scoobford
@scoobford@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 weeks ago:
Eli5: your PC has different access levels a program can run at. This prevents a malicious or badly coded program from completely fucking your computer. Kernel level anti cheat runs at the lowest level access that exists under windows. It can do basically whatever it wants to your PC, and if a backdoor is coded in (happens way more than you’d think), it gives malware basically total access to your PC.
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had one boss comment on it, but that job was weird. They also only hired white people at that office and a secretary on another floor tried to get me fired because she thought I was gay.
Generally…keep it away from customers and don’t be aggressive. Other than that it probably isn’t a good habit, but I doubt anyone would normally care enough to say something about it.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 3 weeks ago:
Reddit has an absolutely massive wealth of community knowledge. If you want to find a community for $thing or gain obscure knowledge on $thing, that’s where you go (assuming there isn’t an old forum post from before Reddit killed forums).
Twitter is where a lot of people still are. If you’re the kind of person to care what a particular person says, that’s where you probably want to be.
Instagram is used by young people who have friends on Instagram.
It isn’t a great system, but it is the system that we have today. This is why legislation compelling Meta/Twitter/whothefuckever to act in an ethical manner is important. Social media is to some extent a natural oligopoly, and unless we get extremely, extremely lucky, the fediverse will always be a niche community.
- Comment on You know who 1 month ago:
Can someone eli5? Are people out there running over their own feet on razor scooters? Its difficult for me to imagine how that might be a common issue.
- Comment on The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that? 1 month ago:
I was up to 14 at age 25. When you’re young and inexperienced, any schmuck that will pay you and be slightly less abusive than the last guy is worth working for, and you never owe the last person anything.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Many of them, yes. They’re among the most radical of the leftist instances, which means that they attract a lot of propagandists and tankies. They have some perfectly reasonable people too, but you know, vocal minority. Its the main thing most people notice about those instances.
Many people block hexbear, Lemmy.ml, and lemmygrad for these reasons.
- Comment on Why do you not eat ass? 2 months ago:
I choose not to consume the cursed calamari.
You have never sampled the succulent sphincter.
We are not the same.
- Comment on It's honestly good advice, but I much prefer original hardware when possible. 3 months ago:
Yes. Original hardware is a pain in the ass.
I want to play on my nice PC or steam deck, with save states, whatever gamepad I prefer, and an unlimited library.
- Comment on YSK there is a massive Google Doc of U.S. gynecologists that will tie your tubes without asking about your kids, marital status or age. 3 months ago:
They want the right kind of babies.
“Welfare babies” are babies born to poor and working class parents.
They want middle class white people breeding like rabbits, though.
- Comment on How do Texas residents afford electricity? 4 months ago:
Most of us do. A few people do sign up for variable rate plans, and they did get astronomical bills during the snowpocalypse. IIRC they didn’t get any aid or anything, it was a small enough number of people that they just got hung out to dry.
- Comment on Setting the record straight 4 months ago:
I’d say closer to 400. Quarter pounders have only ever been common as smashburgers or at shitty burger restaurants.
- Comment on Americans say they need to earn $186K to live comfortably — but is it enough? 4 months ago:
I agree, but a significant portion (maybe even most) of our country’s population do live in very high cost of living areas such as the west cost, DC, Boston, and Miami.
The situation is vastly different in most of the country’s less remarkable cities, like San Antonio, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, or Nashville, and I think articles like this only ever account for one side of the equation or the other.
To someone living in DFW (my home), “needing” almost $200k is insane. Honestly I doubt I’d know what to do with that money unless I just bought a bunch if shit I don’t want.
- Comment on Afghanistan: Three Spanish tourists killed in shootout 5 months ago:
A lot of people have a kind of weird fascination with very different societies. I’d love to visit Afghanistan, North Korea, and the Soviet Union (back when it existed), but I know that would be really, really stupid of me.
- Comment on Chemicals in car interiors may cause cancer — and they’re required by US law: 6 months ago:
It likely isn’t any different in imported models, flame retardant materials are a very basic and very important safety feature.
Also, it is surprisingly hard to import a car in the US. I’d kill for decent hot hatch that wasn’t $40k.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 6 months ago:
There isn’t much of an alternative. All major manufacturers have been doing this for a while, we are approaching the point where you’ll need to buy and maintain a classic car to avoid this type of data collection. Unfortunately, most people simply do not have the time, money, and expertise to do that. Nor should they have to.
