Eldritch

@Eldritch@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hexbear.net comically loses its domain name⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.