@paulskrtic@tweezak I would just like to know if you have fully reviewed the nefarious things ring is used for. maybe check if flock cameras are being used in your area. Which need to be removed.
How do you feel about wide spread face recognition? Never mind facebooks perve glasses? every move you make being tracked? Fed into AI
You have to keep in mind all this data is going to companies so they can mine you. Profit off you. Manipulate you. To make money. And being provided to the government in some cases.
You can pull that “well I have nothing to hide” until they weaponize it against you.
I live in an area where it’s not worth it/my vote will never matter. But the very idea. Of what these insane oligarchs are doing with the assistance of the federal government and local government to take land. And power. And water.
LLMs are not good in general and should be haulted by regulation that the 70 plus year olds in the Senate will never get.
If there is a path forward it just be for the good of humanity not these psychopathic tech bros
@chienfou oh I definitely vote. And there were times when the votes mattered. I remember them. But the poison that has been injected has infected some areas where it feels a little hopless. But everyone should definitely always still vote
/Support their candidates.
A lot of completely corrupt and corporate things have happened since. That requires a revolt. Government is SUPPOSED TO BE by and and for the PEOPLE.
Not this distopia. And this entirely fake culture war that was planned back then.
What the FUCK happened to just be a good person. Be nice to those around you?
I mean I know. It was planned but… I don’t know how to show people the super obvious thing that they have locked into that only hurts them and everybody
I’m old enough to remember when people who had all sorts of different places on various political spectrums could have interesting and polite and respectful conversation and not see each other its enemies.
Where the fuck did that go?
Is it because we’re all silo’d now unless we make deliberate choices to not be silo’d
@chienfou@f00l@unksol
Back to the original comment: I have a RING doorbell but I have never subscribed to the video service. I also said NO to the Sidewalk Community application! I just use the camera to see what is happening on my porch.
Please VOTE when the day arrives! We need to hear everyone’s choices loud and clear.
Locked keys in the car a few times right after I got my license with the car in the back of a corn field
Maybe I’m too trusting, but I rarely lock my car. I also don’t leave anything that might be considered of value anywhere visible. I certainly can’t imagine locking it at the back of a cornfield! Don’t you trust that scarecrow?
/showme a sketchy looking scarecrow breaking into an older car in the back of a cornfield.
@unksol yeah, being hurried out of work has caused problems (leaving things I needed, like my keys or phone; or taking stuff I shouldn’t, like the office keys or the radio)
@chienfou this was the like 2000/2001. My first car. And drilled into my head my entire life was lock your door when you get in the car. And lock it when you leave the car.
Not because we thought anyone was going to do anything. We never left anything I mean I guess if Mom was gonna leave her perse cover it up.
I actually have no idea why Dad told us the that specifically. But we were in a small city. We did take a lot of trips across the country and chicago was only a couple hours away. So free museum days sometimes. I have no explanation I was just trained to lock my doors.
We got hit going to school hard with my mom.
When I was young dad almost died in I want say a Chevy corsica. I just always had it as you don’t want your door to fly open in a crash…
That obviously doesn’t apply to parked cars but like everything it’s a very low barrier to entry. So they mess with someone else
I was just trained to lock the doors everywhere for a decade and a half. When I was not responsible for the keys. Had to call some lockSmiths
I mean I was also taught to keep a spare key in my wallet… But that doesn’t work when… Stuff
@chienfou@unksol Yeah I grew up with the lock your car “rule” too. Fortunately that has saved me a couple of times. And I have locked myself out a couple of times too. Right now it tends to lock itself even if I didn’t touch anything so I always leave a door open just in case while I am taking groceries out of the car or something.
@chienfou@Kidsandliz I’ve stopped locking them. But this might be because of where I live. The only thing worth taking in a 30 year old truck that I bought for $400 is my electronic tools caddy and I’m in the store for like 15 minutes.
It i were going somewhere…locked doors just deter someone pulling the handel. Actual thieves will just break the window and grab anything so I would never leave anything in the car in big cities
Which I know has been overblown. And I’ve never dealt with parking in a city.
@Kyeh I’m not sure which is worse. I’ve left gas appliances on before but I was still in the house. With the CO/smoke alarms. I have ruined a nonstick pan. Some were work-related emergencies so I went to the basement and just… forgot
@unksol So far the only time I have left burners on is while I’m home, luckily; I’ve noticed because I smell the metal starting to get too hot. So no melted pots. Once though I was in my garage and I had lentils in a pan that boiled dry. That left an awful burnt smell for days.
