SnotFlickerman
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Our News Team @ 11 with host Snot Flickerman
- Comment on Honk 18 hours ago:
Honk.
- Comment on How come NK doesn't just come out and say we are in trouble and need help? Like their lack of food and stuff? I really don't see a downside for a country admit they were wrong and need help 22 hours ago:
It’s not as though that power structure is leveraged to dismantle and destroy competing economic systems or labor rights or anything. Yeah, totally and completely separate and never the twain shall meet. The CIA definitely didn’t use economic terrorism to force countries to submit to US
cartelsbusiness demands.Nothing has ever happened, like say, the US corporations using their wealth to dominate the court systems and laws of other counties to do something like put media pirates calling themselves “The Pirate Bay” in prison for things that were legal in their own country.
What an absolute crock of shit dude get a grip.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 1 day ago:
Underrated because the game itself was often kind of lacking in terms of solid foundational TPG systems…
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Pretty good attempt at putting a Middle Earth type world ahead a few hundred years in the midst of an Industrial Revolution.
Really thoughtful stuff like the labor exploitation of certain races like orcs, with quests like a half-orc you can help start a labor union or help the shop boss shut down the nascent union.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 1 day ago:
Underrated because the game itself was often kind of lacking in terms of solid foundational TPG systems…
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
Pretty good attempt at putting a Middle Earth type world ahead a few hundred years in the midst of an Industrial Revolution.
Really thoughtful stuff like the labor exploitation of certain races like orcs, with quests like a half-orc you can help start a labor union or help the shop boss shut down the nascent union.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 2 days ago:
www.nature.com/articles/s41928-025-01477-0
Here’s the paper published in Nature.
However, it’s worth noting that Nature has had to retract studies before:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_(journal)#Retraction…
From 2000 to 2001, a series of five fraudulent papers by Jan Hendrik Schön was published in Nature. The papers, about semiconductors, were revealed to contain falsified data and other scientific fraud. In 2003, Nature retracted the papers. The Schön scandal was not limited to Nature; other prominent journals, such as Science and Physical Review, also retracted papers by Schön.
Not saying that we shouldn’t trust anything published in scientific journals, but yes, we should wait until more studies that replicate these results exist.
- Comment on fart 4 days ago:
My question immediately is about the placement of the cotton ball. Is it like… on a small platform behind the person in question, or is it nestled in their ass crack right above the hole? Is the person bent over? Because I would assume they would have to be for the fart to have upward thrust instead of downward.
I have already thought about this way too much.
- Comment on Be this guy. 4 days ago:
have “problem”
don’t care
have no problem
problem is septic tank is broken, poisoning the ground, neighbors complain, city health department gets involved, forces you to replace septic tank or get connected to city sewer lines for at personal cost while also fining the living shit out of you for environmental damages because you neglected it
i am deeply in debt and can’t take a shit in my own home
- Comment on 4 days ago:
which docker container do you use, if you don’t mind me asking. Also, how complicated would you rate the setup? I have a degree in network admin and run multiple Linux servers and docker containers with manually created docker network bridges so they can freely communicate with one another, to give an idea of my knowledge base. Honestly the only thing I haven’t done before yet that makes me nervous is setting up a reverse proxy to expose the endpoint to the internet and connect it to my owned domain name.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
I didn’t even know they had it set up as an apt repository for Ubuntu. Very interesting.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
I don’t even really plan to use any bridges, as I understand it those are for if you want to pass messages from other services through your matrix server. I would rather keep those separate personally, even though I understand certain benefits, including having all your messaging in one application instead of numerous.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
I always heard that rolling out an initial Matrix instance isn’t terrible, especially with ansible and/or docker, but I also have heard that a lot of updates have breaking changes and that updating your server is less simple.
As someone who runs your own Matrix server, would you agree with this sentiment or disagree. I have considered rolling out my own many times but get discouraged by those who say keeping it updated is kind of a nightmare. For example, a private tracker I am a member of used to have a Matrix server and an IRC server, but they eventually dumped the Matrix server entirely to reduce complexity as well as the fact that fewer people used it.
- Comment on Bending Spoons to acquire AOL 5 days ago:
There is no spoon.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 6 days ago:
G.L.O.S.S. comes to mind. Too short lived.
