Eldritch
@Eldritch@lemmy.world
- Comment on Giant Bomb is now 100% independent - Giant Bomb 4 days ago:
For sure no one else is liable to beat them at that game. Long term it isn’t really sustainable for a large group of individuals. But the thing is the game has always changed and will continue to change.
The moment there’s a hiccup in the SEO and ad revenue. There’s a good chance the Psychopaths with the money. Who don’t understand or care what’s going on will come at them like they have everyone else. Either way it’s good to see a lot of these groups getting back to their roots and taking the reins for themselves again. It’s enough to warm and anarchist’s heart
- Comment on Giant Bomb is now 100% independent - Giant Bomb 4 days ago:
It might be a little more tense than you think. There are a lot of real journalism criticism Etc trying to go Indy as well. Mostly in one Niche or another.
When it comes to a lot of scamming cryptocurrency and online things. One could argue people like coffeezilla are the better source to watch than a lot of other sites.
It’s only a matter of time until more people try it. Depending upon their success it could easily spell the end of sites like that. All someone has to do is prove another model viable. Imagine one of the staff from IGN splits taking along some of their contacts with them. And using that to get interviews and leveraging more contacts Etc .
It seems there may be a trend. And as you said there’s a lot of people who would gladly rather frequently site not as dense and slathered in s*** advertisements.
- Comment on Giant Bomb is now 100% independent - Giant Bomb 4 days ago:
And I’d question how long it’s working for them at least long term. You’re only an asset until they’re looking for a scapegoat.
- Comment on Giant Bomb is now 100% independent - Giant Bomb 4 days ago:
This and second wind? It may be too early to call Trend but one can hope.
- Comment on Bill Gates to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years 4 days ago:
He’s already been claiming he would for the last 15. It was too little to late back then. He either needs to get busy with it or shut up about it.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 week ago:
Well; not any more. That’s for sure.
- Comment on Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral 1 week ago:
Absolutely. Honestly fines should generally be abolished. Because it’s fine is nothing but the cost of doing business for the wealthy. However if they had to go to prison or actually start sacrificing some of their own time then shit gets real.
- Comment on Is there any community for Linux for noobs ? 1 week ago:
Yep that’s pretty much the long and short of it. People will say, if you just stick to the technical topics then you’re fine and they’ll ignore you. Which is true to an extent. But you should not have to. And most people want popularize places like that to begin with if they knew.
This part is a small tangential nitpick. What Russia China North Korea Etc have is not communism. They may call it Communism. But what is important to note is that one is uppercase and one is lowercase. One is an adjective that describes a stateless classless society. The other is a noun often used to refer to a tightly controlling state with a strict regiment class structure between the political and non political classes. Honestly I think the term communism is beyond Rehabilitation. Though I would still like to try and see it differentiated from the noun.
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 2 weeks ago:
Heroic is freaking awesome. I never had much luck with lutris though it’s been a long time since I ever tried it. With heroic. I use it to manage all the free games I get through the Epic store and Amazon over 700 now. And it works on both windows and Linux flawlessly for the most part. With the check of a setting it will even add games to steam for you so if you just leave it running in the background you can start and play games through Steam just like they were installed there.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ 4 weeks ago:
What do you mean? Musk worked hard to get where he is. How easy do you think it is to steal emeralds from your father and pawn them to get seed money to start your own wealth? /s
- Comment on BPS is a GPS alternative that nobody's heard of 4 weeks ago:
GPS is very time oriented as well. That’s part of how the calculations are done. Using the difference in times, triangulation Etc to figure out where you are. Which is exactly how this system will work as well.
Yes it’s not global. But then it was never claimed to be. Yes it will likely only be a North American deal. But it will provide a usable alternative here to GPS. Other regions could adapt it to their broadcast standards as well. As you pointed out it’s just timing information. So any broadcast system could make use of a system similar to this. Functioning similarly to gps.
