Buddahriffic

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A sneaky demonstration of the dangers of curl bash⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  An alternative that will avoid the user agent trick is to curl | cat, which just prints the result of the first command to the console. curl >> filename.sh will write it to a script file that you can review and then mark executable and run if you deem it safe, which is safer than doing a curl | cat followed by a curl | bash (because it’s still possible for the 2nd curl to return a different set of commands).

  You can control the user agent with curl and spoof a browser’s user agent for one fetch, then a second fetch using the normal curl user agent and compare the results to detect malicious urls in an automated way.

  A command line analyzer tool would be nice for people who aren’t as familiar with the commands (and to defeat obfuscation) and arguments, though I believe the problem is NP, so it won’t likely ever be completely foolproof. Though maybe it can be if it is run in a sandbox to see what it does instead of just analyzed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol I wonder if windowscentral and MS got in a feedback loop and that’s why MS was surprised at how much people hate copilot integration with the OS and every program they can shove it into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I need more information. Are the potatoes stuck in your throat mashed? Or if they aren’t, are you able to get a masher in there? Might help loosen it up and make it more delicious if you add some butter and milk or heavy cream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Being vegan is unnatural"⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just political clout. Attempting to politically force veganism on the world would result in a war, not just votes against it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm ok, let me do some research on hot potatoes and I’ll get back to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s something I’ve thought about a bunch and the strategy I’ve come up with is:

  If your breath is blocked, hold your breath at first and stay calm. Trying to breathe in could wedge it farther in. And trying to breathe out will likely move it, but gravity might just drop it back where it was only with less air in your lungs, which you need to help dislodge the obstruction. Panicking will make you more likely to waste your chance at getting it without needing to fall on something and potentially break ribs (or fail and die). You’ll probably have to suppress your cough reflex. I’ve never done this before and have no idea how much conscious control one would have in that moment and I’m also someone who trained myself to be able to suppress coughs (to avoid embarrasing bong hits lol).

  Lean forward, the farther the better, to the point where loose food in your throat will just fall out your mouth. Then cough, if you make it also a growl, you can add more force, as you don’t want to half-ass this. Your air might still be limited.

  You should be able to feel if you’re making any progress. If you are, keep at it, if not, switch to the “fall on something to knock the wind out of you” strategy, still keeping your mouth angled down and add a cough as it impacts.

  If that fails, make a big ruckus. I’ve told my daughter that if she starts choking and can’t speak to get my attention, knock dishes onto the floor to get my attention. If you’re completely alone in your home, throw a pot out your window before running out your front door. Try to be efficient with your time and energy. Dial 911 and hope they send someone and don’t assume a prank call or a kid when no one responds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Learn to be ok with taking the L and spit food that is too hot back out of your mouth instead of swallowing. Also, test the temperature with smaller bits that will cool inside your mouth easier before going for a big bite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s gonna look even worse when it starts rusting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Find what you like and stick with it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, I suspect I’m on the spectrum but can’t relate to this at all. I love a variety of food and would get bored to death if I had to eat the same thing all the time.

  I also like new and unexpected textures in foods (unless I’m already familiar with it and know it isn’t supposed to have that texture). That shit’s delightful.

  But maybe it’s just the ADD overpowering anything else in the constant search for new sources of easy dopamine (while also overriding any urgency towards actually context shifting to eating or cooking mode).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Moon landing" photo where the angles of the shadows are all off.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is pretty crazy when you think about it, hitting a target about 1.3 lightseconds away. As in, if you could sight it, you’d be looking at where it was 1.3 seconds ago. Because it is moving at about 1km/s relative to us. And don’t read that as km/h, that’s one kilometer every second, so by the time you see it, it’s already about 1.3km from where you see it, so you need to lead it by about 2.6km to hit it but aim your sensor at the apparent image.

  Though it’s so far away that it doesn’t look that hard and the angle of difference between where you aim the laser and where you pick up the return signal is less than 0.00001 degree (thus you can solve that problem by ignoring it but still, just hitting that tiny distant moving target at all is impressive).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t gaf about religion beyond the tribal shit and that it gives them a way to act better than those who disagree with them and appeal to an authority that will never contradict them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when car controls weren't complicated⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Disagree, I would hate that center spedometer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How kind!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate that you were efficient enough to know you could back out before consuming the frozen treat that melts your mouth along with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every so often, it's important for our community to pause, heal, and reflect together on what's truly important and why we're all here.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure there’s a way to process beans into a flour that could be made into tortillas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fwiw, just because a dumb phone doesn’t give you access to “smart” features doesn’t mean the capabilities aren’t present on the phone. It’s just a matter of what could be hidden on the circuit board (lots can be hidden in chips), and what can be hidden in usual expected traffic (if bandwidth requirements are low, even timing of packets could be used to encode hidden data that would never show up in any logs).

