DahGangalang
@DahGangalang@infosec.pub
- Comment on We can dream right 2 weeks ago:
Me too buddy, me too.
- Comment on Manor Lords is off to a flying start on Steam, just hours after its early access release 2 weeks ago:
Medieval setting plus the similar sounds of “Bannerlord” and “Manor Lord”.
I realize that was a total mistake to assumed that now.
- Comment on Manor Lords is off to a flying start on Steam, just hours after its early access release 2 weeks ago:
Good to know!
- Comment on Manor Lords is off to a flying start on Steam, just hours after its early access release 2 weeks ago:
Good to know, thanks for the feedback!
- Comment on Manor Lords is off to a flying start on Steam, just hours after its early access release 2 weeks ago:
Is this just a Mount and Blade: Banner Lord ripoff? Kinda sounds that way?
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
You’re right, none need to go…
…but most people are too tech illiterate to even know there’s an option outside windows. Hell, I dated a girl who though windows was the operating system on apple devices (she used the term windows and operating system interchangeably)
- Comment on Get Your Own Fediverse Trading Cards! 2 months ago:
…and so just to be clear, by pig, you mean a cop, yeah?
- Comment on Get Your Own Fediverse Trading Cards! 2 months ago:
Yo, yeah, what’s up with the acorns?
I guess it’s being associated with the sounds of a gun shot?
- Comment on Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating 2 months ago:
So other commenters have opinions that I think are rational, but the part that I think is key that they’re missing: Tenant Unions.
I have some (in my opinion) tyrannical yet lazy land lords/property managers at my current apt, and have attempted to form a tenant union. Apparently no one agrees with my level of disgust at our treatment, so I’ve kind of wiffed at the effort.
Which is to say that it takes real work, but it can be done and there are resources for you, but that’s the first step: don’t go alone.
- Comment on No, not you. 3 months ago:
Thanks, saved me few minutes of searching (and maybe being put on some FBI watch list?)
- Comment on TIL - Linux supports tilted monitors... apparently 22° is best 4 months ago:
Make it and then sell it to my wife to give to me for a gag gift next Christmas.
Her budget for such a thing would probably be ~$100 if you need a target price point.
- Comment on If you spent eternity in a fiery pit wouldn't you just get use to being in a fiery pit? 5 months ago:
pain receptors are distinct receptors in your body that don’t dull themselves after a while
Man, that’s some bullshit.
Come on Body, can’t you just have some, like, nice things that aren’t purely functional?
- Comment on We need to stop attempts to normalize grind/hustle lifestyle 5 months ago:
mUh FaMiLy!!1!
- Comment on We need to stop attempts to normalize grind/hustle lifestyle 5 months ago:
Let’s not lose sight of the important part:
That they’re plotting it together
- Comment on Coding Addiction: How Programming Affects Your Brain 5 months ago:
Fuck, you guys made it to part 2?
- Comment on Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app 5 months ago:
And 20 more reading yours.
- Comment on Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs 5 months ago:
In a lot of ways, this is where I’d like to be, but my mind hesitation to jump from Spotify (and comparable services) is the ability to discover new music across a crazy variety of genres. Especially since it’s stable and uses the same controls every time, I think I’d have a hard time leaving.
Big tech got me addicted like that.
- Comment on Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs 5 months ago:
What do you do for music instead?
- Comment on Keep in mind that social security is set to run out in 10 years time. 5 months ago:
On one hand: fair. If you’re not versed in elements of tax law this but of data can seem arcane.
On the other: this is a matter of policy - not one of research. This the definitive answer can be found rather easily with a Google search. Here’s a link to a Social Security Administration page on the topic: www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/cbb.html
By the math set out at the above link, one can calculate that, at a maximum income of $168,600 and a SS Contribution rate of 6.2%, the most any individual would contribute to social security in a year would be $10,453.20.
$10,453.20 would represent 0.052266% of the income of someone making $20 millions per year. Even doubling that amount (as some conservatives do) to count the employer’s contributions to Social Security would leave you with just over 0.1% of net income.
So yeah, even if Social Security isn’t going bankrupt, it’s an anemic system that barely provides livable circumstances for those who depend on it. Raising or removing that “max income for contributions” limit would go a long way to seeing the system be able to actually support people who need it while only burdening those most able to bear the burden.
