Kerfuffle

joined 1 year ago
[–] Kerfuffle 1 points 1 year ago

I got a USB C to headphone connector to connect my phone to my car stereo. Seems to work fine and cost less than $10.

[–] Kerfuffle 4 points 1 year ago

I have a 16 gallon shopvac I bought... about 15 years ago, maybe more. Honestly, I think that's the way to go. They can handle wet, dry stuff, huge capacity, really powerful, simple system. Not even expensive compared to normal vacuums.

If you have a husky/husky mix, good luck with bags. You will need about 1 billion per year.

[–] Kerfuffle 2 points 1 year ago

I think you might have misunderstood the post? There wasn't anything about the manufacturer disabling the radio. The person I replied to said they'd choose not to use the car's fancy features and I thought it was funny they'd do that to "spite" the manufacturer after giving them a whole bunch of money.

[–] Kerfuffle 0 points 1 year ago

It doesn't mean doing the exact same thing, it means treating others in the way you'd like to be treated.

[–] Kerfuffle 9 points 1 year ago

Maybe. I feel like it's going to be kind of hard to make them care if you're still buying their product though.

[–] Kerfuffle 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't the article contradict what you just said?

"We believe, and Apple’s Security Engineering and Architecture team has confirmed to us, that Lockdown Mode blocks this particular attack," Citizen Lab said.

[–] Kerfuffle 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I’ll plug in my phone, ignore your entire. Infotainment and actively campaign for it to fail and blow up in your face.

This sounds kind of funny. "I'll spend $60,000 on your car but I won't turn on the radio. That'll show you!"

[–] Kerfuffle 74 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The title makes it sound like Rotten Tomatoes deliberately did something shady. What actually seems to have happened is:

  1. Rotten Tomatoes aggregates critic reviews. As far as I know, those critics aren't really affiliated with Rotten Tomatoes.
  2. Some of the critics that make up that aggregated rating got bribed to increase their evaluation of the movie.
  3. Consequently the score on sites that aggregate reviews like Rotten Tomatoes increased.
[–] Kerfuffle 2 points 1 year ago

Man, can't even block the user without blocking all replies too.

[–] Kerfuffle 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

Get psychological help

How about addressing my points instead of the ad hominem attacks?

Feeding pedophilia is directly harmful to children who grow more at risk

Like I said: "I’d personally be very hesitant to ban/persecute stuff like that unless there was actual evidence that it was harmful"

If what you're saying here is actually true then the type of evidence I mentioned would exist. I kind of doubt it works that way though. If you stop "feeding" being straight, gay, whatever, does it just go away and you no longer have those sexual desires? I doubt it.

Much as we might hate it that some people do have those urges, it's the reality. Pretending reality doesn't exist usually doesn't work out well.

I’d personally be very hesitant to say “it’s okay to beat off to children”

I never said any such thing. Also, in this case, we're also talking about images that resemble children, not actual children.

It should be very clear to anyone reading I'm not defending any kind of abuse. A knee-jerk emotion response here could easily increase the chances children are abused. Or we could give up our rights "for the children" in a way that doesn't actually help them at all. Those are the things I'm not in favor of.

[–] Kerfuffle 42 points 1 year ago (31 children)

It's obviously very distasteful but those needs don't just go away. If people with that inclination can't satisfy their sexual urges at home just looking at porn, it seems more likely they're going to go out into the world and try to find some other way to do it.

Also, controlling what people do at home that isn't affecting anyone else, even in a case like this isn't likely to target exactly just those people and it's also very likely not to stop there either. I'd personally be very hesitant to ban/persecute stuff like that unless there was actual evidence that it was harmful and that the cure wasn't going to be worse than the disease.

[–] Kerfuffle 1 points 1 year ago

That certainly sucks all the joy out of pirating it.

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