nickwitha_k
@nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 7 hours ago:
And I’m childless, not by choice, and sadly glad too.
- Comment on In the context of the leaked Warcraft II remake, do you still trust Blizzard to produce good games? 2 weeks ago:
Nope.
- Comment on Anybody know a good site for US presidential election updates? 2 weeks ago:
I like your optimism. Thank you.
- Comment on Anybody know a good site for US presidential election updates? 2 weeks ago:
We’re all pretty much fucked, in the US or not. Climate issues are going to get worse.
- Comment on We're Back! 2 weeks ago:
Probably a terrible idea. I do also have a sacrificial HP in the garage to rip apart and try to implement a FOSS/OSHW controller for at some point. Maybe I’ll try with that eventually, supposing I can hack together a nozzle.
- Comment on We're Back! 2 weeks ago:
That picture always reminds me of a SysAdmin that I worked with a while back at a DC. He was an old school Perl and BSD guy and always smoked unfiltered rollies.
- Comment on We're Back! 2 weeks ago:
Oh no. Now I’m thinking about whether I can make fountain pen ink work in my ecotank printer.
- Comment on We're Back! 2 weeks ago:
Mostly sleeping, handily.
- Comment on We're Back! 2 weeks ago:
a pentagram
Oh! That’s why. It’s SDF, not your neighborhood technodemons. Should have been a bigram, so that the machine spirits could understand without converting numerical bases.
- Comment on wild seals 2 weeks ago:
Thank you! That’s a great video.
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 2 weeks ago:
I’m so used to tech and Linux stuff that I first thought that it was a special interest instance for shell scripting and TUIs. Now, it’s a toss up between “shit just works” and “sh! It just works”.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Finland was no NATO and not even the USSR touch it.
If you omit the middle of the 20th century, sure. The Finns declared independence from the Russian Empire in 1917, under the approval of the Bolsheviks’ Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia. In 1934, Finland and the USSR reaffirmed a non-aggression pact for 10 years. In 1939, after penning a deal with Hitler to carve up Europe between the Nazis and the USSR, Stalin demanded that Finland, who had maintained a stance of neutrality, cede territory for military use and, when they refused, ordered shelling and invasion.
Neutrality or even open trade did not prevent the USSR from invading then, not did handing over nukes save Ukraine from invasion in 2014.
- Comment on Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer 4 weeks ago:
I’ll pass.
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 4 weeks ago:
This is why. Kroger is terrible but Walmart is worse.
- Comment on that's a huge sprout 4 weeks ago:
Clearly, that’s kohlrabi.
- Comment on Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens 4 weeks ago:
Quick question for those more in the know: Have these events disrupted IA’s ability to archive pages? I ask because I was recently talking with a security guy about a novel malware that used a hacked webpage for command injection. One possible motive that came to mind, if the archiving was disrupted would be to cover tracks for a similar malware. Inject code, perform malicious activity, revert, then, there’s more time before the control code is discovered.
- Comment on TikToxic 4 weeks ago:
Those aren’t gloves, they’re callouses.
- Comment on FCC Republican opposes regulation of data caps with analogy to coffee refills 5 weeks ago:
I love rfc2324 and will someday make a compliant coffee machine.
- Comment on Chat, what do you see? 5 weeks ago:
Desperately hoping to find something on the thin-layer chromatography plate?
- Comment on PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off 1 month ago:
Yeah. It’s crazy to think that USB can now handle 240W. And yes, the naming conventions are terribad but, at least the standards are actually open, unlike VESA’s.
- Comment on Anxiety 1 month ago:
This. I don’t partake anymore because if I have too much, it puts me in a full-blown anxiety attack, sometimes with existential terror mixed in, and couch-lock on top of that. Nothing quite like appearing to be having a fine time to the outside world while internally being trapped somewhere between emotional purgatory and hel for several hours.
The risks outweigh the benefits for me. That just means more for everyone else though ;)
- Comment on Microsoft is discontinuing its HoloLens headsets 1 month ago:
Oh, absolutely. I’d never be willing to use their firmware and I’d be extremely hesitant to give them any money on account of their active role in election manipulation and complicity in political violence.
- Comment on Microsoft is discontinuing its HoloLens headsets 1 month ago:
I’ve said this elsewhere: The Company Formerly-known as Facebook’s headset has some impressive features and tech. However, the pixels-per-degree is abysmal. They need to at least triple it to be competitive with smartphones or birdbath optics. I’m not holding my breath but, I’d also not be mad if they succeed and are able to deliver for a reasonable price point.
- Comment on Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges 1 month ago:
I had to mess around with my ET and compile a driver (nothing pre-packaged for aarch64) in order to get CUPS to play nice with it. The network implementation is garbage so, it’s been nice having a pi print server.
- Comment on Do animals feel love and emotion? 1 month ago:
Yeah. It’s the showing teeth (or that thereof) that in many animals is a threat display. Think of it like a non-verbal way of saying “See these teeth? How’d you like them in your face? Because that’s gonna happen if you don’t step the fuck off.”
I find that my cats and dog DO smile with their mouths/faces closed when getting a particularly nice petting. It seems a bit subtle because they’re smaller than us but, rather like a little smirk (best is when my little cat gets a particularly nice nose scritching and he can’t keep his mouth closed because it feels too good and a loud purr escapes from between his little fangs).
- Comment on Do animals feel love and emotion? 1 month ago:
Do animals feel love and emotion?
Yes. Animals absolutely have emotions. In fact, many animals, like cats, are extremely emotional creatures, on account of not having as highly developed parts of the brain that deal with emotional regulation. Affection? Absolutely. Love? Yes, but not generally in the same ways as people.
Do cats and dogs actually feel affection when you treat them right or is it really just an instinct for “more food and drink” etc?
I have a little cat that adores me. He likes come right up to my face and head-butt me forcefully (a behavior called bunting) and he likes to fall asleep gazing at me. Domestic cats and dogs are social creatures. Left to their own devices, they will engage in social behaviors unrelated to survival and biology.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen dogs, cats and other domestic animals smile because they’re happy and show love to their owners for treating them right.
Oh they absolutely do smile, just differently than humans. Cats are especially subtle abd communicative in their body language. It’s also with noting that what humans think of as smiling, to most animals is an aggression display.
Yeah I see memes but those are either photoshopped or snapped at the perfect moment to make it look like they’re smiling.
Domestic dogs and cats communicate a lot with body language, the majority of it being pure emotion. Their body language, however, is different from our own. You have to meet them halfway in communication; learning to listen to what they are saying.
- Comment on PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off 1 month ago:
Generally, I find that the discs often little more than licenses and require the actual have to be downloaded.
- Comment on PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off 1 month ago:
I mean, if it has USB PD, that could be a not so unreasonable thing. That is, supposing USB PD supplies as outlets become common.
- Comment on [Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday 1 month ago:
Best psychological horror game in years.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
Does it really matter who does the evicting ?
Yes.
After it’s done it’s anybody’s guess what will fill the power vacuum. All we know is they will wear black boots and carry guns.
And this is exactly why. In order to effect lasting, positive changes, it’s important to have builders, not to mention critical mass with the populace. “Ends-justify-the-means” thinking and ascribing friendship the the enemy of one’s enemy don’t lend themselves to establishing resilient and non-despotic results.