- Comment on Keep in mind that social security is set to run out in 10 years time. 5 months ago:
I want to believe. Can you provide sources for that claim?
- Comment on EU stops advertising on X over hate speech. Fines could follow next year 5 months ago:
I think this is largely a consequence of the rate of change.
Going from 50 generations back to 40 generation back (call it 750 AD to 1000 AD) very little would have changed for people, especially those limited in their means of transportation. I think this is largely, if not exactly, true of any generational gap (the exceptions I feel can be found at those bridging the rise and fall of empires)
Meanwhile, 10 generations ago (call it like 1750) wouldn’t recognize the world today. Hell, 2-3 generations ago (thinking of those born ~1925-1950) barely recognize the world of today.
The way I see it, the rate of change we experience in the world today is simply beyond the rate of change we were bred for over the bulk of humanity’s history.
With that perspective in mind, it feels wrong to hold it against people to resist parts of that change.
Yeah, in my ideal world, we’d all get along and be able to deal with these things in a civilized manner, but that feels super dismissive of the Human Condition and the real lived experience of people in the real world.
Looping back to the point I want to make: coming at people hard for having a negative reaction to a changing world doesn’t make their acceptance of the changing world any better.
- Comment on EU stops advertising on X over hate speech. Fines could follow next year 5 months ago:
That’s fair. I can see how I read more malice into your comment than was intended. I’d like to apologize for that.
I do want (for the sake of clarity) to say that I agree the flow of muslims to EU/US cities is not a problem. The notion of any western nation implementing Sharia Law (or any approximation) is wild at best.
I do think that the way you accused him of needlessly fear mongering doesn’t placate or soften the guys opinions. I think flat accusations like that are part of what pushes guys who do believe “Sharia Law will come by having Muslims around” into more extremist positions. Whether you intended it or not, I’m sure it was received as a belittling comment what will only serve to alienate the guy.
That does beg the question: what is the correct way to handle comments like this guy’s, to which I don’t have a good response. I do appreciate you rolling out actually data. But watching the polarization of beliefs and politcal positions, I feel the part folling the link to statistics isn’t helping.
- Comment on EU stops advertising on X over hate speech. Fines could follow next year 5 months ago:
I suppose, the point I mean to make is that belittling this guy does nothing to solve the problem.
- Comment on EU stops advertising on X over hate speech. Fines could follow next year 5 months ago:
I don’t want to get in the middle of a flame war, but as someone who’s seen the culture of his small town shift over the last couple decades, I can’t help but have some sympathy for those who worry about this happening in their local (Admittedly, in my case, it’s watching a town where the suburban drops off to rural slowly be subsumed by city sprawl, so this might be a false equivalance).
But I think the real issue is that that’s not an evenly distributed 11%. People will naturally bunch up in groups along cultural lines. I could see a city developing a single Arab/Muslim neighborhood over the course of a decade being of no note, but it sounds like some are developing multiple over just a couple years.
I have no real data to back that notion up, but from what I hear from Europeans, that’s the general feel. I think that’s the real issue: things are changing and they feel like they’re changing fast, and that’s freaking people out. Telling people who feel that way they’re crazy only “others” them and I feel that’s really how the situation gets worse.
But also, the towns the guy above mentioned feel like bigger cities (I’m American and haven’t been to Europe, so I also might lack perspective), and so I do feel like they’re overstating the point.
- Comment on Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games 5 months ago:
This, but unironically.
If I had the means to pirate my internet connection, I’d do it in a heart beat.
- Comment on For who, though? 5 months ago:
More like Whoms’n’t’d’ve, amirite?
- Comment on The Peasant Life 6 months ago:
Ben Le Man?
More like Stannis Le Mannis
- Comment on Ok Lemmy Rorschach test time. Tell me what you see. 6 months ago:
Two bears riding a (nuclear?) Bomb that is falling from the sky.
- Comment on Petition demands that Microsoft extends Windows 10 support 6 months ago:
Funny, Windows 10 dilled my kog.
- Comment on Spotify is going to clone podcasters’ voices — and translate them to other languages 7 months ago:
Mixed feelings myself.
I think this is a GREAT application for AI.
But I worry that the creators will get screwed (monetarily) for the use of this. I could see this coming in a number of forms to include in losing the rights to the shows they made, but that were translated to their non-native language.