vrek
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- Comment on Alternate Ending [Death Note] 1 day ago:
Interesting question(don’t mean any offense by it)… If you had transitioned already and he wrote your transitioned name… Would you transition back to avoid death?
- Comment on Day 520 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
Yeah, he fixed them.
- Comment on Day 520 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
It’s fixed now
- Comment on Day 520 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
No problem. Thanks for fixing it.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 1 day ago:
Wait… While this is horrible… How did LG say anything in a January announcement when it’s still December?
- Comment on Day 520 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 days ago:
Thanks for confirming it’s not my setup.
- Comment on Day 520 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 days ago:
I love these posts and don’t mean to complain but atleast for me it seems every image except the initial one is broken. It’s only able to load the first image.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 2 days ago:
I honestly feel very similar. The closest I can kinda understand is like a guy at birth wanting to wear a skirt, in which case I say go rock that skirt. Or maybe a girl at birth wanting to feel accepted in certain male dominated activities in which case it’s a problem with those activities and not the girl.
I’m a guy at birth, I guess I identify as a guy but it’s meh. If I was misgendered at most I would make a overly dramatic joke but it wouldn’t effect my physiologicaly.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
If I remember he was poor and only had a wii-u and a phone and the web interface for porn hub on wii-u was superior to them.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I still remember there was a reddit post years ago, asking if anyone else noticed that porn hub had cut support for the wii-u browser. Everyone was like wtf? Who watches porn hub on wii-u?
- Comment on A secret cord 1 week ago:
Just use a normal power strip to power things in a natural disaster, or prepare proper and properly hook one up.
- Comment on A secret cord 1 week ago:
I had a cheap generator. I plugged in an extention cord through the window, into a powerstrip with the fridge, modem and 2 sockets to charge devices. Worked perfectly when I needed it but I also had a kerosene space heater so I wasn’t too concerned about freezing(bring all blankets into the living room, build a blanket fort atleast 6 feet away from the space heater and have everyone cuddle, calms people down, provides warmth and forms bonds.
- Comment on A secret cord 1 week ago:
Usually this are associated with Christmas lights… What’s the rush? Do it right this weekend instead of hoping you have time next weekend and you don’t burn down your house in the meantime
- Comment on Today In Computing History 1 week ago:
That is true. Lovelace and Margaret Hamilton are both great women in computing. Arguably up there with babage and turing but not nearly as well known.
- Comment on Today In Computing History 1 week ago:
Actually only two “witches” were burned, about 70% were acquitted and almost the rest were hanged. That’s atleast true in England, don’t know about the figures for the US.
As evidence of the computers comment here’s Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation)
- Comment on It will be great, they said... 1 week ago:
Long ago I think it was 2006, I worked in a computer store/corporate it support that used to also be a 56k dial up isp. When i first got hired it was supposed to be like a paid internship. 2 weeks in the guy “mentoring” me was fired. Only other employees was the owner was had a PhD in information technology from 1984 and never kept up and his wife who did the accounting.
Over the next year he hired and fired probably 15 people and then decided he liked me enough to make me full time. He had no idea what he was doing and neither did I. Basically I was responsible for 8 business networks(including a 150 employee credit union), any computers a customer brought in, and our own internal network.
One day it was slow so I was browsing various web comics. The owner comes on at 1030(we opened at 900) furious with me. He claimed I was “reading a page with black text on a white background” which meant I was reading how to operate a spam business. That was his proof, a page with black text and a white background which he could not find my history.
He had received a letter from his isp that we were sending 2.5 million emails a day, we had 72 hours to resolve the issue or we were to be cut off. I argued that I didn’t run a spam operation, he had no proof and there were simpler explanations. It got so heated I quit, keep in mind I was only employee.
Next day the credit union was having a server issue and he had no one to fix it. He called me asking for me to return, I negotiated a $1 hour raise, an official written letter of apology, pay for time the previous day and that day and told him I would be back the following day.
I went in, solved the server issue(eventually found out cleaning crew was unplugging the power strip to plug in their vaccum over night and the server was configured not to restart when power returned). Went back to the office and talked with the owner. He showed me the letter and it identified 2 ip addresses as being the source. Neither was my computer and I didn’t recognize them. There was a command you could send over the terminal to open the CD tray based on ip address. I ran the command and basically walked around looking for a computer with open CD trays.
