BertramDitore
@BertramDitore@lemmy.world
- Comment on BBC thinks we might as well get comfortable, fellow Zoomers. 3 days ago:
Damn straight. Even my boomer home-owning parents called me up to tell me it’s cheaper to rent than buy right now, and frankly, fuck that. Renting is still basically like cutting my paycheck in half and throwing it out my single-pane poorly-insulated window. Sure, I get a shitty roof over my head, but that’s it.
- Comment on Sam Altman takes nuclear energy company Oklo public to help power his AI ambitions 1 week ago:
Yeah I hear you, but I think that’s actually a big part of the problem. We the plebs want AI to free us from slaving away our lives. But Altman and those like him will never have the same motivations as us, so I’ll never trust them to develop the technology in a responsible way that actually benefits the majority of people, not just the tippy top of the absurdly wealthy.
- Comment on Sam Altman takes nuclear energy company Oklo public to help power his AI ambitions 1 week ago:
I do not trust this man to do anything in my best interest. He is a disingenuous and untrustworthy messenger, and if allowed to continue unchecked will end up the overlord of a new hyper-capitalist dystopian nightmare. I’m genuinely afraid of this guy and people like him.
I’ll remind folks that this is a man with such appalling hubris that he thinks he should be able to raise trillions of dollars to make his own fantasies come true.
- Comment on Suicide Squad Cost Warner Bros. $200 Million In Revenue 1 week ago:
DO YA REALLY WANNA DO YA REALLY WANNA TASTE IIIIT!
I just watched it twice in a row, thank you very much.
- Comment on Behold, the $400 red pineapple 1 week ago:
Right? It’s shocking. I only learned about it recently when I started buying pineapples regularly and found out there are only a few companies in the world that produce them. And most if not all of them are incredibly shady and responsible for some truly terrible shit.
- Comment on Behold, the $400 red pineapple 1 week ago:
I encourage folks to search “del monte human rights” and be prepared to get angry.
- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 1 week ago:
I don’t know much about the case beyond some very lazy peripheral searching, but it strikes me that Proton’s compliance isn’t an issue, but the requests themselves are totally unjustifiable and based on malicious prosecutions to nab some separatists on ridiculous terrorism charges for their nonviolent action and protests.
This individual is suspected of being a member of the Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalonia’s police force) and of using their internal knowledge to assist the Democratic Tsunami movement.
The requests were made under the guise of anti-terrorism laws, despite the primary activities of the Democratic Tsunami involving protests and roadblocks, which raises questions about the proportionality and justification of such measures.
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 2 weeks ago:
I do the same thing, and always wonder that too. These companies have been caught lying consistently and repeatedly about what they collect and how, so even with all the right settings I’m very skeptical that they actually respect my choices.
- Comment on What s the difference between gemini and chatgpt 2 weeks ago:
Yeah….methinks this site is not of the highest quality.
- Comment on The horrors we've unleashed 2 weeks ago:
We sure that’s not lost Frank Zappa album art?
- Comment on i have become the gis 2 weeks ago:
That’s ArcGIS Desktop. Recently deprecated software (depending on who you ask) that is incredibly powerful, but equally infuriating and awful. Has been supplanted by ArcGIS Pro, which is also powerful and slightly less infuriating and awful, but still very much so.
- Comment on The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco 3 weeks ago:
This is one of the more disturbing things I’ve read in a while, and there’s a genocide going on.
It strikes me that this guy and his followers simply never grew up, because they didn’t have to. Instead of being faced with everyday challenges like the rest of us, their money could insulate them from any degree of hardship or friction. When you live a life where literally everything can be solved with your money, and you’re pretty much guaranteed to never run out of it, there’s no motivation for you to empathize with or even understand other people’s points of view, and thus this scary techno-authoritarianism is born.
These are the people who will prevent us from making any socioeconomic progress. They actually want us all to wear colored shirts and be discriminated against based on our color. Their dystopian vision is genuinely the stuff of my nightmares.
- Comment on Construction Begins on High-Speed Rail Line Between SoCal and Las Vegas 3 weeks ago:
I’m all for more trains in general, but $12 billion?? Fucking hell that’s too much money. And Las Vegas??? A city that practically and logistically-speaking should not exist? Building a zero emissions train (theoretically awesome) that goes out into the middle of the desert to a city that is warming faster than anywhere else in America, one that will only need more access to our dwindling water supply in the future, makes zero sense to me.
I’m sure people will hate me for saying this, but we should be phasing out unsustainable cities like Las Vegas, not giving them incentives to build up even more.
- Comment on figs 1 & 2 3 weeks ago:
I snorted. This made my day, thank you.
- Comment on California can share your baby's DNA sample without permission, but new bill could force state to publicly reveal who they're giving it to 4 weeks ago:
Right??
