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@Zerosquare Yeah, you're right. It's capacitive and inductive loads that balance each other. Household loads tend to be mostly resistive and inductive, so adding an inductive component wouldn't help.
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I'm not sure it would add much series inductance anyways, since the live and neutral wires are next to each other in the cable, with the current flowing in opposite directions. So the magnetic fields would largely cancel each other.
In theory it could act as a common-mode choke and help a bit against interference, but I'm not sure the difference would be meaningful in practice.
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@anotherusername said in Internet of shit:
Yeah, it would add some impedance to the cord.
More likely to make the wires bend so that there's an electric circuit again. Never underestimate the power of a dodgy cable to bewilder!
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Most Wal-Marts have self-service blood pressure machines in the pharmacy section. It used to be you sat down, put your arm in the thing, pressed "Start", and 45 seconds later you had a blood pressure reading.
Not anymore.
- Get into position, tap the screen.
- Machine asks you to login. Tap "No, use as guest" instead.
- Machine asks "Do you want to take a health survey?" Tap "No."
- Machine asks "Do you want to evaluate your body mass index?" Tap "No."
- Machine asks "Do you want to sign up for special offers and services?" Tap "No."
- Machine asks "Do you want to sign up for online consultation with a health professional?" Tap "No."
- Machine prompts you with 14 consecutive waiver forms.
- Machine asks "Are you sure you want to continue as guest? Creating an account is free!" Tap "Continue as Guest."
- Machine finally takes blood pressure machine. While doing so, the screen shows you advertisements with the volume set at 8,752 decibels.
- Test finishes. Machine asks "Enter your email address and the results will be emailed to you. And by doing so, you agree to sign up to our newsletter."
- Click "Cancel" and ragequit out of Wal-Mart, never seeing your blood pressure, and having wasted 8 minutes and lost any blood pressure improvements I've gained from my long-distance running efforts.
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@dkf That's the thing: The devices all worked. There just was a null result to the actual experiment before knotting the power supply cable.
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@Rhywden I'd be interested to hear in more detail what the experiment was and how knotting the power cord made a difference.
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@mott555 10minutemail.com has a mobile-friendly interface last I checked.
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@anotherusername said in Internet of shit:
@Rhywden I'd be interested to hear in more detail what the experiment was and how knotting the power cord made a difference.
I'm sad to say that I don't remember any more details - it's 24 years since that happened.
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@dkf said in Internet of shit:
@anotherusername said in Internet of shit:
Yeah, it would add some impedance to the cord.
More likely to make the wires bend so that there's an electric circuit again. Never underestimate the power of a dodgy cable to bewilder!
BTDT fairly recently with my phone charger cord. I never tried actually tying a knot, but I had to keep a pretty sharp bend in it until I finally got around to buying a new one.
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@pie_flavor said in Internet of shit:
10minutemail.com
Been using mailinator so far.
I went to that site, it briefly showed a green box with an email it generated, then it went red and said in all-caps (must be CSS?):
You have requested too many addresses from your IP address too quickly. Please wait for an hour and try again.
You mean "one"?
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@topspin do you use a VPN or something?
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@pie_flavor No, only user of this IP address.
It did show an address briefly while loading, so maybe it misinterpreted the page load as multiple requests? Who knows.
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@topspin said in Internet of shit:
It did show an address briefly while loading
Same thing here
But I'm using Linux hardware, so
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@topspin huh, repro'd. Well, I said it worked last time I checked, and it did. Guess they screwed it up since.
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@pie_flavor I'll try to remember to check it again some time. Always good to have alternatives.
I actually have a bookmark somewhere with a list of mailinator mirrors, for asshole sites who don't accept throwaway mail addresses for their oh-so-important spam.
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If you’ve noticed an uptick in the number of telemarketing calls you’ve received in the past few years, it’s not just your imagination. According to the New York Times, automated and scam calls have increased by nearly a third just in the last year to around 3.4 billion monthly calls.
