Eldritch
@Eldritch@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Brazilian town that welcomed a Chinese car plant — only for a ‘slavery’ scandal to hit 1 day ago:
It’s China. They’re speed running the United States. They have a history of this. What was Brazil honestly expecting? This is the country whose Industries put Nets up on the outside of buildings. Not to catch construction workers that fell accidentally. But to stop exploited workers or from trying to escape their exploitation by throwing themselves to their death.
- Comment on Humanity May Achieve the Singularity Within the Next 12 Months, Scientists Suggest 3 days ago:
A Boltzmann brain is possible. Just not bloody likely.
- Comment on When You Block the Internet on Your Phone, Something Astonishing Happens Mentally 1 week ago:
Those are services etc on the internet. Not the internet itself.
- Comment on When You Block the Internet on Your Phone, Something Astonishing Happens Mentally 1 week ago:
The internet is what you make it. I’ve never spent much time on overtly corporate media social or otherwise. Combined with largely avoiding the most politically toxic places both maga or ML.
Most of my time online is spent visiting places focused on retro Computing, Retro Gaming, music or some other hobbies. The internet hasn’t changed drastically in 30 years. Just the way average people use it.
The corporate sites will never respect your time or privacy. They’re just endless treadmills to keep you busy and engaged. We’ve always been able to hop off.
- Comment on The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC 2 weeks ago:
Not really. No more than in the past. The difference is the 24/7 firehose of propaganda and indoctrination. The solution is to step away from the firehouse. Focus on the things that actually impact you. Or that you can influence. If someone is telling you to be afraid of people that you don’t know, have never met, or ever had contact with. Ignore them and tune them out. It’s legitimately that simple.
- Comment on The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC 2 weeks ago:
I never implied that it did. Go ahead and make one. It will always do as much or more damage than it will ever do good. That’s the point. There’s bias in everything. Trusting someone else’s bias to accurately convey the bias of something else, isn’t making you more informed or a better consumer of media. Not in any meaningful way. Not in the way basic critical thinking skills can. It’s just a game of bias telephone. And if you know how the game telephone goes. It should give you an indication to its efficacy.
It’s not hard. There are some basic steps anyone can take to get started. Do not tolerate those who are intolerant of who someone is. Whether it’s ethnicity or sexuality. If accusations are being made against groups. Especially ones that you have very little experience or contact with. Put yourself in that situation. Think about how you would go about things. Because that’s more than likely how they would as well. And for everything else, especially things that are either hard science or factually based. Simply differ to the people who make it their life to study and understand those things. But never give their opinions outside of that field any weight.
Just those few basic things can illuminate a lot of bias and malintent. Leave you far more guarded and protected against misinformation and bias in the future. Which along with basic intellectual curiosity. Something most people have largely never valued. Will serve you far better than any app. Because the Insidious part about misinformation. Is that there’s often some amount of Truth to it. Whether it’s wrong because of malice or because of bias. Critical thinking and intellectual curiosity will always better serve you.
- Comment on The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC 2 weeks ago:
No. And there never should be. And here’s why. Bear with me for a moment but consider this. Part of the problem with this sort of thing is that people want their hands held. They want to be told what to think. Not to think critically for themselves. No matter how well intentioned. Such systems will always be sought to be abused. To manipulate people and their opinions. And at best they will always be subject to bias and blindness. The truly keep them from ever being universally useful.
Basic training and education in critical thinking skills will be far more to help people. Than relying on an app no matter how well intentioned to tell them how to think about something.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 weeks ago:
Yes there are. Specifically I would be a libertarian-congress or an anarco-communist.
However. Regardless of propaganda. One cannot be authoritarian. Or for a strong centralization of authority and State power. And actually be communist. They are conflicting goals. The workers cannot in any meaningful sense control the means of production. When they are oppressed by a dictatorial Vanguard. That imprisons/beats/slaughters any dissenters. The Vanguard owns the means of production in that scenario. They will still tell you that they are you. Even as they strangle and stomp on you. However it’s just a sick joke.
Conversely, actual libertarianism. Left libertarianism. Especially the kind advocated for by the originator of libertarianism Dejacque, as well as anarchism. Are in near complete and total harmony with communism. The only rub being how absolute the call from Mutual Aid is and how voluntary it is. Both ideologies being heavily predicated on consent and freedom.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 weeks ago:
Well then please go edit wikipedia. As well as most political science and philosophy books. Because that’s literally how it’s defined. Actually they commonly go further classless stateless moneyless. But I digress. I’m not the one pushing GOP or FSB propaganda here.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 weeks ago:
They call it Communism. I could name my dog Communism and it would be Communism too. It still wouldn’t be communism.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 weeks ago:
It’s not rhetorical. ML, Leninism is called that because it literally isn’t communism. Otherwise they’d just call it communism. It’s a cunning master plan to build an economy capable of somehow transitioning to communism. How? Good question. Even the ideologies creators didn’t really explain it properly. It literally fits the 3 step meme.
Step 1: slaughter everyone that disagrees with you.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: communism!
