shalafi
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- Comment on 1 week ago:
Among other reasons you’ve been given:
- The figured MN folks would be peaceable and lay down.
- No open carry of weapons.
- Didn’t think they’d show out in deep winter. (HAH!)
- Comment on it's right there 😖 2 weeks ago:
How?! Every cop I’ve seen has a proper holster to prevent that. If you know how they work you might snatch it, but it would still be a bit awkward.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
Could not have written my exact take as closely as yours.
Only thing I’d add is using it to screw around with personal photos. ChatGPT is cleaning up some 80s pics of my wife that were atrocious. I have rudimentary PhotoShop skills, but we’d never have these clean pics without AI. OTOH, I’d gladly drop that ability to reclaim all the negatives.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
Very few laymen have noticed or give a shit about RAM prices. My young friend across the street and I are likely the only people on the block who know what RAM does, let alone are able to build a PC.
Business purchasing is where we might see some backlash soon. I’ve bought all the IT goods, hardware and software, for my last two companies, and I’d be screaming.
Boss: What the hell? Weren’t we getting these laptops for $1,200 last year?!
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
Skill in Excel is wholly different than skills in other Office products. But if Excel is on your resume, your better expand and show what real use you’ve made of it. Otherwise it comes off just as you said.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
I do. Got a free license from my last job and Excel blows the doors off Calc, or anything else. For business, Excel is moat of the reason they’re so tied into Office.
- Comment on Trump: The U.S. will 'now' start hitting Mexican land targets 4 weeks ago:
Want to get really cynical? The US is expelling and torturing their slave labor. Immigrants do not receive any federal benefits, yet contribute hugely to the economy. 13,000,000 is the number I’ve heard, and that only covers undocumented immigrants, but they’re going for all of them. Does anyone expect expelling 3-4% of our cheap workforce works out?!
No matter how cold-blooded one’s take, this is fucking stupid.
- Comment on Trump: The U.S. will 'now' start hitting Mexican land targets 4 weeks ago:
We took the oil fields, which Hitler failed to do before starving his war machine of gasoline. We’re letting things settle in Venezuela before we take Greenland. Greenland is strategic as the Arctic sea lanes open and prospecting and mining become easier. Good place to defend the continent from air and sea.
Next? Mexico? No idea. But it looks like the US is making the same mistake as the Nazis, biting off more than we can chew based on the giddy atmosphere after initial wins and zero resistance. Yes, they’re that fucking dumb. It’s like they read the start of WWII history and called it a day.
Dumber even, Trump didn’t pull the US from economic disaster into short-term prosperity, quite the opposite. At least Hitler had the population in thrall because their economic situation improved. That’s, uh, not working out ATM, and there’s not future where it does.
And worse, the cult leader is clearly dying of frontotemporal dementia. (Not my armchair take, many doctors and psychiatrists have outlined the clear evidence.) They’re moving fast before Trump can’t be stood in front of a camera.
- Comment on really makes you think 4 weeks ago:
Florida water is weird here in the NW. Tap water is fairly “hot” in the summer since the lines are close to the surface. But YMMV. Our bathroom water is distinctly different than the kitchen water, in a tiny house, 8-years old. 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on (TW) Phishing mail in 2026 4 weeks ago:
I think I might as well, and I’ve taught corporate information security classes.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 4 weeks ago:
I’ll ask you the same, do you believe people choose their attractions? Be very careful in your answer. If you say yes, then LGBT is a choice.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 4 weeks ago:
I have no clue what MAP is, but can you point to the words that hurt you?
We don’t get to choose who and what we are attracted to. 🤷🏻♂️ However, that does not absolve one of immoral actions.
Or do you believe attraction is a choice? You believe people have a choice to be gay or trans? You can’t have it both ways. Pick. One.
- Comment on Gen Z’s Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk 4 weeks ago:
Now THAT’S a shower thought. I can’t think of a single athlete that’s crossed over some many decades.
And of course lemmy is spitting, hissing mad.
