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- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 6 months ago:
That would be a privacy nightmare.
- Comment on It's a trap! 6 months ago:
You waited for Star Wars Day to post this, didn’t you?
- Comment on Forams 6 months ago:
Babylon 5 Shadows enters the thread.
- Comment on sweet dreams 6 months ago:
I had this thought as a kid. But I thought it was neat that we might be part of an atom of some larger molecule. Didn’t keep me awake. I had other trauma keeping me awake, like going to school.
- Comment on You can swap Quark's head with Al from Quantum Leap and never notice 7 months ago:
I recently introduced my wife to Quantum Leap. She liked Al’s outfits, and I said that I’d love to have some to wear. She eagerly said she’d get me some. A week later she said she was sorry that all the clothes for men are bland. Oh well.
- Comment on Can you un-smart a smart tv? 8 months ago:
Will the TV even setup at all if it can’t connect? I expect it’ll stop working until it can talk to the company again.
- Comment on Experts war-gamed what might happen if deepfakes disrupt the 2024 election. Things went sideways fast. 8 months ago:
Spreading election lies (and that’s what these deepfakes are), needs to be a felony, not protected by the 1st amendment.
- Comment on Is there a word for the phenomena where everyone benefits from design decisions made to help vulnerable populations? 8 months ago:
When closed captioning for TVs was being rolled out by government mandate in the US, there was widespread anger over having the cost of a TV increase by $0.25 for everyone for a feature that would only help a few. I was sickened by the callousness.
- Comment on HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten | Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges 10 months ago:
My MIL doesn’t like to read things on the screen, she much prefers paper. So she prints lots of webpages. sigh
- Comment on Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake 10 months ago:
No. But the asshole wants me to call it X, so I’m not.
- Comment on Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake 10 months ago:
I just call it twitter because I like dead-naming it.
- Comment on People who dont particularly care for or celebrate Christmas, Whats your favorite Christmas song? 10 months ago:
As an atheist, I don’t like religious xmas music. But I love these songs based on the Cthulhu Mythos. The HP Lovecraft Historical Society did a fantastic job on them! I have 2 CDs of xmas holiday music from them (much more than this playlist has), and an adaptation of The Fidder on the Roof called A Shoggoth on the Roof.
- Comment on Jeffery Cooms 11 months ago:
🤣🤣🤣
- Comment on Fascinating... 11 months ago:
Quick, someone put him in a dress!
AKA a frock
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Raid 5 is parity, not parody 😀. Each drive contains part of the information of the other drives, so that if any one of the drives dies, you can still get all the information (it will just be slower until you replace it and the system rebuilds the data on the new drive).
- Comment on The Doctor gets around. 11 months ago:
Innerspace was such a fun movie.
- Comment on Crikey my child 11 months ago:
To be fair, when she first appeared on screen, I thought she looked like the Sydney Opera House. I don’t know why the costume department wanted everyone to associate the two, and thus start hating on Sydney, but there we go.
- Comment on Let's talk starship classes! 1 year ago:
- Danube class runabout
- Refit Constitution (NCC-1701A)
- Whatever the Reliant was from ST2:WOK.
I want a runabout!
- Comment on Starfleet Academy of Delinquents and Troublemakers 1 year ago:
I’m definitely a Tendi. Science FTW!
- Comment on What are the recommended scripting languages for complex shell scripts beyond bash? 1 year ago:
Unpopular opinion: I’m old school and would probably use perl.
- Comment on Mozilla Senior Director of Content explained why Mozilla has taken an interest in the fediverse and Mastodon 1 year ago:
If you’re interested in donating, go to foundation.mozilla.org/en/?form=donate
- Comment on Happy Halloween 1 year ago:
This episode was great! It started a whole series of episodes telling the story of the parasites.
What? They showed this, then totally forgot they had this fantastic hook for lots more episodes? Boo.
- Comment on Canon Connections: LDS 4x07 - A Few Badgeys More 1 year ago:
Jeffrey Coombs also played Schran in various ENT episodes.
- Comment on Scrollbars are becoming a problem 1 year ago:
Control key shortcuts.
- Comment on Scientists just opened the lid to NASA’s asteroid sample canister 1 year ago:
Nothing living can come from Mars, but still they come
- Comment on Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn 1 year ago:
So they could have bought the site and taken care of it for minimal cost.
- Comment on I wanna be Tendi, but I'm totally a Boimler. 1 year ago:
That’s “The Dog.”
- Comment on FediPrimer - An Ongoing Series Of Chatty Explanations Of The Fediverse 1 year ago:
This is very well done. Thanks for getting the SSL cert.
I’ve written one at babylon4.com/fediverse, but yours goes into more detail.
- Comment on You probably can recite 2 birthday songs from memory, but only 2. 1 year ago:
Ahh. The birthday dirge. Classy.