blargh513
@blargh513@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 2 days ago:
Thats the beef. If you try to get or use it, Amish Kapoor will typically take legal action.
Also, hes never really made any compelling art with it either.
He’s the guy who made that big silver sculpture in Chicago. He intensely dislikes that everyone calls it The Bean because he named it Cloud Gate. Really, he made a giant sculpture in a public place that is shaped like a massive shiny kidney bean and is big mad that people call it a bean. Seems like hes kind of a thin skinned baby.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 6 days ago:
That’s kind of the point. Only target crime by poor brown people as they can’t afford lawyers.
Try putting a surveillance system in a corporate boardroom and see how that goes over.
- Comment on thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned? 1 week ago:
Get fucked and/or fired a few times for no good reason. That hide will thicken up might fast. Forces you into a new perspective and resets some priorities.
I’ve learned that the boss can and will be a prick as he pleases (always dudes in my case). Hes going to do that and you can either fight with him and get fired or backburnered, or you can just eat shit and move on.
You can get into pissing matches with peers, but the person who wins is the person the boss likes more. If it isn’t you, accept defeat and move on.
Modern work is just the act of eating shit for money. There is no dignity, there is no payoff. You are just giving untalented clowns what they want in exchange for money. I don’t think any of us wanted it this way, but here we are.
I have fully been broken and institutionalized by the system. I have zero hope of ascending to some lofty position by virtue of my intelligence and hard work. Those who run everything pick their own. Unless you grew up with parents who run everything, there is a very low chance you ever will. They pick their own kind, anyone else is a liability.
- Comment on snack 1 week ago:
Why the hell would they use liquid nitrogen for that? You can throw a handful of dry ice crumbs in to get the same effect.
Liquid nitrogen is a pain in the ass to transport and store. You need special vacuum sealed thermoses (a little more expensive than your overpriced yeti tumbler) and it will boil away in a few days regardless so you need to have it topped up. Plus, it is far colder than dry ice, so accidents are more of a thing.
Dry ice can be kept in a cheap cooler and costs like $10/lb.
- Comment on XDA Forum User response to Google 1 week ago:
Aegis ftw.
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 1 week ago:
And adding a trashcan full of opinions takes everyone further from truth, not closer.
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 1 week ago:
The world does not need a fucking opinionpedia. We have enough morons filling the internet with bullshit; having an authoritative, factual source for a wide variety of data is a good thing.
I have no desire to read some crackpot’s opinion on JFK. Objective facts are critical to a healthy society. We can see how bad things get when people tear apart the fabric of knowledge and replace it with misinformation.
Fuck that right in the ear.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 1 week ago:
It will be stupid, but I presume there will be a rise in desktop apps or webapps that require you to only plug the phone in and it will handle the rest.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 2 weeks ago:
It will creep in slowly since most people dont touch any settings on their computer after the initial unboxing and setup.
Big box retailers will offer discounts on them, much like how you can buy a Chromebook for very little.
Enticed by cheap computers, people will buy not knowing that any limitations exist. They’ll be encouraged to use centralized app repositories but they can still install some other stuff.
A year or two later, some things won’t be permitted, computer will make scary warnings when installing, but with enough clicking, you can get past. Until the day you can’t.
It will be a progression, but it will happen eventually. I honestly am surprised that computers dont require some sort of registration. I’m sure that will happen eventually.
- Comment on That one Pokémon 2 weeks ago:
What has an odd number of legs and a partial house?
No, really, I wanna know.
- Comment on I saw what you did there 2 weeks ago:
I cannot let the invasive thoughts win.
Tablesaws take up so much space and I only need one maybe 2-3 times a year. The bucketsaw is very tempting. Just needs some ratchet straps and quick clamps.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
Donate to the project. Graphene is run by a very small group of people who are very good at automation.
I don’t think they could effectively produce a whole new platform unless they had a lot more help.
If you value privacy, gonna have to crack open the wallet or volunteer to help.
If we just hope someone will save us, we are going to be very disappointed.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
I would have rather seen the development of BBOS10. It was so far ahead of its time.
That whole thing we do with swipe gestures to navigate the android interface? Yeah BBOS had that years ago.
I miss my Passport.
- Comment on Not stealing 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, no. They’re assholes. Little ones, but still assholes.
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 3 weeks ago:
It is unoriginal because meta already did it! They directly referenced meta in their description.
