Limonene

@Limonene@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you work for a company owned by a A..hole⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Last company where I faced external suppliers, I had to take a training where they said we couldn’t accept any item worth more than like $20, except food or alcohol during a presentation. But we could accept such items on behalf of the company, and they would be raffled off to a random employee. One time a guy in purchasing got a giant brass horse head from a Chinese supplier. I guess nobody signed up for the raffle, so it became a permanent fixture in the cafeteria.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Lemmy attempting to radicalise people to enforce class wars?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have any evidence of major AI generated memes and comments? Sometimes I see an obvious AI image (and down vote it), and some communities are made for the purpose of AI so I blocked them. But aside from that, have you found much generative AI slop?

  And if so, how would you fix that in code? Some sort of captcha? I think the volume is low enough that it wouldn’t help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Your post is blatant disinformation. Undocumented immigrants overwhelmingly vote not at all. Voting illegally in the US is difficult, and often prosecuted.

  I live in the US. Most of the people I know are Democrat-aligned. None of them want undocumented immigrants to vote. None of them import undocumented immigrants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beaches⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If gender is what’s in your pants, then twice a week my gender is your dad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t used it in the last several years, but from about 2014-2018 any time I tried to download, it required registration, and any time I tried to register, it just didn’t work. It was some problem with the javascript in their site. Probably related to captcha or something. Yes, I tried multiple computers, multiple browsers, even tried registering on a library’s computer.

  Looks like their site is less shit now, but it’s still awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technichally-wrong community. Here here, peepostin' lyka pro⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Purple: You have eaten beets recently. Green: You have had a Vitamin B supplement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How To Swap Couplings?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re certain that only the housing of the connector has changed from old motor to new motor, and each pin inside the housing is the same, then I’d recommend trying a heat gun to melt the waxy adhesive, followed by poking around with a screwdriver to unlatch the pins.

  But if it were me, I’d just splice the wires. You will need heatshrink or at least electrical tape, a soldering iron, and solder. A good splice can easily handle more current than that little connector.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just give me a few hundred turns, and I'm gonna spank everyone at this tournament.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could just counterspell it. The “no spells in the building can be countered” and “protection” clauses only affect it after it enters the battlefield.

  So, it would go to the graveyard, its owner would be banned, and nobody could take any turns. They would have to postpone the tournament until the next day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This survey doesn’t distinguish between levels of cloud service provider, so I was a little confused.

  Virtual private servers, cloud virtual servers (like AWS), cloud-based software where you provide code or a program and the cloud system runs it on a server of its choosing, and cloud-based systems where someone else provides the software (like Google Docs).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally cannot use a program that has AI crap integrated into it, because of data security rules in the contracts I have to follow. If I used Windows 11, I would have to never use Notepad, and find a way to remove Explorer. (Explorer creates the desktop icons and taskbar, so good luck with that.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows 11 doesn’t even have a working file manager or text editor anymore. This is not a serious operating system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Rejecting Netflix fixes things for you and me, but the article says Netflix has 93 million ad-supported subscribers. I’m really worried about the amount of influence advertisers have on our society, and it’s only getting worse. Even if you and I can be above the direct influence of these ads, many people are not, and those people are influencing you and me. This produces a dangerous secondary influence that can reach most of society, and just fills everyone’s mind with lies, for hardly any cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK if you have a library card or are a student, there's a free streaming service called Kanopy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Kanopy looks like they use Widevine DRM. I will continue using other DRM-free sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The GPL explicitly allows redistributing without charge, even if you paid for it. If they didn’t want their program redistributed, they shouldn’t have licensed it under the GPL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Their entire security model depends on knowing file extensions, but they still hide them. Even if you enable it, there are some extensions that still won’t show, like .lnk (shortcut file). You can absolutely have executable code, and therefore malware in a .lnk file.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And it was GPL, so it wasn’t even copyright infringement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to disagree about the idiot proof. KDE Plasma and Mate Desktop are more idiot proof and easy for newbies than Windows 10-11, yet have more features in their simple control panels.

