moopet
@moopet@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot 1 week ago:
God I hate that the younger generations use the word “drop” to mean both “cancel” and “release”.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 1 week ago:
Ko’Zeine,
None of that episode hinges on Darem being gay, though? What would have changed if he was straight? It’s not the plot. The plot is that he has responsibilities to his home world and has new found family with Star Fleet.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 2 weeks ago:
Trek expresses gay people being normal. It’s explicitly not the plot. There’s no plot point about it. The plot is about kids (for a certain Steve McQueen value of “teenager”) being in school and battling Space Foes. I’m picking on “being gay” as a point because I imagine it’s what the people who cancelled the show had an issue with, but I could well be wrong.
There was no exploration of the things the right-wing hate in Academy. They just exist. There’s no ongoing plot about anyone’s sexuality, or if you think there is then it’s dwarfed by the same plot with other straight characters.
It sounds so much like saying you can’t have a gay character unless there’s an interesting moral plot point about why they’re gay. That’s not what Academy did.
- Comment on Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America 2 weeks ago:
Theoretically these have a lot of benefits as well, like saving on paper and ink. One barker could last as long as thousands of prices over its lifetime, and mean staff don’t have to spend time changing them.
I mean, capitalism gonna capitalise and they’ll be used for evil, mostly, but.
I wonder if they’re all wired or run off batteries? If the former, then there’s a single point of failure, if the latter then ho boy do I have a plan for a zigbee/wifi/whatever device.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 2 weeks ago:
I agree completely with your point about the Orville. It was really well done.
I don’t agree with your assessment of New Trek, however. I know it’s all very variable and I don’t want to generalise, but even if we accept this:
Everything is presented in the first 10 seconds as “this is good, this is bad. Accept the message we are feeding you are you are a bad person.”
Then, I have to point out the obvious: if it’s so lacking in nuance, then yes, if you don’t accept it you are a bad person. For example, if it’s saying, “gay people are ok and normal”, there’s no subtlety to that because it’s not something anyone in the future will hopefully give a shit about. And if someone in their society did, then yes, they would be in the wrong. 100%.
- Comment on Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies 2 weeks ago:
Windows < 11 is legacy software and Windows > 10 is slop. Nobody should care about either.
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 2 weeks ago:
Instead of adding emoji to the PR title, maybe tell it to mine bitcoin for you.
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 2 weeks ago:
Well I’m sure we’ve all heard stories about it happening, and my FIL had someone walking him through a “Microsoft has detected a virus on your PC” scenario one time until he fucked up and lost the connection (fortunately)
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 4 weeks ago:
Alright Blank Reg.
- Comment on Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit? 4 weeks ago:
their advertising was just as bad until relatively recently. And their offers are just as bad. Like, 90% off all the time. 90% off a price they never charged and made up. It’s the same as with pizza places, where they say the pizza really costs £20 but if you have this voucher you can get it for £5! What a deal, right?
- Comment on Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit? 4 weeks ago:
I switched from Nord to Mullvad recently and it’s much more stable on linux, and on android it’s less glitchy, and the signup process was beautiful. I’m normally very critical of software, and I was really impressed with how smooth it was.
- Comment on Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit? 4 weeks ago:
Why would I want a calendar with my vpn subscription? It’s like bundling a barbecue with your purchase of a new jacket.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 1 month ago:
Just add a 1 at the end of them all. That’s what I do when my work says I have to change my password.
- Comment on Advertisements 1 month ago:
This is why I have concerns about AR cybernetic eye replacement technology in science fiction (and maybe in real life sometime). You’d install adblockers for real life… and then get some virus that makes the adblocker hide the bus as you’re about to cross the street.
- Comment on Advertisements 1 month ago:
My kid had assumed that the hideous intrusive ads were some form of malware attack.
She was spot on.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 1 month ago:
Ah, makes sense. You’re right about firmware updaters, and I don’t know if I’d trust one running under Wine anyway tbh. Who knows what weird system calls they make assuming you’re running Windows 95 or whatever.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 1 month ago:
What do you mean lacking support for keyboards and controllers? Maybe for doing weird custom stuff like RGB, but for anything else they’re standard HIDs and will work with anything, no “support” needed. You can plug a USB keyboard and mouse into your phone and it’ll work if you want.
I’m currently playing Clair Obscur on linux through steam with a cheap fake xbox controller I got off ebay, and it works perfectly. I’m using an Nvidia card too, and I haven’t had to do any customisation or anything.
Easy anti-cheat won’t work, so Valorant/Fortnite, etc. are out of the question for now, but any games that don’t use that kind of malware are probably fine.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 2 months ago:
I don’t even mean the USA, loads of EU countries, Australia, etc.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 2 months ago:
You think it’ll be the bad example other countries learn from, but loads of other countries are already following suit.
- Comment on Pornhub, YouPorn, and Redtube and other content sharing platforms will block New users in the UK starting next week(February 2) 2 months ago:
The government can decree that ISPs have to block the IP addresses of known VPN endpoints. That’s perfectly possible. They did something similar with piracy sites before (e.g. if you go visit piratebay on virgin media you’ll get an error page). It’s a game of cat-and-mouse because if it’s done with DNS then aliases pop up immediately, and if it’s by IP then other proxies pop up, but the fact is they could make is so difficult for average users that people give up.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The stupidest thing about this that I always go on about is that they’re saying the better scale is the one that goes from 0 to 100. i.e. metric. So why not use that for other measurements?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Repurposing words like that is underrated.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 2 months ago:
I thought Control was excellent, but the original Alan Wake was a bad joke.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 2 months ago:
2080S currently, though I’ve had others before, can’t wake up from standby with the power button or USB. On the other hand, once it’s in standby, it’ll turn itself back on after 30 minutes or so. The firmware on nvidia cards has always played badly though. I had an 8800 that I’d have to turn on several times each day before it would POST.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 2 months ago:
Standby with nvidia gpus is broken still, but everything external I’ve plugged into my system works first time.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 2 months ago:
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- Comment on A sampling of the responses to a tweet about ICE shooting out a 21-year old's eye in Santa Ana. 2 months ago:
If I was on whatever that site is, it’d be a handy list of people to block.
- Comment on 2nd page, etc. loading slowly 2 months ago:
Just discovered this thread, but yes. It’s been this way for quite a while (weeks at least) and I’ve seen other people mention it from time to time.
- Comment on we need more users 2 months ago:
oh that’s a great feature