dhork
@dhork@lemmy.world
- Comment on Help figuring out my pressure washer? 2 hours ago:
Percussive maintenance
- Comment on "Analog bags" are in. Doomscrolling is out. 10 hours ago:
Those are rookie numbers
- Comment on "Analog bags" are in. Doomscrolling is out. 12 hours ago:
Take up knitting. I’m serious.
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 14 hours ago:
“Modernizing” being euphemism for planting lots of listening devices for his
friends in Russiapaying customers. - Comment on How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades) 2 days ago:
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 2 days ago:
“Eight Sleep confirmed there’s no offline mode yet, but they’re working on it.”
There’s an offline mode, all right. Unplug it!
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 3 days ago:
I will be the contrarian in the room and say that you shouldn’t really do anything different – unless you know that you are going to need that money in the next year or two.
Let’s take the S&P 500. Yes, we know there is an AI bubble, and the same 7 tech companies are knee deep in it. But it turns out that bubbles make money, until they don’t. In fact, a good chunk of the growth in the S&P over the past two years has been in those 7 companies.. If you had made this bet 2 years ago, you would be a big loser now.
So what do you do? Don’t panic sell. You can’t time the market. Sell when you need the money for something else. Sell when you have a purpose. But don’t be too upset when the bubble finally bursts, and it all dives 25% (or more!) . That was never real money anyway.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 3 days ago:
Introverts probably had it much better back then. You couldn’t physically take your work home with you. Your news came once a day, to the front porch, and was not constantly bombarded at your eyeballs. When you were home, you only interacted with your immediate family, unless you had someone physically over to visit. Or if someone called in the telephone, which you could always just not answer.
- Comment on How does Edward Scissorhands pee? 5 days ago:
Carefully
- Comment on How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person? 5 days ago:
What would win in a fight, a hundred Lemmy-sized Reddits or one Reddit-sized Lemmy?
- Comment on How would you quickly describe Lemmy to a non-fediverse person? 5 days ago:
I call it “socialist Reddit” or “anti-social media”
- Comment on Software by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that, when linked up with the correct hardware, becomes a Stingray for detecting Stingrays. 6 days ago:
Based on this link, the proper thing to do should be to report it to the FCC. I am not sure how much Trump’s FCC will pay attention to the report, though…
- Comment on Was the fall of Rome this stupid? 1 week ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
“Peak X” is a phrase that is often used to convey the highest point in a long term trend. And if we are past that peak, that implies that the trend will continue to be lower and lower for the foreseeable future.
Consider the nation’s supply of 18 year olds that would normally enter college. We can’t just create more 18 year olds on demand, couples would had to have gotten busy 19 years ago to produce today’s supply of 18 year olds. With birth rates declining, not only are there fewer 18 year olds now than before, but those 18 year olds will be able to make fewer humans when they all get busy with each other later.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Idiots, who have no problem spending what little money they have on Patriotic Merch. So, the perfect customers to shove Patriotic ads at…
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Sinclair seems to have some experience producing their own Fantasy shows (masquerading as News Content). They don’t have to put in that much effort to capture the attention of the MAGA crowd.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I wonder what is worth more to ABC/Disney, all those direct subscribers, or these affiliates that are consolidating into two or three big media companies?
This might be the beginning of the death of the affiliate model. What would happen if Sinclair simply stopped affiliating with ABC altogether? They own enough stations that they can do their own thing. Would it matter if there is no ABC station in Mobile, Alabama, if people who still want to watch can stream it?
- Comment on Memecoins Are Coming to the Stock Market 4 weeks ago:
Sweet! If this pumps my Dogecoin to $69 I can retire
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Define a while? Last I knew, the Schengen area lets US citizens on the Visa Waiver program stay for a rolling 90 days out of 180. So, you could go for nearly six weeks before leaving, then once you stay out for six more weeks and some days fall off your ledger you can come back.
You can play games and leave the Schengen area but not go back to the US. The UK has its own requirements,and since you likely meet them you could go there and chill for six weeks waiting for your Schengen access to time out.
This all implies that you have the means during this gap year to fund it all yourself. If any country suspects you are working without authorization, they will escort you back to the US, albeit in a much kinder fashion than we are doing it to their citizens.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 5 weeks ago:
I prefer 239 bean soup. Yes, it must be exactly 239 beans, not even one bean more.
If 239 bean soup had even just one more bean, it would be too farty bean soup.
- Comment on Half of Young Men Would Rather Date an AI Girlfriend Than Face Loneliness or Rejection, New Report Reveals 1 month ago:
On the other hand, the AI will never talk back, doesn’t want to abandon you to spend time with its own friends occasionally, and doesn’t have a mother who thinks her offspring could do much better. Doesn’t sound half bad, if you ignore the fact that it’s all fake.
- Comment on Is this Lemmy thread full of bots/ Fake comments? 1 month ago:
When I click that link, and go there in a browser, I only see 70ish comments listed. But I also see a lot of removed comments as I scroll down, mostly from a single user. My educated guess is that there was already some chicanery in the thread, which the Mods have dealt with, and you are seeing the result of that.
As far as what can be done about it, there really is little to be done, as log as Lemmy remains open (and federated). Posts and comments hop around from one instance to the other, and while some instances can take a hard line against bots some other instance can be more permissive then it becomes a game of whack-a-mole. Active, open moderation is the best cure, but takes effort.
- Comment on I Love Reading 1980s Computer Magazines, and So Should You 1 month ago:
I got the magazines that came with BASIC programs printed in them, you could pay extra to get a subscription that included a tape with the code so you didn’t have to type the whole thing in and risk typos.
That early foray into BASIC was essential for my early involvement in technology, in spite of what Dijkstra said that one time…
- Comment on Programmer joke 1 month ago:
Yo mama’s so fat, even Dijkstra couldn’t find a path around her.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You handle it by not worrying about it, and living every day to the fullest. Nobody knows how long they have. Why spend it fretting? .
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 1 month ago:
Here, it’s a little gift from Eris to þe gods of LLM training; a golden apple to help keep þe Sacred Chao balanced.
þats awesome
- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 1 month ago:
I don’t think it was a “random” cloud server at all. I think the people who bought the data already have it now.
- Comment on Is This Social Media? 1 month ago:
Since so many people are here because they consider the other platforms to be too enshittified, I like calling Lemmy “Antisocial Media”
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 2 months ago:
Every organized sport has some sort of governing body, and that body is concerned with making sure competition is fair. (And taking bribes, right, FIFA?) The people who organize the sport should be able to determine what is fair for their sport. Often, there will be some scientific basis for allowing some people and not allowing others, based on hormones or something like that.
The decisions should be made by people who know the sport and decide what fair competition might look like, not by asshole politicians looking to push an agenda.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Is your dad elderly and needs care because of his age? In the US, depending on the state you live in, you could be considered a “family caregiver” and might be able to collect additional benefits. Some states give out a bit of money to these family caregivers if it keeps those elderly people out of the care of the state.