@Kyeh you could definitely smell the nonstick when on the same floor plus burning but heat rises. “Office” is in the basement.
Current pans are stainless steel/cast iron pans/enambled cast iron. Which are mostly recoverable but I haven’t burned a whole meal in one lol. Have had something in the oven and the heat shuts off after the timer. But… Need to check these jobs etc… Burned plenty in the oven lol
@unksol That is the traditional leak check, yes! But, he is so large, and has so many potential leaks, that it would be an ambitious undertaking…that would have to be done outside, and it’s currently close to 90 degrees at midnight! X.x
If I am lucky, I might get a chance to use my parents’ extra-large shower to check him indoors.
@PooltoyWolf well also I assume that is the highest point structurally in horizontal orientation and therefore might appear to be the place to concentrate… But if any internal chambers have failed. Could be a paw pinprick. I assume you’ve considered vertical orientations?
I think we just mixed soapy water up in an bucket and covered it on area by area. No sprayer required as long as you could keep the film up and some air pressure. Which could just be a hug
@unksol He DOES get lots of hugs! Truth be told, the most likely source of air loss is one or more older patches failing, rather than open punctures or seam leaks. He’s got a LOT of patches, being 15+ years old and leading a very active lifestyle!
EDIT: I should add that his legs are separate air chambers, and the leak(s) are in his main body chamber.
@PooltoyWolf but his tail was a separate chamber? What if you were not looking at them because you were focusing elsewhere? Just a thought.
Only three tires of my truck are spinning under power and only two of them should be lol. 3 is a much worse number of either options. But gonna pull a tire to start. Maybe manually disengage 4WD if I can lol
@PooltoyWolf right but the bafflels in a leg could have also failed. Maybe a pinpoint on a seam you can’t see. And then the shell in the area you assumed was safe could also have a tiny prick. Any pressure(hugging) would force air in to that chamber and out cause pressure
Again just a thought but don’t you take him to vegas in that pool? I bet you could get some volunteers to help temporarily submerge him/spot bubbles.
Never been but. I would definitely help if I was.And then I have to remember gamergate and all the toxic shit that does not make any sense to me…
I look at it through the lense of pennyarcade but I have never been to a con. They are still doing it correctly as far as I know
@unksol A leak between air chambers is very unlikely. Seam leaks are possible, though. I have never been to a con in Vegas, I go to one here in Orlando every year. Fenris is so big it would be hard to wrestle him underwater enough to make bubbles lol.
@tricityladytn I would recommend a carafe style or single cup still style if a thing. The carafe is nice since no burner, standard coffee, extra if you need it in the morning.
But I’m not a coffee aficionado. I’m mostly there for the caffeine. And prefer my coffee black. Not for the taste though
@phendrick mmm well what cha been up to bro? Trying to find missing Legos? Something more nefarious like going to work? Or you got some weed I smelled?
Depends on my destination.
Just making a run to the store: whatever I (maybe) forgot is generally unimportant.
When traveling: it’s always do have my license/passport. Anything else I forgot we can acquire where we’re going.
Any other day trips etc: I trust my electronics at the house to behave properly.
My son-in-law’s family routinely unplugged everything in their kitchen before leaving the house. I never really saw the point in that.
@chienfou I would not unplug electronics. I would shut off the main water valve and the pump breaker cause that could destroy a ton of shit if there was a leak.
Even though I don’t expect a leak/one should not spontaneously occur
I rarely think about what’s behind me. I worry about what’s ahead, like did I forget a set of work keys, or my phone, or which building to report to first, etc.
Did I turn on the alarm? Which now can do remotely, so not a problem.
More likely, I worry about some item I forget to bring and there invariably is one (or more).
Was that my house, is this my car and when did they give me back my license again? Those might be my thoughts in a few decades if competent AI robots and self driving cars do not come to fruition.
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?”
Did I close the garage door?
@paulskrtic Me too. Luckily my ring cam looking at the driveway just barely shows if the door is closed.
@paulskrtic @tweezak I would just like to know if you have fully reviewed the nefarious things ring is used for. maybe check if flock cameras are being used in your area. Which need to be removed.
