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- Comment on Are airports difficult to navigate? (first time flyer)? 4 hours ago:
Because of the autistic community, there are a wealth of information on airports and what happens.
So I’m pretty confident that you can look up your specific airports and find out everything about them.
The layover is a good thing. It is incredibly unlikely you miss the connection when you have two hours. So you’ll be fine, but look up videos on the airports to reassure yourself.
- Comment on Why do americans assume they invented the internet? 13 hours ago:
Because the first long distance use was kids at Stanford using it with kids from UCLA…
I don’t know if it was the very first thing. But it was almost immediately used to sell weed.
And the first use that used at least two nodes was a dude in NYC.
Where do you think it was invented?
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 3 days ago:
100% do it.
No woman should ever take an ultimatum like that, but it’s better for her to know who you are then you creeping around her and growing resentful while she thinks you’re legitimately a friend.
This way everyone goes their separate ways. Eventually you might learn that it’s not an either or thing and good relationships are friendships.
- Comment on Donation-supported file host Catbox got kicked out of Patreon and temporarily from Ko-Fi, now running at deficit of approx. $1,388/month. 3 days ago:
I’m not an expert on how CSAM is hosted online, but yeah:
The reason I colocate my own hardware is for multiple reasons, including the reason for this post.
He flat out said a main reason he uses his own hardware is he knows he’s hosting CSAM…
So I would not be surprised if it’s just in his closet.
Still shocked he’d just admit it online begging for money and people would defend it tho…
- Comment on Donation-supported file host Catbox got kicked out of Patreon and temporarily from Ko-Fi, now running at deficit of approx. $1,388/month. 3 days ago:
In the reply to Patreon
Yes…
In communications to the people who banned them, who they rely on for donations to flow thru they act like they take it seriously…
In the blog begging for donations there’s no mention of moderation and a few parts where they make it clear moderation is a joke to them
That’s one of many signs from your link that they know what’s happening, they know that’s why they’re getting a decent chunk of donations.
- Comment on Donation-supported file host Catbox got kicked out of Patreon and temporarily from Ko-Fi, now running at deficit of approx. $1,388/month. 3 days ago:
So, they got kicked for hosting CSAM…
And in this post:
I’ve received many emails over the years regarding the cost of datacenter colocation, including things like “why is it so high”, “why don’t use you [insert cloud provider here]”. The reason I colocate my own hardware is for multiple reasons, including the reason for this post. I can manage my own hardware (I’m actually smart sometimes!), upgrade it with 1-off costs (instead of needing to change plans, increasing monthly costs, etc), purchase new hardware when needed, and plan accordingly. I also don’t have to worry about getting my service suspended by providers like Cloudflare or other shitty dedicated server providers who balk at the first abuse report.
Meaning it’s really just running in their closet, they’ve received multiple reports there’s CSAM, and they just keep operating?
Like, am I wrong or is this person really just bald faced admitting to a serious crime while begging for money?
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 4 days ago:
They’re also ignoring how many times this conversation has been had…
We never stopped raid at any other increase in drive density, there’s no reason to pick this as the time to stop.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 4 days ago:
Everybody is different.
I can’t metabolize most painkillers, they do literally nothing to me because I’m missing a liver enzyme. I could eat a handful of percacet every day for months and quit cold turkey easy, because I was never really getting anything out of to begin with.
There are countless reasons why people react differently to medication, that’s why doctors just try random shit till something seems to work.
It might be educated guesswork, but it’s still guesswork. And there’s very little effort put into why/how one thing worked over others, if it works that’s the end of it.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 4 days ago:
Might be neuropathic.
If so, they give gabapentin out like candy, it is addictive tho so you may want to consider it “as needed” even tho they’ll want you to take it on a schedule.
- Comment on I am having a weird experience on the Fediverse. 5 days ago:
Pretty sure world stopped federating with that instance because it’s all rightwing trolls…
- Comment on How can I properly learn deaf sign languages? 6 days ago:
Contact a “deaf school” most cities have them, and have programs for friends/family of the hearing impaired to learn ASL.
- Comment on Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs. 1 week ago:
Obviously…
Like, you understand someone has to monitor that shit, right?
Do people think social media DMs are supposed to be secure?
- Comment on Leprosy existed in the Americas long before the arrival of Europeans, study reveals 1 week ago:
I was going to say this was pretty obvious just because armadillos being the only other animal susceptible was unlikely if they’d never been around it…
But apparently I missed the squirrel memo:
Notably, the analyses also suggest that the strains found in red squirrels in the UK in 2016 are part of an American lineage that was introduced to the British Isles in the 19th century, where it subsequently spread. This discovery highlights the recent ability of the pathogen to cross continents, likely through human or commercial exchanges.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 1 week ago:
Treat them like anyone else by default and make accommodations if you need to and it’s reasonable.