This is why in some localities, laws forbid phoning people at all in order to sell them things, except if they’ve explicitly given their permission beforehand (and I really do wonder how many would).
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@Gurth
T&C paragraph 17, subsection Q:By using this website, you grant us, our mothers, our third party partners, select people we resell your information to, anyone who hacks our database, anyone who finds our customer lists in an unsecured S3 vault, or our dog to contact you via any of your listed contact methods, as well as any other ways to contact you we become aware of in the future, for the express purposes of selling you stuff, of helping you fix your computer, or of begging you for money to support a cause that sounds charitable.
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@izzion I take it you intentionally displayed that in much a bigger font size here than it would be in the actual text?
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@Gurth Due to a scripting bug, the scrollable box containing the T&C, which fits 10 lines of 40 characters, does not scroll beyond line 65535.
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It's getting kinda cold:
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@LaoC said in Internet of shit:
It's getting kinda cold:
Yeah, I'm extremely fucking pissed that the WiFi module for my water heater does not allow local control...
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That level of incompetence should be criminal.
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@LaoC Supposedly it should be manually controllable in this case:
Who nose if it actually works the way it's supposed to.
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@hungrier one of the screenshots above says it doesn't.
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@hungrier said in Internet of shit:
Who nose
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@Gąska said in Internet of shit:
That level of incompetence should be criminal.
Unfortunately, it's more of an industry standard.
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@Gąska
Parenting incompetence. The problem of watches' security is a distant second to one where putting a stalking device on a kid seemed like a good idea.
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@Applied-Mediocrity I have a younger sister who just won't listen to anyone. She goes wherever she wants, she goes home however late she wants, and no standard parenting techniques work on her - not grounding, not phone confiscation, not emotional blackmail, not any other sort of physical or non-physical punishment. If she was my child, I'd totally inject tracking chip inside her, in a place she cannot easily reach with her own hands (to prevent self-surgical attempts to remove).
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@Gąska
Right. That will totally solve all the mentioned problems, and will have no secondary effects whatsoever.Excuse me while I process the cognitive dissonance between your statement and having perceived you as quite an intelligent person whose arguments are usually at the very least without obvious deficiencies. I expect it will take some time.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Internet of shit:
@Gąska
Right. That will totally solve all the mentioned problems, and will have no secondary effects whatsoever.Who said it would? It's not perfect solution. But given the circumstances, it'd still be the best solution - at least if your criterion is not being worried to death about whereabouts of your child. And there's a chance that if I did enough embarrassing "we're going home, get into the car right now" drive-bys, eventually she'd get the idea.
Sometimes you're forced to choose between shit or another shit. And then you pick the shit that's least shitty. I can see why tracking can be seen as a sign of bad parenting - but sometimes it really is the least bad solution. Also, you can be the best parent in the world, and still end up with disobedient child (either by chance, or due to the other parent not being as good as you).
Excuse me while I process the cognitive dissonance between your statement and having perceived you as quite an intelligent person whose arguments are usually at the very least without obvious deficiencies. I expect it will take some time.
No problem. I've got used to people reading way more into my posts than I've actually written, and getting the wrong idea because of it. I'm sure there's at least a couple forum members who think I'm a Christian fundamentalist and anarcho-capitalist.
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@Gąska said in Internet of shit:
No problem. I've got used to people reading way more into my posts than I've actually written, and getting the wrong idea because of it. I'm sure there's at least a couple forum members who think I'm a Christian fundamentalist and anarcho-capitalist.
When (if you read between the lines) you're obviously a Satanist right-libertarian, too.
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@Gribnit you know what's between the lines? Blank space. You know what blank space means? Despite what Python worshipers would want you to believe, blank space means nothing.
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@Gąska https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::Bleach y'see, everything establishes an Overton window which has an axis and which axis has an opposed plane.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Internet of shit:
@Gąska
Right. That will totally solve all the mentioned problems, and will have no secondary effects whatsoever.Excuse me while I process the cognitive dissonance between your statement and having perceived you as quite an intelligent person whose arguments are usually at the very least without obvious deficiencies. I expect it will take some time.
