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- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 1 week 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? 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 4 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 4 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.
- Comment on I tried to selfhost Nextcloud at work 5 months ago:
It worked on my box!
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 5 months ago:
So that sounds exceptionally awful. You have any more info on that?
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 5 months ago:
… why are they always so goddamn hot.
- Comment on I tried to selfhost Nextcloud at work 5 months ago:
To be fair a certain security company was in global news for exactly that same send it behavior. Why waste precious resources on multiple instances? Investors hate waste. 😅
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 5 months ago:
One piece digitally drawn in an hour or two maybe. Otherwise it is likely premade, generated, or not their source. Yeah- if you are talking backgrounds for a phone they could be more abstract or start with a base but for 45 bucks? That buys you an hour or two of that artists time- three if they like the idea or you.
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 5 months ago:
If you know an artist doing commissions that cheap they are depressed, desperate, or want to fuck you.
- Comment on Marques Brownlee says ‘I hear you’ after fans criticize his new wallpaper app 5 months ago:
Nah it’d be cheaper to commission the artist for a dozen or so pictures for 45 bucks:
First you need to blow some ungodly amount of money on breaking the time/space barrier… Then travel back to the 1920s and find a starving artist. Then pitch him 45 bucks for some art. Easy! 45 bucks to them is like 800 of our today dollars.
Sarcasm aside- it seems people really are disconnected on how much a commission or art costs. Sure you can buy prints reasonably priced but any commission that isn’t a speedy doodle is going to clock in a helluva lot higher.
- Comment on What are good harddrives to use with serves 5 months ago:
This. They provide outstanding insights and the articles they provide alongside the data are quite good.
- Comment on Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will 6 months ago:
The BEST timeline.
- Comment on Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will 6 months ago:
Anyone remember repo men? Getting a bit tired of fiction becoming reality…
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 6 months ago:
That gave me abandoned vibes when I looked into it. Maybe they just didn’t update anything on their site but I struggled to find any recent info or reviews on it. A shame honestly. I loved the idea.
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 6 months ago:
*Start menu in windows 11
… both Microsoft products … weird.
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 6 months ago:
Be cautious with the commercial display route. A lot of them come with “management system” software the company is trying to push which can paywall control features or break things on you if they get online for firmware updates.
In general though they do make good displays: they are typically a lot more expensive (and heavy!)
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 6 months ago:
It seems we have similar backend setups 🏴☠️
I’ll need to dig into an android solution a bit - smarttube seems pretty nice but has no Linux version unfortunately.
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 6 months ago:
This is the case with Rokus as well. If you also redirect or block the hard coded DNS (Google) from bypassing your local DNS it starts to get extremely sluggish over time… presumably from background processes repeatedly resending requests out.
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 6 months ago:
Depends on your blocklist. It would freak out every so often on me when I was preventing it from bypassing my DNS with its hard coded ones until I added in a forced redirect instead.
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 6 months ago:
Currently trying that for the same reasons you are tempted. Roku was passable and even a good choice years ago and it’s on a precipitous race to the bottom now.
Problem for me currently is finding a non windows solution that is navigable from a controller or remote is … tough. Steam, emulation station, Kodi all have reasonable interfaces but there seems to be a gap in a unified launcher solution (as well as a decent ‘app’ for accessing YouTube.) I really don’t want to spin up a single VM for each activity when they all in theory should play nice together.
- Comment on Annual US inflation falls to 3-year low, clearing the way for the Fed to begin cutting rates 6 months ago:
Don’t worry they removed that cost metric from the CPI. That and any other metric that might actually be inflationary 😅. Don’t you feel better though? 2.9% !
- Comment on Annual US inflation falls to 3-year low, clearing the way for the Fed to begin cutting rates 6 months ago:
The AP clearly has no idea how to read charts or infer data. The rate cuts aren’t coming. CPI is still over or target rate of 2% YoY… and we are down a massive (checks notes) .1% from 3% after they mutilated the calculations to get the 3%
It’s not moving. Sticky inflation. Stagnant. Stag-flation if you prefer.