AHemlocksLie

joined 6 months ago
[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If it was worth stressing about, it was worth discussing with me when I was on the clock. The entire premise of a job is that I work in direct exchange for money. No money? No work. Pay me or wait until next shift.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

And 100 out of 100 times, we build emulators that run on PC. They can take years to make with the complexity of newer systems, but they'll get there.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 month ago

Somehow, I doubt it'll be the same

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 32 points 1 month ago (3 children)

A bunch of racist assholes made that claim while Obama was in office, but they notably never produced even the tiniest shred of evidence that it was even a possibility.

So no. He wasn't born in Kenya.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Running a server is very doable. There are packages to deploy and configure almost everything for you and removing a ton of headache.

Getting your email recognized as not spam by the major providers is pretty much impossible. You need all sorts of stuff to help verify integrity including special DNS records and public identity keys, but even if you do everything right, your mail can very easily get black holed before it even reaches a user's inbox because of stupid shit like someone abused your rented server's IP years ago, and you can't seem to get it off everyone's lists.

Email as a decentralized tool has effectively been ruined by spam and anti-spam measures. You're effectively forced to use a provider because it's near impossible to make your outgoing mail work as an individual. I think some of those anti-spam measures are anticompetitive, but I do think some are just desperate attempts to reduce the massive flow of spam.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

To get a job that pays more than under the table work because most legit employers will demand it.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

I'm not disputing that they want to use AI. I'm disputing the idea that the military doesn't care about climate change. Climate change will cause instability and greatly increase the odds of them having to actually fight. As much as the military enjoys a good flex now and then, they generally prefer to win without fighting.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure the military cares, at least to the extent that it will cause instability. I'm 99% sure there's something from the Pentagon to support that. I wanna say Pentagon wants us to address it before it starts making them do their job a whole lot more.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago (12 children)

The problem is they lose their email address, which is tied to just about every digital account they have. Losing your email can royally fuck you. Many sites send an email to the old email of you try to change it, so you'll have to get in touch with support to get it changed, and then support will want proof it's your account somehow, and the whole process is gonna take days or weeks to fix all your accounts. God help you if you forgot any passwords because now you can't login or even reset the password since that goes through email.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

That shit drives me nuts. Wanna be trusted with my life savings, but they can't be bothered to implement modern security features until they're already being phased out. I don't know what will replace modern 2FA schemes, but I guarantee banks will adopt the current ones about three years after the replacements become standard.

Also, they're charging you a poor tax for not having enough money, whether that's a minimum balance or just accidentally spending a nickel more than you had on hand.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago

It's always been a class war. It takes a lot of effort and violence to maintain a ruling class.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah, but did you get the RetroAchievements for it? I've been on a retro game binge lately, and it's been really cool to get achievements. Definitely helped me stick with a couple games and finish them, and they've encouraged me to do things in game that I wouldn't have otherwise bothered with.

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