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- Comment on Disney+ Confirmed a NEW Change Coming Soon for Subscribers 17 hours ago:
I’ll save you all a click
Disney is planning to introduce “virtual storefronts” to its popular streaming services, including Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN. These storefronts will allow viewers to order snacks or pick out products they’ve seen in their favorite shows, all while continuing to stream their movie or show. Disney+ subscribers will see interactive ads pop up as well.
So, basically, stuffing more ads into the premium service you paid for (presumably to avoid ads). These people don’t get it, do they?
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 day ago:
As a man, I’ve never been made to feel excluded by gender equality in any way whatsoever.
Same here. However, I suspect you and I are not zero-sum thinkers, and can conceive of a future in which both men and women can apply themselves to their full potential.
But it seems like a key part of the counter-movement to gender equality is based on the notion that every time a woman gets a job, they aretaki g it away from a mkre qualified male. It seems to be built on a mountain of insecurity more than anything else.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
My experience is that managers don’t normally “overcompensate in the other direction” on purpose. After all, if they are friendly with someone, they will be inclined to help them.
Two exceptions:
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Bad managers make bad decisions generally, and usually for illogical reasons, so they might do this by accident.
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Owners of family businesses can be much harder on their kids when they first start out, because the owners mean to have the kids run the business when they retire, so want to do a “trial by fire”
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
So, in that case, since we can rule out him trying to get in your pants (unless he happens to be in the closet, but that seems unlikely) the key thing you need to watch out for is any appearance of favoritism. Even if the guy is a good manager and is not letting his free time with you affect his decisions, it might affect how other people on your team perceive your assignments. It could also make your boss uncomfortable if they think that you have more access to the CEO.
And everyone is human, the CEO might be older but he clearly has his own issues. Look out to make sure he is not using you as a proxy for his son. But, on the other hand, if he simply has a desire to mentor someone and you happen to share similar enough interests, there is nothing wrong with that.
Like anything else involving adults, though, communication and transparency is the key thing. When people ask you what you both talk about, be honest, without oversharing. And try not to accept any gifts or favors that make you feel uncomfortable – you are allowed to say no, even if the other side perceives it as “generous”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Sorry, but my answer to this post will be a bit different based on your gender and orientation. There is a huge difference between advising a young professional guy who has a few beers with upper management now and then and a young professional woman who finds the CEO “enjoys my company” but there is a “power dynamic”, if you get what I mean.
- Comment on How is spontaneous betting (as portrayed by comics and movies) supposed to work? 2 days ago:
A bet isnt a bet until there are multiple opposing sides matched together. If there is no bookie managing it, then it’s up to the individual participants to do it. If someone says “5 bucks on the big strong guy” it’s not an actual bet until someone comes along and puts money down opposite it.
When the supporting character comes along and says “100 bucks on the other guy whose win moves the plot along”, it’s like he’s saying " I will maych all the announced bets on the big guy so far, and everyone else’s up to a total of $100".
They could take the time to show that person taking out a wad of 5’s anc physically matching the bets already thrown down, but it’s more expedient to just do the shouting.
- Comment on Why is U2 considered "grunge?" 3 days ago:
The only thing U2 has in common with grunge is that both were popular in roughly the same time period (give or take 5 years or so).
- Comment on Odds of rolling a 7 with a weighted die 4 days ago:
If your goal is to roll a 7, then no, weighting one die doesn’t help, because it doesn’t matter which side comes up in the weighted die.
(Another way to look at it is that you can place 1 die on whatever side you like, then roll the 2nd die: you still have a 1/6 chance of rolling a combined 7).
However that is only the case for a 7, because you can roll a 7 with any combination of the first die. If your goal is to roll a 12, then weighting one die towards 6 will affect the odds, because you need a 6 on that first die to roll a 12; any other outcome makes it impossible.
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 1 week ago:
Right, but most modern cars have that communication built in, because they use it to update firmware remotely. You can’t turn it off even if you wanted to. Many car companies justify it by saying it is needed to give your location to emergency services if you use their alert button.
