silentdon

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[–] silentdon@beehaw.org 25 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Dunning-Kruger effect?

[–] silentdon@beehaw.org 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The admin at my first job did this but with an excel spreadsheet. They were old school and didn't "trust" DHCP.

[–] silentdon@beehaw.org 6 points 9 months ago

Do a search online for paper mache. I think that's what you want.

[–] silentdon@beehaw.org 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I like looking at women.

[–] silentdon@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

That was true for some of the early projects. I doubt that they actually develop any of their tech from scratch now. It's way easier to just buy it from someone else

[–] silentdon@beehaw.org 51 points 1 year ago

The other 5% are less than worthless

[–] silentdon@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

Regarding your third paragraph, it's been shown (anecdotally at least) that blocking access to these kinds of sites and fox news does a lot in bringing older, easily manipulated people out of the q anon rabbit hole. It's difficult at first, but with nothing feeding the conspiracy, they go back to normal eventually.

[–] silentdon@beehaw.org 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"The Libgen sites deprive plaintiffs and their authors of income from their creative works, devalue the textbook market and plaintiffs’ works, and may cause plaintiffs to cease publishing certain works," the complaint says.

The plaintiffs artificially inflate textbook prices so it all balances out.

[–] silentdon@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Planes are so unreliable nowadays.

[–] silentdon@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

Wow there was absolutely no way anyone could have even guessed at this possibility.

[–] silentdon@beehaw.org 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They'll do like they always do and pretend it's the greatest, most innovative feature ever. They'll probably give it a hip new name like 'light speed port' and make it only compatible with Apple-branded products.

[–] silentdon@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I haven't used sync in years so I didn't know this is how it always was

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