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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schlip schlop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  The new Star Trek show is being called competency porn, which kind of fits this description. Although that’s been Star Trek for a long time. I think folks are upset they’re targeting youth with the last couple series… which, the average ST fan now being 92 years old, doesn’t exactly shock me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if I can’t trust Meta with my information, who CAN I trust

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨noyb win: Microsoft ordered to stop tracking school children⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well when it’s a popular software package, swarms of “hackers” with increasingly better AI tools will be attacking it, foreign governments will be attacking it, especially if it’s used by governments. So security will be a serious, constant concern.

  Open source will both help and hinder that.

  Really a nonprofit consortium should be formed with paid engineers who focus on this 100%. But that nonprofit will be infiltrated and corrupted… and so on and so forth.

  Humanity is a corrupting force.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bugger!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the difference between ignorance and apathy?

  I don’t know and I don’t care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is history about to repeat itself?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Being a Northerner in the South, I just shake my head at some of the bizarre things people do with their vehicles. Riding around getting high with your friends in your car, smashing your front bumper through snow plow piles crossing streets? Bet you enjoy the $8k in damage to the electronics in that thing when you realize the plastic bumper and radar are destroyed and falling off. Taking a gravel shovel to your car’s hood to dig it out? Yeah there’s still a car under there, you’ll remember when you see the paint damage. Put a tarp over your car? Good luck getting it off when it’s encased in a 200lb ice shell. Even the folks who stick their wipers straight up… what you think that’s gonna do exactly? Not save you any time, that’s for sure, now you gotta carve the ice around them carefully instead of just scraping across it in one movement, and the wipers will be too warped to be useful until they warm up, which you can’t do because they aren’t touching the windshield.

  Just leaving the car be and then starting it for a bit before pushing the ice off is fine… hell I’ve deiced my car with a piece of cardboard and a credit card plenty of times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Facebook, Insta, YouTube. I know they’re fun and entertaining. But they’re all destroying your mental health. I promise you’ll be happier if you pull the plug on all of them. Delete your account. Touch grass. Volunteer, talk to your neighbors, start a social club.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been addicted to uh, almost everything besides heroin and gambling. I still give better advice than deflated-scrotum-face. But I also know how science works and why it’s a good thing. I believe in germ theory. I don’t throw roadkill on the roof of my car and eat it tartare later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a Paula Deen of the Midwest?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Packet of ranch mix. Then you put a packet of ranch on top of that. Now into the crockpot for a week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I retire PCs at the college I work at. They get stacked in the basement waiting on an inventory/recycling procedure that will never happen because we’re a satellite campus and the basement is the tomb of technology. Went down there the other day to bring a retired PC up to replace a very old lab PC that died. The HD had been removed by a colleague - fine, that’s procedure - and then I realized all the RAM had been stripped out. Dozens and dozens of PCs with nary a stick. “If you’re selling that RAM, I want in on it” I told him. He laughed nervously and said no, but wouldn’t say where it all was.

  I am not kidding, I want halfsies…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denominator, go Mercator⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Goode Homolosine projection. You lose accurate direction, shape, AND size to a degree, but less size issues than some projections. It’s a good way to remind kids that the world is round, but once you try to use it for anything like showing a route or visualizing relative distances, the limitations become significant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teach me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  GP1s. You eat a bit of shit. But not too much. Then you’re like, huh I want some real food. And then you’re done for the day. Two days later, you’re like, poop please leave my body so I can eat a little bit more shit. Maybe you throw up a box of pop-tarts.

  Then you notice the muscle loss and you’re like, no more shit, only real food, and more workout. Real food is easier to eat because your sugar cravings decrease.

  I grew up watching people shame spiral while ordering Ab-Rollers. It was not pretty. This isn’t ideal but we have to acknowledge we’re all addicts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mandola effect⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “And on our Star Trek II, the Wrath of Khan is upon us”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telly has only delivered 35,000 of its free televisions with always-on ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a contract, modifying it or using it as not intended (or not using it at all) can make them request the unit back, if you don’t comply they could take you to court. I doubt that happens but the threat is there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telly has only delivered 35,000 of its free televisions with always-on ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC yes it does want to be unobstructed, it won’t necessarily stop working but they collect data on it and could cancel your contract if you do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I do think it’s weird that every banana cultivar is described a having a “creamy” texture. Is there a banana with a jagged, rough texture out there? Chunky? Gritty? Watery? Greasy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's right there 😖⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Follow up question, why are cops so fat and lazy they need two belts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You don't say.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Science doesn’t let you just assume things that seem pretty obvious, you actually have to test the basic hypothesis so you have something to base future work on. Otherwise all the work to follow is suspect and can get thrown out because an assumption turns out to be false, which is a fairly common occurrence actually. That’s why scientists, who aren’t known to be stupid people, actually do the research.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Tips for a Winter Storm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, skidding or sliding directionally, steer into the skid, and if there’s a road curve you’re not following, then depending on the road you might be able to gain some control by gently accelerating. But most people in that situation are panicking and will jam on the gas instead, which will only make you go faster into whatever you’re gonna hit. If you’re not following a curve and it’s icy, you’ve already made the mistake. Which brings me to…

  In any weather, you should* slow your vehicle before the curve*. Never brake when you’re already curving. By that time you should be gently accelerating to gain control. This is probably the #1 crazy thing I see in the South, people braking while on a curve. If there’s ice or even rain you will lose control that way, and away your car goes.

  Practice this on dry roads and you’ll be ready when ice happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea of going back to a blind simple lock protecting my house, pets, and stuff is crazy to me - smart CCTV and an internet connected alarm system are so much better, plus there’s no “monitoring” cost like some folks pay. $40 so you can call the cops for me? No.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we all know it was a toy poodle with the little Joan Rivers haircut and everything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yeet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, it’s a warning.

  If you want the intrusive thoughts, the calls-of-the-void to go away, simply acknowledge the thought, thank it for keeping you safe, and move on.

  Yes, you can talk to your thoughts, you can freeze them and interrogate them, ask them why they’re there and what they’re doing. This is called cognitive diffusion, part of ACT therapy. Eventually, you will find a reason to thank the thought and move on, it’s strange but hugely effective. Works on any type of thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yummy yummy, in my tummy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, cows are furrier and brown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Copilot for Copilot you mean? Now with extra Copilot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heave-ho!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t relate to this thread for … reasons … but if anyone wants to explain to me why a jockstrap maker can’t produce something that can contain an entire scrotum without it sticking out the sides like someone deflated a skin balloon, let me know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mama!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IDK sometimes it feels like everything is just gonna explode one day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't be the only one who learned this the hard way⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two kinds of people taking notes in this thread…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mods like Ada will destroy Lemmy in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So relative dating doesn’t work. It says 2 days, and many things on my front page say 2 days old, which has been true for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been an Apple user since the 80s, I used to be penpals with their CFO Ellen Hancock. Would get care packages from their PR team full of promo items. Exchanged emails with Wozniak and Jobs. I was deeply obsessed.

  Obviously things have drifted away from the core “underdog” vibe that Apple exemplified for so long, as their popularity and device adoption surged, they’ve been less of the Apple I knew.

  But Cook’s behavior this year has me realizing I’ve bought my last Apple device. Bring on Linux in every form.

  I know I don’t matter at all, but it would have taken epic amounts of bullshit to make me sour on them, and here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The boy who was relentlessly bullied by his uncle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He didn’t quote Dumbledore much that I know of