What is everyone diving into this week? Whether you are grinding out certs, catching up on the latest Marvel/DC runs, or deep-diving into a new sci-fi series, drop it below.
* What are you currently reading, watching, or playing?
* Any new tech setups or projects you are tinkering with?
* Hot takes or debates on recent releases?
Keep it civil and share what is keeping your brain busy.
What is everyone diving into this week? Whether you are grinding out certs, catching up on the latest Marvel/DC runs, or deep-diving into a new sci-fi series, drop it below.
* What are you currently reading, watching, or playing?
* Any new tech setups or projects you are tinkering with?
* Hot takes or debates on recent releases?
Keep it civil and share what is keeping your brain busy.
What is everyone diving into this week? Whether you are grinding out certs, catching up on the latest Marvel/DC runs, or deep-diving into a new sci-fi series, drop it below.
* What are you currently reading, watching, or playing?
* Any new tech setups or projects you are tinkering with?
* Hot takes or debates on recent releases?
Keep it civil and share what is keeping your brain busy.
Hey everyone. I set up a Buy Me a Coffee link for anyone who wants to show some support. I am only going to post this once and I will just leave it pinned at the top of the sub.
There is absolutely no pressure to contribute. Thanks for keeping r/nerds a great place.
Your friendly neighbourhood mod,
u/BasisPrimary4028
Saw this car on the street, and was following up for a couple blocks before I could get a good picture at a red light. I have no idea what this is.
Anyone?
EDIT:
Thank you to those who responded, apparently it’s a car tag that people use to decorate their cars to express their fandom.
O, gonna ek hoop dis die einde van die kerk
Ek kan nie meer sit nie my maag wil werk
Die dominee praat lank en die son sit laag
Die vreeslikste pyne kruip rond in my maag
Eers word ek warm, en dan weer koud
Nog nooit in my lewe was ek al so benoud
Dominee, Dominee praat tog klaar
My rug trek krom die gort is gaar
Dit knal en dit kraak en my derms kreun
Toe los ek 'n poep wat die gallery laat dreun
Die mense kyk om en ek bloos my bloedrooi
Die skaamste van almal was Sannie, my nooi.
Die dominee bly stil sy oë omgedop
Die vrou agter my se hoed sit skeef op haar kop
Kort agter die hakke van die stereo klank
Volg die gemeente se reaksie op die vreeslike stank
Party begin te hoes, en ander te proes
Ander weer waai met sakdoeke woes
My oe traan, my kop die sak
Toe kom die vrees dat ek in my broek sal kak
Sowaar as wragtig net die volgende keer
Is dit toe presies wat moes gebeur
Ek dag dis 'n poep want die drukking is kwaai
Te laat besef ek dis 'n ander lawaai
Geskok na die gerommel soos 'n donderstorm
Kom ek agter die poep het 'n knopperige vorm
Die dominee bly stil en gluur my aan
'n ouderling begin woedend sy weg na my baan
Ek spring met mening op om weg te hol
Maar word teruggetrek deur 'n tienpond drol
Die ouderling kom nader sy arms bak
Ek skrik so groot dat ek 'n groter bol kak
My broek is nat en die pype staan wyd
so het ek my laas as kind beskyt
Die ouderling gryp my, ek kan nie beweeg
Toe maak ek vir "spite" die res op hom leeg
Nou is hy woedend en soos 'n bees so sterk
My sinne word dof van die walglike reuk
Hy "free-wheel" my kop tussen my bene uit die kerk
Die " cheek" om my kop tussen my bene te steek
My maag is so seer, my bene die knak
Al wat ek voel is die groot bol kak
Die ouderling steun en druk aan die bol
En druk die ding amper terug in my hol
Buite los hy my en storm na binne
Stadig herstel ek van my bedwelmde sinne
Die ding wat my sedertdien nog altyd verstom
Is hoe het ek die Sondag by die huis gekom
Een ding het ek van kerkgang geleer-
As jou maag wil werk , sit naby die deur
En as jou derms begin draai en jou poephol blom
Sorg dat jy vinnig by die kakhuis kom.
Let's get a debate going. We always talk about warp drives and time travel, but looking at current open-source tech and hardware developments, what is actually right around the corner?
Are we looking at:
* Neural interfaces (straight out of cyberpunk novels)
* Exosuits and robotics (Iron Man style)
* Deep space resource mining (like The Expanse)
Drop your predictions and the actual science or current projects backing them up. Let's see who has the most realistic theory.
What is everyone diving into this week? Whether you are grinding out certs, catching up on the latest Marvel/DC runs, or deep-diving into a new sci-fi series, drop it below.
