Serinus
@Serinus@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Minnesota National Guard is attempting to recruit high school kids by insinuating their parents might be deported if they don't sign up 1 day ago:
This might not even be from the national guard. It might be directly from ICE posting as NG.
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 1 day ago:
We haven’t, really. Our “complete neutrality” is infested with troll farms, where people are employed to make hundreds of accounts to spread propaganda.
I’m thinking the answer is to implement a huge barrier for troll farms, but a small speed bump for real people.
It could be oauth with Steam or your cell provider, where you can make an account if you’ve spent over $250 with them. Actual credit history would work. You can combine these and allow any of them, which might let one person make 3-4 accounts, maybe, but that’s still limited enough to make things difficult for troll farms.
There is an issue where billionaires that want to influence us have absolutely absurd resources, and maybe paying $1000 per account isn’t enough of a barrier for them. But at least it gives us a chance for the bans to stick significantly more than they do now.
- Comment on Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers 2 days ago:
It’s just a thing that needs repeated basically constantly for all of us.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 2 days ago:
People were playing text-based multiplayer, effectively mmos with PvP well before Tim-Berners Lee invented the Web Browser.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 3 days ago:
But why? You don’t need telnet to transfer text.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud 3 days ago:
I’ll always be able to play Balatro, Factorio, and he’ll, I’d go to text based MUDs first.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 3 days ago:
I was hoping the tariffs would be good, but I certainly expected it to be a disaster otherwise.
In retrospect, it was just really bad, and his tariffs were a ham-fisted turd. He saved the demolition of the country for his second term, after he let Stephen Miller run things and got rid of anyone who was telling him no.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 3 days ago:
It’s fine. He has potential, and he really did move fast and break things to make Tesla what it was. I don’t think EVs would be where they are today without him.
The pedophile thing really was the turning point. It was possible to see before then, but it wasn’t even the event itself that did it. He just changed fast around that time period. Whether his views changed or he just started revealing and acting on them much more is debatable.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 3 days ago:
Maybe just young, because the coverage up to that point was hard to avoid.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 3 days ago:
He was probably already racist, but it really does seem like the drugs helped make him a Nazi.
It’s probably a combination of the people feeding him drugs and him drifting towards manipulators instead of people who might tell him no.
- Comment on Google offers bargain: Sell your soul to Gemini, and it'll give you smarter answers 4 days ago:
It’s always going to sound accurate. That’s what’s it’s built to do. It’s just that often the easiest way to sound accurate is to be accurate, but not always. Shortly after you forget that it’s going to fuck you.
Better not forget.
- Comment on Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown | Combat Deep Dive 5 days ago:
The “hero abilities” look pretty tacky.
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 1 week ago:
Like a wireless router?
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 1 week ago:
Can your neighborhood communicate when the Internet goes down like Iran?
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
Shouldn’t it be called Microsoft 250? There are 250 working days in a year. As soon as I’m home I’m using Thunderbird or Libreoffice, certainly not the product formerly known as Microsoft Office.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
It’s already happening, in part because of this and in part because of the unstable, unpredictable US government.
Several European countries are looking towards investing in open source as a way to get away from American big tech because they’re suddenly considering US sanctions against them a real possibility.
- Comment on YSK this woman is called Kathlyn Boyle. She is the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley and one of the closest friend of JD Vance. 1 week ago:
Kind of. It’s certainly difficult to deal with this.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 2 weeks ago:
The website is made for people with knowledge to leak sensitive info.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 2 weeks ago:
It’s not fucking military leaking unless they came in with Drunk Pete Hegseth.
- Comment on I love science 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
ies in this case. I hope you don’t want to know why. ‘y’ usually (but not always) becomes “ies”?
- Comment on BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit 2 weeks ago:
You can just have things be out of scope. It’s really okay!
Thanks for the work you’ve put into this.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 3 weeks ago:
Don’t get complacent. The EU countries are toying with the idea of collapsing with us. AfD doesn’t seem to be shrinking, and there will be a lot of money and propaganda dumped that way soon.
I hope you’re better at resisting it than we were, but seeing as how we’re all still on vulnerable social media…
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 3 weeks ago:
The latest Libreoffice update has ribbon menus (optionally).
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 3 weeks ago:
It works well when you use it for small (or repetitive) and explicit tasks. That you can easily check.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 4 weeks ago:
Which is probably a good thing. I appreciate projects like Thunderbird as well.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 4 weeks ago:
You can not push the button that says AI.
You can also hit the kill switch that completely removes that button.
That’s opt-in enough.
If it starts reading pages or doing things without you pushing a button, that’s an issue.
- Comment on TikTok is automatically taking down posts with the Epstein files 4 weeks ago:
It’s been a hundred years and we’re still making WWII movies. You think living through it is going to be any less worthy of attention?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, nuance exists. Weird, I know.
- Comment on YSK that when you’re asked to make a donation at check-out, the company does not get a tax break for it! 4 weeks ago:
The corp doesn’t get the tax break either way.
You only get it if you claim it (in the US), of course. Nobody is tracking that for you.
