TheGrandNagus
@TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 1 hour ago:
AI is 100% being trained using Lemmy.
- Comment on "Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online 1 hour ago:
I remember that too. I also remember reading a headline about a Brazilian far-right group travelling to the US to join a KKK meeting, then being upset that the KKK weren’t particularly welcoming towards them.
The stupidity is absolutely incredible.
- Comment on "Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online 1 hour ago:
Republican
advocate for people’s rights
You really can’t be both at the same time.
Of course you can, you’re just missing the subtext:
Advocate for people like me’s rights
Right wing beliefs have always been about empowering the “I’m alright, Jack” types (I don’t know if that phrase is known in the US, but here is an explanation if not).
- Comment on Casio made an Oura Ring alternative that's everything but smart 2 hours ago:
Yeah what on earth? It’s not a health monitoring ring alternative, and doesn’t try to be. It’s a watch in ring form.
Smart rings/health monitoring rings are not the norm, I don’t see why any other ring would be automatically compared to them.
It’s not even like many people have heard of that brand of ring, so it’s not even the kind of clickbait that would attract people, like mentioning an Apple product or something would be.
I’m not much of a ring wearer, I don’t even wear my own wedding ring, but this one actually looks pretty neat to me. I hope the battery is as easy to replace as they claim it to be.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 1 day ago:
Because it shows that a sizable amount of people are anti-nazi enough to move platform.
Yes, it would be even nicer if they moved to mastodon, but nobody even knows what that is, nobody is there (classic chicken and egg problem), and people get confused by the whole “choose an instance” thing.
Is it not ok to have a small celebration of people moving to a better, more positive platform, even if it is far from perfect?
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 3 days ago:
No one in the last 25 years has ever seen it.
People didn’t just mass-destroy CRTs in 1999…
I bought an LCD TV in 2006 (a Sony Bravia that is still going strong) and that was earlier than most people I know switched
- Comment on David Lammy dismisses past criticism of Donald Trump as 'old news' 1 week ago:
As much as I’d love to munch some popcorn and see Lammy double down on calling Trump out for being a fascist dickhead, that obviously wouldn’t be in the interest of the UK and would probably be an unwise thing for the Foreign Secretary of all ministers to do.
Unfortunately, Trump did win an election and we do have to put up with him/navigate around him for the next four years.
I do hope, though, that the Republicans becoming more and more unhinged prompts us to be a bit less US-reliant, and to seek partnerships with other countries, and to make our own country a bit more self-reliant.
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
Fair enough
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
Typical nanny state
My house isn’t inside a school or a hospital, therefore I can’t even smoke in my own home. Absolutely raging.
- Comment on Am I a real working person? 1 week ago:
I’m so fucking sick of this discussion.
If your income is in the form of dividends, stock selling, or collecting rent money, that doesn’t mean you’re a worker.
If you work as an employee for a company, and are also a landlord on the side, then yes you are a worker. But you are a worker because of the working for a company part, not the landlord part.
End of discussion.
Now let’s look at a paragraph from this dog shit article, breaking it up into points…
I know investment bankers and corporate lawyers who work far more hours and under much greater pressure than me.
And? Nobody ever said investment bankers or lawyers weren’t workers. They work for companies and are paid.
They have no inherited income, come from ordinary backgrounds and their wealth is entirely down to their salary.
Ok? What does this have to do with assessing whether someone is a worker or not?
But that salary is simply too large for them to count as working people.
When did the government or anybody ever say that anyone with a decent salary isn’t a worker?
In any case, I’ve watched several episodes of Industry, and they are patently the wrong type of working people. And what’s more, they are having way too much sex, although Starmer has not quantified how much coupling working people are allowed.
I don’t even know what to say about this. Are they unrelatedly complaining about sex in a TV programme, or do they genuinely think Labour’s view on who counts as a worker comes down to how often that person has sex and how many people they have sex with?
It’s honestly embarrassing that FT even published this. Under a fucking paywall too.
- Comment on Options for "iPlayer will stop working on this device" 2 weeks ago:
I have iPlayer on my Nvidia shield, although I imagine it’s available for all Android TV boxes.
I’d avoid the no-name Chinese devices though. A shocking amount of them have straight up spyware on them, yet are still sold on Amazon.
Bonus tip: install ProjectIvy launcher to get rid of home screen ads.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 2 weeks ago:
It’s just an endless circle of you defending Russian genocide and defending child rape with you, isn’t it?
Sanctioned companies are gone from the maintainers list. Good riddance. Thankfully Linus isn’t a pro-russian loser.
RMS is an advocate of child rape. Thankfully nobody takes him seriously anymore.
