funkless_eck

@funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  the dog didn’t actually tell him to

  Google actually told him to with text receipts in writing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨many have been saying this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  growing up in the 80s and 90s in the uk, I never heard the end of how the (slur for Pakistani people, applied to all people from South Asian countries) are ruining everything, then the Kosovans/Bosnians, Romani people… I saw less black/African racism but I didn’t see none.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a special message from our sponsors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  boofed fent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump vies for Bush’s crown for worst foreign policy decision in history⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  or attempting to invade Russia

  Agincourt

  Flodden Field

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  4chan greentext

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FINAL FANTASY VII - now on GOG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  check out New Threat which remixes the game, or the Archeology Mod which restores cut content and the original intent of the translators - including lines that were wrong in the original and then fixed in remake (it has a setting specifically keep “This guy are sick” if you were worried).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You know you wanna⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  before silica was commercially available people used to use rice (in salt shakers, to dry electronics…)

  rice contains naturally occurring silica.

  also, silica is the same composition as quartz and opals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean you’ll have to take my word for it I guess.

  I volunteer for an organization that promotes fiction penned by women and minority communities, we have a guy on the board who used to be a software engineer in the 70s–90s before he retired, he doesn’t know the first thing about social media. Struggles to remember the name of Facebook which is the only one he’s used.

  My father in law wrote software for both JPL and government oceanography equipment, and is a big fan of Musk’s SpaceX work and vehemently against his political stuff, saying “he needs to dump that political stuff and get back to work!” frequently.

  In my experience, people are complicated and immune to a lot of online pigeonholing, no matter how insistent online voices (mine included) are about that - there is a break between online discourse and real life day to day humdrum quotidian lived experience

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s no need to make it personal to me, I’m just telling you about a guy I know.

  I think its very reasonable in America that one wouldn’t be exposed to specific anti-Musk language if one didn’t engage with social media or news.

  I think this is a case of

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  random people on the street flip him off, and some people have thrown stuff at him. He thinks they’re weirdos and it’s kinda funny. 🤷‍♂️

  also I’m not going to tell the bosses husband people think he’s a nazi. I’m going to take my pay and enjoy my weekends and vacations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  this is not an endorsement of Musk or of Tesla or of cybertruck drivers - but this is a Very Online take. My boss’ husband drives a cybertruck, he doesn’t know what tiktok is, he doesn’t know what a meme is nor does he understand them when he sees them (he asks who it’s a photo of), the only news he consumes is in regards to logistics and supply chain and a little bit of the stock market.

  I imagine he has as much understanding of why people hate elon musk as to I do as to why people love Sidney Crosby and hate Alexander Ovechkin - two people I had never heard of or know nothing about before googling “hockey players people love and hate.”

  I won’t even remember their names in 5 minutes. I imagine a fair amount of cybertruck owners are like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  holy shit I used this exact method this week at work to extract a paid-for database for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  12 keys (A, Bb, B, C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#) major and minor. 36 if you count melodic minor and harmonic minor separately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨learning to play an instrument on your own, but how/what?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  really you should pick an instrument that you are excited about and we can’t know that.

  I loved playing piano as a kid, and when I became a teen I wanted to play bass, then in my 20s I wanted to learn clarinet so I’d have a well-rounded experience with different instruments.

  The best way to learn is classes, the best way to practice is scales. Anyone who has the fortitude to play the 24 scales every day and maybe a few modes before an hour of practice will become better than most people, faster.

  Being able to see I-V-vi-IV in F and being able to instinctively play it only comes from hours of drilling scales.

  when Im in a music-heavy space, I have some music dice that I roll and make it into a chord progression and play that. I also try and memorize a new song a week til I can play it without looking at the music and without a backing track (but, crucially, with a click track or metronome)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one is it!?!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  brit and I did hate peanut butter as a kid.

  however I will also say that Reeces is peanut butter flavored confectionary, it is not strictly peanut butter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long and how hard would it be to get a star removed on The Hollywood Walk of Fame? Asking for a friend.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  real answer: they are maintained by an agency that replaces damaged ones. although people have refused stars no one has had one removed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I NOT do in front of rich people?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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  I think it’s just this meme you’re remembering

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨outlawing pedestrians⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I came down with the flu and 102° fever while on a work trip this week. I ubered to an urgent care and the pharmacy was just across the street, but the street being a typical 5-lane American road with no sidewalk on either side, and no pedestrian crossing in sight in either direction.

  I had to play frogger in the traffic standing in an empty lane until the next one cleared to get across.

  Just truly mind-blowing bad design

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Praise Be⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  however it is a misconception that people married and had kids young in the past. generally it was in your early 20s even in antiquity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes but DNS is terrestrial, so you could just ban the web portals and apps on earth.

  Yes you could VPN to a non-compliant country, but you can already do that without a spater spenter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've Hit The Perfect Weight⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oh this guy probably uses Imperial measurements

  it’s 69673.1296433 drachms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the best faces include the nude

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  use sniffies web app and browse by location - you’ll be surprised how much info there is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who lives in a plastic bin under the sink⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bob N’Éponge 😥

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if portals are invented, will I be able to eat out myself?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can already lick my own feet if I so choose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bo'le of wa'er⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  idomatically that’s exactly how it’s used - as one would say, “right?” “okay” “eh?” “feel me?” “dig?” “am I right?” “see?” “no?” at the end of a sentence in other epochs/cultures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student Parking⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I checked the journey to the university near me. It’s currently 2pm on a Thursday, using live travel data

  • car: 14 mins
  • bike: 48 mins (route illegal, as you’d have to bike on the shoulder of a 4 lane freeway)
  • public transport: 1h40m, 3 changes, each with a 7 min walk between them
  • on foot: 2h46 mins
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK the four rules of firearm safety⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  you didn’t go through a major train station in London? there’s usually armed guards there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  wouldn’t it be a 125–250 mile cable tops?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but your TAM (who you could possibly sell to) is the biggest concentric circle, inside that is the Servicable Addressable Market (who you could feasibly sell to) and your SOM (serviceable obtainable market, who you are actually selling to) and the consumer market is who you were actually selling to.

  It could be that these data centers never become serviceable or obtainable, and this is all just predictions with no actual product making it into a machine.