dual_sport_dork

joined 2 years ago
[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

"All" of them most certainly do not. You can still go buy a brand new XR650L right now that not only does not have any electronic rider aids whatsoever, it has no electronics other than its spark ignition system. Never mind a TFT dash. It still has a mechanical speedometer, driven by a rotary cable.

Electronic features on bikes are becoming more available, for sure, but if you really want to they're dead easy to avoid.

Anyway, I was thinking of the safety aspect. If Republicans say the want cheap and less safe vehicles, motorcycles already fit the bill.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Buy motorcycles. Problem solved.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I will see your Nerf darts, and raise you airsoft BBs. I still find the cats playing with one every now and again, or pick up a stray one with the vacuum cleaner. I can't remember firing an airsoft gun inside the house at any time more recently than about 15 years ago. And yet.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Penguins are cool. I ride dual sport motorcycles. (And other motorcycles. But definitely those.)

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago (6 children)

"Calls."

There's only one call, and it's coming from Tim Sweeny at Epic. It's just more of his usual yelling at clouds, because he's got a pathological hate-on for anyone else who runs a storefont, including Apple and Google but especially Valve. He hasn't made any positive contribution to the world since about 1998, and at this point we can all safely discard his opinion with nothing of value being lost. He wants to allow AI slime on his own platform because he thinks it'll make him free money, but maybe he ought to worry about the smell coming from his own house before he goes around trying to dictate at others how they should run theirs.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I'm more of a Magnetbox bird, myself.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

"You yadda-yaddad a homie stock? You can't yadda-yadda a homie stock!"

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Well, my answer is nothing, and as anyone who follows me knows, seeing me not buy any random novelty cutlery trash from China has certainly got to count for something.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Are we still doing "Oh, exploitable?"

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Uh-huh. Now ask it how to center a div vertically.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

There are several things you could do in that regard, I'm sure. Configure your services to listen only on weird ports, disable ICMP pings, jigger your scripts to return timeouts instead of error messages... Many of which might make your own life difficult, as well.

All of these are also completely counterproductive if you want your hosted service, whatever it is, to be accessible to others. Or maybe not, if you don't. The point is, the bots don't have to find every single web service and site with 100% accuracy. The hackers only have to get lucky once and stumble their way into e.g. someone's unsecured web host where they can push more malware, or a pile of files they can encrypt and demand a ransom, or personal information they can steal, or content they can scrape with their dumb AI, or whatever. But they can keep on trying until the sun burns out basically for free, and you have to stay lucky and under the radar forever.

In my case just to name an example I kind of need my site to be accessible to the public at large if I want to, er, actually make any sales.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I wasn't going to type that many commas for the sake of brevity, but it's 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 possible addresses. I.e. 2^128^. So yes, I do.

I consider 96 orders (in binary, anyway) as "multiple." Wouldn't you?

 

Y u no put the paper towels in the fucking dispenser rather than leaving the half torn open pack on the countertop?

Getting the new brick of towels out of the supply room and dragging it all the way to the bathroom is like 99% of the effort already. Just stuff them in the damn box.

(This is right up there with the old classic, getting out a new bog roll and leaving it delicately balanced on top of the old empty cardboard tube rather than just installing it on the damn spindle.)

You'd think I work in a building full of toddlers.

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