Wilzax
@Wilzax@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hope September doesn’t go by too fast 3 weeks ago:
Ngl I legitimately forgot it’s October and not still September
- Comment on ‘I don’t have much hope for a Harris presidency’: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Israeli apartheid and what the media gets wrong about Palestine 3 weeks ago:
Vote for the lesser of two evils so we can stop validating the tyranny of the greater of the two evils and start working on undermining the elected evil with an even lesser evil.
This “It doesn’t really matter if we elect Harris because Palestine will still be destroyed” talk is all completely moot if the other option will actively move politics FURTHER AWAY from a place where we can afford to deal with crisis management abroad by making crises more common domestically.
- Comment on Hope September doesn’t go by too fast 3 weeks ago:
3 months and 8 days…
- Comment on Get good. 3 weeks ago:
As with most advice regarding early childhood development, your mileage may vary.
- Comment on I love children's sense of humour 1 month ago:
They’re not wrong though
- Comment on Suggestions 1 month ago:
We’re not saying we should ban it, we’re saying we should discredit these publications because they are willingly giving a platform to extremist rhetoric. Nobody is saying this should be illegal, we’re saying “Stop reading the New York Times, they’ve gone full accelerationist”
- Comment on PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off 1 month ago:
Package manager choice is pretty important, and for that I always recommend debian-based for a pc for a new Linux user. APT is just so good.
- Comment on PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off 1 month ago:
It always seems like 1 step forward, 2 steps back with console gaming
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 1 month ago:
While accurate, we’ll probably never find out if they end up being the ones responsible for his assassination.
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 1 month ago:
Yeah I know he is already, but if he becomes more overt about it then the government will be more likely to be overt about treating him as such
- Comment on End nuclear fusion! 1 month ago:
Counterargument: everything is limited, and all joyful people are imbeciles to some extent
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 1 month ago:
Or rather, they assassinate him themselves, since someone who has held clearance higher than any other member of the US government is a liability if he becomes disloyal to the US
- Comment on Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton 1 month ago:
Medical device manufacturers also threatened iFixit because it posted ventilator repair manuals on its website.
What the fuck is wrong with people. Anyone who opposes the right to repair for MEDICAL DEVICES is irredeemable.
- Comment on What is the purpose of this plastic piece? 1 month ago:
I guess you could say they’re plugging up the discussion!
In all seriousness, it takes more humanity to make a relevant joke than to identify an object in an image, analyze the accompanying text, and form a response that answers the question without a trace of a smart-ass tone.
The old sci-fi books were right. You can’t teach a robot to laugh. Not in the same way people do, with the tech we currently have, at least.
I just wish more people would be helpful after making their joke, all within the same comment. Keep it engaging and relevant rather than picking just one lane.
- Comment on The NSA Has a Podcast—Here's How to Decode It 2 months ago:
Yeah I get a big popup that says “Plaintext is exclusive to subscribers” on the direct link
- Comment on What's the difference between a proxy and a VPN 2 months ago:
In a technical sense, a consumer VPN service is really more of an encrypted proxy than anything else. It tries to obfuscate what network traffic and activity you’re actually participating in by both appearing as the endpoint for your connection, and the destination for the connection of the sites you visit and internet services you use.
A true VPN does more than that, allowing multiple computers that are not sharing a router to communicate with each other as if they are. Certain IP addresses are local-only, such as any IP starting with 192.168.x.x. This means that when you access the broader internet, your IP is different than the one used when you try to use your WiFi printer on your same network. They’re both addresses, but one is the address of your whole network while the other is the address of your computer in that network.
For businesses and other organizations, a VPN is a useful way to allow users to connect using these local-only addresses without physically being connected to the network those local addresses are valid in. You don’t have to expose the printer to the Internet, you just need to expose the VPN service to the Internet, and then allow VPN users to connect to the network when they need to use the printer
- Comment on 'Best' jobs for college grads.. most paying unlivable wages. 2 months ago:
There should be a fast food union
- Comment on US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps 2 months ago:
If you distribute encrypted materials you also need to distribute a means of decryption. I’m willing to bet a honeypot was used to trick him into distributing his csam right to the government hinself.
