Could also just say something like, “I’d love to deal with this but first need to write a rust program from scratch that can import or export any file format, converting content as necessary, with a custom GUI written in godot and the interface between the GUI and backend will be a new serial communications format optimized for this wire hangar I plug in to a random port on my PC (which changes every time to avoid being tracked) that acts as an antenna to communicate with an antenna on a custom N64 cartridge where the backend is running (required to meet audit standards). My boss pays me by line of code, so I’d like this solution to be optimized for the maximum possible lines of code so I can retire and buy lots of what you’re selling. Oh also, if there’s even a single reference to JSON, XML, or CSV, my boss will instead fire me (though we DO have to support all of these formats for import/export). Can you help with this first real quick?”

I would hit 1 to speak with a real person when those recorded calls about a warrant being issued for not paying a tax bill or something were popular. Then, when the person asked for my name, I’d act confused and say “shouldn’t you have that, if there’s a warrant?”

They’d just hang up.

I also once answered, “(nearby region) Regional Police, (made up name) speaking, how can I help you?” and they hung up right away, though I decided to drop that one for potential legal reasons.

I’m curious if doing those every now and then resulted in my number getting added to scammer do not call lists because those calls are very rare these days.

Yeah, this is why that vger.to link is so annoying for me (other than triggering the reaction to the dark pattern, even if it isn’t exploiting it like what seems to be the industry standard these days), because most of the time when I use the share thing, I’m really just trying to get the url to open it in my browser, so that “open in voyager” link is the exact opposite of what I want, though I can see how it might be nice for actually sharing the link with others.

Yeah, it’s easily possible to set it up to save the original link somewhere hidden. Same reason why you shouldn’t reuse passwords because it’s trivial to set up a site to look like it’s doing it right from the outside but actually saves all passwords in plaintext for owners, admins, or disgruntled staff to look at later and see if it logs in to your email.

Even voyager gives a link to vger.to when you hit share instead of a direct link to the thing you want to share. No idea what they are doing with it (other than trying to redirect it to the app). Maybe it’s set up to just use the localhost and that’s all it does, but I usually strip that part out because I have no idea either way.

Advertisement to people who want to make money is like selling shovels and picks to people who want to mine gold.

… we need a better economic system?

Which was only open one day per week.

That’s one of my favourites, though I did find it weird how intense some of them got. Like I understand the one lady as her worldview was falling apart, but Art and Will seemed crazy with how they were reacting. Keeping it vague to avoid spoilers, but John should have turned what Will threatened at the end back on him after what he threatened in the middle. Guy shouldn’t have had his license after pulling that shit, let alone act like he’s the one speaking from wisdom.

But that sequel lol… They dialed the intensity even higher, though I can’t tell if the movie was made with a “this is what you get for pissing a certain group off” mindset or a “this movie wants to show even more how crazy this certain group can be” mindset. The writing was so bad in the second one.

I’m a fan of Norm MacDonald’s style. Not sure why a long joke with a mediocre payoff is so funny to me, though thanks because getting ratio’d by this comment is even funnier. It’s like a committee deciding I deserve a participation trophy, though they did not appreciate the joke itself.

Yeah, normal burners are more like printers, where the write laser activates or deactivates a pigment which then either reflects or absorbs the read laser to represent 0/1. But that pigment can degrade over time, turning 1s into 0s.

M-discs are instead etched and iirc use constructive and destructive interference so the reader (which is the same reader as normal discs, just the writer needs to specifically support M-disc) reads the 0/1. It will also degrade over time, but since it’s a thicker layer of difference, it will last significantly longer than a thin layer of pigment. And I bet that special m-disc specific readers could be made to read it again after it degrades to the point where the interference technique stops working, since an image could still show where the high and low points are, even if the waves don’t align perfectly anymore.

In practice, I’ve found that the drive was way easier to find than the media for m-disc. Like most optical disc writers these days seem to support it but the discs are expensive af compared to non m-disc.

Though when I was going through my old burnt CDs and DVDs, I was surprised at how well they were holding up. I was expecting at least some read errors by now but everything has been fine so far.

Well, other than the data quality lol. Not like the readability of the file but stuff that took days to download back then would download today in seconds and a good monitor I got well after my early files was only 720p for its resolution. The data I prized as a youth is kinda sad today.

Seemed more curious about the puzzle and wary of each other lol.

Yeah once a date invited me up for coffee and I was enjoying my time with her and thought another 15 minutes or so of conversation would be nice, but then it was suddenly like she forgot she invited me in or something because she just started getting ready for bed instead of making any coffee! I just politely said I needed to get going so she didn’t feel embarrassed about forgetting she had invited me for coffee, though I think I failed because she did seem a bit upset.

So I tried to be considerate and go through a coffee shop drivethru after the next couple of dates. Even then, she offered coffee the first time and I pointed at my cup and said I’m fine, though that seemed to make her feel even more embarrassed as she looked like she was about to cry after that.

Then the next time she said, “I think we’ve been having a miscommunication when I’ve been inviting you up for coffee, I didn’t really mean coffee, but I was being a bit immature and dancing around what I really wanted and then getting my feelings hurt when you didn’t get the message. So I’ll just say what I mean this time. Would you like to come up and have sex with me?”

I informed her that’s where babies come from and she already knew and still wanted it. Then she was trying to say something about being on a pill and I noped out of there. I am not interested in a relationship where my partner likes to get high on pills and have babies. That just seems irresponsible to me.

Get a couple cans of spray thermal paste.

I’ve started just dumping out my smaller garbages into the bigger one instead of taking the bag out. My grocery bag collection is dwindling (makes me regret the times I decided I had enough and threw out a bunch). I’ll probably end up having to buy liners at some point, but I intend to reuse them when possible. Or fuck it, maybe just use naked trash cans and just clean them from time to time.

Though I do wonder what kind of cascading effects there would be to eliminating Mussolini from history.

Back when I was still using online dating, it was part of the process of eliminating/reducing scammers, as well as disqualifying anyone who wanted to move to whatsapp. No idea even what portion of scammers vs legit people I eliminated that way. Eventually I was jaded enough by the whole thing that I had trouble engaging at all and just gave up on online dating.

This might be reverse psychology propaganda, making a bad argument that doesn’t really support the conclusion to undermine it.

Either that or the “you are not immune to propaganda” is meant to be treated as another propaganda message.

And even worse, they then follow up with a smear campaign that the person was going to rape or assault them if they didn’t ghost them to justify the ghosting if it’s pointed out how pathetic ghosting over trivial shit is.

It’s $1000 to hire the balloon expert that knows how to work it.