atomicbocks
@atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Slingshot is a nice detail 😁 2 days ago:
Fun fact: Jupiter has rings too!!!
- Comment on A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox 2 days ago:
IDK, when I was finishing my CS degree there were some people in my class that didn’t know the difference between Mac and Windows. The ‘weldingification’ of development means that for over a decade now people who write or research code may not know anything about computers.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 5 days ago:
I was responding to the second sentence, not the first.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 5 days ago:
USB-C (top) is based on the Cinema Display power connector (bottom) from the early 2000s:
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 5 days ago:
The USB standard was made by Intel and the USB-C port is based on a port designed by Apple…
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 5 days ago:
My laptop takes 300w to charge. We aren’t quite there yet with USB-C. It will trickle charge off USB-C though.
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 6 days ago:
I was honestly surprised when we got the Series. I was pretty convinced that they were done with consoles after the One X|S and that Xbox would become more of a Steam competitor as a brand. It wouldn’t surprise me if the Series ended up being the last console.
- Comment on allium gang rise up 🌰 1 week ago:
It’s almost exclusively called River Cane here. Probably why nobody thinks it’s bamboo.
- Comment on allium gang rise up 🌰 1 week ago:
One correction and fun fact: We absolutely had bamboo.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 1 week ago:
Handwriting is better for retention if you are good at writing notes. Not everybody can write fast and legibly and still listen to and comprehend the lecture.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
You aren’t wrong but I also think people tend to forget just how much of what we grew up on were remakes and rehashes of stuff even from the radio era. Especially the cartoons that we watched as kids, so much of that was just recycled jokes and such with some jokes for the adults of the day thrown in too. Even Star Wars was an homage to the serials of the 30s-50s like Flash Gordon, which itself got an 80s remake (with an excellent soundtrack by Queen). The remakes aren’t new they are just more obvious.
- Comment on The Undiscovered Country: Why is the galley set so worn out? 1 week ago:
Several of the scenes in 6 were obviously shot on TNG sets. The Engineering scenes are the most painfully obvious as, in some cases, they literally just have a bunch of extras standing in the way of the panels they didn’t change.
- Comment on The Undiscovered Country: Why is the galley set so worn out? 1 week ago:
There has always been an incongruence around the A where the original point, when it was revealed at the end of four, seems to have been that it was a recommissioned and renamed constitution class that had been recently refitted like the Enterprise was in TMP. But then Shatner came in with five and insisted that it was a brand new ship for some dumbass reason that most people seem to have retconned from the cannon.
- Comment on DoorDashers are getting paid to close Waymo's self-driving car doors 1 week ago:
That’s weird. Most of the cars I have had can open and close the windows from the fob. (Usually double press then hold unlock or lock, though one car I had [Accord] required the key in the door for the windows to go up.)
- Comment on How I imagine those crying "i tHouGHT StAr Trek WAs suPPosEd tO bE a UtOPia" 2 weeks ago:
One of the best things about DS9 is that they touched on the idea that those outside the Federation see the Federation as exactly how you just described.
For me that kind of ethics play and such is what is part of what is missing from new trek.
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware 2 weeks ago:
They haven’t changed the plumbing for printers since Vista, the changes they made then are part of why it took until 7 for things to work correctly.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the warning. Any show that continues Discovery’s bullshit isn’t going to be worth a watch in my opinion.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 2 weeks ago:
Picard didn’t leave him to die, he expected the ringleader to let him go back for the dude but she didn’t. The point of the scene was to show that she was an asshole not that Picard was heartless.
- Comment on Despite new curbs, Elon Musk’s Grok at times produces sexualized images - even when told subjects didn’t consent 3 weeks ago:
It’s a machine. It doesn’t understand the concept of consent or anything else for that matter.
- Comment on $69 in 2026 Gets You a Tool to Rejuvenate Old Computers 3 weeks ago:
I wish it took up a 5in slot if it’s meant to replace optical drives.
- Comment on SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers 3 weeks ago:
The permission request has to do with spectrum not launch. The title is just crap.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
??? My 2012 MacBook Pro had FireWire, that’s the year Lightning came out…
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 3 weeks ago:
Wha?
AFAIK FireWire is part of the Thunderbolt protocol, you can get FireWire 800 to Thunderbolt adapters. Apple even used to sell one.
- Comment on Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been in software development for 15 years and never had a manager that wasn’t at least a little bit of a micromanager. The reality is that it rarely takes 8 hours or more to do the things that need to be done in a day but the expectation most often is still that if my AuDHD ass isn’t in my often windowless office for 9 hours a day then I must not be working.
- Comment on Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time 3 weeks ago:
Any company going this far will almost certainly be requiring device management on whatever device you put your work email on. So if you have your email on your personal phone the likelihood that they can already track your location 24/7 using your phone’s gps is extremely high.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 4 weeks ago:
Also don’t confuse it with the Xbox 360 E.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 4 weeks ago:
They are called Gull-Wing Doors and yes, the model X.
- Comment on Truth hurts! 4 weeks ago:
The book came out in 1990.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 5 weeks ago:
The problem with this idea is that it assumes that those areas are politically aligned. I highly doubt people in liberal areas like Austin are going to be okay with being lumped in with whatever happens in Texas and I am confident that the Native Americans in Oklahoma will never be okay with it.
The divide in the US is largely rural vs urban not north vs south or east vs west anymore.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 5 weeks ago:
The main issue with that is MS made a million different versions of Vista and some of them had significantly higher requirements than others. So you had OEMs selling machines that were ‘Vista Ready’ in the lead up to launch but they barely made the requirements for the basic version. Then you had people going to Best Buy and getting the premium version and having a horrible experience.
I had Vista on my MacBook Pro and it was a a solid OS, especially if you needed 64-bit support. In fact the Pro was PC Magazine’s #1 pick for Vista machines which caused quite a stir at the time when Bootcamp was still new.
