fonix232

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you familiar with that thing where you eat popcorn and you get a tough little piece lodged way back in the depths of your mouth right by the base of your tongue?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The worst is when there's a tougher bit in like, a dry sausage (salami, chorizo, etc.), or bacon, that gets stuck between your teeth and is impossible to get out because the little fucker is just so slippery you can't get a grip on it...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about the French Republican Calendar⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  12 months of 30 days

  January 31

  You can only pick one of these.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You can either pay for a service, or that service will utilise every single aspect of it to monetise you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You just couldn't be satisfied with slow and easy⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  dem lips do be indeed grippy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are unable to recognize their true enemies.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Up until the last sentence, you were correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Men Who Stare at Goats⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay I'm drawing a blank on this, who is she?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm cooked, chat.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You're never too young to dye.

  In fact, fuck societal norms, go crazy, try some funky colours! Do a half-length bleach to platinum blonde, add a green or turquoise strip, do frosted tips but instead of keeping them blonde, dye em copper red... The world's your oyster.

  Or just keep the gray patches, chicks dig it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scandal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This is big

  Donald Trump to Bill Clinton

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scandal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus, family and friends won't care. Oh no, you were horny and did something dumb? Ain't nobody can say they haven't done anything similar. Shit happens.

  Besides, nowadays revenge porn laws are super strict - any image/video released publicly would be taken down quite quickly, and it wouldn't stick around to haunt you. At most your mum will get an eyeful of yer cock and it's not like she hasn't seen it before, or would do anything with it besides delete it and block whoever sent it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hardware raccomandation for new selfhoster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Portability is not really an aspect one needs to consider when it comes to a NAS. Performance hits? Z1 will have performance issues when running in a simple mirror (especially for writes), but with 4+ disks that reduces significantly.

  Sure scrubs will take longer on a multi-disk array, but again for a home NAS, the goal is maximising data storage capacity without a major hit on performance, ideally being able to saturate the most common gigabit LAN connection and have some more bandwidth available for local processing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've heard New Yorkers are devastated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  *paedo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hardware raccomandation for new selfhoster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You're incredibly wrong on your assumptions here.

  First of all, ZFS (the file system TrueNAS specialises for) is best used with at least 3-4 disks. The more the better. A dual disk setup for ZFS (or any other kind of RAID) is super wasteful.

  Second, no, 4TB won't be enough. You think it is today, but soon you'll be downloading media Linux ISOs and quickly realise that even 16TB is a stretch within a year.

  My recommendation would be going for at least 4x 4TB, but 3-4x 6TB or even 8TB would be probably preferred. And similarly, I'd rather overshoot the initial purchase rather than realise 6-8 months in that oops, the 2-4 disk system you got isn't enough... Even if you don't fill the bays, I'd recommend you go for at least a 4 bay system, but rather, for 6. Sadly, SOHO NASes aren't designed with easy expandability down the line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I fully agree with you. Marketing in general is one of the most evil business segments - only a notch above phone scammers, really. All of it is edged out not to actually market a product but to sell it to you no matter what. Doesn't matter if you need it, or if you can afford it, or if what they say about the product is true or not, the goal is to sell sell sell. Nothing else matters but taking your money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel incredibly split on ads.

  On one hand the incessant need to market things can be actually positive, offsetting service expenses, allowing things to be cheaper. Streaming is a perfect example of this, as people don't seem to realise just how expensive it is to maintain the infrastructure for it compared to traditional cable infrastructure, not to mention keeping the apps maintained and bugfixed etc., and then we haven't even talked about things like content licencing fees, residuals, and so on. Residuals alone mean that a single user can stream enough in just one month to "spend" their whole annual subscription fee on a single actor's residuals (this is technically unlikely, as one would need to stream a singular TV show or movie 24/7 for 30 days, but still possible).

  And obviously people want to pay less. The least possible, that is. Netflix at $5.99 was a steal. Disrupting cable, globally. But that price was also only possible because of various venture capitalists investing heavily in Netflix, which allowed them to pay for the service mostly from that money, and keep prices low to acquire more users. The recent hikes (all the way up to what, $20?) are the result of venture capital drying up, as Netflix went from a market-shaker startup to revenue generating machine. Which is the point of capitalism, isn't it? Take an ide and make profit/revenue off it.

  So how do you offset these increases? By involving a third party who's willing to pay you, in return for inserting their service into yours, essentially providing your userbase to them. This would mostly be... Advertisers. Marketing.

  The problem is that advertising is a cutthroat business, with intense (and incredibly dumb) KPIs to fulfill. For which they need targeting, for which they need data. And this constant crusade for absolutely pinpointed ads that result in the most sales is what's making it such a disgusting business. It's not enough to shove ads in your face, those ads HAVE to be perfectly tailored to you, and for that, every smidge of information will be utilised against you.

  And this is where I'm torn. On one hand, taking these fuckers' money to make services we do want, more affordable, is great. On the other hand, them wanting to know literally everything about us, and weaponising it against us, is fucking disgusting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really just short form, it's more of a take on video feeds rather than just the limited length quickcontent Vine was famous about.

  Obviously the focus is still on short(ish) content format, but I see more and more people transition to longer videos to deliver content. On YT/Facebook most videos I see nowadays are 10min or above.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, no, the initial limit was precisely because of SMS character limits - Twitter in the first few years had an SMS gateway where you could send a text and it would be posted under your account.