- Comment on Gen Z’s Tony Hawk is Tony Hawk 4 weeks ago:
I was a teen in the 80s, a young adult in the 90s, and overall, America was pretty fucking nice, especially the Clinton years. With the benefit of hindsight you can say we should have fought for X, Y and Z, but we weren’t at war, starving or overrun by fascists. Was a 20-something young man to have foreseen today’s disastrous climate? I was partying and getting laid.
And I have never once in this heard of this, “working in the shadows” bullshit. None of us talk that way, never have, we embraced being disconnected slackers.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 4 weeks ago:
Neat! Don’t think I have the energy to do much about it, but that’s a great site, thank you very much!
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- Comment on the year of the linux desktop 4 weeks ago:
I run Windows but my VPN server is Debian.
- Comment on You know you've seen it before but just can't place it 4 weeks ago:
That’s somebody’s house, somebody with teeth and claws. Do not stick anything in there.
PRO TIP: You can get a clue if an animal hole is inhabited by looking at the ground in front of the entrance. Buncha leaves and crap? Empty. Fresh dirt in a spray? Somebody in there.
- Comment on Now you tell me 4 weeks ago:
1991, gf and I are visiting Broken Bow Reservoir in the very SE corner of Oklahoma. (Stunning place BTW! Seriously.)
Me: “What in the world are all those tiny blue tents?”
GF: “Roosters for cockfighting.”
Me: “They still do that?!”
Later that night, outside our cabin.
Me: “What is that noise?!”
GF: “Roosters.”
Same trip, we hit a convenience store to inquire about an ATM. I’m watching the girls behind the counter point and laugh at her. I could SEE her turning red before she storms out the door.
“What the fuck was that about?”
“I explained that I use this card to withdraw money from a bank machine and they laughed at me!”
Poor gf. Imagine being genius-level IQ and growing up in Oklahoma.
Another funny thing about that trip; Two broke college kids only needed to scrouge $70 for gas all the way across state, 2 nights in a private cabin and a day’s boat rental. Imagine that.
Anyway, felt like telling a story.
- Comment on Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate 4 weeks ago:
The year is 1998. I am reading an article from the future. I have no mouth and I must scream.
- Comment on Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate 4 weeks ago:
But they used to have Unifying Receivers that could handle 16 devices, and I don’t think a bad cert would cripple the software. Didn’t they stop making those a few years ago.
- Comment on xkcd #3191: Superstition 4 weeks ago:
You will love this:
“Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there weren’t any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”
― Peter Watts, Echopraxia
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 4 weeks ago:
That first sentence tells me SO much. I never once thought of that.
- Comment on Google Search AI hallucinations push Google to hire "AI Answers Quality" engineers 4 weeks ago:
I’ve seen 100 shitty job postings for rating AI results. It’s rather complicated and pays pennies.
- Comment on 200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far 4 weeks ago:
There are sites where you just plug in the URL and the video downloads.
- Comment on 200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far 4 weeks ago:
Florida here, gotta use my VPN anyway to get to PH. 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on After Claiming Maduro Was Its Kingpin, DOJ Now Admits in Court That 'Cartel De Los Soles' Isn't a Real Group | Common Dreams 4 weeks ago:
If he’s found not guilty, he walks. But I can’t see him making it to the parking lot without being arrested of further trumped up charges.
- Comment on After Claiming Maduro Was Its Kingpin, DOJ Now Admits in Court That 'Cartel De Los Soles' Isn't a Real Group | Common Dreams 4 weeks ago:
Hitler fucked up by not securing Russian oil supplies before prosecuting the wider war. The US is not making that mistake again.
- Comment on I can still smell them 4 weeks ago:
During the pandemic, percussion caps for black powder guns were unavailable and I got those types of caps to work marginally well.
- Comment on Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer 4 weeks ago:
Imgur bans my IP from a Digital Ocean droplet of my own build. Just sayin’, they’re not only operating from known IP ranges.