RememberTheApollo @ RememberTheApollo @lemmy.world

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I like me some Tolkien. Not just the LOTR stuff, though that’s the bulk of it, but I’ve read some of his other books as well as the unfinished works as well. I really enjoy his worldbuilding and the old school storytelling where the hero doesn’t always do so well, mythical creatures aren’t so kind and cute, and dangerous thing lurk, waiting for you off the beaten path.

You think these clowns are going to build anything? They’re just leeches trying to make money by doing nothing other than letting computers run.

If only it were leaps and bounds closer and not just a few inches.

Did you italicize when you should have bolded? Hate when that happens.

Everything.

From the difference between WiFi, cellular data, and wired Ethernet to the ports on a computer.

People don’t know shit, and it’s getting worse thanks to the abundance of things like tablets and phones. Nobody knows anything about operating systems, file system structure or types, or even how to turn Bluetooth on.

And I am not what I consider highly tech literate. Plenty of stuff stumps me or I simply don’t know how to do. Yet I’m the family “IT guy” that has to troubleshoot and fix stuff.

Probably the worst part isn’t people not knowing. That’s fine. There’s tons of shit I don’t know. It’s the unwillingness to remember and learn about the system. That’s pretty maddening.

Yep. And that’s fine where I live because a lot of homes still run on oil heat, gas if you’re lucky.

Love to get a full heat pump system, but last quote we got was ~$30k before a $5k rebate from the state. Way out of our range. Would take a lot of years to get that back in savings vs the oil heat we have now. I really don’t like oil for a lot of reasons, environmental being own of them.

Efficiency of capitalism is moving profits from the bottom to the top while expending the least amount of capital on products and employees.

The only people who treat capitalism like some sort of “fixer” for something like government are sycophants and the same ones that completely ignore privatization fucking over government (and the taxpayer) wirh cost overruns and wealthy executives.

Then miners would siphon off renewable energy and other more polluting sources would be used to power the remainder.

They’re not gonna build more green power supply just to help out crypto miners.

US is pretty much a cake walk by many western standards. Take some classes, get a “learners permit”, drive with an instructor for a while, drive with an adult for a while, take a written and easy practical driving test, and you’re done for life.

I’ve got to qualify that it varies a little by the state it’s done in, some states are easier than others.

I’ve driven in a couple other countries and, while everyone has their idiots, the US has an over abundance of them thanks to the ubiquity of cars and what amounts to pretty lax enforcement of any sort of rules or car safety requirements. IOW, pretty much every idiot drives, they often drive unsafe cars that are either maintained poorly or modified in unsafe ways.

I leave a number wrong. The security code, date, whatever. I can remember one number and correct the autofill while making an attempt to keep things a little more secure and still convenient.

As many times as it’s come out that some service stored passwords as plaintext you’d think people would learn. People should be fired for this, unfortunately it would probably be the wrong ones.

Do you get to be offended in heaven? What is life in heaven?

By many accounts you just live in some god’s drugged out bliss or in the deity’s service. Unless it’s Valhalla, you get to have some fights and party a lot, then do it again tomorrow. Heaven? Don’t do anything, don’t advance, create, learn, eat, sleep, or exist in any form that touches on your earthly desires, wants, or needs. Heck, do you even have a body? If you are on some kind of other planet of existence, do you even recognize your former corporeal self and what you went through? Mind you this is for “eternity”, whatever that constitutes. Maybe you’re now an interdimensional alien! Oh, don’t bother quoting what anyone thinks or says about “heaven”, last I checked only one person allegedly has come back briefly and didn’t really fill in the blanks too well. It’s all made up BS.

So hypothetically? No, you don’t get to be offended. I don’t think you get to be human or retain your humanity. You’re stripped of self in heaven to be hooked up to god’s Matrix of Bliss™️ until the end of time.

Kinda sounds hellish by my standards.

Well this is like a slice of the Old Web.

This website probably has an owner who has a bunch of signs in the front yard and a car covered in stickers. (Looking up the address in the registration nets a normal house, so much for that stereotype)

Looking up “endangered noob productions LLC” from the bottom of the page gets you the registration info, a non-existent website, and the registration location.

Huge smattering of “services” by ENP depending on which site you view, from IT to motion pictures.

Funny enough, they even mention the fediverse.

Let’s clarify this title a little. White hat hacker found a way to see the poorly secured database containing said info. It hasn’t been stolen or found on the web, so it wasn’t “leaked” publicly in the sense that it was deliberately made available.

Let’s underfund critical security to stoke xenophobia to stri up more nationalism and feed the MIC even more money. Oh, and don’t forget to buy a personal arsenal for Doomsday!

Could we not tie critical infrastructure to the open web? I know it’s great to have these systems communicating with each other, but damn…hire some extra humans to throw the important switches and push the right buttons air gapped from the web so that some malicious actor can’t cause massive damage from halfway around the world via a few lines of code.

You can find TS NSFW images pretty easily. I searched to find some and see what the hubbub was all about and frankly it’s just the same old porn stills. It doesn’t matter that it has TS’s face on it. I guess some people get off on that sort of fantasy, but I was not impressed, but then that sort of stuff really doesn’t do much for me anyway.

E: I’m not kink shaming. IMO people getting off on the fact that it was done is pretty lame.

I’m sure they’ll expend the effort to track the offenders down and slap them on the wrist.

I thought Edinburgh was two different places because of pronunciation.

I always read it as pronounced like -berg, but there was this other, similar town pronounced -bruh or -boro that people talked about.

Just one of those place names that didn’t come up often at all, so I never compared them in my head and wondered if “hey, these might be the same place…” It came up and bit me in conversation far too recently where my misunderstanding was worth a laugh among friends.

That, and I thought we’d elect basically decent (as far as politicians go) people to the presidency that would at least honor tradition and the institution. Boy, was I wrong about that.

My reference was to the difference between chain restaurants vs named restaurants that there may be very few of. Some place like Friday’s is run completely different than Casa Maya Taqueria.