rikudou
@rikudou@lemmings.world
- Comment on Japan using generative AI less than other countries 21 hours ago:
Yeah, their work-the-workers-literally-to-death culture is top notch.
- Comment on Former Wagner fighter seeks asylum in Finland after fleeing Russia 1 day ago:
Are you talking about a mercenary group in general or this particular mercenary group which is kinda famous for raping?
Why the ad hominem? What’s sensible is an opinion, not an objective truth.
I’m not saying to kill him but to send him back. Sure, the end result might be the same, but that piece of shit doesn’t deserve anything from us.
- Comment on Former Wagner fighter seeks asylum in Finland after fleeing Russia 2 days ago:
Or maybe not, because that’s exactly why they murder us but we keep them in nice prisons instead.
- Comment on Is there anything like a self-hosted version of medium of substack ? 2 days ago:
Well, that’s just a blog. WordPress comes to mind, though try not abusing it by installing too many plugins and transforming it to an abomination that takes 3 seconds to hack.
There are probably more modern alternatives, I personally wrote my own blog system that uses ActivityPub to synchronise with Lemmy and others.
- Comment on Former Wagner fighter seeks asylum in Finland after fleeing Russia 2 days ago:
Murdering and raping is over, time to seek some protection. They should put him back to Russia with a big sign saying “Hey, Putin, this guy tried to flee Russia! Wouldn’t it be a shame if he fell out the window?”
- Comment on Russia and Belarus plan to create AI model based on “traditional values” 2 days ago:
Ah, the traditional Russian values of hiding the truth from your superiors because there’s a culture of shooting the messenger of the bad news. Can’t see this going wrong when training an AI.
- Comment on Vernon Dursley, uncle of Harry Potter is just a normal bloke that loves his wife and gets roped into a paramilitary war for it. 2 days ago:
That skips a lot of the abuse they put Harry through.
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 2 days ago:
Yeah, that’s true, everyone thinks they want a senior where usually someone who’s not a straight up junior is more than enough. And a fast learning and motivated junior is the best you can get, IMO, though those are pretty rare as well.
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 2 days ago:
I have the opposite experience, when I was doing interviews I just skipped the very obviously underskilled people (which, IIRC were in the single digits) and interviewed pretty much everyone.
For context, I’m the main architect and dev of the company I was hiring for. Most of the candidates were horrible.
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 2 days ago:
The main factor, IMO, is that everyone wants good engineers but good engineers don’t change jobs that often.
Meaning most of the candidates you interview will suck in one way or another.
And everyone calls themselves “senior” nowadays.
- Comment on What else should I self-host? 3 days ago:
Syncthing for files syncing, to replace stuff like OneDrive, Dropbox etc.
I use to sync files between my NAS, laptop, Steam Deck and phone, each with different dirs based on what I need synced there.
- Comment on Day 356 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
I’m weirdly excited that soon it will be a full year of daily screenshots.
- Comment on The universe has no concept of happiness or sadness. It is up to us to find things that make us happy (or sad if that's what we want). 1 week ago:
Well, it means there’s no objective right or wrong without context. And we people are the context, so while there’s no right or wrong, no magical karma system that would judge your actions, there are things that are very obviously right or wrong towards other people.
- Comment on The universe has no concept of happiness or sadness. It is up to us to find things that make us happy (or sad if that's what we want). 1 week ago:
Nah, hormones are just a chemical compound. It’s the brain that gives them meaning. Which itself is pointless without the body which gives it context.
We’re really the whole package - you’re as much your legs as you are your brain.
Modern research usually shows that - your body and your mental health are deeply connected. A trauma physically alters your brain. How you feel directly shapes how healthy you are. And how healthy you are shapes how you feel.
- Comment on The universe has no concept of happiness or sadness. It is up to us to find things that make us happy (or sad if that's what we want). 1 week ago:
Sappy.
