JohnnyCanuck
@JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Lexar doubles up the NM790 series SSDs max capacity to 8TB — new drives spotted at retail for approx $1,000 3 weeks ago:
Yo momma tried reading a book but she so fat she ate it as a snack instead.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X Still Down in Brazil After Company Sends $5.2 Million Fine to Wrong Bank 1 month ago:
Sounds like the guy I want to be running emergency management!
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X Still Down in Brazil After Company Sends $5.2 Million Fine to Wrong Bank 1 month ago:
Xitter. Xitter xitter xitter.
(pronounced shitter)
- Comment on Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021 1 month ago:
They have an “attack flow” diagram that seems to indicate a hacker installing it directly through a known vulnerability.
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 1 month ago:
The router might have a page for fixed IP addresses.
- Comment on I'm listening to a motivational speaker at a corporate conference when I realize... 1 month ago:
Agent Smith in The Matrix (1999)
- Comment on I'm listening to a motivational speaker at a corporate conference when I realize... 1 month ago:
“I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species, and I realized that you’re not actually mammals.
Every mammal on this planet instictively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area.
There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is?
A virus.
Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You’re a plague.
And we… are the cure.”
- Comment on U.S. to ban Chinese, Russian software and hardware used in autonomous vehicles 1 month ago:
Good point! If vehicles are communicating like that, which I’ve always thought would be the ultimate for efficiency, you’d have to protect against poison pills. That would be even more difficult with disparate systems cooperating.
Reminds me of the car “chase” scene in I, Robot.
- Comment on U.S. to ban Chinese, Russian software and hardware used in autonomous vehicles 1 month ago:
I wonder if this could be a step in the direction of forcing manufacturers to allow custom/open source/audited software in all vehicles. If it can be done in some foreign-made vehicles, it can be done in domestically made ones too.
Also note that it says “connected and autonomous vehicles”. If that means two categories, “connected vehicles” and “autonomous vehicles”, it could be quite broadly applied to vehicles that download updates over the air. If it means “autonomous vehicles that are connected” it could be somewhat narrow and an easy work around is to leave the autonomous vehicles disconnected from the internet. I’m not sure how much self-driving abilities are run on servers?
- Comment on Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code? 1 month ago:
Top level comment is talking about using it for learning. Saying that AI is just regurgitating text doesn’t address that fact at all. In fact it sounds like you were putting down the commentor for using it for learning.
The bulk of your comment was about how poorly it writes code which isn’t what that comment was talking about. At all. So yes, I agree, you should have separated your two thoughts and probably focused the second thought on a different thread within this post. Perhaps at the top level to say it to the OP.
- Comment on Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code? 1 month ago:
That isn’t what the comment you replied to was talking about so that’s why you’re getting downvoted even though some of what you said is right.
- Comment on The phrase "Pics or it didn't happen" is largely meaningless now that AI is a thing. 1 month ago:
I’m not saying biometrics should replace all usernames. I’m saying that they should be used as usernames/identification at best.
- Comment on The phrase "Pics or it didn't happen" is largely meaningless now that AI is a thing. 1 month ago:
What if you want to have more than one account with a provider, but you have only one face?
Are you serious or are you being pedantic and trolling? That doesn’t change my point, your face shouldn’t be the password to both accounts. It’s pretty easy to add another step for multiple accounts.
- Comment on The phrase "Pics or it didn't happen" is largely meaningless now that AI is a thing. 1 month ago:
Biometrics should be usernames, not passwords. Fingerprints, irises, faces, vocal patterns, all of it, no matter how good it is, only identifies the person trying to enter/use something and is somewhat easy to steal without their knowledge.
If you want true security you still need to ask for a passcode that only the now-identified user will know.
And yes, it is still possible to intercept the passcode at the moment that the user interacts with the locking mechanism, but that is completely different from grabbing it when they’re randomly walking down the street, etc.
- Comment on US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues 1 month ago:
Tiktok is probably used 10 times as much though (users x time on the app) and Temu isn’t spreading messages in quite the same way. Comparing apples and gerbils, whataboutism, etc.
- Comment on It's called a wedding ring, but surely it should be called a marriage ring 2 months ago:
You get three rings at the shocking. The one for the pinky is called the “stinker ring”
- Comment on Toothpaste tube only runs out when your motivation runs out. 2 months ago:
Obviously you’ve never finished a tube of toothpaste.
- Comment on Do you still play couch coop nowadays? Which games do you recommend? 3 months ago:
There are some great couch co-op games out there, BUT NOT NEARLY ENOUGH. Seriously, the number of goddamn games that expect you to HAVE TWO COMPUTER AND TWO SCREENS SO YOU CAN PLAY CO-OP WITH SOMEONE ELSE IS TOO DAMN HIGH.
The issue is that not enough people play couch co-op to justify the effort that goes into making it work. It’s a subset of a subset of gamers that play couch co-op even once, let alone on a regular basis.
- Comment on What's your take on marijuana consumption while attending AA or NA? 3 months ago:
I don’t know, but it seems like the kind of thing that you should talk to them about. I mean, you’d be going to AA and/or NA due to trying to overcome addiction. If you’re coping with your addiction using weed, maybe they’d have an opinion about it.
That said, my guess is that they’d be against it, partly because of the religious roots. www.reddit.com/r/atheism/s/glPy8tGvjw
- Comment on I liked Fusion 360, I like Onshape - but I'd rather like something that I won't lose over the whims of one company. So, what? 4 months ago:
- Comment on Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
Yeah everyone uses WhatsApp when I travel to other countries.
- Comment on Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks 4 months ago:
Never by the first model year of any vehicle. And that includes new generations with the same model name. They always have the most problems the first year, so you’re just paying to be a beta tester.
- Comment on Is there a name for apartments that have flat sides, but are protruding like a clover? 4 months ago:
That doesn’t sound like a design that would work in an apartment building. How do neighbouring apartments connect?
Maybe you can draw it out? My guess is that it’s actually just a big rectangle when you figure out where the bathrooms and closets are.
- Comment on If I don't lick my finger before sticking it in your ear, is it a dry bill? 4 months ago:
Vile Villy
- Comment on If I don't lick my finger before sticking it in your ear, is it a dry bill? 4 months ago:
It’s a “bone Billy”
- Comment on Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs 5 months ago:
Fair enough, but to the end user it doesn’t matter if it works.
- Comment on Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs 5 months ago:
Isn’t that the point? This new layer is supposed to make it easier to port everything, and they’re saying that’s what Rosetta did for Apple/Mac.
- Comment on How come there aren't any moral geniuses? 5 months ago:
“So, you’re a philosopher?”
“Yes. I think very deeply^deeply^^^deeply^^”
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 6 months ago:
What do you type? All I see is *******
- Comment on A universal basic income to the ultra wealthy would be perceived by them as being given a couple pennies every month 6 months ago:
Oh also: xkcd.com/2892/