- Comment on California can share your baby's DNA sample without permission, but new bill could force state to publicly reveal who they're giving it to 4 weeks ago:
Oy. Data this sensitive and useful should not require an active deletion request, especially from brand-new parents. It should be automatically deleted after a certain amount of time since it involves the protection of entire families, even those not directly involved with the newborn.
I was more or less agreeing with you before, but why do you get to decide what I’m mad about? Sorry, but I’m going to continue voicing my opinion.
- Comment on California can share your baby's DNA sample without permission, but new bill could force state to publicly reveal who they're giving it to 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been a CA resident for nearly a decade and had no idea about it. And now that I’m aware, I’m furious.
I don’t have a problem with them doing genetic testing for the reasons you mention, but they should absolutely not be allowed to retain the genetic material beyond a reasonable time limit, and under no circumstances should it be legal for them to share it with anyone for any reason. Seems quite controversial to me.
- Comment on If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts? 4 weeks ago:
This is really helpful, thanks.
- Comment on California can share your baby's DNA sample without permission, but new bill could force state to publicly reveal who they're giving it to 4 weeks ago:
Wait, what the fuck? This is inexcusable. This means even if you weren’t born in CA, parts of your genome will still be in their database if you’re related to anyone who was, and those parts are often enough to identify you. This isn’t just about personal privacy, it’s about our collective ability to retain ownership and control over the most fundamental parts of ourselves and our families. And this data will obviously be abused by law enforcement, if it hasn’t already, because that’s what they do.
Babies deserve even more privacy protections than adults, since they can’t consent to anything.
- Comment on If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts? 4 weeks ago:
Because it’s in everyone’s best interest that people with overt bias are dismissed. In high profile cases it’s standard practice for both sides to do pretty intensive research on individual prospective jurors (they get a list), and that often includes scouring the web for their social media accounts. If they find something you posted, and you didn’t disclose your account when asked, you could be in trouble.
I don’t think it’s usually standard to ask specifically about social media accounts, at least in normal mundane cases, but in a crazy case like this, it can say a lot about a person’s ability to be impartial.
- Comment on If you're selected for jury duty (US), should you give up your anonymous social media accounts? 4 weeks ago:
I was just about to ask this same question in a different thread. I’m in a similar situation, in that Lemmy is the only social media I use (Reddit before the API crap), but I’ve never used my real name. I’d happily own all my comments, but the point of an anonymous account is that I don’t have to. I guess when you’re under oath it doesn’t matter, you have to truthfully answer the question that’s asked.
- Comment on Emissary is Whatever You Want It To Be 4 weeks ago:
A cuchi moya
Wait, wrong show.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I wish there was a robust drafts feature linked to our accounts so I could go back and see all the comments I started but didn’t have the energy to back up or source. Voyager is pretty good about saving comments you accidentally close, but as far as I know there’s no way to save unfinished drafts to your account for later.
Also, dicks out? Is that something you often do to draw attention? Your HR file must be a fun read 😁
- Comment on What Would God Say About File-Sharing? * TorrentFreak 5 weeks ago:
If god existed, they’d be annoyed that we’re discussing a 14 year old article instead of fixing all the problems they created.
- Comment on Same as it ever was 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know anything about the context of this photo; but I imagine it’s the hundreds of riot police surrounding a bunch of history nerds.
- Comment on Forget the paycheck, employees really want a raise in emotional salary 2 months ago:
Emotional salary is the nonmonetary compensation that impacts how people feel about their job, like culture, career, and work-life balance.
The only “nonmonetary compensation” I need from my job is respect. Simple, basic respect will cover all the bases. Pay me enough and respect me, and I’ll take care of my own emotional well-being.
- Comment on Oregon Passes 'Right to Repair' Law With Extra Cojones: Oregon’s “right to repair” bill, which now only needs the governor’s signature before it becomes law, has teeth not found in similar legislation 2 months ago:
So the bill has balls and teeth?! Impressive.
- Comment on Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet 2 months ago:
Aaron Swartz would like a word.
- Comment on Sustaining Proton’s mission over time | Proton 2 months ago:
I finally upgraded my free account on Black Friday, couldn’t be happier. I so appreciate this kind of transparency and candor.
We are not billionaire subsidized, government subsidized, or even donation subsidized. Rather, we derive almost all of our revenues from selling services directly to users in a profitable way. Proton services are never going to be the cheapest, we’re not going to have flashy promotions, unlimited “lifetime” plans (unless it’s for charity), or offers that are too good to be true. Not just because it doesn’t suit us, but because it doesn’t suit the mission. Instead, we will charge a fair price that reflects our costs and can deliver long-term stability.
- Comment on NVIDIA’s new AI chatbot runs locally on your PC 2 months ago:
They say it works without an internet connection, and if that’s true this could be pretty awesome. I’m always skeptical about interacting with chatbots that run in the cloud, but if I can put this behind a firewall so I know there’s no telemetry, I’m on board.