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- Comment on arborholing 5 hours ago:
That reminds me. Need to go clone some grape cultivars and do some more guerilla gardening at my buddy’s house
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 6 hours ago:
I don’t know if they’re accustomed to the norms more but Hooters starts as in person encounter. It’s already a very different dynamic from lurking online amongst hundreds watching a person knowing they can’t see you.
- Comment on arborholing 8 hours ago:
Sadly I’ve still never seen any real papers on this being an actual theory.
I’m still want to believe I’m Ent livestock though.
- Comment on Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On 9 hours ago:
I get what you’re saying, and agree, but there were many more, Ancestry.com and findagrave.com and many more were also down (while I’m in the middle of an ancestry fact finding trip). It really was massive.
- Comment on Microsoft update breaks localhost in Windows 11 4 days ago:
I mean, it’s working great for me. Im fully Linux as of yesterday, lol.
- Comment on Microsoft update breaks localhost in Windows 11 4 days ago:
Do they not have update test beds? I feel like this is such an important system they should have caught this. It’s not some obscure feature.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 4 days ago:
It’s not always about the user count though. It’s about your end goals. There’s two types of social engineering. Mass and targeted. You’re focusing on the mass social engineering.
Say you want specific information on how Crowdstrike works. You could launch a massive social engineering campaign on Twitter but if you don’t catch any of the engineers who work at Crowdstrike then what’s the point? You just spent all that money for nothing. It would be better to find where those engineers socialize online and try to inject yourself there, doesn’t matter the size of that community and it could very well be on Lemmy in one of the programmer communities.
Now if you want to convince the entire world of something then yeah, focus on the big user counts, don’t worry about the small fry communities. It’s all about your end goal.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 5 days ago:
Sometimes it’s not just the numbers but who those numbers are. Depending on what you’re trying to achieve, influencing all the techy Linux nerds that seem to make up Lemmy might be more helpful than just blowing into the wind for as many as possible on Twitter or whatever.
I’ve got no data either way on this, just some basic social engineering training for work.
- Comment on Executions in Florida and Missouri as 4 days of state-sanctioned killings begin 5 days ago:
You can try that, but in my experience with my own conservative family they just don’t care. It’s the inverse of “I’d rather ten grifters take advantage of my charity in case I help at least one real person”. They’re okay with killing innocent people so they can get the few criminals. They know and understand completely. But they live in an echo chamber and never think about how it impacts them, that they themselves even risk being the murdered innocents.
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 1 week ago:
Do it! Godot is there waiting for you with open arms.
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 1 week ago:
They secondary drive I highly recommend you find a way to move that out of your house. For me I have a friend 8 hours away, we swap drives on occasion to keep each other’s backups in case of flood/fire/toddler or whatever other force of nature
- Comment on I landed in another toxic workplace after quitting a previous one. What would you do in this scenario? (Open to all suggestions) 1 week ago:
I helped my last company not fully unionize but come together to demand change. I got the support of several teams backing me to confront management on their return to office policy. Management changed their minds quick.
It’s not easy and was basically a second job for a few months for me, but you could always try to start the unionization effort.
- Comment on I landed in another toxic workplace after quitting a previous one. What would you do in this scenario? (Open to all suggestions) 1 week ago:
It depends on why it’s toxic. You say it’s the people but that can still vary a lot. If it’s because the other people are constantly attacking and belittling you then I’d (personally) just put my head down, do my work, and keep a hunt for a new job on the side.
If however they’re “difficult” because they’re set in their ways and don’t like change and aren’t good at expressing their point of view and you find yourself clashing on what to do and how. It’s different. I’ve found I can adapt to those kinds of people and we eventually find a rhythm that works for both of us.
I’ll also add I’ve had jobs with five different companies with people from many countries, and I’ve yet to find a job where at least some of the people aren’t toxic. I’ve sometimes had success requesting moves to teams/projects away from the most toxic people. But unfortunately “knuckle down and put up with crappy people” is what’s worked the best. But only you can know for yourself if you can do that in your current situation.
