No comment on the actual content of your post - I just want to say thank you for showing me that really cool IPFS publishing site I didn't know existed. I know how to put things in IPFS/get them back, but that site seems to actually perform well, which I can't say about all things IPFS.
Women's involvement is tech is a great thing. I've worked with quite a few women as peers that were great peers.
On the whole, men seem to be more likely to naturally gravitate towards tech, women not so much. There are exceptions, yes, but statistically this is the norm.
What I am upset about is being clubbed over the head with the concept that men naturally preferring STEM type things while women are less likely to is an atrocity and I'm somehow guilty of something horrible because reality is what it is. I'm also upset over people like you calling me a misogynist and putting words in my mouth that very obviously weren't there by implying as such.
FYI - my daughter has announced she wants to be an electrician. I will consider this STEM. My reaction? I needed to replace the cord on my compressor pump, the existing cord had an old Eagle DIY plug on it. I bought a new extension cord, cut off the end and wired it into my compressor pump. I took the old Eagle plug, gave it to my daughter with the scrap I cut from the extension cord. I then explained hot, neutral and ground to her (mansplaining to a sixteen year old girl, I know how you think -see, I can do it to) and had her make me a 1 ft extension cord for work so I don't have to reach under the desk at work to plug things in. I also told her I thought it was a great career choice. I was proud to give her what was to be her first high-voltage project, no matter how small it was.
I agree that SJWs are stereo typically a few angry college chick who may or may not grow out of it after graduation.
The fact that all the fucking news cameras are pointed at them and they seem to be able to drive the narrative from such a small minority position that irks me. In reality, that was the significant underlying point of my parent post. Giving massive news coverage to something that's a cultural abnormality skews the public perception of normal, and eventually leads to shift in normality if enough people adjust their views.
Slashdot is fueling false perceptions by favoring so many skewed articles. To their credit there is an occasional post to counter the rest, but it's a nine to one or greater ratio.
Liberal has a proper definition and a soiled definition. Unfortunately so many prefer the soiled definition a new term - Libertarian - had to be invented.
Slashdot reads like a left-wing propaganda site these days.
Today's stories include "How you're stupid if you question any vaccine on any level, how using the scientific method to question any aspect of climate change makes you unscientific, ten reasons why you should kneel before Apple and Tim Cook, and the patriarchy - how it's still real, and despite proof that the legal system and the culture in general favor women you need to accept it's because you're the patriarchy, you're evil, and it's your fault for possessing a penis!"
Then again my hearing sucks. I like great sounding headphones, but if you give me ones that aren't the best I can't tell, as long as they don't outright suck. By the time I compress it to Ogg a lot of that checksum stuff is blown. Net result - it's probably quicker on my own, and I've heard the terminology "scene" before aimed at some sort of sub-culture, but I'm not sure my over 40 self really comprehends it.
How long does it take to compress a single disk these days? My ripper/compressor looks up the disk with CDDB, downloads the info, fills it in and I have a fully ready to go disk in what? Five minutes?
I think that by the time I figure out where the pirate bay is today and find what I'm looking for I should already have it ripped and compressed with all the data filled in - in the format of my choice.
you can seriously pick them up anywhere from a few bucks, to a few bucks for a box full, to free sometimes.
When you want to buy music new on Amazon sometimes it's cheaper to buy the physical disk with "Auto-Rip" than it is to buy just the digital album.
Either way, I rip the disk to Ogg/Vorbis and keep it on my phone, and everything else I own. They still sound awesome, and unlike vinyl and tape media they still sound just as good today as the day the original owner bought them fifteen years ago even if they were played hundreds of times. (unless you bought from an ogre that didn't take care of them, then you can still sometimes run the polisher)
As far as I'm concerned buying a few used disks a month is cheaper than a bandwidth draining subscription service, and in time you'll have a better selection than they do anyways. Unless you like pop, in which case the cost and storage of your music isn't the first serious contemplation you need to make about your music.
