avidamoeba
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Gotta Smash 1 day ago:
An entirely theoretical experiment since in reality they rarey collide. 😄
- Comment on Pi NAS for multi-location backups 1 day ago:
Can confirm, have done it this way for years.
- Comment on Switching to the Fediverse for Daily Social Media Use 2 days ago:
And there’s often useful perspectives shared there, even if not always agreeable.
- Comment on The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas. 2 days ago:
This is so true. 😄
- Comment on The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas. 2 days ago:
Oligarchs are unified by their pursuit for profit, not by Russia. The Heritage Foundation that peddles these ideas did not emerge from Russian interference in 2016. Neither did Fox. Neither did the Chicago School of Economics. This has been going on for a lot longer than the last decade. The pushback started as a result of FDR’s redistribution policies that cut US oligarch wealth in the aftermath of the Great Depression. First slowly, then more quickly.
And your “only way out of this” – why you don’t you tell me in small steps exactly how that happens. Lets hear it.
Campaign, donate and vote for “far-left” D candidates at every gov’t level - like AOC, Zohran, etc. Campaign, donate and vote for “far-left” independent candidatss where there’s no such candidates in that district. Join a union. Join a local socialist org. Eventually you’d tilt the balance of power in various gov’t institutions. Whenever you do that, you tax the rich to death. But that goes without saying cause every “fat-left” candidate has that on their agenda.
- Comment on The U.S. is interested in acquiring machine-learning technology to carry out AI-generated propaganda campaigns overseas. 2 days ago:
The thinking that any of the current fallout in the US is foreign-led is not giving any good explanations for the reality we observe and therefore procides no good solutions. What you’re observing is primarily driven by the oligarch class in the US finding new ways to extract profit. That drives everything. It drives Fox, it drives the Heritage Foundation, it drives turning both parties in oligarch-serving machines. Feeding this machine with resources from the outside is a bad idea since most of those resources would be captured by the oligatchs. The only way out of this is to get an internal populist left movement to curb their power, reposses most of their resources and redestribute them to the masses.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 3 days ago:
You never buy an individual firm stock unless you have insider knowledge.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 4 days ago:
One recent report raised troubling questions about potentially systematic efforts to advance antisemitic and anti-Israel information in Wikipedia articles related to conflicts with the State of Israel.
Of course they’d use the anti-Israel crutch.
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 4 days ago:
You should be getting triple pay to ameliorate the hazard risk it represents.
That’s something a union can help with. Most compensation above poverty wages have been won by unioms at one point or another. Most of them a long ago and we’ve been regressing for a few decades.
- Comment on Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification 5 days ago:
Many APIs Android apps can use are unavailable to PWAs. Also PWAs typically require server infrastructure to at least load once. The author of my favourite open source unit conversion calculator shouldn’t need to maintain a server so I can use their app.
But yeah, for use cases that require a server anyways and don’t need elaborate mobile APIs, PWAs are probably the way to go.
- Comment on Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification 5 days ago:
It’s nice to hear from Mark Murphy on this. He’s a legend.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 6 days ago:
Yup, makes sense. You do it in the beginning and then you forget about it. Until you change a phone. 😊
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 6 days ago:
It’s not a dev option at the moment. It’s a permission setting and it doesn’t require enabling developer options.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 6 days ago:
OK, this sounds problematic. I don’t see any obvious language for opting out and it doesn’t seem there’s intent to opt out. There’s probably going to be a dev option to allow it but that would probably still make installing from sources like F-Droid impractical.
- Comment on Jellyswarrm - reverse proxy all your Jellyfin servers from a single interface, presenting as a standard Jellyfin server, clients should work out of the box. 1 week ago:
I feel like this problem should be solved via some form of federation within Jellyfin, but if Jellyswarm works well enough… I’m not gonna make a fuss.
- Comment on Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit for PC Video Review 1 week ago:
Playing NFS III, split-screen on a Pentium MMX beige box from Taiwan…
- Comment on AI lovers grieve loss of ChatGPT’s old model: ‘Like saying goodbye to someone I know’ 1 week ago:
THX-1138
Gotta watch this film again.
