DoctorMckay101

I was gifted my first computer, running Windows 95, at 11 years of age. By age 13 I was probably within the five people who better understood how to do stuff on a computer in my town. By age 16 I was making Pokemon hackroms, flash animations for newgrounds and translating manga for pirate sites in photoshop. By then I knew my entire life would be tied to computers somehow.

Now some 50-60yo politician who has never even created a folder in their desktop without help wants to dictate how I should have used my device?

Fuck'em

This will be Twitter VS Bluesky once more. It does not matter if the power user moves over to another platform or not. It does not matter if the average user moves or not.

Its content creators that move masses. And if those do not move nobody will. I've had Bluesky for about a year now and pretty much abandoned it some months ago because only like 5% of the people I follow post/crosspost to Bluesky.

In Discord's case its mainly project wikis, forums and video game focused servers + their admins that should move. If they remain on Discord everyone will keep on Discord.

I myself am within multiple servers (that are strictly non-pornographic mind you) that due to the main content/game/media they focus in and the social behavior they cultivate, will most likely be rated non-teen safe.

Most shooter games are Rated R/PEGI-18 f.e. and they have tons of big Discord servers.

The interest rate on my mortgage has been below inflation for 5 years now. I'm 7 years shy of paying it fully. I pay around 850€ a month for my mortgage + 110€ monthly community costs + 400€ on property taxes annually. Lets round it up to 1000€ a month. Meanwhile, the average rent around me is about 1150€. If I was renting whilst sharing with other 2 people I could be paying about 400€ and have about 600€ a month for investing, that is true. But that would mean I'd be changing places every 10-16 months, increasingly paying more, and gambling on landing good flatmates. A ton of stress and almost ensured mental health issues. I´d know because that was my life from when I was 18 to when I bought my home at 26. If I wanted to rent my spare rooms I could be racking about 800€ a month - 20-27% set aside for taxes. Always cherrypicking my flatmates and increasing their rent every now and then. However, I wanna live alone for a while, be calm whenever I'm at home.

Even if that "math" does not work for you, take into account those 600€ monthly investment would have to compete against my home's value. My property has appreciated about 90% in the last 10 years, practically doubling my potential earnings compared to the original cost. From 300k to 570k on 10 years. There is no way somebody with 0 investing knowledge could pull that off.

Renting is just better if you have enough fuck you money to rent whatever you want, whenever you want, with the flexibility of choosing to be alone or accompanied.

My approved to shut down question rate was about 40/60. And within the approved questions, I only got the answers I looked for like 50-60% of the time. Got to 350 points myself. I hated every second of it.

Really aggressive moderation, people trying to score points for a worthless achievement system by spamming comments like "You should narrow the scope of this question"

Having to grind achievements to be able to comment, like or dislike.

I used it for a year or so back in 2013?, went back to posting in forums like XDA developers, Codeguru and Reddit.

I mean, yes and no?

27M speaking.

I see most of my friends irl about once every two weeks or so. We either make all day/weekend long plans or we don't meet up.

However we spend at least 2-3h on call daily in Discord and exchange about 200 messages a day in our Telegram groups.

Being conservative with both of those metrics that is.

My experiences with Asus have been terrible.

First Asus purchase ever. USB Bluetooth dongle. Stopped working in 2 weeks.

Second. An Asus GTX 770. It broke in 3 months.

Third. Asus Xonar PCIE Sound Card. Optical did not work, started hissing/having static in less than a year.

Fourth. Asus motherboard for 1st gen Ryzen. Tried to update bios on arrival, it bricked.

I am never NEVER buying anything Asus related ever again.

Emulator developer here (not for videogame consoles but IoT and Honeypots). The DRM circumvention that Yuzu implements can be attacked legally twofold. The decryption process to run a game in the Nintendo Switch uses some alphanumerical keys stored in 2 files if I remember correctly, called "prod.keys" and "title.keys".

Yuzu did not distribute those.

