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- Comment on Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits 2 weeks ago:
Hah. I should have refreshed. I just wrote a small novel theorizing you might have been making that exact point. Cheeky ;) I found it amusing - even if the point of it got buried (but made for another great example…)
- Comment on Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits 2 weeks ago:
Food for thought: as polarizing as this statement is - it’s not all that different from the cheap (generalizing) shot at OP for not having a broad enough statement.
I’m uncertain if that’s what @roofuskit@lemmy.world was going for … but regardless: either by the statement itself or by the apparent downvote pummeling he got - demonstrates perfectly that nobody likes the feeling of getting singled out simply because of their grouping.
It’s almost always a dick move. Unless the group in question is a hate group or nazis… because fuck them. Topically - this behavior was (and is) championed by aforementioned groups.
Put simply: we can do better. Better than reddit at least, right?
- Comment on Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits 2 weeks ago:
It’s pedantic. At best because someone wants to virtue signal by tilting at windmills. At worst It’s a bad faith argument being made to isolate someone. In both cases it’s shite behavior:
An example would be assailing someone for not liking cookies when they simply said they enjoy cake. This tactic was originally used by trolls and hate groups to splinter larger social groups support structure and/or put people on the backfoot… Now it’s so commonplace people will do it just because they can… and someone else will if they don’t. Might as well get the glory of taking someone down a peg.
It’s pathetic. Op made an affirmative statement about something they believed in and was promptly shit on by some cunt who brought nothing meaningful to the table themselves. What’s worse is they initially were getting nothing but positive reinforcement so they could go and do it again. Are we still enjoying all the polarizing “LOL [insert group] BAD!” It really brings the community together.
You don’t need to engage every person doing that shit… but for fucks sake stop upvoting it and reinforcing the behavior.
- Comment on Poisoning AI scrapers 2 weeks ago:
Keep calm and … what a magnificent shirt. I was always a fan of the taller of the Mario bros. The man not only is an entertainer - but clearly has inspired taste.
- Comment on Ubisoft’s Colorblind Simulation Tool, Chroma, Now Available For Public Use 2 weeks ago:
EA games with command and conquer and now this. The world surely is coming to an end.
- Comment on Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits 2 weeks ago:
Odd. In my experience I have seen many people refer to their home country in that way. Do you refer to your country differently? Perhaps instead of country if OP said here that would have left the pedants less triggered. I digress. Just because you view something as commonplace - does not automatically make it the rule… much less actually reality.
- Comment on Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits 2 weeks ago:
Agreed. Especially in times like these - having a free and open source of information is incredibly important.
- Comment on Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits 2 weeks ago:
While, surely, OP was speaking English - given the world state why did you immediately jump to the conclusion that the country being referred to was the US? Yes - the statement wasn’t broad enough to perhaps include you but it wasn’t narrow or hateful in its intent. People (broad statement, including you) need to maybe find some chill and perhaps look for common ground rather than constantly being pedantic cunts. There were a variety of ways to approach that statement without being a twat… so kudos for just going for it - most people would have more tact.
- Comment on Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE 2 weeks ago:
To be completely fair the American government currently does this with inflation, among other things. Actually inflationary item? Whoops we removed it from the calculation. All good here, boss. Sweeping something you don’t want to account for “under the rug” is practically normalized in this government. It isn’t right- obviously… but this isn’t really shocking either.
The elephant? Where? In this room?! We don’t talk about that.
- Comment on US stocks tumble again as reality sets back in on Wall Street 2 weeks ago:
If the hat fits…
- Comment on US stocks tumble again as reality sets back in on Wall Street 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bots increase online user engagement but stifle meaningful discussion, study shows 2 weeks ago:
I think the phrase they are seeking is signal to noise. The bots make noise but bury the signal making it harder to actually find and communicate with others who are actually engaging. Weird how that works.
