TheOctonaut
@TheOctonaut@mander.xyz
- Comment on First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed 2 days ago:
No source code and no federation just makes this a worse app with less liability for bad actions. Not sure why he’s pushing this before those are ready. Pixelfed itself isn’t exactly finished yet.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 3 weeks ago:
I do not wish to enjoinder with your Game Launcher and anonymous telephony
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 4 weeks ago:
Too cowardly to do anything useful to make amends. Just let another conscript fill his space.
Brave enough to drive over Palestinians and call them “terrorists in their hundreds”. Not brave enough to stand up to criticism from his countrymen. This is what spending billions of dollars on an asymmetrical war gets you: a system in which the weakest people can still take the lives of hundreds before being thrown away themselves.
- Comment on Ukraine ‘will seek nuclear weapons’ if it cannot join Nato 4 weeks ago:
Right. Not something we knew 30 years ago, though.
- Comment on Ukraine ‘will seek nuclear weapons’ if it cannot join Nato 4 weeks ago:
There were nukes in Ukraine. This is not the same as Ukraine having nukes. They couldn’t control, and worse, couldn’t maintain the nuclear weapons that the Soviet Union left behind.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will stop working on outdated Windows 11 and Windows 10 versions 1 month ago:
Do you not have a browser?
- Comment on Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech 3 months ago:
“Rust Belt” isn’t literal, it refers to an area of the US where industrial manufacturing declined significant in the second half of the 20th century. It’s called that in part at least because its previous moniker was “Steel Belt”.
- Comment on Just had someone say they are going to have a Fatwa put on me . What the hell does that mean? Do I need to report it or something? 4 months ago:
The issue is taking a broad concept and making it mean a very specific one instead.
(Please note I am an atheist that lived for years in a “Muslim country”. I don’t actually agree with any of the below, but understanding what words are intended to mean is important when you are surrounded by their use in 2 different contexts).
Fatwa: a Sharia law ruling by an imam Fatwa (western): a ruling by an imam that a person is not protected by the law and therefore a target for assassination
Hijab: men and women of Islam should maintain a sense of visual propriety in order to avoid devaluing what can be seen in private. Hijab (western): that cloth Islamic women wear on their head.
Jihad: the righteous struggles that each human faces to choose a difficult path for good reasons. Jihad (western): a holy war of aggression against infidels
- Comment on India to mandate USB-C connectors on smartphones and laptops by 2026 4 months ago:
Some of us live in functioning democracies where “switch to USB-D” won’t come with an “it’s illegal to give your son a name that wasn’t previous a job title” attachment.
- Comment on Time to fix sleep schedule 5 months ago:
Why are its eyes on the back wall of its orifice
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 5 months ago:
They might be cheaper, but then you have to either have a cable coming in the door of the freezer, or drill a hole in your $10k freezer’s wall.
In my country you’d definitely need to have video footage to accuse someone of abusing aerosols at work, but yes in some less civilised places a general pattern might be enough to accuse someone and hope they weren’t just going in there to do their job.
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 5 months ago:
These people are presumably paid to go into the freezer. If they weren’t going into the freezer that would be a problem. It’s going into the freezer and doing whip-its is the problem.
I was going to say then that you’d need to prove the person was actually doing whip-its and not their job, but I’m guessing this is America and it’s not actually required to have a reason to euthanise underperforming employees.
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 5 months ago:
Walk in freezers are usually aimed at -18C, but that isn’t the main problem with trying to get a WiFi camera to work behind several inches of insulation.
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 5 months ago:
WiFi works poorly behind insulation.
Cameras don’t do great covered in frost.
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 5 months ago:
One that works in a walk in freezer?
- Comment on Sony Music warns AI companies against “unauthorized use” of its content 5 months ago:
Maybe musicians might end every song with some magic words that stop people using it.
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favourite city builders? 6 months ago:
SimCity4 Deluxe modded to a state of fragile beauty
- Comment on May 13, 1985 6 months ago:
I don’t think you’re getting me.
The Swedish company is one you are probably familiar with - Securitas. Its quite literally not the same power structure, and completely different shit. They aren’t hunting outlaws. They arent union-busting. They are people you send to someones house when you dont want to involve the police. They didn’t intimidate the guy - he him himself described the interaction as “very nice, very apologetic”. Remind me again how interactions with American police usually go?
dicebreaker.com/…/magic-the-gathering-aftermath-y…
And no, they definitely had a case. The guy obtained unreleased cards (ie stolen) “from an acquaintance” and then refused all attempts to contact him by WotC. Do you think WotC should have sent police to his door? Would that have been a better loom for them?
- Comment on Dell warns of data breach, 49 million customers allegedly affected 6 months ago:
lol no
- Comment on May 13, 1985 6 months ago:
Just so we’re clear, your argument is that this Swedish firm have the same name as 19th century American “mercs” therefore modern day slavery is real?
- Comment on AI Computing on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says 6 months ago:
This is a future prediction, not a current observation.
I’m not saying it’s correct as a prediction, but “where are the extra power plants” is not good counter-argument.
- Comment on May 13, 1985 6 months ago:
Pinkertons today is a brand name purchased by a Swedish security firm. It has nothing to do with the previous Pinkertons and (fellow) D&D nerds circlejerking that the guys from Red Dead Redemption had come to (literally ask to) retrieve stolen property without involving the law was very embarrassing.
- Comment on Here’s How That Disney 360° Treadmill Works 6 months ago:
It was 3.6 years after? And it was pretty dead at that point. Like it was popular with a core group who were making Niantic and TPC tons of money, but the phenomenon was dead by the anniversary.
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 6 months ago:
You know that’s not the LLM’s ‘source’ right? It’s still output. Do you mean the training data? Is that what you mean by CoPilot should be open source? If CoPilot has learned from something GPL then everything else it outputs, or perhaps specifically its training data - should be GPL?
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 6 months ago:
Yeah that’s not the source, that’s still output. You don’t seem to understand how LLMs work and yet have taken a bizarre stance on it anyway.
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 6 months ago:
How exactly do you expect to see the “source” of a language model?
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Hey does anyone want to buy a t-shirt from me with this guy’s worst comments printed on it?
- Comment on TikTok and Universal settle dispute over music royalties 6 months ago:
“I don’t understand it because I don’t believe in it”
— literally any hexbear user
- Comment on Catholic 'media ministry' defrocks AWOL AI priest after it told faithful you can baptise babies in Gatorade and that, sure, it can totally perform your wedding 6 months ago:
It’s not just any water, it’s holy water. If a priest has cast Ceremony to create the holy water on whatever, sure. But why when you probably have liquid water tk hand? God might wonder if it’s very sincere if you’re just basically doing it for a laugh. Might take away your spell slots.
- Comment on Come on, science! 6 months ago:
Why do people believe this shit? Like the Internet was around. You can go see me arguing with people calling my Nokia NGage a taco and me defending having to hold it weird if I get to play Tomb Raider on my phone, on forums, right now. Oh and the kids all hold their phones that way now and yes it looks stupid but they just remastered Tomb Raider for mobile so who cares.
- Comment on Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO 6 months ago:
Do you understand that providing some examples of the opposite doesn’t show “all”? Your goal is supposed to be proving the examples I gave wrong, not adding new examples, because I’m not the one that said “all”. So what we’ve learned today is that different companies are doing different things and that blanket uninformed statements don’t contribute to anything. Cool. You good?
Oh and if you want to use the ampersand for etc you don’t need the t. Ampersand is “e” and “t” together! I hope I’ve helped whatever goal you had in choosing to write “&tc”.