  Plus the simple tracking of cellphones is necessary for them to function at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not gonna lie, I kind like it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The 80s were 30 years after the 50s. The 20s are 30 years after the 90s. So the 90s are as far gone today as the 50s were in the 80s.

  1980 is closer to the end of WWII than it is to today.

  Kurt Cobain has been dead for longer than he was ever alive. Or in other words, there are people born after Cobain’s death that are now older than he was when he died (current cut off date for that is if you were born in 1999). His 59th birthday is tomorrow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A robot can theoretically drive better than a human because emotions and boredom don’t have to be involved. But we aren’t there yet and Teslas are trying to solve the hard mode of pure vision without range finding.

  Also, I suspect that the ones we have are set up purely as NNs where everything is determined by the training, which likely means there’s some random-ass behaviour for rare edge cases where it “thinks” slamming on the accelerator is as good an option as anything else but since it’s a black box no one really understands, there’s no way to tell until someone ends up in that position.

  The tech still belongs in universities, not on public roads as a commercial product/service. Certainly not by the type of people who would at any point say, “fuck it, good enough, ship it like that”, which seems to be most of the tech industry these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ancient hyperfixations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That “in this way he was cured of his illness” is doing a LOT of heavy lifting there. I’d bet that the method used could also be described as torture until he agreed to stop or acted like he no longer wanted to.

  I wonder how much faith in doctors came from vague references like this that only talk about the outcome and skips over the fucked up shit they called “treatment” back in the day. Makes me wonder if many people at the time saw doctors for the “knows a few things about some herbs and setting broken bones but otherwise is just a scam artist that might kill or maim you for no benefit” they were.

  And the sad thing is that a lot of doctors these days are still like that; their body of knowledge is better than back in the plague doctor days, but if a patient strays into unknown territory, they often keep up the “I’m an expert in this” front while talking out of their ass (often an indirect accusation of just trying to get the pain meds they used to push, or some other brush off).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 North American 4 you has been created⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  America does have its own style, though. Or rather a set of styles, just like any other region.

  I would say that one aspect of “American-style” cooking (and “American” here includes “Canadian”) is avoiding cooking. There’s so many options when you don’t really want to cook. Just stack some premade elements onto the premade bread and you’ve got a sandwich. Or stick a frozen dinner in the oven (with entire sections of grocery stores dedicated to the options). Or boil some premade dried pasta and mix with heated up premade sauce. Or just get someone to bring you warm food made by someone else.

  Or for actual cooking, there’s each of the variants in the OP meme. So many things that people complain about not being authentic, when it’s actually just being cooked American style. Might be due to what ingredients are easier or cheaper to get, which style is easier to make, or just preference.

  Pizza is a great example. I’ve had pizza that was described as “authentic italian” and personally I find it to be soggy and floppy compared to the pizza I normally eat. It’s not bad, but I prefer the American style by far. At least in general, a poorly executed American pizza can still be gross, and a high end Italian pizza will probably still be more enjoyable than a mid end American pizza, but all else equal, I like pizza with crust that isn’t saturated with sauce to the point of no structural integrity and toppings smothered in cheese.

  Curry is another one that varies quite a bit by style. I like the Thai style (the curry is more of a soup than a sauce) the best personally, but don’t think I’ve ever tried a curry I didn’t like. It’s a dish where you need to be more specific than “curry” to say what you have in mind.

  The reality is that the vast majority of people have had as little to do with how their culture’s cuisine has developed as anyone else, so the bragging or competitive comparisons don’t really make sense. Same thing if there’s any shame with being from one of the less prominent or made fun of cultures. I’m Canadian and while I love a good poutine, I had nothing to do with their invention.

  Whether or not the dishes were invented in North America, I’d say that the following all are North American dishes (mostly based on my own upbringing in Southern Canada):

  • pizza
  • hot dogs
  • hamburgers + french fries
  • traditional thanksgiving dinner (turkey, stuffing, mashes potatoes, bread, cranberry sauce, etc)
  • eggs/bacon breakfast
  • various mayonaise + X sandwich salads (eg egg or tuna)
  • potato chips
  • steak/ribs bbq style
  • chicken wings
  • clam chowder
  • chicken noodle soup
  • chili
  • sloppy joes
  • casseroles
  • mac and cheese
  • grilled cheese sandwhiches
  • deviled eggs
  • loaded fries/baked potato
  • pasta and meat sauce

  Today, my culture includes things like sushi and curry, too. Not to say I have any kind of ownership or special connection other than I enjoy eating them and make an effort to do so from time to time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acciracy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if it has anything to do with lack of enforcement making weed effectively decriminalized long before the official legalization went through. Official legalization was more of a “government and their buddies want in on the lucrative market”, ignoring that weed was only as expensive as saffron because of the legal risk (or illusion of one) that went along with trading it.

  Saffron is expensive because each plant grows 1-4 flowers, and each flower has two yellow and two red stigmata, and saffron is the two red ones. A whole acre of it will yield less than a kilo IIRC.

