58008

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I need to load a second page to enter my password in some sites. Why is this? I even have a site I use that has the username, password and 2FA entries on separate pages that each need to be loaded one after the other.

My uneducated guess is that it makes it harder for bots, but I can't imagine it being that much of an impedance πŸ€·β€

Cheers!

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I used to be a 9/11 Truther 😭 Turned out that I, too, was mentally unwell and socially isolated even worse than that hairy fella on the island with a face painted on a football. It's crazy (if I can use that word in this context) how your brain can look at something and be 100% convinced of it, and the exact same information can look ludicrously and obviously bullshit a year later when your psychological well-being is in a better place.

Advice: don't bother debating conspiracists on their 'evidence', but when they hopefully emerge from their pit of psychosis, welcome them back with open arms. And, perhaps most importantly, ensure they know that that non-judgemental welcome is there for them whenever they want it. The less social friction/cringe/embarrassment they feel is awaiting them, the easier and quicker they can transition into some sort of normality again. Debating the details of whatever conspiracist horseshit it happens to be is like trying to cure schizophrenia by proving the person's hallucinated demons wrong with FACTS and LOGIC. You'll just make it worse.

 

For example, is there a 'laws dot gov' kinda URL I can go to and type "importing raccoons to Northern Ireland to create a self-sustaining population" into the search bar?

Or maybe something like a multi-volume book series I can check at the library to see if "raccoon husbandry; N. Ireland" is mentioned?

Maybe an AI chatbot on the local council's website that I can ask "is it legal to raise baby raccoons by feeding them from miniature wheelie bins to teach them where food comes from and how to open the lids"?

I'm not about to do anything [potentially] illegal, I'm just curious.

Cheers! 🦝

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 52 points 5 days ago (12 children)

Is there like a petition or something we can all sign to show that literally no cunt wants this?

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Heady times for the patient necrophile.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago (11 children)

The sommeliers of the technology world. The perfect storm of electric hypochondria and placebo-gooning.

As with most things, there's a kernel of truth in amongst the dross. You will have a nicer time with a set of Β£70 headphones than with a Β£3.99 set. You will have a nicer time with a FLAC file than a 64kbps MP3 of the same song. But there's a very low ceiling of improvement that both physics and physiology will prevent you from surpassing. Maybe in the future with brain implants and shit like that we can start ramping up the fidelity of our listening abilities, but until then, you're just trickling an ocean through a literal bottleneck and insisting you're drowning in it.

Just listen to the damn music.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world -2 points 6 days ago

We need a fibre pill. A little capsule that contains an extremely-compressed/folded length of fibre. Once the capsule melts in your gut juices, the fibre inside springs to full size like a cumming cattail, providing 6-8 weeks' worth of fibre. Then we'd never again have to miserably work through a brick of carpenter's floor sweepings, or whatever the fuck muesli is, just to have a half-normal fuckin' turd. Fuck-ass fuckin' ass.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

This post is how I found out. That's heartbreaking. The frailty of the human form is a cosmic crime.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

AI, along with crypto, is getting to the point where even oil executives are like "dudes, the planet..."

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 89 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Food is so weird. Bread becomes toxic waste after 8 minutes of being opened, but there's probably some cheese species that gets fermented up the asshole of a mountain llama for 6 months, being stuffed back in after every bowel movement, and is still edible (if you're into that sort of thing) after 400 years of being left in a dank cave amongst the frothing remains of a rotting gerbil cemetery.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

* Unless the CCP says otherwise.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

This is the most closeted person I've ever seen, and I once held the world record for longest hide 'n' seek session in an IKEA warehouse.

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Has anyone ever seen Liz Holmes and Mark Zuckerburg in the same room together? πŸ€”

[–] 58008@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Don't read the replies πŸ™ƒ

 

Is it an affectation that they're trained to deploy? (If so, why?) Or is it just a natural thing that happens in the very specific circumstance of being a politician on the campaign trail, and that's why no one else seems to do it?

I don't think I've seen it in any other context πŸ€”

Cheers!

 
 

This might be my most stupid question yet, but what the hell:

I'm reading about the GTA VI leaks on Wikipedia, and it talks about the various impacts the leaks had, one of which was low morale amongst the developers. Why is that? The response from the internet to the GTA VI leaks in particular seemed to be positive and caused renewed excitement in the game. Everyone [seemingly] understood that it was early, non-final work, but were nevertheless impressed/excited, as far as I could tell anyway πŸ€·β€ Besides, it's GTA, it's not like they're gonna break much new ground in terms of gameplay mechanics that need to be kept secret. Things were more or less set in stone in that regard in GTA III.

Why so sad?

 

I know Intel is dipping its toe into the GPU market, but let's be real, AMD and nVidia are the only options and have been for the last 20+ years. The manufacturers/assemblers of the complete graphics cards are varied and widespread, but the core tech comes from two companies only.

Why is this the case? Or am I mistaken and am just brainwashed by marketing, and there are in fact other viable options for GPUs?

Cheers!

 

I was thinking about those outfits celebrities wear that mess with flash photography equipment, and I was watching a dude on TV just now whose shirt pattern was going apeshit because of the camera, and I wondered if there could ever be a pattern or material that, when filmed, caused the camera irreversible damage. And if that were physically possible, I wondered if intentionally showing up to camera-heavy events wearing said shirt would constitute a crime on my part.

It's just a shirt after all. It's not like I'm grabbing a camera and smashing it on the ground. But at the same time, I know it will have that effect, so I'm accountable. But it's not like my shirt is emitting damaging laser beams or anything, it's entirely passive.

Also, is there anything like this scenario in real life/law?

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