Enkers
@Enkers@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Rolls a Nat 20 2 days ago:
Being cringe A.F., as the kids say, is a power that grows with age. (:
- Comment on Rolls a Nat 20 3 days ago:
I cast counterspell. I’m now thinking of puppies.
- Comment on Automation 6 days ago:
That shit works IRL too. Why do you think therapy practices often have themselves positioned in front of a wall of books? Not that it’s a bad thing; it’s good for outcomes to believe your therapist is competent and well educated.
- Comment on This is fine. 1 week ago:
Sometimes you gotta bring up the classics, maybe someone still hasn’t seen it and will be one of today’s lucky 10,000. (:
- Comment on This is fine. 1 week ago:
That sounds like a horrible idea. If you operate a forklift without proper training, some really bad things can happen.
- Comment on Style + Ease 1 week ago:
Danger tail plug.
- Comment on 🤌🤌🤌 1 week ago:
Studying maths is a good way to pasta time.
- Comment on Slightly less than two drinks = positive effect on programming ability. Who's joining? 1 month ago:
Welcome to the Knights Tipplar.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 1 month ago:
Seeds and amendments. You gotta add more nutrients to the soil or else your yields will start to suffer. Although, there’s a lot of permaculture ways to add nutrients for free.
- Comment on 👩🦰💔 1 month ago:
Freud is seriously the biggest hack in any field I can think of that went on to get such undeserved renowned.
- Comment on 'No choice' but to impeach Biden over delayed Israel aid, GOP senator says 1 month ago:
Do you also support Presidents using the state’s political power to further their own private personal objectives?
- Comment on 'No choice' but to impeach Biden over delayed Israel aid, GOP senator says 1 month ago:
The two things are only the same on the most cursory surface level view. Much how under the legal system motive and intent matter when determining what sort of crime is committed, so it is here.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 month ago:
As a vegan, you’re absolutely right. A lot of people think the hard part is giving up meat or dairy or eggs, but it’s not. The hard part is dealing with the social implications. Explaining to your friends you aren’t willing to eat with them when they’re doing something you find thoroughly wrong.
You have to be willing, at least somewhat, to pay the cost of maintaining your convictions, and nobody ever tells you that when you start.
Social change is hard, and it takes time. But so many have already blazed a much harder path than I’ve had to endure, and every time someone else gets on board it makes it easier.
- Comment on The Man Who Destroyed Google Search 1 month ago:
Because the aggregated weighted result ranking provides a better page rank than any individual search engine, and if any search engine tries to (accidentally or otherwise) stuff specific results into the top ranks, it doesn’t matter. It’ll be deranked because no other engine displays those results highly. In a similar manner, it deranks targeted SEO attempts unless multiple platforms are targeted.
- Comment on The Man Who Destroyed Google Search 1 month ago:
Yes you’re absolutely right. The problem of aggregators is that if all the aggregated searches go to shit, then so does it. Garbage in, garbage out.
- Comment on The Man Who Destroyed Google Search 1 month ago:
I started finding DDG’s results just as bad as Google’s, so I switched to SearXNG and have been pretty happy with it so far.
Its open source so anyone can run an instance if they wish. I feel like this sort of model is much more resistant to enshitification.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 month ago:
I think the inverse problem is more troubling. If you accept that nothing has inherent value, then isn’t everything morally permissible? Maybe it is an emotional decision, or perhaps a leap of faith, but I find that idea so repugnant, I couldn’t believe it and continue functioning as a person.
I think in terms of consciousnes, Occam’s razor leads me to suspect that it’s tied to brain function, and when that ceases, so does it. Of course, once again, things like this are very hard to prove. I do think, though, that science and philosophy will eventually unravel it. (Incidentally, there’s actually a book by Dan Dennett I’ve been meaning to read about this topic which was suggesting we’re quite a bit closer to figuring it out than most people think.)
