ChunkMcHorkle
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- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 12 hours ago:
Thank you for writing this up, as someone not familiar with what’s going on over there I really appreciate you taking the time.
- Comment on ListenBrainz about to hit 100k users 19 hours ago:
It’s all good. I think it has a lot more to do with accommodating one’s own brain, and how we individually categorize and enjoy our listening, than with specifics of music like genre/artist/album/track.
For myself, I almost always have some tune or another out of nowhere running through my head, so when I choose something to listen to, I am either picking with or against what’s already playing. So if I tune in to the music that’s already playing, I can see associated choices that are the same, similar, or completely unrelated on a superficial level, but my brain has linked them all somehow. Any of those choices, if I put them on, will satisfy because my brain is already playing one and mentally I’m already there.
I think the reasons algorithms never work for me is because no one could ever follow that, much less predict it. Even I can’t. Instead I’ve learned to simply accommodate it.
- Comment on ListenBrainz about to hit 100k users 1 day ago:
I’ve been living off a folder of mp3s for 30 years.
Same here. I love that shit. My mood is the algorithm. I still occasionally get new stuff, but from other sources I happen to see or hear, like a Netflix show that has it in the background or a musician’s personal recommendation in an interview, and I go look it up manually. But even if I never got anything new, I already have more music than I could easily listen to in a lifetime that I already know I liked at least once.
I’ve tried streaming sources, but it never hits right. This way, where I am specifically picking the artist or album, it’s always right, always fresh, and I’m always listening to something I want to hear.
- Comment on Conservatives: Libz don't even know what a woman is. Also Conservatives: *constantly engage with purely synthetic creations thinking that they are women.* 1 day ago:
Yeah, it is bizarre. I’m on desktop so I opened the pic in a new tab, opened it to full height, and there are what look like a set of dark brown horizontal slat blinds compressed at the top as if raised, behind them another set of lighter brown horizontal slats down the right side as if lowered, and a square of glass in front of both.
Their decorator was . . . conflicted.
- Comment on AI Agents Can Autonomously Coordinate Propaganda Campaigns Without Human Direction 4 days ago:
Imagine it is two weeks before a major election in a closely contested state. A controversial ballot measure is on the line. Suddenly, a wave of posts floods X, Reddit, and Facebook, all pushing the same narrative, all amplifying each other, all generating the appearance of a massive grassroots movement. Except none of it is real.
It’s much more difficult to be propagandized by any means, including autonomous AI, when you’re not freely offering up your own time and devices daily to have it fed to you, individualized just for you by means of your own data, which you are also freely giving to the cause of propagandizing you.
I get why people do, there are lots of good reasons, but at a certain point the good outweighs the bad. And there’s no time like the present to make a change.
So if you’re reading this and you are still interacting with these centralized corporate-owned propaganda sites regularly, maybe it’s time to rethink that strategy.
- Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level 1 week ago:
The counting/tabulation is where the fuckery occurs, but you’re lucky to have a paper receipt anyway. I have voted in several states and gotten nothing but a sticker.
- Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level 1 week ago:
At one point there were negative 16,000 votes for Gore in Volusia County, Florida.
So yeah, it absolutely did work for George W. Bush. And for John Roberts too, the low-level lawyer whose work on the resulting Bush v. Gore lawsuit that put Bush in the White House afterward catapulted him from mere attorney, to federal judge, to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in the span of only five years.
- Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level 1 week ago:
At this point, I’d be thrilled if just one thing – elections – went back to paper. I feel like paper ballots would have solved at least some of this current insanity already.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
anna’s archive
I wish. As someone astutely put it in another conversation, now that the tech companies have pilfered Anna’s Archive, the big publishers are going to try to get it shut down.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Meta have paid the copyright fee
Lol, no. “Copyright fees” are what you pay your government in order to register your copyright or keep your copyright registration active.
Or to put it another way, copyright fees have fuck all to do with fair use.
You’re trying make it sound as though Meta obtained consent and paid authors for their own work when in fact, Meta obtained consent from no one, and paid nothing at all to anyone, in exchange for the use of their works.
Even a light skim of the attached article would have told you that much. What do you think a copyright suit is about?
