obinice
@obinice@lemmy.world
Hi there!
- Comment on True 6 hours ago:
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- Comment on How does "DNS" work on the dark web? 4 days ago:
Who is this bloke and why does he look terrified
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I should know this? Probably not, given that it’s something that local government should be informing people that live in that city in flood areas, vs me who lives thousands of miles away.
Rather than informing the entire planet Earth of flood preparation info that is for a very small corner of the world, maybe a better use of time would be writing to your local flood management representative to ask them to improve public messaging and preparedness.
- Comment on The British Empire 4 days ago:
That’s not why they’re doing it, they want to tightly control and track what everyone does, limit their freedoms and so on. But yeah.
- Comment on What did I forget? 5 days ago:
Stupidly large murika style cars are gonna be a no from me dawg
Look at that thing, the bonnet comes up to this stomach!
Not autism approved nu-uh
- Comment on Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate! 1 week ago:
Some… …thing!
- Comment on In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
:-)
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 2 weeks ago:
people only have a right to exist as long as they’re useful to society in one way or another
Capitalism, you say? :-D
- Comment on 16 minutes of HyTale gameplay 2 weeks ago:
Look up the news from the past day or 2, it’s actually much more interesting than that!
The original founder (well, one of them) got the studio devs back together and bought the game back off the people he sold it to who had canned it, and now they’re back developing it.
Side note Vintage Story is rad :-D
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’ll never be able to afford any of that stuff, no point me even looking at it sadly.
It’s for middle class people who have piles of cash to burn :-(
- Comment on YSK: A simple trick to keep your bananas ripe for a lot longer. 2 weeks ago:
Source?
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 3 weeks ago:
Does your capacitive phone screen wear smooth over time?
(The point being hopefully they’ll be made of something that doesn’t wear down from human fingies)
- Comment on You live in Clown World when guys are using bathroom hand dryers 3 weeks ago:
…Guys in your country don’t use bathroom hand dryers?
Do they just… walk out of the room with wet hands? O_o
The worst part is the queue because there’s always like, one hand dryer, and you feel bad for making people wait while you dry your hands properly.
- Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but the thing is, people just don’t fly it here for no reason.
Unlike the USA, where it was so ridiculous that I played a game with myself called “Turn around and there’ll always be a flag somewhere in front of me” (it really is that insane, their level of nationalism/exceptionalism disguised as patriotism is wild),
…here the flag may be flown for patriotic events (e.g. World Cup), or flown by official institutions, but 99.99% of regular people would never consider flying it for any other reason, and it’s very rarely seen overall. This is normal.
National flags are generally meant to indicate nationality outside of one’s own borders to others around you (e.g. an embassy in a foreign land, or ships at sea). They’re not at all useful on home soil, so why bother flying one?
So, yes, it’s our flag (though not the version people fly that says ENGLAND in big letters in the middle - that’s just stupid). But the people that fly it are almost always bigots and weirdos that you want to stay away from, especially these days.
- Comment on Let a 10 year old boy make a shirt 3 weeks ago:
What did Mick do to deserve this 😭
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 3 weeks ago:
Okay, so long as a passkey is something I can memorise. Otherwise, it’s significantly worse than a regular password (assuming you use good passwords and don’t reuse passwords etc).
It seems like they want to tie it to a physical computer (like the one in your pocket), which sucks big time. What happens if I don’t have access to that computer at all times, or it breaks, or is lost?
I’m planning on getting rid of my smartphone for something that just does calls and texts for example, because I’m sick of how unhealthily reliant I, and everyone, have become on this thing, and I want to be more connected to the real world. What then?
My brain is the best place to store passkeys, it can’t be hacked, stolen, lost, etc, unlike every other option. It’s the clear winner.
- Comment on What the democrats just did. 3 weeks ago:
They… Went into a tunnel? This is something to do with the USA isn’t it xD
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Damn, they’ve got convicted murderers running for office over there, AND getting votes? Wild.
- Comment on If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs. 4 weeks ago:
I would sell so many organs
- Comment on Betrayal 4 weeks ago:
That’s what they all say, socialist scum. You’ll hang for what you think!
Bake him away, toys.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 5 weeks ago:
That’s depressing, but at least there were people like yourself who understood the backwards injustice of it all.
Some people and places have to be kicked and dragged into the modern day, alas.
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 5 weeks ago:
I remember us giving Hong Kong to China, and Princess Diana’s horrible death.
As for the picture, I don’t know what county it’s from but it doesn’t look like the British Broadcasting Corporation which would have been the dominant broadcaster of that era, so I wouldn’t know.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 5 weeks ago:
Everyone? How else are you going to change gear?
I think a more interesting question would be:
How many people learned to drive in a car with a manual Choke?
- Comment on Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent 5 weeks ago:
I played Stardew Valley and suddenly had the overwhelming urge to kill local shopkeepers.
CoInCiDeNcE?!!?!!!??!(:'&((!:;((6_£";!(&6+:
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 5 weeks ago:
In a perfect world where nobody doing the hiring was ever even a little subconsciously racist, that would be perfectly reasonable, yeah.
Though that said we end up with a lot of nuance in the real world. Let’s say there’s a traditionally marginalised, opposed racial group. Let’s say times have changed somewhat and people suddenly accept them.
Well, the generational and cultural weight is still going to have a lasting effect even if times have changed, and it may be more difficult for people from that group to afford a good education, good job, good home, etc.
The point being that even if we all stopped being racist today and hired purely based on how good an employee someone will be, we’re likely still unknowingly skewing our decisions based on past social racial issues.
I’m probably not putting it very well but hopefully you get the idea! It’s probably pretty common knowledge anyway I guess haha, seems pretty obvious to me and I don’t even think about this stuff much :-)
Anyway, point is, we do still need to work as a society on ensuring diversity and fairness even when we’re not racist at all - I think the saying might be “Equity over Equality”, or such?
Obviously the USA Government are fascists, so they’re more interested in wiping out groups they don’t like, but they’re just another in a long line of evil governments that will eventually fall, no point thinking too deeply about why they’re being evil. They’ll eventually die off as all fascist regimes do. Hopefully we won’t have to fight a World War against them this time.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 5 weeks ago:
How is it legal to basically say “We’ll give you some money if you promise to keep the blacks out of your organisation”
- Comment on They're calling again. 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like something 9 year old me wouldn’t have watched!
Now if we’re talkin Star Trek on BBC2 at 6pm after school with my dindins, oh baby!
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 5 weeks ago:
Why wouldn’t we capture him and milk him for his eternal energy forever? We will power grand Gigastructures that dwarf the very stars themselves fueled by his essence! WE WILL TOUCH GOD HIMSELF!
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 5 weeks ago:
Fuck yeah, LLMs for the LLM god! All hail the hallowed datacenter! Sacrifice the DNS!
- Comment on They're calling again. 5 weeks ago:
Oooohhh I was getting mixed up with the Johnny Cash track “I hear the train a comin”.
I don’t know what Frasier is though, we don’t have that here in the UK.
Now if you’ll excuse me I need to pull my Cash LPs out suddenly and do nothing for the next hour