obinice
@obinice@lemmy.world
Hi there!
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 1 day ago:
Does your capacitive phone screen wear smooth over time?
(The point being hopefully they’ll be made of something that doesn’t wear down from human fingies)
- Comment on You live in Clown World when guys are using bathroom hand dryers 2 days ago:
…Guys in your country don’t use bathroom hand dryers?
Do they just… walk out of the room with wet hands? O_o
The worst part is the queue because there’s always like, one hand dryer, and you feel bad for making people wait while you dry your hands properly.
- Comment on NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ 2 days ago:
Yes, but the thing is, people just don’t fly it here for no reason.
Unlike the USA, where it was so ridiculous that I played a game with myself called “Turn around and there’ll always be a flag somewhere in front of me” (it really is that insane, their level of nationalism/exceptionalism disguised as patriotism is wild),
…here the flag may be flown for patriotic events (e.g. World Cup), or flown by official institutions, but 99.99% of regular people would never consider flying it for any other reason, and it’s very rarely seen overall. This is normal.
National flags are generally meant to indicate nationality outside of one’s own borders to others around you (e.g. an embassy in a foreign land, or ships at sea). They’re not at all useful on home soil, so why bother flying one?
So, yes, it’s our flag (though not the version people fly that says ENGLAND in big letters in the middle - that’s just stupid). But the people that fly it are almost always bigots and weirdos that you want to stay away from, especially these days.
- Comment on Let a 10 year old boy make a shirt 2 days ago:
What did Mick do to deserve this 😭
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 2 days ago:
Okay, so long as a passkey is something I can memorise. Otherwise, it’s significantly worse than a regular password (assuming you use good passwords and don’t reuse passwords etc).
It seems like they want to tie it to a physical computer (like the one in your pocket), which sucks big time. What happens if I don’t have access to that computer at all times, or it breaks, or is lost?
I’m planning on getting rid of my smartphone for something that just does calls and texts for example, because I’m sick of how unhealthily reliant I, and everyone, have become on this thing, and I want to be more connected to the real world. What then?
My brain is the best place to store passkeys, it can’t be hacked, stolen, lost, etc, unlike every other option. It’s the clear winner.
- Comment on What the democrats just did. 4 days ago:
They… Went into a tunnel? This is something to do with the USA isn’t it xD
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Damn, they’ve got convicted murderers running for office over there, AND getting votes? Wild.
- Comment on If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs. 1 week ago:
I would sell so many organs
- Comment on Betrayal 1 week ago:
That’s what they all say, socialist scum. You’ll hang for what you think!
Bake him away, toys.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 2 weeks ago:
That’s depressing, but at least there were people like yourself who understood the backwards injustice of it all.
Some people and places have to be kicked and dragged into the modern day, alas.
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 2 weeks ago:
I remember us giving Hong Kong to China, and Princess Diana’s horrible death.
As for the picture, I don’t know what county it’s from but it doesn’t look like the British Broadcasting Corporation which would have been the dominant broadcaster of that era, so I wouldn’t know.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 2 weeks ago:
Everyone? How else are you going to change gear?
I think a more interesting question would be:
How many people learned to drive in a car with a manual Choke?
- Comment on Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent 2 weeks ago:
I played Stardew Valley and suddenly had the overwhelming urge to kill local shopkeepers.
CoInCiDeNcE?!!?!!!??!(:'&((!:;((6_£";!(&6+:
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 2 weeks ago:
In a perfect world where nobody doing the hiring was ever even a little subconsciously racist, that would be perfectly reasonable, yeah.
Though that said we end up with a lot of nuance in the real world. Let’s say there’s a traditionally marginalised, opposed racial group. Let’s say times have changed somewhat and people suddenly accept them.
Well, the generational and cultural weight is still going to have a lasting effect even if times have changed, and it may be more difficult for people from that group to afford a good education, good job, good home, etc.
The point being that even if we all stopped being racist today and hired purely based on how good an employee someone will be, we’re likely still unknowingly skewing our decisions based on past social racial issues.
