It’s fiber internet and I am the only person who has used this IP address for 2+ years and I guarantee you it isn’t ddos.

No VPN here, just my ISP

It used to be a quick trick to find good forum responses but since google doesn’t care about any forums but reddit anymore it doesn’t really work like it used to.

Yeah, this time was pure frustration, especially due to all the top and AI responses being from before microsoft dropped their display.cpl.

Literally zero answers across google, bing, yahoo, and ddg, just google was the only search engine shitty enough to block be for it.

It doesn’t though, and trust me when I say that between my career and interests, I probably use google more than 98% of the population and this is the first time it has ever happened.

Stock photos can create a strange reality if you take them on face value, women ridiculously excited at a forkful of salad, groups of people over 5 have token representation, periods are blue for some reason, No one in the bar actually drinks and just keeps raising their glasses in generic joy and celebration.

All to market to us.

That’s fine if that pad they are resting on is sterile but its still not good practice as someone could get inadvertently jabbed.

I like this post because it goes a long way to proving that highly technical jobs have depths of nuance that your average laymen will never even consider.

Like when you see ‘hacking’ in movies, as an IT guy it makes me hardcringe every time.

Another example of this is how Hollywood portrays ‘poor’ families as having houses 3x larger than anything you could ever afford and two cars but they are just making sad faces all the time.

Because that’s what struggling is to hollywood writers, they lack the nuance to understand what being poor really means.

The problem is that these media images being made are MORE compelling to people who don’t understand the nuance. That tray of utensils looks fine to me as a knowlessman and I would feel that whatever content was hosting it was medically reliable.

You as a professional know it is ridiculous only because you have the practical experience that the artist lacked.

The real danger is when people start believing the artist more because of how much more aesthetically pleasing they can make their misunderstandings, and trust me it is a real danger.

Hate to break it to you but that’s kind of what capitalism means.

It goes back to when good agricultural land discovered to be so ridiculously effective at feeding people.

Not the beginning of wealth, but certainly one of the oldest still used store of wealth.

So much has been fucked up by discovering agriculture, it was also the beginning of institutional slavery.

Write complex sci fi and fantasy stories that I refuse to let anyone else read.

You’d be cooked by the radiation emitted by the accretion disk,

edit: It would be a VERY tiny accretion disk but it would still act like a cracked out microwave magnetron

It is said crack is Lidell’s only true love. He’s been away from her arms for far too long.

Because modern media deliberately caters to dumb, gullible, easily angered people.

They craft it this way on purpose, just like email scammers.

What makes these griftlords so incapable of admitting to their own failures?

I cannot imagine that he believes what he’s saying, and just saying it for convenience.

I can’t imagine a possible world where Fox has any place in an infinite universe to stand morally.

I miss that world so much…

You’re not in IT, are you?

Do you know what microcode patching even is and why it is in many ways superior to simple file patching?

There is no effort. You just sign up for an account and install their systray program. It’s as easy to set up as a subscription VPN service. All the patching is done live in memory first and in 4 years I’ve needed to reboot exactly twice.

I have a huge stack of retro games and code projects that work very poorly on Win10, as well as the fact that my Win7 version is Ultimate so I make a lot of use of XP mode virtual machine and booting from virtual disk on bare metal for my moderately older games (something I can’t do with my win10 home license). Can’t even get win10 drivers for half of my hardware on that box.

Also kind of annoyed by your hostility so you’re blocked now.

I have been given very careful instructions to my friends to NEVER mix styrofoam with gasoline as that will make a jelly fuel mixture which is very dangerous and shouldn’t be done by any happy and represented citizen who has faith that their government has their best interest at heart.

apparently I picked up a few comment stalkers earlier, frankly I didn’t even know downvoting was an option here.

Mainly because of the lack of ATF oversight and their FUCKING MASSIVE operations budget.

If people really understood what they have done in the past, that agency would be dissolved overnight.