Steve
@Steve@communick.news
- Comment on Why is Iran attacking Dubai and Kuwait? 17 hours ago:
My completely uneducated guess would be, to make it harder for the US to get equipment into the area.
- Comment on OP figures out love languages 1 day ago:
This is completely reasonable.
It makes too much sense to be a shit post. - Comment on I saw a turd on my way home from work! 2 days ago:
You nobody sells cars with bare metal body work.
Would be a cool look though, with just clear coat to keep it nice. - Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 2 days ago:
That’s perception.
Reality is just a big question mark. - Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 3 days ago:
That’s called the brain
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 3 days ago:
There’s nothing to disprove ghosts because there’s no real definition of what a ghost is.
If someone gives me a real unambiguous agreed upon definition of what a ghost is, I’ll explain why we know they don’t exist.
- Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 3 days ago:
ActivityPub isn’t the only way to be federated. Email is federated. Email isn’t ActivityPub. Matrix is no different.
- Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 4 days ago:
ActivityPub is only one of a number of federated protocols.
One notably unsuited to instant messaging. - Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 4 days ago:
share the info natively outside the platform.
I’m not even sure that makes sense.
Federating is based on protocols not platforms. And what does it mean to share natively if not using the protocol? - Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 4 days ago:
Waiting for pizza
- Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 4 days ago:
But we already have tacos.
If you say “Tacos are coming soon”. And we already have tacos. I’d say “What do you mean? Tacos are already here. Do we need more tacos?” - Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 4 days ago:
That’s what I mean.
The headline is a lie. - Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 4 days ago:
ActivityPub isn’t the only way to federate.
It’s federating the same way email does. Anyone can spin up their own server. And if they want anyone can spin up their own software. - Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 4 days ago:
I thought we already had Matrix
- Comment on If America and Mexico did an all our "WAR" against the cartels look like? 5 days ago:
If America and Mexico [started] an all our “WAR” against the cartels [what would it] look like?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I would say none. Maybe to be a member of a species requires at least a history of a single breeding pair?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Speciesist
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 1 week ago:
First: your comment appears to be a reply to them not me. I think that’s where the confusion came from.
Second: You seem to be conflating listening to ideas with supporting them.
Third: Blocking places with bad ideas doesn’t silence the people there or eliminate their ideas. It contributes to their isolation and echo chamber. Often more then yours. You in fact end up helping make them worse. Which of course is worse for everyone.
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 1 week ago:
The former often feels like the later.
Even more so when you’re not used to it. - Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 1 week ago:
Building an echo chamber isn’t something done intentionally. Well… Sometimes it is.
It’s most often created by avoiding people you find annoying, toxic, etc. As long as you keep up that reasoning you eventually only interact with people who mostly agree with you. You’re blinding yourself to counter opinions. The definition of an echo chamber. - Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 2 weeks ago:
According to Google, the idea of replacing current tools with open-source programs would not contribute to economic growth.
Is Google seriously arguing that the money these nations save can’t be added to their GDPs?
That what it sounds like. Or am I confused? - Comment on Discord Game chat alternatives? 2 weeks ago:
Matrix is the federated alternative.
- Comment on YSK that if you hesitate between Ketchup and Mustard, you should pick Mustard. It's healthier. 2 weeks ago:
Do you have Barbeque?
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 2 weeks ago:
Try it yourself.
Have a some switch between them for you. Bet you can’t tell either. - Comment on Has cosmetic surgery gotten a bit out of hand lately? 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
This is not an example.
Check out “The Mar a lago Look”. - Comment on Has cosmetic surgery gotten a bit out of hand lately? 2 weeks ago:
And the 2025 look has a lot of contouring makeup.
- Comment on Does the fact Stoat.chat doesn't have E2EE mean the server owner can read any and all messages, including DMs? 2 weeks ago:
It would mean the server owner can almost certainly read everything. Though it may not be in plain text. It could be encrypted on the server. But the owner would need to have the keys to decrypt and read everything.
- Comment on Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals? 2 weeks ago:
That’s your judgement of your food. It’s natural for you to have a number of biases to favor your own cooking. Most notably the 4 hours of effort it takes you.
But home cooking isn’t generally that. It’s the 20-40min one puts in right after getting home from work. Comparing your most intensive 4h hours of effort against something a restaurant cook does absent mindedly isn’t really a comparison. If they put in your effort you wouldn’t have a chance.
- Comment on Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals? 2 weeks ago:
Cheeper sure. Not a chance it’s better in blind taste tests. That’s all confirmation bias from you putting in the effort to make it yourself. You can’t be an objective judge if your own food.
If your food were really that much better than everyone else’s you’d be able to make a fortune with your own restaurant. And if you enjoyed it, you might be happier doing that for work instead of whatever you currently do.
- Comment on Why do russian parents insist on being treated to home cooked meals? 2 weeks ago:
You had me until “it tasts better”.
That’s entirely dependent on the cook. And very few home cooked meals are better than average restaurants. There’s a reason restaurants and professional cooks can make a living. If home cooking was so much better so often, nobody would bother going out to eat.