SpikesOtherDog
@SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 13 hours ago:
Oh goodie. Let’s surveil the unstable. By unstable, we mean…
- Comment on Demon Tides is a Mario 64 meets Wind Waker throwback of devilish combinatory extent 5 days ago:
This looks super fun.
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 6 days ago:
I realized and deleted it. You caught me!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Not sure if this is serious or a good troll. Providing your medical history unsolicited to a corporation is a terrible idea. The real purpose of this virtual entity is to collect information. You should break ties, as they do not exist.
For conversation you can still use discord. Alternatively, you can use IRC. I wouldn’t identify myself or put medical history there, but there are plenty of places to chat.
- Comment on Google to pay $100 million to settle 14-year-old advertising lawsuit 1 week ago:
Annual revenue of over 250bn
That is 4 hours of work.
If their income was based on a 40 hour work week, they would be making a billion daily.
That would mean that they paid the equivalent of an hour’s worth of pay to settle an old argument.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Anyone who knows doesn’t care
- Comment on Is the moon too far for your data? IBM's Red Hat is teaming up with Axiom Space to send a data center into space 4 weeks ago:
What if me make a heat laser? /s
- Comment on Kennedy and influencers bash seed oils, baffling nutrition scientists 4 weeks ago:
To reduce our reliance on these oils from Canada.
Also, it’s a rollback of health advice and maybe a perceived sleight to the left?
- Comment on (Troubleshooting) Advice for improvement 4 weeks ago:
For grinding, try calibrating with a calibration cube and calipers.
For the stringing, try calibrating your extrusion steps. If it continues, try dialing back your temp 5° at time.
There is a process for retracting slightly between hops, but that may be a slicing option.
- Comment on Which two? 1 month ago:
It was the Marines. They wouldn’t share the crayons.
- Comment on What would happen if I took a thc gummy as a suppository? 1 month ago:
Assuming you mashed it well and injected it with a baster you might get something off it.
Assuming you make a habit of this, your hygiene may become a bit looser.
- Comment on Born to ride Donald Trump 1 month ago:
I saw that too.
- Comment on COVID Mortality Risk Was Nearly Nonexistent, New Study Finds 1 month ago:
An average mortality rate of Covid infections was .31%. Even if I buy these numbers, that is one in 300, monthly, for millions of people.
- Comment on DOGE Discovers $4.7 Trillion of Treasury Payments ‘Almost Impossible’ to Trace 1 month ago:
Is his crack team of forensic accountants also his team of website designers?
- Comment on Microsoft removes Windows 11 24H2 official support on 8th 9th 10th Gen Intel CPUs 1 month ago:
This really pisses me off, but because Windows 11 is not significantly different from Windows 10. I’m running Windows 10 on decades-old hardware designed for Win7.
Sure, its a bit pokey, but most of the bottleneck is HDD technology.
DDR2 throughput is about 8GB/s. SATA III is 600 Mb/s
Just installing a SSD and having 8 GB of memory is enough for the average office worker who has a browser, mail, PDF, and productivity suite.
Anything released in the past 6 years should be sufficient for this.
My bet, hands down, is that they are betting hard on AI.
- Comment on Pope Francis hospitalized with bronchitis, Vatican says 1 month ago:
As much as the Catholic church gets a bad rap, and regardless of the fact that we is well earned, his anti-Trump sentiment greatly disturbs Catholic MAGA.
I heard a Catholic family member express their happiness that a new pope is on the way.
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 1 month ago:
It would go to… Uh…
HEY SOMEONE PUT A DEAD CAT ON THE TABLE!
- Comment on Is there any way I can realistically send a message to Donald Trump and have him read it? 1 month ago:
If you send an open letter and it gets enough views.
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 1 month ago:
Yes, that one.
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 1 month ago:
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 1 month ago:
Good
- Comment on What are the possible ways a computer can kill you? 1 month ago:
I actually did #2 because I was fixing one. If you REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING and have ALL THE TOOLS AND PROCESSES NECESSARY and the power supply is worth a few hundred dollars, it MIGHT be worth it.
Guess what? I still blew one up.
Stay safe friends. Recycle it and buy a new one.
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 1 month ago:
phys.org/…/2010-11-million-dollar-verdict-music-p…
In all fairness, meta should be assessed a fee of 250k per EACH pirated work.
This would amount to forfeiting all assets to doge.
- Comment on Colombian president says cocaine 'no worse than whisky' 1 month ago:
Keeping the whiskey out of the microwave is more about taste.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
Interesting idea. How do you deal with illegal trade?
- Comment on Switching out UPS batteries 2 months ago:
I’ll admit, it could, but the battery conditioning might still struggle.
- Comment on Switching out UPS batteries 2 months ago:
This is correct.
Additionally, you would not want to substitute a larger or smaller capacity battery as the charging cycle of the UPS is built for a specific capacity.
- Comment on It is time to ban email. 2 months ago:
None of these examples are problems caused by email itself.
The Metropolitan Police has apologised to victims of the Westminster “honeytrap” scandal after it accidentally sent an email which named all of them.
This could have just as easily been a social media post or a newspaper publication.
sent an email newsletter with all patient email addresses in the ‘To’ field, rather than the ‘Bcc’ field
This is caused by not understanding the tech just as much as they described. Sure, carbon copies are antiquated and hardly used. With those stakes, the newsletter should be sent using a managed process, not a human. Using some kind of proprietary delivery system has its own risks. I wouldn’t want a specific HIV app on my phone to identify myself, and not everyone even uses smart phones.
Search any social network at any time of the year and you’ll find people kvetching about its inadequacies.
Friendly reminder to use anything other than email if you need to have a conversation between multiple people that you have any hope in following.
You can literally find people bitching about anything. Look into why people hate Tom Hanks. Snarky complaints on social media are not great points
Email is getting out of hand and people use it in suboptimal ways.
Not everyone meditates on the most optimum way to use a tech product. You ever watch someone open Chrome, type Google in the unibar, locate the search field, and then type a url? I have watched techs paid much more than I do this same thing.
I am only now realizing that some … [People] do not understand the concept of sending a file via email.
Again, everyone needs to learn it. I have met so many people afraid of their computer that this does not surprise me.
- Comment on Project A-ko (1987) is a silly, over the top good time 2 months ago:
It’s absolutely the product of a different time. That being said, I had a blast every time I watched this movie. I think between this and Ranma my friend’s egg started cracking.
- Comment on Windows 11 Microsoft Paint AI Generative erase is now available for everyone 2 months ago:
Seems like a lot to add to paint, which isn’t intended to be a an intense photo editing tool.
“In fact, it ruined most of the images in our tests, which is also okay, given the Generative Erase is not supposed to be perfect for all types of images.”