- Comment on How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? 1 week ago:
I tend to agree (and also an EE). Airplane mode isn’t a total panacea, though. It just disables the cellular radio. While it also disables the Wifi and Bluetooth, those can always be turned back on, even while Airplane Mode is active. A motivated state actor can absolutely track via Wifi or Bluetooth. (Possibly even NFC, but the range on that is so low that I think it would impossible to do without seeing what is tracking you).
Turning the phone off is the best solution if you want to keep rhe phone on your person. Guaranteed that all possible avenues for tracking is off, and also has the advantage that even if the phone is seized, the latest phone OSes require the passcode before doing anything at all when they first power up. Even the Police are limited in the data they can get off a phone that has just powered up and is asking for the passcode.
- Comment on It used to be that when most countries were or in trouble or needed help they would go to the US for help. My question is who does the US go to for help if or when needed? 1 week ago:
I am one of those people who engaged in the sarcasm and mockery, particularly mocking American Exceptionalism. But you can argue that American position as an Indispensible Nation is (well, perhaps was) a real thing. But it’s important to acknowledge that status was not accorded to us because we’re special, but because we aligned our interests to many of the world’s democracies. They didn’t follow us because of any inherent birthright, they followed because we shared their values and interests.
John Kerry got skewered when he implies that American interests might be subject to a “global test”, but he was 100% correct. Other countries backed us because we backed then. If looking to America for leadership was no longer in their best interest, they will shop somewhere else for leadership.
And that’s what makes Trump so insidious. Generations of Americans (politicians, service people, etc.) put this country in a position of respect, and this guy is tossing it all out the window by being a pety asshole who doesn’t listen.
- Comment on BlackRock’s Bitcoin Scheme: How Wall Street Giants Are Bilking Poor People Out of Money 1 week ago:
Even the people who are against crypto are probably shilling something. Same song, different key.
- Comment on It used to be that when most countries were or in trouble or needed help they would go to the US for help. My question is who does the US go to for help if or when needed? 1 week ago:
Haven’t you heard? America is Exeptional, we are the Indispensible Nation. We never need help, because we perfected Democracy. Anyone who says otherwise will be sent to CECOT…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
There is a difference between customs and immigration. Customs cares about things (and import duties on those things), Immigration cares about people.
As a US citizen, you should be able to just enter as long as your paperwork is in order. (And if Immigration is interested in you beyond the formalities, it means you are probably on some sort of list, and good luck to you!)
Customs will care mainly that you are only bringing in personal goods, and not commercial goods you intend to sell. They will also care if you buy any goods abroad to take back, because you may owe import duties. So they will not care about your Fairphone unless you bought it while in your trip abroad). In normal times you will have an exemption that allows you to bring in some amount of goods duty-free the the world is all topsy turvy now so I would check what the duty-free allowance is before coming back.
They are used to people bringing in phones, laptops, camera equipment, and other personal effects. They won’t cate unless you have a lot of things, and they think you are not being truthful when you say none of it was purchased abroad.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Your dad is correct in that every driver gets into an accident at one point or another. You have your license, which means you passed the test. And while the test is the bare minimum, you did meet it.
Every driver starts out new, and has to learn a lot. It can take years before you are truly comfortable, and that’s OK.
My recommendation would be to not give up driving cold turkey, but only drive when you are comfortable. Find an errand you need to run once or twice a week and do that route consistently. (Or, if you are working, do your work commute by a consistent route every day). Learn that route, and where all the tricky things are. You may find that after a month or two, you build enough confidence on that one drive that you are not spooked by other drives.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 1 week ago:
Reddit still publishes RSS feeds, so you can use an RSS reader to see the latest stuff. You can’t interact with it, but who wants to trade shit posts with bots anyway?
This is how I keep up with my Sportsball teams since that community hasn’t really taken off here yet.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 1 week ago:
What’s RIF? I joined when BaconReader stopped working
- Comment on An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate 1 week ago:
My biggest issue is with how AI is being marketed, particularly by Apple. Every single Apple Intelligence commercial is about a mediocre person who is not up to the task in front of them, but asks their iPhone for help and ends up skating by. Their families are happy, their co-workers are impressed, and they learn nothing about how to handle the task on their own the next time except that their phone bailed their lame ass out.
