Enkers
@Enkers@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on An ad giant wants to control your next TV’s OS 8 hours ago:
looks at android TV os, fire TV is
Um…
- Comment on The Pentagon wants AI to enhance the capabilities of US nuclear weapons systems 2 weeks ago:
Will it be climate change? […] Will it be ai?
Why not both? :)
- Comment on FCC Republican opposes regulation of data caps with analogy to coffee refills 5 weeks ago:
TIL my router can make coffee out of thin air. What an idiot.
- Comment on Why Google Search is Falling Apart. - YouTube 5 weeks ago:
I really like searx so far. My only problem with it I’ve had is that instances keep going down. Obviously one can’t be too upset about a free service that’s not being monetized, but it’s still kind of frustrating to have to reconfigure it and switch all my browsers’ default searches to a new instance.
- Comment on Despite Online Threats, Users Aren’t Changing Behavior 1 month ago:
I honestly blame dark patterns in software for at least some of this. Some operating systems seem to push garbage on to your system with every new update. I just recently heard a streamer complaining about how updating his PC changed his desktop wallpaper, for example. Like… Why?
Also, virus scanners marking pirated software as false positives has done untold damage to their reputation.
- Comment on Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” 2 months ago:
Let me rephrase: “Offering free storage is expensive because you’re more likely not to pay us for nitro.”
- Comment on Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 2 months ago:
Jesus, Timmy, put your Linux away! You can’t just whip that out in public.
- Comment on GM cuts 1,000 software jobs as it prioritizes quality and AI 2 months ago:
The only quality that these job cuts are going to improve is the quality of ink on the executive suite’s bonuses. What drivel.
- Comment on CrowdStrike backlash over $10 apology voucher for IT chaos 3 months ago:
How does corpo PR still mess this sort of thing up so badly? Just issue a statement:
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Acknowledge and take responsibility for your part of the incident. DO NOT try and shirk any responsibility.
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Outline what you will do to prevent the problem for happening again.
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Commit to providing progress updates on the resolution.
On issues of this magnitude, there’s simply no way to compensate everyone whose time and effort you’ve wasted. Don’t insult people with a meagre offering. Instead, commit those resources to a resolution, and simply ask for forgiveness.
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- Comment on Major Windows BSOD issue takes banks, airlines, and broadcasters offline 4 months ago:
Yeah, this absolutely smells like a corporate culture issue, not a one off glitch in QC. Fuckups of this magnitude shouldn’t be possible without multiple failsafes breaking and people ignoring protocol. Not to say that “perfect storm” events don’t ever happen, but it seems like the less-likely possibility to me.
- Comment on Major Windows BSOD issue takes banks, airlines, and broadcasters offline 4 months ago:
I don’t like to post links to reddit, but holy cow, is this ever a shitshow.
- Comment on Complaints about crashing 13th, 14th Gen Intel CPUs now have data to back them up 4 months ago:
Intel taking lessons from phone manufacturers, it seems. There’s zero chance they didn’t know about this problem if it’s truly as prevalent as it seems to be.
- Comment on The Chinese women turning to ChatGPT for AI boyfriends 5 months ago:
Unless you jailbreak your AI, they’re generally designed to deescalate any potentially romantic situations, so I’d imagine it’d result in a very platonic friends situation where both parties chatter on about nothing.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Generally it’s not allowed to have meta posts about the way things are run or the moderators.
That seems to me like an incredibly bad policy decision, in general. If there are legitimate meta/moderation issues, it’s important to be able to address them in a proactive manner. Banning that sort of discussion outright is going to lead to problems in the long run, as you’ll be making a pressure cooker with no outlet.
If there’s maybe a concern that meta content might displace other content, you could always designate a specific day for meta discussions.
- Comment on Romantic gesture 11 months ago:
- Comment on Success is built through GAMBA 11 months ago:
You’re correct, but you’re also being a bit pedantic and ignoring the point OP is trying to make. It still illustrates my point just fine at 47.4% instead of 50%. Odds of winning 10 in a row go from 1:1,024 to 1:1,746.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 11 months ago:
to purchase policies from companies with the lowest advertising budgets.
This was basically my grandfather’s modus operandi. He wouldn’t buy anything he saw in an ad. Dude was a nuclear physicist, so maybe he was on to something.
And while it’d be pretty hard to do that today, I always try and keep it in mind when I buy stuff. I ask myself if I feel like I’m being pressured to buy something, and to try to always be willing to walk away without buying. You can always decide later, and buy it then.
- Comment on Success is built through GAMBA 11 months ago:
I disagree. The serious answer is you have to be the one person that gets lucky.
Take 1024 people each with 1000. They all play roulette and go all in every round, half on black half on red. After 10 rounds, 1023 people have lost all their money, and one has won a million dollars.
The person who “made it” didn’t do anything different, or play a +EV game. He just got lucky.
- Comment on Is there a “proper“ way to say “6:05 AM”? 11 months ago:
I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t answer that.
- Comment on Is there a “proper“ way to say “6:05 AM”? 11 months ago:
I’d typically say something like: “One billion, seven hundred and one million, sixty five thousand, one hundred seconds since the epoch.”
- Comment on De omnibus dubitandum 11 months ago:
Cannis in willa dormit.