Oh, I love Looney Tunes along with Tom and Jerry - the well known one, the other Tom and Jerry sucked a little.
I've got my kids watching them, but that suicide stuff in Warner Brothers actually upsets my wife a little. I sort of ruined her world when I pointed out just how much of what was in those cartoons was WWII propaganda too.
What I find interesting, and I blame the day care - I had Looney Tunes on at home because I liked them. My son is a Mickey Fan, to stupid degrees. When he was just old enough to talk good we were leaving Costco and he saw the "Get a Disney Vacation through Costco" flyer stand on the way out and shouted Mickey! I didn't even know he knew who Mickey was. When I was home on Saturdays it was Looney Tunes or Tom and Jerry on most mornings, occasionally some Popeye or the old Fleischer stuff, but I didn't have a lot of Fleischer and what I did have was poor quality transfers.
He's a Mickey fiend, but mostly the modern stuff. I've put some Silly Symphonies on for him, but he just wants Mickey Mouse Clubhouse or a few other more modern incarnations. I find that promising, that's a kids show and he should outgrow it.
Ever notice just how much suicide was in the classic Warner Brothers stuff? I got a lot of it on DVD over the past few years because, hey who doesn't like that stuff, and I started to realize just how many of those clips were trimmed on TV network broadcasts in the modern day. It was just about a cartoon characters first resort in the 40's and 50's. I don't recall seeing much of that in Disney stuff from the same era, or the others, but those were more kid focused while Warner was buffer material for adults.
So, out of pure happenstance, I was using my Lenovo laser mouse on my jeans last night. It worked for a while, then got "laggy". I was blaming my computer at first, which I just reinstalled to upgrade (always keep/home on a separate drive for just such an occasion). Turns out it was using it on my jeans that got to it. I don't think the Bluetrack is quite as bad, but it's subjective.
Still, I highly recommend the Lenovo mice. I don't even think that one was meant for the US market, it came in a box without much English on it even though the logo itself is the English one.
I've just found that it works better on more surfaces. The resolution is nice, but at my previous job the desk were all various sorts of wood for the most part, some with shiny varnish where normal optical mice tended to have issues (and a mouse pad left in place would grow legs - quickly), and I've found other various surfaces where laser mice, blue ones especially, seem to do better. Despite having hated Microsoft with a passion in the past, I caved due to lack of Logitech options in the past and started buying Microsoft mice - and was quite happy I did, their BlueTrack stuff made me a believer. I've also bought some Lenovo laser mice, I'm not sure what laser tech they use, but it appears invisible but works about as well as Microsoft's - though I did have some issues with the way they handles power saving. Those issues seem to have been patched out of the Linux distros now though.
So blue vs. other types of laser - wins by a nose.
Using dongles sucks. However the M585 with both Bluetooth and a dongle, to be switched between at a button-press is about the most geek-friendly thing I've ever seen. I can use Bluetooth on my own laptop, shove a dongle into whatever I'm working on and switch at a button press. Great for servers, working on user equipment, setting up new systems you haven't paired Bluetooth with etc...
I've been grilling Logitech for years about bad choices in wireless connectivity, it seems like they're waking up finally.
As for a gaming mouse? Meh. Blue laser seems to be the best thing I've ever used and Logitech isn't the place to get that.
May not be the same way they were, but they still exist. One of my motherboards for instance can do CrossFire but not SLI. That makes sense from AMDs perspective, but another chipset would allow for either.
I've noticed that most new social media platforms based on crypto tend to attract crypto people. Steemit for example is so cryptoed up there's almost no one talking about anything else - and that drives people away.
Minds, so far I've liked, it doesn't appear to be a crypto fanatic hangout like other crypto based sites are, but it still has the issue that it's going to confuse grandma and Aunt Postalotacrap. There doesn't seem to be a "friends and family centric" way of doing things, which will prevent it from becoming a Facebook replacement. Is eventually stepping into that slot one of your goals? Or are you happy being the place everyone but Grandma and the crazy aunt goes?
