MolochAlter
@MolochAlter@lemmy.world
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 2 hours ago:
No? Https is just the connection protocol? You can do it over LAN only just fine?
- Comment on What would you want to see this site do differently from Reddit? 8 hours ago:
You’re appealing to definitions as if they matter in real world contexts.
If I created a group called “the bad people killers” and started killing people would that “by definition” mean everyone I killed was bad?
Communism may be defined as a wheelbarrow full of monkeys for all that matters, in the real world every self-sufficient communist regime was a shitshow of state capitalism, coercion, censorship, and state violence. All the drawbacks of capitalism and none of the perks.
That’s what communism, descriptively, is. The day you figure out a way to manifest reality by sheer will alone without having to deal with the real world I will be interested in what something is “by definition”
- Comment on What would you want to see this site do differently from Reddit? 1 day ago:
Authoritarian State Capitalism
Yeah exactly, communism.
- Comment on Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers 5 days ago:
For the same reason the USSR did the same shit to subvert countries all over the world?
Power blocks are the basic concept underpinning modern multipolar foreign policy decisions, it’s not rocket science.
The difference is liberal capitalism won eventually, and the USSR didn’t.
Communism didn’t and never will exist in a vacuum, you know?
- Comment on Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers 6 days ago:
Sure, bud, that’s why communism worked every time.
- Comment on Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers 6 days ago:
Because they’re correct, you’re just being too literal in your understanding of the statement.
Will people occasionally work for free? Sure. For friends, family, friends of friends, hell even strangers sometimes, volunteering is a thing, sure.
Will they work for free reliably and consistently enough that they can be built upon by other people?
Obviously not, they sometimes don’t even do it for money.
Society as it is today, with its insane population count and highly specialised workflows, requires an insane amount of logistics that absolutely can’t bear “random cunt #354 decided not to work this month so the boat is without a captain” levels of random disruption without heavy consequences; this is incidentally also why strikes are extremely effective.
No society that evolved beyond subsistence did so without some obligation to work, whether through monetary incentives or straight up serfdom/slavery; and if subsistence is all you want, I’m sure you can go live in like, some tribal commune on a Pacific island somewhere.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 1 week ago:
It’s not that, it’s the trade halt that points to something major (and bad for them) happening.
- Comment on Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone? 1 week ago:
Yes but you should write that by hand on clean paper
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The only stabbing services that make sense to me are the niche ones that focus on original content.
Wrestling streaming services like njpw world, trillerTV, or wrestle universe, specialised libraries like Shudder.
Generalised shit for mainstream content is not worth the money.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 3 weeks ago:
Depends, lots of churches welcome lay members of the community to the ancillary activities they organise. Catholic churches in my experience are much more embedded in their communities in southern europe regardless of the status of the people participating. My father has been lapsed for 40+ years, never shows up for church and doesn’t participate in any of the religious aspects but he still runs arts and crafts workshops in the parish buildings, for the local kids whether they’re part of the congregation or not.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 3 weeks ago:
It’s the fact that church comes with an actual presupposition that it isn’t optional, while de facto being optional.
Going to church (in contexts where denomination shopping isn’t a thing at least) means going to a place where a person is not there to validate your particular perspective but instead often to tell you and everyone else in the group to do better, publicly, not because they’re better but because they appeal to higher principles whose correctness is taken for granted buly the congregation.
See also: the absolute brain lottery winners on the internet bitching that the pope isn’t a real catholic for telling them they’re bad catholics (arguably bad christians in general, definitely bad people) for dehumanising poor people and immigrants legal and illegal.
I’m far from a catholic (that is, I’m actually a lapsed catholic if you ask the church, but I was never a believer, just born into it) but there just isn’t a space where you’re going to participate, respect the ethics and morals, still fall short of them, be chastised, and be forgiven, that doesn’t involve some religious aspect.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 month ago:
Growth and *endless" growth are not the same.
Obviously growing a business is positive in some circumstances, the point is that growth for growth’s sake becomes the name of the game once you go public, whereas when privately held the company can decide whether it makes sense to grow in that moment or focus on other goals in the short term to benefit a long term strategy.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 1 month ago:
Then they collectively forgot about that last part.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 month ago:
It’s not “companies”, it’spublicly traded companies.
And the answer is quite simple really: the moment you become publicly traded your stock becomes your product, and everything else becomes a means to deliver better stock prices to your investors.
Not all companies are publicly traded, I patronise privately held companies wherever possible because as a client I’m still at the core of their business strategy, and I’m wary of the alternative.
At the end of the day, bad strategies result in bad products and services. Vote with your wallet, it’s very possible.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 2 months ago:
Not really, believing there should be affordable housing for everyone doesn’t mean all housing should be affordable to anyone.
I believe there should be different levels of density of housing and pricing in different areas, and that the state should subsidise some percent of rent based on income, possibly up to 100% up to a certain cost, if you haven’t had evictions on record; but I also own different properties I rent at market rate because it’s commensurate to the cost of living in the area, and a lower rent would not make living there any more affordable, and would open me up to possible tenant disputes if someone who can’t afford to live there were to move in.
