Ajen
@Ajen@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Smh being fired for police work 5 hours ago:
Oh, he did it to another cop. Now I see why he was fired.
- Comment on Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly? 6 days ago:
Yes, obviously they’re for communicating with other drivers, what gave you the impression I meant otherwise? I was responding to this in your last post:
Unless you turn your blinker on to let people know your want over how is anyone going to give you enough space to merge in? […] You need to hit the blinker to let others know you want to move then check for space.
There are a lot of times where it makes sense to wait for a gap in traffic, rather than asking people to let you merge. And in those situations you would check for space before turning on your signal. You should still use your signal, even if you know you already have space to merge.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
Or you play a cat-and-mouse game with the authorities in that country as they try to block access to your servers. Depending on your moral values this might be preferable to blindly following the laws of authoritarian regimes.
It’s really the country you’re based in that matters the most.
- Comment on Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly? 1 week ago:
LA has infamously bad drivers. In many parts of the country people will slow down and give you space to move over when you have your signal on. They’ll also do a proper zipper merge in a lot of places.
- Comment on Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly? 1 week ago:
Yep. If I know there aren’t any other cars within a quarter mile of me then the turn signal is just a formality. At best it tells other drivers the lane change was intentional, at worst it’s a (miniscule) waste of time and energy.
- Comment on Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly? 1 week ago:
That only makes sense if you’re driving on a busy road. If seems like half of the commenters here only drive during rush hour, and the other half only drive on rural roads.
If there isn’t much traffic it makes a lot of sense to wait until you have an opening and then turn on your signal, instead of turning it on before checking for a gap.
- Comment on China now faces 245% Trump tariff 1 week ago:
Non-tarrif taxes would apply equally to foreign and domestic goods and can be ignored when comparing prices.
- Comment on Absolutely true! 1 week ago:
You also don’t need a 16h plane flight to travel. It can be MUCH cheaper, and shorter.
- Comment on Absolutely true! 1 week ago:
You don’t have to leave the continent, just getting away for a day or two can do wonders.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yep sounds like a bug
- Comment on China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech 2 weeks ago:
Who would they sell it to?
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 4 weeks ago:
Hard disagree. Prusas used to be completely open source. Now they merely have open source components. It isn’t accurate to call them open source.
Would you call Windows or MacOS open source? Both Microsoft and Apple have made parts of their OS’s open source, but that doesn’t mean the entire product is open source.
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 4 weeks ago:
Besides the others that were mentioned, Prusa is moving away from open source.
- Comment on Hate crimes 1 month ago:
Yeah, racism is considered normal in many parts of the world and you wouldn’t have a progressive spouse/partner, they’d both be racist.
- Comment on Medical Device Company Tells Hospitals They're No Longer Allowed to Fix Machine That Costs Six Figures 2 months ago:
From what I understand, this is common among larger med tech companies like Fisher and Beckman. I’m not trying to justify it, but I’m also not sure it’s newsworthy.
- Comment on Suspect freed from custody over suicide capsule death in Switzerland 4 months ago:
The article says Switzerland’s Interior Minister announced that the suicide capsule is illegal, so that would explain the arrest. I guess they’ll make their arguments in court for why the assisted suicide law doesn’t protect it.
- Comment on ugh i wish 4 months ago:
Yeah, that’s why you mix it with raw milk.
- Comment on ugh i wish 4 months ago:
OK, but pasteurization doesn’t sterilize it either. Also, OP was making a joke…
- Comment on ugh i wish 4 months ago:
Try this:
- Comment on Domain instead of ip in Wireguard 5 months ago:
LetsEncrypt is a good option if you want to set it up yourself. More work than cloudflare though.
- Comment on Just started printing with ABS.... 5 months ago:
IMO there’s no “best” material, they all have advantages and disadvantages. PLA is very rigid, PETG is UV and temperature resistant, ABS is temperature resistant and dissolves in acetone… ABS is tricky to print though, even with an enclosure. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you need the higher temperature resistance or like to tinker.
- Comment on Digital Homeownership 5 months ago:
And you lose access to “your” site if they go out of business. Sounds a lot like renting, not sure where the “ownership” part comes in.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 months ago:
Maybe take a break from the doomscolling/doomposting and try to relax.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 months ago:
Because superconductors are even more expensive than breeder reactors.
- Comment on Hackers demand France’s Schneider Electric pay a $125k ransom in baguettes 5 months ago:
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 5 months ago:
Only 4x? Not sure what UK rates are like, but it could easily be 10x that in the US.
- Comment on New mobile features are sh*t these days 5 months ago:
Wouldn’t mind if they keep lowering power consumption…
- Comment on The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books 5 months ago:
I didn’t say their point wasn’t valid, I just thought their reading comprehension was ironic.
- Comment on The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books 5 months ago:
The article is about a course that’s required for all freshmen, not just lit majors. Here’s the first sentence of the article:
Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998.
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 5 months ago:
It could - if a woman has a child with her own son.
