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- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 1 week ago:
YSK that if they have kids, that doesn’t give them more votes. The kids can’t vote until they’re 18.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 2 weeks ago:
You don’t need to memorize it really, just have to generalize the position of the minute hand past the last round number. Is it about 40% between the 2 and the 3, then that’s a 12.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours) 2 weeks ago:
“A delayed game is eventually good, a rushed game is bad forever”
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
it’s excessive
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Exactly this, the
.zipfile extension is widely known, and now that it’s also a TLD, it can be confusing for some people. There’s no technical vulnerability, but the existence of.zipTLD just gives more ammo for phishing. For example, someone could register a domain namerecent-bank-statements[.]zip(without brackets) and then have a subdomain forchase.comand send someone a link tohttps://chase.com.recent-bank-statements/[.]zipto “Download your bank statements”. If you’re not looking closely, you might not realize there is a.instead of a/and think that this link would go to chase.com When the site initiates a download of a zip file, you might trust the contents thinking it came from Chase and not a malicious link. - Comment on ‘They stole my face’: Streamer claims The First Descendant ads used AI to make it look like he’s promoting it 3 weeks ago:
Publisher Nexon has now made a statement addressing the situation, saying the ads were submitted by users as part of a ‘TikTok Creative Challenge’, which TikTok describes as an “official creator monetization program that turns your creativity into cash by creating UGC-style ads for your favorite brands”.
“All submitted videos are verified through TikTok’s system to check copyright violations before they are approved as advertising content. However, we have become aware of cases where the circumstances surrounding the production of certain submitted videos appear inappropriate. Thus, we are conducting a thorough joint investigation with TikTok to determine the facts.
How could they not see this coming? Of course this will be gamed and abused. This is what happens when you fire your marketing department and outsource it to TikTok.
- Comment on It must have been a whole lot more difficult to design and build tall buildings before computers existed 5 weeks ago:
The short story i’ve heard it explained was that prior to the 1960’s when logarithm tables were the only option, if what you were calculating was not in the table, you rounded the measurements up so that the material or whatever was stronger, and you knew it would really hold the weight to be certain. Depending on how much rounding up happened during the design, this created lots of redundancy and strength, but was more expensive since you generally had to use more materials. With CAD, you could more easily model and calculate all the loads and optimize the design and material costs for the expected lifetime of the product, building, or whatever. This saved money and was preferred by bean counters, and resulted in designs lasting just enough, rather than older designs which sometimes seemed indestructible.
- Comment on Can anyone relate? No? Me neither, then. 5 weeks ago:
What is the context of this picture??
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The worst thing about AI Slop is it’s overuse of in a list header, it kills it for me. I used to use emojis all the time like a run off sentence and put more thought into it, but now it’s just ruined.
- Comment on The feature I want most from my next phone is to screen voicemails that mention improving my Google search results (or other keywords that indicate spam) 5 weeks ago:
It’s really great, and you can just keep them on the line if it’s an actual person.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Listen to some classical music
- Comment on Hypothetically, if the police seized your electronics (for an unrelated investigation) and found out you have a lot of pirated content, what would happen? 1 month ago:
IANAL and not really sure if this would hold up for digital assets, but if there is a search warrant, anything in plain view is up for grabs: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton_v._California. I would assume anything on the hard drive can be evidence in court if it is in plain view of the assets of the search warrant.
But also, for simply possession of pirated content, I don’t think the state would charge you, but you could be open to civil litigation if the copyright holders find out somehow.
- Comment on Goosebumps: The Game will be removed from sale on August 8, 2025. 1 month ago:
Yes this was the game! The CD I had contained both games. The other game was Attack of the Mutant. This was the hockey game ingrained in my memory: youtu.be/7vQ0qBVhjME?t=2269
- Comment on Goosebumps: The Game will be removed from sale on August 8, 2025. 1 month ago:
Was that a point and click interactive video one? I remember one story with dead hokey players or something? I think I got that CD for free from a box of cereal and have great memories playing it while home sick from school one day.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 1 month ago:
Anddddd…, it’s already been breached: www.404media.co/women-dating-safety-app-tea-breac…
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 1 month ago:
Payment processors: “I deal with the god damn customers so the
engineersbanks don’t have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can’t you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?” - Comment on Where can I find Trumps drawing in the letter to Epstein? 1 month ago:
I have seen this picture, but it has not been released by the WSJ, CNN, NYT, etc. The WSJ article describes the letter and this matches the description, but this is a recreation based on the description. What OP is asking for is why can’t they find a scan of the actual letter and the reason is because it hasn’t been published.
- Comment on Where can I find Trumps drawing in the letter to Epstein? 1 month ago:
You’re right, best I can tell, WSJ only described the image, but has not published it. Here is an archive of the WSJ piece that Trump is suing about: archive.is/IUWMu
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 1 month ago:
How about a nice game of chess?
- Comment on came across some family heirlooms today, hahaha! 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure you still had to pay your phone provider who may have charged $0.10/call unless AOL was using 1-800 numbers to dial to?
- Comment on Taking screenshots of everything is no different than elders printing out emails. 2 months ago:
Molecules of water? hair follicles? Grains of rice?
- Comment on Taking screenshots of everything is no different than elders printing out emails. 2 months ago:
There are web browser addons which can change the export to a png, but if all else fails, imagemagick after saving the image takes less time than screenshotting and cropping.
- Comment on Poop In A Box 2 months ago:
Also in this scene, why was there an empty spot in the grid for the robot to blend into? If it took the place of another robot, what did it do with the remains of the other robot without time. A lot of “don’t think about it too much” in this movie.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 2 months ago:
Seems like the store is down or not loading, at least for me. My bank account is happy at least.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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] 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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
.govbeing US Government websites, and.edubeing 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.ukor.com.aufor example, rather than.com.I assume that americans rarely encounter a
.com.auor other ccTLD domain names, and largely are going to.comwebsites. They probably assume that the.auTLD was tacked on to support Australia because they didn’t invent the internet.