Eldritch

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It’s great for regurgitating pre written text. For generating new or usable code it’s largely useless. It doesn’t have an actual understanding of what it says. It can recombine information and elements its seen before. But not generate anything truly unique.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISPs tell Supreme Court they don’t want to disconnect users accused of piracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Who in their right Minds would want to be a nerd but not a venture brothers fan?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is going to shut down their Mastodon instance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Well running a server and no longer interacting with a service can be two different things. From an organizational standpoint I could absolutely understand them not wanting or needing the expense of another service to maintain. Even for just their own use. As long as they still have accounts and post to the fediverse. I don’t see a big issue
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Absolutely. It just depends a lot on the game of course. A blueray disk can contain over 100 GB. But a game could be split over several disks too. It was rather common to do that with CDs on the original PlayStation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Calorie event?! Why not just call it a doughnut.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waveform Podcast: Protocol Wars - The Fediverse Explained⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Perhaps. But then moderation costs etc enter into it. But to host himself and friends/employees absolutely. Unlike X they’d have complete control.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Test of a prototype quantum Internet runs underneath New York City for half a month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This is one of the few instances where it’s appropriate to post Sabbine, and she isn’t spreading misinformation. I used to enjoy watching her videos. On topics of physics she’s good. But holy hell some of the shit takes she’s had deviating from the areas she’s educated in.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix let-down⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s simply acting as a connector. And directing traffic around Nat Etc or lay people or those who don’t want to bother with setting up and securing server software or such things
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix let-down⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The site isn’t hosting the file. Sure you can host your own FTP etc. But there is a lot of security risks and vulnerabilities that arise because of that. You can even host your own Magic wormhole. It’s under MIT license. Just have to open the ports Etc. It should however theoretically have a lot less attack surface than HTTP FTP and similar protocols. Nothing is invulnerable of course.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix let-down⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Check it out. A lot of the systems like Discord Etc limit file sizes so vigorously. Because they operate like men in the middle. Can you send them the file first. Then whoever you’re sending it to can download it from them. It’s adding extra steps to the whole thing. With something like Wormhole you can even link a file from your phone. As long as you are on Wi-Fi and not going to be chewing through data minutes LOL. All the app does is connect the end points. Once they’re connected then you send the file directly to whomever you want. And the only limits on file sizes are realistically at the endpoints.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix let-down⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Have you tried wormhole?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why didn't other nations help China during its Great Famine?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
He also ordered many from the fields to factories and mines. Reducing the number of people farming in a misguided effort to industrialize imitating Stalin. Ordered sparrows to be killed because they stole grain. Leading to a boom in the locust population causing a plague. Heard somewhere that soil volume was important to food production. And being the supreme leader and less then a novice in the subject matter. Ordered those that remain farming against their objections under penalty of death. To till glass and other junk into their fields to increase the volume of the soil. Making the soil useless and infertile for a long time.

This is why all centralized authoritarian style governments are deadly. Whether it’s Hitler Stalin Lenin or Mao. Theoretically if we had a wise and benevolent leader. It would be the most effective and beneficial form of government you can have. The problem is with wise and benevolent leaders. It’s often more perception than reality. And simply an outcome of the environment they find themselves in. And even then they still tended to be the exception and not the rule.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Move over, text: Video is the new medium of our lives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yep. I like both. But if I want the gist of something fast or am not in an environment or situation I can sit and watch without disturbing or being disturbed by others. I want text. No fiddling with a progress bar to get back to where I was. Quick easy done. At home I’ll watch videos all day. But it will never be as efficient.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Most distros work fine with Nvidia these days. The ones that don’t are more the exception.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Sure the FAA needs to do this. We also need to fund the FAA and other regulatory agencies at the level they could. Whole towns in Texas have had large portions of them vaporized. Due to no proper OSHA and hazardous chemical safety handling inspection and accountability. And yes you read that right. Plural, it’s happened multiple times.

Often tens to hundreds of inspectors at most. Employed by these agencies are responsible for inspecting tens of thousands of sites each across several States because they are so under staffed and funded. And you want to guess who’s responsible?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My dad fought the Nazi's they lost. The world knows it. What is the deal with their recent resurgence?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Not unless you live in a country with a low standard and cost of living. And not likely even then. Because even at a Payday they generally work ed for larger businesses and weren’t a freelance Craigslist sort of thing. That and here in the United States there’s too much free competition to really be effective for them to pay anyone over here as well.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My dad fought the Nazi's they lost. The world knows it. What is the deal with their recent resurgence?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Definitely. In a lot of developing countries with basic internet access these people can actually make good livings doing that. As long as they’re skill in the foreign language is adequate enough. Though today a lot of that is being taken over by basic low-end generative machine learning models. Something else false information faster than it takes to debunk it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My dad fought the Nazi's they lost. The world knows it. What is the deal with their recent resurgence?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I though it was ass to mouth.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My dad fought the Nazi's they lost. The world knows it. What is the deal with their recent resurgence?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Its been a long slow boil. And Nazis were only part of the problem. In the early 1930s many businessmen and Republicans in the US plotted a Hitler style coup against FDR. They did worse than Hitler, but escaped most consequences. And over the last century quietly plotted and built. Here and abroad. Fostering the “right kind” of fascism. Theirs.

It probably would have gone on a little longer. Because I don’t think they were quite ready to actually try to coup again. But they’ve been socially engineering a new class of supremely manipulable Voters who lack any critical thinking skills. However a childish malignant narcissist managed to get the attention of that tool. And stole it from the Republican fascist. Basically largely spoiling the plot. And causing them to have to move before they were ready.

Also the ability for instance Global and often still largely Anonymous communication made propaganda easier and cheaper than ever before. The old style leaflet drops over territories were never very effective. And even radio broadcasts or easy to thwart. Now enemy Nations only need to pay a few people for online shitposting in hot beds lacking critical thinking. And they can turn their enemies people into their own tools.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Authoritarians are authoritarian first. Everything else is a very distant second. I really hate when people call Marxist leninists/tankies fascist. They do a lot of the same things but there are distinct differences which makes one different from the other.

I think with the heavy resurgence of fascist politics around the globe right now. A lot of people sort of just learned the term Fascism and just randomly apply it to things it shouldn’t be. The truth is Marxist leninists are to tankies what Liberals are to fascism. And the funny thing is both groups will usually download that heavily LOL. Despite it being a basic fact of their general authoritarian Behavior.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Lemmy.ml federates with hexbear and grad. As a world user I don’t see hexbear and grad because world blocks them thankfully. Unless you are on server X what server X blocks in no way impacts what you see. So they need to petition their local admin.

That said. I think the only reason world still federates with lemmy.ml. is that so many open source projects communities are still there. They need to get moved off to proper instances like KDE or Mozilla have done. Or we need to start a dedicated instance for it.