corvi

@corvi@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Those still aren’t pronounced the same. The th in clothes isn’t silent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All-out nuclear war would kill every human on the planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American Politics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Consistently picking wrong is just as useful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, but nvidia shield. I’ve tried pihole and pf-blocker with no success.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's no side-stepping this one...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For the comedic value, have you tried He Who Fight With Monsters? It’s my most reread series by far, and is what I always give people after Carl.

  Cradle is the other big one. The first half of book one is a bit of a hump for me, similar to reading Kal’s perspective in Way of Kings, but it picks up fast. The audiobook is magical; just about anything read by Travis Baldree is worth the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's no side-stepping this one...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dungeon Crawler Carl reference with a Way of Kings username? I’ve found my people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cops Are Towing Teslas to Recover Crime Scene Footage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t love the idea of roaming security cameras, but at least they’re actually getting warrants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole We Were Here series is marvelous. Asymmetrical co-op puzzle games. My friend and I’s recent games list looks very similar to this.

  We also do a lot of single player games with one of us streaming over discord. When it’s a slow-burn puzzle or mystery game, it doesn’t really matter who is actually controlling.

  For those types, I really recommend Return of the Obra Dinn. We’re currently working our way through the entire Frogwares Sherlock Holmes collection. The old ones are so terrible, which is a greatness all by itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gotdamn⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Relevant xkcd

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star dates – is one day equal to 0,07 SD in TNG?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose it could go either way. That would be true if we see stardates as a universal system that applies anywhere and everywhere. If we instead imagine them to include encoded information about local space time, it makes sense that they might be inconsistent but always moving forward.

  I am, of course, using “makes sense” extremely loosely here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star dates – is one day equal to 0,07 SD in TNG?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess when you’re traveling around faster than the speed of light, time and date stop meaning the same thing as they do back home, so it stands to reason that you couldn’t map stardates to any standard calendar.

  At least, that’s my new headcanon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Korean military set to ban iPhones over ‘security’ concerns | The Straits Times⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Normally I’d say it would be ridiculous for a company to push legislation for such a small demographic, but since Korea has mandatory service still as far as I know, they basically get to put a Samsung in the hands of every male citizen. And they’ll most likely keep using the same brand of phone after.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that type of phishing is pretty much unheard of these days. You’re so much more likely to run into a fake Microsoft SSO page. I see these every day at work, and if you’re not checking the URL, it’s often identical.

  So, the actual highest commandments are use MFA, read urls, and double check email senders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Sign Language have puns?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know historically “deaf and dumb” meant deaf and mute, but, at least in the classes I took in college, I was told we don’t use that terminology anymore, for hopefully obvious reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2888: US Survey Foot⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as the person fleeing is the one using the survey feet, the pursuers will never actually reach them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A sports arena in my city is was in debt and a supermarket chain stepped in to ease the debt. The catch? The stadium has to name itself after this supermarket chain.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that just how sponsorships work? Most every major stadium is named after some company or another, because they paid for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Is Killing Cursive? Ballpoints. Probably.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s got to just be practice though, right? If you write primarily in cursive, it’s going to look better. Nowadays, people hardly write at all. As long as I can read my handwriting, it doesn’t really matter in my day-to-day life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI, Federal Judge Agree Fighting Botnets Means Allowing The FBI To Remotely Install Software On People’s Computers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a poorly written article. The FBI did not access computers randomly looking for the botnet like it claims, they used the botnet infrastructure to uninstall itself.

  There are still extremely valid privacy concerns here, especially considering potential applications of plain view laws, but it should still be presented factually.