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palordrolap

@palordrolap@kbin.run

Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitates it, trying to be amusing and informative.

Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.

Is on kbin.social but created this profile on kbin.run during a week-long outage.

Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish

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palordrolap ,

You'll forgive me if I ever-so-briefly misread your boilerplate link as "And then I woke up."

palordrolap ,

The real punishment ought to be an atomic wedgie. For everyone who was a C-level for more than a month at that company in the last 10 years.

This ought to be the punishment for a lot of unethical business practices. You can't delegate that to a customer's wallet.

palordrolap ,

Ironic, isn't it?

palordrolap ,

No, this is an actual irony.

Humanity is unable to remember, for any length of time, a fact about whether goldfish can remember things for any length of time.

palordrolap ,

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palordrolap ,

If we tried this in the UK with someone like, say, the late David Coleman, I'm not entirely sure anyone who remembers him would be able to distinguish - other than, as I said, the knowledge that he's been gone for quite some time now.

Coleman, was considered a go-to commentator for decades despite being gaffe-prone even at the best of times. He was occasionally oblivious and apparently lacking any self-awareness too. (He did kind of learn to laugh at himself though and was a good, well, sport, about it all.)

Sounds very AI to me. Come to think of it, he may even have been kept around precisely because of the entertainment value.

I assume that Al Michaels is not of this bizarre calibre and it wouldn't take long for people to notice.

palordrolap ,

Man goes away. Comes back with a plank of wood.

What happens next depends on how perverted the tree is.

(Would you like to be slapped around by a dismembered limb?)

palordrolap ,

Other than the psychopath angle, there's also those who are mentally ill and/or delusional and believe they're terrible people when they're not far off average, maybe even better.

Likewise, perfectionists, but maybe I'm repeating myself.

Got to hope that you're not right for their sake.

Personally, I'm hoping for oblivion. Like it was for the billions of years before I was conceived, I assume, not that it's possible to remember that.

palordrolap ,

"Stop calling me Mark."

palordrolap ,

Fun fact: The past tense of "wend" was once "went", but that was co-opted for the past tense of "go", and the past tense of wend is now "wended".

"But what was the past tense of 'go' before that?"

Kind of hard to tell what it would be now, but "goed" does seem likely - like we might have said as toddlers - but irregular "yode" / "yoed" is closer to the old form and is also possible.

Evidence from other Germanic languages as well as "do" becoming "did" suggests a less likely "gid", "gig", "ging" or even "gang" (compare "sang").

palordrolap ,

So I decided to go peek at the ragecomic subreddit. Yes, the very one-time ragecomic home-from-home outside of 4chan. Last post 17 days ago, using at least two "extinct" faces, got 600 upvotes.

It's complaining that there are no good tools to make ragecomics any more. (I have not checked to see if that's true.)

Y'know, I feel like they should stay there. Anything that'll mess up an AI should stay on that site for as long as humanly possible. smilingthumbsuprageface.jaypeg

palordrolap ,

Cygwin on Win7 back in the day was pretty close tbh.

palordrolap ,

I don't know about that. Non-binary files have been put into bin directories for decades at this point. (Feel free to marvel at the analogy.)

Delete the contents and it's not just binaries going to the bit-bucket.

The joke here is more "Tony Lazuto said to execute these files."

palordrolap ,

That's called "time to get a new job."

Before I came in here, I assumed that's what "or else" meant, and I'm still not sure it doesn't mean that.

palordrolap ,

Asking him to auto-cannibalise? I like it.

palordrolap ,

One downside to this is that $10 is worth more to one person than it is to another, and I can't see how that can be fixed.

palordrolap ,

The smarter you are, the less likely you are to want kids or have "accidents", and even if you do, you won't have many.

Spot the bad trend.

Exception: Rich people have kids regardless of how smart they are.

This is another bad trend.

