pseudonym

pseudonym, 4 months ago to random

My million dollar idea I want someone to steal and do, so I can be a customer.

"Dumb Stuff" we sell electronic appliances that aren't Internet connected. That's all.

That's it. That's the pitch. I would buy the <bleep> out of this company if their electronic gadgets were even half way decent, and repairable.

Electronic, no wifi, regular screws to open it up. That's it. Do those three things, and you can be sold by this store.

I will pay this business to curate and find these devices for me.

pseudonym, 6 months ago to random

The Trolley "problem". Put on the brakes, save everyone.

Don't accept the framing. Break the "rules". That's how you solve the problem.

That's the toot.

#lateralThinking

pseudonym, 6 months ago to keto

Need some new low carb, low sugar breakfast ideas. Getting tired of: eggs, meat, cheese, peanut butter.

I'm not currently too worried about fat, just keeping down simple carb and added sugar.

I'm pretty omnivorous and like most veg. I'm just not being creative enough for additional "fast" "tasty" breakfast options.

Thoughts?

#keto #diabetes #food

pseudonym, 1 month ago to random

Gentle request.

Please don't drop fake stuff for the lols for April fools.

We all have enough mental bandwidth consumed filtering out active disinformation and innocent mistakes to add to the burden. In general they aren't funny and degrade many folks online experience.

Thanks for listening.

#PSA

mo you know

pseudonym, 1 month ago to random

After all the news about Amazon grab and go being essentially Mechanical Turk, a friend on discord said:

"oh god now I'm thinking of a building full of teenagers with game controllers remotely steering 'driverless' cars through heavy traffic"

And I'm just afraid Tesla is going to totally "Ender's Game" this.

Shudder

pseudonym, 9 months ago to random

Help me lazyweb, you are my only hope.

I need replacement spring steel clips that hold a grease filter in an oven range hood, but the parts aren't made any more.

Model "j v324 003ad range hood" from GE.

The hooks are sort of J shaped, about an inch long, and 3 of them provide pressure to hold the filter in place. I have one remaining. See pics.

Any help to find some of these would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

#oven #repair #parts

Picture of GE range hood
The piece of spring steel connector I'm looking for. Kind of a J shaped hook.

pseudonym, 7 months ago to trans

Morning wake-up thought. Seeking input from any trans writers in particular, but anyone feel free to chime in.

I know someone (probably many someones) must have used this idea before, but I haven't come across it.

How would you handle the fictional traditions of a Fey, dealing with a human for their Name and getting the dead name of a trans character?

It's not their "true name" but it's a name that has power over them.

Seems like good allegorical, metaphorical story fodder.

#trans #writing

pseudonym, 11 months ago to fediverse

One thing I miss about the birdsite is the sense of immediacy watching events unfold. From the big cultural things, like the Arab Spring, to the sublimely silly story of the Rice Truck from @nameshiv

https://www.patreon.com/posts/rice-truck-74959374

I really don't want #mastodon to be Twitter, and rather like it for what it is, but is there a #fediverse service with more of that immediacy feel?

Are there masto accounts I should be following for that? Not just news, but current, active conversations?

pseudonym, 8 months ago to random

Was recovering nicely from my first #covid infection, last few days of "rebound" after #paxlovid, and woke up this morning with almost no sense of smell. Overnight. Wham.

Not happy.

Reading suggests smell loss is still common with current variants, and more often than not, comes back in weeks to months. But it's idiosyncratic , and may never come back.

We were careful and avoided it for 3.5 years, and one unmasked indoor party.

#mask

Any advice on getting smell back that worked for others?

pseudonym, 7 months ago to infosec

Today's reminder that the "tag manager" tags:

utm_source=
utm_medium=
utm_campaign=

in links are user modifiable text values, and that the value will appear in some marketer's metrics slides.

Use this knowledge only for good.

Remember kids, always validate your inputs.

#infosec #praxis #marketing

pseudonym, 2 months ago to tv

Watching the old 70s "Wonder Woman" #tv show for nostalgia. Oh my. It's not as cringe as I expected, but it's very ... 70s.

Lynda Carter is still beautiful, but so very young. Great smile. Probably one of my first TV crushes.

The pacing for shows from the 70s is very different.

"Fighting for your rights, in her satin tights..."

pseudonym, 4 months ago to aitools

New #Acer #ChromeBook. Can't seem to install @fdroid to get personalDNSFilter installed.

Is there a chrome-book equivlent for easily managing a DNS block list, on device?

Yes, I can run something on my home netwok, but what I'm looking for is an easy, on-device solution, like installing a "local vpn" like #personalDNSFilter does on my phone, into which I can put my own block list, and easily add and remove entries.

