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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by anethum in found out my friend had his tumblr hacked. he had no idea by twovests

I agree 100%-- I would've happily chalked up his Tumblr issues to Tumblr Strangeness if I didn't know his security situation was already so wildly fucked up.

That System32 story is basically how I imagine 90s / early 00s era Linux must've been all the time. I'm happy I came into things during an era where deleting System32 was already widely memed :)

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to A former US president has been found guilty on all 34 felony accounts. Legal experts are saying this sets a new precedent that might DESTROY Christianity in America. Want to learn more? Bing "Donald Trump Rule 34" for more information by twovests

Hey, I just spoke to my Liberal friends for the first time in a few months.

Trump was farting and shitting and falling asleep in the court room? His biggest VP candidate shot her childhood dog dead? RFK had brain worms and he's leaning into it? Nobody told me these things. Waow

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twovests wrote

Reply to i installed windows 11 iot enterprise ltsc and it has been so smooth-sailing that i'm a bit annoyed by anethum

i appreciate u sharing this experience

i never heard of bespoke synth before, this is one of my favorite cheeky pricing pages, and now i feel excited to dabble

i've not needed a dual boot for awhile and i've been dreading the mandatory windows 11 stuff. using the IOT version is a workaround i hadn't considered before and this sounds wonderful

i'm curious to know, could i ask what your idle ram usage at startup is?

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by neku in people should be more scared of glass. movie characters with uncompleted arcs should have their absence felt through the film after they jump through a window. so that we can teach people that glass is dangerous. (cw: death discussion) by twovests

people at least have some understanding of how dangerous cars are. i hate cars fantastically

but i think probably at least 1/3 people think they could punch a window out and definitely survive

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by emma in people should be more scared of glass. movie characters with uncompleted arcs should have their absence felt through the film after they jump through a window. so that we can teach people that glass is dangerous. (cw: death discussion) by twovests

sounds like an actor who regularly jumps through fools glass for movie stunts. he's part of the problem.

the day they replace it with real artery openers will be the day people respect glass

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twovests OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by toasthaste in two years and no great AI art by twovests

I really appreciate this reply and I think I owe you/jstpst an apology? Your posts are always good and I think highly of your art, and your reply is making me reconsider a lot of things.

I was being really cynical and sardonic here, while also performing/perpetuating the "AI art is bad" thing. I think I made a shitty situation for sincere posting and I appreciate you for posting sincerely despite that, and calling me out(? for lack of a better phrase).

(I especially want to decry the whole "no self respecting artist" thing I said earlier. I think that was a particularly shitty thing I said to try and get a laugh?)

I've re-read through your reply a few times. This part of your reply in particular

the process gave me a nutrient that my soul has been corroding from lacking, with unsolvable chronic pain preventing me from being able to draw any more.

really struck me and my mental model of What Art Is. I've been thinking of a proper reply to this but I think I need to sleep on it. (But I want to acknowledge your post before I log off for the night to reply tomorrow)

(And if it's worth anything I think pretty highly of you as an artist and I've associated you with lovingly rendered pigeons for about 1/3 of my entire life by now. I regret having had cynically discoursed about it because I think if you had things you generated and were proud of, those would be interesting things I would want to see)

edit: i thought i posted my actual reply but i don't see it here. it was a big one but i think i will need to type it up again

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twovests wrote

Reply to Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe by oolong

In subsequent weeks, Hansen and her team ordered fresh blood samples from every supplier that 3M worked with. Each of the samples tested positive for PFOS.

It's common knowledge by now, but imagine how horrifying it must be to be the first person to know that all of humanity (and later, every animal blood sample as well) appears to be contaminated by industrial chemicals.

The only blood samples without PFOS chemicals were from ones before 3M created PFOS.

Shortly after learning these results, her boss took an early retirement.

Whe she didn't know was that 3M already knew the PFOS were harmful.

Starting at the second-lowest dose that the scientists tested, about 10 milligrams for every kilogram of body weight, the rats showed signs of possible harm to their livers, and half of them died. At higher doses, every rat died.

Man.

I'm halfway through the article but this is a doozy. I knew everything was bad, but it's even worse than I thought.

When this article was posted on orangesite, someone shared an anecdote that I (through connection to 3M employees) had heard as well. (iirc it's also backed by stats, but i have no more time to post)

Related anecdote: I know someone who used to work in Oakdale, Minnesota, a town that 3M literally used as a PFAS dumping ground. I'm not saying it's normal for a kid to die of cancer at the local high school, I'm just saying it happens more often there than anywhere else I've ever heard of.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M_Contamination_of_Minnesota_Groundwater

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twovests wrote

Reply to Coercion and Windows Recall (CW: vague references to domestic abuse) by Seirdy

(CW: More explicit references to domestic abuse)

I think security folks tend to think of security against a genius hacker with endless resources, which is a good mindset to have when you're building software and cryptography. But this mindset also makes a lot of security folks obstinately oblivious to reality.

I can't imagine what level of collective delusion the people at Microsoft must be under that they would advertise Windows Recall as a good feature. They must be aware of the blood that will be on their hands, right?

It feels almost like that's the point? "Windows with CoPilot + will help you keep tabs on you and yours, every step of the way."

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twovests wrote

Reply to i'm so glad i switched to linux at this point this windows recall stuff is fucking busted by hollyhoppet

I hope this doesn't come off as patronizing, but welcome to feeling this way every year. I constantly feel something like a guilty mixture of pity and relief every time I see the Windows that so many people put up with.

Windows Recall takes the cake though. I can not believe all the things I hear about it, it sounds like the wildest imaginations of some 2023-era luddite.

FWIW, I think I can remember five big Linux controversies over the past 15 years (privacy-preserving Amazon integrated into Ubuntu lenses, shellshock, systemd, snaps in ubuntu, xz recently)?

i luv linux so much. it makes computer SO much less bad

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Reply to who originated the line "one thing about which you'll seldom find boasting/is how most of my posts are posts about posting"? by Dogmantra

I found a post by FacebookAunt on SomethingAwful dated November 22nd, 2020: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3863200&pagenumber=907

I can also find a reference from January 2015 in the r/meta_me_irl descriptioon: https://web.archive.org/web/20150312162214/https://www.reddit.com/r/meta_me_irl/

Note that it's "mosts". That is, "mosts of my posts are posts about posting". I'm suspecting this is from SomethingAwful...

But even further back... I find an AdviceAnimals from 2013 by.... u/SUPERCUB?? Named after the mid-00s aviation enthusiasts webforum??

This might run deep. I'll report back with the deets if I can find them.

EDIT: it doesn't run any deeper. 2013 babey

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