halcyoncmdr

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They probably have mitigations for many of these.

  Have you seen the state of testing for Microsoft products nowadays? Or rather the apparently complete lack of testing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is GOG not as succesful as a Gaming Alternative?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they’re referring to playing remotely from their home computer? That often doesn’t require a local install.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Form over function⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Large vehicle suspension components scare the living hell out of me. Seen too many videos online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Form over function⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  As a non-mechanic that watches various channels working on vehicle sin various states of use and repair… It seems that half of vehicle work seems to require hammers, and the other half a hammer should never be near. And knowing the difference is a mystical art form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 | Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure they’re talking about the body cams, not the scanner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kamala Harris’s New Gen Z Media Brand Has Already Made a “67” Joke⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And they continue to prove they know absolutely nothing about anyone under the age of ~40.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSMC to make advanced 3nm chips in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh they want to… There are quite a few chip fabs around the world… there are very few that can manufacture at this size, along the bleeding edge of the numerous technologies necessary to do so.

  Having the knowledge required to build the fab, the actual hardware required to manufacture them, and the skilled personnel to operate it all are hard to do. This is not something that you can toss together in a cave from scraps like Iron Man.

  And a lot of that is by design with companies and governments trying to guarantee sovereignty by tightly controlling where these can be manufactured. The idea that enemies are less likely to try to take over/colonize a smaller country (like Taiwan) if the global chip manufacturing apparatus can be destroyed in minutes to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facial recognition error: Customer misidentified by Sainsbury's⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, 0.02% of 65 Million is 1.3 Million possible errors.

  And that’s just based on the raw population, that accuracy rating could be based on raw number of scans instead. A quick search shows Sainsbury’s serves 16 million customers a week. That’s 320,000 errors every week if the error rate is just raw scans as opposed to unique scans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The news is sugarcoating how revolting the Epstein files are⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And it’s those areas that the deniers point to as proof “global warming” is not real.

  Climate change covers all the changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah, customer service⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  20+ years in various customer facing roles has shown me that customers rarely know what they’re talking about. And they are not capable of reading either. The size of any sign is inversely proportional to their ability to even notice it exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI controls is coming to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget adding additional surface area for security vulnerabilities. Does the off switch prevent a zero day attack via that code? Of course not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  HA!

  You should look into where the Nazi rocket scientists went after WW2 and how few of them saw any form of punishment for their involvement.

  And that doesn’t even take into account the pseudo-Nazis running the current US government, which is certainly what the other poster was talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Draw!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had several NDAs that also cover disclosure of the other party. And those weren’t even for proper “work” as you’d generally define it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drug dealers hate this one weird trick!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And build up like that is why you should limit artificial insecticides like that around your house as well. That build up happens to each animal up the food chain. Bug gets 1 insecticide, but the lizard eats a bunch of bugs. Lizard now has 100 insecticides, and gets eaten by a snake. Snake eats a dozen lizards, now we’re at 1200 insecticide. Owl eats a dozen snakes, 24000 insecticide in the owl.

  Obviously this is simplified, but it gets the point across.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's my toxic trait⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time Mythical Chef Josh decides to regale everyone with a story from his childhood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No low ballers, I know what I have⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but a specific type that we know doesn’t kill us.

  Can’t say the same about that pizza.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The same way any vehicle doesn’t let people just drive off… a key. Either in the form of a key fob/key card… Or a phone key paired to the vehicle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if you’re trying to argue that modern social media is a good thing… Because it really isn’t. All of these platforms are actively detrimental to our mental health and destabilizing society. All of them have their billionaire owners manipulating the algorithms to maximize what they want you to see and minimize opposing views, if not outright removing them (like Meta is doing with the ICE List currently).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025 | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest, coming from a near-launch Tesla Model 3 into the current EV market… most alternatives available in the US suck for various reasons.

  I had a Polestar 3, which was great, until the AC was inconsistent on the Driver side. Only had it for 45 days before it was in for Service at Volvo 150 miles away… And has been there since last April. Still paying on it every month and having to maintain insurance… I’m still trying to get it returned as a lemon via lawyers now nearly 9 months later. In the interim I went through several Volvo, Kia, Mercedes, and Hyundai EV rentals, and talking to a coworker who has an EV Mustang. All of them felt like EV afterthoughts made just so they could say they have EV options.

