TheFogan

@TheFogan@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One of the most popular movies in theatres right now is about an illegal alien⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… has there ever been a movie about an alien that goes through proper migration paperwork.

  Course I’m up for the next predator movie having that intro. "These species specifically only have interest in earth because they like to hunt humans and rip their spines out.

  Yeah true, but he bought a gold immigration card for a million dollars so. Welcome to america!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OF alternative fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see how anyone can blame you for this oppinion, and I’ll happily say I agree 100%. It’s basically known for a fact that anywhere sex work is unregulated, unmonitored etc… are almost universally used by traffickers, underage participants etc… and if we are talking video hosting, then revenge porn etc… Gotta fully agree, this is the category I want the site operators across the board to have the government breathing down their neck saying “You better damn well do everything humanly possible to prove this video was made with uncoerced consent of someone old enough to make that choice”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In old movies, it's only creepy rich people who have cameras in their house watching everything. Now everybody's creepy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the rich people part is kind of silly.

  In the past it was only rich people who had celphones, now it’s everybody. Before that it was only rich people who had computers at all.

  Of course with cameras, I do have to note the bigger irony to me. IE I remember it largely being the tin foil hat nerds that were terrified of the government showing up at their door, watching for black hellicopters.

  Now of course, the typical home buyer has cameras with internet access that gleefully share everything to the government, while the tinfoil hats either go way out of their way to make sure to get cameras that don’t go to the internet (or block them from doing so), or just avoid them altogether.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say it partly depends on where you live… or where you plan to live. Bottom line is in the US anywhere that isn’t a big city. Being able to drive is basically going to be a pre-requisite to having a job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You can continue to access subscription services (even trials) after cancelation until the next billing cycle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Want to add in a potential extra as well… even if you DO find a service good and worth continuing to use, It’s a good idea to try and cancel it anyway. Why, because a lot have special automations to attempt to retain you by offering you deals.

  “are you sure you want to leave, what if we gave you 3 months at half off?”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah but I believe the idea is in short the uncertainty, why it’s saying “in 10 years”. Think of it now as you have a kid graduating high school this year, and asks you what to major in in college that’s likely to make enough to pay off those killer loans it’s going to take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but even now you can go back and play Majora’s mask, and it not feel bad.

  But as mentioned the real thing is consistancy, as well as the scale of action, pace of the game etc… Zelda games weren’t sharp pinpoint control games like say a modern FPS. Gameplay was fairly slow. and yeah second factor is simply games that were 20FPS, were made to be a 100% consistant 20 FPS. A game locked in at 20, will feel way smoother than one that alternates between 60 and 45

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨/r/conservative huffing copium⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the idea that dem’s will completely welcome him back if he says “hey I’m anti-trump now… I care about climate change again aren’t you glad to have me back on your side”, as if we are all that stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Jordan Peterson both a Christian and not a Christian?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s dumber is the video origionally was called 1 christian vs 20 atheists, and you see in the video at least one atheist brought up the video title that they all knew before they started. (In other words, Jordan Peterson specifically volunteered to play the christian in a video that when he agreed to it was called, 1 christian vs 20 atheists) Then later demanded they rename the video.

  But further its simple, JP preffers to attack people’s specific stances, from a nebulous position where he never has to give his own stance because he can’t defend his own stance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly it sounds like the opposite. I’ve been there before… having feelings for someone but not being able to act on them. Feeling complete jealousy when she begins dating someone else, it can fucking hurt big time. People can say it’s selfish or whatever, but honestly the feeling can tear the hell out of someone, and it’s better for both parties to cut ties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a person use AI or whatever and get rid of their name and history off the net? And can it create a new ident with a bunch of history pictures and so forth?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, it can try but honestly at the end of the day most things are roughly equivelant to tracking down the sites, and hoping they actually remove things when asked. Some services try this, and do an OK job of it usually, but there will always be bad actors and archives of everything you have.

  Creating bogus history etc… very plausible, but also most likely will still be tracable to the idea that none of it was there before a certain date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex now will SELL your personal data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly why on so many things it’s like… even when it looks like they are getting it, they don’t get it. Kind of like watching bluesky rising right now. Unless I’m majorly missing something here. It looks like it’s kind of open and kind of federated…

  Except in a form that no one can feasibly create their own node. One change in leadership or goals of leadership away, and it can turn into the same neo nazi trash that people are joining it to get away from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Into the meat grinder!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the star trek transporter debate is more apt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Into the meat grinder!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No actually works on more. If you grind a human into a seive into salt water, pour the salt water into a busy walkway.

