CaptainHowdy

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[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Who was using dial up 15 years ago (2009)? I grew up in a very rural area and even we got broadband by like 2003 or so. I think someone got their math wrong.

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

Honestly I wish they had fought this, but I understand why they settled.

Firstly, he was held liable for "sexual assault" which was legally different from rape at the time. (Obviously, he's still a fucking rapist). He loves to tout this fact, as weird and sad as that is.

Secondly, and most likely the biggest factor in their decision, fighting Trump's BS suit would likely cost way more than $15M and he's soon to be the president (uuuuuuugh) so that complicates things even further in his favor because the case would go on beyond his inauguration.

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 20 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  1. Most folks dgaf about certs, and I agree with them. Certs are BS. I only have certs because employers paid for them and in tech (especially security) there's a LOT of free time if you know what you're doing. Certs only prove you can pass a test.

  2. Bold of you to assume most companies have intrusion detection systems and that their monitoring isn't muted half the time.

  3. Findings come from an automated report generated by a scanner that does literally all the work.

OP post is really not that far off. It's an easy gig.

Source: I've worked on both sides.

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This actually made me lol

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

There was no "gunman", Thompson was killed by his own greed. You should arrest him, but you can't because he's dead.

Money please!

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Weather and other very complex and hard to predict stuff like fluid dynamics, things that don't have a human or completely random behaviour, is probably the best thing an AI could do for humanity.

Also could be good for understanding animal communication like dolphins etc.

I don't think it will really be able to do much actual human work, though. Maybe management....

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 24 points 8 months ago (5 children)
[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 19 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Idgaf. Why has this story been at the top of my feed for like 4 days now?

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago

Because roughly half the country believes what he says. If it affirms their worldview (usually hatred of some "other"), then they are happy to take it on face value.

Because we have blatantly partisan media companies willing to parrot his lies and unwilling to challenge even the most harmful of them.

Because our two party system makes nearly everything a political issue that is supported by one party or the other, and voters have to choose between the lesser of two evils (whatever that means to that voter) than vote for someone who better represents their actual world view.

Because he is rich. Because he is privileged. Because he has never been made to actually face the consequences of intentionally lying to everyone.

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

Kill (or help kill) people who are on average more poor and brown than we are.

[–] CaptainHowdy@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Yes. It's short for "hear him", and also i guess gets rid of the pointless gendering of that phrase.

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