“Meta have paid the copyright fee,” lol. That’s some r/ConfidentlyIncorrect shit right there. Why did you even bother?
- Comment on In this house 1 week ago:
“Can we at least wait til he finishes?”
- Comment on I'm using my home server and coding to rebuild my brain after a stroke. 2 weeks ago:
The benefits of just listening to music I think gets overlooked.
Hard agree. And it’s a shame because we have more music at our fingertips now than ever before, from every possible time and place in history. I’m from an era (70s) when just putting a record on and listening to it all the way through was a thing, but I’m not sure how many folks realize today that music can be an event in itself: not as background, but as foreground. Putting it on, sitting in a chair, and just listening while doing little to nothing else.
It’s hard to get time to do it, but when I do it’s heaven. And it absolutely resets my brain in positive ways: afterward, I just feel good. I actually think it might qualify as an ersatz form of meditation, in that a person is not mentally attending anything else while doing this, just listening and letting the auditory experience wash over them. It’s difficult to quantify, but the benefits are very real.
- Comment on Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I wouldn’t worry about the safety of the extension, though. I have a lot of extensions going already, and this is not the first one to go bonkers as a later addition. So chances are excellent it will work for others just fine.
- Comment on Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more 2 weeks ago:
Huh, I was just writing that I wished Firefox would do this, so thanks! I’ll check it out. Much appreciated.
- Comment on Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more 2 weeks ago:
Floorp, a Firefox fork, containerizes also. Floorp does it in the same manner, meaning you create the containers and assign sites, and only after that does that site automatically get containerized. I do something similar to what you’re doing, but it’s between Firefox and Floorp. I wish they’d start containerizing sites by default, but for now this is what I do.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
But maybe you’re just one of those Blue MAGA types that assumes Dems can do no wrong.
Far from it. After Kamala, and the Senate cave-in last year, and all they have NOT done, I’ll never vote non-screamingly progressive Dem again. The Dems are not even remotely sin-free here. And thank you for the additional information; you’re right, I did not know that.
But it’s not as black and white as you paint it. As tired as you must personally be of not having the supposedly good people do enough, I am tired of seeing people who are actually – “umm aktually” in your parlance – constantly shat upon for not doing it ALL, while the people most guilty of all these egregious errors get a complete pass, or just a passing nod, as if it is up to the genuinely well-intentioned among us to corral all evil and somehow not up to the evildoers themselves to cut it the fuck out. I don’t know what kind of shit this governor has gotten for her pro-trans actions, including vetos, but it’s definitely non-zero in a red state like Kansas.
Driving an infinitely fine line between good and perfect helps no one. The governor was at least working a veto, or trying to. Did she even know what her appointed secretary was doing? Was it really the governor herself? Is she truly that malign that she’s knowingly having the lists compiled even as she takes whatever heat for openly vetoing anti-trans law?
Or is it possible that it takes more than one person to get that kind of thing going in government and it was already started when she took office? One thing that blog post left out were the exact dates, and I wish they had not, because then we’d know for sure. But until then, if someone’s openly on my “side” I’m not going to shit on them for what they might not even personally be aware of, especially when death threats for being pro-trans have become the norm.
As for me, my own personal “side” is not MAGA or anti-MAGA, though these days it works out anti 100% of the time. My own personal “side” is 100% pro-people living the way they want to live, loving the way they want to love, inhabiting the bodies they want to inhabit. But hey, keep conflating those who are against you with those who aren’t, and make sure you drive as many as you can over to the fuck it, I can’t fight 'em all “side”. That’ll surely teach us.
And no. The current hostility toward anyone of a different identity is NOT bipartisan. It is primarily GOP. And while not all Dems are on board, that’s where the majority of your supporters are, because they sure as fuck aren’t on the GOP side, and as you have read, it is still the Kansas GOP supermajority that is rolling this shit out for Kansas like a monster truck without brakes. For all the hairs you’ve so carefully split, you still haven’t convinced me otherwise. But again, thank you for the additional information: on that I do stand corrected, and I do appreciate it.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
No. It is GOP cruelty. Nothing “bipartisan” about it. From a different article:
The new law takes effect on Thursday. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed the measure, but the Legislature’s GOP supermajorities overrode it last week as Republican state lawmakers across the U.S. have pursued another round of measures to roll back transgender rights.