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 3 weeks ago:
Tl;dr two over privileged teenage psychopaths stole a stupid idea from Meta/google that was hated by many and are going to make it worse by going all-in on the reasons people hate them.
Let’s get these guys some money!!!
Fuck these talentless twerps.
- Comment on To install a new outlet with a dedicated circuit do they have to cut the drywall all the way from the electrical panel to the outlet? 3 weeks ago:
Nobody cuts a strip. You typically can limit cuts by cutting one hole big enough to get a hand into on either side of studs. You drill a hole through the stud and pass the wire. Either that or cut a small hole right at the stud, make a small notch big enough for the wire and put a metal plate over the notch.
Most electricians try to minimize cutting holes everywhere because the homeowner gets mad and it wastes time. Better to pull up from the basement or pull down from attic if available.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 weeks ago:
Privacy matters. If it didnt, bathrooms would not have doors.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 weeks ago:
I do not understand people who use their garage to store useless crap and leave their car outside. The car is more valuable than the crap.
Dump all that useless junk into a dumpster. Get a bike shed, put the mower in it too.
The garage is for cars, not bikes, mowers or trash nobody cares about.
Looking at you California.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 weeks ago:
In the us, home chargers will typically run on 240 volts, similar to a dryer or electric stove.
The amperage can be as low as 16 amps (not common) and up to 40 amps. There are higher amperage chargers, but they’re not super common. Most homes dont have that much capacity provisioned and adding it to the breaker box means new circuits and often the power company has to provide a higher capacity meter. It gets expensive.
Since volts x amps = watts, a 240 volt charger that operates at 40 amps will charge at 9600 watts or 9.6 kilowatts (maximum).
You can charge using a standard 120v outlet, most are rated for 15 amps. However, you will get 120v x 15a = 1800 watts or 1.8 kilowatts (maximum).
- Comment on Losing my resolve 3 weeks ago:
Slack is still worse.
Also, Teams is a work app. Why would anyone like it? We only use it because we have to.
Well, you do, I got fired so I dont do shit but look for a new job.
- Comment on Everytime i come across a 3d printing post 3 weeks ago:
Carry on then.
- Comment on Everytime i come across a 3d printing post 3 weeks ago:
Dude this is a place for shitposting. Go somewhere else if you want to be pedantic.
You realize you’re arguing with Satan’s maggoty cum fart, yeah? Might be a hint of something…
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 3 weeks ago:
Used to make tarpits with reverse proxies. Accept the connection and then set the responses for a few seconds before default TCP timeout. Doesn’t eat much resource as long as you have enough TCP connections and can reuse them effectively.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 4 weeks ago:
Also, forcing your kids to play your favorite old games assumes that your games were the best games.
They were fun in their day, but time moves on. Assuming that everything since you formed your opinions is inferior is some big boomer energy.
Let them find their own fun with their friends on their terms. Making your kids play your old crap with you is kinda sad.
I think Minecraft is boring as hell and I’m not gonna play it, but I’m not going to force my kids to play mega man 2 instead.
- Comment on To Catch a Predator's Chris Hansen Planning Roblox Documentary, It's Claimed 4 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, did you say a MAGA wood chipper?
Delightful!
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 4 weeks ago:
It will be true if people are unwilling to put in a little effort to demand better or stop using windows.
You want your games to run on something else? Don’t buy them until they do. Sadly, most people are 100% unwilling to delay that instant gratification and sacrifice even the smallest convenience.
That’s how we got here. You cannot expect change if you are unwilling to do anything to make it happen.
This is why sloth is a deadly sin.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 4 weeks ago:
That was my first thought, like what the fuck, I don’t want my OS creeping on all my shit.
It won’t matter, they will serve slop and most people will happily eat it.
A lack of even basic technology literacy hurts everyone so much. Most people have zero clue how their stuff works and zero interest to learn. Its easy to manipulate an ignorant population as we see again and again.
My favorite simple example is “do you shit with the door open? No? OK then privacy does have value–for all involved.”
- Comment on Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents 4 weeks ago:
There are also hand held radios, strobelights, flares, and PLBs that do not require more satellite infrastructure.
People being lost in the wilderness is not a new problem. It often happens because people don’t bother to consider that they might get lost and plan appropriately.
Sorry, but not everyone gets to come home, especially if they don’t do a little planning.
- Comment on Help. 4 weeks ago:
People will do anything but put in a little work to establish healthy relationships with people.