- Comment on A video game on 'gold diggers' is fuelling a sexism debate in China 1 week ago:
Critics like her say the very term “gold digger” reeks of misogyny.
No, the term itself doesn’t imply gender at all.
Anyway, I never really saw the problem with gold diggers, it’s a relationship like any other - you give your partner something they need and the partner gives you something you need.
So what if one of the parties needs money and the other a young woman to feel better? If there’s no coercion and no actual scamming, I don’t see the problem.
- Comment on Time travel doesn't work unless you also have teleportation. If you travel to the past/future, Earth will be in a different position in its orbit, and you'll die in space. 1 week ago:
It was a seriously underrated show.
- Comment on Time travel doesn't work unless you also have teleportation. If you travel to the past/future, Earth will be in a different position in its orbit, and you'll die in space. 1 week ago:
Those are just small issues that will be solved after few tries.
- Comment on Why does everyone hate Income tax ? 1 week ago:
Congrats on the US defaultism! I’m not from the US, so stick your crack comment up your arse.
- Comment on Why does everyone hate Income tax ? 1 week ago:
Because the government has all the fucking data it needs to just tell me how much I owe, but no they force me to calculate it myself every year. Or to pay an accountant because it’s a horrible mess of a form.
My main issue is with taxes in general. Well over half of my income (some sources suggest up to 70%) ends up being paid as some kind of tax.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 1 week ago:
So because you do it correctly, everyone else should get fucked or what? Like, you know how many people have bad parents?
So, congrats, your kids won’t suffer from that (or maybe they will once they have their own money because the path way of “spend a $1, get an in-game item, get an instant rush of feel-good hormones” is forming even with moderation). But other kids may, unless of course you think that it’s somehow their fault they have shitty parents.
So no, I really don’t want this around kids whose lives will be ruined just so your kids can have a fun time (which they can have in other ways, including other games).
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 1 week ago:
Nah, I’m obsessed with corporations not ruining kids lives just to get few more dollars.
Also, please, stop putting words into other people’s mouths.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 1 week ago:
Cool, that’s why half the games you listed are just gambling machines in disguise?
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 1 week ago:
Ah, the classic “world hunger is a myth, I have eaten today.”
I’m not saying there are not the rare gems in mobile games (just bought Don’t Starve on Android last month!), but like 99% of games for mobile are just s money making scheme using dark patterns to influence your brain to give them money.
And congrats on not spending on micro transactions! You do realize the world doesn’t revolve around how your perceive things, right? If young people are exposed to micro transactions like that, it alters their brains and not in a good way. And that’s science, there really isn’t much you can argue with.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 1 week ago:
Who would’ve thunk, young people with brains that are not fully developed tend to prefer games with addictive elements.
- Comment on Bambu Printers Discussion 1 week ago:
Well, it sucks that now you have to choose one or the other, but if you’re on LAN mode already, this should be the fix you were waiting for.
Though I haven’t tested it personally.
- Comment on Meta wins artificial intelligence copyright case in blow to authors 2 weeks ago:
That’s probably your social bubble. My company is currently deepthroating everything that has AI in its name. I jokingly mentioned they should rename the company to Jira&AI, the joke was not well received.
Anyway, most people I know (including me) are somewhere in the middle - not quite fans in the traditional sense, but definitely not disliking AI.
- Comment on OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for ‘warfighting’ 2 weeks ago:
They still don’t. The analysts do and the programmers then implement it based on specifications.
- Comment on OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for ‘warfighting’ 2 weeks ago:
Did you live under the impression that all the smart missiles, smart guns, smart everything didn’t already require programmers?
- Comment on Could Windows and installed apps upload all my personal files? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, every application has access to everything. The only exception are those weird apps that use the universal framework or whatever that thing is called, those need to ask for permissions. But most of the apps on your PC have full access to everything.
And Windows does collect and upload a lot of personal information and they could easily upload everything on your system. The same of course applies for the apps as well, they have access to everything except privileged folders (those usually don’t contain your personal data, but system files).