One of the problems with philosophy is that there’s never any smallest part, beyond perhaps Descartes’s “cogito, ergo sum”. You can reduce any argument more and more and they all start to not make sense and eventually crumble. You can pick at their semantic foundation or the thousands of years of preceding thought until they unravel, then that nice sweater is now just a bunch of fibres. If you refuse to view philosophical arguments as a whole, then there’s nothing there to view.
It’s like an actual sweater. Does it even exist in the first place? After all, it’s just a bunch of stuff arranged in a particular way, and it’s called a sweater because it has some sort of human utility and we decided to give it a name. You could go about your life and believe that sweaters don’t exist, and it’d be quite hard to prove you wrong.
Or you can accept that it’s a useful human construct, so they do. Maybe you could even go further, and believe there’s some idealised concept of sweaterness that exists in some meta-reality, which all sweaters share a property of.
I think this is essentially the realist viewpoint.
And you could be right, maybe all our current moral theories do run into contradictions, so perhaps they’re all wrong.
Heck, we’re running into similar problems in astrophysics. When we learn more about our universe, and things stop adding up. But that just means we go back to the drawing board and find a better model until they make sense.
Same for philosophy. When you reach a contradiction, you go back and come up with better ideas. It’s a process of slowly uncovering the truth.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 1 month ago:
I think it’s rather self evident. Most sentient beings kinda like being alive. It’s basically an application of the golden rule. You can get in to game theory or utilitarianism to show that killing is wrong, but it then still has to come back to life having value which is quite hard, if not impossible, to prove. So then you need to refer back to philosophy to find arguments that life has intrinsic value. I persknally prefer Camus’ approach, but there are lots of other potential arguments for intrinsic value.
Ultimately, it’s impossible even to prove that other beings have experiences, but at some point we mostly all look at the evidence and accept that they do.
- Comment on Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats 1 month ago:
*sigh* After reading some of the other comments, I have to agree. I’m not sure whether to be relieved or even more discouraged.
- Comment on Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats 1 month ago:
However, in U.S. federal courts, updates to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in 2015 have resulted in significant decline in spoliation sanctions.
Oof. Five bucks says this change was driven by concerted megacorp lobbying efforts.
- Comment on Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats 1 month ago:
The crazy part is the implication that the evidence destroyed was probably more damning than having a judge and jury asaume anything reasonably suggested to have been implicated by those chats as true.
- Comment on Google Feed alternative 1 month ago:
GReader was so good, now it’s just another ghost in Google’s graveyard. :( My guess is that they killed it because it was kinda in the same sphere as Google News.
- Comment on The startup offering free toilets and coffee for delivery workers — in exchange for their data 2 months ago:
Gotta love the commodification of literally everything. Thanks, capitalism.
- Comment on 60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data Shows 2 months ago:
That tracks. I mainly play Factorio, modded Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Terraria, and games like that. There’s almost infinite replayability.
- Comment on Why are people begging for likes for their youtube comments ? I don't think they get anything do they ? 4 months ago:
This is why I’m not stingy with upvotes. They may just be imaginary internet points, but if I can make somebody’s day a little bit better by clicking a a button, why not?
I usually upvote everything in the comment chain above me and anyone who replies, unless it’s a particularly bad take.
If we want Lemmy to be an enjoyable place to have discussions, it’s good to spread some love, ya know?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Using SPA firewall knocking (fwknop) to open ports to ssh in. I suppose if I was really paranoid, the most secure would be an air gap, but there’s only so much convenience I’ll give up for security.
- Comment on Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead 4 months ago:
While this sucks, it’s yet another death knell for Google. Their main product is so ad-ridden it’s nearly unusable now anyways. If you haven’t jumped ship, there’s no better time than now. I’m personally using searx now, as it’s an open source project, and has quite a few instances to choose from.
- Comment on Russian roulette brownies 5 months ago:
True, but “none” is not, so it would make one statement false.
- Comment on Riot Games Now Requires Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Software for League of Legends, Following Valorant's Implementation 5 months ago:
No game is worth installing a root-kit for.
- Comment on What is the next "grown up game" now that Minecraft only goes for children? 5 months ago:
Yeah, this, not too many kids playing GT:NH.