remotelove
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- Comment on If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people? 1 day ago:
Effort vs Reward vs Ability vs Inital investment
In most cases, think of this kind of thing like a legitimate business. Same concepts. I’ll grade a few scenarios based on what I have seen over the last 20 or so years. (The ratings are arbitrary and just trying to explain my point.)
Do you have the means to rent a botnet and phish a few million people for lots of credit card numbers? Can you manage that kind of data, test all those numbers and maybe end up just selling that data? Low Risk/Moderate Reward (“Selling shovels” analogy is probably a better scheme than actually renting the botnet, IMHO)
Could you setup a “call center” in India and run a scam ring like an 8-5 business? Are there enough people you can hire to do this work? That requires training, infrastructure and time. You also may need to “work with” law enforcement to ensure your scam isn’t busted by legitimate cops. Moderate Risk/Moderate Reward.
Are you part of a small group with an insane amount of skill that has the time to pull off an extortion scheme against a Fortune 500 company for a few million bucks? High risk/High reward
Those are all normal scenarios above and it’s based on profitability and initial investment. Risk/Reward is always a balance.
(Sorry. I pulled a “wHellll aKshUallY” when you said it’s not worth the time for the small targets.)
- Comment on Does using ChatGPT change your brain activity? Study sparks debate 1 day ago:
There seems to hundreds of studies on that and there seems to be a fairly uniform “Yes” and “More than you would guess”, etc.
Here is one: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3233/ADR-220062
- Comment on Fun Lunch Fridays 2 days ago:
It’s all about presentation, my friend. If we are going to make our millions off of this product before it starts to roll off of people’s TikTok feeds, we need to move quick.
If we repackage PVA into a sales point for preschool nostalgia, we got it made.
- Comment on Fun Lunch Fridays 2 days ago:
Polyvinyl acetate would probably give a better texture and has been kid approved for decades.
Still, I am super curious to see if actual gelatin would work so thanks for computing the ratios for a (theoretically) stable product.
- Comment on Fun Lunch Fridays 2 days ago:
If a solution for the bean-to-glue ratio can be found, I am also fine with that.
- Comment on Fun Lunch Fridays 2 days ago:
This seems to be from the TikToks, so no. Not real.
- Comment on Ball master 2 days ago:
One of these things is not like the other…
It’s the guy pointing at something completely random.
- Comment on A Tech-Backed Influencer Wants to Replace Teachers With AI 2 days ago:
B is for Buy n Large (and billionaire) your very best friends.
- Comment on Be aware that buying electrical items from Ali Express might not be too clever. 1 week ago:
The insulation between the windings was probably non-existent.
Also… uh… TO-263 packages are surface mount and likely require heat dissipation of some kind. There is a chance that heat sinking isn’t required, but it’s standard practice to at least ground the tab. (Using the package like that for quick at home projects is fine. Putting it in a production power supply like that is just silly.)
Throw the rest of those powes supplies you have directly in the bin. It’s not worth the risk with those shitty transformers and that poor design. It would really suck if a failure mode sent mains voltage through what you are powering. (It needs a full teardown to say for certain though.)
- Comment on Reddit assemble 1 week ago:
So I’m the smart now?
- Comment on If I wanted to have a maximally downvoted post, how would I go about accomplishing that? 2 weeks ago:
The problem with .ml shitposting is that it will almost immediately get removed. If it does start to propagate around to other instances, people will immediately recognize it as a troll post and it will get upvoted.
Trolling ml takes finesse and it’s the IRL epitome of “opposite day” over there.
- Comment on Post your favorite frogs. 2 weeks ago:
Lick me. Image
- Comment on Just started a community for those who wish to move away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
I think you nailed it. For me personally, if I move to PieFed, it’s not because I want to “hurt” the devs, it’s because I really don’t want to be part of what they stand for.
- Comment on Technichally-wrong community. Here here, peepostin' lyka pro 2 weeks ago:
I read it as bees.
Please do not the bees.
- Comment on Someone had to mine all the metal for the coins that end up in jars 3 weeks ago:
Alumina (aluminum oxide) is what you are extracting from aluminum ore and tough as fuck, which is why it’s easier to dissolve the rest of the stuff around it first.
Oxygen is mainly that other “junk” you have to separate with electricity. While the smelters only run at 4.5 volts (per cell), they have to push about 300kA to get the stuff up to ~950°C which breaks its chemical bond.
You probably have never even touched pure aluminum before. Aluminum and oxygen react so quick, all we typically ever see and touch is a alumina shell.
- Comment on A post from nodebb has been stuck at the top of all/new for a few months. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think it matters much if ee is shutting down.
- Comment on Of all the sentient gas blobs, Dave was the densest. So thick and rich. We all admired him deeply for it -- But Dave just lived in a tiny bottle. That was his whole dumb trick. 3 weeks ago:
Getting high off your own farts again?
- Comment on xkcd #3094: Mass Spec 4 weeks ago:
Gravity is not a constant and that would probably matter at the precision that needs to be measured in the given test environment. In any other situation, gravity (or the state of the earths magnetic field) absolutely would not matter.
The precision of F=MA might even be debatable as an accurate formula at these scales… I dunno about that though.
- Comment on xkcd #3094: Mass Spec 4 weeks ago:
And a also a true vacuum. Your test subject might not look so hot after that, but science!
- Comment on The structure of a joke is always that of a capacitor decaying into a resistor, the punchline being the short point of contact. 4 weeks ago:
Just to go a bit deeper, everything should be considered a resistor, capacitor and inductor.
A full intro to capacitors: aictech-inc.com/…/capacitor_foundation01.html
A circuit diagram representation of a capacitor: Image
- Comment on xkcd #3094: Mass Spec 4 weeks ago:
Speculating, or course, I would say there wouldn’t be enough change to get a perceivable effect through other kinds of noise at the scale we are talking about. Yes, there would be an effect, but with all other environmental variables included, the results may appear completely random.
Then again, I suppose much of this boils down to the accuracy of the tools that you use to measure readings.
- Comment on New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar system 5 weeks ago:
They didn’t change the reference, they defined an AU.
- Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 5 weeks ago:
It’s ok to shit in someone else’s, just not yours.
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- Comment on In America, crisp is used to describe natural food that is very fresh or a nice, cold morning. But crispy is used to describe food that is cooked so long it's become crunchy. 1 month ago:
But in the UK, is a crisp “crispy” or is “crisp” a derivative of another term or phrase?
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 1 month ago:
That needs to be in the form of a question, right?
- Comment on Liquid Silicone 3D Printing Is No Joke 1 month ago:
The layers are almost invisible with this tech. The custom adult novelty business will go crazy over this.
- Comment on OpenAI caves to pressure, keeps nonprofit in charge 1 month ago:
Even when you completely ignore that bullshit monologue from Altman, something is fishy with this.
While just speculation, I think they are positioning for a sale as that is going to be the only way to get any value from their shares. (Aside from dividends, if that is a even a thing with pre-IPO equity?)
Anyone else case to spitball any theories?
- Comment on She will devour your soul 1 month ago:
Note to self: Start wearing silver eyeliner.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 1 month ago:
Butter is just milk with extra steps. There are quite a few things you can cook with milk (or specifically creams) that you would typically use butter for that you wouldn’t think. Steak is a good example.
Of course it’s not a 1:1 replacement, but that is kind of the point. The question is: How of you prefer your milk fats to taste when cooked? (If you are cooking a steak, are you after a specific butter flavor or a deeper cooked dairy flavor?)
