I always question how accurate these types of accounts were. Even if she wrote this after his death, his successor obviously wouldn’t look too kindly on it being disparaging.
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dontTREATonme commented on The daily life of a medieval king medievalists.net/2025/07/... · Posted by u/diodorus
dontTREATonme commented on My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education moritz-mander.de/blog/my_... · Posted by u/cheesepaint
> Probably the procedure had been followed since 1573, well before home printers, scanners, phone cameras, or get-your-own-rubber-stamp-for-a-few-bucks internet shops.
This is almost always how these seemingly silly bureaucracy hoops become established. They were created in a prior time where a third party obtaining "magic item Y" with which to authenticate was significantly difficult to near impossible. Then, over time, the world, and technology improve, to the point where anyone, willing to spend $9.99, can have an exact duplicate of "magic authentication item Y" manufactured via any one of 78 different makers. But the bureaucracy continues using the now outdated process because "this is the way it has always been done".
It is largely a real world example of "The Monkeys, Bananas and Ladder Experiment": https://psychologyfor.com/the-monkeys-bananas-and-ladder-exp...
I recently joined a very old company, with many lifers, I continuously run into this mentality. “I can’t explain it now, but I’m sure there was a good reason for it, so we’re gonna continue doing it this way”
dontTREATonme commented on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025 blog.cloudflare.com/cloud... · Posted by u/nomaxx117
In general, the idea of DNS's design is to use the DNS resolver closest to you, rather than the one run by the largest company.
That said, it's a good idea to specifically pick multiple resolvers in different regions, on different backbones, using different providers, and not use an Anycast address, because Anycast can get a little weird. However, this can lead to hard-to-troubleshoot issues, because DNS doesn't always behave the way you expect.
What’s your recommendation for finding the dns resolver closest to me? I currently use 1.1 and 8.8, but I’m absolutely open to alternatives.
dontTREATonme commented on Let me pay for Firefox discourse.mozilla.org/t/l... · Posted by u/csmantle
I wasn’t clear. Mozilla was making > 400M from the Google deal. They needed to spend most of the money otherwise why would they be a nonprofit. So they would spent the vast majority of it on boondoggles, lots of all-hands in expensive locations, $400k salaries etc.
There are many NFPs with multi-billion dollar endowments, I don’t really understand this line of reasoning…
dontTREATonme commented on Let me pay for Firefox discourse.mozilla.org/t/l... · Posted by u/csmantle
Because they are a non-profit, they have to spend their money every year. That’s why Mozilla is/was over employed and following all these projects that die, because they need these engineers to work on something.
My friend worked at Mozilla 15 years ago, arguably during their golden years and he said it was a joke how much money they wasted because they had to spend it.
That’s not how NFPs work. I’m on the board of a NFP, we absolutely are able to save money year to year. The big difference between us and a regular corp is we don’t have shareholders or paid board members.
dontTREATonme commented on The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous theregister.com/2025/07/1... · Posted by u/rntn
It's been over 75 years. It could not be clearer that this attempt to punish the ordinary people who live in North Korea for having a government that the US finds disagreeable will not succeed in somehow fomenting revolution. What it has succeeded in doing, apparently, is sustaining a level of poverty and isolation that motivates even crazy schemes like this.
Here's how to actually stop it: stop weaponizing poverty to beat a Cold War-era dead horse, and end the damn sanctions.
Ah yes, bec that’s worked out so well with china.
Anyone with internet access in NK is working at the behest of the government.
Not sure about them, but for me, that’s correct. Solid research should be the foundation we make decisions on.
I used to have a problem with that idea too, until someone pointed out that puberty is an irreversible process with major consequences. The fact that everyone goes through it is a bit irrelevant; if it was happening to someone over 18, puberty blockers wouldn’t even be controversial.
As a parent, what to do? I look at my 2yo daughter and wonder if I’ll have to support her in a decision like that one day, or go against her wishes just because she’s 11. If there’s research indicating that delaying puberty doesn’t have major long term harm, then I’m more likely to endorse puberty blockers.
It is impossible to pause puberty or any other biological process. You cannot delay and restart something that is biologically time-bound. By giving a child puberty blockers you permanently prevent them from becoming an adult. They will never develop any of the features required for having children, they will never experience the brain developments that help with reasoning and empathy.
There are no studies on this Bec doing such studies is considered grossly unethical and evil, same as studying brain lobotomies in infants. As such we have no science on this, there are just people who have decided one thing and are performing live experiments without any controls. However, it should be noted that until very recently there was no significant incidence of unexplained child suicide, there was no significant incidence of unexplained teenage suicide, nor was there a significant incidence of unexplained young adult suicide. This is 100% social contagion, exacerbated by evil greedy pharmaceutical orgs who have latched on to small childhood insecurities and used them to build a multi-billion dollar industry mutilating and disfiguring healthy people.
dontTREATonme commented on Trump says both Iran and Israel violated a ceasefire latimes.com/world-nation/... · Posted by u/handfuloflight
> It feels like everyone in the region is inflicted with a terrible case of Asperger’s Syndrome (...)
If you were in charge of a country, how would you react if another country started bombing your cities?
He would of course use his super intelligence and alien space lasers to target only the people actually launching the rockets, his from-the-future space lasers are so accurate and advanced that there is no possibility of collateral damage. He would be able to then explain to the “civilians” who until 10 minutes ago were cheering for his demise that akctually he’s on their side and they don’t really hate him and therefore bec he knows them better than they know themselves they will magically stop supporting their brothers, fathers, uncles, and cousins who have spent their entire lives trying to kill him and instead all those people will suddenly realize that he alone is their savior and thus there will be peace.
The above is the actual complete thought process of all the people who casually complain about what Israel is doing without any understanding of the history or the region.
Even at full speed in a straight line, 2000 mile trip in a C172 would take 14.5 hours, and that's without refueling. Fuel would cost you ~$920.
In a twin prop like a Piper Seneca it would take about 9 hours, and ~$1700 of fuel.
There's also the issue of weather which small aircraft are much more subject to.