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[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 6 points 11 hours ago

OK, but that's still immaterial to the point of the comic. It could have been a sign with a plate, fork, and knife like ๐Ÿฝ๏ธ and been fine, too. What's on the sign doesnt change anything.

[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 27 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

If you really want to piss people off, treat every individual with compassion and dignity. Even (especially) if they don't treat themselves like that.

Also, corporations are not people, my friend. So use the above to help guide your social engineering tactics.

Not unethical or illegal, but avoiding a barrier, if you have a problem that a company won't solve using regular customer service means, spend time to find their email formula (FnameLname or FLname or FnameL @company.com) do some online searching, and then email your unhelpful CSO person and start to CC senior people in the company "to bring this error to their attention."

If the unhelpful CSO person hasn't messed up, then it's no heat on them and their supervisor will just say "ugh, just get rid of this guy," and solve your problem. I've used this method a dozen or so times, works well.

[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's paid by weight and thickness so fill it with trash like pieces of cardboard and sand.

[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

The point of Jucika as a comic was that it didn't really need language. It's Hungarian and was widely published across eastern Europe despite not many people speaking Hungarian.

She had a coffee cup in her hand, you don't need to know that the sign translates to "cafe."

[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 67 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

"Atmospheric" I mean, not any atmosphere I want to be in.

[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 10 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, let's see how the heat shield performed. Are there big chunks missing from this one, too?

[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

I'll second NK Jemisin's Broken Earth series. At a dinner a friend mentioned he had just finished the second book and the dinner immediately turned into talking about how amazing the series is. Highly recommend.

Three Body Problem is hard science sci-fi with amazing storytelling. The last book sort or rushes some parts, but I think that story of works for it in the context of a story of humanity rushing at dealing with possible destruction.

I didn't see it mentioned, but the Hyperion Cantos books are more classic SciFi/fantasy but it still hit. I cried at the ending, I'm not sue I ever have before at a book.

I actually liked A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) but, obviously, an incomplete series. Still.

[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 12 hours ago

Came here to recommend this.

Amazing series. Totally out of the norm scifi-fantasy that's beautifully written. The kind of books you can't put down and then once you hit those last 200 pages you get anxiety about what life is going too bed like without this story on it anymore.

[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Intentionally confusing.

This had been planned and pushed back something like 3 or 5 years, so it's no surprise, and doesnt affect that many Americans. Without confusing you to think you'll be fingerprinted to go to the store, it's not getting a lot of clicks.

[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 5 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

The waves of this comment collapsed into photons entering my eyes showing me a joke about superposition once I observed it.

[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why not cow-shaped universe?

Asking for a friend.

[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

Add it to the list!

 

Add CGI droids to Wrath of Kahn?

Add a terrible CGI jazz number to the opening of Final Frontier instead of Row Row Row Your Boat?

A scene where Kirk walks around one of the whales from Voyage Home and steps over their tail?

What would you add? Take a film and go to town.

 

My thirst for corn has not been quenched.

 
 

I'm looking at a job based around Joburg, and looks like it might actually happen.

I've lived in the SADC region about 10 years ago and spent time in Cape Town and Rosemont at the time. Curious how day to day living is these days, boks, loadshedding, etc.

 

The same company, based in Carson City, NV, also posted a job a while back about polling in Hungary. I'm sure for only super academic reasons.

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I'm old (lemmy.today)
 

I grew up in a shitberg redneck town.

Succession? Could be Bobby Dave's HVAC Empire.

Beast In Me? Country-ass redneck issues in NYC.

It goes on and on. As with Greek tragedies, very little separates the shepherd and the king.

Edit: I challenge you to name any show or movie about modern rich people that I can't put in a redneck context

 
 

Hi all,

I'm doing my first round of distro hopping, looking for something stable and falls into the "just works" category. I'm not looking to tinker. Trying to see if something will tempt me away from Mint, and would like the added security of a rolling release.

I'm testing out OpenSuse TW in VirtualBox and the second thing I tried to install was Google Earth Pro, which I do use regularly enough that it's maybe not a dealbreaker, but it's a check point for testing out a distro.

Short version is that it's a mismatch of repos and libraries and the flatback says no-go because of a bad executable stack. I've spent days off and on trying to reinstall and fix in a way that works based on rare and meager instances years ago of people running into the same problem. Nothing works and I'm apparently not advanced enough of a Linux user to wrap my head around how to approach this other than stumbling down a few paths that don't work.

Is this something to be expected with TW? Or is this somehow unique to Google Earth Pro? Or is this a VirtualBox issue? (it shouldn't be).

Any help is appreciated.

 

Broth of the carcasses of one deep fried, one traditional roast turkey, simmered since Friday morning. Cooked until the bones crumble. Today added aromatics and other ramen standards (soy, sake, mirin), peppers, and a glug of sriracha.

A warming layer of leftover dark meat is hiding under the noodles.

 

Based on a recent post now deleted from !privacy@lemmy.ml, which was itself based on this article, it sounds like there's some misunderstandings and misconceptions about how Wifi Positioning (WPS) works, and how to mitigate it to the best of one's ability.

First off, Apple and Google are the primary culprits here. Every time someone who has not adjusted their settings on their phone and has location data on connects to a wireless access point of any kind, Apple and Google collect that data and location data.

This is 100% different than wardrivers, who go around scanning and mapping SSIDs and BSSIDs.

After research from the University of Maryland showed how deep the WPS database goes, they suggested the following ways to mitigate having your wifi mapped:

-Rename your network to end with _nomap, so like "FBISurveilanceVan_nomap" would be how to do that. Larger WPS operators honor it as an optโ€‘out because these are automated systems. This cuts you out of many crowdsourced location DBs. This is not foolproof, but it will handle 99.9% of any use cases from anyone here.

-> This doesn't prevent wardrivers from indexing your wifi. This prevents your Mother in Law or cousin that has their iPhone or Android phone with all the original settings and bloatware from letting either company index you by using the location data on their phones.

Next...

-Turn off SSID broadcast if you can. This cuts down on lazy wardrivers scanning unhidden SSIDs.

-Change the name of your SSID and router's MAC/BSSID regularly.

-> This doesn't prevent sophisticated wardrivers from indexing your wifi. It prevents lazy ones from indexing it, as well as any personal devices that index wifi signals based on simply seeing the broadcast SSID, which is a thing.

If you plan on hosting family for the holidays, now is a great time to do this.

This NOT a 100% invisible wifi network solution. This is a "best as we can get" solution. If you want truly invisible internet connections, get shielded RJ45 cable like you live in a radio blackout zone.

How to check if your wifi has been indexed? https://wigle.net/ is a good starting point. I've never had a wifi network appear on there, so apparently I'm doing something right.

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