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SnotFlickerman , 16 hours ago

We'll see how this fares in the face of Chevron being rescinded. Will they even recognize FCC authority to do this?

Pretty sure all new rules like this must be made my congress now...

Hoo boy we are fucked.

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

I don't know, crustpunks were a real thing.

What's preventing you from exploring hypothetical options like Furrypunk, Meatpunk, Tallowpunk, PharmacyPunk, Leatherpunk, or Candlejackpu----

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

Brian Posehn: Dude you're both wrong, it's CORE.

Mr. Show, almost always relevant.

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

Convenience and security is a balance.

Everything that is convenient is not secure.

Everything that is secure is not convenient.

Crypto that is "easy" screams "these people will lose all their money because it isn't secure."

SnotFlickerman , 1 day ago

Oh agreed, wholeheartedly. I really just meant that if you're going to push crypto to consumers, giving them nonsecure options is pretty bad.

SnotFlickerman , 4 days ago

And this is literally why people like myself hide my cancer from my employer.

US discrimination laws are a fucking joke.

SnotFlickerman , 4 days ago

but do you know about the 3 shells?

SnotFlickerman , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

1. Install GFCI plugs. [^1]

2. Buy a small, appropriately sized UPS.

3. Profit?

[^1]: GFCI plugs can be installed without a ground wire. https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/225370/i-live-in-an-older-home-without-ground-wiring-is-it-safe-to-install-3-prong-gfc

Disclaimer: Am not actually electrician. Just know this about GFCI from electrician friends and pointing to a decent explainer.

SnotFlickerman , 4 days ago

For sure, a fridge is a really bad one to be using on an actual ungrounded GFCI, exactly for the reason of risk of expired food.

I like my homeserver but if something trips and its offline for a while it's not gonna ruin my day.

The battery can be recharged eventually unless it's already be discharged many times or it's left alone and dead long enough to kill any ability to recharge it.

SnotFlickerman , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

What's crazy is the cybersecurity teams at big corporations actually hate this because its putting half their security in Microsofts hands. (And their security has been abysmal for a hot minute or more)

Corporations hate this shit too because they want to be using their internal, domain-controlled users, not Microsoft accounts that pass a ton of trade secrets to Microsoft. Is Microsoft training its AI on your trade secrets? Who knows!

So Microsoft is literally killing core competencies not just for end-users, but for businesses, too.

This will convince a lot of businesses the switch to an all Linux internal domain to be worth it, imho.

SnotFlickerman , 4 days ago

Yes, you have to unplug ethernet AND do the oobe/bypassnro command and reboot.

SnotFlickerman , 4 days ago

What chached login? This is talking about a fresh install on a clean (or wiped clean) drive.

Where would this be cached on a brand new PC never connected to the internet?

SnotFlickerman , 4 days ago

Yeah that has been entirely removed in the Win 11 initial setup. It does not default to local account.

You literally have to disconnect internet, open a console window, type in oobe/bypassnro and then reboot. Only then will it default to a local account.

SnotFlickerman , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

How are you accomplishing this? Provisioning the PCs to be part of the domain with a Powershell install script during automated setup? Because I was under the impression that this also had become a difficult task with 11. Because a Windows 11 machine doesn't know it's going to be part of the domain until it has been added to the domain. So, the only way I can see that working is like Powershell combined with WDS or something.

Source: Am small IT

EDIT: Also, the LTSC version of Windows 11 isn't coming until later in 2024. So I'm very curious how this works with 11 specifically.

SnotFlickerman , 4 days ago

*smacks forehead

Ah yes, I forgot about the existence of Entrprise edition. I've just never dealt with a business that paid for such a thing, I guess.

SnotFlickerman , 4 days ago

just gotta know how to grab it from MS.

Be a kind soul and share, please and thank you.

SnotFlickerman , 4 days ago

Shit, I was just looking at massgrave the other day, didn't realize they had direct links. Thanks a bunch.

SnotFlickerman , 6 days ago

Literally nobody is pretending it wasn't a stunt. They discuss it in the article. It's been used several times.

SnotFlickerman , 5 days ago

Linux has a BSOD kernel panic screen now too sooooooooo

SnotFlickerman , 7 days ago

Just a mild burtation.

