Excrubulent

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automatically Crack Safes With This Autodialer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the special thong about this one is that it’s open source and you can build it from common components, which makes sense. You literally just need a stepper or servo motor with the correct algorithm and a few bits & pieces to apply that motor to the dial.

  It should be easy enough to build this for no more than a hundred bucks, maybe less if you can get cheap parts or you’re building more than one. It’s actually less complex than a basic 3d printer.

  The expensive part comes from the low volume production and the professional customers. Plus the software is probably proprietary. It takes expertise and to make a business out of that means high individual prices.

  So it’s really a perfect candidate for open sourcing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So your argument rests not on truth but on populism.

  Even if you’re right in your wholly unsubstantiated claim, the way to get more people on your side is by persuading them, not by capitulating to their ill-informed beliefs. Giving in to their bullshit is how you join their side.

  I would love to know what your media diet is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an extremely narrow point that isn’t worth bothering with, because nobody is confused about what you mean when you call them “nazis”.

  Also it’s not one guy doing a zeig heil, it’s become a trend amongst them now. They have invited the comparison openly, and anybody getting all pissy about “you just call everything you don’t like nazi” is just a crybully who’s deliberately wasting your time. At this point anybody turned off of your cause by your use of the word “nazi” isn’t your ally in the first place.

  Like sure they’re not exactly the same as the NSDAP, but the category still applies, and it’s not worth anybody’s time arguing over the exact nature of the type of fascism they have, because “nazi” does the job and again, nobody is confused by it, because the original nazis are all resting in piss.

  Do you have any argument as to why this matters, in any way, at all?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They are literally zeig-heiling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re noticing that Gell-Mann Amnesia.

  I looked it up yesterday because I kept seeing it in an Angela Collier video title and I realised that despite watching the video and re-checking the info several times, I could never remember what Gell-Mann amnesia was, and that was too ironic to be allowed to continue. So this time instead of looking it up and going “ooohh, that’s right, okay, nevermind”, I went, "okay, now repeat it to yourself until you’re sure you won’t have to look it up again".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah okay, so what I’m reading there is that it may be piratable, but a lot of software vendors don’t support it, so there’s a decent risk that software would just randomly stop working, which is the same problem you get with windows 10 long term. Oh well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That site’s ai protection won’t let me through. But if the issue is needing a legitimate license them I’m sure that can be overcome in other ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I mainly want it to keep my VR headset running which nobody can get working in linux.

  One of these days I’ll replace it and make sure the new one can run on linux, and then I won’t have much keeping me on windows anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I discovered recently that they make the regular ISOs hard to access too. It didn’t want to let me download it from a linux machine.

  But there’s always a way to access this stuff.

  What are the legal issues?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What is Windows 10 LTSC? LTSC is the abbreviation of Long Term Servicing Channel. It is a stripped-down enterprise operating system based on a specific version of Windows 10. Windows 10 LTSC don’t have pre-installed apps such as Microsoft Edge, Cortana assistant, News, etc. Using the LTSC service model, you can delay receiving feature updates and only receive monthly device quality updates.

  Holy SHIT they made a version with the worst stiff removed AND they’re going to maintain it longer? That is the version everybody should be using.

  I’m slowly switching to linux but there are things I’m going to need Windows for for the foreseeable future, and I think I’ve found how I can make that happen. Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upvote/Downvote is the first mental skill that infants learn.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never understood this idea of having an etiquette telling people how they “should” use their vote. If voting means anything, then people get to use their vote however they want. They can do it by dice roll if they feel like it.

  Now remember, if you dislike this comment, according to your own logic, that’s not a good reason to downvote it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost finished Gold and looking forward to starting Emerald.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know anything about this series, so I had to do a search to be sure all the colours lined up, and I’m still only about 90% sure about it, but here’s the word you needed to include so that the uninitiated know what you’re talking about:

  “Pokemon”

  It’s honestly amazing that you wrote all of that and never named the series you were talking about. It was extra confusing that you called it a “game it color” when I’m pretty sure you mean “game boy color”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I present my girlfriend's daughter.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Iggity-iggit-ig-ig-ig-uhhh, don’t mind the flag.

  That’s actually a real strategy that stutterers use to get around hard phrases, to just rephrase what they mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still enabled by default and acts as extra FUD for the average user who probably won’t know to disable it and might get spooked by it.

  The favt it can be opted out of doesn’t change its propaganda value at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll have to settle for “warning” the user if they detect a file that was made by libreoffice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Show top LLMs buggy code and they'll finish off the mistakes rather than fix them.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds exhausting to me.

