IrateAnteater
@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Little poser 2 days ago:
The whole “answer this trivia question” gatekeeping is dumb.
But the unreasonable metalhead in me also wants all band shirts to have been bought at a show, so maybe I’m a bit guilty too.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 5 days ago:
I don’t know what is going on at Microsoft. I’m starting to think that they are trying to pivot to a completely different business model. In addition to this Windows 11 crap and XBox seemingly being given up on, they appear to be losing their embedded market as well. In the past, if you saw any screen in an industrial setting, there’s a good chance that there was the embedded Windows version behind that screen. Lately, all the new products are moving over to Linux.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 5 days ago:
My guess is that’s it’s easier to neatly package your data up for when they go to sell it.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 1 week ago:
That’s not really relevant here. This is more of a “genie is out of the bottle and now we have to learn how to deal with it situation”. The idea and technology of bots and AI training already exists. There’s no socioeconomic system that is going to magically make that go away.
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 1 week ago:
Ok, I now need a screensaver that I can tie to a cloudflare instance that visualizes the generated “maze” and a bot’s attempts to get out.
- Comment on Controversial question 4 weeks ago:
Because eating the rich will accomplish nothing if you don’t also change the underlying system that created them in the first place. And good luck getting everyone in the non-rich class to agree on what that change should look like.
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 4 weeks ago:
Since you can’t use your mirror anyway, just adjust it so that it reflects back at them.
- Comment on What car stickers say about you 4 weeks ago:
So if I’m understanding correctly, once I get rich from winning the lottery, I should build myself a sleeper with a “Hideous and Horny Commune” bumper sticker on the back.
- Comment on That explains a lot 5 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t that be a non-issue? The radiation is going to be spreading out in a cone, not a focused laser beam. It should dissipate down to a level that a spaceships normal radiation shielding would already need to be able to handle pretty quickly.
- Comment on That explains a lot 5 weeks ago:
So why not just stop beside the planet you are aiming for?
- Comment on Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy. 5 weeks ago:
They also use more land for just about every sport and recreational activity that requires a dedicated facility.
Unless the area is out of space, and the golf course existing is the only reason why a given wind/solar project isn’t going forward, the comparison is pretty useless.
- Comment on Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain 1 month ago:
Maybe they are counting any wars where the British fought? If so, the two world wars would account for a lot of it.
- Comment on ENHANCE 1 month ago:
I switched to contacts when I got a job where I am required to wear safety glasses. Contacts + the normal plastic glasses is just easier to deal with than having to get and replace prescription safety glasses.
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 1 month ago:
Measuring my server cluster
Personally, I just don’t ask questions I don’t want the answer to.
- Comment on I wonder how things are going in America today... 1 month ago:
It will be WWIII either way. A US civil war would leave a massive power vacuum, and a whole bunch of candidates trying to fill it.
- Comment on I'll take a liberal. Just 86 the tofu. 1 month ago:
Wait I need more details about this sandwich based political spectrum. What does it mean if I refuse to have a pulled pork sandwich without coleslaw on it?
- Comment on California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy 2 months ago:
Ok, but none of that mentions how they plan to account for panels buried under a foot of snow for half the year. That’s the source of the concern, not simply smoothing out daily peaks and valleys.
- Comment on California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy 2 months ago:
California didn’t really debunk anything here. It’s a coastal state with plenty of wind and a predominantly warm, sunny, rain free climate. Of course renewables like wind and solar do well. The reliability concerns are usually more prevalent in areas that have much higher precipitation, and especially in climates that get snow.
- Comment on Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates 2 months ago:
They don’t really have anything to gain by delaying until October, and they lose any power/credibility they have anyway if they make this an empty threat.
- Comment on Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates 2 months ago:
The current government is a minority government, so the opposition parties can force an election whenever. By law, the next election has to occur by October 5th, but the opposition will likely trigger an election at the earliest opportunity. This is why Trudeau also delayed the next next sitting of parliament until March, to allow the party to elect a new leader before the inevitable election.
Long story short, the Conservatives will likely be in power by summer.
- Comment on A scientific discovery 3 months ago:
Yes, and in that exact order.
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 4 months ago:
If your PC was bought in the last 5 or so years, it’s probably just the TPM being disabled in bios.
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 4 months ago:
I would have upgraded to Windows 11, but they decided my processor is “too old”, so now I don’t use Windows at all.