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cmbabul , to lemmyshitpost in Overthrow a Government and Install a Puppet Dictator? The CIA will do it for Bananas!

Straight up just listening to Behind the Bastards/It Could Happen Here, the Dollop, or Knowledge Fight will make you sound like a crazy person if you talk about them to someone who has no interest in history or current events

Jimbo ,
@Jimbo@yiffit.net avatar

No you don’t understand, they were turning seals into oil!!!

cyborganism , to coffee in How do you store your grounded coffee?

Usually I attach a copper wire from the tin box to the faucet to make sure it’s well grounded.

avidamoeba ,
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca avatar

If the building is built to code, the ground connector on the wall outlets should also be well grounded. Some new buildings have plastic water pipes so the faucets might not be as grounded as they used to be.

cyborganism ,

Oh good to know! So then just put the wire in the ground hole of the electrical outlet?

avidamoeba , (edited )
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca avatar

Yeah, that’s what I do. 🔌

Neato ,
@Neato@ttrpg.network avatar

No, no. Not that type of grounded!

He means the coffee was bad and he sent it to its room with no phone. You’re grounded mister (coffee)!

thanks_shakey_snake ,

No no not that kind of grounded! They meant designating the coffee as unable to fly due to required maintenance, inclement weather, etc.

froh42 ,

Oh, fuck ist it Boeing coffee?

Beetschnapps ,

OP was curious enough to ask, but not curious enough to you know…

allcretansareliars ,

DON’T JOKE ABOUT ELECTROSTATIC CLUMPING.

Emptiness , to lemmyshitpost in Stuck
@Emptiness@lemmy.world avatar

Wait, what are you doing step vacuum?

GrymEdm , to lemmyshitpost in Either that, or how this would present investment opportunity for the savvy
bquintb , to memes in YARRR
@bquintb@midwest.social avatar

DO WHAT YOU WANT CAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE.

YOU. ARE. A. PIRATE

DmMacniel ,

Yarr Har fidel di di

Being a pirate is alright to be

tigeruppercut ,

fidel

I’m not sure Castro would’ve classified himself as a pirate, but close enough

Hiro8811 ,

Unless they catch you, but keep sailing till your winds get cut

n7gifmdn , to memes in *Cough Cough...* Chrome... *Chough*...
@n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca avatar

The fact anyone ever thought this was for any reason other than making it easier to hide your porn browsing history from your mom is just silly.

MystikIncarnate ,

That’s pretty much all I use it for. To keep my porn browsing off of my history.

Not to hide it from anyone, I don’t live with my mother anymore and I don’t think my SO would care. More so that when I google something, I don’t get porn auto complete entries in my everyday browsing.

I’m fully aware that my traffic is able to be monitored by my ISP (at least to the extent that there’s a connection that exists. HTTPS is still not capable of being easily decrypted), and my DNS is resolving the address for the porn sites, and that Google (or whatever search engine) is logging that the search happened… Or that the sites see my connection, from my IP, and know what I watched.

My only objective is that they can’t link that to my normal browsing or accounts.

You know all those “share on”… Twitter/Facebook/whatever links? When they load, from Facebook, it asks the referer URL, and checks the browser for any cookies that might associate that browsing to a person for ad customization. Incognito isolates that information, so while Facebook/X(Twitter)/whoever may know that someone went to that URL, they have no cookie data to link it to a person uniquely, so they have information that the site was visited, but no idea who visited the site since any session cookies I have for those services are in my non-incognito browser.

PM_Your_Nudes_Please , (edited )

You know all those “share on”… Twitter/Facebook/whatever links? When they load, from Facebook, it asks the referer URL, and checks the browser for any cookies that might associate that browsing to a person for ad customization. Incognito isolates that information, so while Facebook/X(Twitter)/whoever may know that someone went to that URL, they have no cookie data to link it to a person uniquely, so they have information that the site was visited, but no idea who visited the site since any session cookies I have for those services are in my non-incognito browser.