How do you feel about wide spread face recognition? Never mind facebooks perve glasses? every move you make being tracked? Fed into AI
You have to keep in mind all this data is going to companies so they can mine you. Profit off you. Manipulate you. To make money. And being provided to the government in some cases.
You can pull that “well I have nothing to hide” until they weaponize it against you.
I live in an area where it’s not worth it/my vote will never matter. But the very idea. Of what these insane oligarchs are doing with the assistance of the federal government and local government to take land. And power. And water.
LLMs are not good in general and should be haulted by regulation that the 70 plus year olds in the Senate will never get.
If there is a path forward it just be for the good of humanity not these psychopathic tech bros
@unksol
History would debate that point. Voter apathy is how we got where we are…
“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite”
-Joseph de Maistre
@chienfou oh I definitely vote. And there were times when the votes mattered. I remember them. But the poison that has been injected has infected some areas where it feels a little hopless. But everyone should definitely always still vote
/Support their candidates.
A lot of completely corrupt and corporate things have happened since. That requires a revolt. Government is SUPPOSED TO BE by and and for the PEOPLE.
Not this distopia. And this entirely fake culture war that was planned back then.
What the FUCK happened to just be a good person. Be nice to those around you?
I mean I know. It was planned but… I don’t know how to show people the super obvious thing that they have locked into that only hurts them and everybody
@chienfou @unksol
I get it
I’m old enough to remember when people who had all sorts of different places on various political spectrums could have interesting and polite and respectful conversation and not see each other its enemies.
Where the fuck did that go?
Is it because we’re all silo’d now unless we make deliberate choices to not be silo’d
@chienfou @f00l @unksol
Back to the original comment: I have a RING doorbell but I have never subscribed to the video service. I also said NO to the Sidewalk Community application! I just use the camera to see what is happening on my porch.
Please VOTE when the day arrives! We need to hear everyone’s choices loud and clear.
@chienfou @f00l @jkawaguchi it’s good that you actually read the agreement and processed what it says.
I still would never trust Amazon with an always on video stream. Maybe the NWF if I had an eagles nest. But yes sorry that took a swerve. My bad
Did I remember to click the meh button??
@MrGoodGuy Best answer!
/showme Worried anthropomorphized goat is leaving house and thinking “Did I click the meh button? Oh well, I can always blame society if I forget.”
@cfg83 Here’s the image you requested for “Worried anthropomorphized goat is leaving house and thinking Did I click the meh button? Oh well…”
@cfg83 I’d like that doormat and the cute buttons on his bag.
@heartny Oh jeez, the doormat is a slam dunk! …
/showme Sullen mediocrebots making doormats that say “meh”. One of many demotivational signs says “made with meh”.
@cfg83 Here’s the image you requested for “Sullen mediocrebots making doormats that say meh. One of many demotivational signs says made with…”
@cfg83 I want some of these signs. Lol
@cfg83 @MrGoodGuy Yup. Best answer. I now have a run of 2 today. Sigh.
Did I close the garage door?
Did I put my pants on?
@edguyver14 it’s happened more times that I care to admit
Got to tell the Cat I will be back in a while & leave some music on for him!
what did i forget that i can’t think of right now?
@spacemart Yep, this. Every single time!
None of these have ever happened to me.
Have left a wallet once. And also never do a pocket check to cover “did I zip my fly”. And you know. Have wallet and phone and keys.
Did lock the keys in the truck once and walk a mile and a half home/back while it was running.
Locked keys in the car a few times right after I got my license with the car in the back of a corn field.
For work. Not that smooth
@unksol
Maybe I’m too trusting, but I rarely lock my car. I also don’t leave anything that might be considered of value anywhere visible. I certainly can’t imagine locking it at the back of a cornfield! Don’t you trust that scarecrow?
/showme a sketchy looking scarecrow breaking into an older car in the back of a cornfield.
@unksol
/showme a sketchy looking scarecrow breaking into an older car in the back of a cornfield.
@chienfou Here’s the image you requested for “a sketchy looking scarecrow breaking into an older car in the back of a cornfield.”
@mediocrebot
Wondered if ‘sketchy’ was going to throw it for a loop…
@unksol yeah, being hurried out of work has caused problems (leaving things I needed, like my keys or phone; or taking stuff I shouldn’t, like the office keys or the radio)
@chienfou this was the like 2000/2001. My first car. And drilled into my head my entire life was lock your door when you get in the car. And lock it when you leave the car.
