Bobert
@Bobert@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are "very excited." 1 year ago:
This 1 fucking guy ruined
a wholefuture generations of gaming with his greedy dumb fuck business ideas.Ftfy
- Comment on Calif. passes strongest right-to-repair bill yet, requiring 7 years of parts 1 year ago:
It likely didn’t affect cellphones. I know major appliances and vehicles were to be supported no less than 7 years. So I’d guess this just brings cellphones and other electronic items under that umbrella. Makes me wonder what is exempt, though.
- Comment on SpaceX projected 20 million Starlink users by 2022—it ended up with 1 million 1 year ago:
I would hazard a guess that they were running a geostationary setup rather than Starlinks LEO approach.
- Comment on Texas grid paid firm to stop mining crypto during heatwave 1 year ago:
My knowledge is specific to TVA, but I was privy to such an agreement that a Cryptominer I worked for had.
The Local Utility Provider would bill the company for their usage, but they did not provide the rate. TVA did because of the amount of electricity. This rate is much cheaper than the Utility Provider offers residential customers; economies of scale as well as the inability to store this amount of power meaning it’s “wasted” otherwise. Whenever there is a period of intense usage TVA would provide a 30 minute notice. After the 30 minutes were up the rate provided to us (industry) would more than quadruple, and was actually quite a bit above the residential rate. Residential customers are entirely exempt from this. Your rate, is your rate, is your rate.
The effect of the above meant that it was a mad scramble to shut everything offline whenever we got notice. Otherwise we were losing money. Regular industry trudged along because their bottom line doesn’t care if their power rate quadrupled for 3 hours a dozen days out of the year. It’s not that big a deal.
I definitely got to see the sausage being made, and it’s opened up my mind to some of the ignorance around crypto mining. If anything it drove me further away from being interested in it as anything more than a neat tech demonstration that people figured they could trade.
- Comment on Texas grid paid firm to stop mining crypto during heatwave 1 year ago:
Who has the keys to free the hostage? ERCOT or the Crypto Mine?
Don’t blame the Crypto Mine for the decisions of the State or ERCOT.
TVA doesn’t give energy credits. They give you a thirty minute notice that your ¢/kwh is about to quadruple.
- Comment on Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet 1 year ago:
“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tapes hurtling down the highway”
- Comment on The mist Texan of all expressions - Y'All - is ungendered and therefore woke 1 year ago:
Don’t be afraid to show the world that not all southerners are right wing. I am prideful of my southern heritage while at the same time embracing others and celebrating theirs. I’ll never be ashamed of my drawl/accent and if other people choose to look down on me, well, that sounds like their loss.
- Comment on HW News - Linus Tech Tips' Terrible Response, ESMC, & Starfield x AMD GPUs 1 year ago:
But you are supposed to reach out and ask for a comment before running a story.
In certain cases yes. This is not one. What comment could Linus have given that would contextualize the story in such a way to excuse factual information?
Steve was absolutely vindicated in refusing to ask for comment due to Linus’s behavior. Had he asked for comment, Linus would have contacted Billet prior to the release. Instead, Linus makes a statement that heavily (if not outright) implies that had Steve asked for comment he would have context to know that an agreement had been made between LMG/Linus and Billet Labs before the video dropped. Because Steve did not reach out for comment we now know that this was a lie or an attempt to obfuscate the truth.
If you are extolling factual information you do not owe the subject a comment. If your work could be damaged (see above) by doing so you do not owe the subject a comment. If a person has already commented publicly you do not owe the subject a comment.
Steve reported objectively factual information that cannot be excused with any context. The story that was written at the time would have been damaged had he asked for comment. Linus has a public presence and has made his feelings known about previous scandals before, and his actual response was entirely telegraphed in tone, if not also content, by long time viewers.
There is not some ethics masterclass that would have come to the conclusion that Steve violated journalistic integrity by running this story without comment from Linus. You may not like it, but you’re also not some ethics in journalism arbiter.
- Comment on HW News - Linus Tech Tips' Terrible Response, ESMC, & Starfield x AMD GPUs 1 year ago:
Woah woah woah woah!
I dunno how many times this has to be said!
He didn’t SELL it! He AUCTIONED it!
That’s a distinction that needs to be made!
- Comment on Cineplex CEO Warns Hollywood Strikes Will Impact Film Slate 1 year ago:
Labor strike means less labor performed.
More at 11.
- Comment on The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China. 1 year ago:
Bro, there is no fucking context given for bringing up “WeLl tHe UnItEd StAteS” in this comment chain. You wanna say “WeLL tHe uNitEd sTaTEs” when someone says that this never would have happened in the U.S. then that’s NOT whataboutism. That’s not what happened here and it’s abundantly obvious based on the OP that I replied to’s follow up comment.
- Comment on The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China. 1 year ago:
Yo dawg, we heard you like whatboutism, so we put some whatboutism in your whataboutism
- Comment on Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration 1 year ago:
The Tech field does encourage laziness in certain specializations. Networking is notorious for it because once it’s up and configured properly you should be able to sit back and relax. For the most part it will run itself when set up correctly. And you pay for that downtime by not getting paid as much.
CyberSecurity is absolutely booming right now, and those dudes are making a mint. Why? Cause they’re going to run around like beheaded chickens more times than not with the pace that attacks are happening. What’s that do for their salary? Shoots it through the roof.
Just because your job is business critical doesn’t mean you deserve as much as someone else who’s doing business critical work. How much work are you doing to maintain the business is the real question, and like I said above, proper Networks should not require tons of intervention. Security solutions, however, do.
- Comment on Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration 1 year ago:
Worked in Ed-Tech making less than teachers while at the same time seeing that when the network went down so did the majority of teachers’ ability to teach. Didn’t make me mad that the person with a Masters made more than the person with an A+. Also spoke to a former tech who, in six years, went from making less than I did in the same position to making over $300k a year.
If you want it, it’s out there. You want UPS driver pay? You want to put yourself in one of the more dangerous jobs and do physical labor? You want CISO pay? You want to forego intimate relationships and free time? You want Ed-Tech Technician pay? You want to sit in an air conditioned office, answer printer and smart board tickets and goof off for half of every day?
- Comment on [video] Fully levitating LK-99 sample claimed replicated 1 year ago:
Except the top comment on the Hacknernews thread suggests otherwise.
- Comment on New Nitrogen malware pushed via Google Ads for ransomware attacks 1 year ago:
Mark my words, this is going to become more common. When corporations become as large as nation-states they will begin to act like nation-states.
Oh, you got malware from our ads? Well if we could implement our Web Integrity API we could easily verify, and track any ads and prevent this. It’s all about security and think of how much better your security would be if we could prevent this!
- Comment on K12 Admins powerwashing their Chromebooks for a new school year. (Summer 2023, Colorized) 1 year ago:
The same Lenovo that couldn’t keep their internal web pages from being public accessible that then allowed the shimming of every other manufacturer’s Chromebooks? Fuck Lenovo.