By default I noticed lots and lots of anti-Semitic stuff coming across, in the least expected places. It appears to have lessened, I don't know if it's because I've actually added to what I follow filtering out the default things, or if there was a concerted effort to work that into nearly everything and whoever was funding it gave up, or if you intentionally weeded it out. I don't have a dog in that fight, seeing Jews like I see about anyone else I'm not, but I couldn't help but notice the amount of hate for them that proliferated and I still see a bit of it. I guess what is your answer to the amount of that on the site?
I used to buy motherboards based on it having an Nvidia chipset. Late Socket 7 AMD use taught me the value of buying by the chipset.
If Nvidia were to start making desktop (or laptop) chipsets again I would very seriously consider buying those first. It worked out well for me during the early Athlon era I believe it was.
I'll never forget the commercials where Microsoft ridiculed their own customers for using their products.
I never went into MS Office willingly to begin with. The Corel office suite was better way back when, and now Libre Office is easier to use and has a better price point.
This is probably the best reply to my post out of all of them. Yes, you said things differently than me, but it appears to be well researched and not just "you're not on my team!" drivel like the rest. Than and you're not an A/C.
I'm not blaming foreigners for wanting to make a buck. I'm blaming the ones we've elected to serve us for putting policies in place to ensure that U.S. based companies cannot compete on a fair market. I don't even really believe in protectionism. It makes sense from a logistical perspective to buy something locally instead of from over seas, but there's reasons to buy internationally as well. We don't buy Swiss and French cheeses because they're cheaper. I buy German screw drivers because they're better. I buy American milk an honey because they come from right here and it's readily available. Some things make sense to buy locally, some don't. For policies to be put in place to intentionally manipulate our own companies into failure for the benefit of whoever ponied up a bribe (often China but not always). The absolute best undeniable example I can think of is the steel industry.
Apples can be made here just fine. If they give up on their image mandates and want to just infiltrate the market they're perfectly capable. People who recognize my user name recognize me as being highly critical of Apple. What few know is that my first electronics industry job back in 1996 was related to Apple. I manufactured Mac Clones. Legal, lawful ones under contract from Motorola. They weren't far different from normal PCs of the era, they were little beige boxes with standard PC components, they had an electronically ejected floppy drive instead of the standard mechanical push button of the era, and everything was SCSI instead of IDE, but I must say there was an appeal to using off the shelf components. I lost my job when Steve Jobs got his job back, killing clones was one of the first things he did.
If Apple was having trouble getting a particular screw in the computer world then it wasn't a normal screw.
Indeed their reliance on tri-wings and other "don't you dare fix this yourself!" products instead of normal, mass produced, easy to get screws is half their problem.
What this article leaves out is the United States used to be like China is now when it comes to manufacturing. Our politicians sold us out. We've been financially punished through specific taxes and targeted labor practices from that are designed to keep us from succeeding in the manufacturing world. Most of this was done in the George H.W. Bush era, but it wasn't exclusive to him. Every president between Reagan and Trump, and I'm not so sure about Reagan in his second term, has sold the United States to foreign interest. The reason we aren't setup to do what Apple is bitching we can't do was government sabotage of our own industry.
#1 Use normal fucking screws #2 Stop allowing our politicians to sell us out - flush the toilet occasionally and replace the contents up on the hill #3 Educate yourself about what's going on
Slashdot Mirror
No comment on the actual content of your post - I just want to say thank you for showing me that really cool IPFS publishing site I didn't know existed. I know how to put things in IPFS/get them back, but that site seems to actually perform well, which I can't say about all things IPFS.
Some scientist who've worked in the industry have been bullied, forced to resign, and generally shunned over doing just what you said.
https://www.thenewamerican.com...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...
Seriously, there's groups - some of which have more traction than they should - that believe you should be arrested and jailed for questioning it.
https://www.newsweek.com/shoul...
https://theoutline.com/post/22...
