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New comment by Toynbeeidea in "Pwn.college"

Toynbeeidea — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 20:13:26 +0000

Too bad nobody actually uses Matrix. Less odious, bit you're gonna be talking to yourself.

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

Toynbeeidea — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 18:52:51 +0000

That sort of thing happens all the time. All it takes is, say, a big fallen tree in the wrong spot. Its entirely possible for just your road to be SOL for days, if the local utility is otherwise completely swamped by bigger issues from whatever disaster is going on.

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "WTF Ubuntu?"

Toynbeeidea — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:52:12 +0000

Reminder that Ubuntu used to bundle spyware - I dropped it at that point and never looked back, trust broken.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man"

Toynbeeidea — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:42:00 +0000

Data was unique, but was he irreproducible? Lore existed. His mind was very different. If Data's mind were placed into Lore though, would we not have two Datas? Obviously they'd diverge quickly, but it still seems that Data COULD potentially be reproduced.

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "DoorDash to acquire Instacart"

Toynbeeidea — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:26:52 +0000

Ah, I see. That does suck. There was no line-cutting, that I saw, where I was. But at a grocery store you get kinda forced between belts and carts, so line-cutting would be quite a challenge.

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "DoorDash to Acquire Instacart"

Toynbeeidea — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:31:22 +0000

The supermarket I worked at had a split system. Our internal delivery people had their own checkout area, but it wasn't open 24/7. Doordash and the like had to go through the regular lines regardless.

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "DoorDash to Acquire Instacart"

Toynbeeidea — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:03:51 +0000

Not everyone can just "put their pants on." For some, its more of an ordeal at a physical level.

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "DoorDash to acquire Instacart"

Toynbeeidea — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:59:40 +0000

I worked at a local grocery store while unemployed, and I actually PREFERRED the Doordash/Instacart customers.

Quite a few of them spoke no English, so yes, they'd just present their phone screen. I didn't take it as rude. It was a very clear and direct communication. A simple scan, and boom, nothing further needed, I could just scan their items. Thr QR code scan handled payment and everything. They almost always helped with doing thier own bagging: Time is money, after all.

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements"

Toynbeeidea — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:21:45 +0000

Unlike the USA (yes, even now), most countries are not eager to accept foreigners.

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "From confession to conspiracy: How the Wedgewood fake polls story spread"

Toynbeeidea — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:14:57 +0000

"Its just a prank, bro."

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "Kentucky man becomes the first humanist granted religious exemption from AI"

Toynbeeidea — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:27:40 +0000

Because he was hired when the company still used typewriters.

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "Vegemite is not a human right"

Toynbeeidea — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:52:12 +0000

I prefer Marmite for its consistency. Marmite is sticky and goopy, Vegemite is kinda waxy.

I've never set foot in either Europe or Australia, but I liked both Marmite and Vegemite the first time I tried them.

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "'500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds"

Toynbeeidea — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:20:06 +0000

Tbe sand mandala is free. I (presumably) paid money for The Witness.

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "Worlds more habitable than Earth?"

Toynbeeidea — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:06:21 +0000

That'd still take 4.5 years to reach Proxima Centauri, our closest neighbor. Get back to me when they work out ansibles.

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "Worlds more habitable than Earth?"

Toynbeeidea — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:02:29 +0000

Starsector has hazard ratings, similar to Stellaris' habitability, but in reverse. I think it caps out at 300% hazard for airless irradiated balls of magma and/or gas giants in unmodded games.

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote"

Toynbeeidea — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:43:08 +0000

I run free local models on my A4500. I wouldn't mind a little upgrade... if I could afford it.

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary"

Toynbeeidea — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:03:04 +0000

Good. Someone please vibecode CK3 and Stellaris to not become a slow unplayable mess after 100 years, please.

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad"

Toynbeeidea — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:15:22 +0000

If that "somebody" is some manner of congresscritter, then yes.

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "The cost of lies: A Mineserver story"

Toynbeeidea — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:26:30 +0000

>There is no scenario where you have enough time to pick up a bunch of clothes but nobody thinks to grab the irreplaceable electronic parts that you spent $90,000 on.

Gonna have to disagree on this one. A handful of clothes can be held in your hands. A bunch of electronics can't. That's for insurance to sort out at that point.

New comment by Toynbeeidea in "The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse"

Toynbeeidea — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:23:14 +0000

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, we purchaed music on physical media. I had a Tower Records near me, took up an entire side of the shopping center - its since been cut up into five stores. Anyhows, it was filled with CDs, every genre. Somehow, when faced with all of that music, it didn't stop people form creating more music.