  Like seriously what busywork is so routine and so basic that you need an AI to do it but couldn’t make a template for it? And how is it less work to read what it gave yout to check for errors? That’s always the harder part of coding in my experience.

  I would love to know the specifics of where this supposedly saves time.

  I suspect the energy you’re putting into learning this tool could go into becoming a better typist, and you wouldn’t need to cook the planet to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨frenly warnin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Secure” doesn’t just mean “defend” or “safeguard”. “Secure” also means “capture”, so it implies you need to go put and get it, like with invasions or something maybe, idk. It’s a lot less passive.

  “Existence” means both “survival” and “prosperity”. It implies that both their existence is under threat, while creating the idea that they might be able to make it better. Maybe they could, idk, make america great again, trying to return to some mythical prelapsarian era by beating back the eternal threat.

  “A future” does this too, implying they may not have a future at all.

  And talking about the “children” brings up the concept of making new people, evoking the idea that non-white races are out-breeding them. It also includes the common “think of the children” idea.

  And finally the fact that it’s short and boring comes from the fact that nazis are uninspiring and uninspired, and they need a simple, to the point slogan to repeat without thinking about it too hard. They certainly know how to make a message concise, even at the cost of saying almost nothing of meaning when you think too hard about it.

  All of this is classic fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I enough researchers talk about the problems them that will eventually break through the bubble and investors will pull out.

  We’re at the stage of the new technology hype cycle where it crashes, essentially for this reason. I really hope it does soon because then they’ll stop trying to force it down our throats in every service we use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna be really pissed if my chtistofascist parents were right⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would expect in that case “hell” is just a lie anyway, like an abuser telling you you can’t live without them. It’s classic controlling behaviour.

  Realising that helped me walk away from the whole thing: Why are we told hell exists if it isn’t real? Control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Council housing when?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “It’s the market” is another way of saying “because I can”.

  They don’t have to raise the rent to match the market, the market is simply a signal to them that if they lost you by raising the rent, they could potentially replace you for the same or higher rent.

  They could ignore that and leave your rent alone. They don’t. It’s a choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This cimes from the assumption that right wing views have equal validity and exist on am equal footing, but they just don’t.

  Right wing autoritarian attitudes are just whatever is propped up by the propaganda of the prevailing hierarchy. They’re blasted out of mainstream news outlets everyday. They don’t survive on merit, but on funding.

  Like honestly, if you want to hear what conservatives have to say, go watch their news, listen to their pundits, join their social media apps, but if you’ve got half a brain then you shouldn’t be surprised that it’s just a pile of callow, self-serving bullshit. You will be disappointed.

  Like this is an open system. Anyone can make an instance. You know why right wing instances just… aren’t? Because they can’t stop themselves from being bigots, which most people hate, actually, and gets them yeeted, so they don’t thrive here. It’s ot some conspiracy or bias, it’s just what happens when assholes aren’t shielded by some big daddy corporation. They can’t hack it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New fediverse chick just dropped⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean in the vast scope of objects that exist in our universe you basically are.

  If you have DNA at all you are in a very small and closely related club in the context of the universe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the rise of hate speech on centralised platforms relies very heavily on theur centrlaised moderation and curation via algorithms.

  They have all known for a long time that their algorithms promote hate speech, but they know that curbing that behaviour negatively affects their revenue, so they don’t do it. They chase the fast buck, and they appease advertisers who have a naturally conservative bent, and that means rage bait and conventional values.

  That’s quite apart from when platform owners explicitly support that hate speech and actively suppress left leaning voices.

  I think what we have on decentralised systems where we curate/moderate for ourselves works well because most of that open hate speech is siloed, which I think is the best thing you can do with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No worries lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was more referring to the fact that they were very ready to say how they’d kill for it but the price was the thing stopping them. The maths is pretty easy but I think 3 people didn’t get the joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In future you can just say that rather than talking in circles and making no sense. Goodbye.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your point is that the issues don’t affect the core experience, and I’ve explained how that’s wrong, and you’ve ignored it.

  You’re also now blatantly mischaracterising what I’ve said.

  If you want me to keep talking to you, I need you to tell me that you are actually curious to understand what I have to say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, you ignored the worst parts of it in favour of things you could dismiss for yourself, and then you ignored me pointing that out. I’m not going to keep explaining this to you any further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, I don’t understand how and you haven’t explained it, you’ve just said that you don’t personally care about it, which isn’t an argument I can respond to. You’re free to have your opinion, but I don’t see how it’s relevant here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hardcore gaming⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a cavalcade of poor decisions.