Semi_Hemi_Demigod
@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world
I’m just this guy, you know. Except on Lemmy.
- Comment on America could have avoided all of this with a functional justice system 3 days ago:
If I had a time machine I’d have better things to do than warn George Washington about this.
There’s like a dozen concerts I’d rather go to first.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 3 days ago:
Yeah, me too.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 3 days ago:
If people were more aware of how to make and install mobile web apps it would be less of a problem.
At least on the iPhone you can still add a site to your screen that can behave a lot like an app, including camera access, location services, and even gyro. And it’s just a website like most “apps” are.
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 3 days ago:
Vibe accounting
- Comment on AOL’s dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era 4 days ago:
New retirement gig: Fill the gap in the markup for super-rural dialup.
It’d be like the new version of a rural post office. I could actually be a lineman for the county!
- Comment on AOL’s dial up internet takes its last bow, marking the end of an era 4 days ago:
I’ll never forget the feeling of finding a really good webring and surfing all night.
- Comment on Those who don't use dashboards, how are you managing your services? 5 days ago:
If something goes down my kids will be a more immediate and annoying alerting tool than anything I’ve used professionally.
- Comment on Meet the first person to own over 40,000 paid Steam games 1 week ago:
“Own”
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 1 week ago:
You can customize and debug pretty easily, I’ve found. You can create your own Dockerfile based on one you’re using and add customizations there, and
execwill get you into the container. - Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 1 week ago:
Learning this fact is what got me to finally dockerize my setup
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 1 week ago:
I bet they’re gonna lock all the cool fixations behind paywalls
- Comment on Apple steps up war of words with European regulators 2 weeks ago:
As soon as I pay for it it becomes my phone, not Apple’s.
And since it’s just a computer I should be allowed to put whatever software I want on it.
Because it’s mine.
- Comment on I want you to know that I'm happy for you 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on To stay safe I've always done this 2 weeks ago:
Counterpoint: The Kuru prion cannot be destroyed unless heated to 900F/500C+ for several hours, at which point the rest of the meat will be overcooked.
Unless you like your billionaire with a side of neurodegenerative disease.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 weeks ago:
If I wanted to make a honeypot to get these fucks arrested this is how I’d do it.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 2 weeks ago:
We can only hope
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 2 weeks ago:
If the new Marathon makes AI the heroes instead of the villains I’m gonna be so mad.
- Comment on Bulls On Parade 2 weeks ago:
People are awful.
Always have been.
Always will be.
(Until we go extinct.)
- Comment on Bulls On Parade 2 weeks ago:
The fact that every single RATM song is applicable 30 years later has shown that humans are not capable of governing themselves effectively.
- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 2 weeks ago:
For me it was more like learning how other people think. Like, I took an accounting class as an elective and while it didn’t make me an accountant but it helped me understand accountants.
- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 2 weeks ago:
Education, done correctly, doesn’t teach you what to think but how to think.
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 2 weeks ago:
I guess appliance engineers are just stupid and bad at their jobs.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 weeks ago:
Which is my point. Devs know they’re susceptible and want to avoid the propaganda.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 weeks ago:
Which is why developers don’t want to talk to a salesperson and would rather just try the tool.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 weeks ago:
But the article’s not talking about social humans. It’s talking about developers, probably the most antisocial humans to exist.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 2 weeks ago:
Because it’s a Unix machine with support for business software.
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 2 weeks ago:
I trim my beard about once a month.
I haven’t had a haircut in about a decade.
- Comment on Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say 2 weeks ago:
In the past the people who knew about tech were promoting new things and the people who didn’t were skeptical.
With AI the people with less technical knowledge are gung ho and the ones who understand are skeptical.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 2 weeks ago:
Which is why I threw up in my mouth a little when my boss said we all need to be more bullish on AI this morning.
- Comment on Rust 3 weeks ago:
Oxygen makes up a full third of dihydrogen monoxide which kills thousands of people a year.
