atomicbocks

@atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not understanding how somebody in a mask who isn’t presenting a badge can brandish a gun and shove somebody on their property without themselves being shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this is not a transparent pricing model. You start at $0.025 and “go up” from there but I can’t find how much. After you listen to a song 9 times and have paid $1.40 you “own” it but can still only listen to it on their service?

  This sounds like iTunes with more steps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physicists Create First-Ever Antimatter Qubit, Making the Quantum World Even Weirder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Voyager spacecrafts had some of their wires wrapped in, cleaned, store bought aluminum foil after a last minute change in the expected environment around Jupiter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks great but I really wish it had SFTP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transparent PCBs Trigger 90s Nostalgia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only cheap machines were still beige by the early 2000s. Dell, for instance, switched to their dark gray clamshell around 2001.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mercedes Gives Customers the One Thing They've Always Wanted: Microsoft Teams⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The average new car costs about half what I spent on my house just 6 years ago…

  I don’t think you are arguing what you think you are arguing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection After Running a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… most people I know with learner’s permits don’t have their own cars. It’s probably their parents’ car and somebody just forgot to take the sign off while the learners aren’t driving or it’s permanently adhered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I played through recently and I beat it but I distinctly remember thinking that I didn’t remember it being that hard. It took me several tries and very precise timing, I think I even ended up coming back to it the next day.

  Glad they are fixing it, though it makes it hard not to speculate more about an upcoming sequel. I think they will call it HL2 Episode 3 just to fuck with everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we must protect them from exotics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh. We have spent so much on blackout curtains because of our neighbor’s insistence on having outdoor lights on all night. Same neighbor who once said to me “I just hate clover, don’t you?”…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the contrary; while I have heard the explanation that the commenter you replied to has said I have also heard a slightly different theory:

  Our universe is the 3 dimensional event horizon of a 4th dimensional black hole. By extension we may find that black holes in our universe have similar funky 2 dimensional areas at their even horizons.

  I am sure clickbait articles are part of it but there also seems to be several actual theories surrounding the idea of the nature of our universe relating to black holes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since we're doing magic eyes now...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up with the Magic Eye books and have never been able to do cross-view as a result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo bans Switch 2 owner after they played used Switch 1 games — decision eventually reversed after 'proving innocence’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo tracked the UID to a different Switch in a completely different geographic location logged in with a different account tied to a different bank card and still bricked it. Even Windows licenses aren’t that much of an asshole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Donated” plasma today⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This has $XX on it. Can you put it in my checking account?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Donated” plasma today⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had one of those preloaded cash cards once, my credit union was more than happy to charge it the amount on the card and transfer that to my account, if there was a fee involved they must have eaten it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox is fine. The people running it are not⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  let’s ignore XP as a more glossy consumer version of 2000

  That feels like a dangerous argument;

  • 2000 = NT 5.0
  • XP = NT 5.1
  • XP x64 = NT 5.2
  • Vista = NT 6.0
  • 7 = NT 6.1
  • 8 = NT 6.2
  • 8.1 = NT 6.3
  • 10 = NT 6.4 (Later NT 10.0 then 1507 for July 2015 when they made the switch to ‘agile’.)

  Unless you are prepared to argue that everything since has just been an updated version of Vista.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Milking dust⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The books, Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World, are very good and very different from the movies. I also recommend Disclosure by the same author.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enough is enough⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not OP but just to hazard a guess:

  Alcohol evaporates quickly. It’s probably there for the same reason it’s used in dry shampoos and antiperspirants; to make something that sprays but drys into a power or thickens to a gel in a very short period of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That Xbox would become Microsoft’s Steam has been the prevailing prediction for the better part of 10 years. I am immediately dubious of anybody who’s opinion is that a more capable than the Xbox device (as far as availability of games) has no reason to be purchased.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commodore acquired for a ‘low seven figure’ price — new (acting) CEO comes from the retro community⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like somebody already tried this a few years ago. I vaguely remember there being an Atom powered C64. I wonder what their product line will be like this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was all a lie, wasn't it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably;

  Wood structures fair better in high wind and in earthquakes. Things we have far more of in North America.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sealioning - a community for posting examples of sealioning and other forms of trolling on social networks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know it had a name. I have seen this so much on Lemmy lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern cars (in the US) are required to have an OBD-II Port for On-Board Diagnostics. I always assumed most cars these days were just sending some or all of the real-time OBD data to the manufacturer. GM definitely has been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once it's on the Internet, it stays forever, but only for the things you DON'T want. For the things you DO want, it will be wiped off the face of the Earth by tomorrow.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Digital Dark Age is definitely a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk has done more damage to the Tesla name than Thomas Edison could have ever hoped to do.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am sure the likes of Trump Mobile or NewsMax would be happy to have it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐇 🐇 🐇⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t really start hating it until not doing it for 13 hours a day meant losing my job because, and I quote, “we can have meetings all day because you have all night to finish your work”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aging is fun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If this is you, try drinking more water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “After these messages, we’ll be ‘light’ back!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I mean it never hit its rated speed. Also that many modern sites didn’t work any better than they did on the dialup anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My grandparents lived in rural OK and had dial-up until 2018 when they finally were able to get a 2mbps DSL line. It really wasn’t much faster than the dial-up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazon is a technology company now. For a long time the storefront and logistics have been a tech demo for Amazon Web Services.

  For instance: FreeRTOS