Korkki
@Korkki@lemmy.world
- Comment on Structural problems with tech platforms prevent fact-checkers from focusing on harm and virality 6 days ago:
Who fact-checks the fact-chekers, There is the real problem?
- Comment on US bans Kaspersky antivirus software due to 'national security risk' 1 week ago:
This.
Most of the tech stack is american controlled and that is a security and privacy risk to everybody. From instruction set architecture to control over the social media. To American enemies, American allies… american’s themselves nobody is safe… probably the those that are best at mitigating said risk or take any steps at all are the American enemies.
- Comment on NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense 1 week ago:
I haven’t had much hope that if there was an major asteroid racing towards earth that there could be much done about it, but I also know that likelyhood of it is very small so there is no need to lose sleep over it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
While wikipedia is decent at giving overviews on some scientific and technical topics, but when there is a topic about something that is historical and/or any way politically or monetarily relevant there will be an edit war to change it to suit one interest groups wishes or anothers. It really is a cesspool of psyops, misinformation and articles to be basically corporate PR at certain topics, and that is just because google usually gives wikipedia articles as first or second result on any given subject and it’s a really cost effective way to propagandize people and doing it is really low cost. Now Russia just monopolizes the propaganda inside their own borders.
- Comment on US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V 2 months ago:
Cold war boomers trying to legislate tech they know nothing about
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 months ago:
It’s the only big non-US owned social media. They hate that because it’s much harder to control. It’s not even about the profits to be had, tiktok gets more eyeballs and especially it gets the young people’s attention and has more public thrusts than all of the MSM combined. It’s not much more complex than that. “Chinese spying on Americans” is just projection of what all the other platforms do.
Those who push this will not be happy no matter what Tiktok does or whatever concessions it makes. They already hold american data in American and EU data in the EU for example. Did that stop the “muh CCP influence” propaganda? Well, no… Their main goal would be to get Bytedance to sell the platform to Americans, atleast the american business. I guess they would rather let it get banned and sacrifice American or even all the western markets than to let that happen. It would be a loss to them either way.
- Comment on ASD jab: Chinese scientists reach milestone in revolutionary gene therapy for autism 6 months ago:
wtf is this comment 😅
- Comment on It's not just about facts: Democrats and Republicans have sharply different attitudes about removing misinformation from social media 7 months ago:
And who decides what is being taught if this is to be solved with education? That still just falls into the same dogma enforcement that presupposes objective truth especially in political matters. it just turns from censorship to indoctrination of some kind. There can be no real discussion about political matters if it’s presupposed that there is such thing as objective truth in some hard science sense in political discourse, because then every side in an argument from a position of objective truth and there is no way to compromise or approach the other side when everybody are either heretics or believers to your side.
- Comment on US Govt Speeds Up Export Restrictions for Nvidia's GPUs 8 months ago:
Remember that Huawei already broke through the mobile SoC barrier that was thought to be impossible with their new chip recently? Oh I wonder what is going to happen next… Well the Chinese have been much further in their domestic GPU/AI accelerator development. They just end up creating Chinese domestic competition and at worst global competition for US tech sector. I say Washington is desperate and treading water with it’s sanction war and will end up slowing china for a bit on the short term, but en up shooting themselves in the leg on the long to medium term with this one.
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2 reportedly runs with 7-12fps on an Intel Core i9 13900KS with AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX at 4K/High Settings 8 months ago:
Is it as bad on Nvidia?
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 devs warn players of performance problems: 'we have not achieved the benchmark we targeted' 8 months ago:
problem is not on a development level, but rather on a project management and (particularly) an executive level.
In any industry as time progresses the production becomes more and more capital intensive and that needs more and bigger investors and all that capital means that there is a bigger risk and that is mitigated by the investors by requiring “their guys” to staff the management and these people are unusually really bad for the technical and actual value side of the business on the long run, because they are usually people with financial or marketing backgrounds. They fundamentally work by the logic of profit maximization and there are always easier and more surefire ways toi achieve that than with supplying a good product. It’s even worse when the end product is something that could be considered “art”. In AAA it all eventually leads into pushing bland installments of the same once successful franchise out one after another because that is where the risks are lowest and money is made.
- Comment on Intel’s new 14th Gen CPUs arrive on October 17th with up to 6GHz out of the box 8 months ago:
6ghz
Knowing intel and their recent performance gains it just needs a small nuclear reactor as a PSU.
- Comment on X claims it is erasing 'illegal' Hamas content after EU ultimatum 8 months ago:
And who deems what is misinformation/disinformation?
- Comment on X claims it is erasing 'illegal' Hamas content after EU ultimatum 8 months ago:
Anything that is pro palestine or anti-israel.
- Comment on New EU climate chief: 'The sooner fossil fuels become history, the better' 8 months ago:
Empty words…
Any bureaucrat or politicians who was driven to do what needed to be done would have to risk their career and life at this point. The amount of fundamental systematic changes needed to be done would make too enemies. Also you can’t just say fuck it and collapse society, by going cold turkey in a few years. It needs plans and long term thinking something that is impossible when for politicians is like six years max time in office and of which the latter half needs to be in practice lived elections in mind.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I hope they were lost in “fell in to the atmosphere and burned up” and not in “they started colliding with other space junk and accelerated the whole orbit toward a kessler syndrome” kinda way…
- Comment on Russia, China, Iran state media see boost on X after removal of ‘state-affiliated’ labels 8 months ago:
So State labelled media was basically just keep wrong narratives under wraps, keep people away from them and shaft them down the algorithm where nobody would see it unless they went especially looking for it. It never had anything to do with “state media” since no western state media got the label, never had anything to do with lies, disinformation or propaganda either, since what is wider media these days anyway. It had everything to do with not following the Euro-Atlantic narrative and god forbid letting the designated “enemy countries” voice their side of the story. Why there is so much Twitter/X hate rn. in the media is because the western global ministry of truth fears losing grasp of the narrative if too much freedom is introduced.
