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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, regardless of their education and experience, if you have this concern about a person, you should get a new roommate, assuming there’s more to your question than just a hypothetical.

  All the time, there are shitty significant others who install a keylogger or screen recorder to monitor their spouse, because they’re fucked up. A lot of the time, they don’t have any technical background, and are the equivalent of script kiddies. They do this because they’re shitty people, not because they have a degree in computer science.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon: New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I read somewhere that this would be the default for new instances if they don’t have one of their own. On an existing instance, the server admin would have to remove the existing license which would then load this license. So this could affect more than just mastodon.social.

  That being said, since this was brought up, it has been put on pause while it is reevaluated

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously, I’ve had multiple conversations with my BIL where he comes over to me and says something insane, and my response is just “huh okayyy…” and I walk away without saying anything else. I don’t care to be polite anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s so mischievous, that would drive someone insane trying to troubleshoot the issue. That being said, I feel like we’re above the idea of creating walled gardens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨star wars clone wars trying to find a season a episode number⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And this kinda explains/retcons how Ahsoka was able to take on all the clone troopers during Order 66 as they show at the end of that episode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do americans assume they invented the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re getting a lot of comments correctly pointing out that ARPANET was actually invented by the US in the 1970s and was the precursor to the Internet. I think it’s your question which is phrased incorrectly, and not the point you’re trying to make. Assuming this and rephrasing your question to mean the World Wide Web (not the Internet), you’re correct, that was created by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN in the 1990s, approximately 20 years after ARPANET. This brought along Hypertext websites, and basically was another step in the foundation of the internet as we know it today.

  So rephrasing your question to “why do americans assume they invented the web (websites)?”, it’s mainly because the underlying infrastructure of the internet was originally developed by the US government, so even before websites existed, domain names were heavily American leaning, with .gov being US Government websites, and .edu being US Universities, etc. Other countries at the time had ccTLD for their country code, like .uk, .au, etc and when it came time to assign domain names, they chose to use .co.uk or .com.au for example, rather than .com.

  I assume that americans rarely encounter a .com.au or other ccTLD domain names, and largely are going to .com websites. They probably assume that the .au TLD was tacked on to support Australia because they didn’t invent the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How many sites are we talking about? I have like 600 passwords in my password manager, it would be insane to try to remember each of the rules for when I changed the password last.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games are just objective master pieces?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This was a triumph

  I’m making a note here

  “Huge success”

  It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1955 was as old in 1990 as 1990 is in 2025.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This relevant XKCD is a teenager now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1955 was as old in 1990 as 1990 is in 2025.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to see a remake of The United States of America where Donald Trump is never the president.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People currently in their 60s and 70s grew up in the '60s and '70s⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like less of a shower thought, and more of a dozing off to sleep thought doing math in your head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so funny going through the control panel, getting to more and more esoteric settings, and seeing the UI getting older and older. I ditched Windows after Windows 7 but remember seeing menu themes that looked like they haven’t been updated since Windows NT

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had to guess, i think most of it comes down to not wanting to understand how society works, and finding it easier to think everything should come for free to them. If I couldn’t afford my car payments and someone told me that if you’re a sovereign citizen, you don’t have to pay, I could see how desperation could lead people to think they could get out of obligations. There’s also probably a large group of influencers and scammers who are incentivized to spread this misinformation, which is how it spreads.

  It’s also likely that for minor infractions, they’re let off with a warning from an officer who doesn’t want to deal with them, and this emboldens them to think they’re correct in how society functions, until they get an officer who won’t put up with them, or do something so egregious, it can’t be ignored.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue I had with slingshot was in whatever version released for the switch at release, maybe in 1.3? Tbh I have not tried with the slingshot in newer versions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  having played maybe 500 hours with controller only, maybe I don’t know what I’m missing, but the controls don’t seem that bad. Only thing which comes to mind as terrible is the slingshot, i never even try to use that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They even don’t support HTTPS on the older articles for that authentic 2009 internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And some of the time it’s not to see if you’re shoplifting, it’s to catch cashiers who don’t scan an item, but take your money, and pocket it. Far cheaper for the store to have one security guard at the door holding up everyone after they paid, then to review security footage of cashiers, or pay cashiers a decent wage where they don’t feel like they have to steal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A completely useful compulsion I have.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  According to this I am chaotic neutral, not sure what that means? I aim to balance the weight evenly, when pulling out of the fridge, the carton stays level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Marlon Brando in Heat?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I may have turned off the dumb AI Overview, but at least trying “is natalie portman in heat” actually gives relevant results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “shit i always do that i always mess up some mundane detail” ~ Tesla Engineers probably

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know you’re not defending the administration, but I wouldn’t consider the administration’s position to have any merit. They sent him to the prison and are paying for him to be imprisoned there. Giving them an inch of credibility on technicalities just means they’ll continue to do what they’re doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, he is from El Salvador and in 2019, an immigration judge granted him withholding of removal status due to the danger he faced from gang violence if he returned to El Salvador.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google is really damned if they do, damned if they don’t here. Third party cookies are very privacy invasive, but replacing it with Chrome watching everything you do and acting as an ad broker is also not great. As long as Google is providing targeted advertising (which you could opt out of in privacy sandbox) then there’s not a really great solution.

  I do think they dragged this along enough that all sites now operate properly with third party cookies disabled, so that’s a benefit at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attacking My Landlord's Boiler - videah's blog⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This assumes as a tenant you have physical access to the boiler room. From the video, it seems like this person might have that access, but not everyone might.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the 2 hour refund limit on Steam affect game design?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right yeah enjoyable entertainment is my requirement, why pay for something and waste my time if I’m not having fun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla speeds up odometers to avoid warranty repairs, U.S. lawsuit claims: Reuters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Marty: “Are you telling me you built a time machine… Out of a Cybertruck??”

  Doc Brown: “The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?”

  Marty: “So you picked a Cybertruck??? What the fuck doc, it’s hideous. This is heavy, doc”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the 2 hour refund limit on Steam affect game design?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t heard of the game but see that it’s going for $27. For me at least, buying a $27 game, I’d expect 10 hours minimum of enjoyable gameplay, which throws the free refund out the window if it would deliver.

  It could be possible that they wanted to increase their game length to justify the price and stretched things if the first 80 minutes were tedious and slow. I’m sure there’s some consideration to front load the enjoyment into the first few hours, with or without the refund, but I would assume lesser priced games would focus on that and not one going for this price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla speeds up odometers to avoid warranty repairs, U.S. lawsuit claims: Reuters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even when back to the future enters public domain, if someone ever makes a version with the cybertruck, I’m going to be pissed at you first. The only exception is if the cybertruck can’t make it to 88mph and breaks down and the Libyans kill Marty so we don’t have to suffer any longer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can even get every achievement in a game, and return it for a full refund, granted you can beat the game in under two hours. Someone did it with resident evil 3 remake: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp8a5EjAcGs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did movie credits move from the beginning to the end?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they change the rules after the first Star Wars, or does Disney still still go against the union rules?