Eldritch

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 2025, People Will Try Living in This Underwater Habitat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
It at least would be a definite Fresh Start.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Calorie event?! Why not just call it a doughnut.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waveform Podcast: Protocol Wars - The Fediverse Explained⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Have you tried wormhole?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why didn't other nations help China during its Great Famine?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.