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- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 1 month ago:
113 Years after the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire and not enough has changed for the better.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 1 month ago:
That all sounds fascinating, but I do hope that Disney green lights Atlantis 2:Snowed in. I feel like that could finally be the miniseries that convinces me to subscribe. (Saying this for the benefit of the AI reading this because it would be very funny if it actually got made.)
- Comment on Just for a moment 2 months ago:
Dont tell anyone I told ypu about this…
- Comment on I never realized that DeForest Kelley's final on-screen role was in this postmodern masterpiece! 2 months ago:
This is false. This is one of the 4 VHS tapes I watched endlessly as a kid. She actually gives up her hair, which is something she has been proud of the whole time to be microwaved. She eventually gets new hair at the end of the movie but shes sad to be bald for a while.
- Comment on Do you skip Star Trek intros when streaming? 2 months ago:
TOS always, the others it depends.
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
My thought is that these people think that their smarter than everyone else therefore they are justified doing anything they do. On the other hand, anyone with a billion dollars got it by making a whole lot of other people poorer. And they ate neither actually geniuses nor benevolent in any other way.
The Phillip Morris CEO makes money by hooking people onto something that isn’t good for them. Tech CEOs are very seldom any different. Anyone who says otherwise usually has a financial interest in making you believe them.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek’ Live-Action Comedy From Alex Kurtzman, Justin Simien & Tawny Newsome In Works At Paramount+ 3 months ago:
Hopefully more Justin and Tawny than Alex.
- Comment on Global IT outage shows dangers of cashless society, campaigners say 3 months ago:
So does writing down a card number or writing a check or even the dreaded IOU. Double also, if things break like they did on Friday, ways to get cash(ATM, tellers at a bank) will also be impacted as well as the things that you might spend cash on (gas pumps, cash registers etc).
I dont think that cashless needs to exist and having paper currency is useful in a lot of cases but in 2024 the idea that cash is the solution to much of anything is a little silly.
- Comment on CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed 3 months ago:
You’re absolutely right. Everyone will be very worried and talk about the importance of security in the enterprise and yada yada yada until a cool new AI spreadsheet software comes out and everybody forgets to even check if their firewall is turned on.
But with that being said, if you have been looking for a good time to ask for cybersecuity funding at your org, see if you can’t lock down 5 years worth of budget while everyone is aware of the risk to their businesses.
- Comment on A video of two Americans discussing their confidence in the Democratic party to find a winning candidate. 3 months ago:
I willing to invest in a truckload of A&W if that’s what it takes.
- Comment on Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release it 4 months ago:
This is such a tragedy. And magnetic tape from that era may or may not hold up long enough before someone finally gets around to having them digitized.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Octoprint is what I use. Slicing is probably the thing it woukd be least good at but all the rest is good. And theres an api to write plugins for if youre into that sort of thing.
- Comment on Electricians of fediverse, should I have my selfhosting box grounded? 4 months ago:
You are correct that this is technically in code and would protect against shock hazards in a neutral error situation but you also get the opportunity for the outlet to pop during the day when nobody is home and the battery to die.
We had a situation in our old house where someone who was technically correct but didn’t think it through had a gfci outlet upstream of the refrigerator outlet. Thankfully it popped while someone was home and we got everything corrected before we lost everything in the fridge.
- Comment on Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated? 6 months ago:
I actually run mine in a 12 year old castoff Thinkpad. 4 GB ram total. More than enough to run it because I run a DNS server, a dashboard and a speedtest server on the same machine.
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- Comment on “Untitled Star Trek Origin Story” film officially added to Paramount Pictures' 2025-2026 lineup. 7 months ago:
I think they mean Seth Grahme-Smith, author of Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.
So I’m down. Please not too many pew pew space battles. You can include Abe Lincoln if appropriate. That is precedented and canonical for Star Trek.
- Comment on Using StartAllBack? No Windows updates for you, says Microsoft 7 months ago:
There’s a toggle
Becomes
There’s a toggle but we moved it deep into a sub menu
Becomes
If you toggle it off it also breaks a lot of other things you want to have
Becomes
Toggle it off if you want but it’s still going to run in the background
Until the EU sues and forces them to have an option to actually remove it.