- Comment on modern meal 6 days ago:
Don’t forget antibiotics and rBST in that estroborger
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Oh yeah, it’s unfortunate how far behind Android is on this when Microsoft basically had it ready to go nearly 10 years ago and then dropped it because they were losing money on their phone department and not capturing any market share.
I honestly think Android isn’t cut out for it to begin with, because it was always a mobile-first OS.
They had a pretty okay thing going with ChromeOS and now they’re killing it in favor of moving Android to their PC line… which I personally think is the wrong move, but hey, I’m not that smart so what the fuck do I know.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
You could even run the desktop edition of Windows 10. And that was in 2015!
If I recall correctly that was called “Continuum” and was a big goal for MS at the time. It’s why they kept the Windows 8 tiling style for the phone and kept the option to use the tiling style in Windows 10 early on because they wanted every version on every device to functionally work the same. That way, whether you were using a tablet, a phone, a laptop, a desktop, or some other as-of-yet-not-defined form factor, you’d have a “continuum” of experience that was unchanging. The goal was to have a phone you could plug into a keyboard, mouse, and monitor, and use just like a PC.
I never had a Windows Phone, but I messed around with a friends, and I have to say, I never understood why they dropped their plans, it was ahead of it’s time and would have been a literal game-changer in the PC-use-space. I actually had really high hopes for the whole program at the time and was quite disappointed that they bailed on their plans and stopped developing the Windows Phone entirely, and by extension, their plans for Continuum. To this day that’s still my dream phone, one that’s essentially also a desktop computer in disguise.
- Comment on Same... 6 days ago:
Oh they definitely are, a URL isn’t a very good substrate.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
What do you mean no apps, it had Internet Explorer and Skype, that’s practically the whole internet! /s
- Comment on Same... 6 days ago:
Of course it doesn’t mean that, practically any substrate can be turned into a mushroom!
- Comment on Apple becomes third company in history to crack $4 trillion market value 6 days ago:
True, but the size of those early generations it’s easier to fit a standard size SSD in.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 6 days ago:
Probably a somewhat popular opinion in the Linux crowd already, but I think we should be pressing companies to find better ways to manage anti-cheats than kernel-level anti-cheat anyway. I’m glad I don’t play games like that because I don’t like how it works at all.
- Comment on Apple becomes third company in history to crack $4 trillion market value 6 days ago:
The iPod was genuinely dope in first and second generation.
- Comment on perplexity pro 6 days ago:
Bro affiliate marketing on lemmy.world is considered spam and will be removed.
Flagged and I hope your ass gets banned.
- Comment on Apple becomes third company in history to crack $4 trillion market value 6 days ago:
I mean, I don’t disagree, but Google is just as awful and most people only really have a choice between an Android phone and an iPhone so not “supporting” one or the other isn’t really an option for most people who, you know, want a phone.
- Comment on Apple becomes third company in history to crack $4 trillion market value 6 days ago:
That’s honestly a bit surprising, the media went whole hog with accolades for him in 2014 when he first openly talked and wrote about being gay.
- Comment on Apple becomes third company in history to crack $4 trillion market value 6 days ago:
Remember when it was viewed as not appropriate to write stories about Apple’s tax dodging because Tim Cook came out as gay, and how important and brave he was.
Remember that Apple, and specifically Tim Cook, has bent over for Trump over and over, including helping fund his bullshit ass ballroom?
Maybe we should accept that absurdly rich gay white men can be just as big of shitbirds as absurdly rich straight white men and just as willing to sell out their own countrymen and their own sexual identity community.
- Comment on chat is this real 6 days ago:
Chilledcow forever.
- Comment on Taking strip poker up a level 1 week ago:
Playing strip poker when all he really wanted to be doing was playing Burnout Revenge on the PS2 while drinking diet Mountain Dew.
- Comment on You're so predictable 1 week ago:
Gottem
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 1 week ago:
A show I forgot from my prior post because it’s so new is Joe Cappa’s Haha You Clowns on Adult Swim. It’s very loosely modeled after the classic sitcom My Three Sons and follows the loving and earnest adventures of 3 beefy Chad teens and their love for their equally beefcake father who recently became a Widower as they lovingly try to fill his broken heart with love. The sincerity rounds the bend to being absurd and funny, but the relationships on display are all loving and healthy.