brianary

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 7 points 10 months ago

Sometimes science intersects with fiction, sometimes it intersects with politics.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

Adtech has been controlling the Overton Window too long. That's what fueled the rise of (actual) fake news, as originally observed coming from Estonia, radicalizing dumb Americans.

https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/774-the-ad-money-fuelling-fake-news/

[–] brianary@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

The FDA is a joke. I repeatedly got food poisoning from a bag of hard boiled eggs before I figured it out. I reported it to the FDA/USDA to try and get the batch tested to keep anyone else from getting sick, and they just had me call someone that ended up being a lawyer for the store that sold the eggs, whose sole interest was to tell me I couldn't prove anything so I shouldn't sue.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

He took a series of very shallow breaths, and then said as quickly and as quietly as he could, 'Door, if you can hear me, say so very, very quietly.'

Very, very quietly, the door murmured, 'I can hear you.'

'Good. Now, in a moment, I'm going to ask you to open. When you open do not want you to say that you enjoyed it, OK?'

'ΟΚ.'

'And I don't want you to say to me that I have made a simple door very happy, or that it is your pleasure to open for me and your satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done, OK?'

'ΟΚ.'

'And do not want you to ask me to have a nice day, understand?"

'I understand.'

'OK,' said Zaphod, tensing himself, 'open now.'

The door slid open quietly. Zaphod slipped quietly through. The door closed quietly behind him.

'Is that the way you like it, Mr Beeblebrox?' said the door out loud.

Life, the Universe, and Everything

[–] brianary@startrek.website 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's actually meditation, isn't it?

[–] brianary@startrek.website 23 points 11 months ago

This company has been caught multiple times going back and changing the location of recorded shots in their system after the fact. I don't know why they're still in business.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago

That and .NET's CLR, i think.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Windows increasingly allows either slash for paths.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 11 months ago

Press WinKey+Ctrl+D, then WinKey+Ctrl+(←or→). Windows already has multiple desktops.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago

That all sounds good to me. Good clarification.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I was with you right up until the unique passwords. I do use a different randomly generated password for each site.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 1 points 11 months ago

What's this rage really about?

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