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- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 1 week ago:
I lean towards discounting both rumors. I think the temptation to use said kill-switches would prove too great to resist, particularly for the authoritarian types involved.
We saw this a lot with provisions of the “PATRIOT Act”. It was championed as tools needed to combat terrorists and claimed to be reserved for such cases. In actuality, it was used to go after people running fan sites for sci-fi tv shows, among other things.
If such a kill switch existed in computer hardware, I’m sure it would have been used already. I’m less sure about a kill switch in the planes. On one hand, that’s a pretty situational tool, and you wouldn’t want to play that card until you really needed it.
OTOH, we didn’t hear about threats to throw the kill switch during the bluster over Greenland. If they had one, I think it would have been part of that bluster.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m still annoyed that they deleted classic D2 from my battle.net account. I used to be able to download that and get several classic games installed from registering CD keys back in the day. Now it’s just a prompt to buy remastered :(
- Comment on To demonstrate that people will argue about anything, here's a picture of a ladybug. 2 weeks ago:
As proud clankerists, we can all agree that technological progress has gone too far! And we’ll get right on that as soon as we vanquish the real threat – the clankerites, those splitters!
- Comment on In the future, it will be considered unbelievable that repairing a product used to be more expensive than buying a new one 2 weeks ago:
True. Dishwasher is one thing, but IDK that I’d be able to swap out any parts on my coffee maker or immersion blender.
- Comment on Veganuary 2 weeks ago:
reductio ad absurdum, actually.
You claimed that this statement was not true:
There are no nutrients that are exclusively available via meat/dairy.
i.e. claimed that there are some nutrients that can only be sourced via meat or dairy.
An obligate carnivore must eat meat to live, like, say, if the only source of needed nutrients is meat?
Where did I lose you on this? Is it the “or dairy” escape hatch?
FFS, you could have just given an example of a nutrient you mistakenly think is only available via meat or dairy. Then I could have judged your post on its merits instead of this displeasure of a thread.
- Comment on In the future, it will be considered unbelievable that repairing a product used to be more expensive than buying a new one 2 weeks ago:
manufacturers actively making products harder to repair.
Possible counterexample: My dishwasher. The drain pump is super easy to replace – unplug it, disconnect the hoses, and pop it off the little metal piece that supports its weight. It takes longer to bail out the water in the pan and wiggle it out from under the counter than it does to replace the faulty pump.
(At the same time, it’s a pretty crap model. We’ve had to replace that drain pump 3 times since 2019)
- Comment on To demonstrate that people will argue about anything, here's a picture of a ladybug. 2 weeks ago:
That’s not –
Wait –
You magnificent bastard
- Comment on Veganuary 2 weeks ago:
that’s not true
Are you sure about that? Got any examples of nutrients that make humans obligate carnivores?
- Comment on Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users 2 weeks ago:
It’s just one of reddit’s autogenerated usernames. It looks like another post in this thread talks a bit about it.
- Comment on You are allowed flavor 3 weeks ago:
But we do not grant you the title of Spice Master.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 weeks ago:
I played it. Beautiful game. Terrifying.
I didn’t think I had thalassophobia until Subnautica.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 weeks ago:
What did you think of Torchlight? I’m a bit surprised it didn’t make your list.
…well, then again, I haven’t played anything you listed, so I can’t compare.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 weeks ago:
Similar. I played a lot of Diablo 2 back in the day, but Blizzard got a lot worse as a game publisher during the years they were focused on WoW. I’m not super interested in starting up on Diablo 3 or 4 or even Starcraft 2.
For a different direction on this – I played Subnautica. It was terrifying. I’m not going to get the expansion or Subnautica 2 when it comes out. shudder
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 4 weeks ago:
Doing a quick search…looks like about half the states are “right to work” ones.
And…well, I don’t live in a ‘right to work’ state, but I couldn’t join a union either way. There aren’t many unions in my line of work.
- Comment on It still blows my mind how ubiquitous communication is now. I just had someone message me instantly from a ship in the Mediterranean, while I'm on a flight in the US. 4 weeks ago:
VENT! Ha, I remember using that back in the Counterstrike days.
I’m supposed to say ‘fun times’, but I sucked at Counterstrike. Not actually that much fun for me.
- Comment on It still blows my mind how ubiquitous communication is now. I just had someone message me instantly from a ship in the Mediterranean, while I'm on a flight in the US. 4 weeks ago:
Go to a zoo and insult the monkeys?
- Comment on It still blows my mind how ubiquitous communication is now. I just had someone message me instantly from a ship in the Mediterranean, while I'm on a flight in the US. 4 weeks ago:
focused on radio
And there, you’d be looking at 1901 for the first trans-Atlantic signal.
But then again, a general passenger couldn’t use the plane’s radio on a whim back in – oh, 2003 (first airplane wifi came about in 2004 apparently). There are some layers to this thought.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 4 weeks ago:
Right to work laws make it so workers in a union shop don’t need to join the union.
Are you thinking of at-will employment? It’s a common mixup.
- Comment on YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE 4 weeks ago:
Can’t sue 'em if you’re already in the ground…
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 5 weeks ago:
Are they seeing a payoff or just not admitting defeat (yet)?
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I get that, like blocking should be an extreme step?
But for me it’s kind of a defensive measure. I feel political-flooded basically all the time online. There’s no respite, so I have to carve out what sanity I can.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 5 weeks ago:
Well, I block posters and communities pretty quickly when I see politics. I already feel like I have to add to that list way too much. Worse would be “I can’t even click Next without needing to block another one”.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 1 month ago:
I have mixed feelings.
On one hand, agreed @ wanting more variety in communities.
OTOH, Lemmy already has too much fucking politics. I don’t want whatever’s infecting reddit to become even MORE prevalent here. shudder
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 1 month ago:
Oh, don’t misunderstand me. I’m not here to defend stack overflow or anything. They’re absolute rubbish as a company. I just thought your “third way” comment was misguided.
But - codidact went nowhere. Reddit and now lemmy have never been helpful for my programming problems. What’s taking SO down is their deal with the AI devil? It’s funny in sort of a sad way.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 1 month ago:
Like Lemmy? The site we’re all using?
Cute. Except Lemmy hasn’t helped me solve any programming problems. StackOverflow has.
And I think you missed my point, so I’ll restate it: If this theoretical middle-ground moderation were actually viable, it would have eaten StackOverflow’s lunch like a decade ago. People were SALTY about SO’s hostility even before the “summer of love” campaign in 2012.
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 1 month ago:
I’d be suspicious of a tres leches cake made with coconut cream. Somehow, I don’t think it would taste right.
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 1 month ago:
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 1 month ago:
Well, no. If there were a middle ground, we’d all be using it.
- Comment on We used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird. 1 month ago:
Can you even find a black-and-white CRT for sale anymore?
- Comment on We used to have TV repairmen who would come if dad couldn't fix it with the tube from the grocery store kiosk. Weird. 1 month ago:
I had a CRT monitor back in the day that tipped off the edge of the desk while I was hooking it up.
CLUNK! - hiss
Welp.
I learned a valuable lesson about leverage that day.
