yuki2501

@yuki2501@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll just Committed a Federal Crime.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  following its acquisition from Sony

  Has anything good EVER come from big company acquisitions AT ALL?

  Geocities -> acquired by Yahoo -> crap -> death Youtube -> acquired by Google -> ad crap Blogger -> acquired by Google -> crap Macromedia -> acquired by Adobe -> Monopoly crap Washington Post -> acquired by Bezos -> political crap MySQL -> Acquired by Oracle -> copyright crap Github -> acquired by Microsoft -> crap Reddit -> acquired by Conde Nast -> political crap Twitter -> acquired by Musk -> utter crap

  Every single time I see a cool startup get bought by a big player, all I can see is the service going to shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one thing to be uncooperative with Linux development.

  A very different thing is to introduce vulnerabilities into existing working code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Intentional? Better use Negligent. It’s hard to prove intent; knowledge of something going on is much easier to prove.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When techbros said “you can type a question and the AI will answer”, they seem to have forgotten that we expect the answers to be true and accurate.

  And they seem to have forgotten that to do that, they actually need a database of facts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a threat to the Mozilla CORPORATION, not the Mozilla Foundation nor the browser.

  Nothing to be really scared about. Move along.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI helps lighten the load on the electric grid – without skimping on people’s energy use.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My colleagues and I have developed an artificial intelligence system that helps buildings shift their energy use to times when the electric grid is cleaner.

  Meanwhile, AI systems are getting trained while using the equivalent of several countries’ use of electricity.

  What a bullshit article. The headline itself is so deceptive it makes my blood boil. Now everyone will think AI is a net positive for reducing power usage while it’s all the contrary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israeli minister says it may be ‘moral’ to starve 2 million Gazans, but ‘no one in the world would let us’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How on Earth is genocide moral?!?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans Are Sharing The "Normal, Everyday" Aspects About The US That Are Actually Dystopian, And I Can't Believe We Tolerate Some Of These⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Edit: I had no idea… I thought it was the norm”

  Thanks for confirming the article 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More interesting is the origins of that phrase to designate prostitution.

  Fortunately, I found an article in worldhistories.net, that shows the first documented time of this phrase. The person who coined the phrase was none other than Ruyard Kipling (“The Jungle Book”):

  Lalun is a member of the most ancient profession in the world. Lilith was her very-great-grandmamma, and that was before the days of Eve as every one knows. In the West, people say rude things about Lalun’s profession, and write lectures about it, and distribute the lectures to young persons in order that Morality may be preserved. In the East where the profession is hereditary, descending from mother to daughter, nobody writes lectures or takes any notice, and that is a distinct proof of the inability of the East to manage its own affairs.

  - On the City Wall, in In Black and White (Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler & Co., 1889), page 78

  If you want to know about actual prostitution, we should go far back to ancient Mesopotamian texts.

  According to “The Epic of Gilgamesh” (the most ancient epic in the world), the gods created a savage man, Enkidu, who lived in harmony with the animals in the woods. Gilgamesh wants to tame Enkidu, and is told to bring a “harimtu” (a “sacred prostitute”) to him.

  and he [Enkidu] possessed her ripeness. She was not bashful as she welcomed his ardor. She laid aside her cloth and he rested upon her. She treated him, the savage, to a woman’s task, as his love was drawn unto her.”

  Later, as he regrets joining civilization, Enkidu curses the harimtu:

  “I will curse you with a great curse… you shall not build a house for your debauch you shall not enter the tavern of girls…. May waste places be your couch, May the shadow of the town-wall be your stand May thorn and bramble skin your feet May drunkard and toper (ed note: someone who drinks alcohol to excess) alike slap your cheek.”

  Researcher Gerda Lerner, in her article “The Origin of Prostitution in Ancient Mesoportamia” (Signs, 1986, pp. 245-6), says:

  The nature of this curse tells us that the harimtu who mated with Enkidu lived an easier and better life than the harlot who has her stand at the town wall and is abused by her drunken customers.

  This would confirm the distinction we made earlier between the women engaged in various forms of sacral sexual service and commercial prostitutes. Such a distinction was more likely to have existed in the earlier period than later.”

  So yes, there were prostitutes in ancient Mesopotamia, the craddle of civilization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By any chance, were the clamps filled with styrofoam or something? 😁 (Tofu-dreg joke)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok sues the US government over ban⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, I’d like to ask: If a foreign company threatens democracy in a country, is it legal for the executive to ban business with that company?