I want to hear no bullshit here about how this was actually ever good and necessary and why we need narrative control for “democracy” and for protection of the fragile minds of the plebs who don’t know any better than to believe Russian and Chinese lies.
- Comment on Will you be willing to pay for using Twitter? 9 months ago:
He just does the “all publicity is good publicity” trick. He isn’t so stupid to actually do it.
- Comment on Europeans want decisive action against disinformation on the internet 9 months ago:
Europeans want ministry of truth
Doubt… the same people who are pearl clutching about people losing faith in MSM are the ones who want this. They fear losing control of the narrative.
- Comment on Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community | Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry. 9 months ago:
Plus on top of all the other subscription fees.
it’s not even really about the money, even if it will fuck the devs and ruin projects and lives, but the breach of trust and a mark that more shit is probably on it’s way if this goes through. Unity owns a ecosystem that many people depend on and now they really start squeezing. It’s not right.
This is why things that act as commons should be either nationalised or replaced with free software.
- Comment on Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes 9 months ago:
If you are comparing a third party library changing its monetization model
If you starting point is “it’s just money lol”, then beside your general screwed sense of justice this is another major problem in you thinking. Many people have made it blatantly clear that this is not just some price increase that devs can just wave away. It can cause cost of millions to devs at worse and that’s bad if you have a tight and fixed budget and you are years in development. It’s also a breach trust that will make nobody want to use unity ever again and that’s bad when people have sometimes invested their lives in it. That’s bad for Unity too yes, but it’s bigger that just one company. I have already told you this and why I sympathise with the devs.
- Comment on Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes 9 months ago:
And you can’t see that violence is not just when somebody bleeds.
just wondering, what is your opinion of Palestine struggle against Israeli encroachment and occupation of their lands? 😜
- Comment on Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes 9 months ago:
Ooh, think of the Unity’s corporate suits. You monster. they are people too. Think of their sleepless nights over this. They might have to go to therapy…
You really just base you sense of justice on legality. You really would just watch as landlords increase rents for 200% just for greed and watch people go homeless and then feel smugly superior when you condemn and report said homeless for throwing shit in the windows of the landlords. A Tennant might even have the chance to move elsewhere. Unity devs might not have such a easy path out.
You really are a awful person without a heart. Call me a psycopath all you like.
- Comment on Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes 9 months ago:
I’m not saying I would be justified yo make death threats about this, since as you say this doesn’t really concern me personally and I have not made any. I’m just saying that people who get hurt by this have the full moral right to do this if they go down that path.
Also I’m really not buying this “Even greedy leechlike corporate suits still have the right to feel safe when doing decisions that will fuck over countless of of live and make society all the worse for it” line of argument that you are pushing between the lines. Violence is not just when somebody bleeds, you know and this is just response one one kind of violence with other type of violence. And this is not just a provider charging for a product. Many people get hurt by this and years of their lives might go to waste. And for what? Corporate greed, it’s not like unity is fucking struggling themselves and they need the cashflow. What they needed was bigger margins.
- Comment on Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes 9 months ago:
If you want to to change something then yes. A empty performance that the target can ignorance is worse than doing nothing, because then you falsely think “you at least did something”.
Illegality of methods does not make the cause unjust, since many unjust things in this world are completely legal and will get you imprisoned or killed if you oppose them. The most extreme example of illegality vs injustice was that in 1940s Europe it was highly illegal to protect jews from being hunted down and killed.
- Comment on Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes 9 months ago:
Yeah, this is basically why I’m not buying these arguments against a struggle of any kind, just because methods of it are illegal.
Illegality =/= your cause or methods are wrong
- Comment on Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes 9 months ago:
Holy shit! I knew people got pissed, but this…🤣
Despite it’s illegality. it’s a type of protest. Better that being pissed off in twitter and the still cucking to unity in the end, but worse that just stopping using unity and porting existing games off the engine. Still, not everybody can still just do that, this is why something like this is understandable. Imagine being a indie dev team years in development with mounting costs and backers expecting a product and you expecting return for your work and then unity turns ups the leeching and fucking up your calculations and forcing you either to delay the launch, pay the financial cost of that delay, port to a different engine and learn a new skillset for that engine or bite the bullet and pay. Also Imagine the unity devs who will be out of a job because of this.
- Comment on US military plans to unleash thousands of autonomous war robots over next two years 9 months ago:
The real risk here isn’t AI take over but total desensitization and alienation to horrors of war. US is already extremely warlike nation and yet already extremely desensitized. American and wider western sense of war is that it happens to other people in foreign countries and only real touch towards war is when somebody they knew went to do war in one of those places and maybe got injured and died. For the rest of the world and those horrors are very real and with higher automation fo war it become even easier to politicians to do when even less bodies are coming home and act of killing is pressing a button and modern shell shock is kinda feeling bad for those people who you killed on that screen.
- Comment on Apple Says It Will Exit The UK Market If Government Passes Update To Investigatory Powers Act 11 months ago:
it would be so funny if in a couple of years you can buy and Iphone in Russia, but not in the UK.
- Comment on 'FUCK SPEZ': Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest 11 months ago:
Best protest would be if people didn’t obsess over clicking pixels in r/place, giving the site traffic. I can’t stand these people.