That's right, never question ANY of them EVER or you deserve a tin-foil hat!
https://infogalactic.com/info/...
Remember, never, anywhere is a polio vaccine dangerous because all of them quit being dangerous 40 years ago!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/p...
You know, you can believe (good) vaccines work, get them, and still question them.
Women's involvement is tech is a great thing. I've worked with quite a few women as peers that were great peers.
On the whole, men seem to be more likely to naturally gravitate towards tech, women not so much. There are exceptions, yes, but statistically this is the norm.
What I am upset about is being clubbed over the head with the concept that men naturally preferring STEM type things while women are less likely to is an atrocity and I'm somehow guilty of something horrible because reality is what it is. I'm also upset over people like you calling me a misogynist and putting words in my mouth that very obviously weren't there by implying as such.
FYI - my daughter has announced she wants to be an electrician. I will consider this STEM. My reaction? I needed to replace the cord on my compressor pump, the existing cord had an old Eagle DIY plug on it. I bought a new extension cord, cut off the end and wired it into my compressor pump. I took the old Eagle plug, gave it to my daughter with the scrap I cut from the extension cord. I then explained hot, neutral and ground to her (mansplaining to a sixteen year old girl, I know how you think -see, I can do it to) and had her make me a 1 ft extension cord for work so I don't have to reach under the desk at work to plug things in. I also told her I thought it was a great career choice. I was proud to give her what was to be her first high-voltage project, no matter how small it was.
Here you go - my real reaction to women in STEM
https://photos.app.goo.gl/9YYS...
I agree that SJWs are stereo typically a few angry college chick who may or may not grow out of it after graduation.
The fact that all the fucking news cameras are pointed at them and they seem to be able to drive the narrative from such a small minority position that irks me. In reality, that was the significant underlying point of my parent post. Giving massive news coverage to something that's a cultural abnormality skews the public perception of normal, and eventually leads to shift in normality if enough people adjust their views.
Slashdot is fueling false perceptions by favoring so many skewed articles. To their credit there is an occasional post to counter the rest, but it's a nine to one or greater ratio.
Liberal yes.
Progressive/SJW no.
Liberal has a proper definition and a soiled definition. Unfortunately so many prefer the soiled definition a new term - Libertarian - had to be invented.
MAKE IT STOP
Slashdot reads like a left-wing propaganda site these days.
Today's stories include "How you're stupid if you question any vaccine on any level, how using the scientific method to question any aspect of climate change makes you unscientific, ten reasons why you should kneel before Apple and Tim Cook, and the patriarchy - how it's still real, and despite proof that the legal system and the culture in general favor women you need to accept it's because you're the patriarchy, you're evil, and it's your fault for possessing a penis!"
perhaps
Then again my hearing sucks. I like great sounding headphones, but if you give me ones that aren't the best I can't tell, as long as they don't outright suck. By the time I compress it to Ogg a lot of that checksum stuff is blown. Net result - it's probably quicker on my own, and I've heard the terminology "scene" before aimed at some sort of sub-culture, but I'm not sure my over 40 self really comprehends it.
How long does it take to compress a single disk these days? My ripper/compressor looks up the disk with CDDB, downloads the info, fills it in and I have a fully ready to go disk in what? Five minutes?
I think that by the time I figure out where the pirate bay is today and find what I'm looking for I should already have it ripped and compressed with all the data filled in - in the format of my choice.
you can seriously pick them up anywhere from a few bucks, to a few bucks for a box full, to free sometimes.
When you want to buy music new on Amazon sometimes it's cheaper to buy the physical disk with "Auto-Rip" than it is to buy just the digital album.
Either way, I rip the disk to Ogg/Vorbis and keep it on my phone, and everything else I own. They still sound awesome, and unlike vinyl and tape media they still sound just as good today as the day the original owner bought them fifteen years ago even if they were played hundreds of times. (unless you bought from an ogre that didn't take care of them, then you can still sometimes run the polisher)
As far as I'm concerned buying a few used disks a month is cheaper than a bandwidth draining subscription service, and in time you'll have a better selection than they do anyways. Unless you like pop, in which case the cost and storage of your music isn't the first serious contemplation you need to make about your music.