- Comment on Even if it sounds smart, it might be dumb. 2 weeks ago:
There is actually a difference between luck and something that may just work, despite seeming stupid. Using your example: I have to play Russian roulette today to randomly reduce workers - we removed the firing pin. I have to play Russian roulette tomorrow…
- Comment on Even if it sounds smart, it might be dumb. 2 weeks ago:
… But what if it didn’t submit 5 bullet points on what it did this week?
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 3 weeks ago:
100%
Germany is providing an open source solution to gsuite (which I haven’t looked at yet) but am told it’s pretty good. More open and more choice is great.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 3 weeks ago:
were moderately smart
This is mostly the problem in a lot of cases. A lot of companies don’t pay you to be smart… they pay you to be “efficient” which normally means cheap.
Good and skilled people may be in a lot of these companies… but their hands may be tied in terms of choices.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 3 weeks ago:
Notice or not any infrastructure change is brutal - even if you go like for like.
I’m not saying I’m against the idea: I loathe all the centralization and robber barons running around in this era. But switches like these rarely go as planned. If haste is required even less so.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 3 weeks ago:
But you love teams right?! (get the gas can - I’ll get the matches)
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 3 weeks ago:
That is pretty much how the VMware situation shook out.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 3 weeks ago:
It’s not about the providers, it’s about the move. Companies will need to migrate their infrastructure to another platform which (let’s be honest) likely will not have the bandwidth / rack space / hardware to support the influx of users. Companies will self host? Okay sure: time to spin up internal clusters, train employees, provision additional bandwidth / connections. And naturally - this will all go off without a hitch. Like flipping a switch.
And we need to remember that many of these services rely on each other so one goes down: they take each other out.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 3 weeks ago:
Where do I sign up for newgrounds 2.0?
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 3 weeks ago:
Would probably end the Internet faster than China can cut intercontinental cables. I’m here for it but the fallout would be positively insane.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 3 weeks ago:
That’s kind of my point - just based on the reception it’s clear that a number of people were perceiving that as one. Normally that’s the “pump the brakes” or the “hol up 🖐️🖐️” moment where you clarify.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 3 weeks ago:
I’ll be honest - you weren’t really presenting your case in that way. Understand my confusion: you seemed pretty adamant about your concern with no backing data on it. Most people pick their hills with something to back them.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 3 weeks ago:
Every 10,000 miles. Or after you hit 40. Before putting it on?
Shit. I know this one… uh…
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 3 weeks ago:
You aren’t terribly familiar with how much traffic we generate nowadays… are you? If we were still on 2G and isdn / dsl sure. You’d likely see a slight latency jump. On anything from this last decade+ ? Not a chance.
- Comment on World Backup Day 4 weeks ago:
Anyone know how to turn the US off and on again to verify we can roll back? I wanna say we might have some corrupted sectors…
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 4 weeks ago:
I have this questionable material for use in my honey traps.
- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 1 month ago:
Initially I did as well - but we are fast approaching a point where simply ignoring this further will be unacceptable.
I feel that sometime soon we may be called to do more than be a voice of reason. Americans are being tested right now. Will you quietly look away because you fear discomfort as your freedoms are stripped away? As your neighbors are assailed?
I’m not fond of the sting of teargas and pepper spray… but it’s probably about time to develop a taste for it again. Find a group, know your community, and stop hiding.
Oh, and if you see a Nazi? Punch it.
All threats. Foreign and domestic.
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 2 months ago:
Scared? The journalists shouldn’t be. They’ll never have to write about it.
Every major news organization is owned by a small handful of people playing for the same team. Internet exposure? Maybe for a few minutes before your site is delisted/deranked and/or taken down by a barrage of nonsense DCMA takedown notices that are effective immediately (with no evidence) but to reverse them you need to painstakingly disprove each: to both your provider and the claimant.
Time to accept that we’re juuuust at the tipping point of freedom of speech and expression. Slip a bit more and we’re sliding right into an identical situation as seen in China, North Korea, and Russia. Remind me… who does the head apricot idolize? Neat.
