I think you're looking at it backwards. The problem is people with authority who think that it makes them better than you. The autistic person rejects that idea completely. You seem to be arguing that autistic people…
> I think what I’m getting from this conversation is part of what’s being expressed here is a lack of awareness of social danger You're confusing "being aware of" and "caring about". Autistic people are acutely aware of…
Why are you so unwilling to accept the extensively documented phenomenon of an autistic person being more intelligent than average? Some autistic people are genuinely ahead of the curve. Some individuals develop extreme…
Yup, the "because I said so" type really isn't worth respect in the first place. Authority figures are fine when they act with reason and respect. When they don't, that's when we have a problem. I will never understand…
What part of their comment is disagreeable?
Bluetooth link negotiation happens in a few dozens of milliseconds. Any perceptible delay is down to the host operating system setting up audio drivers. The headset can't know what the host is doing or even that there…
MP3 decoding is just math. If you have enough CPU to decode a compressed audio stream, it doesn't cost anything to also have it decode MP3. Sure, you could store those clips in a more appropriate codec, but what do you…
This is the precise reason I prefer embedded development. The challenge of fitting my entire application into a handful of kilobytes with just a KB or two of RAM is a lot of fun. I get to build a program that runs…
I recently switched to a local pharmacy after getting berated by a CVS pharmacist for standing in the "wrong" line. CVS in general has been absolutely awful in the last few years. What really turned me against them was…
Slightly OT, but what the hell is going on with these massive persistent popups on every website imploring me to sign in with my google account lately? After the first dozen I just added a uBlock filter for it, but it's…
"Have you tried SCF /scannow?"
It's only a matter of time before the conglomeration of ancient software slowly having complexity bolted on becomes self-aware and helps plot the overthrow of the lunar government
My bet is that btrfs will replace ext4 in the nearish future. It's the default for Arch, which also comes default with filesystem snapshots before any system updates. It's pretty nice. I think it also supports some…
People always seem shocked to learn that capitalism is completely and absolutely indifferent to morals, ethics, or human life
The more correct analogy is advertising heavily to kids that you give out free candy, and then give them so much they get sick. Parents can't surveil kids 24/7. It simply isn't possible. You have to have some trust that…
GitHub has started showing me a persistent login pop-out on certain pages. Literally no way to dismiss it, so I just uBlocked the element. I don't really want to log in to GitHub in the first place. If I'm there its to…
Don't forget YouTube shorts! Google will absolutely never let you forget.
Fun fact! Your local instance creates a shadow account for remote users, which has a unique ID and a copy of the profile data, but is otherwise empty. I haven't seen this documented anywhere and it cost me about a day…
Basically, you can have your server follow another instance as if it were a user account. Assuming the remote instance allows follows, their local feed gets duplicated to your federated feed. If they allow mirroring,…
I was at the company for three or four years. It was fine working as a floor level employee, and my last manager encouraged me and gave me a lot of freedom to do what I wanted because I really did boost sales. I only…
Pretty much. I took the retail job because I couldn't find a programming job. Before that I was a video game programmer. I actually got hired here as a mid level unity programmer, but it quickly became clear that my…
No, it's pretty much "hold my beer, I got this" billions of times until something works. Evolution isn't organized or eloquent. It's messy and random and non-optimized. Evolution results in many individuals who are not…
My last job was a corporate hellscape. I worked really hard to move up to assistant manager, then corporate put me in a failing store on the other side of the state and just left me to rot. I had zero employees, just me…
I wouldn't be so sure the flag is actually false. Samsung has been getting increasingly scummy with their software. I wouldn't be surprised if they rolled some malware into one of their apps.
They absolutely, definitely are not anonymizing your data. They may be "anonymizing" it, but there is exactly zero chance that they aren't linking it to you in some other way. Google does not give out free lunches. You…
I think you're looking at it backwards. The problem is people with authority who think that it makes them better than you. The autistic person rejects that idea completely. You seem to be arguing that autistic people…
> I think what I’m getting from this conversation is part of what’s being expressed here is a lack of awareness of social danger You're confusing "being aware of" and "caring about". Autistic people are acutely aware of…
Why are you so unwilling to accept the extensively documented phenomenon of an autistic person being more intelligent than average? Some autistic people are genuinely ahead of the curve. Some individuals develop extreme…
Yup, the "because I said so" type really isn't worth respect in the first place. Authority figures are fine when they act with reason and respect. When they don't, that's when we have a problem. I will never understand…
What part of their comment is disagreeable?
Bluetooth link negotiation happens in a few dozens of milliseconds. Any perceptible delay is down to the host operating system setting up audio drivers. The headset can't know what the host is doing or even that there…
MP3 decoding is just math. If you have enough CPU to decode a compressed audio stream, it doesn't cost anything to also have it decode MP3. Sure, you could store those clips in a more appropriate codec, but what do you…
This is the precise reason I prefer embedded development. The challenge of fitting my entire application into a handful of kilobytes with just a KB or two of RAM is a lot of fun. I get to build a program that runs…
I recently switched to a local pharmacy after getting berated by a CVS pharmacist for standing in the "wrong" line. CVS in general has been absolutely awful in the last few years. What really turned me against them was…
Slightly OT, but what the hell is going on with these massive persistent popups on every website imploring me to sign in with my google account lately? After the first dozen I just added a uBlock filter for it, but it's…
"Have you tried SCF /scannow?"
It's only a matter of time before the conglomeration of ancient software slowly having complexity bolted on becomes self-aware and helps plot the overthrow of the lunar government
My bet is that btrfs will replace ext4 in the nearish future. It's the default for Arch, which also comes default with filesystem snapshots before any system updates. It's pretty nice. I think it also supports some…
People always seem shocked to learn that capitalism is completely and absolutely indifferent to morals, ethics, or human life
The more correct analogy is advertising heavily to kids that you give out free candy, and then give them so much they get sick. Parents can't surveil kids 24/7. It simply isn't possible. You have to have some trust that…
GitHub has started showing me a persistent login pop-out on certain pages. Literally no way to dismiss it, so I just uBlocked the element. I don't really want to log in to GitHub in the first place. If I'm there its to…
Don't forget YouTube shorts! Google will absolutely never let you forget.
Fun fact! Your local instance creates a shadow account for remote users, which has a unique ID and a copy of the profile data, but is otherwise empty. I haven't seen this documented anywhere and it cost me about a day…
Basically, you can have your server follow another instance as if it were a user account. Assuming the remote instance allows follows, their local feed gets duplicated to your federated feed. If they allow mirroring,…
I was at the company for three or four years. It was fine working as a floor level employee, and my last manager encouraged me and gave me a lot of freedom to do what I wanted because I really did boost sales. I only…
Pretty much. I took the retail job because I couldn't find a programming job. Before that I was a video game programmer. I actually got hired here as a mid level unity programmer, but it quickly became clear that my…
No, it's pretty much "hold my beer, I got this" billions of times until something works. Evolution isn't organized or eloquent. It's messy and random and non-optimized. Evolution results in many individuals who are not…
My last job was a corporate hellscape. I worked really hard to move up to assistant manager, then corporate put me in a failing store on the other side of the state and just left me to rot. I had zero employees, just me…
I wouldn't be so sure the flag is actually false. Samsung has been getting increasingly scummy with their software. I wouldn't be surprised if they rolled some malware into one of their apps.
They absolutely, definitely are not anonymizing your data. They may be "anonymizing" it, but there is exactly zero chance that they aren't linking it to you in some other way. Google does not give out free lunches. You…