* What are you currently reading, watching, or playing?
* Any new tech setups or projects you are tinkering with?
* Hot takes or debates on recent releases?
Keep it civil and share what is keeping your brain busy.
We all know the stereotype of the heavy-handed mod on massive default subreddits. I have a theory on why smaller communities consistently feel more tolerable and why their mod teams are generally easier to deal with.
It basically comes down to member retention. When a subreddit is small or growing, every single subscriber counts. The mods are actively trying to build a community. If they are overly strict, rude, or ban-happy, people will just leave, and the sub dies. They have a vested interest in keeping people around.
Compare that to a massive subreddit with millions of subscribers. The mods there do not need to care about retaining any individual user. If they ban a thousand people today, ten thousand new users will join tomorrow just by algorithmic momentum. The incentive to be accommodating or even fair completely vanishes.
It creates a dynamic where small sub mods act like community builders, while mega-sub mods act like bouncers at a club that is already way past capacity. The difference in tolerability is not necessarily about the type of person who becomes a mod, but the structural incentives (or lack thereof) regarding user retention.
Curious if anyone else has noticed this pattern or if there are other structural reasons for the shift in culture as a sub grows. For context, I mod my own small community (r/nerds) and I definitely feel that active pressure to keep people engaged rather than just banning them.
Hey everyone, I know this isn't strictly Google related, but I needed to vent to a community that actually understands and cares about privacy.
I’ve been trying to unlock the bootloader on my phone to get away from proprietary tracking, and the sheer amount of data harvesting required just to control my own hardware is insane. Look at the hoops they make you jump through.
When you first open the Mi Unlock status screen, it straight up demands access to your Mi Account, CPU ID, IMEI, and IMSI before it even lets you proceed. They are explicitly collecting and processing deeply tied hardware identifiers just to let you modify a device you already paid for.
It gets worse. The setup instructions literally force you to keep a SIM card inserted, turn off Wi-Fi, and use mobile data to link the device to your account. Then you have to download their specific desktop tool (which requires a whole separate set of permissions and account logins) to finish the job.
They have made it basically impossible to replace the OS without handing over every single piece of your data identity on a silver platter first. It completely defeats the purpose of trying to flash a clean, privacy-respecting ROM.
Since they want to play dirty and lock down the bootloader behind a massive data-harvesting wall, I'm taking a different route. I already own a Kali Linux machine, so I'm going to use it to just completely purge the device. I'm setting up ADB to manually delete and strip out every single piece of Xiaomi bloatware, tracking packages, and spyware baked into the stock firmware. If they won't let me swap the operating system easily, I am just going to gut it from the inside out until there is nothing left but bare bones.
Has anyone else given up on the full unlock and just gone the aggressive debloating route via Linux? The privacy invasion on these modern devices is getting out of hand.
I'm tired of writers using the word "quantum" to wave away massive plot holes. If you look at most Marvel or DC storylines, the tech is basically just magic with a metallic paint job.
What is a book or show that actually nails realistic physics and engineering? I want something where the tech feels completely grounded (no magical energy shields or instant FTL without actual consequences). Drop your recommendations.
What is everyone diving into this week? Whether you are grinding out certs, catching up on the latest Marvel/DC runs, or deep-diving into a new sci-fi series, drop it below.
* What are you currently reading, watching, or playing?
* Any new tech setups or projects you are tinkering with?
* Hot takes or debates on recent releases?
Keep it civil and share what is keeping your brain busy.
Ek het onlangs bietjie in ons geskiedenis begin delf (spesifiek die samesmelting van die staat en die kerk tydens apartheid) en ek is redelik stomgeslaan. Ons was letterlik deur 'n shadow government beheer.
Die Afrikaner Broederbond klink soos iets uit 'n mal samesweringsteorie. Hulle was 'n streng geheime klub wat agter toe deure gesit en basies elke aspek van die land beheer het. Hulle het die media, die banke, die onderwysstelsel en die NG Kerk heeltemal geïnfiltreer. Elke liewe eerste minister en president was 'n lid. Hulle het die land se wette uitgedink lank voordat die parlement eers 'n woord daaroor gerep het.
Dit is presies hoe mense die Illuminati beskryf (net met meer dominees en Calvinisme). Dit maak skielik soveel sin as jy kyk na hoe daardie streng Christo-fassistiese ideologie in almal se koppe ingeprent is. Alles is beplan om daardie spesifieke en rigiede kultuur op almal af te dwing.
Dit voel regtig asof hierdie massiewe deel van ons geskiedenis net onder die mat ingevee word.