alekwithak
@alekwithak@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
Like we don’t have child labor here in the good ol’ USA.
- Comment on I've written a series of blog posts about a "hands-off" self-hosting setup intended for relative beginners. 2 weeks ago:
Hell yeah, dude.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 2 weeks ago:
I’d love to play some video games, anyone know where I can find some of this free healthcare?
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 2 weeks ago:
Hey if your list of projects isn’t insurmountable what are you even doing with with your life?
Most carriers have an email to sms gateway address Usually your number@carrier.com or similar.
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 2 weeks ago:
I feel you, trying to find a smart gadget that is actually smart in 2025 and not just a data collector is nearly impossible. Learning to DIY a lot of these projects. Throw one of these or similar in there with a little control board set to email you if 0 changes to 1 or w/e
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 3 weeks ago:
Mud and henna masks and other full skin coverings are extremely common among indigenous people and presumably your ancestors as well.
- Comment on Soon you will be dealing with this at your supermarket check out shaming you to "donate" 3 weeks ago:
Ooh I fear that would work on me. I’d do anything for geckos.
- Comment on Soon you will be dealing with this at your supermarket check out shaming you to "donate" 3 weeks ago:
What was it?
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 3 weeks ago:
Invent bitcoin
- Comment on I have searched far and wide 3 weeks ago:
The Berenstain Bears mandela effect definitely predates Harambe, and though I definitely remember the cornucopia I’m willing to admit there could be a valid explanation for that. But The Berenstain Bears… I will die on this hill. I was an extremely pedantic and detail oriented child who loved to read and only had so many books. I can vividly recall many nights spent secretly awake studying the covers of those books, tracing and reading and reading it, thinking they must be Jewish like me even though they act very Christian. There is not a doubt in my mind they were The Berenstein Bears. Most purported mandela effects are clearly just people misremembering, but I will die on Berenstein hill.
- Comment on EU review indicates Israel breached human rights in Gaza 4 weeks ago:
EU review has also found “indications” that chickens go ‘cluck-cluck’ and cows go ‘moo’
- Comment on Very small deal 4 weeks ago:
No but RVs and Campers do and they keep the drain plugs attached via plastic.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 5 weeks ago:
I literally did lol
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 5 weeks ago:
"I heard one of the mums say “why did you do that in front of my child?” and he said “it’s vermin, you should teach your children about vermin”
I said ‘why did you do that’ and he just shrugged his shoulders and walked away’
Sounds like a great guy. He’s lucky to have you here defending him for some reason.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 5 weeks ago:
Wtf is this argument? Swinging things applies other forces besides your own power and speed, and since you brought up those two forces you must realize there’s a minimum of both that must be applied in order to swing an object properly and you’d also know full well as Newton’s third law of motion dictates that when said swinging object meets the object at rest that the sum of those forces will be exerted back onto the swinging object. Every choice made equals bird death. He didn’t flick it on the nose, he didn’t show it up slightly, he didn’t swing it into some software brush or a beach ball or an elastic fence, he swung it into a brick wall. A + B = C. Anything else is just conjecture on your end, made in some vain attempt to justify brutish thuggery just because the victim was an animal you don’t respect.
Try it yourself. Get about two feet of rope or something. Tie an egg to the end. See exactly how much speed and power you have to use to get it to properly swing. Then swing it into a brick wall and try not to break the egg. Make sure to film the attempt, I’d love to see it.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 5 weeks ago:
Oh, the irony.
- Comment on Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls... 5 weeks ago:
Because killing animals, especially over petty shit, and Especially especially in front of other while disregarding their reactions is psychopath shit. Your insurance that this is some kind of ‘Phy Op’ just makes you look like one, too.
- Comment on A man attempted to transfer files from his Commodore 64 to his Apple computer. 1984 5 weeks ago:
I had no idea Conor Murphy from Foxing was that old.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 1 month ago:
Wasn’t aware of this, that’s awesome. Unfortunately it would need to be able to cast to various HTPCs and be easy enough for my family to use to fully replace YouTube in my house.
- Comment on Most American headline 1 month ago:
👉👃
- Comment on Most American headline 1 month ago:
State doesn’t pay for kids lunch. If parent can’t afford lunch, state takes child and places them in a foster home. State pays foster home to take kid.
Tell me what the goal of this system is so I can call someone else a conspiracy theorist for a change.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 month ago:
I don’t have a case on my work phone. I carry two phones so I don’t need the extra bulk and if it breaks oh no I have to get a newer phone!
- Comment on Lara Croft games are the nightmare of any real archaeologist, biologist and paleontologist. 1 month ago:
I love when I’m surrounded by treasures in an ancient temple no human has laid eyes on in thousands of years, so I take a look at a scroll then immediately leave.
- Comment on Grieve with me 1 month ago:
That’s a tiktok thing. In the videos it’s satisfying to pull out all the glue and pre-staged gunk from the port in one solid go, but in reality you have no idea how much dried glue is being left behind or how it’s going to interact with the lint and dust in the port. You could potentially render the port unusable. Better to go with a soft pick and some compressed air.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 1 month ago:
By a long shot. The sentences have been absolutely unhinged the last couple of weeks, and full of words I haven’t learned on top of that.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 1 month ago:
That’s pretty hilarious considering I’ve been using Duolingo (cracked apks) for years and these last couple of weeks the sentences it’s been giving me are insane and weird, stupidly awkward things that no one would ever say IRL.
Airlearn isn’t quite there as far as speech recognition but the lessons are a lot more natural and it actually tells you why and explains different parts of the culture around the language and why an idea might be expressed a certain way rather than how we’re used to in English. An LLM could never.
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- Comment on Who needs it? 1 month ago:
Ever notice how any time a Chinese app gets highlighted as being for data harvesting, there’s a bunch of people crawling out of the woodwork to claim “whatabout american apps!?”,
Yes, because the American social media apps and other data harvesters have a much greater affect on our lives than Chinese, but American media goes on and on about the dangers of Chinese social media and most Americans don’t even think about American social media.
And did you just accuse me of crawling out of woodwork?!
but whenever an American app gets the same exposer, noone ever goes “whatabout Chinese apps apps!?”
Yes because it makes perfect sense on western social media to cry “What about tiktok?!” When an article comes out about the very scandals you’re talking about. In fact I’m not sure what point you’re even trying to make saying the outrage is manufactured but then giving reasons why it should be legitimate.
I do consider Chinese officials getting blackmail material on American politicians and businesses more dangerous then American companies doing the same.
Well that’s an insane take. American companies blackmailing American politicians is why we slide further and further into a corporatocracy.
- Comment on Who needs it? 1 month ago:
I had assumed that’s what they were doing with the data they bought from data brokers like Meta and Alphabet, yes.
- Comment on Who needs it? 1 month ago:
Accuracy is not really relevant to the conversation. The point is that though the Chinese app gets a lot of crap for being a dataminer, the American social media apps are no better and in fact worse because they create ghost profiles of non users and make a ton of money selling that data indiscriminately. There’s no need to take offense, it isn’t a personal attack on your privacy practices.