  Obviously later on it was an arbitrarily kept limit, but the limit itself, even doubled, makes it a horrible platform for any kind of debate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole idea behind Twitter (character limits etc.) was obviously a bad idea from the moment texting became obsolete thanks to IM services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

  On a more serious note, I feel the same.

  Don't get me wrong, I actually do like my job. I'm working with people I like, I like what I'm actually doing, and I'm not waking up with dread every (or really, any) morning. I can't even complain because I'm getting paid well, great benefits, tons of time off (so much in fact that my manager had to force me to take Fridays off until EOY just so I use up my base rate PTOs), great bonus situation, lots of options to travel, management is generally good as well.

  But every single day, I just feel exhausted after work. Even when I'm WFH, or have little actually exhausting tasks to do... I'm just exhausted. Tired. No energy for anything but running a quick bath, or shower, reading for an hour or two, then sleeping.

  In fact this lack of energy has been so bad recently that I've taken to inserting a workout+cooking+everythingelse hour in the middle of my WFH days just so things get done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you presume that all AI advancement is purely by technofascists?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Become unrecognizable⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay so admission time, that's not really why we broke up. The cadence of the story was just better that way.

  In reality, we "broke up" (reduced the number of dates we had) because we were in a poly relationship and things were becoming more serious (as in, thinking about children and getting married) with her primary, which I fully support.

  The books were after her recommendation, by the way, they did unlock a few new kinks (and reinforced plenty existing ones), and the sentence "I can barely recognise you (in bed)" was indeed muttered a few times, so I was mostly truthful, but you can see why the cadence came out better in the original comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Become unrecognizable⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I did do it at one point, but the reading was more like 3-5 hours a day, and hardcore dark romance smut.

  My girlfriend broke up with me because "she couldn't recognise me in bed". In hindsight, making her ride the handle of a knife might've been a smidge too far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save us!!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an annoying neighbour. This annoying neighbour plays loud music throughout the day and sometimes the night too.

  This annoying neighbour also happens to have a wireless charging stand with a built in BT speaker. A BT speaker that requires no authentication, no pairing, no nothing. You can just connect to it.

  This annoying neighbour has been suffering from random bouts of Mariah Carey at the most inopportune times - such as 3am - at max volume. I've even programmed a Bluetooth controller to keep connecting to it and playing the song at random intervals if it gets paused or the volume reduced. And most recently I've been working on figuring out a way to detect when the neighbour plays loud music so I can finally connect the two events in a very obvious way so they finally stop.

  You think hearing it for two months is bad? Try being my annoying neighbour. Doesn't matter if it's July, or February, or September, if it's morning, evening, or barely past midnight, he's getting his Mariah fix, Careyd over the soundwaves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain calls it safety. It is censorship⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They said tits, not twats.

  or is this the first sign of the tit for twat economy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't people harassing marketers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It's because people have generally accepted that marketing is a thing, and will be a thing - and that as long as it isn't directly harmful, it can actually be beneficial to the consumer.

  Which, to be fair, makes some sense. On one hand you have people who want a service, on the other you have the service that wants to make money. But running that service costs more than people are willing to pay so you bring in a third party who gets to advertise to the people while giving money to the service for this, subsidising costs and making a cheap service possible. It's a win-win-win situation, isn't it?

  Well it would be if it wasn't for this damn end stage capitalist constant hypergrowth requirement. Everything has to make a constantly growing profit. If the profit GROWTH isn't higher than last year, your business is crap. So now everyone is milking every last drop of money from every possible angle, leading to more ads, shittier services, and people moving on. Thanks to the greed of the few, the otherwise good thing, or acceptable status quo, is now crap.

  Marketing isn't at fault for this, it's just a symptom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't people harassing marketers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It's actually a bit more complicated.

  AdSense indeed used to work through ratios of views and clicks, but Google (and all other ad networks) have been tinkering with it to benefit them even more.

  Today, it's about conversion, and conversion as a KPI is not well defined. Clicking into an as might simply not be enough to make it cost more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't people harassing marketers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This only works when the site, ad network and advertiser are three distinct and separate entities.

  Given that pretty much all social media now runs its own advertising systems, it won't actually have much effect. Sure it wastes some money, but given how precise site analytics are, most can actually discern between real clicks and these automated tools.

  Not to mention that the whole website for this tool looks like is itself riddled with ads, and also, over 2/3 of all internet traffic happens on mobile devices, which this extension doesn't support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New data shows companies are rehiring former employees as AI falls short of expectations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This. Use their desperation to your benefits.

  Demand no probation since you were previously a good employee. Demand higher pay, better benefits et al, hell, a signing bonus and backpay for your unfair dismissal, go as far as you can. Remember, they just realised that they need you more than you need them.

  Use that knowledge to your advantage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goddamn it, Gary⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  With the ATC cuts, this is the only plane many will be getting on this week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨free minecraft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a challenging wank, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Try Butt Nutts Today!!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue is the merging of two different kinds of silicone. Silicone in itself doesn't like other silicones and the harder ones tend to "melt" the softer ones (in reality the polymer chains interact and cause migration, which deforms the softer object as it will have higher plasticity).

  You could make a hard silicone dildo with soft silicone balls but most likely you'd end up with the ballsack tearing off in a play-doh consistency mess within a few weeks of manufacturing.