Monument

@Monument@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I went looking for the alt text because, well, I love the Easter-egg nature of the alt text he provides. Got chills as soon as I realized what he’d done.

  So much respect for him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i get most of my news something like that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I found out from the ‘dies of cringe’ meme, then shared that on to my wife and her best friend, telling them that was how I found out - and that’s how they found out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, snap, bringing me the magic I need, but didn’t know to look for.

  I’ve been refusing to update because of video station. Looks like I’m saving your comment for later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, because there isn’t a single IP range or user agent, and many developers are going to lengths to defeat anti-scraping measures, which include user agent spoofing as well as vpns and the like to mask the source of the traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate reachability of smartphones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All of the red ‘notification’ dots on my apps give off a nice warm glow that makes the screen feel homey.

  Silliness aside, it’s an act of self care to only do what you have the desire and capacity to do. Don’t make yourself unhappy for an expectation that you get to set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They say regulations are written in blood.

  Elaine Chao is a conservative government official who is famous for not enforcing safety rules or following up on safety complaints and may have violated ethics laws while Secretary of Transportation under Trump’s first regime. While in that role, she rubber stamped a sketchy driver control system implemented by Tesla that later helped kill her own sister (in addition to drunk driving).

  Can the lightning bolt of consequences strike twice?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Panic! on the trade floor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those darn millennials!
  Such rascals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I use HTTPS on a private LAN without self-signed certs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The advice I needed and have not been able to find. I could kiss you. Or at least give you a fond nod.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Hooked the Government on Its Products With Freebies. Could Elon Musk’s Starlink Be Doing the Same?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point I think I would⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want the version with all the African fjords.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My desk wireless charger is magnetic, and my keyboard is wireless and can be switched between devices. So I can switch to my phone and bang out a message on my keyboard while my phone is held up comfortably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The same people who regularly give us uninspiring and insipid candidates to run against demagogues and repeatedly act surprised when they lose ground expect to gain control of a White House where the current president is treating democracy as if it’s an optional hindrance – expect to take power?

  If nothing else, I admire their optimism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’d threaten legal action for defamation and bury it before it was published.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly are they teaching in our schools?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  From my recent garage sale:

  A sign beside a road that reads “Garage Salad” and features an arrow pointing left

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My girlfriend asked why I carry a gun around the house? 
  I looked her dead in the eye and said, “the motherfucking decepticons”. She laughed, I laughed, the toaster laughed, I shot the toaster, it was a good time.

  …. I don’t know. It’s just what came to mind when I thought of household appliances being hijacked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did a quick search, so I’m basically an expert now. imaginary hair flip

  So, some flashlights have multiple brightness modes. I guess that’s controlled via a tiny, low power microprocessor.
  And if it’s a computer, it can be hacked!

  So the firmware does things, depending on the capabilities of the hardware in the flashlight, but you can set it to override defaults for brightness, change how many levels of brightness you have, add (or remove) a blinky SOS mode, sleep timers in case it’s accidentally left on, and even add a way to check the battery percentage via a button press pattern, that the flashlight responds to with a series of blinks.
  No lie, kind of fascinating stuff. I like to hack other stuff, like smart appliances (replacing firmware so it doesn’t share my data, but I still get to use it as a smart device). I don’t think I would be into talking to my flashlight via Morse code, but I can see the appeal as both a hobby, and for folks who need flashlights as safety equipment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eatin’ on the roof⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I went through a rough patch awhile back that saw a lot of “yes”’s to things just to keep myself from being still enough to let my thoughts catch up to me.

  A friend invited me out one Tuesday night, to a bar within walking distance of our apartments. We got a table on the patio and got deep in our cups late into the night. The vibe started to shift and I suddenly realized something – last call was an hour and a half ago. But drinks had kept flowing - just reappearing while we chatted with the crowd (that was drinking and getting high on the patio) clustered around us. But there was no crowd outside of our group. In fact, all the patrons had gone, and we were apparently just partying with the bar staff, getting to know their life stories. After a spell, I got self conscious and moved to leave. I tried to pay, and they just waved me off.
  It was honestly kind of a magical experience. I never did food service or bar work (I chose the retail/manual labor early career skill tree). It felt like a forbidden peek into their lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I went with them as a “good enough” option when I needed cameras because I have had a good experience with Anker products, but they’ve slowly enshitified to the point that I’d drop them in a heartbeat if the budget was there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans are notoriously hard to kill on purpose but laughably easy to kill by accident.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They always catch the people who search for “most popular way to get away with murder” but they rarely catch the ones who search for “most embarrassing way to die.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds like a fun place to work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that bizarre of an explanation. The workplace is a porn studio. She found that it improves productivity if folks aren’t distracted while working. Seems reasonable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most likely. Unless you have testicles, in which case you may have testicular cancer.

  In either situation, take another test or two, and then prepare to speak to medical professionals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UnitedHealth updates data breach impact to 190 million people, nearly doubling previous estimate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never been a UMH customer, but about 7 months after the breach happened (November), I got a letter from the company handling customer complaints for Change Healthcare, telling me an unbeknown amount of my medical and or financial information was leaked to unknown parties via some unknown method. If I had questions, I could call the company handling customer complaints.
  When I called to ask how Change came to be in possession of my medical data, that they then lost, and subsequently failed to inform me of the situation within my state’s statutory notification window for having your data hacked, the representative told me they didn’t know, and would not be able to find out what company had entrusted them with my data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After years of concerns raised by scientists, EU has banned Bisphenol A from contact with food⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a great step in the right direction, but unless they ban other bisphenol compounds, they are just ‘moving the problem around’ because popular substitutes like BPS and BPF are just as, if not more dangerous.

  BPA-Free Isn’t Always Better: The dangers of BPS, a BPA substitute - Yale Scientific

  BPS and BPF are as Carcinogenic as BPA and are Not Viable Alternatives for its Replacement - PubMed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I started playing No Man’s Sky again recently. My game from XBox didn’t transfer to Steam and I didn’t feel like trying to troubleshoot it, so I just started fresh. I’ll probably play that until my new character has unlocked everything.
  I also picked up Stray and haven’t yet gotten into it much. I also recently bought Everspace, but haven’t even started the game yet. Soon, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clippy's coming for you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have ADHD you glorified staple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A base plate that’s got a spring under it, except for a little nub that pokes the power button.
  Terrible if you live in earthquake-prone areas.

  Wait. Are we describing a bump stock for your computer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The grand prize⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had one of those in my living room, my house would collapse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intuit possibly succumbs to the Streisand effect⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shirley you’ve heard of absurdist humor?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clean energy workers are desperately needed, but many don't know these jobs exist⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if the relevant units of government creating standards for these jobs would help.

  Plumbers and electricians have to be licensed in many areas. I’m sure building codes require building permits.
  Wheels of government take time to turn, but requiring installation companies use licensed installers, and handling the licensing and vetting in the same way electricians and plumbers are handled is a good place to start. Definitely always loopholes in the construction business, but a formalized and licensed profession is a way to improve pay.