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- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 2 days ago:
This is the core option which justifies cross-title configuration in a user profile.
I have to correct Y to inverted in every new game I start playing, there needs to be a global options titles observe.
- Comment on If a country needs to employ state-sponsored patriotism, it's usually because there's nothing to be proud of about the country. 3 days ago:
Nationalist patriotism is a religion that worships dirt.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 5 days ago:
Metric is used from all around the world, but comes from a quarter of it.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 weeks ago:
The Alien Xenomorphs can live for millennia, and they’ve been technically eligible as Disney princesses since March 2019.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 3 weeks ago:
Wireless data transmission should only ever be used for nomadic, temporary, and/or sacrificial links.
They’re useful for quick deployment, but are intrinsically brittle and terrible for resiliency and efficiency.
The longer the dependence on them for a given use case, the less defensible arguments in support of them become.
I’m all for the use of satellite delivery of internet services, but only when it’s used in conjunction with a broader roll out of hardwired infrastructure, at which point it can reasonably be relegated to serving as a secondary, backup diverse path.
- Comment on Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015) 3 weeks ago:
Advertising needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.
It arbitrary pollutes any environment it’s conducted in, and causes secondary harms to non-participants by incentivising insecure hoarding of private information with the intent to better target individuals.
- Comment on New idea 5 weeks ago:
Nut milk comes from male cows.
- Comment on Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes 1 month ago:
Watching slopvangelical LLM thumpers slip up will never not be entertaining.
- Comment on Please tell me 1 month ago:
Nut milk comes from male cows.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 1 month ago:
The sentiment is influenced by many.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 1 month ago:
Advertising needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking.
It arbitrary pollutes any environment it’s conducted in, and causes secondary harms to non-participants by incentivising insecure hoarding of private information with the intent to better target individuals.
- Comment on billionaires are a cancer on society [literally] 2 months ago:
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
- Comment on Wealth of Global 1% Has Skyrocketed by Over $33 Trillion Since 2015: Report 2 months ago:
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it.
- Comment on Your TV Is Spying On You 2 months ago:
I’ve never allowed my TV to have an active route to the internet since I bought it in 2019, it’s exclusively fed over HDMI by gaming consoles and an Apple TV.
The thing is, HDMI 1.4 added HEC, so what’s to prevent media players from serving as an Ethernet switch and providing an internet connection to TVs.
- Comment on Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging. 2 months ago:
Friends don’t let friends use Facebook[1].
[1]Corporations are the only ‘persons’ it’s acceptable to explicitly deadname.
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 3 months ago:
Wireless data transmission should only ever be used for nomadic, temporary, and/or sacrificial links.
They’re useful for quick deployment, but are intrinsically brittle and terrible for resiliency and efficiency.
The longer the dependence on them for a given use case, the less defensible arguments in support of them become.
I’m all for the use of satellite delivery of internet services, but only when it’s used in conjunction with a broader roll out of hardwired infrastructure, at which point it can reasonably be relegated to serving as a secondary, backup diverse path.
- Comment on When I was a kid, "thongs" were footwear... 3 months ago:
Australia: Kids wear thongs.
The US: Kids root for something.
Swap the country, and it gets super creepy.
- Comment on Fax machine 3 months ago:
She told me to cum, but I was already there…
- Comment on Soy milk is simply Spanish milk introducing itself 3 months ago:
Nut milk comes from male cows.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok AI Has a Problem: It’s Too Accurate for Conservatives 4 months ago:
A healthy, broadly educated population is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need everyone to be sick, stupid, and scared.
- Comment on I’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing. 4 months ago:
IBM : Nazi Party :: Google : IDF
- Comment on This 18th Century French Doctor Has a Solution to Oligarchy… 5 months ago:
Every ethical society requires a healthy and robust guillotine maintenance and repair workforce.
- Comment on The internet used to come through the phone, now the phone goes through the internet. 5 months ago:
It’s not a lack of bandwidth that typically breaks dialup over VoIP, it’s the jitter.
The only potentially legitimate use for modems over (Vo)IP are faxes, and the proper way to do that is with T.38.
- Comment on The internet used to come through the phone, now the phone goes through the internet. 5 months ago:
The switchover for cellular was 3G (HSPA) > 4G (LTE).
Data transmission over 3G is encapsulated over the audio channels, and pure LTE is VoIP over data channels. Most networks relied on both during the transition, and it’s the reason many ‘4G’ capable handsets were deprecated when 3G networks were shut down, as they never fully implemented VoIP for audio calls.
Incidentally, DOCSIS (v1.0 - 3.0) downstream channels are encapsulated within MPEG2 frames.
- Comment on 'Investor' is a dirty word for first-home buyers — but are they the real villains? 6 months ago:
Profit from any sector which interfaces with housing should only ever be tolerated when the social housing wait lists are measured in weeks and months, instead of the years and decades they’ve currently ballooned to. Property owners and their enablers should hurt until it’s no longer a problem.
This country also needs to actively acknowledge that luck and camping equipment are structural, load-bearing elements of this nation’s housing policies, and work to remove them from these roles. Involuntary homelessness and precarious housing should be indefensible outcomes.
Further, the classification of affordable housing needs to be annihilated. The first 100% of the housing supply should, by definition, be affordable for the function of providing appropriate primary residences. The existence of the concept helps permit the general real estate industry to abdicate what should be its primary function of housing the population, and artificially inflates the legitimacy of perpetual charitable organisations.
Short-term, seasonal, emergency, premium, etc. housing should only be tenable uses for residential dwellings when the initial 100% demand for primary residences has been met.
- Comment on This Cybertruck shaped man is destroying our government 6 months ago:
Dim MAGA with a low poly Lara Croft bust.
- Comment on The next scandal involving Musk should be called Elongate. 7 months ago:
Following the Watergate scandal, ‘-gate’ became the suffix to name subsequent scandals.
I propose stories associated with Trump, and other stupid scandals, be encrusted with the suffix ‘-a-Lago’.
I think there’s scope for dedicating an entire community to them, like c/MAG_a_Lago.
As for Elongate, Musk explicitly requested it be used, which should be reason enough to not.
- Comment on Fucking Optus doesn't provide ipv6 over cell. And starlink has cgnat. 7 months ago:
For me, it’s an additional, redundant layer 3 route between my dual stack nodes. I’ve had instances where v4 or v6 paths have broken, and I’ve not noticed until my monitoring systems explicitly notify me.
I’d also like more tools to use MPTCP which would make them more resilient.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For 8 months ago:
Friends don’t let friends use Facebook.
- Comment on it's just a suggestion 9 months ago:
Every healthy economy has a robust guillotine maintenance capability.