  I’ve had no bootloader problems in the last 10 years of Debian, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu (15-20 installs, plus another 20-30 if you count VMs.) However, my work computer’s bootloader was semi-bricked twice in 2019 (Windows 7).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Turn signals are not optional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most under-utilized consoles?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Nintendo 64 had no 64-bit games.

  They probably would have taken more flash and RAM with no advantage in performance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Release the kraken⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How can you tell if this one is? The text differences within and between panels 1 and 2 are indistinguishable (to my eyes) from JPEG artifacts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get rid of Whatsapp?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t seem to upload images, but if you image-search for:

  “we’ve completed our review and found this account’s activity goes against whatsapp’s terms of service”

  You will find screenshots you can download and use as fake proof that you are banned.

  When I had to contact Facebook to get an account unlocked, they took about a month to respond to each email, and never did unlock the account no matter how much proof I sent them. I expect WhatsApp is similar, since it’s owned by the same company. So just say that they hardly respond, and they say things they’ve already said, ask you to try things you’ve already tried, or they ask for documents you’ve already sent them.

  Why were you banned? Maybe you accidentally signed in on a phishing page, and they sent spam using your account. Maybe you created an account, and your first action was to contact a person you hadn’t contacted before (obviously), and it was marked as spam. Maybe you signed up on an IP address previously used by a spam-sending datacenter (this happened a lot to me at my old house). Maybe your phone number was banned from WhatsApp before you got it, but you already gave it to too many people to be able to change it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re trans: Start making plans to flee. You don’t have to carry them out right now. But do get a passport, even if it has to have your deadname. Canada or Mexico probably wouldn’t accept a US refugee just for being trans right now, but that will change in the future.

  If you’re an immigrant, or even a permanent resident: It’s unsafe in the US right now. I wouldn’t fault you if you left today. However, everyone’s circumstances are different. Maybe you want to stay and support your spouse and kids who are citizens, and you’re willing to risk your life to do it. It depends on the circumstances.

  Anyone else: Stay and fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jellyfin depends on proprietary Microsoft .NET, even on Linux.

  It’s still better than Plex and Emby, which are fully proprietary, and have no source code. But I will stick with sshfs with kodi, and nginx plus mpv for now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i’m not religious. stop trying to force me to be.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If a religion doesn’t allow its members to be friends with non-members, that religion is a cult.

  You probably don’t want to engage with cult members anyway, unless it is to help them leave the cult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israelis mock Palestinian children in viral TikTok 'prank call' trend⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  mossad was founded by an ss member

  Who? My research shows only Reuven Shiloah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In case anyone was thinking this applies only to inkjet printers: no, it ONLY seems to apply to laser printers – the thing that Brother used to be known for. Where the article says “ink”, they mean “toner”. There is no ink in a laser printer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the difference between pansexuality and bisexuality?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One woman told me that she identifies as bisexual, even though she is attracted to all genders including non-binary, because she has two “modes” of dating. When dating women, she prefers to be the pursuer. When dating men, she prefers to be the pursued. I’m not sure which way she usually went with enbies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Between Linux or Windows which do you think will be first to have a viable OS for quantum computers?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think quantum computers may be impossible. But if they are possible, they will be a USB/PCIe accessory that works alongside an ordinary processor running an ordinary operating system.

  I expect Linux will have a driver for quantum computers before Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He thinks they'll just GIVE him money?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  $10M is ridiculous. For $100k-$500k, you can buy citizenship in several countries that are better to live in than the US is in 2025.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crypto exchange Bybit says a hacker took control of one of its cold Ethereum wallets, resulting in what analysts estimate was the loss of ~$1.5B worth of tokens⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll just roll back the blockchain. Ethereum is a centrally controlled cryptocurrency, though its fans claim otherwise. It’s been rolled back before.