Schmoo

@Schmoo@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reporting an absence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been oversensitive to AI gen images recently and it’s worse with low-rez. This image just tripped a false positive for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the no state solution⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s often said that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, but it seems vastly more difficult for people to imagine the end of the state, so much so that it’s equated to the end of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reporting an absence⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard to tell with the low resolution, but this looks like AI to me. The guy on the left’s feet look weird, and also the bricks don’t appear to have a consistent pattern. The layout of the house with the two garages separated by what I guess is a hallway also doesn’t make sense to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rude⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but they get badass hydraulic locomotion that way. Imagine you had no muscles and you lifted your arms by manipulating your blood pressure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if you internalize the racist premise that freedom in a region can only be achieved by expelling all other ethnic groups. The slogan is a rorschach test; it reveals the ideology of the interpreter. If you interpret “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as genocidal it demonstrates that you don’t believe Palestinians and Israelis can coexist as equals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There have been so many lawsuits against Valve recently from so many different angles. I’m not usually one for conspiracy but I wouldn’t be shocked if this is a coordinated campaign to unseat Valve from their monopoly on the PC gaming market so that other games industry corporations can move in. They’ve been trying and failing to break into this market for years because Valve has built so much consumer loyalty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Consider a system with no DRAM' replaced by a 'recycling fiber loop': John Carmack envisages bold future to avoid AI-driven RAM crisis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  moving at nearly the speed of light.

  Couldn’t resist being a bit of a stickler but 🤓 erm… technically it is moving at the speed of light through a medium, which is slightly less than c, the speed of light in a vacuum. Fun fact, when things move faster than the speed of light through a medium - such as water - it produces Cherenkov radiation, the glowing blue light associated with some nuclear reactors, which is sorta like a sonic boom but with light instead of sound.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2022 was a bleak year 😢⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO the best vegan substitute for chicken nuggets is breaded and fried lion’s mane mushrooms. They are absolutely perfect in taste and texture for this purpose, and the best part is that they can be grown very easily and cheaply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You should give it another viewing. There’s violence, but it’s not just random murder for its own sake like in The Purge. The protagonist carries out a series of targeted assassinations against people who were involved in detaining and experimenting on him in a concentration camp, and blows up a couple of empty buildings at the beginning and end of the movie in a symbolic act of defiance against a fascist regime. There’s a bit towards the end where he ships a bunch of guy fawkes masks to everyone and there’s some robbing and looting, but no killing until a secret police guy shoots an unarmed child in the street and some people jump him. The plot overall is about people rising up against and toppling a fascist regime, which is pretty relevant to current events.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did they mention wanton violence? That’s not what anarchism is, and that’s also not what’s portrayed in V for Vendetta.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users: Research finds leading AI models perform worse for users with lower English proficiency, less formal education, and non-US origins.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is that mirroring the prompt style puts the LLM in a context space where it performs badly. This is because it doesn’t try to give correct answers, but likely ones. Incorrect answers are more likely to follow a prompt that is written with poor grammar and spelling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point I whitelist rather than blacklist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Carl Sagan's 9 timeless lessons for detecting baloney⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would suggest a ouija board but I read the book mentioned above and know that he wasn’t too fond of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Website⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate that word. I used a possessive apostrophe like this (its’) for years before somebody finally told me that rule doesn’t apply to its for some unknown reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Casual weeknight unwind⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A whippet is a dog breed lol. They look a bit like a cross between a greyhound and a borzoi (slender bodies, long faces).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Casual weeknight unwind⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Inhaling nitrous oxide gives a very short-lived euphoric high. Using the little canisters this way is colloquially referred to as whip-its. Prolonged use is known to cause severe and irreversible brain damage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 North American 4 you has been created⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also burgoo and hot brown, not only uniquely American but uniquely Kentuckian. Each state and territory has their own signature dishes like any other country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 North American 4 you has been created⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If one of those colors is red 40 then you have been drugged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is not healthy, and you should stop doing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Usually a horrible interaction for all involved⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would find some way to let them know it’s coming and ask them to not let anyone know I told them. Weeks is crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with "Plex Servers"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am a Jellyfin server guy, and I Iet family and friends use it for free. I also am not shy about telling people that I do this, as I don’t see any moral issue with it and will happily defend piracy as not only completely fine, but a net moral good. I see it as a tiny bit of anarchist calisthenics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve looked through the whole thread again and I don’t know where you’re getting the idea anyone’s accusing tankies of being sellouts. Best I can guess is that you misinterpreted the comment immediately above yours as saying tankies are secretly supporting the current fascist regime, is that it?

