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- Comment on Even if it sounds smart, it might be dumb. 1 hour 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. 1 hour 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days ago:
That is pretty much how the VMware situation shook out.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 5 days 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 5 days ago:
Where do I sign up for newgrounds 2.0?
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 5 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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. 1 week 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 5 weeks 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? 1 month 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.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 month ago:
Tragically we have a dried apricot ceding power to the highest bidder. There isn’t much for other countries to do directly unless they are bidding directly for “sock puppet time” or getting in a pissing match with a clown that makes a juggalo look smart.
This is more about controlling (collateral) damage: in this case megacorps “kissing the ring” via stupid shit like Google is doing presently. Countries can fuck with corporations far easier than we can (guess who paid for sock puppet time…)
Google is clearly attempting to make themselves more “saleable” to the ruling party by dropping things like month names or renaming universally accepted names of global features. Right now their -baseline- is where we are at currently. A lawsuit does next to nothing. It’s an operating cost. A country threatening to blacklist their service will hit them cleanly in the only thing that matters: their shareholders. Our biggest corporations have time and again rolled over for this tactic. They may have elevated themselves to a godlike status within the states but they are vulnerable outside our shores.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 month ago:
Don’t sue- just threaten to block some of googles services in your country and they’ll come around real quick. Hit em where it hurts. Google isn’t hurting for lawyers.
- Comment on Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub 2 months ago:
Your pornography consumption is your business and I won’t judge… but kindly leave the rest of us out of your virtue signaling.
- Comment on "Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online 4 months ago:
And while you’d be right to do so- make no mistake that there are posts on every social media platform with the same exact goal in mind. This one is no different.
We are entering into an era informational noise. The signal is still there but it is fucking faint in the storm of misinformation and ai/seo bullshit it is being transmitted into.
- Comment on "Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online 4 months ago:
You are 100% correct. The problem is most of the public has lost the ability to discern the difference between truth and fiction. Not their fault specifically: most of even the most technically literate would struggle to fact check what our
newsmedia and feeds dump on us. - Comment on "Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online 4 months ago:
The lizard brains always existed. Inbred, maladjusted, loud angry hateful fucks. We used to be able to suppress them. We ceded the helm of this nation to a bunch of corporations and their puppets in congress. We’ve been trying like hell to fight this multi front battle and are just taking Ls across the board.
We are burning books. Banning knowledge.
We are entering an environment where many do not have the luxury of having an opinion.
Speaking for all of those who were still trying: We’re sorry. We’re still here. We still care. But we’re fighting a losing battle.
Speaking for myself… I’m fucking tired man. I’m not the only one. People I’ve spoken to all are effectively the same: resigned to what comes next. There isn’t enough unity in this mess to right the ship. That unity will come with desperation… and we’re not there yet. 4-6 years. Maybe then. It’s got to get a lot worse before we unify over the collective mess we’re all stuck in.
- Comment on Youtube - Bryan Lunduke - Sanctions Hit Linux Kernel, Russian Programmers Banned 5 months ago:
You are clearly missing the point of the statement.
If I, a developer, stepped away from a project because I wanted to protect myself: the bridge could be mended from my side regardless of if I was willing to do so (…why hello secret police!) The termination of the bridge from the opposite side means I have lost my strategic value.
As I implied: putting personal feelings aside here- this was a net positive for those in Russia presently given the political climate.
- Comment on Youtube - Bryan Lunduke - Sanctions Hit Linux Kernel, Russian Programmers Banned 5 months ago:
If hes not on a paylist for state sponsored propaganda he should be. That was insufferable reporting on the level Id expect from fox news.
Putting aside personal feelings about this move- considering the current situation in Russia… this move may well actually protect some developers lives. There are people taking long walks off of short balconies because they didn’t kiss the ring. If I was a developer in that country I’d personally be pretty stoked I was off the short list.
- Comment on “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says 5 months ago:
Probably Xen. Maybe proxmox. Both had tools to assist with migration.