Deebster
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(new account since lemmyrs.org went down)
- Submitted 1 month ago to xkcd@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? 1 month ago:
Ah yeah, missed that 🤦♂️
- Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? 1 month ago:
Because this is the internet, I can’t tell if the whoosh goes to your downvoters or you. I think you were joking.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
I pay for Nebula - $30 a year which is about £22.50. That won’t even cover two months of YouTube Premium (£12 pm), and there’s not even the discounted yearly option in the UK.
And “if you’re not paying you’re the product” is wrong - YouTube/Google would still be datamining my viewing habits to sell to advertisers.
- Comment on After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship 2 months ago:
The source story is worth a read.
Marrero’s background is in Navy intelligence, and she earned a master’s degree in business administration with a concentration in information security and digital management
Incredible.
But she soon changed the “STINKY” Wi-Fi network name to another moniker that looked like a wireless printer — even though no such general-use wireless printers were present on the ship, the investigation found.
Why not just switch off broadcasting the SSID?
she soon changed the “STINKY” Wi-Fi network name to another moniker that looked like a wireless printer — even though no such general-use wireless printers were present on the ship
[The CO and XO] then conducted another sweep inside the ship. Although the network that appeared to be a wireless printer appeared on their personal devices during their search, neither made additional inquiries regarding that network
No-one’s coming out of this looking good.
Marrero’s secret Starlink dish was removed the same day, and Marrero told another unidentified crew member the next day that it was authorized for in-port use — prompting sailors to re-install the illegal Starlink.
It just keeps going!
- Comment on Carrots help you hear better. 2 months ago:
That doesn’t sound heatlhy.
- Comment on [Ahoy] Nobody Knows How Many Amigas Commodore Sold 2 months ago:
I thought it was clever, but now I’m seeing what I assume you’re seeing.
- Comment on Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested in France 2 months ago:
There’s moderation per community and per server. There’s no “fediverse moderator”, of course, but I think you’re vaguely worrying for nothing.
- Comment on Ooo Duff! 2 months ago:
After duffing the ball all over the golf course, I sat on my duff, ate some duff, drank too many Duff beers, then some duffer threatened to duff me up because he thought I’d got his sister up the duff. After this duff day, I went into the woods and lay in the duff.
- Comment on Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on Pixel phones, and it’s a train wreck 2 months ago:
I don’t think it’s even enshittification (probably costs more to run than Assistant), it’s just Google desperate to find a use for its new AI.
- Comment on Disney Seeking Dismissal of Raglan Road Death Lawsuit Because Victim Was Disney+ Subscriber 2 months ago:
“Disney understandably may want to benefit from the privacy and confidentiality that arbitration brings, rather than having a wrongful death suit heard in public with the associated publicity,” says Jamie Cartwright, partner at law firm Charles Russell Speechlys.
– from the BBC article
If that’s what they want, they clearly never heard of the Streisand Effect. This is disgraceful behaviour from Disney, and I hope they come to severely regret it.
- Comment on ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network 3 months ago:
Oh, that’s LAN - I thought you’d put ian and I was trying to get the joke. Stupid sans-serif fonts.
- Comment on You might get a discount or free coffee but you’re also being played by the multi-billion dollar gamification industry. 3 months ago:
It’s naïve to think that marketers have any interest in doing things ethically, unless there’s a legal or business reason to do so.
- Comment on A Self-Healing Pole Vault Pole Is One Great Leap for Sports Tech 3 months ago:
It’s far from my field, so I’ll have to take your word on that!
- Comment on A Self-Healing Pole Vault Pole Is One Great Leap for Sports Tech 3 months ago:
[Making cracks visible is] helpful, but what would be ideal is a way to not just find the cracks, but to fix them.
That’s what the article says, they’re hardly implying it’s nonsense. Or are you saying that the self-healing is nonsense? There are examples of self-healing materials, like Roman concrete.
- Comment on A Self-Healing Pole Vault Pole Is One Great Leap for Sports Tech 3 months ago:
I don’t know that I agree - it’s worth researching these things because if it works that’s great and that paper proves that other people are working on the visibility problem.
- Comment on The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins 3 months ago:
Nope, it’s still great on Windows. Perhaps they went to Linux since it’s still Windows-only.
- Comment on The C̶a̶k̶e̶ User Location is a Lie!!! 3 months ago:
Good article, apart from talking so much about choosing a language for the user and ignoring the Accept-Language header, which exists solely for this reason.
Most websites seem to ignore this header and just show you whatever their geo-ip says.
- Comment on Webflow says 2TB of bandwidth is worth $1,250 per month 3 months ago:
[The customer] said that Webflow’s sales representatives were uncooperative when asked for more details. He quoted a sales rep saying, “No because you’ll tweet about it.”
Wow, that says a lot about how Webflow views its own policies.
- Comment on xkcd #2960: Organ Meanings 3 months ago:
A metaphorical tongue-lashing is speaking harshly and critically, but it could easily be misunderstood as referring to cunnilingus.
- Comment on xkcd #2960: Organ Meanings 3 months ago:
When I saw how low tongue was, I thought surely not, what about “she gave me a good tongue-lashing”. I then thought about it for a microsecond more and realised the ranking’s probably correct.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza 4 months ago:
Voting on Lemmy isn’t private (and is probably for sale on closed platforms) so just upvoting an opinion might be enough to get you on some lists.
- Comment on AAAAAAA.... This is so hard!!! 4 months ago:
- Comment on AAAAAAA.... This is so hard!!! 4 months ago:
It should have, but I was thinking about the contents instead: loopback is ::1 so it’s not that, so maybe it’s just something with 4 of a-f (technically correct)
- Comment on AAAAAAA.... This is so hard!!! 4 months ago:
How long until someone makes a playable version of this? (printer toner is too expensive)
- Comment on Systemd 256.1 Addresses Complaint That 'systemd-tmpfiles' Could Unexpectedly Delete Your /home Directory 4 months ago:
Fixes catastrophic data loss, er,
bug, erpoorly documented feature… user errorGotta love the Register
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Well good news then, since they were joking (I guess) - it’s a mod to improve Grim Fandango Remastered’s graphics.
- Comment on Community 5 months ago:
The higher protein part is true, and also humans are the only animal to shed emotional tears. It makes sense that it’s a signalling mechanism - we know that evolution has given social animals other visual indicators.
- Comment on Algerian man found alive after 26 years in neighbour’s cellar 5 months ago:
There’s the idiom “return to the fold” which means come back to a group, but aside from that I don’t think many non-farmers know that meaning of fold.
- Comment on Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows 5 months ago:
In Foobar2000, Shpeck allows you to run a bunch of those old vis - I have Milkdrop 2.2 with all those old classics. They still look great on modern tech!
