Godort

@Godort@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do office workers actually do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in an office as a network administrator. Largely my day to day is a meeting every morning to go over what everyone is doing for the day, then looking through and responding to all the alerts that came up from all the servers I manage(things like failing backups, unexpected reboots, stopped services, strange login behavior, etc)

  Then, if I still have time in the day, I put time towards some of the long term projects I have which largely consists of finding things that can be automated and scripting up solutions to that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mid game review: Brütal Legend (2009) PS3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I pre-ordered this game because I loved Psychonauts and this game was marketed as a sort of heavy metal themed Zelda game.

  I then learned about 2 hours in that its also an RTS, which is a genre I never got along with and set it down never to be played again. Thankfully, when you’re a patient gamer, you can’t be lied to by advertising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm making a hedge maze in Inzoi - Check my work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a short story I read a while back that also featured that plot point, but I don’t remember what it was called.

  Only that I found it after reading into inspirations for The Laundry Files by Charles Stross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian owner of Toronto café chain fighting Ottawa to save $8K of Vegemite⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This sucks, but I can understand both sides here.

  Canada has strangely high standards when it comes to food regulations. Especially in restaurants. And lowering those could result in an influx of low quality processed foods entering the market.

  On the other hand, the reason it’s failing to meet the standard is that it has added vitamin B which feels a bit absurd since those additions are allowed in other products here.

  I hope this gets resolved in a way that lets this dude keep selling Vegemite at his shop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop having expectations at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  on my last thread somebody wrote that unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments

  How do I stop having expectations?

  This is almost certainly not what they meant. You can’t expect someone to read your mind and solve problems you might have.

  If management is not meeting your expectations, then the answer is to have a conversation with them about it, not to remove them altogether.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Does Dr. Wily Keep Getting Away? Is the Legal System in 20XX a Joke?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That whole album is full of bangers.

  From the somber Father of Death, to the jazzy sounds of The Hounds, to the very 80s rock of Breaking out and Light up the Night. Every track on that album is good.

  It’s far more polished than the noisy, almost punk vibe the first album has.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Does Dr. Wily Keep Getting Away? Is the Legal System in 20XX a Joke?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, The 4th directive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than Canada and Australia, which countries are best alternatives to traveling to the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends what you want to see from the US. The US is massive and there is a huge difference in visiting NYC vs visiting Omaha.

  It also depends where you are. For example if you’re in the EU then visiting places like Paris or Amsterdam are probably out as they are accessible as a day trip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An engineering masterpiece' — reviewer raves about fastest large capacity SSD ever built, but it won't be cheap⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Similar enterprise-grade SSDs go for around $16K

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hollow Knight fans were, of course, let down with the lack of a Silksong appearance again, but I hope they expect that by now.

  I’m already wearing my clown makeup, you don’t have to be so hurtful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like this was already the case

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3's grip looks the most comfy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the correct answer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am untethered and my rage knows no bounds!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss my wife, Tails. I miss her a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They are lying to us⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the thing labeled “What the Fuck” a mercury rectifier?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ESP32 "backdoor" that wasn't | Dark Mentor LLC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, this doesn’t really change anything from a practical perspective. It just highlights that the verbage in the press release was alarmist.

  It’s still a security concern that most users will be unaware of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Things get a little nebulous when you’re talking about microcode running on a proprietary IC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poor guy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you don’t understand. He’s rich and white, so he shouldn’t be subject to those pesky regulations.

  That’s how it works in the US, so obviously that’s how it should work in South Africa too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When do we start needing active coolers for our drives?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can get spinning rust all the way up to 32 TB in a single 3.5" disk and 8 TB in an NVMe drive. The tech is out there, but it takes time for the price of stuff like that to come down when there isnt much demand for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current World situation has me like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Your magic number is “64517”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People are complicated and can carry multiple, nuanced beliefs. There are people out there that support LGBTQ+ rights, think that drag is fun, and believe that people of color get treated unfairly systemically without also wanting to take up arms in a violent revolution against the established systems in America because social progress is still happening, albeit slowly.

  Every social media platform(Yes, even the independent ones) tends to remove all nuance and push every issue as binary, and sometimes worse than that, it will bundle issues together. There are people here that will argue in all seriousness that if you voted for the candidate that would’ve pushed forward progressive policies, that you also support the genocide in Gaza.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You ever wonder how the right seems to move in lockstep while the left constantly debates between themselves about the details?

  It’s shit like this that fosters that attitude. If some people on the right can look at something like this and then really examine their positions then thats a win.

  The goal with something like this isn’t to get someone to 180 on their beliefs, they know that the government is untrustworthy. It’s to have them really look at what they’re supporting, and if they truly want those changes, after learning what it might cost them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people see me as far older than 19 when I type the way I do sometimes?/Why do people think full stops are rude?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of. There is one punctuation tell that you can typically use to tell if someone is older, and thats if they use ellipsis to separate thoughts rather than line breaks in informal settings.

  Back in the day when you were writing on paper, space was a limited resource, so people that are more used to that will separate ideas with a ‘…’ rather than starting a new paragraph because you can fit more text into a smaller footprint.

  Come the turn of the millennium, digital writing became the norm and people that grew up surrounded by computers tend to use line breaks instead because space is not limited in the same way anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My experience has been that most people only use a computer at work and use their phone or a smart TV for everything else. Although, they usually also own a laptop for when a computer is required

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world might be a whe different place if Ask Jeeves won the search engine wars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I prefer jovial” would’ve become the goto rainbow capitalist phrase

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has America Reached Its Tipping Point with Ignorance?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a bit more hopeful than that(America is still fucked short term, but humanity might be better off long term). Throughout history, people have been misinformed idiots that don’t think critically. It’s just that prior to about 2008, people didn’t really have access to the deluge of information that is social media and we’re still trying to figure that out.

  The reason misinformation on social media works so well is that people want to learn things, and if someone tells them a believable enough lie, they’ll take that as fact doing only minimal checks(eg: my friend whom I trust shared this article saying that it’s the Mexican’s fault I see so many homeless people, so it must be true).

  Stuff like this has happened throughout history. People published absolutely insane things in books and presented them as fact for hundreds of years, and it set back things like science and medicine for equivalently long, as people didn’t fact check things then either.

  The fact that people are already hammering on about trying to fact check social media means that people are educated enough now to start, and we as a species just need another small push in that direction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s Salt Typhoon Spies Are Still Hacking Telecoms—Now by Exploiting Cisco Routers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Against this specifically?

  • Don’t ever expose your firewall/router management access to the Internet.
  • Install firmware updates asap.
  • Don’t be a an attractive target for nation-state hackers.

  Additionally, ensure that you are following best practices for your own data by enabling MFA wherever you can and dont re-use passwords for any service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Buy Store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, it just keeps getting worse.

  The first sign is a reasonable expectation, the second sign removes a little agency but is still decent customer service, the third sign reads like a parody of overbearing corporate attitude, and the fourth is just abusive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but if it were free it’s a “you get what you pay for” situation. People are a lot more forgiving when they aren’t personally losing money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Cyberpunk Netflix animation confirmed as 2077 tops 30 million sales⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with Solarpunk as a fiction genre is that it’s much harder to write than any of the other --punks. Solarpunk has a positive bent to it in comparison to the usual cynical tone that the others have. This makes drama and friction appear to be much less of a problem for the characters in the world.

  There is a way to do it, but it’s harder because you can’t use the same story template that the others use.