nik282000

nik282000 OP , 26 days ago

Thanks, I thought it would be a weekend job, took a month 🙃

nik282000 OP , 26 days ago

Thanks, it was my first stab at painting something other than a wall.

nik282000 , 29 days ago

Algospeak. The voluntary censoring of your own language to satisfy the advertising requirements of corporations who want to monetize your thoughts.

While I do understand the need for language guidelines on platforms, the nearly instant training of TikTok users to avoid or substitute brand-unfriendly language is disgusting.

nik282000 , 28 days ago

My issue with it is that it ONLY serves to satisfy corporate goals, it doesn't actually prevent people from being exposed to ideas or topics that might be distressing or disturbing to some users. It's sucking corporate cock and being proud of it.

nik282000 , 28 days ago

Using abbreviations or initialisms obscures the meaning from people who are not in the know but does nothing to prevent people who might not want to think about the topic from being exposed to the idea, the code IS the idea. Not using coded language maintains clarity, does not bow down to corporate interest and is just as easily caught by filters for people who do not wish to be exposed to those topics.

nik282000 , 1 month ago

Didn't you read? There is microplastic in every testicle now!

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/22/1252831827/microplastics-testicles-humans-health

nik282000 , 1 month ago

This film was not meant to be an instruction manual for the future.

nik282000 OP , 1 month ago

The voltage on the trap is around 8kV at 60Hz.

nik282000 OP , 1 month ago

Yeah, this is very similar to what is used in some types of mass spectrometers. In my case it sorts dust by its mass/charge ratio.

nik282000 OP , 1 month ago

That's why I built it. I though it was so weird to see something so Star Trek that is actually the basis of a scientific instrument.

nik282000 , 1 month ago

If you liked this check out MTV's Liquid Television: https://archive.org/details/liquid-television-complete

Or Cartoon Sushi: https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Tyler+D.+Soule%22

nik282000 , 1 month ago

Chaotic good, right there.

nik282000 , 1 month ago

I just repaired a 2004ish crt and had forgotten that noise. Also, holy crap I also forgot about the high voltage >_<

nik282000 , 1 month ago

I still have a burned in distrust for everything after W2k. Why does the look have to change at all? Most user's can't find the browser if someone moves the icon let alone change the colour scheme, shape of the start menu and location of settings.

nik282000 , 1 month ago

This so hard, we still have XP machines running scada software and seeing the bubbly-blue IU makes it look like a 90's educational game.

nik282000 , 1 month ago

W7 was the last version where I felt like a normal user could have full control. I could do updates once a week without having to worry about setting safe hours. Settings weren't duplicated and scattered across multiple locations and UI styles. As far as I remember there were very few un-uninstallable features, it was the OS and what ever the user wanted. No McAffee demo, Candy Crush, OneDrive, XBox, Spotify, etc.

nik282000 , 1 month ago

What about rage quitting your job, binge drinking and a total loss of interest in all activity?

nik282000 , 1 month ago

For sure he can, he has legally OVERPAID his rent for years. If he pays the taxes back at the same rate everything should be evened out by the time he's done.

nik282000 , 2 months ago

Animated series was 10/10, Adam West was a 9.5, Michael Keaton was a 9. The latest iteration tries to be so gritty and serious that it's more of a parody than Adam West.

nik282000 , 2 months ago

I found WatchYourLan hosed my PiHole logs. Somehow the WYL instance got its hostname associated with ~10 mac addresses on my lan so more than half of my traffic comes from "watchyourlan.local". FML

nik282000 , 2 months ago

I recently setup Guacamole (Web based VNC/RDP/SSH) with totp and was able to close external SSH access. Now everything I run can sit behind a single reverse proxy, no extra ports.

nik282000 , 2 months ago

Why would anyone NOT parse a tab as whitespace? Like, python really wants you to use spaces but will still let you use tabs if you are consistent.

nik282000 OP , 2 months ago

You can use a pinhole to project an image of the sun onto a sheet of paper but not directly as glasses. Look up a 'pinhole projector' you can make a pretty good one with an Amazon box.

nik282000 , 2 months ago

A wind power forecast overestimated the amount of wind power to be generated Friday morning by 800 megawatts, Samaroden said.