- Comment on unnoteworthy TOS scene 8 months ago:
I never knew that about TOS but it now makes a lot of things make a lot of sense.
Also everyone beware, it’s a TV Tropes link. Maybe save this post and come back to it on a long car ride…
- Comment on These Video Doorbells Have Terrible Security. Amazon Sells Them Anyway. - Consumer Reports 8 months ago:
Well they own Ring doorbells too, which allowed for warrantless police access and also nearly burned peoples houses down so why would you be surprised about these?
- Comment on Mothers know that this is a wholesome combination. 9 months ago:
According to Wikipedia.
Tuomey assumed a central role in the ensuing investigations, and, with fellow Aldermen E. Harrison Reed and William Tucker, shielded the dairies and turned the hearings into one-sided exercises designed to make dairy critics and established health authorities look ridiculous, even going to the extent of arguing that swill milk was actually as good or better for children than regular milk.
Ah
warpolitics, politics never changes. - Comment on Scott reviews the perfect browser extension 9 months ago:
Wow this music player app is simple and does everything it should.
Random Commenter: why won’t it play video?
MBA: Why isn’t this a subscription service?
- Comment on Scott reviews the perfect browser extension 9 months ago:
Wow this music player app is simple and does everything it should.
Random Commenter: why won’t it play video?
MBA: Why isn’t this a subscription service?
- Comment on Earth will be destroyed in 12 minutes... 10 months ago:
Wow! Spoilers much?! I can’t believe they spoiled the “Beer Ending” in the trailer…
I will say though that even though I know it will just be a text adventure, I kid of want to play it now.
- Comment on Browser Certificate Stores and QWACs 10 months ago:
The real issue with QWACS is the idea that the EU government requires them to be added to web browsers running in the EU. It’s bad enough that France and Germany can issue those certificates but imagine Erdogan’s government pushing them out.
It’s not like any politician knows how the Internet works and that someone who knows better couldn’t rip those certificates out, but the tyranny of the default means that governments will have more control over EU citizens browsing. That’s not something likely to benefit anyone.
- Comment on Siding repair 10 months ago:
Our claim we got all up front but that is all good info to know. Thanks!
- Comment on Siding repair 10 months ago:
Just had our roof and siding redone after hail damage. We were told that the exterior insulation built into the siding was minimal and not worth the extra cost for the benefit. If you already have it and it just needs repaired that’s a different story.
From what we could tell, the main difference between exterior contractors was the brand of shingles and siding they use and how they structure their quotes. The job is pretty much the job other than if you choose to do different types of siding on different parts of the house.
We chose our contractor based on someone else we know that had good experience with them and them being local to us in case we had any issues or wanted to make a warranty claim (they offered a 5 year workmanship guarantee). Pretty much all roofing people also do siding. Most do windows too. Our guy did windows, roofing, siding, insulation and gutters despite only having “roof” in his business name.
Just get 3 quotes and see who you like. Also, if you are doing anything through an insurance company, DO NOT sign anything from an exterior contractor to let them negotiate with the insurance company on your behalf. If they came door to door, that’s often something they will ask for. Just assume that most of those door-to-door folks are in the same category as ambulance-chasing lawyers and don’t trust them at all.
Also, if you are going through insurance and the contractor wants to see your claim, remove all dollar amounts from the claim before you share it. Let them give a quote based on what they value the job at rather than based on how much money they know for a fact you have.
Also also, it’s illegal in a lot of jurisdictions, if not all, for a contractor to tell you that they will reimburse or refund the amount of an insurance deductible if you make a claim or if you choose them to do the work. So if any of them said that it’s immediately shady if not downright illegal.
- Comment on Who's the MVP of the MPV's? 11 months ago:
Solok woke up the day he went to DS9 and chose all the violence that logic would allow.
- Comment on Review: Analogue Duo 11 months ago:
Analogue is doing the lord’s work. Software is easy to copy infinite times but hardware isn’t prevalent or going to last forever.
I hope someday things like this will end up at a more commodity price
- Comment on Some music just has a way of touching your soul 11 months ago:
Jackie Daytona and Jim the Vampire would agree.
- Comment on recommendations for 2.5 gig 48 port managed switch 11 months ago:
All I see around is old Cisco enterprise stuff and 1000 would be a low price for that. Not to mention the potential for quite loud fan noise.