I mean, this is a little outdated by today’s practices. Any ad tracker worth their salt will be using browser fingerprinting as well.

Imagine this scenario: You have a user with a specific browser, with specific extensions installed, (which you can derive from the fact that your ads are getting blocked by a specific ad blocker, they have the “Do Not Track” flag enabled, you have a nice monitor with a large aspect ratio and you’re browsing in full screen so the site can see that aspect ratio, etc…) from a specific IP address. In normal browsing, this user has a tracking cookie so your “share on Facebook” buttons can see what sites they’re visiting.

But now you’re seeing an identical browser, with identical extensions, on an identical IP address. But this time it doesn’t have your tracking cookie. Sure, there’s the chance that two people are using identical settings. But as your extension list grows and your browser becomes more unique, your fingerprint becomes more easily identifiable. So now, even without that tracking cookie, they’re able to use that fingerprint to infer that you’re the same person and link your incognito browsing back to your regular browsing.

MystikIncarnate ,

Except by default, extensions are not enabled in Incognito mode unless you specifically tell your browser to allow it.

On top of that, if a browsers incognito has the same browser ID of the non-incognito version, that’s probably not good. I would expect a browser to randomize any unique information like that when launching a private window.

So all you’ve got, as a savvy tracker, is the same aspect ratio, which, big deal, not like there’s a huge selection of monitor sizes, and the same IP address, which, again, big deal, since any one client IP can have an almost unlimited number of users behind it.

You can presume it’s the same person, but bluntly, that’s a wild guess. It could be a visitor, or a different user logged into the same computer or another computer at the same location with the same (or at least a similar in resolution) screen. It’s honestly a crapshoot. Assuming that’s the person you know accesses your site from that IP is a bit of a stretch.

Any tracking cookies created in an Incognito or private window are going to get shredded when the window is closed, as long as the browser is doing what it’s supposed to do.

LittleBorat2 ,

That and" stalking" people on LinkedIn

psud ,

Also it’s for loading web pages that don’t behave well otherwise

capital , (edited )

“Is it loading weird due to cache/cookies? Lemme load it in Private Browsing real quick.”

Zerush ,
@Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

This and avoiding that pages, which you don’t use daily, fill your HD and browser with all kind of crap you don’t need and want.

holgersson ,

I use it to browse products and content that I dont want in my ad profiles. Like, sometimes I’d like to take a look at what my resident right wing nut case posted, but without having the ad brokers think that I need an AR15 and a Trump bible.

m0darn , to lemmyshitpost in Musical Genius

Hey I love this meme everytime I see it, but I want to point out that that point about growing up in "similar circumstances that nurture their skill’ is contingent upon working musicians being able to afford to raise children. Children that will also need to work.

Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think there is a comparable proportion of the population that are working musicians, that earn enough money to support children, but not so much that the children don’t have to learn a trade, as there were in “Enlightenment” Europe where if a person wanted to hear music they had to make it themselves, or pay someone to make it, and every rich asshole had a chamber orchestra following him around.

Also parents don’t teach children their trades the way they used to, and they aren’t expected to support their parent’s businesses the way they used to. (I’m not lamenting this). There used to be a lot of pressure on children to contribute economically. Mozart, and his siblings probably faced what we’d consider child abuse if he didn’t practice. He was certainly exploited.

Michael Jackson is a Mozart of the 20th century. He was put to work at a young age to support his parents and siblings, that were also working musicians.

As much as I love Weird Al (and I do) I don’t think he was groomed and exploited the same way MJ/WM were. Kudos to his parents for that I guess.

Chef ,

Now I’m thinking about Weird Al’s parents and I’m sad.

fristislurper ,
@fristislurper@feddit.nl avatar

Yeah, F1 driver Max Verstappen is in a similar situation. Clearly insanely talented, but probably got there by having a childhood which was pretty fucked up (left at gas station by father in Italy if he lost a karting race, etc.).