SnotFlickerman , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

People forget the most important bit. The clapback to Semmelweiss from other doctors was "A doctor's hands are always clean!"

Humans are irrational fucking idiots and we prove it daily. The number of us who are willing to protect our own in-group over things they don't deserve to be protected over is too damn high.

SnotFlickerman , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

We aren’t even capable of caring for one another

It's the part that drives me the most wild. We're all stuck on this shitty rock hurtling through space together, literally the bare minimum we could do to make it bearable is to be kind to one another and supportive of one another. We can't even be fucked with bare minimum.

SnotFlickerman , 8 days ago

You can just assume it is every US company because it is.

This stuff doesn't happen in a vacuum.

CEOs talk to each other about this kind of shit and plan together.

Just like how "AI" has been shoved into fucking everything by everyone even though it is useless and makes a lot of people upset.

Expect all of them to do it so you don't have a choice and they all did it to "stay competitive with each other."

Making sure there isn't another option is one hundred percent part of industry plans.

Just like how trying to replace fast food workers with automation and touch screens has been in the works since the 80's at least. The tech is just finally cheap enough is all.

SnotFlickerman , 9 days ago

They realize it's a service issue, they're trying to corner the market so that they don't have to care that it's a service issue.

YouTube pretty much has that market cornered. It would take a lot of capital to start up a viable competitor, especially one that didn't resort to ads and had some other kind of monetization scheme to support the sites existence and pay for all the storage servers.

SnotFlickerman , 9 days ago

Tonight at 11, Japanese company centers japanese media in its media showcase.

SnotFlickerman , 10 days ago

I don't know how many times we have to keep saying this:

BECAUSE LLMS HAVE NO INTENTION OR ABILITY TO TELL TRUTH FROM FICTION SO WHEN THEY APPEAR CONFIDENT, THEY ARE BULLSHITTING EVEN WHEN THEY ARE CORRECT.

Even a bullshitter can be correct sometimes, it doesn't make it suddenly not bullshit. Even when LLMs get it right, they're still bullshitting.

This isn't complicated. They don't think. They have no concept of truth. They just fabricate sentences from previously copied sentences, there is no intention, no thought, no planning, no reflection.

The groups producing these LLMs are just sourcing the entire internet, they don't care how much of it is lies. There seems to be very little curation going on.

Anyone who expected anything other than this outcome is an idiot who isn't paying attention.

SnotFlickerman , 10 days ago

If we survived Tipper Gore's "Explicit Lyrics" warnings on CDs, I think we can survive this.

Everyone wanted the explicit copy, it made it more desirable.

But, as a counterpoint, traditional media is just as bad, if not worse, because it is desperately trying to stay relevant by selling fear.

"If it bleeds it leads" isn't exactly new. Maybe all media needs these warnings.

WARNING: This media conglomerate is owned by people who have vested interest in profit over truth.

SnotFlickerman , 12 days ago

If you want a super secure platform for private communication use Matrix for fucks sake, this is a media aggregator and social network.

Use the appropriate tools for the appropriate use-cases.

Everything on Mastodon gets publicly posted. Like, what even is this?

Security and accessibility are always at odds with each other.

You don't increase security and safety and also increase accessibility. No, by increasing security, you have decreased accessibility.

Security and accessibility are a balance. If it's easily accessible, it's not secure, if it's secure, it's not easily accessible.

SnotFlickerman , 14 days ago

Cloudflare can still go bad, but its usually for high-capacity users who are using way more than the average. I haven't seen any homeserver users get hit with any trouble, but I've seen a couple small businesses have bad situations with Cloudflare, although it honestly seems like the minority.

Cloudflare has issues but for most its probably fine.

SnotFlickerman , 15 days ago

i always have good success with libgen.is

SnotFlickerman , 15 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

People like this are jerks who only share their library with people who already have ultra rare shit. They want to trade rare for rare.

They think they are special for their collections and their actions are anti-thetical to the entire piracy ethos.

I would ignore them and keep searching for another source because its unlikely you have anything they will willingly trade for.

It's dumb and I can't stand those people.

