MrTolkinghoen
@MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Activists vandalize Trump golf resort over his comments on emptying out Gaza 9 hours 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 day 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
Yep. It’s a bribe opportunity
- Comment on China exploits Taiwanese commentators to fuel its propaganda, undermine the island country's stability 2 weeks ago:
Ah China, the perfect nation. Lol
- Comment on China exploits Taiwanese commentators to fuel its propaganda, undermine the island country's stability 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
I agree, but enshitification marches on.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 3 weeks 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! 4 weeks ago:
Graphene OS says no
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update February 2025 5 weeks ago:
<3 thanks
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update February 2025 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Fucking religion.
- Comment on Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Right. So promptly stopping funding Ukraine while grand standing about peace is really just capitulation and giving Russia exactly what they want.
- Comment on Nvidia loses $500 bn in value as Chinese AI firm jolts tech shares 5 weeks ago:
Lol well. When I saw this I knew the model would be censored to hell, and then the ccp abliteration training data repo made a lot more sense. That being said, the open source effort to reproduce it is far more appealing.
- Comment on Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You Thought. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah and with everything thats happening. It will be the usual slowly boiling the frog approach all the inflation / price gouging / shrinkflation has taken this far.
Currently they’re already doing it, it’s just a little bit slower and less dynamic: Goal, increase price by 25%
Step 1. Reduce package contents by 33% and provide a coupon for a reduced price by 25%
Step 2. Slowly oscilate the coupon from not available to being a less reduction in price.
Step 3: profit – Increasing the total profit to vary between 8% and 33% more depending on the day.
This example was taken from the new 8 can la croixs, but plenty of other examples. It’s just items that have a fixed size / quantity are harder to shrinkflate. Other stuff just reduce the weight a little at a time.
- Comment on Automation in Retail Is Even Worse Than You Thought. 5 weeks ago:
Rotisserie chicken for only $16.99*
*Surge pricing may apply. (At 6pm we add $4 to the price of our rotisserie chicken because…we can.)
Yeah, the writing is on the wall when it comes to digital pricing of grocery store products. The only way to fight this will be to refuse to shop at places that do it. Or get legislation to regulate it, but good luck getting that to happen, or even enforcing it. Especially with the current administration being bought and paid for by corporations… Sadly it’s doubtful we’ll get enough people boycotting it, especially since at first they’ll just keep the prices the same, when we need to be boycotting the store the moment it happens.
Then when they start switching to changing the pricing dynamically the digital price tags will already be installed across all their stores and there won’t be any way to protest against it besides going to a completely different retailer that doesn’t do it. If that’s even an option, which for the poorest or least capable people, it likely won’t be.
Surge pricing, coming to your dozen eggs at a corporate grocery store near you.
- Comment on USA | Trump tells Putin to end 'ridiculous war' in Ukraine or face new sanctions 5 weeks ago:
I feel like this is all grand standing. “Look I’m being tough on them” meanwhile working to broker a peace deal that gives Russia everything they want.
- Comment on Nvidia loses $500 bn in value as Chinese AI firm jolts tech shares 5 weeks ago:
Idk why you’re getting downvoted. This right here.
- Comment on Sweden is Building the World’s Largest City Made Entirely From Timber 1 month ago:
Quality.
- Comment on US president Trump pardons approximately 1,500 Capitol attack defendants 1 month ago:
Yeah, he has shown that as long as you’re a republican, and do what he wants, the law doesn’t matter. At best, prepare to have the US government robbed blind by him and his buddies for 4 years.
- Comment on Prison contractors are the big winners from anti-immigrant legislation 1 month ago:
So fucked. Accused, not even convicted.
Innocent until proven guilty.