It seems to be a reflection of our current political climate, though, where expertise is ignored, competence is scorned, and everyone is out for themselves.
- Comment on If no government shall bare arms against its own citizens. Then what is happening in LA? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback 2 weeks ago:
But if I remember from back in the day, the DMCA doesn’t have any exception for that. This is why CD ripping was legal, while DVD ripping was not. It had nothing to do with fair use or backups, but rather that DVDs have encryption, and CDs do not. Circumventing that encryption for any reason was illegal.
I don’t think it has changed, but it’s been a hot minute since the Cypherpunks all wore DeCSS T-Shirts…
- Comment on I made a terminal-based hacker simulation game for CLI nerds. It's free. Feedback? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback 2 weeks ago:
I think ripping DVDs is still technically illegal, even though CSS has long since been broken. It is still illegal to circumvent encryption in a copy protection scheme, even if it’s for your own personal use and the encryption scheme has been pwned.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
A lot of good advice here! One thing I would add is that large international flights typically board early. So your long-haul flight to Seoul may board 45 minutes or more in advance. And since you are in Business Class, you will board earlier than most.
My advice would be that once you arrive in Munich, check your phone (or look at the departure acreens) to find out what gate your Seoul flight is leaving from, then go there right away. No rush, but don’t hit the gift shop just yet. Once you get there, the screens at the gate should tell you when the boarding time is (or you can ask the gate staff.). Once you confirm that, you can leave for the restroom or to grab a quick snack.
You shouldn’t have to worry about a full meal because they normally feed you well in business class. (Free booze, also, if that is your thing.)
- Comment on Should I just lie on job applications and say I have a college degree? 2 weeks ago:
Certs and experience are more important for sysadmin type jobs anyway. Besides, if the company values a degree more than your experience, would you really want to work there?
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 2 weeks ago:
Hurry up and clone that ASAP, this is gonna get taken down once they realize what it is
- Comment on You probably don't remember these but I have a question 2 weeks ago:
It is likely the car USB port is looking through directories for MP3 files, and thats not now those iPods present themselves when hooked up via USB. You might be able to find an audio-to-bluetooth adapter, but it is likely you will not be able to control the device through the car’s interface, so you would have to press play manually.
(Side note: older cars with USB might have a very low-level relationship with the USB sticks, where they read files in the order they were written to the device, without regard to what folders you put them in. There are utilities that can reorder the files’ physical position on the stick so that albums play in order)
- Comment on Trump Media & Technology Group, the company owned by the President, said Tuesday that it would raise $2.5 billion to invest in Bitcoin 3 weeks ago:
The worst thing that has ever happened to Bitcoin was for its price to skyrocket
- Comment on Trump Media & Technology Group, the company owned by the President, said Tuesday that it would raise $2.5 billion to invest in Bitcoin 3 weeks ago:
Oh. Absolutely, the President shouldn’t be doing this at all. But then again, the President also seems to be using tariffs to directly manipulate the stock market, and Congress is just going to let him.
He’s grabbed the entire Republican party by the pussy…
- Comment on Trump Media & Technology Group, the company owned by the President, said Tuesday that it would raise $2.5 billion to invest in Bitcoin 3 weeks ago:
Bitcoin is pretty widely traded, though. By some accounts, it has a daily trading volume of 50B. 2B is just a drop in that bucket, so it’s not enough to directly manipulate the price.
No, if you want to make money by manipulating prices, you use a shitcoin. $TRUMP has a market cap of $2.5B, and a daily trading volume of 500M. A $2B investment in BTC can then be used on dodgy exchanges to buy and sell $TRUMP anonymously.
- Comment on Trump Media & Technology Group, the company owned by the President, said Tuesday that it would raise $2.5 billion to invest in Bitcoin 3 weeks ago:
This is good for Bitcoin