When the Keephills 2 natural gas plant west of Edmonton tripped offline two hours later, AESO asked power distribution companies, including Edmonton's Epcor and Calgary's Enmax, to begin rotating outages to their customers, she said.

So the wind turbines still work, there is just not enough of them, but the petro-chemical powered plant, which Alberta continues to tell us is the only real way to supply a grid, failed.

nik282000 , 2 months ago

Only if the only point of college is to get a job.

When it comes with that 200K of debt the ONLY point is to get a job. Employers want employees with degrees because degrees come with debt and people who are in debt are less likely to quit a shitty job.

nik282000 , 2 months ago

I love Mullvad and recommend them for everything other than torrenting. Once they disabled port forwarding I moved to AirVPN who seem to be pretty legit.

I'm not trying to keep my ratios up but I have a few torrents of media that are not available anywhere for sale and have less than 10 seeds, so I feel like I am helping keep the shows and movies of my childhood alive.

nik282000 , 2 months ago

Hmm, TIL, thanks.

nik282000 , 2 months ago

No, corporate buyers and lack of regulation is pricing out first time buyers.

nik282000 , 2 months ago

in order to keep up with inflation

Citation Needed

nik282000 OP , 3 months ago

Something to do with the way the brightness tapers off with this filter makes it look weirdly 3D, it's even stronger with binoculars.

nik282000 OP , 2 months ago

A Sony A7R (the oldest model) mounted on 102mm f/9.8 refactor.

nik282000 , 3 months ago

As soon as Google bought YouTube they knew who the users were and everything they did online. This was never not true. Their business is to log all the activity of all internet users, not to make them safe or happy, there is nothing broken in their platform as far as they are concerned.

nik282000 , 3 months ago

You expect a cop to understand both the threat and entertainment value of a Defcon talk?

nik282000 , 3 months ago

I keep each service separate as far as DBs, if something breaks or get a major upgrade I don't have to worry about other containers.

nik282000 , 3 months ago

Namecheap, cheap, easy to use, easy to setup DDNS, helpful support staff. I have heard horror stories of them selling popular domains out from under their owner but none were recent.

nik282000 OP , 3 months ago

A follow up post retracts the statement and instead suggests the following.

Park vehicles in garage, if possible
Ensure your driveway is well lit and keep exterior lights on all night
Security cameras are an asset
If possible, install a home security system – activate alarm on STAY when home and AWAY when out
Consider having a motion detection alarm connected to your cell phone
Put security film on glass windows and doors
Have multipoint door locks on your doors
Keep backyard gates locked and ground windows secured
Do not post on social media when you will be away on holiday
Report suspicious vehicles/persons in the neighbourhood to police

Defund the police, over and over they are telling us, directly, that this OUR problem not theirs. Put the money into healthcare and public transit.

nik282000 OP , 3 months ago

Our car got stolen last year, the Hamilton police said "call your insurance company."

It took the guy 5 min from opening the door to driving away and as far as I know the only technical part is that they use some hardware to relay the key fob signals. They relay the keyless/proximity unlock signal to get in, then they pair a new fob to the car using the manufactures method. Normally that requires all other paired fobs to be present at the same time BUT they are relaying those signals so the "security" there is bypassed.

The icing on the cake is that the cops didn't even bother to cruise by the next night as the neighbour's car got stolen as well.

nik282000 OP , 3 months ago

So I should just start committing crimes too complicated for cops to understand!

nik282000 OP , 3 months ago

Nope.

nik282000 OP , 3 months ago

I think it's the other way round, only dumbasses want the job. The same thing happens with middle management and politicians, anyone smart enough to do the job well is smart enough not to take it.

nik282000 , 3 months ago

Titanfall 2 was the perfect mix of Unreal Tournament and MechWarrior. Of course EA would abandon it to pump 10,000 skins into an arena micro-transaction slot machine.