- Comment on RISC OS Open: News: "Moonshots" Initiative to Secure the Future of the OS 1 month ago:
As an American I’ve never really used it. I’ve played with it. But I find it extremely quirky and fascinating and I’m glad to see that it’s still existing and being developed. I’d love to see a more modernized version available especially for things like the upcoming risk 5 architecture. It would be very fitting all things considered
- Comment on DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next 1 month ago:
That’s a good question and something that is not going to be easy to find out. You’d have to figure out who inside Google works on it their hourly pay and how many hours Etc they actually spend on it.
- Comment on DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next 1 month ago:
They unfortunately I don’t think will ever have the kind of money required to do something like that. While Google doesn’t make tons of money from Android itself. It has immense value. Consider Also that large portions of Android already are open sourced. The main problem being Google play services. They keep moving OS functionality from general purpose open libraries into their proprietary ones to maintain control.
All they really need to do is work on undoing that and giving other groups and equal voice on its future and development. Then there isn’t much the fascist government can do. Not that they won’t try and throw a fit. But they’ll do that regardless. But yes pull out as much from the Google Play services as possible and open it up app store wise. Putting other app stores front and center with their own and giving them equal billing. Like F Droid Etc. Which I already use for all of my apps that aren’t needlessly made proprietary. Google would do this if they were smart. It’s a bit of scorched Earth. But that’s the best kind when it comes to fascists. The administration will work hard to get it sold off to an ally and last thing we need is Russia with control over Android LOL
- Comment on DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next 1 month ago:
There is one possible bright spot. Google could and should, completely open source all parts of Android. Bringing in all the nature handset manufacturers into a Consortium along with Google to guide and maintain the development. No longer having sole control over it. It’s Google did that they would still retain some control, and be able to stick it to the current administration, while the average user would now have a fully open source Android that would benefit them. But you’re right I don’t really see that happening.
- Comment on Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin? 1 month ago:
Yep. Enshitification behavior doesn’t cease once you’re technically a paying customer. If they hadn’t made a habit of enshitification. Clawing features away to put behind a paywall I’d give them some support. But I prefer foss anyhow. And for myself, I’m not missing anything.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 1 month ago:
For generations many relied on the nightly news to keep them informed. It was always a bad idea. Though the local media wasn’t as bad as it is today. Today for many of these people, propaganda outlets like Sinclair own their local media. And demand fawning of trump/demonizing Democrats. Even if they avoid all media. Their beliefs are formed from those around them that don’t.
- Comment on 'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises 2 months ago:
They can be made any size. Most SATA SSD are just a plastic housing around a board with some chips on it. The right question is when will we have a storage technology with the durability and reliability of spinning magnetized hard drive platters. The man flash chips used in most SSD and m.2 are much more reliable than they were initially. But for long-term retention Etc. Are still off quite good bit from traditional hard drives. Hard drives can sit for about 10 years generally before bit rot becomes a major concern. Nand flash is only a year or two.
- Comment on Startup formed by former Intel engineers and backed by AMD legendary chip designer wants to become the Arm of RISC-V 2 months ago:
It’s an extremely shitty metaphor. But the ISA is the only open part. There already are and will be designs that will be licensed.
The beauty is, let them build highly performant risc-v cores to license. Everyone will win. As long as they don’t shove poison pill proprietary bits in it. If they do then no one should license or design around them. Because it will just create bugs and incompatibility. But if they want to be the go to designer based on the quality of their designs and not proprietary lock in. Let’s go.
- Comment on Orion's Next Chapter: Linux Development Officially Launched 2 months ago:
WebKit was originally a fork of KDE’s KHTML and K JavaScript. So technically it’s a return to Linux at least.
- Comment on The Brazilian town that welcomed a Chinese car plant — only for a ‘slavery’ scandal to hit 2 months 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 2 months ago:
A Boltzmann brain is possible. Just not bloody likely.
- Comment on When You Block the Internet on Your Phone, Something Astonishing Happens Mentally 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago:
They call it Communism. I could name my dog Communism and it would be Communism too. It still wouldn’t be communism.