What if the goggles do nothing?

I haven’t watched that show in ages and my brain still accompanies this image with that little musical twang.

PVC is stored in the balls.

The scoutingest scout scouts who ever scoutingly scouted.

Does “militarily opposed to the death sentence” mean if someone uses the death penalty you’d want to send soldiers to kill them?

If you’ve ever watched the old or modern versions of Quantum Leap you know the routine: a “leaper” is time traveling by temporarily taking over the body of someone in the past, while another person from the traveler’s own time is supporting them remotely as a projected hologram only the time traveler can see and hear. The hologram can’t touch anything or communicate with anyone except the leaper in the past, but can zap around the past like a ghost to experience events without affecting anything directly.

I’ve always thought that if you invented the hologram part of the Quantum Leap time travel scheme, you wouldn’t need the actual bodyswap time traveler part at all. You’d already have the safest possible form of time travel! You could remotely visit the past in hologram VR without accidentally stepping on a butterfly, changing winners of wars, dating your own mom, or otherwise screwing up the timeline in all the ways in which time travel scifi portrays. You could safely be an invisible time tourist from home all you wanted.

Maybe not, but it apparently helped mildly amuse significantly more folks than it pissed off so I’m happy with it.

I named it Gerald.

Because Reddit karma is a score openly visible to everyone based on a simple and direct vote system, while this turns out to be a behind-the-scenes score users have but can’t see, understand the calculations behind, or respond to directly.

One issue with that was pointed out by reddit user tharic99 in the top comment to the linked post:

So users have this hidden score in the back end that they’re not aware of. We as moderators can use that hidden score to make automod determinations based off of the hidden score and we can’t even see it as a moderator.

Correct?

Why does this feel like years ago when trying to get a loan or credit application and being told you don’t have enough credit, but no one will tell you what your credit score was or what number you needed. It was this mythical number in the back end that only the credit agency knew about.

And what you get may or may not be unrelated autocomplete garbage.

ChatGPT is not for important things.

There’s no harm in leaving a forwarding address when you leave a place.

Additionally, it’s a common practice for some users of reddit and things like it to click over to the profile of someone who posted something you find interesting; why not check out what else they post or are into? Now whenever someone clicks OP’s profile the first thing they’ll see is this, and that’s potentially of value to someone over there who hasn’t yet checked things out over here. Old reddit posts and commments still get new engagement coming in all the time even years after the fact, so something like this can actually reach folks.

Hi, I’m one of the people who work on Off the Hook. Thank you for listening, and for your kind words about what we do!

Glad to be helpful!

He was a fascinating person, and a good friend to all things 2600 and to me personally. He’ll be terribly missed.

Yesterday when I heard the news I had to dial his iconic phone number one last time and let it ring out for a bit.

It depends on your area and providers. Check with your phone providers of the landline and of whatever line you have you’d like to move that number to and ask them about “porting” the number over.

If you’re in the US, here’s the FCC’s page with more info. You can probably port the number to another landline, a mobile line, or even a software-based VOIP provider like Google Voice.

Lemmy is still too obsessed with reddit, for as much as Lemmy loves to hate on Reddit they sure are very interested in it lol.

…you say on the Lemmy community about Reddit. 😅

It’s understandable human nature, though. Many promising new dates have been spoiled by one of the participants not being able to shut up about their crappy ex.

I can’t believe it’s been ten fucking years already.

Most decent of you, much appreciated!

Link to the original post: https://infosec.exchange/@hacks4pancakes/110696706246977022

I was so hoping the screenshots-of-text-content stuff would die with reddit. It’s crap for accessibility.

And nothing’s sarong with that.