dhork

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Rejects Sale of Infowars to The Onion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He would never accept a deposit from the interested parties before making this decision. That would be a bribe, and extremely illegal.

  He will accept his deposit from the interested parties after making the decision. That is a gratuity, and is now totally legal, thanks to SCOTUS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Trump orange?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever looked at the makeup that theater or TV performers use? It is layered on super thick, so that it looks good from far away, but up close it looks overly made up.

  Trump has been on TV so much that he knows all about that. He wants to project an image of vitality, so he layers that stuff on as thick as he can to mask his natural pallor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassination is a Leaky Abstraction⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is nothing wrong with making a profit. People have to be paid, after all, and that includes the ownership who put the money at risk in the operation to begin with. The problem is when making a profit becomes the only motive.

  Every company is established with the purpose of offering a product or performing a service that makes their customers’ better or simpler. If is successful, it grows from nothing to something in a relatively short period of time. Then it gets the attention of the Investor Class, who shovels money into it with the expectation that it will sustain that growth. Now, the focus is on Building Shareholder Value, and the customer is seen as a necessary evil toward that goal.

  The worst thing that ever happened was when we decided that public corporations had a duty to maximize shareholder value above everything else. It renders all those mission and vision statements irrelevant. No matter how much the CEO says the firm’s goal is to make the world a better place through selling stuff, we all know it’s a lie. Their goal is to enrich tthemselves, at our expense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backdoor slips into popular code library, drains ~$155k from digital wallets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It truly is SOL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backdoor slips into popular code library, drains ~$155k from digital wallets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Socket, a security firm that helps detect supply-chain attacks, said the back door is “believed to be the result of a social engineering/phishing attack targeting maintainers of the official Web3.js open source library maintained by Solana.”

  That’s super interesting. From the sound of it, the Maintainers must have been targeted to force a malicious Pull Request to be accepted. That article showed some of the code from the commit. I am not a Solana developer but understood enough to know what it was doing and that no maintainer should have approved it willingly.

  I wonder if those maintainers will end up having any liability for the hack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It has never happened before, so we don’t really know. What I think would happen is that Vance would just get immediately sworn in as the President on Jan 20 if God exercises His Ultimate Veto on Trump’s second term.

  But the Presidential Succession Act only covers vacancies for the Presidency. Once the office of the President is filled again, nothing else happens. It’s not like everyone else “moves up” a slot. Mike Johnson would probably see the VP position as a demotion honestly.

  The Office of the VP would remain vacant until President Vance nominates a candidate, and then it must be approved by both houses of Congress in order for the position to be filled.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How is Mint internationally?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All my shit is in the Google ecosystem. I am fairly confident that Gmail is not going away anytime soon. However, I am more afraid that some obscure ToS violation will forcibly disconnect me from their ecosystem, and I will have to scramble to make sure all my contacts have my alternate info. I am doubly screwed, as a Google Fi customer. If we all get suddenly degoogled, I lose a phone number that I have had for over 20 years.

  As good a deal that Fi is for me (I normally don’t use bandwidth unless I travel internationally), I may switch soon just to reduce my exposure to Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warcraft 1 & 2 Remastered Editions Now Available⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck, I’m old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Using your credentials is not hacking, but once he was canned he no longer had authorization to access those systems. Legally, there is probably no distinction between gaining access by actual hacking vs. using credentials that are no longer authorized.

  So yes, their IT processes are deficient, but that doesn’t let the guy off the hook or mitigate his punishment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do I put down on my resume?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were hiring for a forklift operator, and someone was a good candidate who came with experience but their prior employer didn’t certify him properly, I would pay for the certification. $300 seems like noise compared with the general cost of onboarding a new employee. But it’s been a while since I worked in Manufacturing, and when I did the managers at that place were competent, so maybe my standards are too high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do I put down on my resume?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In that case, OP should just be honest about the status of his certification. If other employers hire from WalMart often, they know their practices. The new employer may even want to pay for the classes, if they know the candidate has done the job before and is likely to pass. But I don’t know how much it costs and whether a company would normally pay for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there ever a situation where a doctor can legally refuse to render aid to someone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. In fact, in the US, it can be a crime for a doctor to aid someone in distress, if that person is a pregnant woman and helping them might harm the baby they are carrying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are laptop adapters so much larger than phone adapters of same power rating?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or is it simply cheaper to manufacture while being sold for the same price?

  Yes, it’s mainly that. Most vendors don’t make their own power adaptors anyway, since there are strict requirements for power adaptors that are plugged into AC wall sockets in each country. The stuff inside the large brick is likely sourced from somewhere else, who has all those certifications worldwide. Note that it also uses standard AC power cable plugs. That large brick can be shipped worldwide by simply changing the AC cable it ships with.