Kansas’ new law enjoyed nearly unanimous GOP support. It is the latest success in what has become an annual effort to further roll back transgender rights by Republicans in statehouses across the U.S., bolstered by policies and rhetoric from President Donald Trump’s administration.
Kelly supports transgender rights, but GOP lawmakers have overridden her vetoes three of the past four years. (emphases mine)
Nothing ambiguous about it. I would also draw your attention to the first line of the above letter itself:
House Substitute for Senate Bill 244, enacted by the Kansas Legislature overriding Governor Kelly’s veto, requires Kansas-issued drivers’ licenses and identification cards to reflect the credential holder’s sex at birth and directs the Division of Vehicles to comply with K.S.A. 77-207.
Generally speaking, governors do not personally compile healthcare-related lists. Any such list would be assembled by and come through the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and with the GOP supermajority passing the legislation making such lists mandatory, there would not be much the very obviously trans-friendly governor could do.
I genuinely do not see how you can lay GOP group evil at the feet on the one person clearly trying to do what she can to stop it.
It’s almost like you don’t want the GOP to get full credit for what the GOP supermajority is doing in Kansas to trans people.
- Comment on I saw a turd on my way home from work! 2 weeks ago:
That stache addon is gold. “When you care enough to send the very best.”
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 4 weeks ago:
I was reading the original discussion on dbzer0 and kept wondering what the removed by mod was under every comment agreeing with either partial ban or defed, so I looked at the modlog. It was literally the same pigshit picture posted over and over again, almost twenty times, by the same user, though fortunately I only had to see it once, by choice.
That’s a serious personal commitment to assholery right there. To be honest I can’t claim to understand some of the political nuance that was coming up in the thread, but that one dude sure did make a strong argument for defed via the modlog, lol. If that’s an example of what dbzer0 has to put up with from individual users of another instance, then considering defederation is absolutely a legitimate discussion to have.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony. 4 weeks ago:
Highly relevant video of what sort of culture Zuck metastasized in at Harvard
One, holy shit. And that was over twenty years ago: there is zero possibility it’s gotten any better since.
Two, I love this woman’s blunt honesty. Her take on all of it is fantastic, especially how the “they’re missing something behind their eyes” was so accurate. It’s just horrible how she came to have that knowledge.
Three, read the transcript if you can’t sit still for the whole thing, but either way try to make it to the end. After she gets done with her own personal experiences, she’s all,
So anyways, fuck Harvard. Fuck these institutions. Fuck their respectability. They’re crucibles for rapists and pedophiles. And the most powerful people on earth are the scum of the fucking earth. And we need to take back our power from them.
But the difference is now you know exactly why she says that, and with the power and force of her entire being. Shit, I would too.
- Comment on ICE tripled its reliance on Microsoft in last six months, leaked files reveal 4 weeks ago:
In short, Microsoft is now doing for ICE what they were doing for Israel in 2024-2025 to support the genocide:
‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets – The Guardian
Note: these are all Graun links because they are what I had in my browser history and because they specifically made a point of looking into it, as opposed to other major news outlets. I’m sure there are other sources as well, I just didn’t look for any.
- Comment on Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, exactly. That shit’s not gone at all. It’s just hidden for now. And if we the public don’t pay for it directly as a feature, these companies will still scoop up the data and just sell it to each other.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Truth.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Speaking solely for myself, I have accepted that I am as susceptible to marketing and propaganda as any other human, in an age where we are surrounded by it, none of it honest, none of it in my own best interest.
My response to this has been to cut off all possible routes of advertising: I literally do not watch or read anything that has ads, except possibly passing billboards and in-store ads. I don’t play games that have ads. I don’t listen to radio. I have adblocker on everything, or I simply leave. I can’t stand ads, and I have cut them out of everything I can. I’d genuinely rather quit a service than submit to ads.
So yeah, I’m immune: they can’t influence me if they can’t get access. That’s the best kind of immunity there is.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 4 weeks ago:
You: I’ve pulled the ideas out my bum honestly.
Me, reading: This is intuitive genius. Seriously.
