UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on My FWB is still ignoring me so I'm sexting with my dealer 10 hours ago:
There’s “playing with fire” and then there’s “using a lit match to check the bottom of a gas tank”
- Comment on Animals noticing 10 hours ago:
This would be funnier if we weren’t deploying massive AI data-centers to destroy the last surviving mega-fauna.
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 10 hours ago:
Classic Authoritarian Log Flume
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 10 hours ago:
Seems like you don’t really need to fork the system until someone applies DOB field in a meaningful way.
Even in such a situation, I would suspect the short-term solution is simply a patch or crack to neuter the functionality that the DOB field is supposed to implement. A full fork seems unnecessary, even counterproductive, since it would define your OS as meaningfully distinct (and noticeably out of compliance) with a standard installation.
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 10 hours ago:
What’s being described right now is just an optional date-of-birth field.
The timing is dogshit.
- Comment on Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora 11 hours ago:
I heard the big banks were trying something similar shortly before the '08 crash. And the Enron/Worldcomm crew right before 9/11.
Certainly possible they’ve got an exit strategy lined up. But the problem is that they’re always just a little too greedy and too high on their own supply. During the '14 mini-recession, reinflating the bubble economy was a bipartisan goal. After the '20 COVID crash, there was broad consensus in cranking open the money hose and flooding the economy with cheap cash. '08, '14, and '20 set a big historical precedent for the “We’ll never let you fail” policies of the federal government. And so we’ve diluted a lot of the short term pain of economic contraction into the longer term pains of currency inflation.
The enormous devastation to real physical capital all across these Mid-Eastern theocracies, combined with the socio-economic pressures of Climate Change induced heat waves, can and will push certain regions of the globe to a breaking point. At some point, you just don’t have anything to spend all those excess dollars on.
- Comment on it really do be like that 12 hours ago:
How’s this?
- Comment on it really do be like that 12 hours ago:
And learn to shave down below! God damn, nobody wants to see those hairy toes, you freak’n hobbit.
- Comment on it really do be like that 12 hours ago:
That comically oversized lollypop is giving me diabetes just to look at.
- Comment on it really do be like that 12 hours ago:
They’re not invisible. They’re wearing yoga pants. Just like the Allistic women.
- Comment on Live image of Trump negotiations with Iran 12 hours ago:
I hear the guy on the left is gay.
- Comment on Meta found liable in child exploitation case 16 hours ago:
I don’t begrudge rich people going to rich people prison, because the point of prison is to remove dangerous people from society not to torture them in a cage. I do begrudge poor people going to poor people prison, because it seems as though these prisons exist as a means of extracting cheap labor from poor and PoC populations. Or outright abusing them - mentally, physically, and sexually - because this kind of brutality generates political rewards.
- Comment on Meta found liable in child exploitation case 16 hours ago:
fines don’t count anymore, only hard time
I mean, you’re assuming this survives one of the eight million appeals the Facebook legal team is going to throw at it.
But yes, by the time it works itself all the way up and down the appellate courts, I wouldn’t expect this $1.5T company to experience any legal penalties in excess of a few million dollars.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 17 hours ago:
Janeway was the best starship captain as a kid
Definitely feels generational. I’ve got a friend who is a Janeway diehard. But she didn’t really get into it until Voyager.
Picard will always be my captain of choice, but that might have its roots in watching the show as a little kid with my very bald father whom my mom teasingly referred to as “The Captain” when the show was on.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 1 day ago:
😏
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 1 day ago:
LLMs are excellent tools for mapping one set of words and phrases to another, which is more or less exactly what you need out of a language translator.
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 1 day ago:
The former I’m still looking sideways at.
The latter, probably the only truly benevolent use of LLMs.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 1 day ago:
Pretty sure that was just Star Trek Beyond, the movie where the crew defeated a horde of ravenous space insects by blasting Beastie Boys hit single “Sabotage”.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 1 day ago:
In the early iterations of the 1960s smash hit Star Trek, audiences were shocked and titillated to see a white male officer in a romantic relationship with a black woman officer.
