RiikkaTheIcePrincess
@RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social
Meep :3
They/She, also transer than a box of transistors! wiggles transly
Very cute, but also weird and sometimes kinda sharp
Refugee from Error (also known as kbin)
- Comment on The Affordable Connectivity Program Kept Them Online. What Now? 1 week ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on The Affordable Connectivity Program Kept Them Online. What Now? 1 week ago:
Thanks for the ideas! May go for Tello soonish.
- Comment on The Affordable Connectivity Program Kept Them Online. What Now? 1 week ago:
Oh hey, I heard the funding for that dried up. … Because I went looking for ways to not spend $50/mo for a working phone while I’m sleeping in somebody’s closet and have no income 🙃 Happen to know people who don’t even have the closet, but I’m sure they don’t need phone service either.
[Maximum Sarcasm] I’m sure the money’s going somewhere more important, though.
Hey, how many gig workers are barely scraping by and need programs like this or everybody’s Uber Eats orders are gonna uber eat dirt? Just a thought. Maybe taking a little care of the people at the bottom who prop up everything else is kinda asinine to not do. Grr, I say.
- Comment on high energy 1 week ago:
I can’t even finish reading the list, it’s just enraging me from the beginning.
- Comment on EPIC personality test. Which personality are you?!? 2 weeks ago:
B often except I have neither basement nor book so I just skip those parts.
- Comment on Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply 3 weeks ago:
[Very sarcasm] We can just burn more coal or just huck poor people into furnaces or something! Wait no, give them cars! Coal rollin’ cars!!! Why are we even pretending that racing toward extinction isn’t our goal? Embrace doom! Down with humanity! Up with constant fucking around with no regard for costs or consequences!
May I please have some painkillers before being tossed into the furnace, though :-\ Or maybe just like, toss some naproxen in after me I guess?
- Comment on What are your favorite Dreamcast games? 5 weeks ago:
Shenmue! :D
- Comment on mOLecuLaR maN 5 weeks ago:
Signed up for stress, got stress 🤷 Does exactly what it says on the tin 😅
But seriously this world’s fucked :| :(
- Comment on Round 2 🚢 1 month ago:
Pleasepleaseplease put bazillions of dollar-equivalents into building this thing and then get it stuck in ice that later cuts into the hull and sinks it 🙏 I know the unfathomably wealthy will never do anything to make this world actually decent but they can at least let us have a decent laugh once in a while!
(I’m assuming the pollution left before it’s towed out of the environment will be less than the pollution from actually running the thing) (Also “towed out of the environment” is a funny reference. May need to look up “front fell off.” I am asleep.)
- Comment on She did her best ok? 1 month ago:
How dare you do that and still mark your comment as English. I nearly downvoted you for that!
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 1 month ago:
Whilst we’re recommending… >:3 points at Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, grins :D
Character creation is the first boss 😅 Took me… many hours to beat that one. Good luck! :D
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 1 month ago:
YEAH CrossCode!! 🥳 🥰 \ö/
- Comment on William Shatner's TekWar is the technological future of crap 1 month ago:
I hear people are trying to get “AIs” to make games. I hope they’re all trained on this 😈
(That’s what I thought of, reading “technological future of crap.” The article itself seems to just be a typical review for that game, which is indeed among the hottest of garbages.)
- Comment on What's your favourite colour? [Non-political version] 1 month ago:
Arch is too comfortable to be a masochism thing :P Get Gentoo at least, or why even bother :P
(I’ve used both muchly but currently use Arch (bytheway) because my poor CPU’s feeling really potatoey latelish 😾)
- Comment on Last one but it’s a hell of a book 1 month ago:
😬 What a fucked-up book.
- Comment on “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.” 1 month ago:
lars: “Boo!!” God: "Ohmyme! 😱 😭 "
- Comment on James 1 month ago:
Now, is failing to replace the TP worse than putting it in an up-from-under configuration or just as bad?
- Comment on Last one but it’s a hell of a book 1 month ago:
What’s “holier” than killing kids for being born wrong?
Fucking gross.
- Comment on "How to help someone use a computer.", a guide from 1996 1 month ago:
But it iiiisssss 😭
(I do actually use Arch, by the way 🤣)
- Comment on Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform 1 month ago:
Throwing together a service, telling no one, then promptly cancelling it (often because no one used it) is truly the Googlest thing.
