MrTolkinghoen
@MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip
- Comment on How Marc Andreessen’s Signal group chats helped spawn the tech right 11 hours ago:
Yeah idk why people are caught up on this. Encryption is good and absolutely fundamentally important to society. And yes, shitty people can use it too, it doesn’t make it bad.
- Comment on Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa 1 week ago:
This is definitely partly the point. Amerikkka
- Comment on Trump considers pausing his auto tariffs as the world economy endures whiplash 2 weeks ago:
So, tesla
- Comment on V Rising's first big post 1.0 update brings a bevy of additions, combat reworks, and Steam Deck support later this month 2 weeks ago:
After reading the reviews, I can’t believe the devs don’t make saves forwards compatible or have a migration process.
Would pick this up but that part is just insane. Unable to migrate your castle to another version of the game with new features…
- Comment on Downtime - Apologies and what went wrong 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry. Newborn is a trump card, but even without it you literally are a volunteer.
Anyone complaining about you volunteering your time esp with a newborn, is not a parent…but ignoring that you’re doing this for free. Thanks for your time, effort, and just happy it’s back up :).
Social media that can go down for a day or two is way better than a shit hole of advertising and manipulation that is Facebook, reddit, and all the rest.
- Comment on How Small Town America Stopped A Chinese Communist Party Takeover 3 weeks ago:
Lol just look at the instance. its a hexbear tankie with CCP brainrot.
- Comment on China files complaint with WTO over new US tariffs 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s really mind blowing to think how much money they’re making off of this.
- Comment on Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases 4 weeks ago:
Google continues to do everything they can to close android down and force everyone to use their os. Imo this is a direct attack on graphene OS and anyone based on aosp. Now for every release developers will have to manually merge basically an unusable mess of changes.
- Comment on Activists vandalize Trump golf resort over his comments on emptying out Gaza 1 month ago:
This isn’t a liberal take.
But I def agree with your second paragraph.
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 1 month ago:
I really haven’t seen any details. Most comments I’ve read indicate they think you already have to have access to the device and that this is just undocumented opcode calls. I.e. not a remote Bluetooth stack issue or remotely exploitable.
Given an opcode, as noted in the article (vague on details) and yes, I did read it. This doesn’t give me much cause for alarm.
- Comment on China exploits Taiwanese commentators to fuel its propaganda, undermine the island country's stability 2 months ago:
Gloves are off and you won’t / can’t talk about what you believe about china in a meaningful way. All the rest is deflection and blame on me. I in fact was and have been open to entertaining more than one viewpoint, you have merely twisted what I’ve said to make it seem like I’m the one who won’t actually have a conversation here.
That’s why I asked questions which you refuse to answer.
The conversation here speaks for itself. If you want to blame me for refusing to engage, by all means, do so.
- Comment on China exploits Taiwanese commentators to fuel its propaganda, undermine the island country's stability 2 months ago:
Lol when actually asked about the stuff china is doing though you have repeatedly just hand waved it as I won’t go into that. You say stuff to establish yourself as an expert and yet have done nothing but just called me a brain rot liberal. You in fact have 0 concept of my background or upbringing and have just assumed because I have sat on my mobile phone and haven’t taken the time to go point by point explaining what I meant that I am some inferior person with no intellect of ability to think critically about my world view or escape the brainwashing I have been subjected to.
Please, enlighten me on all the truly had stuff china did, talk about it. Up to this point all you have actually done is speak positively about Tienammen square and hand waved “bad stuff” for china without saying it. Do it. Im worth all this other “time” you spent, but I’m not worth taking the time on actually saying anything bad about china? Still sounds like you aren’t who you say you are.
- Comment on Is Musk trying to prove haters wrong with X revaluation? 2 months ago:
Yep. It’s a bribe opportunity
- Comment on China exploits Taiwanese commentators to fuel its propaganda, undermine the island country's stability 2 months ago:
Ah China, the perfect nation. Lol
- Comment on China exploits Taiwanese commentators to fuel its propaganda, undermine the island country's stability 2 months ago:
In fact, not what I said at all. I said, I agree with your statement that the western media does similar things, but I called out that the ccp doesn’t allow dissent in the media. And you did not actually present evidence that they were worse, just that they did bad things. You basically just ignored what I actually wrote and attacked me for pointing out your whataboutism.
