deafboy
@deafboy@lemmy.world
I’m sceptical about all this. In fact, I’m sceptical about everything!
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 8 hours ago:
I can see the headlines… “Tesla. De-funding the police!”
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 1 day ago:
No-one knows chicken like chickens!
- Comment on A receipt printer cured my procrastination [ADHD] 1 week ago:
Games are easy to start, even with low motivation.
I feel like I spend more time keeping the thing in working order, filling up forms, entering 2fa codes, clicking on verification emails, realizing the driver has updated, so the workflows that has been working before are now broken, but some that were broken are working again… and by that point I don’t even want to play.
- Comment on Is chachara.club down? 1 week ago:
someone with no job
TIL. I’ve only ever heard it as a euphemism for a vagina.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Wasn’t microsoft the only phone manufacturer to ship a standard uefi on their devices? I mean before they eventually scraped what was left off of nokia.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 1 week ago:
Most low cost phone resellers have no idea what software is even running on their phones. They just compile some samples from the manufacturers SDK, slap their own logo on top and ship it.
I’m positively surprised it’s supposed to come out with android 15. Barely one major version behind.
- Comment on Steam beta gets native Apple Silicon support — the only public Arm version of Steam 1 week ago:
Asahi linux already ships a VM to run steam on macbooks. And the VM is not even doing the heavy lifting. They do cpu instruction translation on the go, the VM is there just to solve some memory allocation quirks.
- Comment on Fresh Proxmox install w/ full disk encryption—so install Debian first, then Proxmox on top? 1 week ago:
Proxmox is based on Debian, but its installer does not offer you as many options as the base Debian installer. People figured out you can just install debian with your prefered settings and then just slap the proxmox packages on top.
- Comment on Is there a way I can easily set up my own federated instance for free or no? 1 week ago:
Oracle free tier is honestly not worth the hassle. Their portal is absolutely confusing, and those who figure it out will just get banned.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 1 week ago:
Someone already tried.
A television commercial for the loyalty program displayed the commercial’s protagonist flying to school in a McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II vertical take off jet aircraft, valued at $37.4 million at the time, which could be redeemed for 7,000,000 Pepsi Points. The plaintiff, John Leonard, discovered these could be directly purchased from Pepsi at 10¢ per point. Leonard delivered a check for $700,008.50 to PepsiCo, attempting to purchase the jet.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Nomophobia
There is a religious figure in the sacred texts of the AllatRa cult, called Nomo. In this context, nomophopbia would be a good thing. Especially once you find out whom in the real world he’s supposed to represent.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
People believed the weirdest things, like walking with a twig would help you find water pipes
Not only they still do, it’s thought in schools and practiced by the water utility professionals in the field.
They’ve charged me a hundred bucks for their expertise, to which I’ve composed an angry email, asking whether the ministry of magic would be willing to cover the damage if we, somehow, despite their findings, manage to find the pipe where it’s not supposed to be, with the front part of the excavator. They advised us to dig carefully, not addressing the magic ritual part at all.
- Comment on Using DNS4EU in North America 2 weeks ago:
Question for the general public. Why not use the DNS server provided by your ISP?
They already know what websites you visit, because TLS1.2 still leaks the hostname. They might as well provide some useful service in return.
- Comment on Using DNS4EU in North America 2 weeks ago:
Each of them returns the correct answer.
Protective Resolution - IP address 86.54.11.1 Protective + Child Protection - IP address 86.54.11.12 Protective + Ad blocking - IP address 86.54.11.13 Protective + Child Protection + Ad blocking - IP address 86.54.11.11 Unfiltered Resolution- IP address 86.54.11.100
;; ANSWER SECTION: thepiratebay.org. 300 IN A 162.159.137.6 thepiratebay.org. 300 IN A 162.159.136.6
- Comment on Slrpnk.net outage 2 weeks ago:
Clearly someone who has never seen the dedication of the flight sim community. Those guys would put all of us, hobby service providers, to shame.
- Comment on Searching advice for selfhosting critical data 5 weeks ago:
Did unraid implemented a true raid already, or is still periodical sync like snapraid? If not, this kind if solution would be great for the multimedia library that does not change often, but I’d go for the more traditional raid for critical data.
- Comment on Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses? 1 month ago:
Just as “magic spells” use special rhymes and archaic terms to signal their power, the convoluted language of legalese acts to convey a sense of authority, they conclude.
In a study appearing in the journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers found that even non-lawyers use this type of language when asked to write laws.
“People seem to understand that there’s an implicit rule that this is how laws should sound, and they write them that way,” says Edward Gibson, an MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences and the senior author of the study.
- Comment on Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses? 1 month ago:
They believe that the right amount of good spells recited in the correct order will grant them victory. Unfortunately they’ve studied a different magic book than most people, so their magic does not work on others.
- Comment on Playtron wanted to take on Windows and SteamOS with their GameOS, now they're announcing a cryptocurrency 1 month ago:
Valve, as they aren’t actively trying to scam their potential user base
I love Valve, but let’s face the reality here. They’re operating an unregulated bank and casino.
- Comment on Hugging Face releases a robotic arm you can 3D print for $100 1 month ago:
Still peanuts compared to Parlor 6 - 2450€ for a diy kit, 3690 € for the assembled thing.
- Comment on Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days 2 months ago:
I see the price as $21.91 in the search result page. After clicking on it, it returns error 403.
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 2 months ago:
Be careful. Having ownership of your resources allows you to take your stuff, or sell it, and try something else somwhere else. If all the resources are communal, it is harder to escape if the things go south. One of the reasons why is it difficult to leave certain kind of cults.
- Comment on Is dns a good application for the blockchain? 2 months ago:
Bad bot!
- Comment on Why can humans seemingly only imagine like 3 different forms of government in different flavors? 3 months ago:
Multiple good hypotheses here. I’d like to add my own. The governments can be viewed as a modern iterations of religious cults, and there is no bigger taboo in a religious organization than questioning the basic dogma.
Try to question democracy in a democratic republic and you immediately get the weird looks, and irrational dismissal. 9 times out of 10 this self preservation instinct is good and beneficial to everyone involved, because giving a benefit of doubt to closeted authoritarians would be a mistake. That one time somebody really wants to have an honest discussion, it simply sucks.
- Comment on Do you feel like you've reached the end of what the world has to offer? 4 months ago:
The opposite. I’m afraid I will waste my life procrastinating, not even being aware of what it has to offer.
- Comment on Why are there silly license requirements? 4 months ago:
Yet somehow the same people can be trusted to select the best among them to make the rules for everyone.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I sense huge r/antiwork vibes. I hope it will be at least as much fun.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 7 months ago:
Meanwhile down on earth, you’ve just caused an entirely new class of derrivatives traded on sketchy and unregulated markets, increasing the risk of fraud to all, including small individual investors.
Wealth is finite
The size of the observable universe is ~93 billion light-years. So, you’re technically right, but…
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 7 months ago:
What I like: The effort and persistence of the developers What I dislike: The ActivityPub protocol.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 7 months ago:
The value of an art piece is always subjective. The price (closest thing we have to the objective value) is determined by the buyers.
What other mechanism would there be? A committee? That’s a bit nazi for my taste. A popular vote? Look at the election results to see why that might be a bad idea.
The theme is a bit touchy these days, especially in certain small country in eastern europe, where the new minister started to cut subsidies to the art she considers unworthy, obscene and politicized, in favor of art reflecting so called traditional values and national identity. The mere existence of the ministry of culture, established with the most noble goal of supporting art, creates this kind of potential vulnerability.