You’ve said your strategy essentially comes from listening/observing closely and winging it, but honestly what you’re achieving just through keeping at it every way you can is amazing. Apart from not being more condensed (smaller, tighter) that handwriting is actually more legible than I’ve seen from more than a few adults, including the slight nod to the presence of lines. I am not exaggerating.
Your creativity and temerity are both inspiring. Your son is lucky to have you.
- Comment on Tune a fish 4 weeks ago:
Dad joke or name of a great album. That the the dad joke came first is pretty much beyond dispute, lol.
- Comment on How ICE Will Spy On Protesters, And How You Can Protect Your Privacy 5 weeks ago:
All true, but the reflective “anti-paparazzi” scarves and such that I’ve seen do not appear to be reflective. They really just fuck up unwanted pictures/recordings by throwing off the camera’s light balance, especially when flash is used.
- Comment on What are we being distracted from? 5 weeks ago:
This is the real goal, right here. To get individuals so bogged down by a controlled firehose of propaganda that we will all just keep working the daily grind for less and less because there’s nothing we can do about it . . .
Yeah, no. That’s total bullshit. We can each do something, and it only matters that we each start somewhere. A lot of little things add up, like you said. Don’t give into the helplessness: there is meaning and action beyond it.
And conversely, don’t give in to rage, because the opposite end of this elite stick is to delegitimize any growing movement by calling it the whining of the disgruntled and the vandalism of hooligans. There’s no faster way to get your movement off the front page, shut down, and ignored by the world than giving into violence when provoked. Note all the non-US comments even on Lemmy that are trying to provoke Americans into fighting in the streets: it’s not because they want us to win.
OP, you’re on the right track. You’re already seeing for yourself that it’s just not adding up anymore. But like Cabbage above me said, don’t stop there. Find whatever thing you can do to help, to be a part of change. It doesn’t have to be great or massive, but find your niche. Look into what’s going on already in your own community, and see what people who live near you are already doing. You’ll find your part to play, and you’ll be so glad you did.
If you’re not sure where to start and you’re in the US, look at what’s happening near you:
- Comment on YSK About Resilience Targeting 5 weeks ago:
I read the whole article. Yeah, of course it’s touchy-feely shit; it’s out of Psychology Today, lol. But it’s not just clickbait; they suggest assembling a “psychological go-bag” of coping mechanisms to help you when you get overwhelmed. While some of the examples given are probably not for everyone, they’re just that: examples.
Without quoting the entire article, here are the key points and the general list of self-help suggestions:
- Disasters and massive changes in civil society, combined with misinformation, damage resilience.
- Resilience targeting often comes via social media.
- A psychological go-bag is a collection of individual resilience skills.
- You can overcome hopelessness and cynicism to stay motivated by practicing these skills.
Find inspiration in a story of hope and motivation. Try a biography of a person you look up to. Keep such stories in mind as inspiration.
Take stock of your psychological strengths and vulnerabilities. Come up with an approach that accentuates your strengths and attends to your vulnerabilities.
Open up to the collective of care. Remember that you aren’t the only one who cares about what’s happening, that you need to connect with other folks and communities who care too, keep yourself from feeling lonely and isolated in the struggle.
Focus on next steps, don’t overwhelm yourself with everything at once. Unless you have a magic wand, you can’t fix everything at once, and worrying about everything at once is guaranteed to cause anxiety. Don’t forget to take it a step at a time.
Spirituality. Deepen your awareness and connection to spirituality however you find it.
Connect with community and joy. If you don’t have strong links with community, start to deepen them now.
Display photos of loved ones, ancestors, and inspiring figures in your home and workspace. You may want to put together a collection of photos of loved ones in a place you see every day. These are your reasons to keep going.
Take breaks from it all. It may feel like a guilty pleasure, but an important aspect of staying resilient is knowing when to tune out.
- Comment on The one tool more effective than censorship is noise 1 month ago:
Truth. So much of what is happening on any given day can be explained by asking the simple question,
“If the US president were Putin’s puppet, what would Putin do?”
And there it is. Regardless of the individual crises, of which there are many, the bigger picture is decreasing national force, cutting off traditional allies and setting fire to the established world order, and maximizing internal unrest. All of this benefits Putin.