NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 16 hours ago:
We’re kind of at a point where the cost of making stuff isn’t very important. It is far outweighed by the cost of moving stuff - not only financially, but environmentally and temporally.
There probably isn’t a lot more refinement to be done in most manufacturing processes, other than very niche things like microchip fabrication. Production machinery can pump out T-shirts or drinking glasses or automobiles faster than people will buy them, so the factories run for shorter periods of time. The only profit margins to be had in manufacturing come from bulk production runs, which is why you can’t order 10 injection molded parts or 50 custom silicon packages - you have to buy like 5000 units just to pay the cost of spinning up the production line.
But logistics… we’re basically killing the planet to solve logistics problems. A massive amount of greenhouse gas production is due to transportation. We need better ways to move things around.
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 17 hours ago:
This probably has a lot to do with Texas’ new ID requirement law. These companies don’t want to have to collect IDs and be responsible for maintaining that database of PII.
- Comment on AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today 1 day ago:
If you are using ublock Origin you can just select the section of the page that shows the shorts and block it with the element picker.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
It takes time to grow an audience, and if you’re very lucky maybe 5% of your audience will actually give you money to do what you do.
Even if you manage to stand out in what is a fairly saturated market, it will be years before you have enough people following you to make enough to live on. And to grow that audience you will have to put in constant steady effort all those years while seeing little to no return for it. If you waver, if you stop putting in that effort, the audience will start to go away and any momentum you had going will fade. And even if you do keep it up, there’s no guarantee that you will make a decent living from it.
It is not impossible, but keep in mind that turning it into a job will mean that it is a job. You will not spend most of your time playing video games and having fun. Most of it will be spent doing things to manage and grow the business - all of the technical details that go into setting up a quality stream, all of the social media aspects of interacting with your fans, all of the bureaucratic details that go into running any business.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
“…for us”
- Comment on Couldn't have said it better 4 days ago:
Peter Dinklage would like a word…
- Comment on Every time 5 days ago:
Ah, the magical fruit.
- Comment on Every time 1 week ago:
grass-fed long pig
- Comment on Every time 1 week ago:
vegetarians, probably
- Comment on What else should I self-host? 1 week ago:
Actual Budget is an open-source envelope-style budgeting tool similar to YNAB. It has a self-hostable syncing service so that you can manage your budget across multiple devices.
The reason you might want to do this is that it’s probably easier to do full account review sitting at your computer, but you might want to track expenses/receipts on your smartphone while you’re away from home.
- Comment on Big Tyre wouldn’t be amused with this 2 weeks ago:
redneck engineering energy
- Comment on Romero Games have "completely" closed doors, but there's still hope for the Doom creator's new FPS 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on fuck the rules! 2 weeks ago:
A ten-gallon hat on a one-quart head.
- Comment on Literal interpretation 2 weeks ago:
Now there are three of them!
- Comment on Are our societal problems being caused because modern technology allows people to be old for longer? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, it is part of the problem… the symptom part.
You’re saying, “There’s a monster that’s killing people.” I’m saying, “Yes, but you’re pointing at its foot. We need to aim for the head.”
- Comment on Are our societal problems being caused because modern technology allows people to be old for longer? 2 weeks ago:
Capitalism is not a cause, it is an effect. It is not the disease, it is a symptom.
The root problem is selfishness. Capitalism is like a Plato’s cave shadow of selfishness - a projection of selfishness onto politics and economic policy.
- Comment on If this seems exaggerated to you then you haven't worked in IT long enough 3 weeks ago:
Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a fire that has broken out on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road…
- Comment on Oh Boy!, Golly! 3 weeks ago:
Ah yes, finding the rotting corpse of a long-dead rat, maggoty and moldy, bones and fur and decay… much less disturbing.
- Comment on Oh Boy!, Golly! 3 weeks ago:
Ah yes, finding a bloody rat screaming and twitching, trapped under the wire, its spine broken… much less disturbing.
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 3 weeks ago:
Deflation increases the value of money vs. goods and services. As a consequence, deflation concentrates economic power in the hands of people who already have money.
- Comment on Tips for TPU? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve had success printing TPU onto the uncoated steel side of a print bed. Flip it over and clean it, gently sand it if it’s too smooth for the first layer to grip.
- Comment on Uber Eats or something idk 3 weeks ago:
Deflation is worse.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 3 weeks ago:
It’s not just the convenience of running water, it’s all of the infrastructure around making sure that water is clean and safe, which involves government regulation and audits, massive engineering projects, a lot of maintenance effort and a considerable amount of tax dollars.
Just as an example, leptospirosis is a common bacterial contaminant in untreated water:
Signs and symptoms can range from none to mild (headaches, muscle pains, and fevers) to severe (bleeding in the lungs or meningitis). Weil’s disease (/ˈvaɪlz/ VILES), the acute, severe form of leptospirosis, causes the infected individual to become jaundiced (skin and eyes become yellow), develop kidney failure, and bleed. Bleeding from the lungs associated with leptospirosis is known as severe pulmonary haemorrhage syndrome.
If you go to places like Hawaii you’ll see warning signs about lepto around pools and streams because people have this delusional fantasy about tropical paradises with clean flowing streams. Untreated, uncontrolled water is a hazard.
Everyone can’t be an expert on water sanitation. Employing some experts to provide that service for thousands or millions of people is a fantastic solution. It’s probably impossible to overstate how much benefit water infrastructure provides for society.
So I disagree with you. “Running water” (centrally managed water sanitation and delivery) is one of the best things human society has ever done. The benefit to public health is incalculable.
The only reason you might discount how much benefit you gain from this system is that you’ve grown up with it as normal. You’ve never had to worry about groundwater contamination, about boiling every cup of water before you drink it, about filtration or desalinization or testing for lead.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 3 weeks ago:
it’s hard for people so used to the comforts of capitalism to realise this is actually luxury
being inside, seated comfortably, doing non-manual work, educated, can read, listening to music, this is a job better than 99% of people who have ever lived have had
Hell, if you’re in this situation you have immediate and convenient access to potable water in your living space. This is a level of privilege beyond almost every other human that has lived in all of history.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 3 weeks ago:
I totally agree on the pacing. The Red Strings Club is a masterclass of storytelling in a video game format.
I think it’s hard to describe as a game to gamers… the actual gameplay is pretty vague, the various minigame activities are almost inconsequential, but taken as a whole it’s a perfect experience.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 3 weeks ago:
I really enjoyed both Far games. I never felt like any of the puzzles were large enough to get tedious. When I finished Lone Sails I just wished there had been a longer section of driving the ship… it kind of felt like you never got to really go before there was some interruption that you had to stop and get out for.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 3 weeks ago:
Jazzpunk was one of those games that left me wishing there was more of it.
Manifold Garden is just such a perfectly executed atmosphere, it’s hard to do it justice with description - like walking around inside an Escher drawing.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on There's a decent chance that one of the many uncontacted tribes has started to worship airplanes 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Would this mini pc be a good homeserver
For what purpose?