Considering you can still see comments when the "doesn't exist" page appears, I think it may.
Oh, I love Looney Tunes along with Tom and Jerry - the well known one, the other Tom and Jerry sucked a little.
I've got my kids watching them, but that suicide stuff in Warner Brothers actually upsets my wife a little. I sort of ruined her world when I pointed out just how much of what was in those cartoons was WWII propaganda too.
What I find interesting, and I blame the day care - I had Looney Tunes on at home because I liked them. My son is a Mickey Fan, to stupid degrees. When he was just old enough to talk good we were leaving Costco and he saw the "Get a Disney Vacation through Costco" flyer stand on the way out and shouted Mickey! I didn't even know he knew who Mickey was. When I was home on Saturdays it was Looney Tunes or Tom and Jerry on most mornings, occasionally some Popeye or the old Fleischer stuff, but I didn't have a lot of Fleischer and what I did have was poor quality transfers.
He's a Mickey fiend, but mostly the modern stuff. I've put some Silly Symphonies on for him, but he just wants Mickey Mouse Clubhouse or a few other more modern incarnations. I find that promising, that's a kids show and he should outgrow it.
Ever notice just how much suicide was in the classic Warner Brothers stuff? I got a lot of it on DVD over the past few years because, hey who doesn't like that stuff, and I started to realize just how many of those clips were trimmed on TV network broadcasts in the modern day. It was just about a cartoon characters first resort in the 40's and 50's. I don't recall seeing much of that in Disney stuff from the same era, or the others, but those were more kid focused while Warner was buffer material for adults.
So, out of pure happenstance, I was using my Lenovo laser mouse on my jeans last night. It worked for a while, then got "laggy". I was blaming my computer at first, which I just reinstalled to upgrade (always keep /home on a separate drive for just such an occasion). Turns out it was using it on my jeans that got to it. I don't think the Bluetrack is quite as bad, but it's subjective.
Still, I highly recommend the Lenovo mice. I don't even think that one was meant for the US market, it came in a box without much English on it even though the logo itself is the English one.
I've just found that it works better on more surfaces. The resolution is nice, but at my previous job the desk were all various sorts of wood for the most part, some with shiny varnish where normal optical mice tended to have issues (and a mouse pad left in place would grow legs - quickly), and I've found other various surfaces where laser mice, blue ones especially, seem to do better. Despite having hated Microsoft with a passion in the past, I caved due to lack of Logitech options in the past and started buying Microsoft mice - and was quite happy I did, their BlueTrack stuff made me a believer. I've also bought some Lenovo laser mice, I'm not sure what laser tech they use, but it appears invisible but works about as well as Microsoft's - though I did have some issues with the way they handles power saving. Those issues seem to have been patched out of the Linux distros now though.
So blue vs. other types of laser - wins by a nose.
Using dongles sucks. However the M585 with both Bluetooth and a dongle, to be switched between at a button-press is about the most geek-friendly thing I've ever seen. I can use Bluetooth on my own laptop, shove a dongle into whatever I'm working on and switch at a button press. Great for servers, working on user equipment, setting up new systems you haven't paired Bluetooth with etc...
I've been grilling Logitech for years about bad choices in wireless connectivity, it seems like they're waking up finally.
As for a gaming mouse? Meh. Blue laser seems to be the best thing I've ever used and Logitech isn't the place to get that.
May not be the same way they were, but they still exist. One of my motherboards for instance can do CrossFire but not SLI. That makes sense from AMDs perspective, but another chipset would allow for either.
It's also the chipset that enable Thunderbolt support.
I've noticed that most new social media platforms based on crypto tend to attract crypto people. Steemit for example is so cryptoed up there's almost no one talking about anything else - and that drives people away.