But it makes me laugh when they have their collections locked up but other people are freely sharing what they have locked up.

The stuff I don't want to share... I just don't share at all. No reason to make it frustrating.

SnotFlickerman , 17 days ago

Musk is only second to Trump in never having learned to shut his stupid fucking mouth.

SnotFlickerman , 17 days ago

No, everything goes in the square hole.

SnotFlickerman , 19 days ago

Because easy dopamine hits are also easy to gain unhealthy addictions to. Because it's literally right there, easily accessible, at all times.

Couple this with how incredibly unhealthy the social relationships portrayed in most pornography are, and you're gearing up for a lot of young men addicted to wanking and having unrealistic expectations of sex. The porn young women read isn't necessarily much better, in the regard of healthy social sexual relationships.

Now, I'm not one of those weird "you shouldn't jerk it at all" folks because that's just extremism in the other direction.

Temperance and moderation are key in all things.

SnotFlickerman , 19 days ago

I actually agree. What's addicting is the hit of dopamine from sexual release, not the porn itself. I see porn as more like how people who quit smoking often still find something to fiddle with in their hands and mouth. Biting on pencils, straws, etc. because part of their ritual of using the substance involved taking out a cigarette and putting it up to their mouth. The act of viewing porn itself isn't the addiction, but it's associated with it.

Like I said, moderation is key, because there's a wide difference between masturbating a healthy amount and filling various cumjugs with figurines in them. Like if you can go out and live a normal life after jerking it, awesome, fuck yeah, that's great. If you can't make it through a workday without going to the bathroom to crank it, maybe you've got a fucking problem. I shouldn't have to deal with some fucking weirdo breathing heavily and shaking the whole stall next to me in the bathroom because they can't wait until they get home.

The porn is rather a social knock-on effect because people often seek out porn to make the pathway to dopamine release easier. The seeking of the orgasm has almost nothing to do with the societal implications of porn and its impact on relationships. However, the social impact is that people begin to associate unhealthy aspects of porn with a sex life and achieving orgasm in a sex life.

There are unfortunately deep layers of exploitation, unhealthy power dynamics, and control in porn that can be healthy between consenting adults who have achieved trust but some people really start digesting this porn before they're mature enough to know how to healthily navigate those issues (especially in a society that sure as fuck isn't teaching them, because of the aforementioned religious demonization of sex). This leads to further unhealthy experiences with sex, and I don't think the gay (and LGBTQ+ community as a whole for that matter) community is free from that exploitation or people being exposed to it before they've had to education to navigate it healthily either. In fact, as a minority group, I would rather think they're more likely to be exploited by the same people who hate their very existence... which further ingrains and exacerbates the very problems I'm speaking to, because the exploitation aspect of pornography is normalized. The areas that consume the most LGBT themed porn tend to be the most religiously restricted, and their viewpoint of that porn is almost 100% exploitative. To me it's a hard sell that that's not somehow a net negative for the LGBT community and that they're mostly being exploited in pornograhy and in sex work by the very people who want to demonize their very existence.

SnotFlickerman , 19 days ago

I want you to go back and re-read both of my posts and tell me where I said the words "porn addiction" or alluded to porn being the addiction. I'm trying to work with you here buddy, but you've decided that I'm saying something I haven't said, after I took the time to clearly explain as much.

I literally am not talking about porn addiction nor have I used the words porn addiction, so can you take your crusade elsewhere, please and thank you.

The people you’re talking about with cum jars often don’t even see their behavior as a problem, much less labeling themselves addicts.

Literally what I am talking about and why I didn't use the term porn addiction.

SnotFlickerman , 19 days ago

how that relates to dopamine in your first comment if you’re not talking about porn addiction

Dude, we're literally talking about how orgasms release dopamine. What the fuck are you smoking? I'm literally talking about the orgasm itself!

Fucking reading comprehension is dead.

SnotFlickerman , 19 days ago

I’m not really sure where this is breaking down.

Phrases like "couple this with" from this sentence from my first comment are how I'm breaking it down. The meaning of this is "in addition to" not "these are equals." I'm sorry you've not managed to read the context words I added specifically for this purpose.