  Weed, on the other hand, is aptly named because it is happy growing pretty much anywhere from swamps to dessert mountains. Only real complication with it is the whole determining the sex of the plant ASAP to remove/separate the males before they pollinate the females and then watch for hermaphrodites. Though, even then, it only affects the quality of the final product, as fertalized females still produce bud, it just has seeds in it (at a surprisingly high density if you’ve never gotten seedy bud before) and doesn’t mature the same. Still works fine for extracts.

  If done properly, you can get the whole yield of an acre of saffron from a single weed plant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m disappointed that it took seeing that ad for so many people to realize what should have been obvious: ring, along with teslas, and any voice assistant listening devices, or any other cloud-based tech that monitors video, audio, or even other data, can be used to set up an unprecedented surveillance network. Phones are a part of it, too, at the very least as tracking beacons, assuming the mics and cameras aren’t being tapped more often than that little activity dot indicates.

  There’s a reason why the venn diagram of people who really understand tech and people who are enthusiastic about most new tech in the last decade and a bit aren’t the same circle. The Snowden revelations weren’t surprising on the “what they are capable of” side of things, though there had been hope before they came out that they weren’t crossing the lines that tech would have easily allowed them to. Just like when zuck bragged about the information fb users just gave him, that wasn’t all new but there was an unspoken (and perhaps naive) rule that admins should respect their users’ privacy.

  When I was on the webteam for a gaming community, it would have been trivial to set up the login page to also store all user/password/email combos in a location none of the other team would be likely to notice. We hashed the password in the db, but I could change the source code to do whatever. Even if it was hashed on the client, I could have added a temporary unhashed field and get all the plaintext credentials to check who uses the same password for their email. I didn’t because I respected our users, but from then on just assumed that any site admin could see my credentials and never reuse passwords.

  That also applies to Lemmy, btw. At the very least, you shouldn’t use the same password for you email and anything else (though also be aware emails are just sent as plaintext to a bunch of servers while being routed to your email provider).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, security screws are security theatre. I had an electronics screw driver set that came with a bunch of the rarer screw bits by default. Actually ran into one I didn’t have, then noticed another set with that one (plus other features like the long bendy bit for hard to reach screws) next time I was in the tool section and just bought it.

  That said, I won’t be needing this one. Driving a BMW would go against the image I’m trying to cultivate of not being an asshole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESL homework⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You: the existence of the subway is actually a lie to make Russia look strong to the west.

  Bob: oh damn

  You: we aren’t allowed to talk about it in English. The birds are microphones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Similar with mp3 bitrate. While I do think I noticed a difference going from 128kbps to 192kbps, anything beyond that I can’t hear a difference for.

  Which clearly means I need to dumb 15k into my aound setup because it maxes out somewhere between 128kbps and 192kbps!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleep well⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad you used “effectively impossible” because I think it is possible, though it would be tedious as fuck to do because you’d have like a hundred different shades where each one gets used only a handful of times. It would probably take a computer program pattern helper where you tell it what colour you’re doing so it can highlight where that thread is supposed to show up. You might need to spin some of your own threads to get the correct shades, too.

  That would be like a $1000 pillow for the number of hours that would need to go into it, at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I read the comment, then judge the comment and use that judgement and voting scores to judge the community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TV remotes should have an easy-to-find by touch "volume" toggle button that toggles between two volume settings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If a director’s vision involves either potentially disturbing neighbours or not being able to understand dialogue, fuck their vision. I’d much rather my devices be controlled by what I want, not anyone else’s desires.

  And the existence of idiots doesn’t mean everything needs to be limited so that the idiots won’t screw themselves. We exist in an age where if you don’t understand something, you can easily look up information about it. Enshittification might ruin that over time but it hasn’t done so yet. And it can be designed in a way that can make it easier to figure out. Don’t stick it deep in the settings, make it easy to find in “volume settings” or “audio settings” with preset options that cover common sound system setups. If such a system were common, then plenty of people will learn it and know what’s up when grandma’s TV only plays the music track very loudly (which actually might be kinda nice if you just have the TV playing for background noise).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah so I might be able to do it with 3 just with what I have already but need a Wii and brawl, which is the one I’m missing from the three systems (have melee and the wii u one but not the wii smash bros lol).

  Thanks for taking the time to write that, it’s a lot more info than I was expecting!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow, just looked it up and the description is even better because it was intended to give the games mouse look controls, which IMO is superior to even dual stick for fps. Like set up a mouse and keyboard for a console fps that supports it and it’s like easy mode because you can aim much more quickly.

  Guessing you need to bring your own ROMs (I wonder if I can rip my GCN discs with a blueray reader). Though to clarify, is this for the GCN versions or one of the other ports/remasters? I’ve got 1 and 2 for GCN and 3 for Wii.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a very tasty snack⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh is that why people say you wouldn’t like hot dogs if you saw how they were made, because they are just spam in tube form?