LastYearsIrritant
@LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Looks legit. What do you all think? 2 days ago:
I think the base picture is a car dealership. It could still be AI, but the original base picture is probably still a dealership.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 3 days ago:
Our quirky university president tried very hard to make “aughty-aught” happen for 2000. It did not catch on.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 week ago:
No exaggeration, this was my breaking point for switching to linux exclusively.
- Comment on what seeing even more political posts on the shitpost community does to a mfer 1 week ago:
Really old laser pointers used AAAA batteries.
- Comment on THIS is an inventive idea 1 week ago:
No, most things slide under a shingle so the water never touches the fasteners.
Some things screw right through with sealant on top, but that’s not the best way to do it, cause sealant will break down over time.
- Comment on THIS is an inventive idea 1 week ago:
safetyrailsource.com/products/nextgen-hitchclip
With just a little pre-planning when the weather is ok, you can install some brackets or fall harness mounts under the shingles.
Solar panel mounts would also work. There’s plenty of things designed to mount to the roof while still maintaining water proofing.
- Comment on A Christmas tale 2 weeks ago:
The Thing takes place at the south pole.
- Comment on Notepad++ updater installed malware 2 weeks ago:
notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-released/
Since you have to opt into tracking to read the article (which I think is illegal) here’s the source.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 weeks ago:
There is no center of the universe.
- Comment on It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition 2 weeks ago:
He mentions flicker several times in the video.
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-first alternative to Excel and Google Sheets 3 weeks ago:
If you’re buying an annual plan, Mozilla resells Mullvad for cheaper. Monthly, buying direct is cheaper.
Also, I assume, but don’t have any evidence, that buying from a reseller is a little more private due to separation of billing and services.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 3 weeks ago:
The point is, if the certificate gets stolen, there’s no GOOD mechanism for marking it bad.
If your password gets stolen, only two entities need to be told it’s invalid. You and the website the password is for.
If an SSL certificate is stolen, everyone who would potentially use the website need to know, and they need to know before they try to contact the website. SSL certificate revocation is a very difficult communication problem, and it’s mostly ignored by browsers because of the major performance issues it brings having to double check SSL certs with a third party.
- Comment on Trump says he'll release MRI results but doesn't know what part of his body was scanned 3 weeks ago:
There’s no such thing as a non-invasive test.
Even if there were zero risks for the actual procedure, and they’re just doing it for the fuck of it, what happens if they find a little abnormality? Now you need a biopsy, more scans, and possibly treatment for something that doesn’t show any symptoms and never would have.
- Comment on AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles 3 weeks ago:
Don’t discard a good technique cause it can be implemented poorly.
- Comment on How come there is not a pope without grey hair? I mean a much younger pope like 30s 40s. Really can't be that hard. You got an ocean of cardinals and priests who pretty much tell say? 3 weeks ago:
Someone in their 30’s will significantly change their worldview over the next 50+ years.
More than anything else, the church wants stability. If you elect someone in the last part of their life, you’ll have a much better idea of what ideology their entire papacy is going to be formed under.
If electing a pope was only for 4, 10, or even 20 years, it would be more reasonable to elect a younger pope, but as it is a lifetime appointment, someone older is always going to be a more conservative option.
- Comment on Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers 4 weeks ago:
Walked a friend through a build a month or so ago and actually ended up being cheaper buying from Frame.Work instead of from anywhere else at the time.
- Comment on What are some good RSS feeds that I should follow? 4 weeks ago:
Universe Today is a great source for space science, is 100% ad free, and has a robust RSS feed.
- Comment on Taking a photo to remember a moment is actually outsourcing that memory to an image, so your brain does less work and remembers it worse. 1 month ago:
How many events did you also forget, but don’t have any reason to even think of it again?
- Comment on do no harm 1 month ago:
Try describing the pain using the OPQRST pneumonic.
Onset - what where you doing when it started? Provocation - does anything make it better or worse Quality - what type of pain is it. Stabbing, burning, etc. Radiating - is the pain in one spot, or does it radiate out to other spots. Severity - what’s the 0-10 pain scale Time - How long has this been occuring
As you can see, Severity is just one of the parts of the assessment.
- Comment on do no harm 1 month ago:
The absolute nature of the scale isn’t THAT important, yeah it gives you an idea of how the pain feels, but what’s more important is how the number changes over time.
If a patient keeps saying “IT’S AN 11!!” for an hour and then now it’s a 9? Great, we’re moving in the right direction.
If someone starts out saying it’s an 11 and suddenly it’s a 15? Well, what changed? Did some meds wear off? Did they shift and move something that increased the pain?
Heck, 90% of the time if I get there and it’s an 11, then just 10 minutes later it’s suddenly a 6 cause they’ve calmed down now that help is there.
- Comment on LEGO Star Trek Enterprise REVIEW 1 month ago:
They misspelled boldly in this sticker. Wonder if they caught that before the main run.
- Comment on US government shutdown now longest ever 1 month ago:
There are MANY, MANY layers of government in the US. Where I live, we have: cities - townships - counties - states - federal. Each of which draw taxes and fund workers and projects.
Every single one has a current budget aside from the federal level. So most day to day, local work is getting done. It’s the broader federal work that’s unfunded right now.
So roads are getting fixed, but NASA projects are unfunded. Local fire departments are getting paid, but federal food assistance is not.
If we have a hurricane, then the federal emergency management agency won’t have a budget to manage it (but they’re pretty dismantled already)
- Comment on TiVo Rides Into the Sunset 1 month ago:
I bought my first TiVo back in… 2002?
I had to use my work landline to do the initial setup, but then I used a USB Ethernet jack for the rest. You had to do some fancy remote secret code, but it worked just fine.
Also was able to use disc mirroring to make a new, much larger, hard drive, so we could record essentially unlimited TV.
- Comment on SpaceX cuts off 2,500 Starlink devices at Myanmar scam centres 2 months ago:
Glad we have Musk being the arbiter of who can use the Internet or not.
Shit like this is the primary reason I’m never going to use Starlink.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 months ago:
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 2 months ago:
There’s always going to be vulnerabilities, that’s why they’re ending support. They don’t want to spend time updating an OS they don’t want people using.
Windows 10 is probably fairly secure… today. In 2 years, someone might discover a new vulnerability, and you won’t get the update. If there’s a new way to do web security and the browsers need OS support to implement it, you’ll be stuck on legacy security settings.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 2 months ago:
I need the cable company (or similar) due to the fact that infrastructure is hard to deploy, and we need Internet to participate in society.
Nobody needs Microsoft cause every single one of their products has an alternative that’s at least as good.
They survive by courting enterprises, but many of them can also switch away if they want.
- Comment on Squiggly Boie 2 months ago:
Most likely blue are the input nodes and green are the output nodes.
- Comment on Immich 2.1 Released with Better Slideshow Shuffle, New Notifications 2 months ago:
I use rsync to backup, I can delete and restore the whole drive if i want at any time.
I use watchtower to keep things updated. If you schedule the rsync and watchtower correctly, you can get the backup done before the upgrade and there’s basically no lost data with the rollback.
I use uptime Kuma for monitoring, and it shoots me an email with details on what failed.
- Comment on Immich 2.1 Released with Better Slideshow Shuffle, New Notifications 2 months ago:
I automate my upgrades, but I also automate my backups, and monitoring.
If an upgrade breaks something, my health monitor lets me know and I can roll back to the previous day.