Maybe we miss out on a couple of savants without this kind of treatement, but it is a pretty good tradeoff, especially if you think about all the kids that did not make it to the top, and just had a abusive childhood without anything to show for it.

Grimy ,

Can I be a savant if I was abused (sexually) but never trained? Also, who am I saving?

AlligatorBlizzard ,

all the kids that did not make it to the top, and just had a abusive childhood without anything to show for it.

… fuck.

m0darn ,

think about all the kids that did not make it to the top, and just had a abusive childhood without anything to show for it.

(…Except trauma to teach to their kids)

Exactly!

MotoAsh ,

Besides, I think we lose far more amazingly talented people to the grind of poverty more than overt child exploitation. They are one and the same problem, and everyone here speaks as if this stuff only happened in the past or in extreme examples…

helpimnotdrowning , to memes in HUP!
@helpimnotdrowning@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

2013 is generous.

theangryseal ,

My office still rocking 2007.

I’m good with it too.

rambos ,

Same here. Usually office 2007 + saveaspdf plugin + local language pack is my way to go, but recently started using only office and Im amazed how compatible it is, at least for my usage.

Shard ,

I work in Data centers. A few years back I saw a banking customer with a mainframe computer in their hall while we were upgrading the buildings cooling systems.

Parsnip8904 ,
@Parsnip8904@beehaw.org avatar

2007 is where it’s at

FreeloadingSponger , to technology in Musk's new idea

The poes law on Musk tweet screenshots is through the roof. I have absolutely no idea if this is real.

SwallowsDick ,

Exactly what I thought

FrankFrankson ,

Oh it’s real. It’s part of Musk’s whole stupid “X the everything app” bullshit he has been talking about for years. He is a huge moron. I mean the first sentence in the description of the site for his new company xAI is: “xAI is a new company founded by Elon Musk that sets out to understand the universe” …he is such a fuckin loser.

Imma make a company called yAI and our goal is going to be to solve all the problems everyone has ever had. Don’t ask me how yet because that doesn’t matter but the solutions will involve AI and my genius ability to solve all the problems. All banks give me money now please thank you.

postmateDumbass ,

X. sooooo edgey.

Can the band X trademark claim him?

Just for fun.

Also: vAI so you get called on before Elon in alpha(betical) order.

kometes ,
@kometes@lemmy.world avatar

get in line

get in line

postmateDumbass ,

That would be a great logo for an I.U.D. company

Zormat ,

If all these scientists and engineers are so much smarter than Musk, how come they never had the idea to just understand the universe? 🤔

Zrybew ,

It’s called physics, you should check it out.

Zrybew ,

It’s called physics, you should check it out.

Iapar ,

Whoosh?

Mac , (edited ) to workreform in Exploited rule

Reminder that every dollar possessed by the ultrawealthy is time you wouldn’t have had to spend working and could have instead used that time to enrich your personal life whether it’s alone, with family, or friends.

ShareMySims ,

And to help illustrate your important reminder, a (probably now outdated) visualisation of just how many dollars they actually posses:

mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

Johnmannesca ,
@Johnmannesca@lemmy.world avatar

Outdated sure, but captivating nonetheless

ShareMySims ,

Yeah, it’s mindboggling as it is, but when you know how much more money the richest few people have made since it was last updated (the world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes to $869bn since 2020), or how much all of the world’s billionaires are hoarding combined (2,781 billionaires with a total net wealth of $14.2 trillion - the pixel site only goes up to 3.2 trillion), or that this trend isn’t going anywhere or slowing down, it really is overwhelming.

EvolvedTurtle ,

This is really cool

ShareMySims ,

Glad you found it helpful/interesting!

Bezzelbob , to memes in Uncanny Valley
@Bezzelbob@lemmy.world avatar

Not necessarily fear it’s just most of the time today it’s used in horror

Back then it was probably used to differentiate Neanderthals

funkless_eck ,

or corpses

Ragnarok314159 ,

Or Lizard people first trying to study us.