Genocide is bad. Child rape is bad. I can’t believe this even needs to be explained to some people.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 2 weeks ago:
Why do you keep lying about this? He repeatedly defended raping children.
He thinks raping children should be legal.
He thinks anybody against raping children is bigoted.
He thinks raping children is good.
Stop equating drinking alcohol to raping a child. They aren’t comparable.
I’m being toxic? Mate you’re being an apologist for genocide and child rape. I’m not the toxic one here.
- Comment on Cycling will be more dangerous due to council clampdowns, say campaigners 2 weeks ago:
It was certainly annoying. I contacted JustEat to try to find out who did it, but I couldn’t get any information from them
Thankfully I live in rural Northumberland and only occasionally travel down to Newcastle or up to Berwick or Edinburgh, so I don’t see them much.
I’m not even sure you can use any of the delivery apps here. Just old fashioned ringing up and asking for a delivery
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 2 weeks ago:
If it went to court at all, it’s not clearly legal
That’s not how the legal system works. You can sue anybody for anything.
The reality is, Apple got taken to court, comprehensively won the case, Epic acknowledged they never really had a chance anyway and said they’d go no further.
It’s completely legal.
Why are you against creating laws that will hold Apple accountable?
- Comment on Cycling will be more dangerous due to council clampdowns, say campaigners 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah he got away and wasn’t identified
I’m fine now, it was a few years ago. I just have an ugly scar I’m a bit self conscious about
- Comment on Cycling will be more dangerous due to council clampdowns, say campaigners 2 weeks ago:
If there’s a path with a lot of pedestrians on it, I don’t think it’s unreasonable that cyclists are expected to get off their bike and walk like everybody else.
I had my jaw fractured because some speeding JustEat delivery man came blasting through a pedestrian area of Newcastle on his bike, clearly not paying attention and going at far too high a speed.
It was very painful, I have a scar on my face, I couldn’t work or eat comfortably for a while.
- Comment on Special Report: Inside Intel, CEO Pat Gelsinger fumbled the revival of an American icon [Reuters] 2 weeks ago:
When AMD came out with the Ryzen CPU, Intel still had a performance per core advantage, and decent PPW compared to Ryzen.
In gaming, maybe. In most workloads Ryzen was beating Intel. Shit, their $300-500 8 core models were matching or beating Intel’s $1,700 10 core.
Comparing 8 core to 8 core, the 1700X/1800X were faster than the 6900K, and used a lot less power. The 1700 was a bit slower but used a huge amount less power.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 weeks ago:
The poster, who pays Tesla CEO Elon Musk for a subscription to the increasingly far-right social media site, claimed that the FSD software “works awesome” and that a deer in the road is an “edge case.” One might argue that edge cases are actually very important parts of any claimed autonomy suite, given how drivers check out when they feel the car is doing the work, but this owner remains “insanely grateful” to Tesla regardless.
Yeah nah. This person is the absolute opposite of. Tesla or Musk hater.
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 2 weeks ago:
Not me. Me and the courts.
Against what you think.
- Comment on Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes 2 weeks ago:
stable between XP and 10
I’m not sure I agree.
XP was good but definitely unstable, Vista was very unstable at the beginning. Shit, it was essentially broken on release for months for Nvidia users, even.
It was only late Vista and throughout 7 when windows became pretty stable.
Windows 8 wasn’t unstable, I guess, just a major step down for usability (accessing the “charms bar” on a mouse was particularly bad).
Early 10 was pretty stable, but very quickly deteriorated as they continued to shovel more bloat into Windows, spent more and more time working on spying/ads at the expense of other aspects of the OS, and had the bright idea of firing most of their testing team.
Windows 11 is basically the same in that regard. The instability of late-stage Win10, just with a lick of paint.
- Comment on Pay boost for millions of workers next year. 2 weeks ago:
That’s a larger increase than I was expecting, what, like 3x inflation?
It’s certainly not a magic silver bullet that singlehandedly fixes our low wage economy like a lot of people on Reddit/Lemmy appear to expect, but it’s a positive step at least.
I just really hope there’s serious infrastructure and employment investment, particularly in the seriously impoverished areas like the North East of England. And I hope their planning permission changes will actually have a noticeable effect. Time will tell.
- Comment on Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know why you’re trying to imply the “blackjack and hookers” Futurama joke that we see all the time in response to stories like this is some kind of xenophobic statement.
Trying that hard to be offended all the time must be exhausting.
- Comment on How The New York Times is using generative AI as a reporting tool 2 weeks ago:
Just wait 'til you see the robussy
- Comment on More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI. 2 weeks ago:
25% of all new code written at all? Sure, I guess.
25% of all new code that actually gets used in a real product, not just tested in an IDE? Bullshit.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 2 weeks ago:
Because they’re different things?
