Posts by theotherilya@discuss.systems
(DIR) Post #AQAW4np1PkQ6RNDwGG by theotherilya@discuss.systems
2022-12-01T16:43:49Z
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@stux "Energy Bar" is something I would expect to slowly fill up before flashing to indicate you can now activate ENERGY BOOST
(DIR) Post #AQKgbvN3JK8yX1Amq8 by theotherilya@discuss.systems
2022-12-06T14:28:58Z
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@stux Can I get a Huracan Sterrato? It's my ongoing insane pointless dream filthy purchase.Then we can throw aw- spend the rest!
(DIR) Post #AQZCQ0C3TJ1elApKT2 by theotherilya@discuss.systems
2022-12-13T14:31:20Z
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@stux This just furthers my belief that there either already is or soon will be an XKCD for any meaningful communicable message or interaction in life.
(DIR) Post #AQbCYl9x7pdh3UwIW8 by theotherilya@discuss.systems
2022-12-14T13:42:20Z
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@stux The cat looks like it's had it with your freeform shenanigans :D
(DIR) Post #ARKzbjfGmNoXW3G34C by theotherilya@discuss.systems
2023-01-05T15:53:49Z
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@shaman That's mostly because Kirill thought that the bright shining star might be even worse than a bunch of "clearly responsible" cellphones in guiding Himars.Too soon/too bad?
(DIR) Post #ARMvgbBXipyzAHKwNM by theotherilya@discuss.systems
2023-01-06T14:19:27Z
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@stux I do believe the important question is - Why do people keep falling for such stuff. This, I think, circles back to eventually join the pretty rough sea where conspiracy theories and get-rich-quick schemes live in separate but communicating currents. When the internet was booming some naïve youngsters believed that public access to information would solve a lot of issue of collective informational deficit. Turns out, it just created bigger and stronger echo chambers in which scammers and assorted trolls keep screaming just to keep the noise-to-signal ratio high.tl;dr - people fall for this stuff because they don't know better and we need, NEED to find a way to show them better without being the Jake Pauls of knowing better.
(DIR) Post #ARnXUN9nQggFWYJzJg by theotherilya@discuss.systems
2023-01-19T10:25:23Z
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@shaman In their defence, Russia in 2010s also added "ah, j/k, gotcha there!" which prompted Germany to be all relaxed about merchandising death.
(DIR) Post #AS2TMYKCXSa3OkbRGy by theotherilya@discuss.systems
2023-01-26T15:19:58Z
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@stux I swear I read this and the other OSX post and thought you were trolling ^_^"- - -Anyway, my experience with Windows updates as of late, and this is speaking both of my work machine which is natively Windows11 approved and an 11yo laptop running the latest Win10, is that they are aggressive but substantially easier and painless to apply, save for the occasional sudden reboot which makes me want throw the laptops out of a window(s).- - -OSX very rarely will have any issue with updates such as bricking and whatnot, but it does have tons of bugs, flaws and issues which the infosec community has been more adamant about bringing to light. The one where they "patched" airdrop and accidentally allowed anyone to root a physical system by using no password as a password comes to mind as a recent example.
(DIR) Post #AS2Ubgsb79TWEDTQnI by theotherilya@discuss.systems
2023-01-26T15:33:53Z
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@stux In principle this is kind of half-true, in fact it has been half-true for a long time. Apple effectively used this trope in its long running Mac VS PC and it has lingered on. Gated executable execution is effective at keeping things at bay, for sure, and the attack surface has been historically small... although both these things have changed dramatically recently: Windows has UAC and similar, if nor more effective, security measures. As Windows Defender actually evolved into a decent baseline product, OSX lagged with security product adoption in the customer base, in no small part due to the company itself hiding how things are going - you can find articles as recent as 2021 of apple execs commenting on a malware problem that is specifically left "silent". With regards to 2... that is partially true. I don't find their systems particularly friendly - anymore - they definitely used to be in the early days of OSX, but I've also used way too much Windows in my lifetime. Certainly, while Windows makes it harder to delete system.ini today than it did many years ago (when I actually deleted it - fun times!), on an Apple device it's damn near impossible to brick something.
(DIR) Post #ASwFktMQad6SDzrKsK by theotherilya@discuss.systems
2023-02-22T13:11:22Z
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@MostlyHarmless This is surprising and enlightening. I thought at least one would immediately go "I'm calling the police"
(DIR) Post #AU8l5fZ1PbpSnPFJ9E by theotherilya@discuss.systems
2023-03-30T11:51:02Z
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@stux Also cheaper and less stigmatized
(DIR) Post #AUB1rYAxJDBV36t79k by theotherilya@discuss.systems
2023-03-31T14:08:25Z
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@stux Yes, yes, yes, never made more sense and we can't keep pretending it doesn't.
(DIR) Post #AXBOof2pGv31HXtOJE by theotherilya@discuss.systems
2023-06-29T12:01:53Z
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@stux Wait, this happens even in the NETHERLANDS?
(DIR) Post #AaKXYkXdj3aJkN33yK by theotherilya@discuss.systems
2023-10-01T15:28:23Z
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@stux His thumbs up exclamation - "Everything is Very Great"
(DIR) Post #AaSh6VqfsMOevvfAmG by theotherilya@discuss.systems
2023-10-05T13:53:11Z
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@stux I find blockchain mostly interesting from a social perspective - the grifting, the scams, the detachment from reality while classifying anything not deluded as FUD. Technologically, it's not terribly new and not terribly advanced and its underlying technology has libertarian style inequality built in. It's a great example of "built-in ideology". AI, in the sense of the recent explosion of LLMs is indeed interesting but also surrounded by a shit-ton of smokescreens and constant exaggerations, fear-mongering as well as gratuitous downplaying of interesting results. Again, the nerdiest thing about these models is the sheer scale of the datasets and the amount of compute, power, energy, CO2 used up, the tech in itself is not that new, simply never applied before at this scale, by so many, in such absurd ways. While they are very distinct, they have similar trajectories in being relatively opaque to the technically uninitiated, promising questionable fast gains, seeming futuristic, being environmentally catastrophic and thus a breeding ground for all kind of ideological and social conflict while dragging technology into this.Which to me is super duper fascinating but has more to do with dystopia than anything.
(DIR) Post #Aaap5ZfoJvMphzafQ0 by theotherilya@discuss.systems
2023-10-09T12:00:15Z
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@stux For those old enough, Winamp visualization.
(DIR) Post #AcZYNdZCJlPre3I9xo by theotherilya@discuss.systems
2023-12-07T17:02:30Z
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@stux And my day is made
(DIR) Post #Acw0W4OhWc5bSTrrW4 by theotherilya@discuss.systems
2023-12-18T13:01:27Z
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@stux It's rare to see an "other side" report on this. I welcome it because, for all of the immensity of its faults, the russian side has still been (over days, months, decades) into this and have befallen a number of great tragedies they are not even equipped to understand or process. I don't believe anything that happened to the russian side wasn't somehow right. I do believe it still happened to people.