on her old phone.
- Comment on Tech support for mum 2 months ago:
Follow up: any advice for preferably FOSS remote desktop Linux to Windows 11 and Android to Android phone?
- Comment on Tech support for mum 2 months ago:
I think her menopause was twenty years ago.
- Comment on Tech support for mum 2 months ago:
We talk on the phone at least once a week. Unfortunately I think she is getting old.
- Comment on Tech support for mum 2 months ago:
She needs to keep track of two-three passwords. Yet every time it is “how should I know the password?” I don’t think it would make any difference if it was only one and a password manager adds one more layer of confusion when I’m doing remote tech support over the phone.
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- Comment on What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials? 2 months ago:
I’d imagine for a civilization advanced enough for not only interstellar travel but suggestively FTL if they are running some kind of logistics operations across star systems, they would not have issues neither of hoovering gas clouds or splitting molecules and recombining them into desired materials nor have a problem with any amount of energy required. Damn, their physics and chemistry is probably at a quantum level so they can make whatever elements they want and have the need of none.
Unless FTL travel and communications is stupid simple that we have missed some basic discoveries that would solve the Fermi paradox because we didn’t know what to listen or look for.
- Comment on What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials? 2 months ago:
Why go through the hassle of plundering an inhabited planet in a remote system when there are near unlimited uninhabited planets to pick all over?
- Comment on Why are some people deciding to switch to iOS as Android is putting on more (iOS-like) restrictions? 2 months ago:
When I got a job iPhone i tried really hard to understand and to like it. I didn’t. The app store was a mess and the one button navigation made all apps inconsistent in what it does and where different apps put their own back button. My boss was very smug and thought I’d become an Apple evangelist just like him so I had to neatly wrap up some criticism of why we shouldn’t copy their UX for our product.
- Comment on Why the world doesn't have a backup plan for the oil crisis? 3 months ago:
Because it is a collective problem for society to solve until it is profitable to invest and lock down.