Benjaben
@Benjaben@lemmy.world
- Comment on The rise of ethical social media: can open-source alternatives challenge the tech giants? | The Optimist Daily 8 hours ago:
These are great, but let’s also add and be vigilant in watching for
Embrace, Extend, Extinguishtype attacks! Let’s always advocate against integrating with any of their services / instances. - Comment on YSK Elon Musk's actions are not random and the Silicon Valley's hostile take over of the federal government was planned over the last decade. 9 hours ago:
Thiel’s company, Palantir, is making inroads at many fed gov agencies to manage their data. I’ve seen it happening myself. That’s bad.
- Comment on Treat taking a dump like a sport 4 weeks ago:
I love the instant good mood they get like that lol
- Comment on AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives 4 weeks ago:
IS IT LUIGI MANGI-MOTHAFUCKIN-ONE?!
- Comment on When they tell you "oh of course it's safe" they are lying 4 weeks ago:
PreGANANANT?!?!
- Comment on The best “I told you so”s are the ones where you never have to say “I told you so” because the other person clearly knows you told them so 4 weeks ago:
Delicious. That last one especially, scrolls right off the tongue.
Feels like something Ricky from Trailer Park Boys would deliver.
- Comment on The best “I told you so”s are the ones where you never have to say “I told you so” because the other person clearly knows you told them so 4 weeks ago:
ENTIRELY possible that this exact line is what sent me down the path of noticing and loving tortured idioms. And I forgot all about it, so thanks!!
- Comment on The best “I told you so”s are the ones where you never have to say “I told you so” because the other person clearly knows you told them so 4 weeks ago:
Color me intrigued!
- Comment on The best “I told you so”s are the ones where you never have to say “I told you so” because the other person clearly knows you told them so 4 weeks ago:
I love botched idioms so much. “It’s not rocket surgery” is my go to, but the best ones are unintentional (and completely torture the original).
Best I’ve heard lately was on the air, local NPR affiliate, and the unfortunate lass said something, complimenting I think a film director, saying “He’s hitting all cylinders at just the very top level”.
(The original is “firing on all cylinders”, which just describes an internal combustion engine working properly and not suffering from that particular degradation, cylinders misfiring. Hitting them, anywhere, let alone “at the top level”, is utter nonsense and it was delightful to me, she flat out abused that idiom)
- Comment on The best “I told you so”s are the ones where you never have to say “I told you so” because the other person clearly knows you told them so 4 weeks ago:
OOF, cheers and well done homie! That’s delicious.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas kills one 4 weeks ago:
What a sentence lol, kudos!
- Comment on Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th? 1 month ago:
Oh hell yeah! I had a feeling something like this might exist. I’ll have to give it a try, thanks!
- Comment on Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th? 1 month ago:
Well, no, there’s a ton of sellers. If you want it to actually sell, you take a bit of a loss. Think of it like an annoyingly involved rental program.
I think some kits can get more expensive than retail due to rarity or something, but I wasn’t looking at any of that, just wanted an affordable way to build some cool kits.
- Comment on Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th? 1 month ago:
Something that I came up with during the pandemic was to buy, build, and then resell full kits in basically new condition on a site called Bricklink. It’s like eBay for LEGO only, with an insane number of filtering options and seller base (FFS I found kits for sale I played with as a kid lol).
Doesn’t quite work out to “free” and it’s a bit of a hassle, but it solves that problem for me of wanting to enjoy a big involved build, but being a (boringly) sane adult who can’t justify spending hundreds of dollars on tiny plastic (magnificently designed, engineered, and mfg’ed) bricks.
- Comment on HAIL SATAN 2 months ago:
Pshaw, let’s see you or your deity turn someone into a pillar of salt for looking the wrong way, fuck yeah Team God!
- Comment on Microsoft is launching a $349 desktop PC that only runs Windows 11 by streaming it from the cloud 2 months ago:
Yep for managing “thin clients” I’d been expecting something like this someday.
- Comment on Watching passport bros get bodied by SEA women is a complete mood. Get rekt manlet. 2 months ago:
This is the exact line I was gonna quote too lol, this story is very specific and fun to read
- Comment on But yes. 2 months ago:
The weird man-lifts used to get a side eye from me
- Comment on But yes. 2 months ago:
Not quite invisible but you could also splash and wade into a pool of strong acid thinking it was water, during what first seemed like a somewhat routine FUBAR maintenance situation…filling your boots etc.
- Comment on AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time 2 months ago:
But don’t you see?! Those increased expenses will just be passed along to the scammed!
(No actual point here just thought it was funny to compare to the logic we hear for not punishing other abusive businesses)
- Comment on But yes. 2 months ago:
Blech, I’ve heard stories in my industrial automation days of people being clipped by invisible high pressure steam leaks. No frickin thank you, regular stovetop steam jacks me up frequently enough.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 2 months ago:
More gut bacteria for the rest of us, that’s what I say!
- Comment on WILD 2 months ago:
Yep if I look at the back of my phone, instead of this, it is indeed!
- Comment on Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight. 2 months ago:
That seems pretty plausible to me, yeah, because it’s being attempted already and we seem to be sliding that direction. Privatizing those public services sounds like precisely the way to usher in a fresh new hell like this, completely agree.
- Comment on Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight. 2 months ago:
I really wonder what that may look like too and how likely of an outcome it is. I mean we’ve seen versions of it with “banana republics”, but that wasn’t quite the modern era and wasn’t sophisticated tech companies. I also think most tech companies today would not want that responsibility, just the rewards, it’s a bit hard for me to imagine them actually attempting to provide a government. I think what we’ll see is increasingly hollowed out public institutions matched with ascending power and control of the corps, but leaving the govt in place (largely for a target people can point to when they’re mad) and stopping short of overtly seizing power. Best of both worlds for the corps.
- Comment on Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight. 3 months ago:
For real. The big tech companies are today basically approximating and exceeding what have before been exclusively state-level capabilities. Not all of those capabilities, of course, but enough that the writing’s on the wall. Meta, Google, Amazon (and others) - they truly see themselves as above “petty” things like governments. Just obstacles to work around.
The question is what will we allow them to get away with, not how far will they try to take things. We should be clear on that.
- Comment on IFIXIT: Victory Is Sweet - We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines 3 months ago:
Oh, tbh I was just commenting the sort of “pithy” way to say what commenter above me was saying. I wasn’t actually commenting on the situation, screw McDonalds and Taylor both lol
- Comment on IFIXIT: Victory Is Sweet - We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines 3 months ago:
“Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the merely good” is one (imo important) way to state it.
- Comment on "You'll end up in a van down by the river" if you do drugs, don't go to college, etc. advice never includes the warning: "Don't suffer major Depression that gives you complete apathy for existence." 3 months ago:
For real. This is my basic approach to parenting too and I feel the same way about both substances (while also enjoying both), but I’ve never seen it expressed in just the right way like this. It’s perfect. Another one I’ve found useful is “drinking is borrowing happiness from tomorrow”. Applies to certain other substances to a degree but damn if it isn’t exactly right for alcohol. A loan is not always a bad idea, to be clear, but it’s good to be clear on the terms of any loan, lol.
- Comment on Not allowed to work from home 3 months ago:
My policy as well. Non-negotiable hard no. But I’m fortunate enough to have at least some choice with regard to employment.