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- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 2 days ago:
Not at all. There are a lot of Lemmy users who act like using Windows/Mac for anything is a sin. The go-to advice whenever Microsoft progresses the enshittificafion is “lol I haven’t used Windows in [X] years. Just make the switch to Linux already.” And they act like ditching it is the only way to go. But the sad reality is that ditching Windows/Mac isn’t an option for many people who are roped into using it due to corporate policy.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 3 days ago:
Many of us don’t get a choice when it comes to work computers. I use a lot of software that is impossible to get on Windows or Linux. I despise Macs with a passion, but I’m forced to use them for certain aspects of my work. Because there literally isn’t an analogous program for Windows or Mac.
Same with my desk computer, which is a Windows laptop issued by the company’s IT department. Could I boot Linux on it from a USB drive? Probably. But why would I, when that could easily get me fired as soon as IT sees a random Linux machine connecting to their network?
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 5 days ago:
My buddy stuck a paper clip in an electrical socket while we were in the cafeteria. Because his cousin had told him it would shoot sparks across the room. All it did was make him scream real loud, then the power to half of the cafeteria went out when the breaker blew.
Another friend “accidentally” stapled his homework to his hand, to try and get out of going to music class. Apparently his plan was to ham it up and go to the nurse instead. The teacher laughed, called him an idiot, and sent him to music class with a band-aid.
Kids have always been fucking stupid. The only difference is that now every kid has an internet-connected camera in their pocket, so their stupidity is more visible.
- Comment on Heck AI 6 days ago:
Is this a Rimworld reference? It has been ages since I have booted the game up, but those caterpillars look familiar…
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 6 days ago:
Yeah, my favorite bans are the ones from the News communities, with notes like “bad punctuation” or “spreading misinformation” because they posted an MSNBC article.
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 6 days ago:
I wouldn’t have bothered digging through their modlog, but some of those ban reasons are outright hilarious.
“are you victim-blaming a cat?” has me fucking rolling.
- Comment on What is the most "Indie Feeling" game that is definitely NOT from an Indie Studio? 6 days ago:
That was my very first thought. It has all of the indie vibes, but was published by the OG evil tech company.
- Comment on After an Arizona man was shot, an AI video of him addresses his killer in court 6 days ago:
It was a victim impact statement, not subject to the rules of evidence. The guy had already been found guilty, and this was an impact statement to sway how the shooter should be sentenced. The victim’s bill of rights says that victims should be allowed to choose the method in which they make an impact statement, and his wife chose the AI video.
I agree that it shouldn’t be admissible as evidence. But that’s not really the case here, because it wasn’t being used as evidence. The shooter was already found guilty.
- Comment on A Judge Accepted AI Video Testimony From a Dead Man 6 days ago:
The victim impact statement isn’t evidence in the trial. The trial has already wrapped up. The impact statement is part of sentencing, when the court is deciding what an acceptable punishment would be. The guilty verdict has already been made, so the rules surrounding things like acceptable evidence are much more lenient.
The reason she wasn’t allowed to make a scene during the trial is because the defense can argue that her outburst is tainting the jury. It’s something the jury is being forced to witness, which hasn’t gone through the proper evidence admission process. So if she makes a scene, the defense can say that the defendant isn’t being given a fair trial because inadmissible evidence was shown to the jury, and move for a mistrial.
It sounds harsh, but the prosecutor told her to be stoic because they wanted the best chance of nailing the guy. If she threw their case out the window by loudly crying in the back of the courtroom, that wouldn’t be justice.
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 6 days ago:
maybe ppl just have enough money to survive for a while and dont want to work while they pursue hobbies
The issue is that this is exactly what employers are trying to avoid. They want a good little worker bee who will show up every day and complete their tasks as assigned for 25 years straight. They don’t want someone who will just randomly decide to quit and focus on their hobbies.
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 6 days ago:
For the most part, yes. They only really ask the question because they automatically assume you were in jail if you have a gap over 2’ish weeks long. So they’re really just looking for some sort of explanation besides “I was just unemployed for no reason.” Because they assume “no reason” is really “I don’t want to admit that I was in jail.”
- Comment on Why does it seem like every other post on here is deleted shortly after being posted? 1 week ago:
Nah, mod logs are open on Lemmy, and the mod logs for this community tend to be relatively calm. It’s more likely due to people deleting their own posts, or content-farming bot accounts getting nuked.
AFAIK, a deleted account won’t show individual deletions in the mod logs for each community they were participating in. So if an account gets nuked by an admin, that wouldn’t necessarily show up in this community’s mod logs.
- Comment on Why do we tolerate it that Luigi Mangione is being held in prison. We know its absolutely the least safe place he can be? 1 week ago:
To clarify: There are only two actual reasons that you can legally be held without bail. The first reason is that you’re considered a flight risk. The second reason is that you’re considered a danger to yourself or others if let out of prison before your trial.
For the first reason, this basically means that the courts don’t believe you would return for your trial, and would flee instead. Maybe you’re rich enough that you can afford to lose the bail money. Maybe you have international connections and can disappear to another country. Maybe you just have a history of fleeing. The Adjuster is 100% without a doubt a flight risk. He fled authorities and evaded a nationwide manhunt for an entire week. And since Luigi is accused of being The Adjuster, he is considered a flight risk.