Not because we thought anyone was going to do anything. We never left anything I mean I guess if Mom was gonna leave her perse cover it up.
I actually have no idea why Dad told us the that specifically. But we were in a small city. We did take a lot of trips across the country and chicago was only a couple hours away. So free museum days sometimes. I have no explanation I was just trained to lock my doors.
We got hit going to school hard with my mom.
When I was young dad almost died in I want say a Chevy corsica. I just always had it as you don’t want your door to fly open in a crash…
That obviously doesn’t apply to parked cars but like everything it’s a very low barrier to entry. So they mess with someone else
I was just trained to lock the doors everywhere for a decade and a half. When I was not responsible for the keys. Had to call some lockSmiths
I mean I was also taught to keep a spare key in my wallet… But that doesn’t work when… Stuff
@chienfou @unksol Yeah I grew up with the lock your car “rule” too. Fortunately that has saved me a couple of times. And I have locked myself out a couple of times too. Right now it tends to lock itself even if I didn’t touch anything so I always leave a door open just in case while I am taking groceries out of the car or something.
@chienfou @Kidsandliz I’ve stopped locking them. But this might be because of where I live. The only thing worth taking in a 30 year old truck that I bought for $400 is my electronic tools caddy and I’m in the store for like 15 minutes.
It i were going somewhere…locked doors just deter someone pulling the handel. Actual thieves will just break the window and grab anything so I would never leave anything in the car in big cities
Which I know has been overblown. And I’ve never dealt with parking in a city.
@unksol Pssst! … XYZ . You’re welcome.
@cfg83 pdq
Not the oven, but the gas burner that I use to heat up water for coffee. I’ve actually gone a block in my car & circled back around to go in & check.
@Kyeh I’m not sure which is worse. I’ve left gas appliances on before but I was still in the house. With the CO/smoke alarms. I have ruined a nonstick pan. Some were work-related emergencies so I went to the basement and just… forgot
@unksol So far the only time I have left burners on is while I’m home, luckily; I’ve noticed because I smell the metal starting to get too hot. So no melted pots. Once though I was in my garage and I had lentils in a pan that boiled dry. That left an awful burnt smell for days.
@Kyeh you could definitely smell the nonstick when on the same floor plus burning but heat rises. “Office” is in the basement.
Current pans are stainless steel/cast iron pans/enambled cast iron. Which are mostly recoverable but I haven’t burned a whole meal in one lol. Have had something in the oven and the heat shuts off after the timer. But… Need to check these jobs etc… Burned plenty in the oven lol
@Kyeh
Time to start using that electric kettle you bought from meh.
@chienfou I didn’t …
@Kyeh
Something tells me you’ll have more opportunities… But hey, who am I to guess?
@chienfou It’s still for sale right now!
Did I remember to give Fenris some air?
@PooltoyWolf I mean. Technically you could provide a feeder for when you send out that would maintain a minimum amount of pressure. And a maximum.
Big as I’m sure you know with almost anything more frequent cycles stress systems so…
You could have a pressurized tank to rapidly assist when you got home?
@unksol He only loses enough air to start to sag at the end of the average day, so it’s not too bad. Heh
@PooltoyWolf well that’s just a tail wag eh?
@unksol Funny you should say that - his tail used to be a separate air chamber from his body, but sometime around 2014 they joined together somehow!
@PooltoyWolf he’s had a bath with a bit of dawn/dish soap? Should make the scratch apparrant. Blow a bubble
@unksol That is the traditional leak check, yes! But, he is so large, and has so many potential leaks, that it would be an ambitious undertaking…that would have to be done outside, and it’s currently close to 90 degrees at midnight! X.x
If I am lucky, I might get a chance to use my parents’ extra-large shower to check him indoors.
@PooltoyWolf well also I assume that is the highest point structurally in horizontal orientation and therefore might appear to be the place to concentrate… But if any internal chambers have failed. Could be a paw pinprick. I assume you’ve considered vertical orientations?
I think we just mixed soapy water up in an bucket and covered it on area by area. No sprayer required as long as you could keep the film up and some air pressure. Which could just be a hug
@unksol He DOES get lots of hugs! Truth be told, the most likely source of air loss is one or more older patches failing, rather than open punctures or seam leaks. He’s got a LOT of patches, being 15+ years old and leading a very active lifestyle!