It is possible to consider one thing as bad while also thinking another is also bad.
You are likely a CCP bot and I’m conversing with a computer.
- Comment on China exploits Taiwanese commentators to fuel its propaganda, undermine the island country's stability 2 months ago:
More on with your whataboutism.
Again I wasn’t saying there isn’t a similar usage of propaganda in western media but also there at least has existed the right and existence of other media which dissents from the state propaganda.
- Comment on China exploits Taiwanese commentators to fuel its propaganda, undermine the island country's stability 2 months ago:
To varying degrees, yes. The key is the extent which that is true. china is an exceptionally bad actor here, and has been for a long time. So don’t throw around “everyone has always doing this” to dilute the extent or make it seem less pronounced and “everyone does this to this degree” you’re just engaging in basically whataboutism.
- Comment on China exploits Taiwanese commentators to fuel its propaganda, undermine the island country's stability 2 months ago:
Probably the exploit is referring to taking what is said out of context and using very key clips to drive a narrative.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 months ago:
I agree, but enshitification marches on.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 months ago:
It seems that there may come a point where screenless and disconnected cars become more and more valuable. That and jailbreaking cars is going to become a requirement.
- Comment on More Google Spyware to Enjoy! 2 months ago:
Graphene OS says no
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update February 2025 2 months ago:
<3 thanks
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update February 2025 2 months ago:
Is there an easy way to see what instances we are defederated from? (I fully support defedding any white supremacist instances, but also love transparency stuff about how the content I see is influenced)
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update February 2025 2 months ago:
Couple things on my mind regarding this post.
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Is there any way for us to have transparency on the bans / the rationale that resulted in the ban? I.e. a ban log with the evidence? Lemmy.zip, feels somewhat like a collective, I know it’s not truly, but I’d like it to lean on that direction, as is many instances of Lemmy. So transparency on when / why people are being banned feels important.
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Love the idea of thinking about the first time user exprience. We should def make those default rules very obvious with explanations on why they’re there, what each of them does, and a one click url or button to remove all pre-added filters. Short and to the point. These communities create controversial content and can be off-putting for new users. Here’s a lost of all pre-applied filters, the rationale for each, and if you’d like click here to remove all filters and start fresh.
Perhaps hosting on GitHub could be good too.
As a whole I’m concerned for Lemmy if/when we become the target of a misinformation / bot campagin, but not sure of there’s anything to do about it til it happens. But feels like it’s relevant for the defed Convo and the pre-applied filter rule. If, for example, some instances have much higher level of bad actors present.
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- Comment on USA | “Operation Wrath of Zion" Aims to Dox and Deport Pro-Palestinian Protestors in New York City 2 months ago:
Fucking religion.
- Comment on Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet 2 months ago:
The interesting thing about weed and ADHD, is that, since weed is a stimulant, if you find the right microdose (edible) it’s super super energizing and you can focus even better because it’s stimulating the under active executive part of your brain.
- Comment on 'Colossal Failure:' Israel Made Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Worse, Despite ICJ Ruling a Year Ago 2 months ago:
Failure? They accomplished exactly what they intended to.
- Comment on DeepSeek's AI breakthrough bypasses industry-standard CUDA, uses assembly-like PTX programming instead 2 months ago:
Hard to maintain. I.e. Nvidia will now try to break intentionally.
- Comment on Nvidia loses $500 bn in value as Chinese AI firm jolts tech shares 2 months ago:
But yeah. Anyone who thinks the app / stock model isn’t going to be heavily censored…
Why else would it be free? It’s absolutely state sponsored media. Or it’s a singularity and they’re just trying to get people to run it from within their networks, the former being far more plausible.
- Comment on USA | Trump tells Putin to end 'ridiculous war' in Ukraine or face new sanctions 2 months ago:
Right. So promptly stopping funding Ukraine while grand standing about peace is really just capitulation and giving Russia exactly what they want.