Minds, so far I've liked, it doesn't appear to be a crypto fanatic hangout like other crypto based sites are, but it still has the issue that it's going to confuse grandma and Aunt Postalotacrap. There doesn't seem to be a "friends and family centric" way of doing things, which will prevent it from becoming a Facebook replacement. Is eventually stepping into that slot one of your goals? Or are you happy being the place everyone but Grandma and the crazy aunt goes?
By default I noticed lots and lots of anti-Semitic stuff coming across, in the least expected places. It appears to have lessened, I don't know if it's because I've actually added to what I follow filtering out the default things, or if there was a concerted effort to work that into nearly everything and whoever was funding it gave up, or if you intentionally weeded it out. I don't have a dog in that fight, seeing Jews like I see about anyone else I'm not, but I couldn't help but notice the amount of hate for them that proliferated and I still see a bit of it. I guess what is your answer to the amount of that on the site?
I used to buy motherboards based on it having an Nvidia chipset. Late Socket 7 AMD use taught me the value of buying by the chipset.
If Nvidia were to start making desktop (or laptop) chipsets again I would very seriously consider buying those first. It worked out well for me during the early Athlon era I believe it was.
I'll never forget the commercials where Microsoft ridiculed their own customers for using their products.
I never went into MS Office willingly to begin with. The Corel office suite was better way back when, and now Libre Office is easier to use and has a better price point.
Screw MS Office.
This is probably the best reply to my post out of all of them. Yes, you said things differently than me, but it appears to be well researched and not just "you're not on my team!" drivel like the rest. Than and you're not an A/C.
You have my respect.
I'm not blaming foreigners for wanting to make a buck. I'm blaming the ones we've elected to serve us for putting policies in place to ensure that U.S. based companies cannot compete on a fair market. I don't even really believe in protectionism. It makes sense from a logistical perspective to buy something locally instead of from over seas, but there's reasons to buy internationally as well. We don't buy Swiss and French cheeses because they're cheaper. I buy German screw drivers because they're better. I buy American milk an honey because they come from right here and it's readily available. Some things make sense to buy locally, some don't. For policies to be put in place to intentionally manipulate our own companies into failure for the benefit of whoever ponied up a bribe (often China but not always). The absolute best undeniable example I can think of is the steel industry.
StarMax Mac Clones
Apples can be made here just fine. If they give up on their image mandates and want to just infiltrate the market they're perfectly capable. People who recognize my user name recognize me as being highly critical of Apple. What few know is that my first electronics industry job back in 1996 was related to Apple. I manufactured Mac Clones. Legal, lawful ones under contract from Motorola. They weren't far different from normal PCs of the era, they were little beige boxes with standard PC components, they had an electronically ejected floppy drive instead of the standard mechanical push button of the era, and everything was SCSI instead of IDE, but I must say there was an appeal to using off the shelf components. I lost my job when Steve Jobs got his job back, killing clones was one of the first things he did.
If Apple was having trouble getting a particular screw in the computer world then it wasn't a normal screw.
Indeed their reliance on tri-wings and other "don't you dare fix this yourself!" products instead of normal, mass produced, easy to get screws is half their problem.
What this article leaves out is the United States used to be like China is now when it comes to manufacturing. Our politicians sold us out. We've been financially punished through specific taxes and targeted labor practices from that are designed to keep us from succeeding in the manufacturing world. Most of this was done in the George H.W. Bush era, but it wasn't exclusive to him. Every president between Reagan and Trump, and I'm not so sure about Reagan in his second term, has sold the United States to foreign interest. The reason we aren't setup to do what Apple is bitching we can't do was government sabotage of our own industry.
#1 Use normal fucking screws
#2 Stop allowing our politicians to sell us out - flush the toilet occasionally and replace the contents up on the hill
#3 Educate yourself about what's going on
I used 3Dfx before I used Nvidia. I still have my driver CD.....