Bob_Robertson_IX
@Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on I felt you needed to see this 2 weeks ago:
I used to have a couple of hedgehogs as pets when I was younger and when I got my own place I decided to just let them run free in my apartment. It was so amazing to be chilling on the couch, watching TV and then a hedgehog scurries past.
I’m not generally for invasive species, but when I see huge murmurations of starlings this time of year I have a hard time being mad at them… I think I’d feel the same way if hedgehogs were introduced in the US.
- Comment on Space jazz music plays in background 2 weeks ago:
Jizz was first mentioned in canon in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi junior novelization, authored by Ryder Windham and released in 2017.
I can assure you, jizz was mentioned long before 2017!
And how the hell did someone get permission to make anything called ‘jizz’ Star Wars canon? Let’s just make ‘queef’ a popular brand of deathsticks next.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 2 weeks ago:
A couple of nights ago I was in the car with my 8 year old daughter and Killing In The Name Of by Rage Against the Machine came on… my instinct was to skip to the next song, but then I thought “No, this is a song she needs to hear” because if she has questions she knows that she can ask.
A couple of songs later, it was Closer by NIN… I immediately skipped to the next song.
- Comment on Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games? 2 weeks ago:
I was cleaning out my garage a few weeks ago and came across my old Commodore 64 Paperboy floppy.
- Comment on Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras 2 weeks ago:
The trick is to tap into that power, while keeping things looking nice and neat. Most vehicles now have the license plate lights tucked away in housings. It would be nice to be able to have something that only uses the 2-4 screw holes that are used to hold the plates on since those are universal on vehicles sold in the US.
- Comment on Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras 2 weeks ago:
The issue I see with that is you’d need to supply power to the lights, which wouldn’t be impossible, but isn’t exactly trivial.
I wonder if having a license plate frame that changes it to not be a rectangle would work? Maybe even cover the frame in reflective tape to help blind the camera?
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 2 weeks ago:
I’ve not watched any of this, however there were investigations and "investigators interviewed Pormanove and one of his co-streamers who both appeared to be victims of violence and humiliation. They “strongly denied being victims of violence, stating that the events were staged in order to `generate a buzz’ and make money.” ". That seems to me that this was simulated torture, or at the very least consensual torture. I’ve watched and enjoyed many episodes of Jackass and I’d consider some of the things they did to be a form of torture… this just seems to be the natural progression of that genre of ‘shock entertainment’, which unfortunately went too far in this case.
- Comment on Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras 2 weeks ago:
Yet another great video from Benn… however, I’m a bit disappointed that he isn’t more explicit about how to protect your plates from these readers. I understand that he’s likely doing it to protect himself (and his viewers) from legal recourse, and it’s nice that he provides the code used to create and test the patterns, but I wish he had provided his research results to show which patterns were most effective at keeping the system from even detecting the presence of a plate.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
I agree, however you’re never going to be able to fully control things that you’ve sent out for other people. Even this post can, and likely will, end up as training data for AI. ‘The only winning move is not to play’ applies to a lot of things in life, and if you truly want to protect your data then the best move is to not create any data. The second best move is to not share any data that you’ve created.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
I actually appreciate this. The only place I use Word is at work, and nothing I create in Word at work is ‘mine’. I do not care at all about the security of things I do at work (that’s for our IT Security team to care about), and all this means is that if I accidentally screw up, or if my computer just up and dies on me… all of my work files should be ‘safe’.
My employer has been going very hard towards ensuring that our work computers can ONLY be used for work purposes. Once I accepted this and embraced it I found that I’m now 100% free of Microsoft for anything personal, and it is amazing.
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 2 weeks ago:
lol, so now I can go into pointing out your logical fallacies… but, honestly I’ve already spent more than enough time on this conversation with someone who is clearly very toxic. Thanks for the quick response and for validating my initial impression that you’re someone whose opinion I can happily live without, and welcome to my blocked list.
