rainwall
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- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 2 days ago:
They are at best neutral, on the way q hurricane or volcano is neutral.
They destroy all in their path in a way that seems indescriminate, but no one knows what the hive mind thinks. They may be evil beyond all knowing.
- Comment on Genius. 4 days ago:
Cost one side of the middle slice in butter, the other side in honey.
Now youre there.
- Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam 1 week ago:
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 1 week ago:
You can likely sue them in dmall claims court. Many states let you file for a couple hundred dollars and will give you 3x damages if you win. The most likely outcome is they settle when theccourt date approaches or dont show and you win hy default.
- Comment on [REPOST] Worker Gets Around His Casual Office's 'No Shorts' Dress Code Using Malicious Compliance 1 week ago:
The common and correct workaround.
Feels like it happens often, but AI blogspam like the article isnt gonna fully write itself.
- Comment on Game over 3 weeks ago:
Mexicans.
- Comment on ICE Arrests Beloved Fighting Game Community Member Ludovic 3 weeks ago:
If he came inti the US as child in 2002 and signed a “voluntary” removal order in 2005, it sure seems like ICE conned a child into giving up their rights, something they continue to do today.
People opting not to enforce that despicable act for 21 years is luadable. The fact that Trumps ICE are instead enforcing it should have been mentioned, along with a roaring condemnation of how we treat vulberable children in this country.
- Comment on I don't know the reason why. 3 weeks ago:
Similiar reason cheddar is orange. Cheesemakere used to die it to cover inconsistences in quality or rot.
At this point, cheddar is almost perfectly safe, but people expect it to be orange, so its orange.
- Comment on U.S. Cities at Risk of Sinking 3 weeks ago:
Seattle was built by digging through the local hills and dumping them into the bay. Half the downtown wouldn’t exist without these massive eartworks done a century ago.
Still plently of hills left to start backfilling if needed.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 3 weeks ago:
This is always why its generally better to turn your wifi signal power down to a low or middle power as long as all your devices can still connect.
Less range, less overlap, less competition for shared bandwidth between different APs.
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 4 weeks ago:
As I recall, they didnt follow WARN at all, just firing thousands people left and right, and only after the fact when they started getting sued did they say “well your severance worked out to 60 days, so that counts.”
I do remember that one of the sale conditions was that all previous employee perks were retained, which twitter had very good severance, like 1 months/pay per year at the company. Some of the lawsuits were about that not being honored.
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 4 weeks ago:
Just a heads up mate, you used a different username in you story than your current one. Might want to change it to orevent linking identities.
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 4 weeks ago:
WARN Only kicks in at a 100 people or more laid off, and it only goves you 60 days notice, not any extra pay or benefits.
Its basically the least they can do, and the 100 person threshold gives lots of Orgs plently of room to skirt it by doing small, and steady layoffs instead.
- Comment on This past week, Lemmy has gotten really good 4 weeks ago:
Especially when one of the apps payment models is a monthly subscription. I hope most people have cancelled by now, but subscriptions tend to be sticky, which is partly why buisnesses like them so much.
- Comment on When a Weather Forecaster Needs a Fruit to Prove It’s Him: Another Signal of Ambient Trust Collapse in Tech 4 weeks ago:
Hmm, my client Summit doesnt pull the AI tag over, but im seeing it on the web browser. I recall the AI feature being discussed, but thought it was mainly for self tagging. Nice to see mods/admins able to use it too.
- Comment on When a Weather Forecaster Needs a Fruit to Prove It’s Him: Another Signal of Ambient Trust Collapse in Tech 4 weeks ago:
Well thats disheartening. Thanks for the tips.
- Comment on When a Weather Forecaster Needs a Fruit to Prove It’s Him: Another Signal of Ambient Trust Collapse in Tech 4 weeks ago:
I dont read him as an LLM, just someone verbose. A couple accusation in thread isnt enough to prove it either way.
Is there soke other evidence Im missing?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
And Microslop as well!