He says people are bigoted if they’re against people fucking children. That’s him saying having sex with children is a good thing.
Saying prohibition of alcohol is bad is different from saying alcohol is good.
Agreed. However if you said “I think it’s unfortunate alcohol is banned. If you are against consuming alcohol then you are a bigot.” Then that instead points to you believing alcohol is good.
That’s not equating alcohol and pedos
Yes it is.
Its an explanation of why I think he might have had an opinion
No it fucking isn’t. Having mild autism is not an explanation for thinking pinning down a four year old and giving them some dick is a good thing.
He believes that because he’s a sick fuck who believes in paedophilia. Not because of autism. Autism doesn’t make you like that at all.
The defense is that he admitted he was wrong and apologized
Yep, I’ve already covered this. He did a complete 180 2 days after it became apparent his job was on the line. It wasn’t genuine remorse, it was a last-ditch effort to save his own skin.
What? There are plenty of autistic people that have a wide variety of beliefs
Being autistic doesn’t cause you to believe raping kids is a good thing. Stop pretending it does. You must really hate autistic people if you’re willing to paint them with that brush.
No I didn’t, stop lying about me. Analogy is not equating, I have no clue why this has to be explained.
Yes you did.
Having a glass of wine is not like fucking a four year old. Stop.
He did not say its good, and he does now think the same as he said.
Yes he did. And his opinion has not changed.
I am tempted to think you’re trolling seeing as you’re ignoring what I actually wrote and instead just going for cheap attacks. Please stop engaging in bad faith.
I hope you’re trolling, because if not you’re a fucking psychopath who denies genocide and thinks keeping a toddler as a sex slave is morally equivelant to having a Heineken, and that both should be equally legal.
Please for the love of god be a troll.
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 2 weeks ago:
The point is, it can’t go further like in this Google case, because Google is abusing their dominant market position and Apple isn’t.
Google is doing something illegal. Apple is doing something legal, but anti-consumer.
That’s why I said in order to go after Apple, the US would first need something akin to the EU’s Digital Markets Act.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 2 weeks ago:
Never did either of those things.
Yes you did.
Why are you lying? I did not equate them
Yes you did.
My understanding is this is not true.
Your understanding could be that 2+2=5, but that does not make it so.
each change has weeks before introduction and is much more looked at.
That is impossible to do for the thousands of patches that get applied. Which is why maintainers have to be trusted. Ones working for sanctioned Russian companies cannot be.
They’re at least risking losing their real names reputation.
Do you think Russia cares about that? They’re happily conscripting young men into war. If they tell a maintainer to introduce a vulnerability otherwise their family will be killed, do you really think they’ll say “No. My name will then be tarnished in the Linux circle! I’d rather let myself and my family die than let that happen!”
I think this definition is not specific enough.
How convenient 🇷🇺. Regardless, that is the definition.
This itself doesn’t mean its a genocide,
I didn’t say it alone did. I said it as part of a bunch of other things.
Yes to the first, the second though do you have a source for?
Go look it up yourself, sealion. It won’t take you long.
Regardless, it’s another point in the genocide column.
Adopting orphaned children itself is not itself bad, just like an American adopting a baby born in China isn’t cultural repression
Of fuck off you genocide denialist.
Forcible mass abduction of children with the specific intent of destroying Ukrainian culture is not the same as a family adopting a child who happened to have been born in another country.
What the fuck is that equivalence? This is like your “child rape and drinking alcohol are both bad, but I don’t think the state should have the right to ban them” bullshit all over again.
How could you be defending something like that. Christ. Nazis did this.
Okay?
I see the blatant attempt at destroying all Ukrainian culture (i.e. committing genocide) means nothing to you.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 2 weeks ago:
He literally says it’s bad that child rape is illegal, then goes on about how if you’re against it you’re a bigot. In what world is that not him saying it’s good?
Saying you believe his is autistic is a disgusting defence. Being autistic doesn’t excuse believing it’s a good thing to have sex with children. Autistic people don’t believe that.
I did not equate them. But also don’t underestimate the damage alcohol has had on the world.
Yes you did equate them.
Having a glass of wine and pinning down your toddler and fucking him are NOT the same. Jesus Christ.
Child rape is bad, I have never denied that.
And Stallman doesn’t think the same. He thinks it’s good.
And yeah. You think it’s as bad as sipping a pint of ale…
- Comment on Smaller Mac mini Powered by M4 and M4 Pro Chips. 2 weeks ago:
Carbon neutral does not mean zero ecological impact, it means carbon neutral.
Usually in the form of using renewable power during production, and planting trees.
It’s very possible for something to be carbon neutral, even if some materials were mined.