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 2 weeks ago:
That’s a good summary of my point, though I’m not sure why you think it’s a “strawman” and it certainly wasn’t satirical.
A strawman fallacy involves misrepresenting someone’s argument to make it easier to attack. I, however, accurately represented your argument and then used an **analogy ** to highlight its flaws. An analogy is a rhetorical tool used to explain a concept by comparing it to something similar. In this case, I was responding directly to your question about why it matters if torture is simulated, and if it’s ok to be streamed.
My point, which you seem to have somehow missed, is that we have a clear precedent for broadcasting simulated torture. And, as you so helpfully pointed out, simulated torture not only is ok to be streamed, but it can also receive acclaim and awards.
I’m glad we agree that simulated torture can be broadcast.
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 2 weeks ago:
Should we not be able to watch Reservoir Dogs because there’s simulated torture in it?
- Comment on BECOME THE INTELLECTUAL BLADE 3 weeks ago:
I worked with a guy who had a doctorate in mathematics… He wrote documentation for the software the company produced.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You know, I think I’m going to get out of bed, go eat some breakfast and then go to poundtown on my dick!
then, after a bland breakfast…
ugh, that sucked… I don’t even feel like beating it any more, might as well go read the bible or something.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 1 month ago:
He helped to further submarine technology to get the shots of the Titanic for the movie, and he developed cameras that could withstand the pressures down there. He also helped design a small rover camera called Snoopy that actually went inside the Titanic to get shots of the staircase.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 1 month ago:
I’ve always looked at the Avatar movies as being more about advancing movie making technology than about creating a good movie. I think James Cameron will be more remembered for his technical advances than for this storytelling.
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 1 month ago:
The problem is everyone you chat with would also have to do this… unless you’re talking with people outside of Australia or can convince everyone else to also get a VPN.
- Comment on Does farting make you lighter or heavier ? 1 month ago:
m… mostly?
- Comment on I didn't know that they have something in common... 1 month ago:
So, is this Ryanair doing a self-own?
- Comment on Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF 1 month ago:
“Hi, I want to introduce you to my mom, my dad, and my Tim.”
- Comment on xkcd #3116: Echo Chamber 1 month ago:
for whatever reason
Money. It’s for money.
- Comment on US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP 1 month ago:
To be fair, in 1996 both the Senate and the House were controlled by republicans, those the bill passed both chambers by an overwhelmingly bipartisan majority. Even if Clinton wanted to veto the bill, Congress would have still been able to push it through.
- Comment on US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP 1 month ago:
If they expand then they’ll end up just another evil corporate ISP, and/or if they start getting large enough one of the other ISPs will buy them up.
They don’t need to expand, there just needs to be many more small, ultra local providers.
- Comment on If Trump fires the Fed’s Powell ‘both the currency and the bond market can collapse,’ according to Deutsche Bank 1 month ago:
My thoughts exactly. The billionaires control enough of the markets that they will force a correction and everyone will buy back in… and the billionaires will get even richer.
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- Comment on "Literally" literally does not mean "similar to in some way". 1 month ago:
Or a letter from my college saying that my club has been “sanctioned”.
- Comment on Desert Ink Cap maybe? Found on my morning hike 2 months ago:
This is apparently a great weight loss mushroom. If you eat it you will experience rapid weight loss through vomiting and diarrhea. You might experience some cramping discomfort.
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Seriously, do not eat this mushroom, it likely won’t kill you but you won’t enjoy it.
- Comment on ‘An uphill battle’: why are midlife men struggling to make – and keep – friends? 2 months ago:
I have the number of friends that I want, and I keep in touch with them by sending them messages any time I want to share sometime with them. Some friends I talk with every day I haven’t seen in person in over 3 years, and we have no problem with that.
- Comment on Can a Russian pls confirm 2 months ago:
Might I suggest: Tebya ne trakhnut, tak chto ne verti zadnitsey
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 2 months ago:
Not nearly to the same amount.