EDIT: I should add that his legs are separate air chambers, and the leak(s) are in his main body chamber.
@PooltoyWolf but his tail was a separate chamber? What if you were not looking at them because you were focusing elsewhere? Just a thought.
Only three tires of my truck are spinning under power and only two of them should be lol. 3 is a much worse number of either options. But gonna pull a tire to start. Maybe manually disengage 4WD if I can lol
@unksol His tail used to be a separate chamber, but no longer is! The baffle separating his tail from his butt broke lol.
@PooltoyWolf right but the bafflels in a leg could have also failed. Maybe a pinpoint on a seam you can’t see. And then the shell in the area you assumed was safe could also have a tiny prick. Any pressure(hugging) would force air in to that chamber and out cause pressure
Again just a thought but don’t you take him to vegas in that pool? I bet you could get some volunteers to help temporarily submerge him/spot bubbles.
Never been but. I would definitely help if I was.And then I have to remember gamergate and all the toxic shit that does not make any sense to me…
I look at it through the lense of pennyarcade but I have never been to a con. They are still doing it correctly as far as I know
@unksol A leak between air chambers is very unlikely. Seam leaks are possible, though. I have never been to a con in Vegas, I go to one here in Orlando every year. Fenris is so big it would be hard to wrestle him underwater enough to make bubbles lol.
@PooltoyWolf ah. My brain just puts convention and vegas together. Even though I know we have a big one too lol.
@unksol The saddest part is that this convention is the only time for the whole year that I get to swim with him!
Did I leave the coffee maker on?
@tricityladytn I would recommend a carafe style or single cup still style if a thing. The carafe is nice since no burner, standard coffee, extra if you need it in the morning.
But I’m not a coffee aficionado. I’m mostly there for the caffeine. And prefer my coffee black. Not for the taste though
Am I carrying enough cash to make bail?
@phendrick mmm well what cha been up to bro? Trying to find missing Legos? Something more nefarious like going to work? Or you got some weed I smelled?
@phendrick
Where am I going?
Depends on my destination.
Just making a run to the store: whatever I (maybe) forgot is generally unimportant.
When traveling: it’s always do have my license/passport. Anything else I forgot we can acquire where we’re going.
Any other day trips etc: I trust my electronics at the house to behave properly.
My son-in-law’s family routinely unplugged everything in their kitchen before leaving the house. I never really saw the point in that.
@chienfou I would not unplug electronics. I would shut off the main water valve and the pump breaker cause that could destroy a ton of shit if there was a leak.
Even though I don’t expect a leak/one should not spontaneously occur
Did I turn off my hair flat iron?
@cristysue My wife often leaves her curling iron on. Fortunately, it has an indicator light that I notice and unplug it.
/giphy kevin home alone
Surprised no one said that yet.
Personally, I find if I can worry about what I forgot, I was anal enough to remember it. If I didn’t worry, I’d realize it much later and then panic.
Did I close, lock, and booby trap my office door? What if she finds it?
I rarely think about what’s behind me. I worry about what’s ahead, like did I forget a set of work keys, or my phone, or which building to report to first, etc.
Did I turn on the alarm? Which now can do remotely, so not a problem.
More likely, I worry about some item I forget to bring and there invariably is one (or more).
What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
@macromeh
Do you ask regarding an “unladen T-Rex swallow” or of an “unladen sloth swallow”?
@f00l @macromeh What are you planning to swallow that requires a lot of air-speed velocity to do so?
@Kidsandliz @macromeh
I’m planning to swallow blue bell ice cream.
(Must get there first)
@macromeh please tell me if it’s African or European so I can load my wooden badger trebuchet with a cow and get the countermeasures set.
@macromeh @sillyheathen
Load your trebuchet with a velociraptor perhaps?
@macromeh This has actually been determined; it can be searched. (I wouldn’t bother.)
Did I close the garage
Was that my house, is this my car and when did they give me back my license again? Those might be my thoughts in a few decades if competent AI robots and self driving cars do not come to fruition.
KuoH
@kuoh
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?”
@Kyeh
My first thought exactly!
@Kyeh If I had found myself there, I probably would’ve stopped asking dumb questions.
KuoH
Am I awake yet?
Where the hell was I supposed to be going?