However it did implement the code to use those keys and decrypt a game. So you could say the final compiled binary "implements a way to circumvent DRM". Although you could also defend it by saying "it just models what the hardware does".

Regardless, for the whole "emulators are illegal" discussion, you could technically distribute code for an emulator that does not include that piece of code. Then "ask" your users to "search" for it (kinda like with prod and title keys) and "tell" them to compile it.

But these are very technical arguments you would need to pass in front of a non-technical judge. So good luck.

I would not expect a user to run a pretty lengthy powershell command or edit registry to get the old right-click context menu though. The "More options" option is quite annoying.

WSA was a flop because of the Amazon store exclusivity. Almost nobody implements Direct Storage after years of it being available. The UI worsened overall: new right click context menu is horrible. TPM requirement on install. Microsoft account requirement on install.

Only feature that works better on W11 than W10 is autoHDR. You are not getting too many people into W11 for just autoHDR.

Let's see what they do with W12 or however they'll call it.

I can imagine how 1 meeting with HR would help weeding out people for junior and early senior positions with little requirement in terms of CV. You could get a couple thousand applicants there. For sure.

However, I can not imagine a situation that would ever call for 2 or more meetings. Nor can I visualize any circumstance where a meeting with HR would help with highly specialized position hiring.

Once your job description calls for 5+ years of experience, a master's or even a PhD, maybe a certificate or two and even publications on the field, there should not be more than a couple hundred applicants. Not even a hundred to be honest. And every one of those claims can be verified by manual online searches or automated tools. Furthermore, the only way of verifying the applicants actually know about those subjects is a meeting with a fellow engineer.

I feel the need to add a very important point to your third paragraph. Most times these interviews persist even if you have all of those. And what is worse, they are performed by HR people. And I'm sorry, but... wtf does a socials major in HR know about a highly technical and specialized engineering job? Nothing.

I have a PhD on Embedded device security and last time I went through 3 interviews with HR people before I ever got to speak to an engineer. 90% bullshit questions.

Not gonna lie. The moment a company refuses a refund or a return that complies with their policies, or just stalls me for more than 30 minutes, I'm calling a governmental customer protection agency and issuing a "comply or get sued" through them.

Had to do it once with Sony and another time with an electronics insurance company. Money was back in my account in less than 24h.

Look up lead plumbing in the Roman Empire and the documented case of many emperors and council members being more "aggressive" than usual.

Tbh, that is exactly my situation. I have a 3rd or 4th hand Ford from 2007 or so that I got for $2k about two years ago. It is parked in my garage and I seldom use it. I bike to work, I use public transport whenever I can.

I would buy an EV, I love those things. But between fitting a charger in the garage and getting a reasonably priced 2nd hand EV I would have to expend like $20+k. Which is much MUCH more than what I would save up in fuel through its lifespan. Not really happening unless I get some help from the government to purchase an EV and my town hall puts up some chargers near.

Your reasoning is sound. However, the problem is, as pointed out by the document within the article, and I quote:

"The problem, in short, is that the law targets websites as a whole, rather than at the level of the individual page or subdomain"

Basically, this law would do nothing to prevent minors from accessing porn. It would just single out porn companies that are based/operate in the USA. And would only prevent direct access to them. Search engine results, visual search, metadata based content linking/recommendations, etc. are completely out of the scope.

It also would not apply to any social media sites that carry less than 33% porn content. So basically you could still go to X or Reddit and search for porn there too. Even r/pornhub for pornhub reposts.

It does not apply to apps that do search porn through API calls to porn sites that can be easily installed from the appstores.

Want to actually regulate this stuff? Make all internet connection capable devices be verifiable at the hardware level. Make it so apart from logging in to Google/Apple you have to also log in with a government issued ID through your ISP to some kind of verification portal/account. And link that verification to government developed software running within the device's OS which would block functionalities and can't be turned off/blocked without the device completely freezing.

