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I think you're looking at it backwards. The problem is people with authority who think that it makes them better than you. The autistic person rejects that idea completely. You see…

> I think what I’m getting from this conversation is part of what’s being expressed here is a lack of awareness of social danger You're confusing "being aware of" and "caring about…

Why are you so unwilling to accept the extensively documented phenomenon of an autistic person being more intelligent than average? Some autistic people are genuinely ahead of the …

Yup, the "because I said so" type really isn't worth respect in the first place. Authority figures are fine when they act with reason and respect. When they don't, that's when we h…

What part of their comment is disagreeable?

Bluetooth link negotiation happens in a few dozens of milliseconds. Any perceptible delay is down to the host operating system setting up audio drivers. The headset can't know what…

MP3 decoding is just math. If you have enough CPU to decode a compressed audio stream, it doesn't cost anything to also have it decode MP3. Sure, you could store those clips in a m…

This is the precise reason I prefer embedded development. The challenge of fitting my entire application into a handful of kilobytes with just a KB or two of RAM is a lot of fun. I…

I recently switched to a local pharmacy after getting berated by a CVS pharmacist for standing in the "wrong" line. CVS in general has been absolutely awful in the last few years. …

Slightly OT, but what the hell is going on with these massive persistent popups on every website imploring me to sign in with my google account lately? After the first dozen I just…

"Have you tried SCF /scannow?"

It's only a matter of time before the conglomeration of ancient software slowly having complexity bolted on becomes self-aware and helps plot the overthrow of the lunar government

My bet is that btrfs will replace ext4 in the nearish future. It's the default for Arch, which also comes default with filesystem snapshots before any system updates. It's pretty n…

People always seem shocked to learn that capitalism is completely and absolutely indifferent to morals, ethics, or human life

The more correct analogy is advertising heavily to kids that you give out free candy, and then give them so much they get sick. Parents can't surveil kids 24/7. It simply isn't pos…

GitHub has started showing me a persistent login pop-out on certain pages. Literally no way to dismiss it, so I just uBlocked the element. I don't really want to log in to GitHub i…

Don't forget YouTube shorts! Google will absolutely never let you forget.

Fun fact! Your local instance creates a shadow account for remote users, which has a unique ID and a copy of the profile data, but is otherwise empty. I haven't seen this documente…

Basically, you can have your server follow another instance as if it were a user account. Assuming the remote instance allows follows, their local feed gets duplicated to your fede…

I was at the company for three or four years. It was fine working as a floor level employee, and my last manager encouraged me and gave me a lot of freedom to do what I wanted beca…

Pretty much. I took the retail job because I couldn't find a programming job. Before that I was a video game programmer. I actually got hired here as a mid level unity programmer, …

No, it's pretty much "hold my beer, I got this" billions of times until something works. Evolution isn't organized or eloquent. It's messy and random and non-optimized. Evolution r…

My last job was a corporate hellscape. I worked really hard to move up to assistant manager, then corporate put me in a failing store on the other side of the state and just left m…

I wouldn't be so sure the flag is actually false. Samsung has been getting increasingly scummy with their software. I wouldn't be surprised if they rolled some malware into one of …

They absolutely, definitely are not anonymizing your data. They may be "anonymizing" it, but there is exactly zero chance that they aren't linking it to you in some other way. Goog…