Turns out there was 2 servers, outside of our firewall directly facing the internet and yes for the memes they were originally dns servers from the 56k isp days. They were running original nt4, completely unpatched, with no security software installed and permanent outside facing ip addresses. I ran a virus scanner on it, I stopped when it detected over 100k infected files. Disconnected the servers, waited 10 minutes, called isp and effectively all email had stopped (the boss and myself both sent 1 email to confirm it was still working).
- Comment on Today In Computing History 1 week ago:
The first computers were mostly women so… (originally being a computer was a profession which basically meant being paid to do calculations.)
- Comment on 6🤷♀️7 1 week ago:
Depends… Wait if it involves depends that a whole other fetish.
- Comment on 6🤷♀️7 1 week ago:
From the times when I was younger…
68 is you do me and I owe you one. 71 was 69 with 2 fingers in the ass. I guess 70 would just be training…
- Comment on Nobel Price 2 weeks ago:
I got a Nobel prize… Now people have to knock on my door
- Comment on Amazon’s dynamic pricing is causing chaos for school budgets 2 weeks ago:
What’s even worse is when you have to go through a third party to buy from grainger.
A previous company wanted to increase their “diversity” which I agree with but rather than actually hiring diverse people or anything actually helpful they decided we could only purchase easily through this company. It was made very difficult to purchase from anyone else.
We needed 5 gallon buckets periodically. We used to buy them for 2.68 per bucket and 1.57 for lid. We used about 10 per year. Through this new company it was 87.10 for a 10 pack.
Worse what you had to do is go onto grainger.com find the item you wanted, go to their website, put in the grainger part number, some point typically within 72 hours you would get an email with a quote, go back to their website enter the quote number, purchase the item, and the item would arrive in a grainger box. But since you didn’t buy it from grainger the “to” entry on address label was for who ever made the quote. So you had to go to the warehouse and ask if there was any packages. They would ask for the po number and then have to manually check all the packages for that number in the attn field of address labels. There was about 1000 employees in the building.
- Comment on "Party in the USA" and "Pink Pony Club" are opposite views on America: "Yay, the US is really all the same!" vs. "Yay, there are real cultural differences within the US!" 2 weeks ago:
Same can be said of let the bodies hit the floor and it’s raining men
- Comment on "Party in the USA" and "Pink Pony Club" are opposite views on America: "Yay, the US is really all the same!" vs. "Yay, there are real cultural differences within the US!" 2 weeks ago:
Same can be said of let the bodies hit the floor and it’s raining men
- Comment on Sorry fellas, this absolute gem is taken 😭 2 weeks ago:
Personally I would prefer ham or bacon but I can deal with chicken…
- Comment on mmm... tastes like chimkin 3 weeks ago:
Fun… Well not really fun… Fact:
Giant tortoise didn’t get a scientific name for 300 years. They were so delicious no crew actually managed to get one back to England. They always ended up eating all the cargo.
- Comment on And my premature ejaculation is the shortcoming!? 3 weeks ago:
Well if that’s what you want it’s in the wrong hole
- Comment on Libraries are cool 3 weeks ago:
That’s actually really cool…
- Comment on Libraries are cool 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, my previous employer had shutdowns on the week of July 4th and Christmas so the production operators on contract(aka not paid for holidays) could volunteer to help in the counts.
I was curious if libraries have a similar system…
- Comment on Your job is going to fire you for an unexcused absence. So you send them a pic to prove that you are in the hospital 3 weeks ago:
One time I was sick. I was stuck in the bathroom rotating between sitting and kneeling. I called my team lead and said I couldn’t come in and I was taking a sick day.
He responded by claiming I was lying and was not really sick. I responded with a picture of the toilet bowl after several rounds(unflushed).
He responded with “get well soon”
- Comment on Libraries are cool 3 weeks ago:
Out of curiosity do you have a routine to periodically (annually, quarterly, I don’t know) to re-arrange books put back in the wrong place?