deafboy
@deafboy@lemmy.world
I’m sceptical about all this. In fact, I’m sceptical about everything!
- Comment on who was the aggressor in cold war? 1 week ago:
Believe it or not, these were invited by a certain asshole sitting in the government at the time. I can only assume this is how the friendly visit looked like back in the day. Different time, different customs…
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 week ago:
new account - check
zero comments - check
inflammatory post - check.
deleted account - TBD…
- Comment on who was the aggressor in cold war? 1 week ago:
The soft power of the USSR:
- Comment on Why do SO MANY reviews now talk about "phone wobble"? 1 week ago:
The truly strange thing is that nobody has complained about it until now. I can’t imagine buying a phone that can’t be rested on the table evenly.
- Comment on If God (or any creator of the universe) exists would he be made out of atoms? 1 week ago:
He would be made out of the snake body and the lion head!
Finally a reason to tell everyone I’ve discovered gnosticism. It’s like normal religion, but for pessimists. On the other hand, so many Therion songs just make sense all of a sudden.
- Comment on YSK about Israel’s “Samson Option”: The Nuclear Target List that includes American and European cities… 1 week ago:
Oh, boy! If you like long podcasts, Behind the Bastards did a 5 parter about the history of the nuclear programs.
spoiler: USA kinda did have a literal program to nuke random cities possibly unrelated to the potential source of the attack.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 4 weeks ago:
And now I wish for somebody to include this into their fictional universe. If any proffesional writer reads this, pay attention!
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 4 weeks ago:
Removing a bunch of corn syrup from our diet can’t hurt us.
- Comment on Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something! 4 weeks ago:
The absolute strangest 6 and a half hours spent in front of the screen.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
always ask:
- How many people would have to be in on it?
- How likely is it for everybody to keep the secret?
- Comment on By technical standards were 3D TVs impressive, Why didn't they catch on back then? 1 month ago:
I feel like 3D is a different kind of medium. Directors used to shoot movies that look good on a 2D screen weren’t fully utilizing the possibilities of the new medium. However, shooting movies solely for being presented in 3D would not have been financially viable.
VR suffers from a similar problem. But thanks to lower costs, compared to a Hollywood movie, it’s possible to target the smaller market of VR users.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 1 month ago:
I think I’ve boycotted sony for one thing or the other for the large part of my adult life. Only backed down in 2021 and bought some shares. Time to return back to normal I guess.
- Comment on Got my robot vacuum running Valetudo the other night... 1 month ago:
I’ve patiently waited until the flashing guide for the roborock s8 was out, went to buy the s8 pro ultra, just to discover valetudo has dropped the support, because appearently a different version of the same robot was silently released, that would’ve been turned into a brick if I tried the installation procedure.
Now I have a dumb robot. It does like 95% of what I expect it to do, but I might at least solder an ep32 to the top buttons so that scheduling through the home assistant would be possible
- Comment on These 3D Printed Ceramics are Insane 2 months ago:
Those are beautiful, but jesus christ on a unicycle, how did they end up supporting klarna? Offering people loans for a tea cup feels insulting.
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 2 months ago:
Some people stuggle to learn a second language their entire lives. These badasses did it for a gig!
- Comment on Why do people hate reality? 2 months ago:
"We think that the internet is real."
- Peter Sunde
- Comment on Chat Control 2.0: what if Signal supports user-made Add-ons, one which encrypts all messages? Could that circumvent Chat Control 2.0? 3 months ago:
There’s no legal solution to a technological problem. Laws are always temporary, for better or worse.
- Comment on The end of tt-rss.org 3 months ago:
people have stories how the dev is an ass
If an opensource project has an author who’s not a jerk, that’s when you get suspicious!
- Comment on Microbes trapped in permafrost awake after thousands of years 3 months ago:
Speaking from the evolutionary perspective, we’ve dealt with influenza successfully. I’m still glad I wasn’t there to watch us win, though.
- Comment on You should know how to coil cables 3 months ago:
If they are training on historical dubs, just be thankful you’re not Polish.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 3 months ago:
I once put my homelab rack outside of my apartment, in the hall. Then used it to catch a bastard who kept stealing my bike light, and later tried to snatch the whole bike.
- Comment on YSK the basic techniques for "deprogramming" people who you think are in a cult 3 months ago:
I love these weird micro-cult stories, thank you for posting this!
What made it extra weird for me was the fact that I grew up among people obsessed with tolkien and larping, ocasionally being labeled as a cult by the general public, except they actually pulled off the fantasy/scifi convention part. And they are still going strong for more than a decade. It was a humbling experience for me as a young adult to see my peers exhibit such dedication, discipline and organization skills just for the sake of building something together.
Seeing how the same drive can backfire under different conditions was quite a ride!
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 3 months ago:
Admins: ArtemZ
Forgot to switch from personal to work account? :D
- Comment on bruh, i just realised that the last time i played Garrys Mod,Obama was still president lmao 3 months ago:
The last time I watched the “Don’t date a robot” episode of Futurama, it was a fiction.
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 4 months ago:
The more shocking is that one guy who KNOWS it’s sqlite, but ain’t afraid to admit it!
- Comment on Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts 4 months ago:
Piping scripts directly to bash is a security risk
Nobody has ever explained why. What is the difference between executing a script directly from curl, and adding a repository which downloads a package which contains a script.
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 4 months ago:
I record all my phone calls. It allows me to pretend not to forget all the names, dates, places and other important details we just talked about with the other person as soon as the call ends.
- Comment on monthly challenge 4 months ago:
Let me help.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 4 months ago:
This post has less upvotes in the politics community, where it belongs, than here. Why?
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 4 months ago:
What I really don’t get is people delivering with someone else (also an adult) in the vehicle
If you could spend the boring part of your job chatting with friends, would you decline?