BeMoreCareful ,

Well, I didn’t vote for them.

Agent641 ,

Lizard people are a dumb conspiracy!

licks eyes angrily

billgamesh ,

I doubt that premise. Neanderthals looked different, but not uncanny valley. Horror and fear may have been involved sometimes, but so was sex and competition… Neanderthals probably just looked like big chinless people

BackOnMyBS ,
@BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world avatar

According to commercial genetics testing, I’m more Neanderthal than 90% of other people that used the same major company. My ancestors were into some kinky 👉👌

DragonTypeWyvern ,

You know they sell your genetic data?

The hunter killer bots are going to find you so dang fast in the robot revolution, rip

BackOnMyBS , (edited )
@BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world avatar

prolly 🤷‍♂️ i got it done about 10 yrs ago when i wasnt aware of all that.

Agent641 ,

They like that caveussy

samus12345 , (edited )
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

This made me look up what a Neanderthal would look like in modern clothing and this was one of the results:

https://media.sciencephoto.com/e4/38/00/77/e4380077-225px.jpg

Asmongold?..

arandomthought , to lemmyshitpost in I swear these things are mimics or something

Also once you managed to get a napkin, they clean about as well as aluminum foil.

BakedCatboy , to mildlyinfuriating in YouTube needs more potato

Thank goodness it’s in HDR

sgibson5150 OP ,

I love basking in the vivid, radiant luminosity of a potato.

ZombiFrancis ,

Pixels be crisp.

electricprism , to piracy in GOG basically acknowledges piracy in a meme

ALL ANTI-CHEAT IS SPYWARE.

ALL DRM IS THEFT.

xor ,

*malware
… also a violation of the CFAA

lseif ,

spyware is a subset of malware

xor ,

yup

cows_are_underrated ,

I saw a really cool concept for “Anti piracy” some time ago. It works by having a lot of little achievements which represent you progress. So each time you start the game it checks for which achievements you have and the loads your progress according to your achievements.

hikaru755 ,

So, basically cloud saves with extra steps, except you only get a single save and can’t replay the game? Sounds even worse than current solutions, honestly

Cypher ,

That’s just a different flavour of DRM.

cows_are_underrated ,

It doesn’t affect the performance. It may increase the loading time a bit, but it doesn’t affect anything else.

Fisch ,
@Fisch@lemmy.ml avatar

Performance isn’t the only issue. This system would also not let you play offline, without being logged in and you couldn’t have mutliple saves or replay the game.

rmi , to memes in Nintendo doing the smarting

Switch 2s architecture will probably be very similar, so Nintendo might have done it to protect the next gen.

WallEx ,

Yeah like that is going to work. There are forks left and right.

rmi ,

Of course it’s not gonna work. But that’s just how lawyers think I suppose.

WallEx ,

More like Nintendo thinks they can deal with their costumers, but the outcome stays the same so it doesn’t really matter

dev_null ,

Are there any that actually have a new team behind them that would presumably add Switch 2 support?

WallEx ,

Dunno, but it will come

ShortN0te ,

It is working. It buys them enough time to sell enough new hardware and games. It will take a really long time until development picks up again, since basically every developer associated (not necessarily every one who has contributed to the project) with the yuzu group can no longer legally work on that project. So basically a lot of expertise is lost.

WallEx ,

There are literally working forks right now. Switch 2 support is different though. We’ll have to wait and see how that turns out.

ShortN0te ,

Yes there are forks, but having a fork and maintaining it are 2 completely different things.

WallEx ,

Absolutely.

Although i think the need and the drive to use emulators is higher then ever. So the next project without direct responsibility will come eventually I think.

Hawk ,

Forks are meaningless.

Unless a team steps up to continue development, the project is as good as dead.

WallEx ,

I can still play emulated games right now, so its alive and well for my purpose (playing games that I fucking paid for without stutter at 60fps)

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