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Super cool. Hopefully they bonus out the rest of the team that worked on this.
- Comment on Save as PDF 5 weeks ago:
Thats not 100% correct. This didnt use to be an option, nor is pdf the default printing “format” used by printers. Thats more PCL.
- Comment on Save as PDF 5 weeks ago:
This is as much linguistic tomfoolery for humans as it is a con for computers.
I dont know the history, but the most likely case is some microsoft engineer implemented the “print as pdf” option to get around an adobe restriction in the far past, and now we have this weird convention where you “print” to only 1 filetype to “save” it.
- Comment on me, being surprised at how good radishes are 5 weeks ago:
Was the beet from a can? They often carry over a metallic taste that is not good.
Non canned Beets are delicious. Very earthy and savory, with a hidden sweetness. They are great in salads, but really sing in soup. We make a vegatarian bousch with Beets, potato, carrot and serrano that I could literally eat every day.
- Comment on Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding 1 month ago:
I think the harder versions add a lot of variabilty to the fight. The “default” Scylla fight is almost an afterthought after your first dozen times, but the harder version is immensly more complicated. Same goes for prometheous + spoiler, etc.
I think with a hundred more runs, these would also get old hat, but thats true with hades 1 as well. If you run the bosses 112 times there, the occasional “suprise” boss isnt really that intersting, esoecially if you’ve seen them 35 times. Seeing ol “muurrder…” was novel, but only to a point.
- Comment on A lot of the laid-off staff from the Washington Post should start a news cooperative. Seriously! 1 month ago:
The pirate bay guys tried to spin up somthing called flattr a decade or two back. You put in a fixed amount per month, then when you engage with media you like you click a “flattr” button and that media gets a slice. You coule alao setup differnt people to always get a cut.
Say you put in $10/month and flattr 100 things? Everyone gets 10 cents. $100/month? $1 each.
It didnt catch on, likely due to processing fees, but I always like that idea. Signing up for dozens or hundreds of patrons/ghosts/etc is just too hard to manage and fund, but if I and several million other people could hand out pennies a month, it might really matter to small artists/journalists.
- Comment on Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding 1 month ago:
Hades 2 lets you amp up the difficulty to vary the bosses. By the 1000th attempt, you would likely be playing with them on their hardest and most intersting mode.
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 1 month ago:
Yes and no. Up to 2 years ago my company was still manually requesting criminal background checks. A 3rd party company did them, but HR had to open a case each time. Now that is automatic, but tons of processss at tons of companies are still antiquated for various reasons.
Its entirely possible vetting is minimium because of cost and labor involved.
- Comment on Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: Microsoft 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time 1 month ago:
The above is just modern network security. Thr model is called zero trust.
Zero trust assumes there is no implicit trust granted to assets or user accounts based solely on their physical or network location (i.e., local area networks versus the internet) or based on asset ownership (enterprise or personally owned). Authentication and authorization (both subject and device) are discrete functions performed before a session to an enterprise resource is established. Zero trust is a response to enterprise network trends that include remote users, bring your own device (BYOD), and cloud- based assets that are not located within an enterprise-owned network boundary. Zero trust focus on protecting resources (assets, services, workflows, network accounts, etc.), not network segments, as the network location is no longer seen as the prime component to the security posture of the resource.
Google pionnered it in the 2010s I believe, but its very common now.
- Comment on Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets 1 month ago:
Yup, its predictable. “No ads for money,” then “no ads for money and light ads for free” then “no ads for lots of money, light ads for money, unbearbale ads for free” is literally always the model these fuckwits push too now.
- Comment on China’s Four-Year Energy Spree Has Eclipsed Entire US Power Grid 1 month ago:
The sky is generally bluer than water.
I dont get the pink shit though. Hydro should be a brackish green blue.
- Comment on "Oh wow a kryptonite radiation machine, I volunteer Superman to go inside! Doesn't feel so good does it?" 1 month ago:
In Supes defense, he could just fly out to a gold asteroid and knock a chunk off to pay for it himself.