blackstampede

joined 2 years ago

Too late. He's had that idea since his first term.

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Looks like it uses cloudflare warp, which is a free service that cloudflare provides that's like a somewhat less secure VPN? It used to expose your IP and just encrypt the content so your ISP couldn't snoop on you, but websites could still see your IP. Apparently, cloudflare fixed the exposed-IP thing in 2022 though. Its also supposed to stabilize and improve the speed of your Internet connection.

It's basically a VPN with better speeds and slightly worse security, from what I'm seeing. A good everyday service, but you probably don't want to use it if you're leaking national security info.

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Goddamn that was wholesome. Thanks for sharing.

This is literally what I do every day. I intermittent fast, so I don't eat until dinner. I work through lunch, take breaks whenever I need to get up and stretch my legs, and leave at ~4:15.

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Sure, there are a minority of people who have legitimate physical disabilities that make it difficult for them to get laid, or impossible to have sex at all. I was under the impression that we were discussing the general case, though. I'm not going to prefix every comment I make with a statement about the exceptions when I'm speaking casually.

It makes conversation awkward and difficult to follow, because you have to dig through the throat-clearing and ass-covering to figure out what the person is trying to say. If you want to discuss those exceptions, feel free to bring them up, but if you feel that I'm ableist for refusing to pad out all my comments with performative acknowledgements to satisfy your asinine sense of morality, then I don't know what to tell you. Well, actually, I guess I do: "No".

Honesty is almost always the right choice. If you tell the truth directly and with kindness, you'll find out who is worth caring about and who isn't real quick. A surprisingly large percentage of people are willing to put up with the occasional badly worded or blunt remark if it means less ambiguity and deception. There are two tricks to doing this right:

  1. Be self aware enough to know when you're playing the "I'm not an asshole, I just tell it like it is" game, and don't do that. You can always say things in the nicest possible way, and being a dick doesn't make you honest, it just makes you a dick.

  2. There is a line that you need to be aware of, where being honest can get people hurt or killed. When you reach that line, you need to be ready to seamlessly transition from being honest and direct and kind to looking honest and direct and kind while lying your ass off. So spend some time refining your ability as a liar but don't use those skills until you need to.

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I've only rarely heard it used as a shorthand for "I/we/you can't get laid". I've always interpreted it to mean the first thing. OP isn't wrong about the second though, honestly. It is a skill issue.

The average bit is ~0.5. Checkmate.

She absolutely would

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wrong. Ryzen >> amd = 0. The string "amd" is 6384996, when interpreted as a decimal. Right shifting by that many digits turns Ryzen (0101001001111001011110100110010101101110) into 0.

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I know the feeling lol my gf tells me I'm handsome all the time, but I'm in the ex-fat-kid gang, and all I see is my neck isn't quite right, my shoulders are too hunched, my ass is too flat etc.

Every once in a while I'll dress up in a suit, or she'll take a picture of me reading on the couch or something, and for just a minute I'm like "who is that lanky bastard" lol

People are allergic to nuance.

 

I've been thinking about enshitification recently, and I'm also working on a startup with a friend that just received funding. I've been wondering how one might arrange a business such that it won't gradually trend towards shittier products in search of higher profit margins.

Obviously, it would be nice to redesign all of society so that this isn't a thing, but barring that, does anyone have any ideas for setting up a business in such a way that motivations are aligned with producing a good product?

Currently, we're trying to retain as much control as possible, but at some point we may go public, and if we do, I'm not sure how to keep us aimed at accomplishing our goals. We're building a platform that should solve or at least improve the replication crisis in scientific research, and we could lose control to investors that want board seats, or sell to someone like Google.

If we do either, I doubt the company will do what we want it to do in the long term.

Going public is the route that seems less likely to lead to this change in direction, but it seems like it could end in the same place over a long enough timeline.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by blackstampede@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I recently acquired two used blade servers and a short rack to put them in. I'm planning to use one or the other as the replacement for a media server that died on me a bit ago. The old media server was just a little refurb dell workstation, with a single SSD in it, but the servers have 6 and 8 bays, respectively.

I would like to RAID them so that one drive dying doesn't lose any of my media, and I was leaning towards Ubuntu server as an OS. I'm not sure how to do that, and I'm kind of poking around for info and advice. Hit me with it.

 
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