- Comment on Why 🤷♂️ do users 👨💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭? 2 months ago:
East Asian languages aren’t pictograms. Most use phonetic alphabets. Among those that don’t, very few characters use visual resemblance to convey meaning, and no language uses primarily pictographical characters.
- Comment on Why 🤷♂️ do users 👨💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭? 2 months ago:
While true that the term originates from Japanese, it’s important to note that emoji is a loanword that has been adapted into english by changing its pronunciation subtly, and replacing its spelling with a phonetically similar one in an alphabet not used in Japanese.
This is similar to when words and phrases are used without much adaptation in the middle of sentences that are otherwise in a different language. There’s a certain je ne sais quoi about English and how it mixes loanwords (such as “calque”), calques (such as “loanword”, where individual parts of the word are translated then recombined) and entire unchanged terms (such as “je ne sais quoi”) freely, and to varying degrees depending on where you are and who you talk to.
- Comment on I'm so sorry 2 months ago:
While I doubt he’s the spitting image of a healthy body, I’m willing to bet a lot of the chub on him is a bulletproof vest. I don’t believe for a second the man goes anywhere without one these days
- Comment on “Should art be regulated by the SEC?” NFT artists file lawsuit 2 months ago:
NFTs are great for replacing things like deeds or vehicle titles, where we need paperwork to verify ownership. But the problem arises when it’s cryptographically hard (meaning exceedingly unlikely on reasonable timescales) to reverse fraudulent transfers of those documents. Cutting out a centralized authority at the price of making the system more vulnerable for gullible people is almost always not worth it.
- Comment on Hello, you’re here because you compared AI image editing to Photoshop 2 months ago:
From the article: “Sure, mobile editing apps exist, but they’re not really suitable for much outside of small tweaks like skin smoothing and color adjustment”
Pretty bad ad for phone apps if that’s their take on them
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 2 months ago:
Average is better means fewer incidents overall. But when there are incidents, the damages for those incidents tend to be much worse. This means the victims are more likely to lawyer up and go after the company responsible for the AI that was driving, and that means that the company who makes the self-driving software better be prepared to pay for those worst case scenarios, which will now be 100% their fault.
Uber can avoid liability for crashes caused by their human drivers. They won’t be able to do the same when their fleet is AI. And when that happens, AI sensibilities will be measured my human metrics because courts are run by humans. The mistakes that they make will be VERY expensive ones, because a minor glitch can turn an autonomous vehicle from the safest driving experience possible to a rogue machine with zero sense of self-preservation. That liability is not worth the cost savings of getting rid of human drivers yet, and it won’t be for a very long time.
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 2 months ago:
The problem with self-driving cars isn’t that it’s worse than human drivers on average, it’s that it’s SO INCREDIBLY BAD when it’s wrong that no company would ever assume the liability for the worst of its mistakes.
- Comment on Toot toot 2 months ago:
That’s an HR complaint
- Comment on Consumer, we have detected that you are above the poverty line. The 99¢ price printed on this Arizona tea can only applies to those below the poverty line. Your total comes to $3.67. 2 months ago:
You know a much better way to do this? Government oversight on pricing of staples to prevent shit like $4 cartons of eggs and $5 sticks of butter like we had in 2022/23
Stop these companies from gouging us on products we need by making it impossible for them to get away with it.
- Comment on Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions? 2 months ago:
Dead link, sad to see this one go
- Comment on Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha 2 months ago:
Use a profile link, not a quick link. They don’t resolve to your profile the same way.
Friend codes are also multi-use.
174156043 or steamcommunity.com/id/Wilzax/, but not s.team/p/pjc-jnbq/drrtjgmh
- Comment on Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha 2 months ago:
Use a profile link, not a quick link. They don’t resolve to your profile the same way.
Friend codes are also multi-use.
174156043 or steamcommunity.com/id/Wilzax/, but not s.team/p/pjc-jnbq/drrtjgmh