My criticism of Leninism isn’t defense of anyone. As an anarchist I’m anti-authoritarian whether they’re liberal/leninist/maoist. You’re all a danger to yourselves and everyone else. Regardless of how much everyone despising each other or constant whataboutism. Under capitalism oligarchs buy our representation. Turn them against us. Putting the boot at our necks. Under leninism. The Vanguard party consolidates power. Killing or imprisoning anyone who is a threat no matter how small. And rewarding friends and family with wealth and power. All the while the boot at the throat of the proletariat they’re supposed to be serving. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. They all need to be torn down.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 weeks ago:
Communism is stateless and classless. How are STATES with authoritarian unanswerable leaders/classes in any way communist?
- Comment on Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe 3 weeks ago:
It was the very final episode. Sort of a special. That wrapped up the series. Sometimes referred to as season 5. The name of the episode is the internet is coming.
- Comment on In 2025, People Will Try Living in This Underwater Habitat 1 month ago:
Perhaps. But I think I may have figured out their logic… no bears under water. So they won’t have to worry about bear attack while drowning from lack of maintenance
- Comment on How does patientgamers feel about free games on Epic? 1 month ago:
Also works for prime games. And if you are on Linux especially GOG as well.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 1 month ago:
Remember when unions thought they were so Irreplaceable and important. That they would withhold Support for a second term from a Democrat, they didn’t think did enough for them. One of the biggest miscalculations and blunders of the post World War II era. Because first they came for the unions and labor power.
- Comment on GTA3 on the Sega Dreamcast is incredible 1 month ago:
It’s a byproduct of the week to non-existent DRM and copy protection. It takes zero modding to run Homebrew Etc on them. So The Homebrew Community got started early and built up fairly large and diverse. With such lower barriers to entry.
I picked up one for around $50 I think when they were blowing them out at Best Buy to get rid of their inventory. Still use it from time to time. It was a great little system.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I tried it back when it was high fidelity. It was a bit of a wonky service at the time. Poked at it a bit late 2022 early 2023 after it forked to vircadia. I had mixed experiences getting it up and visible. Eventually gave up for a while. It has some promise.
The one thing that kind of stuck negatively with me though, is that many Dev etc seemed to be heavy crypto bros? But YMMV. Will have to check and see if there were any updates in the last year.
- Comment on Odin - a self-hosted FOSS streaming service. 1 month ago:
Interesting. Will have to take a look at it later. I currently use Jellyfin and don’t have many issues. The only thing that might be a pain point is tuner support. I didn’t see anything mentioned. But looks nice otherwise. And intrigued to see its largely in Go.
- Comment on Reclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech 2 months ago:
It at least would be a definite Fresh Start.
- Comment on Reclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech 2 months ago:
I’m watching ladybird with interest. But it’s going to be sometime before it’s ready. Current versions break quite easily. But it’s good to see something else being developed at least
- Comment on What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? 3 months ago:
An account of your actions is not an opinion. Please take the gaslighting somewhere else.
- Comment on What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? 3 months ago:
You’re doing it again. Me pointing out a simple fact. That you brought up two different things which the author never even addressed. In order to turn yourself into some victim. That is a simple fact. If you feel that it is an attack on you to have that pointed out. Perhaps you need to look inwards.
- Comment on What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? 3 months ago:
They’re not calling you that for having different views. They’re calling you that for making up reasons to offend yourself and acting like a toxic drama queen. And the ratio shows they aren’t alone.
- Comment on What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? 3 months ago:
Yep. They only tolerate you as long as you’re useful. As long as you don’t push back against their mass incarceration, assassination, and even genocide. Authoritarians are authoritarian first. Left or right is a distant afterthought.
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 3 months ago:
It’s like they’re a company pretending to be another company, disguised as another company. Tropic Thunder all the way down.
- Comment on Bluesky's success is a rejection of big tech's operating system 3 months ago:
Lol they certainly aren’t planning all this. None of them are that particularly bright. All this conspiratorial tone gives them far more credit than any of them have ever been due.
Blue Sky will not become a heavily monetized enshitified platform because of some Machiavellian conspiracy. It will become that. Because it is what un regulated capitalist structures must become. Hell even the regulated ones have a hard time not being that way.
- Comment on "Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online 3 months ago:
Who did you think we were? This is who we’ve always been. They’re just getting comfortable taking the mask off again. Trust me, my grandmother and other family were put through the racist indian boarding schools. Common throughout the US and Canada. You know, the ones they keep finding mass graves on. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Just more subtle, less in your face.
Most people thought are too distracted with bread and circuses to care however.
- Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this. 4 months ago:
A few things. Communism isn’t Marxist leninism. Communism isn’t authoritarian. And it’s not just Stalin and Mao. It’s literally everywhere Marxist leninism has ever been attempted. Communism is a classless stateless society. Therefore a Marxist leninist government will never become communist. Because they are defined by their class separation of those with political power and those without, and the strong overbearing presence of the state.
There’s nothing objectionable to Communism whatsoever. And no one should have any qualms about defending it ever. What we should question is why one group of authoritarians the Marxist leninist desire to be so closely tied to it. And another group of authoritarians the capitalists demand everyone be afraid of it.
- Comment on Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code? 5 months ago:
The first sentence addressed what they talked about. It’s great as an assistant to cut through documentation to get at what you need. In fact, here’s a recent video from Perry Fractic doing just that with microtext for the C64.
Anything else like having it generate the code itself, it’s more of a liability than an asset. Since it doesn’t really understand what its doing.
Perhaps I should have separated the two thoughts initially? Either way I’ve said my piece.