porksnort
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Porksnort enjoys laying in the sunshine. Porksnort will not refuse any offer of a snack.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 1 week ago:
Why the fuck does a vacuum cleaner need internet access!
- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 1 week ago:
And I loved Godus. Such engaging gameplay
- Comment on rich 1 week ago:
Awesome, thanks. It feels so good to be hip once more!
- Comment on rich 1 week ago:
I must be so old.
“My mango is to explode then <shrug> next question?”
- Comment on Not vaccinating is child abuse. 1 week ago:
Yea, child abuse is horrible. Intentionally setting your child up for lifelong risk of avoidable sickess or early death is clearly child abuse.
- Comment on The German company that built the forklift used in the Louvre robbery uses a photo of the heist to advertise itself: “When things need to be done quickly. 2 weeks ago:
They did invent the word schadenfreude after all. I blame Krampus.
- Comment on Its a solar powered phone / webserver! Made from a pixel 6a, solar panel, and hopes/dreams. 2 weeks ago:
I think the best question to ask first is ‘what kind of server?’
A web server could run a reasonably busy low-tech web2.0 blog site on a phone, I think without breaking a sweat.
Other types of serving (media, especially) would be resource limited) maybe not.
And there is an important difference between ’novelty’ and ‘demo’. Even a novelty server can demonstrate new ways to think about tech. Maybe an author could host their book launch on such a setup, serving only a single file and showing that we don’t exactly need to involve Amazon. That’s where my head goes when thinking about these efforts.
- Comment on I remember watching this commercial late one night in the 90s on MTV, and wondering WTF?! What are your thoughts? 2 weeks ago:
MTV ran a series of commercials highlighting social justice issues, that’s all.
It was a very different era, gay rights and especially marriage were becoming part of mainstream discourse and the LGBTQ+ community was still relatively well organized from the fight to get proper attention to the AIDS epidemic.
Reagans administration literally let the transmission of HIV run unchecked because they thought it was just a ‘gay thing’ that would rid then of a minority they have always wanted to eliminate anyway. To these monsters, a genocidal plague was a happy little accident.
It took immense pressure and coordinated efforts to gather data showing it impacted straight peole too in order to get research and public health funds allocated at necessary levels.
Against this dark backdrop, MTV was building its brand as the woke media outlet and the suits let the creatives run ads like this.
Really talk to any kind of ‘sexual minority’ who lived through that era and you will find we were well aware of creeping fascism all the way back then. This and other commercials was both a signal to the queer creative community that MTV ‘got us’ and a way for MTV to establish ’counterculture’ street cred.
(Sexual minority is a clinical term I don’t like much as pretty much everyone is ‘weird’ sexually, but it is used by researchers in some fields to avoid the constant and often unproductive wrangling about the letters, knowing this is useful for finding research on these subjects)
- Comment on Its a solar powered phone / webserver! Made from a pixel 6a, solar panel, and hopes/dreams. 2 weeks ago:
Super cool project. I visited, and I hope you keep building the site stats views out. So many people are curious about self hosting and solar, if you just kept it as a demo that shows how the system holds up over longer term, well I know I would appreciate occasional reminders to check it out. It may inspire others to try similar things.
And I would have happily signed any digital wall you implemented.
- Comment on Being asked "Have you gotten the tour yet" upon entering a house for the first time is the adult equivelent of the kids asking: "Do you want to see my room?" 2 weeks ago:
Yes! What’s your favorite tool? Why didn’t the tour start here, your shed is amazing!
- Comment on Marylin Mothroe 2 weeks ago:
They are so beautiful under magnification. Some morphs have gold flecks on the antennas and other amazing details you can only really see with a hand lens.
- Comment on Another day of AWS outages 2 weeks ago:
Can we get Ron Howard to deliver the last line?
- Comment on ‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory 2 weeks ago:
Refusing to work oneself into illness is a radical act and an effective form of protest. Call in and take a health day whenever you can.
- Comment on Should we treat environmental crime more like murder? 2 weeks ago:
JFC, capitalists did the work for us! They paid unwittingly for research into ‘ecosystem services’
- Comment on Should we treat environmental crime more like murder? 2 weeks ago:
The magnitude of your crimes will be measured in area and volume!
(So, yes. Fuck up my watershed, you are talking to all of us downstream)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Indeed. In a world run by pedophile nepotists, ALL trophies are participation trophies.
- Comment on the humble and disguised crow: 3 weeks ago:
The whole thing reminds me of a sketch one of the Groundlings did as a live performance. “VCR into Ca$h” was the bit and he would just meet you in a parking lot. Same vibe
- Comment on the humble and disguised crow: 3 weeks ago:
Brilliant! It’s like a pawn shop without the overhead of a physical storefront.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
People are bagging on your comment because it could seem really smug out of context, but …
I have lately finally learned the lesson that when I feel the urge to give advice, it is my brains fucked up way of telling me what I need to be doing too.
This new realization means I now leave many more things unsaid, and it seems to be working as a better social strategy.
- Comment on Ferns 3 weeks ago:
Not a lot. Just compulsively before coitus
- Comment on Ferns 3 weeks ago:
I am in this image and I resent the implication.
- Comment on California Shuts Down Its Solar Thermal Plant 13 Years Early 3 weeks ago:
That part surprises me too. Molten salt has hella heat capacity and insulation is cheap as can be. I don’t understand all the engineering ins and outs, so I may be off base. I can see the need to pre-heat the conduits that are needed for heat transfer, but the bulk of the thermal mass could molten for a long time.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Extruded aluminum of that type is insanely stable and easy enough to build for a reasonably handy person.
You only need a cheap cutoff saw and a drill, or you can order pre-cut and ore-drilled pieces to order.
There are a number of makers of extruded aluminum building systems, basically tinkertoys for adults. I have personal experience using 80/20 and the Tslots brands. They are functionally identical.
I have used it to build stands for heavy equipment like ultra-cold freezers for labs. It is more than sufficient for any server racking.
- Comment on You might be proud but she is disgusted 4 weeks ago:
None of the women I discuss ‘making it’ with want these sorts of pictures.
All of the men do, badly.
Dick pics are for dudes.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
A web TV would suffice for this, given the current state of what remains of the ‘Web’.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
There used to be a thing called ‘mutual insurance’ as in ‘Mutual of Omaha’. (They did a nature show called Wild Kingdom back in the before-time)
It’s basically an insurance run like a co-op, not as an arm of some other money-laundering corporate giant.
Some mutual insurances would balance their books periodically and refund a portion of premiums if the claims paid was less than what premiums brought in.
- Comment on soda 4 weeks ago:
Peyton used the length of hose he normally uses to steal gas for his three-wheeler ATV as an extension to fill the tub on the ground.
Peyton reads well below grade level but he is not stupid.
- Comment on Harsh 4 weeks ago:
Plot twist, it’s elliptical.
- Comment on Harsh 4 weeks ago:
Hold me and never let me go, you insatiable nerd.
- Comment on Harsh 4 weeks ago:
That’s it. I am going as a gravity well this year.
I will wear plain clothes and go up to the person in my social circle most likely to ‘get it’.
I will hug them, not let go while I explain the idea in their ear. We have to go everywhere together that evening with the explicit purpose of recruiting others in that mission. There is no leader of a gravity well, except the center of mass. Which means things might get goofy.
If I can’t convince anyone to play, I will take that big tiddy goth girl and her friends up on their offer to play xbox.