I’d also be looking for an EU sugar mama as much as possible on the side.
- Comment on When a person gains weight and keeps the weight on for a long time, is that old fat in your body, or does the fat get replaced over time? 2 weeks ago:
Kind of? The cells, called adipocytes, primarily store triglycerides and a few other things in a liquid form. When you lose weight that liquid gets squeezed out and used as energy, to build other chemicals your body needs, or peed straight out.
So less a shower and more getting rung out like a sponge.
- Comment on When a person gains weight and keeps the weight on for a long time, is that old fat in your body, or does the fat get replaced over time? 2 weeks ago:
The 7 year thing is a myth. Howtown has a very good summary on it. 7 year myth some cells are replaced but how often depends on the cell type, some never get replaced.
When you gain weight your fat cells grow, and when you lose weight they shrink. You don’t actually gain and lose fat cells the way people think. However, the stuff in those cells could very well be old. It’s a complex system and hard to sum up and I’m only friends with the biology people from college but that’s what I understand from them.
- Comment on I volunteer as tribute! 3 weeks ago:
Was feeling a little Wooooo today. Just know your post made me feel a little more Weeeee
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 3 weeks ago:
That’s even assuming the book you want is available and wasn’t a super limited printing that you couldn’t even begin to afford in the first place.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 3 weeks ago:
For anyone stumbling along. “Retina display” is their marketing speak for higher pixel density than “average”.
- Comment on They recalled the radioactive shrimp again. Why? My research shows you can just cook off the radiation. 3 weeks ago:
I would but I’m allergic 😭 to the shrimp, not the cesium just to be clear
- Comment on It's depressing, man 4 weeks ago:
“There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.” - Park Rangers talking about me
- Comment on Uh oh lol 4 weeks ago:
Eh, the odds of actually colliding with anything is low enough. Plus the night sky would probably be even more breathtaking. I’m in
- Comment on Twitch starts requiring face scans to watch mature streams in certain countries: Your face is now the key to unlocking gambling and hot tub content. 4 weeks ago:
Give it two weeks and someone will have created a program specifically titled “Twitter Face Bypass” or something
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 4 weeks ago:
This feels like Halo Infinite all over again.
Oh, you have identical specs and built at the exact same time? Yeah, half of you are going to randomly have issues and half won’t. Enjoy head casing about that.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 4 weeks ago:
That’s probably not the cause of the issues here though. Denuvo impacts game performance but not as badly as Borderlands 4 is seeing. The engine they chose has issues even on non denuvo games. It’s an unoptimized mess and then gearbox didn’t optimize any further themselves.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 4 weeks ago:
Or an Expedition 33 new game+ This is truly a great year for games, current post aside
- Comment on A lot of people make the mistake of thinking they have real life plot armour 5 weeks ago:
There’s a fun Harry Potter (fuck this author too) play, called Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic, tat is from the point of view of a random Hufflepuff student.
- Comment on I just beat Bloodborne for the first today, and it's probably one of the best playthroughs of a video game that i have ever had and stories of one as well. 5 weeks ago:
I just had that with Expedition 33. Every twist had me going “what?” And getting those perfect dodges was chef’s kiss
- Comment on A conundrum 1 month ago:
With new water heaters yes, do your maintenance. Old water heater that came with the place and hasn’t been touched in years? Yeah, the advice is to actually not flush it because you don’t know what cracks that gunk might be blocking up and it will be more likely to fail on you sooner.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Horned Demon and Marco Polo jokes aside, I say run with it. As much as millennials get crapped on for choosing weird names they’ve at least suck to it and I’d hope it would make room for more names. It has meaning to you, go for it.
Every kid will get picked on for their name at some point.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 1 month ago:
I dunno, his government tracks so far with what I remember of the film.
- Feeling of Endless Hell
- Waiting for it to be over
- Everyone dying or in pain, in some cases at the hands of their own stupidity
- Pretty much the only person who gets what they want is the one main character leading the thing
- Swamp