If the cost of living went down in the area I would also adjust accordingly, as I don’t believe in fleecing people and it’s also generally beneficial to be in line with market value to maximise client volume.
Affordability isn’t a “rent is too high” issue only. It’s a “there is no place I can afford to live in that makes sense for the places I need to reach” issue too.
Cost of living is a huge factor, I have friends who work in the service industry who almost had to move completely out of the city due to the 22-23 price hike, despite local laws preventing rent from following inflation.
It’s only hypocritical if you believe no housing should be market controlled, which is a non-serious opinion, to be frank.
- Comment on After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued" 2 months ago:
Noted, I didn’t even know she existed. What are some good articles she wrote for IGN that you’d recommend?
I don’t expect IGN to keep anyone on the writing team but it’s good to know good authors.
- Comment on After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued" 2 months ago:
My bet is: you can’t reliably fire unionised workers, so you make them want to quit instead.
The IGN newsroom is a joke, name one reputable journalist you are SURE works there without checking first, and I’ll be genuinely surprised, the only value is in the brandname, their coverage can probably be replaced by some LLM horseshit with nobody really noticing.
The higher ups know it, the journos know it (hence why they unionised) and thus they’re at an impasse.
Once they inevitably lose this standoff they’ll be replaced by third-worlder english speakers with chatgpt, mark my words.
- Comment on What are the most useful things you've printed? 2 months ago:
A bunch of Skadis custom hooks and holders. Most involved ones were a paper towel roll holder and a magnetic file rack for some Stanley metal files.
- Comment on How Zelda and Studio Ghibli inspire happiness and purpose 2 months ago:
I’m sure the fact that Ghibli movies and BotW are best-in-class examples of their respective mediums has absolutely nothing to do with anything.
Looking forward to the metric shittons of open world ghibli knock-off garbage being currently greenlit by frothing execs hoping they have at last found the blueprints to the dopamine machine.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 3 months ago:
Dragon age 2, Mass effect 3
ME3 is particularly bad cause most of the game is exactly as it should have been, and then the ending is pure unadulterated trash.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 3 months ago:
MC and Visa are not technically payment processors, that would be stuff like stripe or ayden.
The problem is that cc companies have rules that put the onus of ensuring nothing illegal is purchased with their issued cards on the ones actually meditating the transaction, so it becomes a chilling effect because the intermediaries don’t want to risk burning a bridge with the largest cc networks in the world, and overcorrect as a result.
- Comment on How would you take 'stfu' from a stranger online, provided what you said wasn't meant to be funny? 3 months ago:
Well yeah, “shut the up” is not a correct phrase… ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
- Comment on Just created my own zero trust network! 3 months ago:
Jesus that is not a small bug lol
- Comment on Just created my own zero trust network! 3 months ago:
Wtf why?
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 4 months ago:
Nintendo products have their union sale sticker on so I think they met and our guys won.
- Comment on YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds 4 months ago:
The exact specifics change country by country, in Italy there are a lot of horseshit rules around it because one of the most powerful unions lobbies (our equivalent of the RIAA) for more exclusive control over media at every chance they get, to the point that you’re not allowed to distribute even your own media through physical sales without paying a cut.
- Comment on What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"? 4 months ago:
Getting in shape won’t make you think you’re less ugly, you’ll just find different things to obsess over until you find something you can’t change.
Dysmorphia is a mental illness issue.
You can be ugly, or out of shape, or any of those things, but the idea that you are so uniquely, supremely ugly that you can’t make up for it in other ways is literally just internet idiots being idiots and not touching enough grass.
I’ve seen men with very obvious deformities happily married with kids, I’ve seen perfectly toned bodybuilders being (correctly) snubbed for being insecure dickheads, I’ve seen perfectly average dudes dating models, looks matter but not the way you think they do.
Get out of your head, get treatment if you truly have these feelings of immeasurable ugliness because they are a legit sign of treatable mental illness, and for the love of christ go out and make some normie friends, you clearly need them.
Normies are happy not because they “don’t get it” but because they are typically pretty well adjusted and average, while your online friends are just like you: a bunch of toaster fuckers who met in the toaster fucker forums reinforcing eachother’s obsession with dicking down toasters.
- Comment on What is wrong with being "Black Pilled"? 4 months ago:
To be fair, are there many conversations where that comes up at all unless someone in the conversation is an ace/aro person?
- Comment on Nintendo Wii The Size Of A Game Boy Cartridge Finally Released Open Source 4 months ago:
Not necessarily, they are pretty sure the Devs will fold like a stack of lawn chairs well before any legal precedent can even come into play, especially cause Japanese companies can sue in Japan and basically win by default against foreign defendants.
- Comment on Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss - Closest modern equivalent? 4 months ago:
Legend of Grimrock seems pretty close, i haven’t played it in years though so I might be misremembering.