LovableSidekick
@LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
- Comment on Four NYPD officers converged on one woman on a bike because she smiled at them, then detained her because she wasn't carrying ID. 3 hours ago:
I can’t come up with a name but her face is so familiar this seems very sus, and as a progressive I actually find the unquestioning acceptance bandwagon here, and how perfectly it mimics a MAGA reaction, sort of terrifying. It’s like we’re all just reactive raw nerve-ends in search of outrage triggers.
- Comment on [deleted] 18 hours ago:
Today it’s 70 here, what’s it there?
- Comment on Could You Prove You’re a US Citizen? 1 day ago:
no kidding
- Comment on Could You Prove You’re a US Citizen? 1 day ago:
Presumably yes, birth certificate. But based on seeing news of citizens being wrongfully deported I honestly don’t know what kind of proof ICE demands.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 1 day ago:
I’m totally shocked that a progressive free society like North Korea would tolerate such authoritarian invasiveness!
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 1 day ago:
Oh, nice idea!
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 2 days ago:
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 2 days ago:
20 of them? Just curious, how would you use 800 or 1600 TB of storage?
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 3 days ago:
You’d almost be tempted to doubt the Singularity ending life as we know it.
- Comment on Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is 3 days ago:
Great history! I can understand Stallman feeling like he deserved more credit, but he did come to be identified with the whole opensource movement as a consolation prize.
In the early 80s I was actually starting to get into Unix bigtime, but then at my my job we got a computer called a VAX that ran an OS called VMS. Everything was plain English and totally intuitive. Like if you wanted to print 3 copies of a file in landscape mode on a printer called Hulk it would be PRINT /COPIES=3 ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE DEVICE=Hulk <filename>. Fully spelled out it was a bit verbose, but you could shorten anything as long as it was unambiguous. At the time I thought VMS was so much easier to learn, it would blow Unix right out of the water. Today VMS is in the dustbin of computing history. Not the first time I’ve been wrong lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
That’s more of a guideline tho, like the pirate code.
- Comment on When I was a kid, "thongs" were footwear... 5 days ago:
LOL about a month after a trip to Maui some people from work were discussing how long tans lasted and I announced that I still had a “thong tan” - meaning the Y-shaped tan lines on my feet. After a few seconds of silence I heard it in my head and clarified, to everyone’s relief.
- Comment on Feet are as expressive as the face. Moreso because they are uncorrupted by intelligence. 5 days ago:
“Oh, really?” said Devon, tilting his little toe dubiously.
- Comment on Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is 5 days ago:
I use Linux and I’m not even sure what Gnu is, except that it’s a recursive algorithm “Gnu’s Not Unix”, so presumably it’s a Unix-like OS.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 6 days ago:
Wow, apparently words can change meaning across cultures. Who would have figured this was possible? American’s rarely use the word “village” - a “town” can be anything from a few thousand people down to I don’t know, maybe like five. And the word is very subjective - some places that make a proud point of calling themselves “the city of …” are IMO small towns at best. Rural means an surrounded by a fair amount of countryside, be it farmland or nature. I think most Americans loosely associate “urban” with closely packed “big” buildings - maybe 5-7 stories or more, and mostly wouldn’t agree with you that a “town” is urban by definition.
- Comment on Considering the old model is made with shrink-wrapping this is viable option 6 days ago:
Yeah man, but it was a dry heat!
- Comment on Considering the old model is made with shrink-wrapping this is viable option 6 days ago:
Party on, Wayne!
- Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 6 days ago:
Waymo, which I think grew out of the original Google self-driving car project, has been operating robo-taxis for several years. They’re available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and a few more cities. I wonder how they did on the schoolbus test. Not able to find anything online about that.
- Comment on MEGA PENGUIN 6 days ago:
Megapenguin Grandpa: Kids, did I ever tell you about Gigapenguin?
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 6 days ago:
Realistically tho, until participation becomes mandatory you can ignore quests and orbs and just keep doing what you’re doing.
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 6 days ago:
Online startup software developer life cycle in a nutshell:
- Geeks are in charge, you’re creating a cool communications platform.
- Accounts are in charge, you’re gamifying ad clicks.
- Comment on glupi jebeni bot 1 week ago:
Apples and watermelons. The all-time highest major league batting average is only .371, nowhere near .500 which would correspond to 50% of the max possible.
- Comment on Pushing users into paranoia about tracking and privacy is a brilliant way to reduce server load from users that are not producing value on a platform 1 week ago:
Thanks, that completely clears it up lol.
- Comment on Pushing users into paranoia about tracking and privacy is a brilliant way to reduce server load from users that are not producing value on a platform 1 week ago:
In all these years I’ve never understood this meme and don’t get most of the jokes. My brain must not work the right way for it.
- Comment on Pushing users into paranoia about tracking and privacy is a brilliant way to reduce server load from users that are not producing value on a platform 1 week ago:
+1: Thought Provoking
- Comment on Bachelor Chow slabs, anyone? 1 week ago:
- Comment on What are some good cooperative shooters? Hidden gems? 1 week ago:
I always loved ARC - Attack, Retrieve, Capture - originally from Hoopy Entertainment and then PopCap. You joined an ad hoc team and piloted a little flying saucer around a maze, shooting at the other team’s saucers. It was super simple to learn and wonderfully addictive. Probably not around anymore.
- Comment on Google Shared My Phone Number! 1 week ago:
You can still pay for lookup services. I got a 1-month subscription recently to contact the mom of a friend who disappeared. All I had was the guy’s last name and the town he said his mom lived in. Cost 7 or 8 bucks but it was worth it. So anyway I imagine a stalker wouldn’t need a ton of resources to track a person down using pay services.
- Comment on Google Shared My Phone Number! 1 week ago:
The phone company definitely did charge extra for unlisted numbers. The number lookup service, which was just called “Information”, was accessed by dialing 411 - the origin of “What’s the 411?” In the olden days you got a human being, then they automated it with voice recognition. In most places 411 doesn’t exist anymore but it was in service until only a few years ago.
- Comment on Google Shared My Phone Number! 1 week ago:
I understand the story is about google adding a guy’s number to a profile on his business, which seems odd. But I wonder if anybody here is old enough to remember phone books? I haven’t seen one in a while, but the phone company used to automatically deliver one to everybody who had a phone. A physical book with the name, address and phone number of everybody in the local area, except people who paid extra not to be included. You could dial a number for information, give somebody’s name, and a helpful operator would tell you their phone number so you could call them. This was totally normal and it didn’t bother anybody - how do people feel about that whole concept now?
