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 What the Technofascists and Religious Fanatics Have in Common: End Days Theology 6 days 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 ? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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? 2 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 4 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 4 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 4 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? 5 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.
- Comment on Three Mile Island owner seeks $1.6 billion federal loan to restart nuclear plant for Microsoft AI facility 5 months ago:
Ok, so a business loan, no big deal. Oh … what’s this?
If Constellation received a federal loan guarantee, much of the risk attached to the project would be shifted to taxpayers in the event of a default. It also would reduce the borrowing costs needed to finance to the restart. The project still needs to obtain regulatory approvals to move forward and would require intensive safety oversight during and after the restart.
Well that doesn’t sound good, I would like some reassurance. Constellation, what say you?
“Rest assured that to the extent we may seek a loan, Constellation will guarantee full repayment,” the company’s statement said. “Any notion that taxpayers are taking on risk here is fanciful given that any loan will be backstopped by Constellation’s entire $80-billion-plus value.”
Ah good. A company that for sure is going to hold to its word and not shaft the state or tax payers. Great!
Due to the age of the plant, some experts have cautioned that the project may require significant investments in refurbishments and maintenance beyond the period of the restart.
“The $1.6 billion is just the start,” Mark Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, told the New Republic. “Microsoft will be asking for government handouts just like most all other aged nuclear reactor owners have asked in multiple states.”
Super, a for profit company worth 3.11 trillion USD (as of 1:25pm EDT) that just needs government handouts for it’s business based on choices it has made to further its own worth. That sounds great, I’m sure taxpayers will get a return on that investment right? Right??
In September, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro touted thousands of energy jobs that will be created by Constellation’s plans at Three Mile Island. Constellation, which plans to rename the facility the Crane Clean Energy Center, has claimed it will generate about $3 billion in state and federal tax revenue.
OK, so $3 billion minus $1.6 billion equals $1.4 billion, minus whatever Microsoft gets as a handout (likely equal to or more than $1.6 billion) equals potential negative billions? Yay capitalism! I’m so happy that the US is willing to help small businesses like this.