jballs
@jballs@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 10 hours ago:
You block Fox News using a Pi-hole?
- Comment on Lest you scar yourself for life 12 hours ago:
Lol nope, it was just an unlabeled camcorder tape. There’s a lesson to be learned here, which is be careful with unlabeled tapes. Hope you don’t find anything similar on your mom’s tapes!
- Comment on Yep 1 day ago:
- Comment on Lest you scar yourself for life 1 day ago:
Think of this from our perspective. We are two teenage boys. We find a hidden tape. We don’t know what’s on it. What’s the next logical move?
Or if you’re saying once the guy in the tape does his intro, what are you saying you’d do differently? Are you saying you’d send your brother out of the room so you could watch the tape of the guy jacking off by yourself? Cause that’s weird as fuck dude.
- Comment on Lest you scar yourself for life 2 days ago:
I reminded my brother of this and he responded youtu.be/reNvytfN820
- Comment on Lest you scar yourself for life 2 days ago:
Growing up, my brother and I found a camcorder tape hidden in the basement of the house we moved into like 6 months prior. We had to buy a mini tape to VHS converter so we could play the thing on our VCR.
It was a tape of some young dude in the our (now) basement going “this is going to be a video showing you how to make love to beautiful women.”
Me and my brother were like “hell yeah!” Then the guy in the video goes “but before you make love, you have to learn to love yourself.”
The entire video was then just this dude jacking off. We were so mad we went out of our way to buy a VHS converter just to watch this dude beating his meat. There were no beautiful women to be found.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 week ago:
Would be hilarious if Hollywood moved away from chess to show someone being smart and instead showed the yelling at teammates in League of Legends.
- Comment on Google is excited about money! 1 week ago:
Edited for clarity:
Back in my day we used our phone plan money to pay for google play purchases / hand jobs.
- Comment on Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever 1 week ago:
Moran*
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I assume it’s purely for her to get US citizenship. She posts lots of thirst trap pictures on Instagram.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
My divorced 43 year old friend just did this. He’s got a smoking hot 21 year old Filipino fiance. It’s weird as fuck.
- Comment on The Ring is a lot cuter than I remember 2 weeks ago:
I saw The Ring in the theater and people legit freaked the fuck out when she came out of the screen. One person straight up got up and ran out.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 4 weeks ago:
It depends on the version of Lemmy that your instance is running. My account is on sh.itjust.works which upgraded Lemmy versions a few months ago. Apparently it changed a parameter name that keeps track if a post has been read or not.
So on Sync, you can click on posts, but they never show as read. It’s super annoying, so I went back to Voyager.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 4 weeks ago:
I used to use RiF and loved Sync for Lemmy too. I just wish the developer would fix the bug for posts showing unread! It’s completely stopped me from using the app for something like 6 months now.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 4 weeks ago:
There are a few minor cultural differences to be aware of. But as long as you avoid saying anything negative about Star Trek or Linux, you should be just fine.
- Comment on Starlink is now accessible across the White House campus, which was already served by fiber cable, after service was “donated”, as some cite security concerns. 5 weeks ago:
Also how did they let that excuse get past the technical teams who should be implementing this? They added Star Link to the data center that supports the White House and then have traffic run through hard wires. This does absolutely nothing to improve spots with bad WiFi.
- Comment on Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday? 1 month ago:
Damn power hungry admins always keeping the sweet sweet bot ladies for themselves.
- Comment on Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday? 1 month ago:
Still haven’t gotten one. Guess the bots don’t like me.
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 1 month ago:
I love Brandon Sanderson, but his world building and complex magic systems aren’t for most people. I’ve tried to get my wife to read his stuff for years and she just has never gotten into it.
The reason Harry Potter was so commercially successful is because the vast majority of the public doesn’t want to learn about allomantic properties of 16 different metals and how they have internal/external, physical/mental, enhancement/temporal and pushing/pulling effects.
They don’t want to learn about adhesion, gravitation, division, abrasion, progression, illumination, transformation, cohesion, and tension surges - and how bonding a spren through oathes increases your ability to surgebind. Their eyes glaze over when talking about the cognitive and physical realms.
Most people just want to hear "yeah some people are magic and can wave wands, say some magic words and poof magic happens. That’s why it’s one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time.
But yeah, I’ve just learned to accept that while I love some Sanderson magic systems, it’s not ever gonna be for everyone. And that’s ok.
- Comment on Celebrating my 1000th comment. Here is a shitpost. 1 month ago:
Maybe I’m in the minority here, but I’ve been in Lemmy for almost 2 years since the API migration, and I don’t know if I’ve ever encountered a tankie, despite seeing hundreds of memes about them.
I’m guessing my instance just doesn’t federate with the same weird shit y’all are seeing?
- Comment on AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs 1 month ago:
“LONG LIVE THE REAL KING," said the video showing an AI-generated Musk getting his feet sucked by Trump
What reckless journalism. It would be much more accurate to say “an allegedly AI-generated Musk getting his feet sucked by Trump”.
I’ve seen no concrete proof that the video is not authentic. It’s with in the realm of possibility that Elon has two left feet.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 2 months ago:
Oddly enough, on my first development project I was paired with a “senior dev” who turned out just to be a guy in his 60s who had never actually coded before, so… just a senior.
I ended up doing 100% of the coding, but the guy managed to keep his job for a few months.
- Comment on A balanced diet is important 2 months ago:
At least he had the good sense to hit the ENTER key before he passed.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 months ago:
I think the thing that’s catching you up the most is that you’re assuming Elon has the slightest clue what he’s talking about about. In your mind, you’ve read the words “the social security database” from his post and have made assumptions about what that means.
I’ve worked with databases for 20+ years, several of those being years working on federal government systems. Each agency has dozens or possibly hundreds of databases all used for different purposes. Saying “the social security database” is so fucking general that it’s basically nonsensical. It’d be like saying “Ford’s car database”.
Elon clearly heard someone technical talking about something, them misinterpreted it for his own purposes to justify what he is doing by destroying our government institutions. His follow up of saying the government doesn’t use SQL just reinforces that point.
Trying to logically backtrack into what he actually meant - and what the primary keys should be - is just sane washing an insane statement.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Give me the…couch
Found JD Vance’s Lemmy account
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 months ago:
Honestly, if my PM never pestered me about the status of my tickets, I would never close them. Some of us need the pestering!
- Comment on Envy is a strong sentiment [Trump / Musk] 2 months ago:
Lol why is this marked NSFW?
- Comment on my version is better 2 months ago:
And asked me if I needed a ride!
- Comment on I mean I would totally give it a try 2 months ago:
A large difference, but they also somehow end up in the same place at the end.