- Comment on US probe finds widespread sexual misconduct at FDIC 6 months ago:
I work in somewhat high-level banking, and while I admit that I assumed a government institution would be better about this than private companies, this sounds very par for the industry.
Things are less fucked at lower levels, like operations or retail, but I’ve never heard of someone working in high levels of banking that didn’t have a laundry list of potentially actionable HR complaints.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 6 months ago:
Mazda is just as involved in this bullshit. All car manufacturers are.
Mozilla tried to rate them a few years ago and basically has to give them all the same grade because basically every can manufacturer’s privacy policy is so cartoonishly horrible.
- Comment on Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion 6 months ago:
They’re not actually worried about sharing power, they don’t want to be subject to additional federal regulation.
In this case, the issue is business interest in politics, not our weird toxic individualism.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 6 months ago:
Huh, TIL. Thanks!
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 6 months ago:
We were supposed to build one here, but AT&T basically owns our city government lol.
They announced the project wouldn’t be moving forward because they wouldn’t/couldn’t use imminent domain to lay fiber in peoples yards. They’ve used it to build 3 stadiums in the past 20 years, and knock down entire neighborhoods in the process. Literally bulldozed multiple square miles of city.
I fucking hate it here. We gave the stadium owners a bunch of money this week to renovate their stadium for some reason.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 6 months ago:
SMS piggybacks on existing signals to and from your phone. They are entirely free, and have been in a lot of places for a long time.
You’re getting screwed. At least it’s a good reason for your contacts to switch to signal or simpleX?
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 6 months ago:
You already buy “up to” a certain speed. When the network is congested, you just deal with it.
Trying to make people budget their internet usage is stupid and pointless.
- Comment on Had me for a while there 6 months ago:
See, I know what you’re trying to say, but that would unironically be an improvement for most of us…
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 6 months ago:
No reason they should exist in any day and age.
Companies do not pay per packet. Paying more for more bandwidth or lower latency kind of makes sense because theoretically they may be prioritizing your traffic when the network is under too much load. But sending 16 petabytes costs exactly the same as 1kb in a month, assuming your connection is fast enough to handle 16 petabytes in a month.
- Comment on I learned so much 6 months ago:
I had exactly two English teachers who were good, which was all I needed.
One when I was young, taught me how to communicate and understand complex ideas properly.
Another my first year of college, who taught me that deeper meanings and subtleties in fiction wasn’t entirely bullshit. Surprisingly, she did this by making us read Frankenstein and watch Blade Runner.
Everything in the middle though…woof. Learning to write academic papers has no value unless you’re an academic, and the other 10 literature courses I took all just made me hate reading, even the year where we just read my 4 favorite books.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 6 months ago:
Probably? There’s a decent amount of people on reddit calling for the dissolution and expulsion of Israel. US based companies rarely censor on the whims of the feds.
- Comment on U.S. Debt Around $35 Trillion: Are National Debts Wrong? 6 months ago:
Because we already have a pretty terrible social safety net and few social services for a country of our size and development level.
Obviously reforms could be made to eliminate waste and reduce corruption in government spending (especially military spending…), but I think the relative amount of fat that could be trimmed is very small in comparison to the amount of money we would need to save in order to balance the budget and start paying down our debt.
- Comment on U.S. Debt Around $35 Trillion: Are National Debts Wrong? 6 months ago:
I don’t think national debt is wrong, as it can be a useful economic tool. However, the total fiscal irresponsibility we have operated the US with since the 80s is a different matter entirely. Just limitlessly stacking debt out of a refusal to raise taxes will eventually result in a debt so large payments can’t be made, and default will become inevitable at that point.
I really hope we can get our shit together enough to reform our tax system, but it looks like it less and less every year.
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 6 months ago:
Google maps doesn’t account for breaks. They’re assuming you can walk at 3mph, and however much time you need to rest and eat is up to you.
Just like 1 day and 23 hours is only drive time. They’re not accounting for the naps that you will definitely need.
- Comment on The increasing distrust many Americans have in modern medical advances is probably mostly due to our failing Healthcare system. 6 months ago:
Medical ethics in the US are not and have never been great. A few decades ago, they were bad enough to intentionally infect patients with syphillus (sp?) without their knowledge or consent. Maybe a decade or two ago, doctors were bribed into over prescribing opiates and starting the opiate crisis.
No shit people don’t trust the medical establishment. They may act appropriately most of the time, but that just isn’t good enough to be trustworthy.