BigDanishGuy

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
  • Put in washed up celebrities' birthdays "David Hasselhoff's b-day".
  • Include random bad album release anniversaries. "18 year release anniversary of Kid Rock - Live Trucker".

Make sure they're correct though, shitty boss is bound to share your love for kid rock and the hoff.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I think most people, myself included at one time, are more fascinated by RO than we understand the practical considerations.

Use RO locally at a single tap in the house, if the water quality warrants it. Perhaps add a desalination unit before the water heater, or centrally if you have some very hard water. But a central RO? Sounds expensive.

I've considered a central RO for prepping purposes, but even then a gravel/sand/active charcoal filter, followed by a UV-C mercury lamp, would probably be more cost effective, and easier to maintain without access to replacement membranes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Well, I was in doubt, so I asked the AI whether I could trust the answers and it told me not to worry about it. That must mean that I only get accurate answers, right? /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't know to what extent law enforcement would go to catch a pirate in Denmark. But a guy just got 30days for seeding about 800 movies, so I'm not taking any chances. If I was ever to use p2p, and this is purely theoretical, I would find a public (or open private) wifi, use an external wifi adapter and a virtual machine that doesn't contain any personal information.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Do you trust your seed box provider to not rat you out? Or at the very least not have identifying information on you that will be seized in a raid?

How do you do this with zero trust towards any provider? I mean unless you hijack a neighbors wifi, any provider can fuck up their OPSEC and get you burned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

They only got the number to 75% after putting the labels back on the map

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There is a solution, it's called insurance. I know that you wouldn't get your family heirlooms back, but neither would you being armed but not home.

I know the other guy wouldn't say it, so I'll go ahead and do it: you sound like you're out for revenge, but you don't know on whom to exact it. I fear that you could end up shooting a porch pirate in the back while claiming self defense.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (34 children)

Not OP check out my username for an idea of where I live. Besides a bit of gang on gang action in our capital, violent crimes are extremely rare. It's maybe once a year that police have to shoot at a person, and even then police officers will assess the situation and if possible not go for center mass.

Note how I left out theft. That's because you can't directly use violence to protect property.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Are we eventually gonna get more fusion [...]

Either you mean fission, or the "more" could be omitted.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

If you think this is bad, then you haven't tried navigating the MS academic offerings. Over the last 10 or so years, I think it's been called "dreamspark", "imagine", "MSDN Academic Alliance" (I liked this one, it actually made sense), "MSDN AA", and now "Azure Dev Tools for Teaching" or "adt4t" when talking with support.

rant mode ON

Everytime the name is changed, it seems something else changes (OK it's a new product) and the way to access installers and activate it differs. I just want to teach, but every couple of years I have to spend days trying to figure out how to get my iso's and how to renew the subscription. A couple of years ago, and mind you this was after I had had an active academic relationship with Microsoft for 8 years, and my predecessor even longer than that before me, we had to submit invoices proving that the school owned the domainname for our emails and website, as well as a letter from the ministry of education that we were licensed to teach this course.

The support staff is very professional and helpful, and we've always been able to resolve renewal issues. But each year we have to go through the process of getting through a maze of support pages linking to chatbots, to find the correct form to contact support. I think the link to support form had the text "Beware of the leopard".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

That's the next step: drop all encrypted traffic.

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