  No? Then that doesn’t make sense. It’s a FOREIGN company, the government should have the right to do whatever it needs to protect its citizens in that regard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  says CEO

  Since when do CEOs do things because they’re actually useful and not because they want to cut costs at the expense of the workers and even the public?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These mods on their power-trips really need to stop⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even then, you’re still a bigot. Dude, grow up and touch some grass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These mods on their power-trips really need to stop⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These mods on their power-trips really need to stop⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay you’re being a bigot. You know why? Because people aren’t demanding to be called “your royal highness”. That are just asking to be called with their preferred probouns. Putting neo pronouns aside, it’s not a heavy burden to be called he / she / it / they.

  And this is the internet! The are no bodies, only usernames. Why do you care if a person claiming to be a girl demands to be called a she? Oh my fucking god,what a scandal! The oppression imposed upon you, a free citizen, demanding that you have to use a pronoun different than “he” on the internet! The world is doomed! 😱 /s

  What you’re really asking for is the “right” to harass trans people (by misgendering them) because you don’t like them and abhor the idea of women having something extra down there. (it’s not like they’re plotting to force sex you, just leave them be, okay?) Not only that, you’re so obsessed with hating them that you went out of your way to post your biased opinion ON A LINUX FORUM.

  You’re being a transphobic asshole, and the mods were perfectly right in banning you.

  Just accept that there are different people in the world. If you have a problem with that, maybe it’s you who needs professional help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that we’re reading and commenting about it on Lemmy is satisfying, despite the sadness of the situation. It’s like watching the city burn after you moved away and saying “wow, I guess I really took the right choice by leaving.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It's definitely backfiring': Seattle ordinance intended to help app delivery workers is 'hurting' them⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Let’s treat our workers like slaves or else the entire economy will suffer” is a far worse take IMHO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It's definitely backfiring': Seattle ordinance intended to help app delivery workers is 'hurting' them⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Establish a wage floor.

  2. Establish a price cap.

  If the corporation can’t make a profit from this, then perhaps their business model was not viable in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It's definitely backfiring': Seattle ordinance intended to help app delivery workers is 'hurting' them⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By decreasing billionaire executive bonuses, of course. You realize apps like Uver give shitty pay to the drivers and keep most of the profits for the execs, don’t you?

  Repeat after me: They are MIDDLEMEN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It's definitely backfiring': Seattle ordinance intended to help app delivery workers is 'hurting' them⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did the ordinance specify that the app companies would have to absorb the costs and NOT pass them to the users? No? Ah, well, that explains it then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a decentralized platform, Bluesky’s code is completely open source,

  As long as a company is in control, being decentralized doesn’t mean shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Test Yourself: Which Faces Were Made by A.I.?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck, I got 50%. If others had the same result, you can guess the implications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maker Naomi Wu is Silenced by Chinese Authorities (And Why I Blame Elon Musk)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I read a Twitter post of hers a few years ago where she was extremely apologetic towards China, saying that Americans listened to a lot of propaganda and so on. Now I’m starting to wonder if it was really her who made that twitter post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  New domain name proposal:

  queer.asf.uk 🤭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok Shop owes its early success to small businesses, but some say they're getting fed up with the platform's lack of support⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s few things that can inspire as much fear in the population as the phrase “gone rogue” applied to AI.

  Example. (HZD spoilers)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Betavolt's miniature battery could spell the end of smartphone chargers⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Planned obsolescence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For Google, hosting an app is just a matter of keeping an entry in a database and its data in storage. It’s not about the difficulty.

  Furthermore, that app COST MONEY to the user. Here Google is not only removing the app from the store, they’re also UNINSTALLING it from the user’s device, without warning them, and without compensating them financially for this.

  To make things even worse, their malware detection algorithm is prone to false positives. There’s not even a degree of certainty, like “there’s a 20% chance we could be making a mistake.” A binary without tolerance means they are removing things only on the SUSPICION they could be malware.

  I had a very useful open source app - that I installed WITHOUT Google play store - removed from my phone. It was never submitted to Google and neither the author nor I EVER agreed to their app store remove third party software from my phone.

  Google have become control freaks over our phones. The only solution I see is to install a third party OS, like Lineage or Graphene. I might even have to buy a new phone for this, but I don’t care. I don’t want Google to assume the role of Nanny and take away control of MY devices that I bought with my own fucking money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SAG-AFTRA Approves AI Voice Actors, Enrages the VA Community⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If UBI isn’t implemented first then we’re fucked. Companies will just use AI to cut costs and discard labor.

  No; without unions putting a stop to corporations that idealistic future will never arrive. And that’s pretty simple to prove. Why do corporations do the shitty stuff that they do? Because they can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  GenAI is a bubble; it will crash sooner of later when companies realize how much money they’ll have to spend on the infrastructure.

  The hard part is making sure you don’t lose your job while clueless execs are still enchanted by the bullshit.