It is a parent’s responsibility to know where their under age child is at and what they are doing at all times. It’s one of the reasons I think leashes for kids are just cromulent.
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@hungrier said in Internet of shit:
@Gąska said in Internet of shit:
Python worshipers
Just another snake cult
Snake cult is best cult.
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@Gribnit said in Internet of shit:
@hungrier said in Internet of shit:
@Gąska said in Internet of shit:
Python worshipers
Just another snake cult
Snake cult is best cult.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/466096746343432193/496051116962742276/image0.jpg
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Internet of shit:
@Gąska
Parenting incompetence. The problem of watches' security is a distant second to one where putting a stalking device on a kid seemed like a good idea.More people need to watch Black Mirror. In this case, Arkangel.
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@hungrier said in Internet of shit:
Who nose if it actually works the way it's supposed to.
Only if you bought the $100/yr upgrade package?
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@M_Adams said in Internet of shit:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Internet of shit:
@Gąska
Right. That will totally solve all the mentioned problems, and will have no secondary effects whatsoever.Excuse me while I process the cognitive dissonance between your statement and having perceived you as quite an intelligent person whose arguments are usually at the very least without obvious deficiencies. I expect it will take some time.
It is a parent’s responsibility to know where their under age child is at and what they are doing at all times. It’s one of the reasons I think leashes for kids are just cromulent.
Not sure if serious. :futurama.png:
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@topspin said in Internet of shit:
@M_Adams said in Internet of shit:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Internet of shit:
@Gąska
Right. That will totally solve all the mentioned problems, and will have no secondary effects whatsoever.Excuse me while I process the cognitive dissonance between your statement and having perceived you as quite an intelligent person whose arguments are usually at the very least without obvious deficiencies. I expect it will take some time.
It is a parent’s responsibility to know where their under age child is at and what they are doing at all times. It’s one of the reasons I think leashes for kids are just cromulent.
Not sure if serious. :futurama.png:
Completely serious. Kids are distracted by the shiney. It takes milliseconds for your child to go from your side to someone's "fun van". Leash your kids.
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@M_Adams said in Internet of shit:
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
@M_Adams said in Internet of shit:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Internet of shit:
@Gąska
Right. That will totally solve all the mentioned problems, and will have no secondary effects whatsoever.Excuse me while I process the cognitive dissonance between your statement and having perceived you as quite an intelligent person whose arguments are usually at the very least without obvious deficiencies. I expect it will take some time.
It is a parent’s responsibility to know where their under age child is at and what they are doing at all times. It’s one of the reasons I think leashes for kids are just cromulent.
Not sure if serious. :futurama.png:
Completely serious. Kids are distracted by the shiney. It takes milliseconds for your child to go from your side to someone's "fun van". Leash your kids.
This suggestion would destroy us in 1000 years or so by removing a vital stupid elimination channel. Also, won't someone think of the predators?
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Finally, some good information
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@izzion said in Internet of shit:
@M_Adams said in Internet of shit:
Kids are distracted by the shiney
Such distraction. Much wow.Is a cute not-quite-a-snake.
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@Gribnit said in Internet of shit:
@M_Adams said in Internet of shit:
@topspin said in Internet of shit:
@M_Adams said in Internet of shit:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Internet of shit:
@Gąska
Right. That will totally solve all the mentioned problems, and will have no secondary effects whatsoever.Excuse me while I process the cognitive dissonance between your statement and having perceived you as quite an intelligent person whose arguments are usually at the very least without obvious deficiencies. I expect it will take some time.
It is a parent’s responsibility to know where their under age child is at and what they are doing at all times. It’s one of the reasons I think leashes for kids are just cromulent.
Not sure if serious. :futurama.png:
Completely serious. Kids are distracted by the shiney. It takes milliseconds for your child to go from your side to someone's "fun van". Leash your kids.
This suggestion would destroy us in 1000 years or so by removing a vital stupid elimination channel.
That ship has sailed.