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

The Yuan is currently trading at 7.32 to 1 USD

$3 per hour.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is an indicator for when the external sensors (cameras) are active and another for when the device is recording.

Although it's white LED on the front of the headset instead of the expected red. It's seems like a dumb choice by some design team going for aesthetics over functionality. And if you're trying to surreptitiously record people there are a million easier, less obtrusive ways to do it that don't involve strapping a giant and expensive headset to your face.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That album showed me how to live.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sure, especially considering they said fully printed -- no pre-made firearm components.

The FP-45 Liberator pistol and the CIA's Deer Gun are "real" guns designed for that exact purpose: to kill someone at close range to steal their gun. The first "successful" 3d printed gun was the Defense Distributed Liberator, followed by a plethora of single shot "zip guns" of the same type.

So ... a bunch of 3d printed guns specifically copied from the concept of the FP-45 and Deer Gun.

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

Right, the "take mass transit" works great ... in places with functional mass transit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Moral panics are over things that don't have negative real world consequences.

We've repeatedly seen what happens when disinformation and violent, extremist speech is given a place to flourish on social media. The crazies get even more radicalized, organized, and emboldened. They start taking actual action.

Qanon, the proud boys, unite the right, patriot front, January 6th -- where do you think those ideas gestated and grew to critical mass?

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

Hey! It was served in space ... once ... in 1968.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nah, they didn't grow up before computers: they were programing mainframes in the 60s. Those programmers can write you an absolute masterpiece of software ... in COBOL. Also, they don't bother with documentation because they're intimately familiar with every line of code considering they created the whole system from scratch 40 years ago.

The point at when you're "screwed" is when they retire and some poor bastard inherits an inscrutably complex system, written in a 60 year old language no one uses anymore, and with zero documentation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I always like people gatekeeping pizzas that use toppings other than the traditional Italian ones.

... ignoring the fact that tomato sauce is from the Americas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you were fancy you'd buy a stack of DVD-Rs that came in jewel cases. For the stuff you didn't care so much about you'd keep them in paper sleeves.

Or do like everyone else: store them on the spindle they came on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not exclusive to woman either -- guys (especially young guys) watch police bodycams of shootings, combat footage, and gore-porn TV shows or movies. There were entire subreddits dedicated to actual videos/pictures of people dying -- and I'll give you one guess as to what the demographics of their user bases were.

It's almost as if a lot of people are morbidly curious about death and violence.

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