PhilipTheBucket
@PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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- Comment on Brother has now succumbed to temptation, and is starting to fuck up your printer on purpose if you use third party ink 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know, man. Maybe it is lies. Cory Doctorow and Louis Rossman are not just random idiots on YouTube, but they are just as susceptible as anybody to reading some hearsay and repeating it.
On the other hand, the claims are very specific. “When you install third party toner, on this particular model of Brother printer, it stops respecting the calibration settings meaning that your colors are misaligned and color prints will look weird.” That’s pretty verifiable. It doesn’t mean it’s true, but it’s also actually not directly contradicted by anything in the Ars article. The article just says that Brother said you can use third party toner. Which everyone (as far as I saw) was agreeing that you can. Your prints will just look bad, after a particular firmware update, for reasons that are completely separate from any theoretical issue with the toner being third party.
IDK. I will not claim to know the truth here. But I’m not convinced by what I have seen so far that the story is definitely bullshit. And the whole thing of sidestepping the issue of “the printer starts refusing to apply color calibration”, and just talking in generalities, is also a little suspicious. That has nothing to do with third party toner being lower quality or something.
- Comment on Brother has now succumbed to temptation, and is starting to fuck up your printer on purpose if you use third party ink 3 weeks ago:
I mean it was news to me. I didn’t watch the Youtube video or feel that I needed to. I own a Brother printer, I did exactly the same thing both commentators talked about, recommended to people that they buy from Brother specifically because they didn’t do this bullshit. Now I am bothered.
It doesn’t talk to the internet, but I am wondering if having it connected to a Mac is enough to automatically update my drivers someday and start to commence fuckery, and if I should go ahead and figure out how to hook it up to Linux and have it on a frozen driver version just to be sure. I definitely like the way it works right now.
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- Heritage Foundation Presentation Details Plans To Doxx And Target Wikipeda Editors It Claims Are ‘Abusing Their Position’www.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 3 comments
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- Comment on HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls 5 weeks ago:
I’m a little bit surprised that anyone would do other than what I do: Put the phone on speaker, continue working with the bullshit going on in the background, and then if 2 hours later they pick up, take the phone back up and begin. The length of the hold time should simply be irrelevant, if it’s going to be above a couple of minutes, because you shouldn’t be holding anything up waiting for it.
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- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 month ago:
WTF
Two stupids don’t make a smart.
The government doesn’t control the language, it doesn’t control the encyclopedia. Behaving like it does (in either direction) is a surprisingly dangerous activity to normalize.
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- Hardware quality problems and server supply chain kinks slow Amazon’s $100 billion AI buildgo.theregister.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 1 month ago:
Yeah, but there are always big world events that someone could have capitalized on. China could be the dominant power today, or South America. The US just hit on a successful formula for it in a way that a whole lot of other governments and groupings of people did not, and I’m saying that having a massive population base that genuinely believed in the program that the government was selling was a big part of why that happened.
It didn’t happen on its own, the people had to fight for it against active deadly government resistance. But once it happened, it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to either the people or the government. And then, not knowing what they had, the government and the people let it fall to ruin, and now we’re fucked.
- Comment on A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 1 month ago:
Yeah, true that. There’s a whole history of theft and oppression that I’m glossing over there. I do think that about 50% of it was legitimate hard work.
I also think it is fascinating that, after 50 years of the working class going to open war with capitalism to fight for a decent way to live and a decent system (1880-1930), the US spent the next 50 years becoming the most powerful country on earth. I think those two are highly related and the connection is almost never talked about. We spent a lot of the years before 1880 stealing and oppressing just as hard, and it didn’t really do shit for us in terms of building a modern-US-style type of wealth and privilege.
The implications under that theory for what’s about to happen, based on what the current system is for how long, are pretty unsettling to me.
- Comment on A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 1 month ago:
Yeah. All the problems in the US government are self-created. They’re not small, but they’re also purely solvable, we’re just too incompetent at the government level to get it done.
Climate change is a real problem. The kind that can’t be solved instantly if you can just get 60 people to all vote the right way, one day, when it gets too bad. And it doesn’t go away if you move.
- Comment on A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 1 month ago:
Democracy has been on the decline now since before I was alive, so it’s not exactly unexpected, just nerve wracking as we go through this transition. It’s also simply a natural consequence: this is what the people want: to not have to make decisions anymore. We could have… well, in the past we could have done things, whereas instead, this is what we’ve done: nothing. And it is what we will continue to do, I predict, bc it’s what we are good at, so long as the price of eggs and gas isn’t too awfully high…
This I 1,000% agree with. We get the quality of government that we deserve. And, since most people have been absolutely checked out from any attempt at controlling or even taking an interest in what’s happening, what we’re getting is a bunch of plundering thieves in charge of the granary. It’s been okay, sort of, not really. People have been hurting. But what’s about to happen is going to be astronomically worse. Whether people wake up and start trying to wrestle the levers of power back into their own control again, or whether it’s even possible to recover from this point, I don’t really know. I have some level of hope but I have no idea.
- Comment on A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 1 month ago:
Yeah. American’s wealth is not in the computers of the federal reserve. We have a continent’s worth of resources; armies upon armies of smart, committed, talented people; education; strong businesses; technical knowledge of an incredible variety; and most importantly, we’re still attractive enough (or were, as of last year) to be attracting the best and brightest of the world to come and add to the fire and keep it going. For as much as we’ve been fucking it up for the last fifty years, that all still remains true to a pretty large degree. Everything that happens in the treasury department draws off of that capital. Nothing that happens out in the world depends, at the root, on the computer that Musk now has access to.
But, it’s also true that the financial world is a city in the clouds. Pop the bubble, and sometimes it takes quite a long time to rebuild and inflate back to its former size. Maybe it’s a good thing. Maybe it’s a catastrophe in the making. I don’t know, to be honest. But “strap in” sounds just about fucking right, it’s not going to be simple or smooth.
- Comment on A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 1 month ago:
What happened in Albania was that a bunch of people, basically, stole most of the money in the country. It caused a civil war. Nobody ever got their money back either.
I would like to say it’s more complicated than that, here, but I’m not sure that it is. My one consolation is that Musk and Trump have not the slightest idea what they’re fucking with or what they’re up against, if it really gets its dander up at them, but that’s at minimum 40% wishful thinking on my part.
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- Comment on Google Pixel 4a’s ruinous “Battery Performance” update is a bewildering mess 1 month ago:
There was a troll that came into the comments, loudly screaming at everyone that we were all deluded Google fanboys who were surely going to downvote this to oblivion and leap to Google’s defense, and blame Apple. They were not deterred when no one did that, and also they called me a Republican for some reason.
They’ve now been banned and their content deleted, leaving Iceman’s surreal comment as the only remnant. But without the thing it’s satirizing, it’s just a bizarre and wrong comment on its own. Iceman is not serious, they’re just making fun of the troll.
- Comment on Google Pixel 4a’s ruinous “Battery Performance” update is a bewildering mess 1 month ago:
I’ve noticed an uptick in the number of accounts picking fights with literally everyone over literal total schizophrenic nonsense. And, this is the second time one of them has called me a MAGA person out of nowhere. I think it’s interesting. I want to know more.
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They were banned for a month for consistent cockmongery. It’s more kindness than I would have shown, it seems unlikely that they will reform after the timeout.