  That’s not what they’re saying, they meant that tankies (I would clarify that it’s the chronically online tankies that are like this) want other people to fight the revolution for them, and won’t lift a single finger themselves until they can be sure that victory is inevitable. This is because they see themselves as the vanguard that tells everyone else what to do and how to do it, and will be put in charge after the revolution. That’s why people call them red fascists (though I don’t like that term myself as I don’t think they should be conflated with actual fascists, it hinders understanding), they want to be in the fascists’ place so they can use the systems of power and control that they built towards a different end (changing the economic system).

  A previous person I talked to on lemmy.ml not long ago illustrated this mindset well, saying that authoritarianism is only a buzzword made up by the west to demonize their enemies, that it’s just people exercising power, and that it’s good when communists do it. Here’s what I see wrong with this: the tools of a fascist state are purpose-built for oppression, and trying to use them for anything else is futile. You will be corrupted by their power. We should not be trying to take and use these tools, but dismantling them and creating our own which are purpose-built for liberation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t like electoralism, prefer to LARP revolution while doing nothing to actually lay the groundwork for one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This kid gets it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He lived in a very large clay jar, which is actually not that uncommon in the Roman empire during the time that he lived. Almost everyone in the metropolitan areas of the Roman empire owned at least one such jar, and so homeless people would live in them in much the same way homeless people today might live in their cars or a tent. The reason it’s significant that Diogenes lived in one is that he did so by choice, as he had the wealth and social status to live quite comfortably if he wanted to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've wondered since I was a youngin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the difference between defense and vengeance. In Transformers One they had already defeated the big bad and had the support of the other transformers, so killing him then was an unnecessary act of revenge. It’s different when you’re still fighting and the big bad’s death could make a difference in the outcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m half expecting Peter Thiel to say “maybe we should build a bunch of fallout shelters and then initiate a nuclear holocaust so we can outlast all our enemies, and also run some experiments while we’re at it” in an interview tomorrow, wearing a vault suit and giving a thumbs up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yale Posting It's Ls⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aside from being reductive, yes, I’m an anarchist. I’m not opposed to writing down some rules, but I am opposed to the coercive use of force to impose them on others. It is possible to organize a system of preventative and restorative justice without the use of a hierarchy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yale Posting It's Ls⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is where we disagree. Because, to me, thinking that every single lawmaker in the history of humanity (we have laws that date back thousands of years and are just copy-pasted between countries) was writing laws with malicious intent is some form of paranoidal insanity on par with “lizard people are controlling the government”.

  It’s not about the intent of each individual cog involved in the creation and application of the law, but the intent for which the system of laws and hierarchies were created. Plenty of reform-minded people or naive pro-establishment folks participate in the legal system with good intentions, and sometimes find success reducing the harm that it causes, but that doesn’t change that the system continues to uphold class society and was created for that purpose. The effect of our system of laws and hierarchical institutions is the preservation of a system of division between distinct classes, and since I have yet to see a legal system that does not do this in some form I have concluded that this is the fundamental nature of laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yale Posting It's Ls⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All of those laws are unequally enforced. Anti money laundering laws are applied only to the subjugated socioeconomic group (drug dealers belonging to the working class, etc.). The dominant socioeconomic group gets their children protected, their rape victims to receive justice, their human rights defended. The subjugated socioeconomic group rarely benefits from these laws, which is why thousands of rape kits sit in warehouses never being investigated, why children born into poverty are more often separated from their parents and institutionalized rather than receiving the help they need, and why human rights are routinely violated without consequence.

  The people making such laws can sometimes intend for them to be universal, but such people fundamentally misunderstand the nature of laws, and it never quite pans out that way in practice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yale Posting It's Ls⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The law is extremely clear in this regard - the ICE dude murdered a person for no reason. The rules on the use of deadly force literally use a moving car as an example of when not to use deadly force - as long as there are “other defence options, such as moving out of the way”.

  When the people tasked with upholding the law consistently disregard it in particular circumstances - as they do when it comes to abuse of power by law enforcement - that law only exists in the circumstances in which it is consistently applied. Things like qualified immunity have effectively nullified any law that ostensibly holds law enforcement accountable. The law does not exist for any other purpose except to protect the dominant socioeconomic group in a given country without binding them, while binding the subjugated socioeconomic group without protecting them. Who is in which group is dynamic and always subject to change, but this rule almost always holds except in cases where very skilled lawyers are able to argue in court that someone in the latter group actually belongs to the former in some specific circumstance. That is the law being used for something that it was not designed to do, a bit like an exploit in a video game soon to be patched.