splendoruranium
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- Comment on Do boycotts work? 16 hours ago:
Like do they actually, reliably effect change in the way the activists intend?
Have they worked against Israel? Did they work against Apartheid South Africa? Could they work against Trump’s America?
My hunch is that they don’t, really, but can be a useful promotional tool for other issues. Like don’t buy American is a simple message. >If people will listen to that, they may listen to reasons why, which maybe could build a movement.
But on the whole I am very sceptical, and would be interested in any reasons for or against boycotts.
Try to look at it the other way around: Every single one of your actions is a vote for how you want the word to be. By the very act of visiting a country you declare that country to be worth visiting, by purchasing a product you endorse it, by using a service you support the continued existence of that service and all things connected to it.
Now why wouldn’t the reverse be true?
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
I love this game! So happy to see someone else linking it.
It’s a powerful didactic tool and I’m happy to reference it whenever I have the chance.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
Trust is something that depends on repeat interactions - it’s earned and built, not freely given. Turn off the phone, the TV and the computer for a while each day and focus on the people around you. Your local community, your friends your family. The more you directly interact with somebody, the more potential is there for you to build up trust - maybe even mutual trust!
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 1 week ago:
Curious to know what the experiences are for those who are sticking to bare metal. Would like to better understand what keeps such admins from migrating to containers, Docker, Podman, Virtual Machines, etc. What keeps you on bare metal in 2025?
If it aint broke, don’t fix it 🤷
- Comment on Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts 5 weeks ago:
Apples and oranges.
Package managers only install a package with defaults. These helper scripts are designed to take the user through a final config that isn’t provided by the package defaults.
Whether there’s a setup wizard doesn’t have anything to do with whether the tool comes from a package manager or not. Run “apt install ddclient”, for example, it’ll immediately guide you through all configuration steps for the program instead of just dumping a binary and some config text files in /etc/.
So that’s not the bottleneck or contradiction here. It’s just very unfortunate that setup wizards are not very popular as soon as you leave Windows and OSX ecosystems.
- Comment on Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts 5 weeks ago:
There’s literally no good reason to replace it with a shell script on a website.
I fully agree that a package manager repository with all those tools would be preferable, but it doesn’t exist, does it? I mean… content is king. If the only way to get a certain program or functionality is a shell script on a website, then of course that’s what is going to be used.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 1 month ago:
On a boat, possibly in the tropics, without spoiling? Doubt.
Huh, “sailors” indeed. I can honestly say that I hadn’t noticed this was about boats up until now.
- Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 1 month ago:
apples aren’t notorious for large quantities of it anyway.
Yeah, I’ll concede that.
But again, long storage is not just feasible but relatively trivial - a cool basement, harvest before ripe, many months of apples to be had. Maybe it depends on the cultivar? Either way, for most of human existence in seasonally cold climates, storage simply was the only way for having access to fruit during winter and early spring. - Comment on What would be ancient ways to properly store vitamin C? 1 month ago:
Your body only needs tiny amounts of Vitamin C and you can easily store fruit like apples for more than half a year without refrigeration.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 1 month ago:
or pinged a satellite at a predictable distance as part of a timing system…
Isn’t that just GPS in reverse? I mean, same equation, different dependent variable 😁
- Comment on Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment 1 month ago:
Well, I didn’t regret reading the article, I’ll probably even recommend it to others…
It would be strange if we were having a big national conversation about limiting YouTube watching or never buying books or avoiding uploading more than 30 photos to social media at once for the sake of the climate.
… but I’m certainly a bit amused over how often the author just stumbles into a natural segue to an anti-consumerism rant and then just… takes a U-turn 🤦
- Comment on Buy HDD on sale now or wait for Black Friday? 1 month ago:
I know a lot of people like buying used drives but the ones for sale are usually loud enterprise edition drives which won’t work for me. Should I buy the drives now or wait until BF for a possibly better sale?
HDD prices haven’t really moved in any meaningful way over the course of the past years and I don’t recall them ever moving significantly even during special promotions (short of pricing errors). I strongly suggest to treat high-capacity hard drives as the luxury consumables that they are and just buy them as needed. Unless you particularly enjoy bargain hunting as a passtime I really don’t think it’s worth the effort and opportunity costs in this particular context.
- Comment on easy way to manage audio metadata / file organization? 2 months ago:
I stopped to retag and rename music files. Right now I prefer them to be as original as possible because preservation reasons.
Aren’t you then just preserving some random music ripper’s organizational preferences or default settings?
Either way I don’t see any issues with adding more tagged information. More information always more good 😁 - Comment on mITX boards on amazon any good? 2 months ago:
IPMI and ECC are not on your wishlist, correct?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Why would they use more energy in one direction versus another? This doesn’t really make sense to me. Heating and cooling is just swapping which element is the condenser and which element is the evaporator.
The gradient determines that. Moving heat energy from inside ambient 25°C to outside ambient 30°C is easier than moving heat energy from outside ambient 5°C to inside ambient 20°C, for example.
