Couldbealeotard
@Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
- Comment on tetrapods 1 day ago:
Let’s get. Together. Katamari on the funk
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 week ago:
Yea. I’m sure they will be humbled like the people of North Korea, who think their supernatural leader invented hamburgers and the electric guitar.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 weeks ago:
After his own offer to rescue the children was turned down
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 2 weeks ago:
Sad story.
That’s enough money to have a good life and provide a good life to your loved ones. If he never finds it, he is a crazy man. If he finds it he is a smart man. A normal person can’t earn that much in a lifetime. Even a miniscule chance of finding it could drive someone to obsession.
For the sake of his sanity, and for a good story, I hope he finds it, but I doubt he will.
- Comment on Sri Lanka goes bananas after monkey unplugs nation 2 weeks ago:
“unplugged nation” is certainly one way to describe what happened. The monkey very briefly became part of the electricity grid, is another.
- Comment on Co-op campaigns are a rarity these days, and that should change 3 weeks ago:
And from memory, the number of enemies scales with the number of players. It’s gets pretty hectic pretty fast.
- Comment on Co-op campaigns are a rarity these days, and that should change 3 weeks ago:
There’s heaps of mods for classic games to turn them into co-op, including Doom (3), half life, quake, aliens vs predator, etc.
- Comment on Australian bosses on notice as 'deliberate' wage theft becomes a crime 1 month ago:
That happened at my workplace. The ATO was notified, and after a lengthy investigation each staff member were repaid tens of thousands of dollars, including the extra that would have been generated through super growth.
The ATO does not muck around.
- Comment on Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers 2 months ago:
I’m sure it will simply result in a yes/no dialogue box asking “are you over 16?”
- Comment on Bluesky hits 20 million users 3 months ago:
I thought it was a great idea for official statements. Kind of like a new type of RSS feed.
Local transport companies can advertise delays, meteorology organisations can advertise natural disasters, police can post active missing person alerts, etc.
But it seems like it is just vapid narcissists thinking other people give a shit about their random thoughts.
- Comment on Bunnings told to destroy 'faceprint' data after landmark ruling on facial recognition use 3 months ago:
So what do you think they are doing with the data?
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 3 months ago:
If you start with the second one you won’t know what’s going on and feel like you’ve missed a bunch of important story.
This is how it felt after playing the first one as well. Half Life 2 is almost an unrelated game. The plots of the two barely line up.
- Comment on nighttime pollinator gang rise up 3 months ago:
Hang on, what is bad about the word moist? Some of my favourite things are moist!
- Comment on nighttime pollinator gang rise up 3 months ago:
What do mean regarding terrible names? “Moth” isn’t inherently a bad name; any negative connotations of the word come from the creature itself.
- Comment on Brazilian Wandering Spider 4 months ago:
The good news is you get a four hour erection.
The bad news is that you die within two hours. - Comment on Starlink dishes found on Russian military drones after being shot down 4 months ago:
Why would private ones need to be registered?
Mobile GPS is artificially disabled above a certain ground speed to prevent them being used as bootleg missile guidance systems.
Just put a speed limit on Starlink dishes, and then if you want to permit one side to use them simply whitelist those MACs. Perhaps the real reason is that a private company doesn’t want to be seen as choosing sides or maybe there are implications for international rules of war.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 5 months ago:
The ones that pay are the ones running the ads. If the content creators have to pay, they will be the ones doing ads. This is how AV content has worked since the dawn of broadcast radio.
- Comment on THICC 5 months ago:
What is aave?
- Comment on Just for a moment 5 months ago:
If you’re good at what you do, it’s not hard at all. Doesn’t even feel like work. The one thing it takes from you is time. Long long days, time away from family. It’s wonderful but it’s a doozy of a price you pay
- Comment on Has anyone else ever seen an SSH key/fingerprint thing string together an actual word? Or how about a curse word? XD 5 months ago:
It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times!?
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 5 months ago:
I think the Botting of streams to game the royalties is the bit they don’t like.
Obviously it would be a beach of t&cs
- Comment on Why are Australians in denial about how cold our homes really are? ‘Winter stoicism’ is partly to blame | Reena Gupta 6 months ago:
The houses I’ve seen in America were thoroughly insulated and heated to cope with the climate. Large amounts of that country is subject to snow in winter. In Australia you only find snow on the mountains in the south east.
- Comment on Nuclear too slow to replace coal, and baseload “simply can’t compete” with wind and solar, AEMO boss says 7 months ago:
How do you determine what is good or bad for the environment?
The environment is just the result of many interactive factors. People need to reverse the perspective and ask is the environment good for us?
- Comment on If a tunnel boring machine were installed facing downward in a cemetery, you wouldn't need to expand the cemetery 7 months ago:
Did you think graves were perpetual?
I’m sorry to bake your noodle on this one, but when you get buried you’ll get 6 years tops before the site is recycled for the next person.
- Comment on CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes 7 months ago:
What are the chances that Crowdstrike started using ai to do their update deployments, and they just won’t admit it?
- Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees 7 months ago:
That’s kind of why they are successful though, right? They were the ones that figured out how to supply games digitally for a profit, which required a way to prevent people from sharing the product for free. This was previously done with CD keys, but the advent of the internet rendered that mostly ineffective.
- Comment on Nuclear too slow to replace coal, and baseload “simply can’t compete” with wind and solar, AEMO boss says 7 months ago:
Yea, it would be pretty rough.
- Comment on Nuclear too slow to replace coal, and baseload “simply can’t compete” with wind and solar, AEMO boss says 7 months ago:
There are historical accounts of volcanic activity blocking the sky, I think in Europe, for a few years. For all we know it was the whole planet. That would definitely disrupt solar energy collection without being an extinction level event.
Diversity is a genuine factor of fossil fuel free energy generation.
- Comment on Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets 7 months ago:
Going through a scalper means that the ticket supply is artificially decreased, which pumps up the price. Then you run the risk of your ticket not working when you turn up to the venue.
- Comment on Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets 7 months ago:
You’d rather have 2 middle men for your ticket purchase?