I’m probably not putting it very well but hopefully you get the idea! It’s probably pretty common knowledge anyway I guess haha, seems pretty obvious to me and I don’t even think about this stuff much :-)
Anyway, point is, we do still need to work as a society on ensuring diversity and fairness even when we’re not racist at all - I think the saying might be “Equity over Equality”, or such?
Obviously the USA Government are fascists, so they’re more interested in wiping out groups they don’t like, but they’re just another in a long line of evil governments that will eventually fall, no point thinking too deeply about why they’re being evil. They’ll eventually die off as all fascist regimes do. Hopefully we won’t have to fight a World War against them this time.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 2 weeks ago:
How is it legal to basically say “We’ll give you some money if you promise to keep the blacks out of your organisation”
- Comment on They're calling again. 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like something 9 year old me wouldn’t have watched!
Now if we’re talkin Star Trek on BBC2 at 6pm after school with my dindins, oh baby!
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 weeks ago:
Why wouldn’t we capture him and milk him for his eternal energy forever? We will power grand Gigastructures that dwarf the very stars themselves fueled by his essence! WE WILL TOUCH GOD HIMSELF!
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 2 weeks ago:
Fuck yeah, LLMs for the LLM god! All hail the hallowed datacenter! Sacrifice the DNS!
- Comment on They're calling again. 2 weeks ago:
Oooohhh I was getting mixed up with the Johnny Cash track “I hear the train a comin”.
I don’t know what Frasier is though, we don’t have that here in the UK.
Now if you’ll excuse me I need to pull my Cash LPs out suddenly and do nothing for the next hour
- Comment on The People’s Answer to ICE: Crowdsourcing Community Defense 2 weeks ago:
Some sort of well organised community militia with the right to arm themselves, perhaps? Wait, that’s a great idea for addition to the Constitution, write that down!
- Comment on Ok, boomer 2 weeks ago:
Hah, your powers of deduction won’t work on me! For I am young, and not even from the same continent as the USA so Tang never existed here!
But I know the link between NASA and Tang because I’m a NERD! MUHAHAHAHA (It wasn’t ever actually Tang that flew but rather a NASA concoction, but boy is it good advertising!)
One particular astronaut was once caught on a hot mic complaining that he was extremely sick and tired of drinking the juice they provided and made them drink in significant quantities during the flight… I’ll leave you to go look the details of what he said and why they insisted they drink so much of it, because I want you to get sucked in to Apollo history too 😈
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
USA Defaultism at work yet again.
- Comment on Youtube AI filter making it dangerous to watch for people with Epilepsy due to a bug 2 weeks ago:
I’m the author of my video content, not YouTube.
I carefully produce and render it, carefully ensuring it meets the quality level I require, and then I upload it.
I assume YouTube will transcode it, sure, but I assume they have expert engineers who have tailored the transcoding system to maintain the highest possible video quality whilst hitting whatever their filesize goals are.
At no point should AI be applied to alter the content of my video in any way, especially without my consent. That’s ridiculous.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation boss says the games industry is "littered" with Fortnite clones and "people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," but keep dreaming if you're just trying to get "big sacks of money" 2 weeks ago:
I want them big sacks of mo!
- Comment on Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, this is 2025, there’s no trustworthy data about anything any more.
Hell, you might just be an AI. Or I might just be an AI. Or maybe there wasn’t even an outage. I didn’t notice any issues, so maybe AI hallucinated it, or it’s been made up as clickbait and been second-hand reported by thousands of news sites that don’t care about fact checking any more.
Not that there are facts any more, anyway.
- Comment on Manic Stew 3 weeks ago:
Executive Dysfunction Haddock
- Comment on Is. It....German????? 3 weeks ago:
I keep seeing a lot of dead images these days from that strange slrpnk.net domain. Nothing from that domain loads at all for me in Boost. Every other site works just fine.
- Comment on Cat-o-lantern 3 weeks ago:
Whatever the image host is, it doesn’t work for me, alas.
- Comment on Same betting app you can bet on the impacts of climate change, promoting gambling on a collapsing government 4 weeks ago:
Oof, which country’s government is collapsing this week?
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah? Well I think you’re wrong!