  The American brands almost exclusively use the same base vehicles and even interiors as their non-EV options and thus there are arbitrary things that just don’t need to be there and make it feel like they’re just making a car to say they have one (which is exactly what they’re doing).

  For instance, my biggest pet peeve is having a Start/Stop button as if the thing still had an engine. There’s no need to have it since the cars are on all the time anyway. Its just an unnecessary step both when getting in and leaving the car. And it artificially prevents you from interacting with the vehicle like rolling down windows or the roof cover while it’s “off”. It’s small, but just shows it wasn’t designed to be an EV, they just took the same shit from before and dropped an EV powertrain in and called it a day.

  Several brands also use the same outsourced platform like GM’s Ultima platform. So every one of those vehicles feels the same regardless of the brand it’s under, or the slightly different exteriors. The interiors are nearly identical and use GM parts regardless of brand. The Honda Prologue that I got after my Model 3 while waiting to see about new offerings in a few years, doesn’t feel like a Honda at all. It drives and feels like a Chevy Blazer. Because it is.

  The only EVs I’ve driven that actually felt like they took advantage of being an EV were from EV companies, no legacy automakers. Tesla, Polestar, Lucid, Rivian. Everyone else the vehicle felt like an afterthought, especially after driving a Tesla for nearly 5 years, and those were often at 1.5-2x the cost for fewer bells and whistles. My current Prologue purchased before the EV credits went away was almost the same cost as my Model 3 back in 2018, and it’s nowhere near the same quality or capability. And that’s saying something if you know Tesla quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neocities deindexed from Bing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about no plugin support… It’s about Chroma and Manifest V3 crippling adblocking plugin capabilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A friendly reminder that the act of doxxing is not illegal. Neither is collating information. Nothing ICE List does is illegal.

  It’s just a fundamental threat to the current administration and the billionaire class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  These kinds of strikes are intended to be short term, it’s a single day strike. It’s not about stopping work until demands are met, yet. It’s about proving to those in charge that there are enough people in agreement that the next step will be much more costly if things don’t change.

  Sometimes they are smart enough to get the message, other times they either think they’re smarter because they are narcissistic or inherently will win because of money.

  At this level though if you actually manage to coordinate an effective strike day, what you usually end up with is hundreds or thousands of smaller organizations that can’t survive and prolonged strike siding with the strikers and getting changes made, because the cockweasels at the top still rely on the smaller companies they stepped on to get there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exposing? Microsoft has made it very clear for a while that your Bitlocker keys are synced to your Microsoft account.

  Hell, they even have a support page for it. Most of their support pages are nearly useless, but this one is even readable by a normal person.

  And before someone mentions the part about Microsoft Support not having access to keys (because some smart ass always does for this stuff)… Just think for a second. Of course customer support doesn’t have access to the keys. What Support can do is not a limit for legal disclosure. A legal warrant (like used here) means they’ll give any info they have in a heartbeat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably more about large variances in temperature over a shorter period. If it’s already -36 today and been similarly cold recently then the trees are already frozen. There isn’t a risk from internal liquid water freezing and expanding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweden's Largest Pension Fund Dumps $8.8B in US Bonds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason bond like that were so popular is because of their stability. And there is absolutely zero stability in the US currently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a reason they focus so much on removing voters from the rolls, removing voting locations, making it illegal to provide water to those waiting in line (because they only have a handful of locations after removing them all) and making it just generally harder to vote across the board.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry to remind you that Republicans historically do better in the midterms because more of their voters show up regardless. That’s one of the things the racist old fucks love to do with their copious amount of free time. Watch Fox News and head on down to the voting booths.

  For many, it’s likely the only thing they have to look forward to now that many of their families have abandoned them over this shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point, what should we do about the ICE Agents and Trump and such?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They have a flair for the dramatic, which is exactly how fascists operate. Might as well match their drama.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point, what should we do about the ICE Agents and Trump and such?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That won’t happen until they are personally affected.

  That’s the single consistent trigger point for every Republican that turns against the party of you’ve been paying attention.

  They have to be directly affected .. they have to feel it themselves. They are incapable of feeling empathy for others, that’s why they have the perspective they have and don’t do anything about obvious issues. They don’t think they are issues because it’s affecting the others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …You’re not gonna believe who’s in charge of enforcing the laws.