sugarfoot00
@sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 1 week ago:
Telsat Lightspeed, from the Canadian company that invented commercial domestic satellite communications in 1971.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 1 week ago:
Publicly funded fibre can be provider agnostic. Starlink can’t. Unless Musk is arguing for the nationalization of Starlink, which frankly I could get behind.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US name this state? Are they stupid? 3 weeks ago:
I think that’s because its state changes seasonally.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 3 weeks ago:
Stoopid Texans. You’ve got the guns, start using the things. If they need cooling, maybe aerate a few blocks of servers for them.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 3 weeks ago:
Presumably they also pay some taxes, although it sounds like may of these places set up in unincorporated areas to avoid such things.
- Comment on Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! 3 weeks ago:
The water may be treated with anticorrosives.
- Comment on Old Man Guide to Grooming 4 weeks ago:
And as a fellow fat faced fella, it is the only way to establish a jawline.
- Comment on Old Man Guide to Grooming 4 weeks ago:
That take is not-so-hot. It should just be part of the deal. If I don’t trim my eyebrows regularly, there is inevitably some wild ones that really take off. Once I can start annoyingly detecting my eyeglass frames with them, it’s definitely time for a trim.
- Comment on Old Man Guide to Grooming 4 weeks ago:
You must be young. Trust me, as you age hair starts creeping out of places you wouldn’t expect and your eyebrows attempt to devour your face.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 4 weeks ago:
After 30 years of marriage, my wife floated the idea of turning this on. I looked at her like she had two heads.
Why would anyone be willfully surveilled? You know its not just your partner that has access to that data when you have location services enabled.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 4 weeks ago:
Same.
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 1 month ago:
Yeah, but the snacks are great. But I miss the pre-covid era of soup and Cookies by George.
- Comment on Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t. 1 month ago:
Exactly. It’s not like google is the only indexer out there. And if this cuts into their search dominance, so much the better.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 month ago:
Pour it in an empty jar. let it cool and then put it in the fridge. It keeps nearly indefinitely.
- Comment on goodbye plex 1 month ago:
You can run them concurrently and let grandma continue to use plex.
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 1 month ago:
People talk about China’s energy use like it’s not* their* energy use. They used that power to produce the stupid shit that you bought, dumbass. You’re responsible for that energy use, despite it being generated in China.
- Comment on Elon Musk has done more damage to the Tesla name than Thomas Edison could have ever hoped to do. 2 months ago:
I enjoy the fuck out of him being trolled by the Canadian electric truck manufacturer Edison Motors as well.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 2 months ago:
You don’t fix this by lecturing young men. You fix it by giving them a sense of purpose and identity that doesn’t rely on putting someone else down.
Sounds like they need the shit slapped out of them.
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 2 months ago:
That’s exactly where all the value is. Selling people’s fucking genetic information. What makes it even more valuable is that it can be used against all subsequent descendants of the person that willingly gave it up. Do a DNA test like this and you’re selling out your entire family.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 2 months ago:
Spicy water. Gross.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 2 months ago:
You should familiarize yourself with Telsat Canada’s LEO plans. Should be complete in less than 2 years.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 2 months ago:
Fyi, Skype was officially killed by Microsoft on May 5th, earlier this month.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 2 months ago:
One of the security upsides to plex is that any number of people can log in with the same credential.
That means that while Plex can harvest information- what account, what’s being watched, IP address, device and player identifier- It doesn’t know who to attach that information to. So you can get dozens or maybe hundreds of users polluting the same account with watch information. Less useful information to be sure.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 2 months ago:
Oh please. That doesn’t make the math any more forgivable. Every investor made a choice. The fact that it’s an institutional investor and mutual funds doesn’t sever the provider of the money and their demand for returns from the ethical issues of what the companies are doing.
Don’t fail to hold equity investors like this to account because they’re holding grandma’s retirement hostage. That’s on grandma too.
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 2 months ago:
Isn’t Spanish for cable just cable (Cah-blay)? That’s what I’ve seen used in Mexico.
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 2 months ago:
As a Canadian vending machine, the Cheetos removal may well have been political in the first place. I notice just about everything in there is made in Canada, unlike Cheetos.
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 2 months ago:
If I was the vendor, I’d stock the whole thing with Cheetos and then snip the cord myself. Fuck that guy.
As an aside, this appears to be a Canadian vending machine (Miss Vickies, Lays flavours made in Canada, Canadian chocolate bars), so the Cheeto switch may have been political.
So to this guy- Get used to superior Hawkins Cheezies, and elbows up.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 2 months ago:
The only time I’ve ever seen one in use was a friend that had a shed that was powered with lights etc. He had an external plug box on the shed, and would use one of these to jumper from his extension cord to that external plug. It worked, but I shuddered when I saw it.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 months ago:
I love that this guy is in an Ivy League school to meet his ‘co-founder’, when it’s hard to believe that someone that knows nothing and is intellectually incurious could ever found anything of value.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 3 months ago:
That’s not true at all. It really depends on environment and proper curing. Where I live, carpenters will rarely use dimensional lumber that’s been stored indoors for these very reasons. It’s stored sheltered outdoors, where the air is dry but temperatures can fluctuate between +30C and -30C depending on season. When it’s been through that, it doesn’t automatically screw up like a silly straw the moment you bring it indoors into a warm and more humid environment.