- Comment on What do you think is the largest number a human can actually grasp / truly comprehend? 2 months ago:
10k? 100k? A million?
I am not talking about calculating with numbers, but rather the point where numbers stop being comprehensible, or “no longer mean anything”.
Try visualizing exactly 10000 apples in your mind.You’re quite optimistic. I recall from old Psych classes that visualization breaks down even before double digits, so the 5-7 range. Don’t have any references at hand so I might be misremembering it, but now I’m curious too and see if I can find anything in my notes.
- Comment on Is there gospel music minus the gospel? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 2 months ago:
I bet OP didn’t.
I really don’t think there’s much point in speculating what other folks think. They’ll tell or they won’t - all I can do is offer my input. As I said, it’s already hard enough to fully make yourself understood even when you want to.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 2 months ago:
Any decentralized place like this one is, ideally and intentionally, just a network of many small clubhouses. There might be overarching themes and attitudes, but each clubhouse has their own agenda and makes and enforces their own rules.
I wouldn’t expect most any clubhouse to throw you out if you argued any point with dligence, compassion and respect.
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 2 months ago:
Never. There’s always more to do. Once you can produce food, shelter and entertainment with zero effort
We’ve been able to do that for about 100 years now. All of humanity’s technological problems have been solved - on paper - for generations. There’s unfortunately never been a magical consolidation period where all the hungry were fed and all the exposed were sheltered. That’s not something that automatically happens.
The technology and production capacity to raise Somalia to the same literacy, living standard and life expectancy Denmark exists. It would just require surplus growth and production capacity to go to Somalia and not Denmark for a few generations. Example nations are arbitrary, adjust as needed.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 months ago:
Well, if you’re worried about thoughts, what do you suppose will create a safer environment for your offspring? De-stigmatization of problematic urges, allowing the afflicted to openly participate in society and receive assistance, or active and violent ostracization and persecution, forcing each and every afflicted person into immediate, life-long and hopeless secrecy?
Just like anyone else you have the ability to act against your immediate instincts, because sometimes, as exemplified by the topic of this whole thread, instincts are just shit.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 2 months ago:
Fuck anyone who thinks abusing children is fine and normal. Fuck you all so hard to hell. Get the absolute fuck away from my kids.
I’m pretty damn left, but I have zero empathy at all for anyone who is thinking sexual shit about children. I’m livid. Holy shit.
Abuse is a choice. Sexual attraction isn’t. You’re worked up about abuse, not about pedophilia.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That’s not a question.
Looks like some kind of advertising account with either a product or an idea to sell.
- Comment on How come Lemmy rarely shows up in internet search results? 2 months ago:
Yes, it hurts discoverability. How can you have a community without people?
I’d like to ask it the other way around: How many people would it need until you’d say “Yep, that’s a community alright.”?
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 2 months ago:
The alternative is no morality at all. And in that case, you’re either following the law out of love for your state and/or fellow human, or because you don’t want to be sent to prison for breaking the law.
You’re going in a circle there. If individually define moral action as “an action that cannot be derived from anything but some kind of supernatural being”, then yeah, you can dismiss anything else on normative grounds. But then what’s the point of asking “How can something be morally wrong if there is no God?”?
- Comment on My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN... 3 months ago:
I was an idiot and bought a high end TPLink router, I can’t even use Vlans without signing up for their back door service.
Hm, at least with their enterprise equipment you can completely disable Omada.
- Comment on Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology" 3 months ago:
There are lots of traditional crafts channels from all the corners of the world, if that scratches your itch. How about something like this?
- Comment on Why are ghosts never racist? 3 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Driving a car and doing it regularly is the most dangerous task most anyone living in any number of western societies with service-based economies will ever undertake. There is nothing wrong with treating it accordingly - with awe, care and a healthy portion of respect and fear.
But whether the decision not to do it is a good one depends on your life circumstances. Do you live or plan on living in a big European city? Yeah, you don’t need a car in your life, good riddance. Do you live in a North American suburb or rural area? Er… not using a car is probably not an option unless you relocate.I had a pretty bad car accident due to failing to yield the right of way (I struggle with multitasking)
Maybe I’m misunderstanding something here. It should go without saying that when one is driving, one’s attention should ideally be focused on nothing else and multitasking therefore shouldn’t be a factor.
- Comment on Did YouTube just disable video playback for people using adblockers or is it just me? 3 months ago:
How do you know? Statistics reported by websites… which are recording user agent strings?
If you randomly stopped people in the streets and asked them what a user agent was, you’d get a certain percentage of folks that give you the correct answer. That percentage is the upper ceiling for any possible error margin that websites recording user strings have in attributing those strings to actual browsers, since nobody unaware of that term will know how or be interested in changing their user agent.
Do you think it likely that this percentage is going to be in any way, shape or form… impactful, considering that most people won’t be able to tell you what a browser is? 😜