ramble81
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- Comment on What grass starvation does to the perma-online 2 weeks ago:
- Who are they talking about?
- I hope they never get a partner because who know where their lips have been too
(Thinking through that last one they probably want a “pure” virgin)
- Comment on New Japanese Law Stops Parents From Naming Their Baby 'Pikachu' 2 weeks ago:
And Isis was also a name before the terrorist organization. Sadly lexicons change over time.
- Comment on This was the original control for cable TV. And if you bribed the install guy with cash he would set it to give you premium channels you didn't pay for 2 weeks ago:
But part of the point of the piracy is not just to get it for free, but to send a message that you’re not paying the publishers or IP owners
- Comment on This was the original control for cable TV. And if you bribed the install guy with cash he would set it to give you premium channels you didn't pay for 2 weeks ago:
I remember when cable was analog, channels you didn’t pay for were blocked with a frequency filter. let’s say channels 13-60 were 425-475Hz (purely an example) there would be a little device connected to your coax that would filter it out. The thing was though, they did this in the cable box usually in your yard. So all you had to do was go out at night, pop the box open (wasn’t hard) and remove the filter to get free channels.
Then they moved to digital and all things changed.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This is what I was telling people when they were saying “well it’s against the GPDR!” and I was responding that functionally they’d have to go after every single federated instance, including those outside of the jurisdiction and deal with hundreds of other countries. And I got downvoted for it
- Comment on New Japanese Law Stops Parents From Naming Their Baby 'Pikachu' 2 weeks ago:
Mercedes… Lexus… Summer… Autumn…
- Comment on If you're having difficulty figuring out how to pronounce "data," say database. 2 weeks ago:
It’s like when people pronounce mana like mana, it’s very annoying.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
So I’ve been on both sides of this equation. I had a rich friend growing up and they would give me random gifts like game consoles and tickets to concerts that we’d go with them. It was “pocket change” to them. As I got older, I came in to money young and started to do the same thing with my friends, and I realized why they did it and why I did it.
It’s nothing about power dynamics or holding it over others, but wanting to share in your joys and successes. I would buy dinner for friends at nice places because I wanted to enjoy something and I wanted them to also. They were my friends, I have money, why wouldn’t I want to share it? I hate when people are selfish and hoard money, so why not use it for everyone to enjoy.
- Comment on Migrating communities in the wake of the lemm.ee shutdown 2 weeks ago:
Does Voyager support PieFeed?
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 2 weeks ago:
Tagging so I have this pinned. I need to find a new instance
- Comment on King Charles III arrives in Canada to underscore its sovereignty after Trump annexation threats 4 weeks ago:
Canada is technically a “Constitutional Monarchy” which means ultimately it’s governed under King Charles the III. That’s the part I’m saying is fucked up. A King from another country (UK) has come to Canada (another country) to remind the US of Canada’s “sovereignty”. The monarchy shouldn’t even exist, let alone have claim over a completely independent country.
- Comment on King Charles III arrives in Canada to underscore its sovereignty after Trump annexation threats 4 weeks ago:
Monarch from one country that says it has claim over another country, says that the second country has sovereignty? What?
- Comment on Not a restaurant 4 weeks ago:
Which is funny because there’s a Velvet Taco (food) chain in Texas
- Comment on Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation 4 weeks ago:
Even if it didn’t, you can bet your IT department would have a GPO or policy preventing its installation. Why do you think that you can bring and hook up a piece of unapproved hardware that may do more than what it says without the company (who owns the device) vets it?
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 4 weeks ago:
If it’s good enough for the President! /s
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 4 weeks ago:
Ngl. I bought a signal jammer for my wife to use in her classroom (after all, it said “for educational purposes only”) and the kids could never figure out why the signal sucked so bad in her classroom during class times. She never got caught using it and never had to worry about them being on their phones.
If there was an emergency, people would just call the front office and they could always reach her on the land line in the classroom.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 4 weeks ago:
Because we all know how perfect documentation is. 😂
- Comment on Recession indicator 4 weeks ago:
Oof. I feel this. Or when a position has been posted on LinkedIn for only 2-3 hours and already has over 100 applications.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 4 weeks ago:
So here’s what I don’t get. LLMs were trained on data from places like SO. SO starts losing users ,and thus content. Content that LLMs ingest to stay relevant.
So where will LLMs get their content after a certain point? Especially for new things that may come out or unique situations. It’s not like it’ll scrape the answer from a web page if people are just asking LLMs.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 4 weeks ago:
WSL2 now supports WSLg which allows you to run X11 (or other graphics packages) natively now.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 5 weeks ago:
So besides the brownie points, im curious what having it open sourced will benefit. Not like you can fork it to run on a different OS. You can make some extensions but to do what? You can’t really tie it further in to the host OS unless you know of some undocumented Win32 APIs.
Maybe im just not thinking creatively enough.
- Comment on You can now use authenticator apps to keep your GOG account secure! 5 weeks ago:
Teach a brother how? I swear I couldn’t find it anywhere in the account settings.
- Comment on You can now use authenticator apps to keep your GOG account secure! 5 weeks ago:
So effectively, they don’t do what GOG is doing.
- Comment on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — 10th Anniversary Trailer 5 weeks ago:
I really had trouble getting in to that game. May try it again but it seemed a bit too… generic?
- Comment on Any fans of the source material? 5 weeks ago:
Fair enough
- Comment on You can now use authenticator apps to keep your GOG account secure! 5 weeks ago:
Unless I’m missing something, Steam only does code to email 2FA, not an actual TOTP app
- Comment on Any fans of the source material? 5 weeks ago:
I frequent ani.social quite often too. I’ve watched too many shows I stopped counting and guess what…. I prefer dubs gasp! So they’re not for children. It’s just a matter of preference and I love how the localizations are getting better rather than just rote translation (more gasps!)
- Comment on Any fans of the source material? 5 weeks ago:
There’s a dub for it if you don’t like reading subs.
- Comment on You can now use authenticator apps to keep your GOG account secure! 5 weeks ago:
Now when will Steam do this?