- Comment on Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down. 1 week ago:
I’m dowloading a backup and will be seeding it. 😄
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 1 week ago:
What if I told you that in the Eastern Bloc many of the high schools used to be professional. In those schoola you’d study most of the standard arts and science subjects, but also professional subjects like machining, automotive (mechanic, driver), construction, engineering, programming, agriculture, textile, food production, and many more. They used to produce ready workers in those fields. As a kid you’d choose which field you want to go to and apply after middle school, pass the necessary exams and get studying. If you wanted to go to university, you’d continue past high school.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 1 week ago:
Yes my point is that it’s a feature of using the market to decide these variables in the economy. If you used some form of planning at the macro level and propagate targets or at least expectations down the industry and educational institutions, you’d save a ton of real resources and parts of people’s lives, and reduce the negative social effects of this process. Effects that destabilize the whole system if they grow to any significant proportions.
- Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 1 week ago:
Can you share the firm or the union representing? I’m curious if it’s a viable place for me. 😄
- Comment on Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. 1 week ago:
In software?
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 1 week ago:
That’s not what I meant in that paragraph. I am not saying that universities are merely job training facilities. That was simply an example from my life where these types of professionals have come out of. I’m not making a judgement on universities as a whole. They just so happen to produce the vast majority of software engineers and finance professionals in Canada. That’s why I mentioned the university. If I was talking about electricians, I’d have said trades school, or college, etc. I am absolutely aware of the larger role of universities and you won’t catch me claiming they’re professional training factories.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 1 week ago:
The major saw an unemployment rate of 6.1 percent, just under those top majors like physics and anthropology, which had rates of 7.8 and 9.4 percent respectively.
The numbers aren’t too high although it shows the market is no longer starved for grads.
It’s important to understand that this is a standard feature of the capitalist economy where the market is used to determine how many people are needed in a certain field. It is not unusual that there’s no long term plan for how many software engineers would be needed over the long term. The market has to through a shortage phase, creating the effects in wages, unemployment, educational institutions and so on, in order to increase the production of software engineers. Then the market has to go through the oversupply phase creating the opposite effects on wages, unemployment and educational institutions in order to decrease the production of software engineers. The people who are affected by these swings are a necessary part of the ability for the market to compute the next state of this part of the economy. This is how it works. It uses real people and resources to do it. The less planning we do, the more people and resources have to go through the meat grinder in order to decide where the economy goes next.
- Comment on Google CIO Calls Trump Admin’s Climate Denialism “Fantastic” | Ruth Porat called for data centers to be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear 1 week ago:
Google’s fucked.
- Google CIO Calls Trump Admin’s Climate Denialism “Fantastic” | Ruth Porat called for data centers to be powered by coal, gas, and nuclearwww.levernews.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 39 comments
- Comment on It's a simple thing, but one good way to make games memorable is for the developers to leave you words of encouragement in the pack-in material. 2 weeks ago:
What did you play it on? I think I had a modded Radeon 9550 that turned it into a 9600.
- Comment on It's a simple thing, but one good way to make games memorable is for the developers to leave you words of encouragement in the pack-in material. 2 weeks ago:
This is how I plaid Doom 3 and I fell off the chair a couple of times. It was an incredible experience.
- Comment on Chat Control is back & we've got two months to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans. 2 weeks ago:
Yup, a democratic system should be judged on its outcomes, not its structure. If the decisions taken by a democratic organization do not strongly align with the wishes of the large majority of its members, then it isn’t democratic. There are plenty such examples playing out today. Besides, in representative democracy voting at the various elections is not enough to achieve highly aligned outcomes. By the time you get to the ballot box a whole lot of the fundamental decisions have been made without your input. E.g. who the representatives candidates are and what their candidate platforms are. This is how you get to “all the choices suck” and “vote for the least bad option” scenarios. Meanwhile the prebaked decions that lead to these scenarios are going to benefit the interested groups that made them.
- Comment on All I Want 2 weeks ago:
@fossilesque@mander.xyz is working tirelessly to make it happen.