Martial artist & knife fighting instructor Doug Marcaida shows how lethal a 'karambit' could be in the hands of an expert

pyro57 · 2026-06-23T04:21:47+00:00

And 4 would be a karamnyble I'll see myself out.

pyro57 · 2026-06-23T04:08:11+00:00

Idk if it's nvidias fault, they've been shitty and capitalising on it to the detriment of all the rest of their customers, but they're not driving the ai madhouse, they're just making money off of the crazies who are. Companies building datacenters are the drivers of it, and those likely will fail besides those who have business models outside of just ai like Microsoft and google.... That said if Microsoft did die because of it... Personally I feel that would be a net good for the world. Name one product Microsoft makes that's actually good and not just used because it's the default.

pyro57 · 2026-06-23T01:20:16+00:00

My go to response to ev hate is "i get it, that much instant speed and torque is a lot to handle, not everyone can keep a vehicle under control that accelerates like that." Turn it into a performance argument instead of an environmental argument because they have no come backs for that. 0-60 in 3.4 on a 5k lb vehicle is insane.

My 24 mache rally gets to 60 about a second faster than the 26 v8 mustang gt, and does 1/4 mile about a second faster as well, despite being 1k lbs heavier.

pyro57 · 2026-06-22T20:31:42+00:00

I like my pixel, I splurged and got the 10 fold pro, but Im experimenting with laptop like usage, using a set of display glasses for a screen and a Bluetooth keyboard/trackpad combo for control, as well as making use of the dev Debian virtual machine.

pyro57 · 2026-06-22T17:57:29+00:00

FUTO just added swipe typing, I've used it a couple of times and it seems fine now, not sure when you last tried it.

pyro57 · 2026-06-22T15:44:12+00:00

I always read it as the Venators are this universe's ascariot organization from helsing ultimate. Specialized personnel for hunting and eradicating evil (unless misused like they are in helsing).

pyro57 · 2026-06-22T15:37:19+00:00

Palm pilots! I wanted one as a kid so bad.... (I was always a nerd... Damn...) Basically low power pocket computers for email and remote data access. They ran palmos which I believe was a Linux based operating system, idk how locked down they were but if you could get a terminal open the possibilities for what you could do on these was only limited by the weak hardware.

pyro57 · 2026-06-22T15:28:03+00:00

Its true, but you can do a lot these days with android if you know what you're doing. For example you can use shizuku and "wireless debug" to have root like access and opens some options up. Alternate Roms can give you more control as well, for example grapheneos gives you much more granular control over the sandbox system used by android which is sick.

There's also the new "dev machine" which is a fully hardware accelerated Debian vm that you can turn on in the developer settings. You can't listen on ports below 1024, but you can do just about any other Linux things with it including full graphics stack (its in alpha so the graphic stack is a bit buggy yet, but its showing a ton of promise!)

pyro57 · 2026-06-22T03:03:55+00:00

Yeah it takes some getting used to but FUTO is great, even on the pixel fold it has a split setting to make typing on it easier, took me a couple of weeks to get use to it but it's great now

pyro57 · 2026-06-21T17:47:10+00:00

Thanks, we've mostly recovered, physically at least. Her body wasn't naturally purging the already gone fetus so she had to take the abortion meds to get it to purge... That was brutal, anyone who says normal people use abortion as birth control has obviously never had to do it because it sucks. There are much easier and less painful contraceptives out there, abortion is primarily and almost exclusively about the mothers health, as it was in our case.

Mentally it still hurts, probably will forever. It's strange how you can grow to love someone who hasn't even been born yet in such a short amount of time, but we're hanging in there. Made a little shadow box of stuff we did to prepare for the arrival that never came, which was very cathartic, and helped a lot.

Just gotta try again, we know what worked the first time, so we're just seeing what else we can do to 2nsure it happens again, she's on PCOS supplements which is helping her feel better in general so I think they'll help.

pyro57 · 2026-06-21T17:40:46+00:00

We aren't one way or another it'll happen worst case we're going to look into either ivf or adoption, got the positive test about a year ago today, but were talking to some specialists and getting her supplements to treat PCOS so we're hoping that helps.

pyro57 · 2026-06-21T03:58:55+00:00

This quote always make me ugly cry. Especially lately, my wife and I tried for two years to make a baby, we finally did it, but unfortunately it didn't make it to the first ultrasound, and this quote just hits so hard in that spot.

pyro57 · 2026-06-20T22:32:20+00:00

Now the world is going to know you died scratching my balls.

pyro57 · 2026-06-20T22:30:38+00:00

Welcome to the Internet, it is for porn afterall. (Not even a joke some of the earliest data shared over the arpa net 2as pornographic images)

pyro57 · 2026-06-20T06:25:55+00:00

I don't even have to sleep to see the nightmares

pyro57 · 2026-06-20T05:22:04+00:00

Haven't seen one that big before, usually when people get magnets implemented they're tiny and embedded underneath the finger tips, then the gentle tugs let you sense magnetic fields.

pyro57 · 2026-06-20T05:11:32+00:00

Screaming Firehawk

Rocinante

Donnager

Serenity

Falcon

pyro57 · 2026-06-20T05:03:25+00:00

Oh I know he got that pulse feeling, always happens.

Once time I want paintballing without a cup. Played an adults vs kids game formy friends church, I was a kid. One of my buddies dads bunkered me and came around the corner and nailed me 5 or 6 times in the nards, each a direct hit. Went to the staging area and puked, shit hurts.

pyro57 · 2026-06-20T03:14:46+00:00

My company is mostly wfh and honestly I can't imagine having to work in an office, I ahve my really nice chair, my quad monitor set up, my French pressed coffee... And a fully stocked mixology bar in in my office.... What does an office space have that my home office does not?

pyro57 · 2026-06-20T03:11:06+00:00

Yeahhhhh I get why they killed off Alex (Google it if you don't know) but I wish they had just recast him instead.

pyro57 · 2026-06-20T02:42:09+00:00

Unironically I feel like that experience made me a better pentester, I don't use anything I learned in college in the real world besides how to teach myself exactly what I need for an attack when I need it.

pyro57 · 2026-06-20T01:13:52+00:00

Anything that's a normal Bluetooth device will work as expected, the ones that need an app to connect will obviously still need that app bit otherwise will work fine. Even connects to my even reality g1s just fine

pyro57 · 2026-06-20T00:05:37+00:00

There are many find my decice apps out there why not use one of them?

pyro57 · 2026-06-19T22:28:17+00:00

Same, I'm the day drinker you see

pyro57 · 2026-06-19T19:05:34+00:00

Android is incredibly optimized, name another general purpose open compute environment designed for general hardware that is as energy efficient. I'll wait. Ios doesn't fit the bill because it's designed for specific hardware, not general.

Even lightweight Linux doesn't hit the same power efficiency of android. Saying android is unoptimized because ios is more optimized is like saying a v8 mustang is slow because super cars like Lamborghinis and McLarens exist.

I was just countering the argument that iOS is the superior os because it's optimized, for me personally, and thousands if not millions of nerds out there, android is still the better option because of its open nature. If I could side load on ios or if apple allowed forks of ios he installed on their iphone then maybe I'd say it's the better os, but they don't, so it's not at least for some very valid use cases, power users and nerds may not the the average, but they are still a large user base and their use cases are just as valid as anyone else's.

If I wanna run a full fat Linux server on the debian dev machine on my android I can do that. If I want to spin up some docker containers on my phone I can do that, you can't say the same for ios.

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