We're not quite at Eloi and Morlocks yet, but given how things are at the moment, I think we'll be there sooner than H.G.Wells thought.

palordrolap ,

Feeling daring? If you have to buy the software anyway, invoice the government department the price of the software.

palordrolap ,

Hasn't Office worked under Wine since forever?

(And if not, what are the show stoppers?)

palordrolap ,

Nope. This episode of The Outer Limits has lived rent free in my head since the 90s and I want no part of it. Neither should anyone else.

(In fairness, quite a lot of those stories live rent free in my head because they're all horror. If you really want to know, this one was called "The New Breed". Don't say I didn't warn you.)

palordrolap ,

A light year contains 40% fewer calories than a regular year.

palordrolap ,

They did. See "netflitwitter".

palordrolap ,

Moon rising up and to the left? Southern hemisphere detected.

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

palordrolap ,

Borrowing from something I saw elsewhere: Set up a task / cron job / whatever it is on your OS that takes a full screenshot every minute and then sends it to Microsoft's AI team.

Or save it to a drive or something, I'm not the boss here. And neither is Microsoft.

palordrolap ,

Big Brother? No. Not yet anyway.

Abusive in other ways? Let Uncle Louis tell you all about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXxMCm941WA

palordrolap ,

The tip he got was "Start a pandemic"

palordrolap , (edited )

Good start.

Now learn that there are people who don't even like the word "lady" because of its etymological origin.

The "l" and "a" are effectively those of the word "loaf", and the "-dy" comes from a word meaning "dough-worker". That is, "lady" is the title for someone who makes the bread. The one who does the cooking. The one whose place is in the kitchen.

The person who taught me this was fine with the descriptor "woman" on account of "man" being the species first. They considered later male-specific interpretations to be irrelevant.

Edit: Now are the downvotes because they don't agree with this argument, or because I chose this place and time to bring this up. Hmm.

palordrolap ,

wif(e)man and wer(e)man technically, but yeah.

palordrolap , (edited )

At no point did I say I held the opinion myself. The specific person I knew who held it would have been equally charitable about yours.

palordrolap ,

No. The driver is still into women, but is realising that they prefer to present as mostly male, despite whatever their biology might be.

In oversimplified terms, you could say they're a straight man in a biologically female body.

The implication is that when they were dating and married, driver was presenting as more female or androgynous, and non-driver, presumably, has a preference for that.

However, it's not really that preference that's causing the real rift - if you love someone, you love someone - it's the desire for kids. Driver doesn't want them. Non-driver does.

They're both able to deal with this like adults. Win-win-win. (Third win is the eventual kid(s) who might get to have a cool uncle rather than a grumpy, distant dad. Assuming "uncle" and "dad" are terms driver would use anyway.)

palordrolap ,

Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Garfields.

palordrolap ,

Bzip2 compression is often surprisingly good with text files, especially log files. It seems to "see" redundancies there - and logs often have a lot of it - far better than gzip and sometimes even lzma.

Anyway, if I saw a bunch of tar.bz2 files, that's what I'd expect to find in them.

palordrolap ,

Kind of redundant. Both .zip and .rar store an index of files within the archive and are a bit 'inside-out' when it comes what we get from tar.gz.

That is, ZIP is pretty close to what you'd get if you first gzipped all your files and then put them into a .tar.

RAR does a little more (if I remember correctly), such as generating a dictionary of common redundancies between files and then uses that knowledge to compress the files individually, but better. Something akin to a .tar file is still the result though.

palordrolap ,

wait until you learn about .tar.lz

palordrolap ,

There's also a Fediverse plugin for WordPress if you already have a host. Caveat: I have only seen it on Fediverse directories. No idea whether it's any good.

palordrolap ,

The upshot of your comment with the current situation is: Windows users want someone to wipe their a*** for them and are increasingly OK with the wiping hand doing other things it feels like at the same time.

At least with Linux's rough paper, it's my own damn hand.

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