bitwize

445 pts · December 14, 2013


Dude, please just try to educate yourself before you type dumb things. Like just a little bit.
Not all devices “spy” or collect telemetry at all; and this is trivial to prove being a sysadmin on a network. Plenty of peripherals fetch content from the internet but don’t expose network servers (low surface area for attack vector), don’t analyze the network map, and have no sensory peripherals to even “spy” in the first place.
Yeah, some things do where you are the product, but not all.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 10

Thank you, I was just coming to the comments to say this. I’m so tired of this annoying panic hype.

1 month ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

I get it. I ain’t laughing, but I get it

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

What is this awful music? Who looks at the original song and thinks “damn, it needs some nasally chick’s awful voice talking over it”.

4 months ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 0

Shooting Star by Bag Raiders

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I am not defending AI art, but I think saying it isn’t a skill is disingenuous. I’m not talking low effort ChatGPT prompts, but diffusion pipelines with LORAs — it *does* take skill. I wouldn’t say it’s comparable to human work, but it has its place as part of the creative cycle *if used appropriately*.

The problem is that we are oversaturated in low-effort work where prompting is the sum-totality of the effort — and THAT isn’t art. When used well, it’s just another tool like photoshop IMO.

6 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

As a Canadian Citizen: how did this person even see the doctor, let alone more than once? In Ontario, seeing a specialist can take up to *years* now. It’s almost impossible to believe they could see them once for the tooth extraction, and then the surgery.

What magic is this?

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You should never be on the mat around someone else who is climbing — this is a rule in any rock climbing gyms I have been in across multiple countries. If the dumbass ran across the mat, either he or his parent is responsible for not paying attention.

I’ve seen a climber get a compound fracture from trying to avoid a little shit running underneath them, and they will likely never climb again because of bad behavior. Kicking them and being fine is genuinely the best outcome

1 year ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 6

Where can I order whatever it is you’re smoking? Whatever it is sounds like a wild ride. There is a huge chasm of difference between physical and digital distribution. Digital distributions can be retroactively revoked at any point, physical media can’t be. A publisher would have to literally steal the copy from you. The game has to be playable on the media it’s delivered in by all consoles’ standdards, so you will always have v1 of the game on hand, even if updates get disabled in the future.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

Weird, I thought the objective of jokes were to be funny

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yep, 100% this. Tired of hearing about ‘Murican politics, and how much it keeps slipping through my filters. I miss just seeing memes and funny content on Imgur.

1 year ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 2

As a Canadian, this seems like a bad call to make. Canada is already facing an economic crisis due to immigration, and many of its citizens wanting deportation of unskilled laborers. Between that and the US threats of annexation (or let’s be real, possible impending war), I can’t say we would be the safest place to come to

1 year ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 2

Unexpected weird al reference

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Man the US is whack. In Canada we just use interac which is (mostly) feee, and provides instant and direct bank-to-bank transfer. The only typical cost is if you exceed a certain number of transfers per month (and that’s bank dependent)

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So we are finally at the point in social media where the scripted content is being acted out by animals. What an age to be alive.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Huh, Switzerland had this about a decade ago. Nice to see Walmart in the US get with the times. Sadly we don’t have this in Canada. Instead we have pretty much exclusively Indian workers eyeballing you scanning things at self checkout, and if you scan too fast they go and hand check everything slowly “for your convenience”, defeating the purpose of self checkout.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Not saying it's perfect, but it would at least enforce informed voting -- and doesn't suppress anything or anyone since they can retake it

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Having a test to know both parties and platforms is nowhere near the same idea -- it'd be better likened to that of a driver's test.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I mean, really. It's the information age. Make them prove they understand it, and give them the materials to learn with infinite retries.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 2

I don't understand why they don't just make you pass a quiz to be allowed to vote, that show's you understand all platforms and their goals.

5 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

I legit thought #1 was a picture of Gabe Newell

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I was wondering where Jamie has been since Myth Busters ended

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Is there a proper name for this type of effect to find other similar videos? Best I can think is "compression artifacts"

5 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

I'm not sure if this was a joke I missed, but changing the file extension does not convert the file's internal format

5 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Came here to say this. Glad someone else was noticed this!

5 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's as much "hacking" as guessing a password would be. Doesn't mean it doesn't require skill; its just a clickbaity buzzword being misused

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not to downplay it, but downloading a website is not hacking. It's just simple use of tools and light scripting.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

First thing I noticed from this is that they aren't wearing masks in their selfies

5 years ago | Likes 226 Dislikes 10

Instructions unclear; farted under a blanket, but couldn't get the bread to rise.

5 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1