purplemonkeymad

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not everyone agrees on an exact time, typically the viability of the fetus outside of the womb is the consideration.

  This would mean a baby that would be just premature wouldn’t be aborted. As you move back the viability would end up varying for each pregnancy, which is why after a set point doctors are involved. They then make a medical judgement balancing the viability and safety to the carrier.

  So there is no hard date. The insistence on getting one simplifies a complicated issue where nuance is important.

  I’ve noticed that a lot of anti-abortion laws target doctors, specifically to make the fuzzy nature of the cuttoff difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is mono not the .net framework version? .net core has always been multi platform, but is not compatible with .net framework apps. So any .net apps built against 3.5 or 4.x would still need to use mono.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can now reach the network connections folder, using an option on the network status page. It’s something like advanced network options. Still all the classic stuff, but avoids “control panel.” I’m going to guess links like that are not going to be removed.

  If they just outright remove all of that, you really will need to learn how to do everything in powershell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bd players need internet as they only have keys for the discs made before they were made. So if you stick a newer disc in it won’t play until it gets updated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the reason they drop these things is that the project leaders move on and one one wants to take that job anymore. If there is no one to push it, no one cares and it gets axed. The person that setup Google+ probably wasn’t around after it launched, so momentum was just completely lost.

  Calling them greedy gives them more credit than the apathy they had to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA Ping⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can replace go to lunch with come back after the weekend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slack Will Begin Deleting Older Content From Free Workspaces⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This change has basically no effect for anyone on a free workspace. Since you can’t read those messages anyway. It only matters if you were going to go paid.

  I think it’s more likely that slack has decided that all free workspaces that would upgrade, probably have, and they don’t want to store all those messages that aren’t going to be read anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  S mode does allow you to turn it off, so it’s more like a hobbled version of home.

  The computer is as bad as one I saw several years ago with 64g emmc and “Quad core processor.” not a quad core, it was literally the name that showed in system. It did have 4 cores: at 400Mhz, boosting to 1.1Ghz. Buyer changed their mind and we couldn’t give it away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elsevier⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like why not just print to pdf from your pdf viewer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it may or may not be wrong. One of the measures would be, can Reddit afford the price if it also had pay for the same access? If the answer is no, then it might be considered preferential treatment to their own app. However ianal so there could be a carve out for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it was just me but I never had issues with the u shaped dryers. Although I normally put my hands in by the side, wrists above, kept them flat, and drew out slowly. Dry hands every time.

  Other dryers just end up pushing water to the dry side of your hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back 4 Blood gets Denuvo Anti-tamper removed and an anti-cheat fix for Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Strangely player numbers are up. Usually when you see it drop to 3 figures it won’t go back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These racing game players are 11 days into an exhausting race to climb a deadly tower⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s insanely hard compared to the first (only 12 people finished that one.) I think it’s nice that the streamers cheer eachother on, normal races can make it competitive but everyone knows that they can fail that same jump just as easily.

  I was not expecting it to last quite this long tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but that term does not violate the first amendment since the government didn’t stop you from saying it, so would hold up. You might be able to get it thrown out due to something else, you would need a lawyer for that.

  That contract will have penalties for violations, and those are what you would be subject to if in violation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are aware that first amendment protects speech from government actions/bodies only. It’s not something you can use against a private business (there are other laws for discrimination.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge experiment blocks access to settings if Windows 11 is not activated⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh the fun of recovering windows xp to new hardware!

  “Sorry you have had the install for too long so it must be activated.”

  Ok but I need to install new drivers for the network card, can I do that so I can activate.

  “No fix, only activate.”

  Was fine until they turned both internet and phone activation off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reverse proxy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends where you want the complexity.

  Since ssh is a layer4 tunnel if you don’t run a proxy on your home box, you’ll need a new network connection for each service, if you are fine with that, I would set it up only on the VPS. This means if the tunnel goes down, you should at least get 502 error rather than a timeout or connection refused.

  Alternatively you could forward 80, 443 to a proxy service on the home server. That would require two ports for the ssh.

  You can drop it to a single ssh connection by having a proxy on both and just have the VPS proxy Http and https to the same port on the home server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we took material like rock from space and got it back to Earth enough times, would Earth grow as a planet?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Energy don’t have weight but, it does have an effect on the curvature of space the same way matter does. In fact one of the proposed methods to create artificial blackholes is to put enough photons into the same place. It’s easier than getting matter together as photons don’t interact with eachother.

  However the point is correct that light energy will only impart an insignificant amount to the earth’s pull.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I paid for starfield I would have felt annoyed about it. Played it on game pass so probably spent half price or less on the subscription time. It was fine, but not full price fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  turn off the toggle for “Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more.”

  I turn this off anyway, as in Windows 10 it always kept pushing 3rd party apps. Is this ad any different to the Windows 10 “Suggested App” that was in the start menu for it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For years people have known it can’t be upgraded. You know that going in.

  Not sure that is true, lots of people see the marketing for a MacBook and think that any of them will be enough. Or see the price difference and think they are getting a good deal, or don’t understand why that is. I’ve had to tell people, sorry I know you spent a lot of money on this, but it does not have the storage for what you are wanting to do. Yes, the only way is to buy another one.

  Otherwise yea, everyone tries to gaslight customers into thinking they didn’t get ripped off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aka people who just plugged it in and left it as long as it works. These are not the kind of people who would have done anything if informed that they had an issue. On one hand I don’t like the idea of governments fixing private property, but they were never going to be fixed by the owner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My reason for not using them is that they tend to be overly aggressive in what they remove. I only need a few reg tweaks and denying permissions on a few files. These often go whole hog and remove whole components, almost all apps etc. I actually use one drive, I don’t want its files also removed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft: Introducing Sudo for Windows⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, so yea just a “better” version of runas. I can see it being a bit easier when you just need to do the one thing as admin, but overall just opening an admin windows is still going to be the best way.

  I don’t really think the security issues makes it worth enabling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not DNS⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For real, I’ve had problems where I specifically checked if it was DNS, concluded it was not, but it still turned out to be DNS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Joining a QNAP to a AD Domain.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Last time I did this domain accounts needed to include their domain/upn to logon, so there won’t be any account confusion. However if they were accessing the nas from a domain joined machine, it would use Kerberos anyway so shouldn’t be getting prompted to logon. Obviously that is only for SMB shares, other connection types didn’t use Kerberos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Beeper users say Apple banned their Macs from iMessage⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like they are better off that way. Anyone who thinks that is important is probably not worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why docker⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For real, at the minimum use a virtual machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨git commit -m "hotfix"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure that commit will be fixed in sort order and not remain that way until it becomes a “we don’t know why, but just do this bit.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised it wasn’t showing ads before. The fire tablets are discounted if they show ads on the lock screen.