Notices by sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net), page 8
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 01:58:29 JST sj_zero "oh but the Fediverse will never become mainstream if we don't do this"
Literally don't care. My feed has so much awesome content from intelligent and creative and funny people I don't need a barrage of bore from a bunch of pre-programmed flesh robots. That doesn't add anything for me. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 06-May-2023 12:07:40 JST sj_zero Panasonic toughbooks have hour meters in the bios. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 06-May-2023 03:26:57 JST sj_zero Almost like it was an experimental treatment rushed through and there's no way of doing long term testing without a long term.
Which is only controversial if one doesn't know how time works -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 03-May-2023 13:16:43 JST sj_zero "It's great! I have no money because everything I need to live is more expensive, but 3 times a year they send me money I needed 365 times a year!" -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 22:44:26 JST sj_zero The same corpos using nostalgia to try to sell the past back to us are the ones who destroyed the things that used to be good in the first place. If they were capable of not breaking it then they would have. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 02-May-2023 12:09:57 JST sj_zero There's a famous story of the Roman politician Cicero. He was named after his uncle who had a cleft in his nose that looked like a chickpea, so Cicero was based on the roman name for chickpeas. When he entered politics, he was told he should change his name, but he essentially said that he'd make the name Cicero well known (and he did) -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Apr-2023 04:58:37 JST sj_zero There was a game like that called facade made like 10 years ago like that.
Kinda sucked iirc but interesting concept -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 23:00:07 JST sj_zero Bro bro you don't understand bro this time the publicly traded multi-billion dollar company won't ignore massive pressure from the state and the stonk market bro -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 21-Apr-2023 07:02:30 JST sj_zero I pretty routinely got my hands on Atari 2600s back in the day because when you're a kid, you take what you can get and they were all around yard sales. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Apr-2023 11:12:43 JST sj_zero wtf did I just read? XD -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Apr-2023 05:50:59 JST sj_zero "you can't have any productive conversations on there because it's a pit of establishment shills, sycophants, and socially accepted hatemongers working together to create a giant circlejerk in which only a very limited number of opinions are allowed on any given topic"
"That may be true, but on the other hand it's very expensive, so it must be good!" -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 17-Apr-2023 22:11:39 JST sj_zero For instances that want some ddos protection, both nginx and apache have modules that help protect against ddos. There's also options like syn cookies.
I've said many times before: There's nobody coming to save us. We can only save ourselves. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Apr-2023 07:05:20 JST sj_zero It's really important that we keep copies of important books and other media either in paper form or in electronic copies we control on storage we fully control and don't need to ask permission to read.
The horse is out of the barn, and imo it's only a matter of time until every idiot with a political agenda of any kind will come around to change the cloud hosted media. It's just starting with one group, but it'll expand as it becomes more common and expected. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Apr-2023 01:13:45 JST sj_zero I dimly remember looking into something similar in the past, and the one problem with baking soda is that baking soda is sodium bicarbonate while the eggshells are calcium carbonate. This means that if you use a lot of baking soda you'll be introducing sodium to your garden, while if you use eggshells you'll be introducing the less toxic calcium to your garden.
I believe that many places that use salt to deice roads use calcium chloride on their roads instead of sodium chloride since the latter would destroy the plants on the side of the road. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 15-Apr-2023 23:31:40 JST sj_zero I've started a company that builds perpetual motion machines.
People say you can't build a perpetual motion machines. I tell those people "Of course it's impossible, then you go out and do it and it's not impossible anymore."
Welcome to my ted talk. Investment information is on the forms to your left. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Apr-2023 20:23:08 JST sj_zero I'm an old guy at this point. My first PC was an 8088, and I would tie up the phone line to dial into text based services, and later I would tie up the phone line to dial into the Internet and stick around for hours waiting for crappy websites to load.
I inadvertently predicted the explosive potential of smart phones around 2002 when I conceived of a device you could carry around with you and bring the Internet with you, and that if such a thing existed a lot of people who were tethered to a desk would go out and do things since they could just use the Internet as required on the go. The important thing here isn't that I predicted the entirely predictable, it's the reason why I thought such a thing would be a game changer: Smart phones get you away from the computer, away from the land line, and you can go out into the world and participate in life without being tethered do your technology. It would give you the power of the Internet on the go. I ended up being very correct when smart phones came around, providing the full Internet on the go. It was revolutionary and changed society, not entirely for the better.
By contrast, VR by definition tethers you to the device. You end up giving up your vision, your hearing, and you look kind of silly. You won't be playing VR and going for a drive, or going to the store, or riding a bike, or going to the club. You can't quickly flip between having a conversation and being in VR. you can't eat and be in VR. If you're in your VR world, that's all you're doing, and that's why it can't really be the next big thing the way some people imagine.
Now, even though Google gave up on it, I do think there's potential in wearable Augmented Reality technology. Unlike VR which locks you away in an alternate world, wearable AR could let you engage in reality while having some additional connection to the virtual world.
I think the future of revolutionary technologies will be ones that bring people back into the real world instead of drawing them deeper into virtual ones. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Apr-2023 06:18:46 JST sj_zero That's awesome. I know you can just sail the seven seas, but I've got pretty much all the megaman collections so far. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 14-Apr-2023 05:09:52 JST sj_zero Is there a mmbn collection for PC now? -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 13-Apr-2023 08:25:44 JST sj_zero I'm thankful for the wonderful relationship I have with my wife, but I can see it's a 2-way street and I think most people don't understand that.
She does a lot of the things guys pray for in a wife -- she'll bring me drinks and snacks when I'm sitting playing video games (including making a sammich -- no lie!). She raises our son with me and wants to impart positive values including her Christian background. I come home from work and the house is spotless and dinner is on the table waiting for me.
But for lack of a better term, it isn't free. I bring home the bacon, but I'm also the tall person to grab something she needs, the muscle to move something heavy, the handyman to fix something that's broken, the accountant, and I'm heavily involved with raising our son too.
It's a team effort, and everyone ends up better off for it. Both people are there by choice, and even with a promise like a marriage it's also a choice to continue to be there every day. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Apr-2023 21:02:33 JST sj_zero One thing that strikes me about conspiracy theories is that they aren't coming about because people are becoming unmoored from reality but because they've lost trust in an establishment that isn't interested in the truth, isn't interested in fair play, isn't interested in following the rules.
In such an environment, rumor and conjecture becomes the way we try to make sense of the world. I've seen it in non political contexts when a workplace doesn't have good communication but people need information to try to figure out what decisions to make. Obviously some of the conspiracy theories turn out wrong or are self-evidently wrong, but as the song goes: "just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you" -- many of the conspiracy theories end up being totally correct.