For the second reason, this is basically the court going “you were accused of something so violent or egregious that we don’t trust you to avoid doing something similar again while out on bail.” This is most often used with cases like school shooters, serial killers, serial rapists, serial burglars, domestic abusers where the victim could be targeted again, etc… But a scummy pro-corporation judge could construe The Adjuster as a violent offender who is likely to strike again.
- Comment on The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky 1 week ago:
I suppose as long as your subnet mask is set properly, this would work? Each one could only support half as many devices, but that’s not likely to be an issue on a small home network with less than a hundred devices.
- Comment on Israeli TV producer calls for 'Gaza holocaust, gas chambers' 1 week ago:
Yeah, the sad reality is that many people heard “never again” and thought it meant “never again to me”.
- Comment on Gears of War: Reloaded announced, coming this summer to PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 1 week ago:
Is that actually the reason GOW never came to PC? I never heard that, but it was also before I had a gaming PC. So it’s not like I was actively invested in whether or not it was available.
- Comment on The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky 1 week ago:
You specifically shouldn’t run two DHCP servers on the same network. It can cause IP conflicts when two servers assign the same address to different devices. Because the device doesn’t care which DHCP server gave it an address; It just listens to whichever one happens to respond first. And each DHCP server will have its own table of reserved/in-use addresses. And if those tables don’t match, IP conflicts can occur.
Device 1 connects to the network, and requests an IP address. DHCP server 1 checks its table of available addresses, and responds with “your address is 192.168.1.50.” It marks that address as in-use, so it won’t assign it to anything else in the meantime. Device 2 connects to the network, and requests an address. DHCP server 2 checks its table of available addresses (which doesn’t match server 1’s table) and responds with “your address is 192.168.1.50.” Now you have two devices occupying the same IP address, which breaks all kinds of things.
- Comment on The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky 1 week ago:
Are you getting MITM’ed by your work WiFi or something? You should be able to connect to it securely. If that security handshake is failing for some reason, it’s a red flag that someone is likely mucking with your traffic.
- Comment on The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky 1 week ago:
From my understanding, uBlock doesn’t have any impact on a pihole. Any browser-based ad blocker will work by detecting the ads after the DNS requests have been made. A properly functioning pihole would intercept the ads before the ad blocker. 1.7% seems suspiciously low; My primary pihole averages anywhere from 25-50%.
- Comment on Why is my Dreamcast displaying tiny with a new HDMI cable? 1 week ago:
HDMI doesn’t automatically mean good resolution. The Dreamcast only outputs 480p. That’s regardless of what you’re using to plug it in. The TV was likely automatically scaling the RCA signal, but isn’t scaling the HDMI.
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories 1 week ago:
Honestly the most surprising thing in this post is how little yen inflated over time. I know it’s 2019 vs 2024, but still… Most of the currencies on there had ~75-100% inflation, while Yen is at like 4%.
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories 1 week ago:
It was weird when it was originally announced. It’s even weird today. But the weirdest part about the entire series is that it’s actually really fucking entertaining. There’s a reason so many teenaged nerds in the late 2000’s and early 2010’s adopted KH2 as their entire personality.
- Comment on Data centers will look ridiculous with tiny future servers. 1 week ago:
Physics is already hitting limits. We’re already seeing CPUs be limited by things like atom size, and the speed of light across the width of the chip. Those hard physics limitations are a large part of why quantum computing is being so heavily researched.
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 1 week ago:
Even if somehow a quarter of the songs you downloaded started with “My fellow Americans…”
- Comment on Generational differences 1 week ago:
My very first experience with weed was hitting a gravity bong made out of a 2L bottle of Coke, a big jug of Hawaiian Punch at a party, and the fattest bowl I’ve ever fucking seen:
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I hit the entire 2L, (essentially 1-hitting the entire bowl), accidentally sucked too hard at the end of the hit and got a mouthful of dirty bong water, immediately coughed up a lung while trying not to puke my guts out, and had the most wicked high of my life… The way God intended.That shit teaches respect. If my first experience with weed was hitting a pen, I wouldn’t have learned that a plant can rip your soul out for like 15 minutes. The same way a newbie beachgoer doesn’t respect the sea until they almost drown, I would have been full of hubris if I had a fucking vape pen as my first experience.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s amazing how quickly the “don’t trust anyone on the internet” mindset changed. The same boomers who were cautioning us against playing online games with friends are now the same ones sharing blatantly AI generated slop from strangers on Facebook as if it were gospel.
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 1 week ago:
One of the most difficult parts of veterinary medicine is the fact that your patients can’t directly communicate. Luckily, the vet knew this hedgehog had something wrong, because it kept exploding into a bunch of golden rings.
- Comment on U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids 1 week ago:
The traditional education system was actually designed specifically to prepare children for factory work. Enforce strict schedules, you arrive when we tell you, you eat when we tell you, you pee when we tell you, you leave when we tell you. The bell is king, and determines your whole day. Deviation from the bell’s schedule is to be punished and ridiculed.
It sounds like hyperbole, but modern education is literally based on the schools that factory owners set up for their workers’ kids, to groom the kids to work in the factory when they were old enough.
- Comment on Request for desired features on a self hosted ereader app. 1 week ago:
Yeah, Calibre is ubiquitous at this point. You really can’t discuss ebooks without it inevitably coming up. Syncing with calibre would be huge, because it would open the door to the single largest library management program in use.
- Comment on [Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems 2 weeks ago:
Sort of. The new leveling system has minor skills contribute to your levels, to a lesser degree. IIRC it’s something like 10 major levels or 20 minor levels (or some combination thereof) to get a character level.
