HiddenLayer5

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

I don’t think they would enslave humanity so much as have no regard for us. For example, when we construct a skyscraper, do we care about all the ant nests we’re destroying? Each of those is a civilization, but we certainly don’t think of them as such.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

And you just know that this is the type of restaurant to throw out still edible food in a dumpster and then call the cops when starving people try to take stuff from the dumpster.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

I don’t associate this with any particular city, but with the rich neighbourhoods in every city, particularly the recently rich neighbourhoods built from gentrification and forcing the existing poor residents out. An upscale “urban eatery” is a sure sign that the neighbourhood is destroyed.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

I suspect it’s also so the rich assholes can pretend to be in touch with society by occasionally “getting the poor people eating experience” (at a premium of course). They emulate classic burger joints and diners while being ten times more expensive with none of the charm.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

Look at Frosty go!

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

I really want coke to be more common as referring to soda pop on general because I want to see Coca Cola freak out as they lose the trademark to genericization.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

If all the corporations can just stop trying to be cute in their error messages, that would be great. This is literally worse than “ERROR: Unknown Error” because this goes out of its way to taunt you while still giving you no actionable information.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

Even better if you work remotely and their network goes down. Because yours works just fine and you can just browse Lemmy while they fix it.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

Most likely their backup generators only power the absolutely critical equipment and everything else still goes down when the power goes off.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

I’m running Fedora 39 KDE. I think I’m going to see what the file metadata of my other Fedora systems look like and try to replicate that. Worst case I just reinstall. At this point I’m a little curious how the system will react.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

Thank you! Regardless of the outcome I will update the main post with my findings in hopes giving anyone else in the same position some more info.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

Play stupid Elon games win stupid Elon prizes!

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

Fridges also don’t crush people all that often.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

I agree, won’t stop me from making fun of it though!

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

No sane industrial or construction operator is buying a Cybertruck. They’d probably get the base model F150 Lightning or something if they wanted electric, you know, like they’ve already been doing.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Honestly this just seems like the best way to have both sides of the relevant conversation hate you. The urbanists will hate you because you bought a Cybertruck which exemplifies all the problems with large cars in urban areas and car dependency in general, not to mention techbro dependency. And the truck people will hate you because you bought a liberal socialist soy boy electric truck instead of a noble, God-anointed, by your bootstraps diesel truck.

Wouldn’t be surprised if someone comes back to the parking lot to see a line of alternating rednecks and railfans all taking turns keying their truck.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

Similar concept to the discrepancy in the pictures of food in a restaurant menu vs what you’re actually served.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Because the reason companies are brazen enough to pull the crap that they do is because most people have viewpoints along the lines of this post. Reddit for example has almost certainly performed a cost-benefit analysis and wouldn’t have locked down their API like they did if they suspected an actual risk of enough people switching to Lemmy and other alternatives where the lost revenue would have been significant. And they were right, the vast majority of Reddit users tangentially looked at Lemmy and similar alternatives but are still on Reddit. The people actually here on Lemmy saying they’ll never use Reddit again are a tiny minority of Reddit’s total userbase.

I’m genuinely surprised that a creator who has a ton of op-eds in his videos and constantly pushes for electrification and heat pumps citing their lower environmental impact, which is very correct and noble of him mind you, doesn’t apply the same logic to software.

Also, obviously it’s not good to be a dick when promoting FLOSS as you’re more likely to push people away from it, if that was his point then I’d tend to agree (admittedly I’ve been guilty of that before). Maybe that’s what he meant, but he doesn’t mention that in the post and seems to imply that even a friendly or matter of fact suggestion that a FLOSS alternative is available is unacceptable. Like are you complaining just to complain or are you complaining because you want suggestions on how to solve the problem? I don’t know what his experience with FLOSS discourse is, but I’ve personally complained about a proprietary software, had someone point out that an alternative exists, and immediately tried it out and often end up switching. Literally the other day, I was complaining about the Unix cp command, someone suggested I use rsync instead because “it’s better”, and what do you know they were right.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

CTV 2050: Canada vows to triple nuclear power production by 2100 from what it was in 2023

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

Worst when you plug in an external drive on Linux and the user the files belong to is different so it doesn’t let you access it.

IMO, the rule should be that the user who mounts specifically a removable drive should have complete access to it regardless of existing file permissions, or, meeting in the middle, maybe have a command that requires sudo, which will grant complete access to the drive, something like sudo takeover-volume /mnt/usbdrive so you don’t have to sudo every single command that needs a file without your name on it. (I’m aware you can also just use sudo chown -R you /mnt/usbdrive but I think there should be a way to let a user access everything in a drive without changing the actual ownership.)

