captain_aggravated

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Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast Took a temporary honorary demotion of one grade to honor Captain Kori.

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honk⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
I was actually aiming for “auk” but it was late and my linux brain took over.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honk⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
awk
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
Point of order: That was Microsoft rather than Google.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U WOT M8??⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
must be chewsday, eh bruv?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Are you replying to me?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Are they shipping Graphene for the 10 now?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
yeah they backtracked. They had something TO backtrack.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Most of the Chinese brands are doing that; I’ve seen 3D printing youtubers talk about Bambu, Creality and Elegoo leaning on them for good reviews as if they’re employed on their marketing team rather than independent journalists.

I’ve heard a lot of stuff about their platform hosting stolen models.

Bambu tipped their hand a little over a year ago, they have every intention to lock down their platform, requiring their filament, their software and likely their cloud platform to run.

And I’ll pit my Prusa MK4S against your Bambu A1 in print quality any time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Look for a used Prusa.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
New tit ion battery generates fifteen times the power and shits butter pecan ice cream. And, like every other battery chemistry there’s ever been a news article for, isn’t real and will never enter production.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i unapologetically love male pits⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The “not male, but outwardly pro male” angle tells me it’s fake.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨war with Iran has been delayed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The poop deck wasn’t used to poop from. That was done at the head. Because on a sailing ship, most if not all of the time the front of the ship is downwind.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
When I lived in Daytona Beach you could count on the 3PM rainstorm.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
But no one does.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Nothing I’m conscious of, though a lot of the names of races or peoples end in an oh or ah sound. Zora, Rito, Gerudo, Shiekah,
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
So, there’s a fun fact about that related to the Zelda series. You know how the Hylian language kind of sneaks out in enemy names? Like, Stal- is a prefix meaning skeletal, -fos is a suffix meaning warrior, so a stalfos is a skeletal warrior? And a lizalfos is a lizard warrior? A stalchild is a skeletal child. -orm or -arm means worm creature, like Moldorm.

Well, in the games prior to the N64, geld- meant desert or sand. The geldarm is a sand worm creature, the geldman is a sand man like enemy from Link to the Past. Then in Ocarina of Time there’s a race of women from the desert called Gerudo. Hmm.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
With a radio control drone you, your face and your smart phone can be a quarter mile away. Plus, have you been in aerial combat? I haven’t. Yet.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thilk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Thanks for the warning.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CONTACT LEFT!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
especially when spelled with quotes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Wasn’t there a guy who built an AK-47 out of a shovel?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Is there a common quadcopter on the market capable of carrying a paintball gun or something else that can splatter lenses?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Unfortunately I think that bed has been shat, because everyone wants to be a general purpose instance. Nobody wants to be sportslemmy or musiclemmy or movielemmy where they only host communities that match their theme, which is why we have linux@lemmy.world, linux@lemmy.ml, linux@sh.itjust.works, linux@feddit.org…

So “Join an instance for a community you’re interested in”…not sure if that’s tenable on Mastodon but it sure ain’t on Lemmy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I do occasionally receive a temporary field promotion to Major Aggravated.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

I think this was and still is in part true for me.

The distinction is one large company that has a monopoly on this specific kind of thing, versus a bunch of individual companies that all use the same industry standards to interoperate with each other.

The USPS (and probably other countries’ mail services, too) is one gigantic corporation with a legal monopoly on letter carrying. The USPS uses the common highway, railway and airway systems that are also used for other passengers and freight to carry letters to their various offices to do businesses with customers across the nation. We have one The Mail Company. We used to have one The Phone Company too, but they broke up Bell Telephone.

There has never been a The Email Company. Email from the very beginning was meant to be an industry standard so that different organizations could host the service and interchange traffic between them. There are hundreds of them, a few big ones, a bunch of little ones, all sending standardized messages across the common internet.

Reddit or Twitter or Tiktok or Instagram or however many others are individual businesses. You sign up with an account with, say, Twitter, and that gets you access to Twitter, their backend software, their front-end user apps, their community, their content…one monolithic stack.

Mastodon is software you can use to make your own little Twitter. The folks that make that software operate a server running that software. So do other people; there’s a whole bunch of them. You can use it to make your own little Twitter all by yourself, which is how Truth Social works. But those of us who aren’t in a white supremacy retardation cult prefer to voltron all our little Twitters together into one big if nebulous network.

Lemmy does the same thing but with a Reddit-like form factor. So does Mbin and Piefed. Different software that speak the same protocol. I’m a member of sh.itjust.works, posting a comment to a community hosted on lemmy.world, replying to a member of feddit.org, each of these are Lemmy instances. Users on instances of Mbin and Piefed can also read and reply to this thread. So can Mastodon users, in fact. And Peertube, Loops and Pixelfed, which are Youtube, Tiktok and Instagram-alikes. They all use the ActivityPub protocol and can interoperate…within their own UI limits at least. Imagine being able to Tweet from Youtube. Not embed a Youtube video in a Tweet…Tweet from Youtube. Well you can Toot from Peertube. You just…Can; abstract as it is it’s a thing this collection of software can do.

I’m not sure you can define “the biggest bubble” in objective terms; defederation is a thing, it exists to be able to cut off spammers, scammers, anyone acting in bad faith. More often it’s used to separate servers that disagree politically, which in some ways isn’t ideal but I’m pretty sure that’s an unsolvable problem. A mainstream instance will get you the sumtotal; it’s a bit like living in the milky way galaxy; there’s some of it we can’t see because the middle is in the way, and there’s nowhere in it where that isn’t true.

As for a feed algorithm on Mastodon…I don’t know, I don’t actually use Mastodon. It is my understanding that the lack of a feed algorithm is considered a feature, not a bug; how exactly to discover content I’ll leave to someone else to answer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At one time, a man seeing a female's naked knee was equivalent to a man seeing a female's breast today.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
In men it’s the third layer down under hair and grease.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know the reason why.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It’s absolutely real; there’s a joke about it in The Naked Gun.

It’s not that there used to be a red variety of pistashio, they were sold coated in this oily red gunk that would stain your fingers pink. That stopped at some point in the late 90’s early 2000s.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know the reason why.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
No, pistachio flavored ice cream and puddings and such have always been green.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At one time, a man seeing a female's naked knee was equivalent to a man seeing a female's breast today.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I mean, we all know that women are just…completely covered in skin, right? They’ve got it all over them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I want to see someone 3D print me some gunpowder.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The abject retardation spirals off infinitely in all directions like the blades of the time knife. I mean, just out of my own twisted head:
- they’re talking about making it illegal to traffic 3D printers that don’t have a “certified gun detection algorithm.” Okay, what part of the 3D printer are you going to control? Hot ends? Control boards? 3D printers don’t have lower receivers. If I were to disassemble my Prusa MK4S back into the ~1000 weird shaped hunks of plastic, metal plates and sticks, wires, circuit boards, nuts and bolts it came in as a kit, and then drive through California, which exact piece am I going to be arrested for carrying?
- I can’t wait until someone Man With The Golden Gun’s one of thes “certified algorithms”, prints stuff that looks like cabinet hooks, musical instruments, a walkie-talkie case, a toy dinosaur, which clip together in a certain way to make a functioning weapon. I’ve never 3D printed a gun before, this might just get me into it.