  The small GaN Brick is also outsourced, but since it is smaller it is probably more expensive to build. However, the AC plus is integrated into it, which means the seller has to stock physically separate units for each plug type.

  As far as the price is concerned, this one shop is selling them all at around the same price, but I bet the MSRP on the Lenovo one is much higher, because of the brand. The parts inside the Lenovo one are probably cheaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do I put down on my resume?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not allowed to carry these certifications outside Wal-Mart to use.

  Says who? Will Walmart use a memory gun to erase your knowledge about which lever does what? If you find another job that uses those skills, they will do whatever they need to paperwork-wise to make you eligible.

  Put it all down. Don’t use the word “certification” if it makes you feel better, but list all those things somewhere. Some people put a section with “relevant skills” at the end, you can list all the machinery you know how to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The article noted that the agents can’t use their personal devices while on duty but of course they can while they are off duty. It mentioned that one of the guards took a jog while off duty, but that jog was from the hotel the President was staying at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They also push their credit card with Chase. It has a $99 yearly fee, but gives you a free checked bag and lets you into Boarding Group 2 without needing extra status, which has an okay chance of having enough overhead for a carry-on. If you intend to fly United more than once in a year with a checked bag, but not enough to get status, it can make more sense to get the card.

  It kind of sucks to have to play those games, but that’s Capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Basic economy simply isn’t worth it. They nickel and dime you with all the BS fees. And the credit card thing is total bullshit, too. They do it because they want to make sure they have your card on file in order to sell you overpriced snack boxes and charge them to your seat.

  Once I had to buy a poor lady some crackers because she was on the last leg of a flight from Asia and hasn’t eaten anything, but the stewardess couldn’t take her money unless she had set up her CC ahead of time.

  I fly United often enough for work that I have some status, so I’m one of the entitied snobs who board first and hog all the overhead space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will COVID death rates of Republicans have a significant impact on the outcome of the presidential election?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, everything you wrote about excess mortality in rural vs urban areas is 100% correct. But the Census aimed to enumerate everyone living in the country as of April 1, 2020, and it hit NYC really hard right at the start. So the fact that the rest of the country eventually caught up with the mortality rate didn’t help NY State in the Census at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will COVID death rates of Republicans have a significant impact on the outcome of the presidential election?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  COVID has already had an impact on the election. The census date was April 1, 2020. In March of 2020, COVID had started to severely hit NYC but was only ramping up in other areas. NY ended up losing a congressional seat in that census, by only 89 people. There’s no doubt that COVID’s timing screwed up NY State’s congressional map, and contributed to the slim Republican majority in this year’s census.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All-optical switch device paves way for faster fiber-optic communication⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are such things as L1 switches, they are not really switches in the Ethernet sense but rather more like crossbar switches. They can selectively connect all traffic from two arbitrary ports together, and then change that on the fly, without a waiting change. Applications that are obsessed with getting the lowest possible latency might opt for those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Roman Catholic doctrine opposes both, but the bishops don’t go around threatening to withhold religious services for politicians who allow the death penalty like they do with pro-choice politicians…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trust me, we have tried. The problem is that l, while the PayPal account was never verified to that email address, somehow a foreign number is attached to it. Every time we have tried to use that email with the account, the verification ping goes to that number, even though the email is unverified. We haven’t found a way to tell PayPal to disassociate that number, because we never had any account attached to it to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is someone squatted on your email, starting an unverified account attached to your email address with their phone number, but the fuckers at PayPal won’t do a thing about it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mystery creator of Bitcoin identified, new HBO documentary claims⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, all it requires is someone to produce a signed message with one of Satoshi’s private keys, which can be easily verified with the public addresses on the blockchain. Whoever produced that message can be proven to possess that private key.

  If we presume that Satoshi understood that Bitcoin may be valuable one day and kept the keys private, that would mean that the signer really is Satoshi (or one of his associates or heirs Satoshi trusted wih access). Even if that person wasn’t actually Satoshi, their word on who it is would be considered authoritative.

  Unless it’s Craig. Fuck that guy. Nobody believes him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How about a nice game of Chess?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just don’t hook it up to your wifi. Don’t use any of its included apps. If you must stream get a separate device to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China is six months behind the U.S. on AI, the US has to move faster: Div Turakhia.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is our plan to pollute everything with AI first, so the Chinese bots are trained by our bots?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make my own internet?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you run BGP, yes. You can always just build up huge-ass fixed routing tables that are impossible to maintain once you get more than a handful of networks…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The way forward is to stop looking at those as “features of the keyboard and mouse that I purchased” and consider them as “unlockables” where you have to pay again by handing over your personal info. Then stop buying their stuff, because it’s absurd to have to pay twice.

  I prefer my keyboards and mice as dumb as possible. Preferably with cables, so I never have to worry about charging them.