whaleross
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- Comment on Cable and movie rentals was probably the optimal amount of digital media for a functional society. Get rid of commercials and that was probably peak. 16 hours ago:
Oh, I see. It has a built in Nintendo emulator, that’s how it works.
- Comment on Cable and movie rentals was probably the optimal amount of digital media for a functional society. Get rid of commercials and that was probably peak. 19 hours ago:
Games on a DVD player?
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- Comment on This Espressif ESP32-Powered 4G "Smartphone," Programmed in the Arduino IDE, Packs The Essentials 1 day ago:
People that do shite themselves are the worst.
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 3 days ago:
As a Texan oil baroness I feel confident with myself being known to the algorithm and it tracking my habits of dropping snakes into police stations, as is our tradition as reminder to not be treaded upon.
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 3 days ago:
As true as my name is Brenda and my last name is also Brenda. And so is my husband, Brenda. It is a hot day in Texas America today, I’m going to grill one of our dogs for dinner. It is a republican tradition, hence the name Hot Dogs and the playful name Wieners, named after wiener dogs.
- Comment on MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography 5 days ago:
Ok, my friend. Go outside for a walk and enjoy the weather and let that noggin have a rest from thinking so much.
- Comment on MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography 5 days ago:
Dude, why are you telling me this? I have zero interest in your porn preferences. Are you intersted in mine? Do you need to justify that you are a good person AND enjoy porn? Please, there are not questions that I want answers to. These are questions for yourself to contemplate.
- Comment on MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography 6 days ago:
The gooners are downvoting the dude that asked the question of why the very news about this is being downvoted.
This is a perfect example of a knee jerk reaction from the gooners.
By the way, personally I get sceptical of anyone that feels the need to clarify that they don’t watch kiddy porn. Shouldn’t that ring some kind of bell?
- Comment on Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews 6 days ago:
TL;dr New Samsung phone syncs 280GB of photos to OneDrive that in turn fills the laptop storage . At some point something has become corrupted with attempting to log in and change password when the laptop disk is full.
- Comment on MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography 6 days ago:
Happens every time gooners are afraid their porn will be limited.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 1 week ago:
I get what you’re saying. Back then I was sysadmin and we were running NT4 just fine with remote updates and without any unapproved software and fuck me if it would be a problem that Jeanette (57) in economy would be happy to have her grandchild for desktop backdrop while crunching numbers all day long. These are the small things that make people’s lives worthwhile in the workplace. My opinion is that it’s worth it and if it is not then the company isn’t worth it.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 1 week ago:
Back 25 years ago the company I worked for was looking into changing the computers for thin clients, then powered by JAVA, aaand of course dynamic workplaces that gets reinvented every seven years or so.
In the end they decided not to because people wanted to feel that they had their desk with their computer and not a floating office limbo as daily reminder that they are replaceable labour.
But most of all, their stationary computer had a CD ROM so they could listen to their own music while working.
- Comment on Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification 1 week ago:
Reading the title my first thought was that they require age verification to clear memory and sum.
- Comment on What do you think of Paramount merging with Warner Bros. Discovery to create a new media company? 1 week ago:
I think that the top tier actors that are making statements on social media or when accepting their awards should put their money where their mouth is and work with smaller independent companies that can make this an opportunity to grow.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 week ago:
Can a reasonable person believe regardless of evidence in ghosts, in deities and gods, in folklore, in aliens, in superstition, in the importance of themselves, in their culture or nation, in their position in society and their gender roles, in mums cooking being better, in bad luck treating them unfairly, in the importance of their habits and rituals, in sticking to how they’ve always done it, in any number of irrational things that they hold close to heart?
I’d say apparently they can. People are not logic processors. People are people.
- Comment on Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious' 1 week ago:
Oh boy. I was wondering the other day how Bcachefs is progressing but a casual search didn’t hit anything in the nerd news. A quick browse on the dev page didn’t really inspire looking further either. I guess this is why and that this is the end of Bcachefs then.
- Comment on User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller 1 week ago:
The bigger concern should be that this is how badly coded and how little concern there is about security there is with smart appliances in people’s homes.
Working as a consultant and seeing the code that runs online services made me realize how fucked up everything is and to accept that nobody knows or cares about what they are doing with other people’s integrity. AI in coding is barely making a dent in it.
- Comment on Westerners, what's your impression on the Chinese Diaspora? And what does the people around your area of residence think of the Chinese Diaspora? 1 week ago:
Sweden. It is common with Chinese students here in the universities. I don’t think anybody thinks much anything of them. They are just people.
- Comment on Meta: Can you please not announce every single porn community you create 1 week ago:
What on earth are you on about?
My dude, do you believe all imagery that might be sensitive to pop up in, say, a job setting is porn? Or do you mean that in your mind there is only porn or not porn and anybody not embracing all the porn everywhere all the time is a hypocrite? And finally, do you think all nudity or other explicit imagery or imagery that could be wise to flag as a NSFW or a some sort of trigger warning is for the purpose of arousal?
And hey, that entire shaming thing is all in your own head. Maybe you should ask yourself where it came from and why it made you so angry. Because I really don’t care what kinks you have. You do you and that goes for everybody. Just respect each other. Is that shaming? Maybe if your kink is a persecution fetish and you are desperate for some attention.
This topic was about the flood of NSFW materials scrolling across the screen entirely unmoderated. I don’t know why you guys find it so triggering.
- Comment on Meta: Can you please not announce every single porn community you create 2 weeks ago:
Not the boohoo sad. The sympathetic sad.
- Comment on Meta: Can you please not announce every single porn community you create 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what to call this clutching of pearls about porn but I’m pretty sure necklace is terminology that would be fitting both as reference and kink.
- Comment on Meta: Can you please not announce every single porn community you create 2 weeks ago:
Well, that’s just sad then.
- Comment on Meta: Can you please not announce every single porn community you create 2 weeks ago:
As opposed to random capitalization and porn brain rot that is really edgy and cool and indicates socially well adjusted people.
- Comment on Meta: Can you please not announce every single porn community you create 2 weeks ago:
My dude is so close to getting the point while bandwagoning about Reddit. Come on my dude! You can figure it out! I believe in you!
- Comment on Meta: Can you please not announce every single porn community you create 2 weeks ago:
I understand the teenage boys that are running on 102% hormones but for the adults I believe the porn brain rot is real.
- Comment on Meta: Can you please not announce every single porn community you create 2 weeks ago:
Dear diary. Today I was utterly destroyed by a horny teenager with a clever and super original copy pasta they had gotten from the thousand of times it had been posted though each and every time before it some effort. I spent much many time worrying how much emotional distress I had caused this poor darling by suggesting that porn doesn’t have to be everywhere and all the time. I can only hope they can resume their daily wank routine and recover.
- Comment on Meta: Can you please not announce every single porn community you create 2 weeks ago:
I would just…
It’s funny and sad that I was hoping this simple analogy would penetrate through the horny and make it relatable, but I knew this would be the exact response from at least one person thinking they are really clever. And hey, presto! Not a problem for you, not a problem for anyone!
- Comment on Meta: Can you please not announce every single porn community you create 2 weeks ago:
Guess why it is called NSFW. Not everybody is in their man cave all day.
- Comment on Meta: Can you please not announce every single porn community you create 2 weeks ago:
Bro you obviously weren’t there before the mods cleaned up and there were batches of tens of porn communities at the time and no sign of anything stopping soon.