- Comment on Reddit introduces a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
I’m liking these, uhh… “colourful” descriptions.
Well, maybe “liking” is a strong word but they’re amusing 😅
- Comment on Reddit introduces a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Oh, woe 🙀 It’s bad enough that we’re stuck with me (ba-dum tssh, self-deprecating humour there :D ) but now we’re gonna get even worse critters from Reddit because it’s gonna be ones who stayed with it during the previous exodus. Bleh!
- Comment on Evangelical app 'Bless Every Home' is mapping personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and “prayerwalking” rituals targeting them. 1 month ago:
Wow, this is absolutely fucking horrific. I assume they’ve imported everything from Kiwi Farms incarnation too? Bunch of evil fucks.
I’m kinda sick of all’ the evil, actually. I get that it’s very popular but maybe it shouldn’t be? I’ll just live in my own mind until people pull their heads out, I guess 🤷 What could possibly go wrong.
- Comment on Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, as internal dissent mounts 1 month ago:
“We know we’re the baddies. Sit down, shut up, and get back to work!”
- Comment on Matrix multiplication breakthrough could lead to faster, more efficient AI models 2 months ago:
“could lead to faster, more efficient”
Ooh, ooh, game engines? No. Physics models? Nope, not that. Cryptography, maybe useful against the coming Quantum Cryptodoom™ ? No, not that either. DSP? Image compression? Something? Hmmmm, what could benefit from faster matrix maths? What one singular thing could be so important that- it’s a meme, of course it’s a freaking meme. Ayyy Aaaiiiiyyyeeee must be the only possible thing of interest because that’s the latest meme fad thing >:( grumble grumble grouch bite et cetera
Yes, I will hate every single meme-fad-thing as it happens unless it involves kittens. Or maybe one of a few other things, but NOT THAT. Hmph! Grr! And so on!
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 2 months ago:
Ahhh…hmm. Kindof a point-and-shoot sort of thing, isn’t it? Blow away/take over (well, “unrelated parties may buy,” ha ha) any app associable with Russia, North Korea, Iran, or China 🤔 'Course, they can edit that list too.
Nah, I’m sure nothing could possibly go wrong. US government never abuses powerful, broad powers it gives itself 😃👍
- Comment on HP’s 'All-In' Printer Rental Watches Everything You Print, Tells HP All About It 2 months ago:
I feel like corps have gotten bored with “you will own nothing and you will be happy” and moved on to “you will be owned and you will be happy.” Like, damn, people are absolute livestock in a freaky fucked-up way. You “buy” something and it sits there extracting value from you. You “rent” something and it gets to enjoy the utility you provide, for a time.
Just seems like “ownership” is totally screwed-up wrong, y’know? One can’t have anything any more, it’s all corporate property they let us pay to install into our own lives for them. grumblegrumblegrumble!
- Comment on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried 2 months ago:
[Joke] They don’t want us to see what’s out there!
[X-Files reference] I hear it might be something called “the truth.”
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 2 months ago:
You want everyone to know all of the ethical concerns involved in every kind of product, from its contents to its manufacture, transportation, packaging, et cetera? We’ll all be full-time students for decades before being allowed into a Walmart, I guess. Maybe that’ll bring back smaller shops, with only a Master’s degree in Ethical Shopping required.
For reference, a quick search turns up estimates of 120,000+ product SKUs on Walmart shelves. Kindof a lot to keep track of, no? And no, you’re not permitted to respond with some “Oh, just don’t be stuck in a shitty life/place where you’re stuck buying corporate ‘products’” crap or else I will post a vomiting emoji at you.
There’s a lot of stuff to keep track of and “free” time is intentionally kept minimal so maybe don’t blame people for not knowing their shampoo is environmentally unethical whilst they’re worrying about their car that’s in the shop because the airbags are more lethal than most crashes, they’re just now learning to avoid potatoes in their diet ( 😭 ), their boss is making them work asinine hours, and they’re still busy researching the sixty thousand products from the left half of the only shop in their area.
tl;dr: How the roasted goat bollocks is anyone supposed to “know better” for absolutely everything in life? Maybe it’s fair to hope for some help on these things.
- Comment on An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices. 2 months ago:
an article about Zhang’s thread published on a hacker website that shared the default password
Maybe jumping directly to the “snitches get stitches” part before bothering to spot an actual snitch is a bad idea? “That Zhang guy” was trying to break the thing open, not tattle on others trying to do it.