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  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•I posted it for you
    2·
    16 hours ago

    I wrote exactly one joke.

    Was feeling kinda sick so I went to the doctor. He checks me out and says “Well, I have good news, and I have bad news…”

    “Give it to me straight, what’s the bad news?”

    “Bad news is, you’ve got leprosy.”

    “Jesus Christ, doc! What’s the GOOD news?”

    “Good news is, it’s just the 24-hour kind.”

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What do people often associate intelligence with?
    6·
    7 days ago

    Collecting books for show was such a thing it was used as a literary device in the Great Gatsby.

    See back then, books were mass produced via multiple stitched together folded booklets, much as they are now, but they didn’t have the cutting technology to trim the edges.

    So readers would have their own “book knife” or “paper knife” and cut the folded pages apart to be able to read them (resulting in a “deckled edge” which is now simulated these days in some printings.)

    So when Gatsby’s library is carefully inspected:

    "A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles, was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books. As we entered he wheeled excitedly around and examined Jordan from head to foot.

    “What do you think?” he demanded impetuously.

    "About what?’

    He waved his hand toward the book-shelves.

    "About that. As a matter of fact you needn’t bother to ascertain. I ascertained. They’re real.

    “The books?”

    He nodded.

    “Absolutely real - have pages and everything. I thought they’d be a nice durable cardboard.  Matter of face, they’re absolutely real. Pages and - Here! Lemme show you.”

    Taking our scepticism for granted, he rushed to the book-cases and returned with Volume One of the Stoddard Lectures.

    “See!” he cried triumphantly. “It’s a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella’s a regular Belasco. It’s a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too - didn’t cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?”

    He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse."

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is the best Comptia A+ study guide?
    82·
    7 days ago

    I used to teach A+ classes, oh, 25 years ago now. No idea what’s currently on the test.

    But a couple of pointers:

    1. Know the OSI model upside down, inside out, and backwards. You’ll likely never, ever need it other than to pass this test, but you will need it to pass the test.

    2. Ethernet wiring diagram.

    Orange-White
    Orange
    Green-White
    Blue
    Blue-White
    Green
    Brown-White
    Brown

    I’d go over this in class and tell everyone it’s very important to know. They’d always ask “So you’re saying it’s on the test?”

    "Legally, I have an NDA that prevents me from telling you what is or is not on the test, what I CAN tell you is:

    Orange-White
    Orange
    Green-White
    Blue
    Blue-White
    Green
    Brown-White
    Brown"

    “So you’re saying it’s on the test.”

    "I am not saying it’s on or not on the test, I can’t tell you that, what I can tell you is:

    Orange-White
    Orange
    Green-White
    Blue
    Blue-White
    Green
    Brown-White
    Brown"

    My favorite part of teaching that test. :) Also a good idea to know which wires make a passthrough cable, which wires make a crossover cable, and which wires make a loopback cable.

    1. From a software perspective, the A+ is everything an entry level technician should know after 6 months on the job. Back when I passed it, there were still Windows 3.1 questions because there were still Windows 3.1 machines in use.

    I would expect, nowadays, the oldest stuff you might see are Windows 7 questions? There are still way too damn many Win7 machines out there.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldtoUnpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•Community Locked / Going Dark in Protest [Meta] [Updated 2025-01-13]English
    252·
    10 days ago

    From @TheBananaKing@lemmy.world

    Look, I respect the intent, but as someone who’s been on forums since the freaking 90s, I can say with confidence that that’s a toxic meltdown waiting to happen.

    You need at least two bitter jaded cybersec experts and at least one game theory person on your team to stand a chance with this kind of thing.

    Can you provide supporting documents that disprove :nasty insinuation about you:? Of course not. Do you want to have to keep being required to? No.

    Can people provide supporting documents disproving :nasty insinuation about :demographic::? Also no. And they don’t want to have to keep being required to.

    So there’s the constant tide of exhaustion of people being constantly undermined and dehumanised, and being forced to either respond to yet another argument that :demographic: don’t really count as people, or to just let it ride and try to ignore it. And then the wreckers use it as rage-bait to get people angry to the point of getting banned, and others walk off in disgust, more trolls smell blood in the water and the whole thing spirals.

    It’s the damn nazi-bar problem: even ‘just a few’ nazis smirking in the corner create a hostile and unpleasant environment that other people don’t want to be in. And so they drive the good posters off, reducing the opposition - and within a depressingly short time, you’ve got yourself an alt-right shithole full of trolls and sociopaths that just love being able to exert that kind of power.

    I’ve seen it approximately three bajillion times so far, and god dammit why won’t you youngins learn.

    Yes, powermods and power-tripping mods are a problem. But the approach to it you’ve chosen was gamed out and defeated in detail probably before you were even alive.

    And oh god, if you try to parse a rule about what categories of opinions and statements are covered by this, the rules lawyers are going to clown-shibari the entire damn site.

    The only two rules I’ve ever seen be effective over time are:

    • Don’t make us ban you
    • Don’t make us de-mod you

    and probably hard-cap the number of communities one person can mod.

    Have other stuff on top of that, but they’re load-bearing and non-optional.

    And I get that the site is trying to be a neutral platform that’s insulated from the content, but honestly I don’t think that’s feasible. Sometimes you need to just throw people out of your bar regardless of the exact phrasing of the terms and conditions, and that means picking a side.

    Also can we have a better markdown parser that doesn’t turn angle brackets into failed html markup sometime please