Browser extensions not enough, want to intercept all IP.

#ad #blocker #ip

pseudonym, 1 year ago to random

For the most part, I think online #software updates are a fine thing. New features, #security fixes, all good stuff.

But it needs a good UX. Download updates in the background. Apply them in off hours when the user isn't doing anything. Give users control to opt out or suspend them.

The easy availability of online update mechanisms, in a way, drives the demand for constant, new product features.

A program that's fit for purpose doesn't need updates.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

pseudonym, 24 days ago to random

Any building civil engineer tyoes out there who could opine on this?

Structurally, could you build a human habitation house out of name-brand Legos? Do they have enough structural strength? Would it be more or less earthquake safe than, say bricks(not very) or other materials?

How many layers thick would you have to make a Lego floor to support a 100 kg human?

pseudonym, 7 months ago to infosec

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/actively-exploited-cisco-0-day-with-maximum-10-severity-gives-full-network-control/

Shodan query for Cisco, in the US, with port 80 Internet accessible, had over 7700 hits.

#infosec

pseudonym, 4 months ago to random

All the FAQs I see these days are marketing fluff. I recall actually going through support tickets and pulling out the actual repeatedly asked questions to make those back in the day

pseudonym, 7 months ago to infosec

Just a reminder,

Passwords != Keys
Keys != Passwords

Passwords are essentially, authentication. That is, "who are you." (e.g. Jane Smith)

Keys are essentially authorization. That is, what are you allowed to do (e.g. decrypt).

Don't conflate or confuse the two.

#infosec #theMoreYouKnow

pseudonym, 6 months ago to Disney

Just cancelled #disney plus subscription. One year price jump of 75% from $80 to $140 (no ads) seems a bit unreasonable.

It was a fine service for what it was. But I do have other media choices.

I hope they hear from enough customers that this jump was egregious.

#tv #money

pseudonym, 7 months ago to random

Long shot, but what the heck.

Does anyone have any contacts high up in the company #Bosch?

I have a dishwasher that needs a warranty repair, and support is saying there are literally no service techs anywhere in the Bay Area, California.

I find that hard to believe.

I could always out-of-pocket for someone else to fix it, but now I'm annoyed about a warranty service with nobody to do the work, in one of the more densely populated areas of the US.

Thanks.

pseudonym, 1 year ago to fediverse

Apologies for the spamming to anyone following me here (original) and on @calckey.social - it looks like the "import" of all my old posts from here spammed them out to everyone following the new account.

#calckey is under active development, and I think has a leg up over #mastodon , but isn't yet quite as mature.

I've already submitted to the issue tracker to not do this on import.

And as soon as the import finishes, please follow me over there as well psudonym@calckey.social

pseudonym, 3 months ago to streaming

#enshittification continues with #streaming services, to nobody's surprise.

#netflix basic plan now has ads.

#spotify "premium" comes with access to a library of audio books, but you can only listen for 15 hours a month.

What?

I know, they like money, but this whole rent-grabbing for being the platform sucks.

Not a new observation.

Just venting.

pseudonym, 2 months ago to books

Almost finished with audio book of "The Raven Tower" by Ann Leckie.

https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781549115790?rf_code=lfm473963

But it looks like there is no sequel. Already read her "Ancillary" series and enjoyed that too.

Big fan of the "Murderbot Diaries" by Martha Wells, "The Broken Earth" by N.K Jemisin, and the "Children of..." Series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

What should I read or listen to next?

#book #books #recommendation #scifi

pseudonym, 7 months ago to HashtagGames

Is it "Star Taco" or "Taco Wars"?

I can't decide.

#TacoAnything #HashTagGames

pseudonym, 11 months ago to Health

Looking for #health #insurance options in California. While #COBRA will continue my existing insurance for a bit, it's expensive. Until I find a new job with benefits, investigating professional associations that might offer group health plans as membership benefits. #isc2 doesn't. I'm too young for Medicare. My alumni group doesn't. Looking like #ACM might have something. Where else should a techie check?

Wish we had socialised #healthcare not tied to jobs, like the rest of the world.

pseudonym, 11 months ago to gaming

Anyone tried any of the #cloud #gaming systems? Basically, rent a high end system and stream the gameplay back to your local controllers? Shadow.tech, paper space, AWS, Air GPU.com or others?

My laptop is 10 years old. I7 with a GeForce 770m.

I'd love to play with stable diffusion "locally" and the various LLM tools, as well as gaming, but I don't do enough of any of that to take be worth buying an other serious gaming system. But renting one seems interesting.

Looking for reviews. Thanks.