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

They need someone strong enough ton drag up old servers from the basement.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

SpaceX actually makes pretty good stuff. The sad thing is that Elon keeps trying to take credit for it even though it was the scientists, engineers and laborers who did the real work.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

Abso-fucking-lutely. Time and time and time again proprietary technology fucks us over, this is no different.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

I was gonna write something political but nah.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon are some of the best Pokemon games, better than most of the (especially newer) main series games. I started with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon so I may be biased though.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

Thank you!

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

broadcasters

How? He died long before any broadcast technology was even thought possible. You can just plop a saint’s name on something they had no idea even exists?

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

I’ve never been a fan of the UEFI logo inserting itself into the boot screen. It’s basically just an advertisement for the hardware vendor because they’re jealous of the OS having the spotlight. And it’s an ad that, like so many other ads before it, screws over the security and privacy of the advertisee because fuck you that’s why.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

The article didn’t mention this, but would disabling the UEFI logo in the boot screen mitigate the vulnerability until proper patches get rolled out? (Or honestly at this point, I’d keep it disabled even after it’s patched in case they didn’t patch it right. UEFI’s are all proprietary so it’s not like you can check.) Since the vulnerability is in the image parser, would bypassing that be enough?

Do they even let you disable it?

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

It breaks the cardinal rule of executing privileged code: Only code that absolutely needs to be privilaged should be privileged.

If they really wanted to have their logo in the boot screen, why can’t they just provide the image to the OS and request through some API that they display it? The UEFI and OS do a ton of back and fourth communication at boot so why can’t this be apart of that? (It’s not because then the OS and by extension the user can much more easily refuse to display what is essentially an ad for the hardware vendor right? They’d never put “features” in privileged code just to stop the user from doing anything about it… right?)

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

Would be pretty easy to pull off if you had hardware access. Just boot from a flash drive and drop the exploit from there.

Even if their OS is full disk encrypted, this can easily inject a backdoor or just keylog the bootup password prompt.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

Why software patents are a leech on software development: exhibit number 4,294,967,295.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

With the French guy on this. Weed is expensive even when legal, and if it’s not, you really don’t want to share it with any rando because you can get pegged for distribution.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

It’s expensive and has only the advantage of catching CO2

It doesn’t even do that well. Algae have short lifespans and when they decompose, the CO2 will go right back into the atmosphere. It’s the same reason you can’t reasonably capture CO2 with small plants like grasses, nor does the carbon inside you count as captured. The reason trees “capture CO2” is because trees live for a long time and wood decomposes very slowly, and therefore keep its carbon locked in the wood for a long time. The point of capturing carbon is you take it out of circulation for as long as possible.

There are ways to have algae capture carbon, but they are fairly involved (read: very expensive) processes whose scalability is still uncertain. Certainly not a tank in the street.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

I assume they mean how long many old growth forests have been growing (though even then thousands of years is on the younger end), not the time it took for trees to evolve.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

It helps if and only if the glucose stays as glucose and is not metabolized. Wood is a good application of this, as its cellulose fibers are made of glucose, in a form that is very stable and can stay locked away for a long time (especially if the tree is alive as it does not metabolize the glucose in its own wood and has anti-predation adaptations that actively guard it against other organisms). However, if the glucose decomposes, i.e. is metabolized, it is converted either directly to CO2 or into other compounds that eventually end up as CO2, essentially returning the captured carbon back to the atmosphere.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

What is wrong with you Carl?

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

0/10 not enough minions.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

Or the “stick it in but don’t orgasm” method.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

The problem these days is everyone is self centered and unwilling to work hard

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but in reality we are unfair to each other.

The last part of your sentence is correct. So maybe the reason everyone is “unwilling” to work is actually because they are unwilling to be exploited. Considering how capitalism utterly failed to regulate the market and wages are still piss poor despite every CEO and their henchmen crying about the labour shortage, when according to capitalist theory the solution should have been to immediately raise wages as the low supply and high demand of labour necessitates higher prices. That’s the excuse they give us when they jack up the prices on food and basic supplies yet they reject the same logic when applied to workers.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

That’s taking the LORD’s name in vain which, according to Catholicism, is considered blasphemy which is literally THE single worst type of sin you can commit. See you in the 9th circle!

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago

Not surprising considering Catholicism scores quite high on the BITE model for cults.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Not religious nor an expert on this, but as far as I know:

“Taking the Lord’s Name in Vain” is the technical term in Christianity for using words that refer to God/Jesus in any context that isn’t directly referring to them, which is considered a form of blasphemy. The majority of Christians, Catholics especially, believe that even expressions like “oh my god!” or exclaiming “Jesus!” when surprised constitute taking the Lord’s name in vain, or as is what is happening here, where you use Jesus for something unrelated to him. And the bible does make it very clear that blasphemy is worse than literally any other sin.

HiddenLayer5, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Reminder that alchemy didn’t go away, it evolved into modern chemistry. So of you think alchemy is occult then you better take a good look at all the engineered chemicals around you and either accept your place in hell or go live in a cave.