rob_t_firefly
@rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world
Artist, writer, comic, loud voice, activist, and nerd of all trades from New York City.
- Home: RobVincent.net
- Podcasts: modern.technology
- Toots: hackers.town/@Rob_T_Firefly
- Pronouns: he/him
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 1 day ago:
I love this person’s glasses.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 1 day ago:
Nah, those frames are awesome.
- Comment on new Star Trek Voyager videogame: Across the Unknown 3 days ago:
Hold off long enough for him to become Tuvix and then let that beautiful bastard live instead.
- Comment on Macaroni and cheese 3 days ago:
Trying to find an ATM machine so I can buy some SCUBA apparatus.
- Comment on The forgotten war on the Walkman 3 days ago:
I wanted to stop using my Walkman when I got a Discman, but my main use for portable music was during long walks and commutes and the Discman worked like crap if I was moving around at all. The skippy little expensive bastard got put back on the shelf, and I kept using cassettes until the portable MP3 player era finally hit.
- Comment on It slaps tho 5 days ago:
At that point you may as well cook.
- Comment on Everytime i come across a 3d printing post 6 days ago:
If you’re only using natural (unpigmented) PLA that’s one thing, but the pigments in colored PLA vary widely in terms of environmental effects and compostability. Composting old PLA prints may release all sorts of crud into the end product you really don’t want to fertilize your garden with, always check your filament’s MSDS first.
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More 6 days ago:
Frakes has dealt directly with Trek fandom for nearly 40 years straight. If there’s one thing that shouldn’t surprise him, it’s every damn thing being “controversial” to a chunk of it.
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 1 week ago:
I’ve had it checked out and it’s fine, thanks. That’s good advice.
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 1 week ago:
I have a permanent eye floater. When I get really bored I find suitable things in my field of vision to look back and forth between and play pong with.
- Comment on Debatable 1 week ago:
The original post has video of this kid as well, and AI slop isn’t that good at faking moving hair yet. From a quick browse of that guy’s page he does over-process and filter the shit out of his stills making them look like slop, but these do appear to be real bad hair days.
- Comment on Going back to play Mario Kart 8 on my Switch 1 when everyone else has a Switch 2, FOMO 1 week ago:
I’m still playing the original Super Mario Kart on my
UNAPPROVED HARDWARE REDACTEDand doing fine. - Comment on "Shut Up, Wesley" [Remastered in HD] 1 week ago:
The Doctor Who folks forked their Fandom wiki from tardis.fandom.com to tardis.wiki and it’s glorious.
- Comment on Cardassian Security Priorities 1 week ago:
And the fact that the consoles violently explode when something on the outside of the ship nowhere near the bridge is hit.
I hate it when someone knocks too hard on my front door, causing my bathroom light switch to burst into flame.
- Comment on Well maybe that's why she became a Talaxian 1 week ago:
Mork from Ork approves.
- Comment on Big things happening in the 3D print community 2 weeks ago:
Melted plastic, plastic fumes, and microplastic particles already aren’t great for you, and 3D-printing introduces a bunch of ways for them to be introduced directly into your body.
I worked in the 3D-printing industry for a long time, and I’m confident whoever does my autopsy is going to get a clown-style poof of confetti.
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 2 weeks ago:
Fitting that it’s ending in (eternal) September.
- Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation 2 weeks ago:
That’s the scariest thing about this all to me. I’m middle-aged and happily married, but my own youth was a long battle with various mental heath struggles, social isolation, abuse, extreme loneliness, and having to figure out so much of my life without enough help. I have no doubt that if this bullshit were available to me back then I’d have been very susceptible to it carrying me off into far deeper unhealthy mental states and worse decisions than the ones I ended up with. I had my own poor decisions, hard lessons, and all-around awful shit to wade through, but ultimately I was able to learn, work, grow, and find myself somewhere better.
I have a very good life now, with a real human partner, family, friends, and others who appreciate my existence as I appreciate theirs. I’m not rich or famous or whatever, but I’m constantly grateful to be doing as well as I am. It absolutely fucking devastates me how much more difficult finding one’s way to a more positive future is now for kids who are dealing with anything like I was back then, with uncaring capitalist asshole-fueled bullshit like this getting in the way.
- Comment on If you were born after 1990, you've never had this experience 2 weeks ago:
BEBOP COLA GOOOOOD!!!
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
So I ask everyone again, what business model exists for a software company to make money without ads or charging a monthly subscription.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Business_models_for_open-sourc…
Speaking of WIkipedia, wikimediafoundation.org/…/financial-reports/
- Comment on Big things happening in the 3D print community 2 weeks ago:
Breathing through 3D-printed plastic would be bad enough for you without the cigarettes.
- Comment on Itch.io has begun restoring NSFW content, but only if it’s free 3 weeks ago:
Add some massive unregulated grifting and hideous environmental consequences to your idea, and you’ve just invented cryptocurrency.
- Comment on Piss Post 3 weeks ago:
Excellent point!
- Comment on Yeah 3 weeks ago:
I wanna go gambling with your hard drive.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 3 weeks ago:
Or the terrifyingly-random bullshit that happens when someone chooses to depend on a free service such as Hotmail as their primary mission-critical address. (This article is about the developer getting locked out of their Hotmail, and the generally-broken state of Hotmail’s account recovery process.)
- Comment on Piss Post 3 weeks ago:
My version of this would have the smiley face in every square.
- Comment on The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users. 3 weeks ago:
The full post by linked source Taylor Lorenz about this appears here on her Patreon (openly readable, not locked as of now).
She still writes on Substack, though, which ultimately works in support of This Sort of Thing.
- Comment on The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 3 weeks ago:
The linked story has been updated. The headline now reads:
Labour rules out VPN ban in UK but issues warning to UK households
Labour won’t ban the use of Virtual Private Networks
And the story begins:
Labour Party Tech Secretary Peter Kyle has revealed that the Government is “not considering a VPN ban” - after reports in Guido Fawkes suggested it was possible.
- Comment on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima 4 weeks ago:
From what the article says the app watches you while you change expressions as prompted, so you can’t use AI-generated images. That’s why using a game’s photo mode, where you can toggle the CG facial expression around in real time while pointing your camera at it, is such a clever solution.