arsCynic

joined 8 months ago
[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 1 points 54 minutes ago

LOTR - “What are we holding on to, Sam? That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for.”

“What are we holding on to, Sam?”
“That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it's worth fighting for.”

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago

Though, kangaroo biomimicry proved a great success.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 15 points 3 days ago

I always saw the nice things that Microsoft offered to its users

I'd understand this perspective in 2005, but 2025?

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

"Sex, drugs, and creating separate accounts to leave witty replies to one's own posts."

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Why couldn't the cop just:

"Hey, love your music man!"
"Huh? My music?"
"Dude, you totally resemble Robert Smith from The Cure!"

"Ooh hahaha, thanks."
"So, what I actually approached you for, we've had a call that reported a shady looking person carrying a knife in this area. You seem fine, but just double checking because, well, we see weird shit sometimes and don't want to be negligent."
"Aha okay, fair enough. Well these look like knives perhaps but they are actually professional gardening tools. I can show you my masterpiece actually."
[…] after a 20 minute tour in his garden.
"So cool man, should get my ass into nature more too. Sorry for the trouble and thanks for your time and understanding. Have a good one."
"Cheers, see you around."

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 6 points 5 days ago

Naive looking titles like these are effective ammo against the people who use it.

Basic economics is as real and essential as law or human language, despite being made up. The problem lies beyond the basics; the stock market has largely become a pyramid scheme that glorifies gambling, which cryptocurrency does by default. It's all of these greed-inducing humanity-destroying contraptions that deserve relentless mockery, defiance, and ultimately, subversion. We need a system where profit is a vice, not a virtue.


✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

If he could reach a glory hole, it’d probably have a mirror so he could stare at the only thing he thinks he loves.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 38 points 1 week ago (5 children)

God I love Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Been watching South Park since I was a kid and they haven't stopped delivering.
Their Trump mockery went stratospheric at the end which caused me to jump around the living room in sheer exhilaration.
South Park - s27e01 - Trump Epstein

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 58 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The title is misinformation. It should be "someone made a RAT downloadable on Arch Linux" because the Arch User Repository (AUR) ≠ official repository. From the Arch wiki:

The Arch User Repository (AUR) is a community-driven repository for Arch Linux users. It contains package descriptions (PKGBUILDs) that allow you to compile a package from source with makepkg and then install it via pacman. The AUR was created to organize and share new packages from the community and to help expedite popular packages' inclusion into the extra repository. This document explains how users can access and utilize the AUR.

A good number of new packages that enter the official repositories start in the AUR. In the AUR, users are able to contribute their own package builds (PKGBUILD and related files). The AUR community has the ability to vote for packages in the AUR. If a package becomes popular enough — provided it has a compatible license and good packaging technique — it may be entered into the extra repository (directly accessible by pacman or from the Arch build system).

Warning: AUR packages are user-produced content. These PKGBUILDs are completely unofficial and have not been thoroughly vetted. Any use of the provided files is at your own risk.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

What the hell happened to the ant? My god I dislike cliffhangers.

[–] arsCynic@beehaw.org 15 points 1 week ago

As I've said before and will many times again, anything that touches crypto"currencies" turns to shit because it means having succumbed to greed.

It's a Crypto Cult Science.

 

Alt text: "Photograph of a bench surrounded by cars in a public square that's actually a parking lot. Extremely visually displeasing. NSFW."

 

Video description:

"44,794 views May 7, 2025
VALVE cancelled the Counter-Strike fan mod Classic Offensive. After eight years of development and after being approved by Steam Greenlight in 2017, VALVE has ordered the developers of Classic Offensive to halt development and not release the mod.
The full story on: https://classic-offensive.net/
#counterstrike #cs2 #csgo

 

Popularity ≠ superiority. Proprietary text document formats is yet another proof of Microsoft's crookedness—their subpar products only able to stay afloat by unethical anti-competitive behaviour.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/sports@beehaw.org
 

Leo Romero 5-0 grinds the long side of a Tesla Cybertruck, then does a kickflip to 50-50 of the same swasticar cybersuck.

 

I'm looking for a song video clip which features a very close up shot of female lips. At a certain point it becomes sexual without being explicit, and it is suggested that the woman bit off a mans penis.

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What is love? (infosec.pub)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org
 

No seriously, what does love mean to you? The love of your child, the love of your partner(s), monogamy, polyamory, (non) consensual non-monogamy, infatuation, limerence, heartbreak. The love of one's hobby, the love for an object, the love of an idea, et cetera. Whatever it is that comes to mind goes.

Photo credits: Gaelle Marcel on Unsplash.

 

The Apprentice's remarkable acting and screenwriting genuinely encapsulates Trump's rise to power. The writers failed to succumb to simple mockery, but laid bare cause and effect sans nauseam. My disbelief has finally yielded to understanding why there's no better representative for contemporary USA; Donald Trump is the worst victim of toxic masculinity.

 

The simple trick to keeping one's upper body warm is adding layers. However, wearing multiple socks does not work for the feet. At least not for me. Any advice? Preferably non-electric solutions.

Photo credit: Shashi Chaturvedula.

 

Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely. Disregarding all of bitcoin's shortcomings, a financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won't change the world for the better.

 

Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely. Disregarding all of bitcoin's shortcomings, a financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won't change the world for the better.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

Free dissemination of knowledge that benefits the advancement of mankind should never be illegal.

 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17069345

Because I've been eating rice more often I realized via my energy bill that cooking in a pot on an electric plate for 30 minutes consumes massive amounts of electricity. Therefore I'm currently browsing for rice cookers, but the info on energy efficiency leaves much to be desired.

What would be the most efficient method to cook brown rice? Which appliance would be recommendable and ideally be in line with the Buy It For Life philosophy?

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