TimLovesTech
@TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social
Hi I’m Tim.
I"m AuADHD - officially diagnosed ADHD and self-diagnosed (for now) with ASD. I also suffer from a great deal of Imposter Syndrome.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 1 week ago:
All good! The internet makes it even harder to tell because I can’t “read” anyone over the ether.
- Comment on Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!! 1 week ago:
I don’t think they need to make their games FOSS to do right by the consumer. If you have an online game and no longer want to support the server part, it would be super cool to share that code, but at the very least companies shouldn’t be trying to shut down community servers. The same goes for the game itself, the source code would be very cool, but not going after people who still want to play the game they’ve chosen to no longer support seems reasonable.
If a company is ending support their ability to enforce copyright should also end, outside of people that are trying to profit off trying to resell the game as their own (which probably doesn’t happen all that much).
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 1 week ago:
By 2035 we could be under water, or all living in a radioactive hellscape. And the argument of paying people to use a free service breaks logic.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 1 week ago:
Well a bunch of them are using WSL to do their work, which isn’t the same, but shows how many people are just stuck with a Windows.
In StackOverflow 2024 survey ~17% of both professional and personal use users were using WSL.
Source: StackOverflow 2024 Survey
- Comment on Software is evolving backwards 2 weeks ago:
I’m not clicking on what looks like an AI slop YouTube video just to find out why a guy making a video about AI needed to use AI to make the video. Beyond seeing clippy for nostalgia, seeing that it’s likely a video about MS I care even less.
If you actually thought it was a video of value, you could have written (or just copy/pasta) a description of the video and why it might be of interest.
- Comment on Software is evolving backwards 2 weeks ago:
What? He kinda broke a finger and then suddenly needed to use AI? His one bad finger prevented him using the other 9? He couldn’t speech-to-text it?
Or did AI break his finger to get him to make the video?!
- Comment on Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone 4 weeks ago:
Trump like a mob boss keeps the “heat” away from him as much as possible. He’ll let his cult army march around with their swastikas, and if asked “knows nothing about it”. And he’ll turn around and instruct the same people he doesn’t know anything about to “stand back and stand by”.
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 4 weeks ago:
How could we have known, that putting the people making the profit in charge of regulation would lead to this!? /s
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 5 weeks ago:
The GitHub page has a section for this:
Exempted Code
Not all source code, documentation and metadata used in the development of Direct File is included in this repository. Specifically, any code or data that is considered Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Federal Tax Information (FTI), Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU), or source code developed for National Security Systems (NSS), as defined in 40 U.S.C. § 11103, is exempt. Due to these restrictions, certain pieces of functionality have been removed or rewritten.
- Comment on On the Day He Was Fired as National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz Used an Israeli App to Archive Signal Messages 2 months ago:
He isn’t even gone from the government, Trump is moving him to be ambassador to the U.N.
And this isn’t happening because of what he did, but because he got caught. He put on display how none of Trump’s hires have any qualifications, and that he is a complete idiot with his denial story. He was then proven even dumber when his claims of no classified material were again proven to be wrong by the reporter publishing proof.
- Comment on I wonder what the specs are on the technology that disables shopping cart wheels 2 months ago:
It sounds like something you could accomplish with a device like the Flipper Zero.
- Comment on Facebook’s Zuckerberg oversaw censorship tool for China: whistleblower. 2 months ago:
The robotic amoral Zuckerberg that we have come to know as a villain, surely not that one!?
- Comment on What the Technofascists and Religious Fanatics Have in Common: End Days Theology 3 months ago:
It’s the whole reason the racist Right “supports” Israel. It’s not that they believe Jews should be treated equally, but that they need them to bring about their armageddon.
- Comment on How come there is enough asphalt for speed bumps, but not enough to fill potholes ? 4 months ago:
I’m not a road engineer, but it takes more conditioning of the road around the hole to patch (due to thermal events and traffic speed - especially in the US NE for example). A poorly filled pothole doesn’t remain filled very long if done poorly, but even if done well it may only last until the next winter. This then becomes the financial debate of patch vs replacement of road sections.
- Comment on Microsoft Outlook servers down, reports say 4 months ago:
MS seems to have a lot of outages lately. Maybe they should put more of the IT budget in servers/staffing, and less in AI and Windows nonsense.
- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 4 months ago:
I wish I could, but personally not knowing would be a greater mental load then having to process this run away train of fascism.
- Comment on Decentralised social media offers an alternative to big tech platforms like X and Meta. How does it work? Podcast 4 months ago:
You implied that my anti-Nazi comment from a different post was somehow a negative, thus making this thread about Nazis/fascism. It was a poor example of what I think you wanted to convey in terms of how you see political discourse on Lemmy.
You also for some reason see Nazis the same as people that disagree or down vote you about browser choice. That seems like a giant leap, and conflating the two is painting Lemmy with a broad brush. They are two wildly different issues and deserve different discussions as to why.