This continues to be shocking today, as modern audiences are not ready to see any (fully clothed) woman in any form of Sci-Fi media doing anything at all.
- Comment on Im pan so anyone can apply 1 day ago:
🫣
- Comment on The US bans all new foreign-made network routers 1 day ago:
It is entirely true that all models from all manufacturers are compromised by spy agencies.
I think there’s a little bit of space between “spy agencies employ systems professionals that know the guts of a component’s security and tricks to bypass it” and “every device firmware has a double super secret protocol for sidestepping all of its security features”.
However the worst offender by far is Cisco even though they’re “American”.
Sure. I’m willing to believe that Cisco, specifically, has relationships with the Five Eyes network such that they make monitoring their traffic easier. Even then, there’s limits. One thing to say techniques exist to bypass security. Another entirely to know what those techniques are and whether they’re practical for application at universal scale.
One of the more chronic problems that big spy agencies have is sifting through all the spam and bullshit and empty chatter. Decryption takes time. And you can’t monitor everything, everywhere, all at once. The bigger sins of Cisco are in how they expedite access on behalf of their agency partners, not that they fail to produce perfectly hack-proof hardware.
- Comment on The US bans all new foreign-made network routers 1 day ago:
because why the fuck the not?
In theory, you would have better things to do with your real estate.
But I guess I’m the idiot who threw my kit out six months ago to make the house a little less cluttered.
- Comment on The US bans all new foreign-made network routers 1 day ago:
Smuggling? Setting up a factory in Florida that reboxes routers and slaps “Made In America” stickers on them? Resale/referb router prices going through the roof?
Take your pick.
- Comment on Zelensky warns Iran war 'emboldening' Russia after Ukraine meets Trump officials 1 day ago:
Ukraine’s current main limitation appears to be funding, not troops or production capacity
That explains their lack of need for conscription and their air superiority.
- Comment on Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 people 1 day ago:
Stop trying to optimize experience gains for fucking making me have to play 20 hours a weeknto unlock the battlepass I already bought within the 3 month window. Seriously, fucking stop, I have other things to do in life too.
The worst part about all these games. It’s like your weed guy blowing up your phone telling you its time to smoke another J. Only a group of sales guys coked off their asses could have come up with this as a marketing gimmick.
I have no interest in playing against hackers or no lifes who run everything with Potato mode graphics and swest skins who play 24x7 and have 2000 crown wins by day 2.
The truly crazy part about this group is that it is increasingly just bots. Like, not even proper “professional gamers” anymore. Just scripts running on a server built by a madman.
- Comment on if i had a job 1 day ago:
Partner put this up
cringe
at a law firm
bent double with the overwhelming pain of cringe
where we meet high net worth
Oh no, that makes perfect sense. All those people are freaks who would love this.
- Comment on Zelensky warns Iran war 'emboldening' Russia after Ukraine meets Trump officials 1 day ago:
The bottleneck is not drones, the bottleneck is expertise.
One cultivates the other, as operators need something to train on.
That said, raw supply of materials remains an issue across each theater of conflict. One of the bigger problems US/Israel has atm is producing and staffing weapons systems both offensively and defensively.
Ukrainians stepping in to provide support both drain their own front lines and create some miserable optics for a country that needs to be seen as opposing violations of sovereignty.
Foreign investment/buy orders increase the production capacity of Ukrainian businesses
A country already strapped for resources and manpower, which they cannot afford to export.
Might as well be France, during the Blitz, exporting tanks to Franco’s Spain. It doesn’t help you if you’re businesses are going to be someone else’s property in another few months.
- Comment on Zelensky warns Iran war 'emboldening' Russia after Ukraine meets Trump officials 1 day ago:
Isn’t Zelensky selling US/Israel drone tech that he’s then diverting from his own front line?
- Comment on Newest Testament: So Hot RN 2 days ago:
Come over here and say that to my Arc of the Covenant
- Comment on Newest Testament: So Hot RN 2 days ago:
Is this the one where Good and Evil American natives fight for a pair of golden plates you can only read from inside a hat?