Want a less draconian/90% solution? Make the top 3 search engines(Google, Bing, Yahoo) and the top 5 social media sites that carry porn (X, Reddit, Facebook, etc.) block access to pornographic content through Government issued ID verification.

Good luck with actually enforcing any of those though.

And I would say workarounds are within reach of the average teenager. Mainly in the 90% solution. Just change the search engine.

Tbh, I'm not against a Basic Income. I'm against the "Universal" part. A basic income should be something handed out to those in need of it and they should be helped so they can stop relying on it.

Thus handing out 20k to everybody no matter their situation seems like a really bad idea to me.

And meanwhile everybody from 18 to 30+ that lives paycheck to paycheck, without a possibility of getting into a mortgage, without being financially stable enough to become parents, get nothing.

Also, "everybody" will get 20k? Even people that are rich? What is the reasoning behind that?

Too many edges to sand down in this proposal.

Tbh, the only reason I am crawling myself through a PhD is that I want to be a professor. Maybe in the USA this is almost unachievable, not to mention you will probably have to get an academic tenure too.

But where I live (northern Spain), mainly in engineering, getting a PhD almost always ensures the opportunity for an academic tenure and a professor position. We are still growing our universities' numbers and new professors are needed every year.

Would I be paid triple what I get now outside academia for my expertise? Yeah. But teaching is my passion so that balances out. Maybe I'll get out for a few years after I change my credentials from Mr. to Dr., just so I can afford a house, but I will come back to academia no doubt.

Actually chuckled. Good comment.

Pretty much, yeah.

In my case I would not care about going to the office if it were anywhere near downtown. That way I could go down to my local pub or game store after work. However, my company is located in the periphery of the city. If I want to go anywhere that means getting in my car once more.

I think my sentiments are best expressed in a greentext manner:

> be me

> wfh as a soft dev for a big tech company

> company tells me to come back to the office

> they claim it is to promote coworking and socialize

> have to wake up an hour earlier

> 1h commute, no real public transport options

> get stuck in traffic, +20 minutes

> arrive late at office

> no matter, no one checks office logs and I turned on my laptop in the car

> half of the workers are wfh

> no one from my team is there

> remember they are not even from the same city lol

> put on my headphones

> zoom meeting, have to book a room

> finish meeting

> put some spotify on

> don't talk to nobody for 6h

> make a greentext in ycombinator

> leave an hour earlier because no one checks office logs

> 1h commute back

Question is, what constitutes social media?

I got my first PC at 11, running Windows 98. Since then I've been participating in online forums and sites like facebook and myspace.

If I ever have a kid I want them to be able to experience the same stuff I did.

Cowntdown until either Numberphile or Matt Parker does a video on this. starting now

People be like: chatGPT is horribly bad and does not work. Its a fancy autocomplete.

Anyways... I am using it everyday. Its a great first step to take when you are blocked creatively or dunno where to start looking for things.

And this is chatbot version 1.0, so to speak. Maybe it will improve drastically in little time or maybe it will stagnate for 5-10 years. No matter the case its already very usable.

Working a 8 to 17 job, my best hours are from 8:00am to 13:00pm. It is when I get most work done. The reason why it slows down in the afternoon is because I have a designated hour for lunch break that won't count as "work" and it completely gets me out of the zone.

At home I can easily skip it and have lunch at 16:00pm, or just eat while I work and finish at 16:00pm.

On top of that, if I have to commute for 50 minutes before getting at my desk at 8:00am, and I know I'll have to commute back for 50 minutes when I finish, BE SURE my best hours won't start until 10:00am and that my afternoons will be even lighter.

AND FOR WHAT? I spend my day with headphones on without speaking to anybody unless it is lunch break or we have a meeting. I don't think I socialize more irl than through slack and calls.

Technically yes but it takes 1 more step.

afaik (maybe I'm wrong) you can only reset a Telegram cloud password with a recovery email address. And you can maybe access that email address through a SMS based recovery.

Having your Telegram account with a cloud password and the recovery email locked with a safe 2FA method "should be safe".