You’re asking with good intentions, but the best answer for any group will always be that. Shit, not even by groups. On a human by human basis just do that, there’s a crazy amount of human variation and it’s not always obvious.
- Comment on Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs. 1 week ago:
People need to stop going on Twitter…
- Comment on Gumroad Founder Sahil Lavingia Reveals He Was Let Go from DOGE as Software Engineer for the Department of Veterans Affairs After Just 55 Days 1 week ago:
Why the fuck would anyone have sympathy for one of these hard right techbros?
Like, congrats to this piece of shit for finally figuring out he’s not in the old boys club, but if his only complaint is they fired him, then he hasn’t figured anything out.
I’ll never understand why so many people think a bunch of actual fascists will consider them “one of the good ones”.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
What’s actually bad about it?
Like, this is something you opt into and is only relevant if you’re watching their ad supported stuff, which I don’t know anyone who watches that over their own media on Plex.
And honestly, every “bad” thing I’ve ever heard about Plex has been the same thing, something that sounds horrible until you understand it
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
If you’re watching their “free” content and agree to that box…
The title made it seem waaaaay worse than what the screenshot actually says
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
OP faked the screenshot
www.youtube.com/@tutorialsbyluke/videos
The last video was from 7 years ago, but the 87 subscribers is legit for some reason
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Like every other post OP makes, yes, it’s obviously to get people to play their game.
I searched the channel expecting it to be the only video and also OP:
www.youtube.com/@tutorialsbyluke/videos
But instead they just faked the acreenshot, it’s not even a real video
- Comment on Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example 1 week ago:
Yes, sounds are waves that go thru a medium, usually air.
Think of it like one person speaking in a gym compared to 1,000
The different sounds add up, that’s easy everyone just has to talk. But you don’t get silence, you get a cacophony.
To produce opposite sounds to cancel each other out though, that would be impossible, and becomes even more impossible as you scale up.
It helps if you can see it to visualize what I mean by alternating waves:
askamathematician.com/…/Noise-Cancellation.gif
I didn’t think of it till I looked for a diagram, but yeah, it’s exactly how active noise cancellation works
- Comment on Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example 1 week ago:
You can cancel out one sound wave an equal and opposite one.
Doing so outside of a controlled laboratory setting would be effectively impossible for real world noises.
But if you got two speakers in a completely soundproof room playing equal but perfectly opposite oscillating and repeating sound waves…
Sure, it’s possible.
- Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women 1 week ago:
Yes, there are some skilled jobs there, but the ratio is much lower for the employees in China than domestically.
You can just keep repeating the same thing over and over again despite it being wrong…
Doesn’t make it true tho, just makes other people eventually stop responding
- Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women 1 week ago:
and those can be replicated elsewhere
Apple isn’t in the process of spending billions over decades to train people just to install screws…
Like, fuck Apple, I’ve never owned a single Apple product. But they wouldn’t have spent that much for so long to train people for unskilled labor.
- Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women 1 week ago:
Apple spent literal decades training workers over there, and the Chinese government busted up Apple and all their workers went to competitors…
Like, sure, someone has to assemble the screws but it didn’t take Apple 20 years of investment to just teach them to use a screwdriver. It’s skilled labor.
Jon Stewart had some guy that wrote a book on it a week or two ago.
- Comment on YSK sleep loss is a metabolic disorder 1 week ago:
Then the authors of the paper don’t know the scientiffic definition of at least two of these: symptom, condition, disorder…
- Comment on Ive won a game but I'm not a gamer is there a way of donating it to lemmy somehow? 1 week ago:
When you “claim” the prize it will be a “steam key”.
Anyone can then use that “steam key” to add that game.
So what is normally done is someone creates a post saying the name of the game and you have a free steam key to give away, and whoever replies first, DM them the code.
On reddit there were bots that scrapped codes
On Lemmy you might be able to just post it, but whoever redeems it first gets to keep it.
- Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women 1 week ago:
Authors name is “Tripp” and if he’s a real person he 100% used AI to write it.
I’m guessing his grandfather was/is loaded and connected. I’ve never met a man in my life who goes by “Tripp” and isn’t an insufferable douche coasting off generational wealth.
The crazy part is he just “wrote” a book about Apple, and there’s a good chance Apple execs he talked to really said that stupid racist thing.
- Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women 1 week ago:
What’s important to note is all the pieces that get screwed together are still made over there…
We can pay tariffs on all the pieces and screw them together here, but that’s going to essentially have the same tariff costs as a completed iPhone.
Having someone screw the pieces together here would also raise costs due to labor costs. But they’re two completely different things.
- Comment on YSK sleep loss is a metabolic disorder 1 week ago:
Full article is paywalled, but I wonder if this is a translation issue?
They’re saying that because sleep depreciation cause a slower metabolic rate, it’s a meta olic disorder…
Which is crazy, because by that logic damn near every condition is a metabolic disorder, inclouding sleep.