Couple this with how incredibly unhealthy the social relationships portrayed in most pornography are, and you’re gearing up for a lot of young men addicted to wanking and having unrealistic expectations of sex.

From my second comment:

The porn is rather a social knock-on effect because people often seek out porn to make the pathway to dopamine release easier.

Because it's true that people use shortcuts to cumming, like porn.

I reiterate, reading comprehension is dead.

SnotFlickerman , 19 days ago

Ima be real with you.

Arguing all masturbation is inherently good isn't any better or morally superior than arguing all masturbation is inherently bad. Extremism is extremism and literally all I was talking about was moderation. If you can't handle someone arguing moderation, it sounds like maybe you really do have a problem.

SnotFlickerman , 19 days ago

Anyone trying to sell you a cure for something mainstream society tells you is shameful, doubly so.

Trumpers really took this one and ran with it during COVID with not masking and spitting in people's faces.

They literally want to hang the people who tried to sell them a cure for something mainstream society told them was shameful, a disease they decided was a "librul hoax."

...because guess the fuck what? They were actually, genuinely, acting shamefully. Too bad they had no shame.

I don't think this as strong of an argument than you think it is. Sometimes mainstream society can be right about an act being shameful.

SnotFlickerman , 19 days ago

Look around you, we're winning, and we're not even trying. We are literally in the midst of a mass extinction event driven by human behavior.

Maybe roaches will outlast us, but we're headlong into make this planet pretty unlivable for almost all species, let alone ourselves.

SnotFlickerman , 19 days ago

I guess this guy's never heard of humans being omnivores or that you can get protien from certain plants.

I mean, it's not like we're in an open system powered by the sun and the only way any of us actually get energy is because plants can synthesize solar energy and then mammals and other types of animals then eat those plants taking the energy they have converted, and now these animals convert energy from the plant into energy for themselves.

But yes, somehow, plants will cease to exist and functionally not be edible. /s

SnotFlickerman , 19 days ago

After how expertly Fallout nailed its landing by using literal assets from the game for set design...

Yeah this is gonna flop hard.

SnotFlickerman , 20 days ago

To be clear, this doesn't necessarily mean "get diagnosed for depression" either.

No, as others have suggested, get a blood test.

Accelerating depression was surprisingly a symptom of my cancer. So being depressed can also be a symptom of something far more serious than just depression.

My depression is still bad, but the difference between taking my cancer meds (not psychiatric meds) and not taking my cancer meds, is a world of difference, depression-wise.

SnotFlickerman , 26 days ago

Related: Some people prefer the Nicotine+ client for Soulseek. I personally prefer the classic one myself, but I've met many who prefer Nictone+.

https://nicotine-plus.org/

SnotFlickerman , 27 days ago

Oh please, dear? For your information, the Galactic Courts of Justice have roundly rejected prior restraint.

SnotFlickerman , 1 month ago (edited 23 days ago)

You probably responded before I made my edit, but do you remember how 14 years ago there was actually a lot of worry about how things on the internet would be around forever and how that would change society?

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/magazine/25privacy-t2.html

EXPIRATION DATES

Jorge Luis Borges, in his short story “Funes, the Memorious,” describes a young man who, as a result of a riding accident, has lost his ability to forget. Funes has a tremendous memory, but he is so lost in the details of everything he knows that he is unable to convert the information into knowledge and unable, as a result, to grow in wisdom. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, in “Delete,” uses the Borges story as an emblem for the personal and social costs of being so shackled by our digital past that we are unable to evolve and learn from our mistakes. After reviewing the various possible legal solutions to this problem, Mayer-Schönberger says he is more convinced by a technological fix: namely, mimicking human forgetting with built-in expiration dates for data. He imagines a world in which digital-storage devices could be programmed to delete photos or blog posts or other data that have reached their expiration dates, and he suggests that users could be prompted to select an expiration date before saving any data.

Because it's interesting that now the other side of the coin seems to be the primary concern. Previously we were considering expiration dates on data and deep user control. Now the attitude seems to be the opposite, that it shouldn't be up to the user, but up to the archivist.

SnotFlickerman , 1 month ago

There was just one on May 3rd. Upcoming ones are on September 6th, October 4th, and December 6th.