[–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

“Reminder that we domesticated pigeons and then abandoned them when they were no longer useful to us,” one user wrote. “This is literally the least we can do.”

This is inaccurate. We didn’t domesticate all pigeons (only fancy pigeons, not rock doves like you see in cities), and the ones that we did domesticate survive just fine. The rock dove succeeded so well in modern life because human society matches their natural environment so well: rocks (concrete) everywhere.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Thanks lol. People being wrong on the internet sucks, but people deliberately spreading misinformation that all experts agree is misinformation is infuriating to me. Just cause some fucking YouTuber said something doesn’t make it true. I’ve stopped watching so many YouTubers because of the bullshit like they make up.

    On a topic similar to this though, is plastics recycling, which experts agree that plastics manufacturing hid how difficult it was to recycle for years. But experts say it’s infeasible, while there are companies like Trash Panda disc golf recycling things into disc golf discs hundreds of times. So really the moral is, think critically.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    A USB stick reports itself as a USB stick. A device you set up to report itself as what you want reports itself as what you want. The only thing a computer can talk about a device is what the device reports itself. That’s how computers and peripherals work. The computer provides power and the peripheral tells the computer about itself.

    So if you make a device that reports the exact same information as your other mice then yeah the computer thinks it’s the same mouse. But it’s not usable as a USB then. It can’t do other stuff.

    Yes your friend plugging in a USB will get them in trouble, cause they can exfiltrate data.

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