And my original comment came from someone that just stated that Fediverse was worse than the Commercial versions that are havens for fascists. And also the fact they track you around the Internet. So I did ask the question, and now you’re trying to turn this into some kind of douche wagon rodeo apparently.
- Comment on Decentralised social media offers an alternative to big tech platforms like X and Meta. How does it work? Podcast 4 months ago:
I took your comment to mean you didn’t think we had enough Nazis on Lemmy, to which I will respond hostile towards. If you are anti-Nazi then you should not use the idea of an anti-Nazi comment to illustrate this fake idea of to narrow of political viewpoints on Lemmy.
Also, debating fascism is a whole different thing than people giving you shit over your choice of browser or Lemmy client. You shouldn’t conflate the two.
- Comment on Decentralised social media offers an alternative to big tech platforms like X and Meta. How does it work? Podcast 4 months ago:
So you are saying Lemmy can’t compete because we don’t have enough Nazis? Weird take.
This fallacy that you can have a wide range of viewpoints anymore is dead, and is parroted by folks that miss the days of yelling at people on the Internet. However, Trump has taken his cult far enough Right they are beyond meaningful discussion/debate. You can’t debate things that aren’t even based in reality, and when you call them on it they dismiss it as hearsay/honest mistake/do your research.
For example, the media called Musk on his quote of the US sending $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza. His response was nonsense.
"Some of the things that I say will be incorrect, and should be corrected. So, nobody’s going to bat a thousand. I mean, any – you know, we will make mistakes, but we’ll act quickly to correct any mistakes.”
- Comment on Decentralised social media offers an alternative to big tech platforms like X and Meta. How does it work? Podcast 4 months ago:
In which regard? Not enough Nazis? Not enough analytics following you around the net building a profile on you?
- Comment on Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse 4 months ago:
True, but this also corporate America that needs to chase users to make the graph go up. New users will come or they won’t, I think chasing them is a fool’s errand.
- Comment on Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse 4 months ago:
Same here for 99% of the time, Sync for Lemmy is how I see and prefer this type of site.
- Comment on Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse 4 months ago:
I am almost certainly not the “normal” user, but the default theme is much better usability wise than the “p” version. The one would have me looking for an alternative UI/app.
- Comment on Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
And looking to get some of that sweet AI money President Musk and VP Trump are giving out to I’m sure.
- Comment on Count on it 6 months ago:
This just had me think of “Ten Crack Commandments” by The Notorious B.I.G. as he samples that.
- Comment on Lesser known federated service? 6 months ago:
Probably for most of the same reasons that IRC isn’t mentioned for fediverse chat, the main one being that they don’t use one of the newer federation protocols. They don’t talk the same federation protocol language, so you can’t really group them under the same category.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 7 months ago:
Well…I don’t know why you included Twitter on that list, as they’ve NEVER been part of the fediverse.
I included it because the article title included it, and I agreed it never would be. I then went farther and said I don’t consider any of those beside Mastodon to be Fediverse because they all are corporations creating platforms for shareholders, NOT users.
It would be like saying “Dominos doesn’t make pizza. It has never been a pizza company”. With your logic being that you don’t like their pizza. Doesn’t make it true just because YOU don’t eat the pizza.
To use your analogy, It’s actually more like they have the appearance of a pizza-like substance, but eating it you know it’s not pizza and never will be because it’s made of human waste.
Because nobody owns the fediverse. Which means if I sell an ad on my instance, all federated instances will see the ad. Sure, you could defederate from my instance. But what would happen right now if lemmy.world sold ads? Is every instance going to defederate from the biggest instance, with the majority of communities? That would essentially break the fediverse.
If it was pushing ads, absolutely! I believe the majority of us came to the fediverse to escape the ads/corporate enshitification, so the moment this stuff starts creeping in we can all just defederate them. Every admin knowing this would be the outcome I think also helps keep the fediverse “honest” as well.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 7 months ago:
Twitter was already really bad, Musk just brought back the Nazis and fired all the people that were the guardrails.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 7 months ago:
I do not see Twitter, Threads, or BlueSky as any part of the Fediverse since they are all for profit corporations. Fediverse is about being free of the corporate overlords.
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 8 months ago:
Yeah, I think for 99% of people tech has really stopped evolving and we have allowed corporate bean counters to lock shit down and then abandon it. When the nerds ran the show we had innovation and constant improvement of a product because technology is awesome. Then capitalism killed it. Now you get a cool car with a shit infotainment system outdated and never updated the day you take delivery, when we could have some crazy shit with badass HUDs and sensors for everything. We could make it harder for assholes on the road to try and kill everyone. We could make all cars in the area aware of the road hazard driving 45 in a 55 during rush hour. None of that stuff makes the line graph go up though, so we wait for the next nerd with money and a desire to create the future.