  After forensics is done in there… the cleanup crew also organizes it into sponges, Mops… and all kinds of tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trakt Upcoming VIP Renewal Pricing Changes – Effective May 20, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Less for tracking watched statuses… and more for say using kodi with addons like thecrew and similar that stream shows from torrents etc… that currently allow you to have a page that is a list of shows/movies on your trakt tv, and you can select from there to watch them.

  Marking things as watched is pretty far down on the list of features I care about. Having the addons put new episodes up and have a quick list of my shows rather than having to search them on my firestick using the god awful remote to type in the names and search for them… and actually having it syncronized on my network, would be the main feature I’d like to use anything else for.

  Unfortunately I’d guess the first and foremost part of that is, it will need to start with the addons actually adding support for something other than trakt to do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trakt Upcoming VIP Renewal Pricing Changes – Effective May 20, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wish the kodi addons would start working with overseer/jellyseer or something similar, it seems to me the tech is there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI will replace routine — freeing people for creativity.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and, besides that… creativity? so you can make art, that will serve as training data for the AIs that will be taking all the creativity jobs.

  I mean yeah in a world where UBI is a thing, where food, clothing and basic shelter are a given, working is an extra if you want to live a fancier life… the idea of AI/machinery taking the majority of the jobs and most people just moving to creative pursuits and passion projects is the utopia concept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Disqualifying no… though I would say it’s a disadvantage, just as being a woman is. IMO it’s a bigger disadvantage than being a woman, in the fact that more religious groups are outright opposed to gay people being allowed to be out.

  So in short, it could win the democratic primary in theory. It would take an especially weaker than normal republican candidate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too… well using linux is technically opting out to that right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are popes always really old?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d think there’s not much reason for that… I mean, the god they believe in famously selected a lot of unqualified crazy people. Noah an alchoholic, David couldn’t keep it in his pants, and had to arrange the death of one of his best soldiers to deal with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typical conservative non-sense. Complete detachment from reality. An insult to your intelligence. A complete lack of self awareness. I must have misread this nonsense because it's insane.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yes because the right to not raise a kid you can’t afford, is a rich people problem not an average Joe problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Future generations will look at people who fear AI/Robots the same as how we today view people who fear other races/ethnicities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah was going to say, there’s certainly aversion to tech that can be paralleled assuming AI has a positive future state. But yeah, WIFI, Cellphones, television, radio waves, all things people feared without propor understanding, that are now standard parts of reality.

  If hypothetically AI etc… gets close to actual sentience, artificial life may begin the culture war of attempting for personhood, fight for rights etc… in which case there will be a discussion, and assuming like all past personhood battles in the end AI is decided to have reached actual status of living… then yes those who are late to the bandwaggon and continuing to fight will be viewed just like our racists homophobes etc… But there is very little evidence that any current day AI has anything resembling feelings, wants desires etc… and just because this may be the predicessor to an AI that will. doesn’t make hating chatgpt any worse than hating a doorbell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It always seems like its time to move to linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean pretty sure winrar runs just fine on WINE.

  Though perhaps it’s about seeing how many years into the 40 day trial you can go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It always seems like its time to move to linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The actual history of the meme… it started as an MS paint sketch where they were looking to a flat earth. With just the first saying “WTF it’s flat” one behind saying “sorry fam”. The more popular follow up was one where they were looking, except the only land mass on earth was a giant state of ohio, and second astronaut responded with “always has been”.

  Oh as far as the idea that they didn’t look at it in transit, no idea… though I suppose it’s more reasonable that this is the first spacewalk or whatever. Would imagine most the trip up, you’d be looking ahead rather than back at earth. Also I suppose depends on the subtletly or lack there of of what earth is “all”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the odds of a person getting poisoned by food delivery driver? How would the odds change if the person is a public figure (such as Twitch Streamers)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  More importantly even then… IE there’s absolutely been cases of streamers attracting crazy stalkers etc…

  But proportionally they are extremely few. Would be insanely unlikely for the kind of person that’s obsessed with them, also being a door dash driver, happening to have come across the streamers address. (from my recolection of my very brief time helping my GF door dash, when deciding which jobs to take, you only get the restraunt and the distance, only learn where the delivery is going after.

  So hypothetically even if I knew Logan Pauls address. I’d have to camp out near restaurants near him… time my working when he might be ordering, guess which restaurant he’s ordering from… Honestly it seems like a plan that would take years to hit all the boxes to go with… probably more efficiant to camp out on streets I think he’d walk down or break in to his house the old fashioned way if I already had that level of information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy because the standards… in short the democratic party would be considered far right of acceptable in their country… our republicans would just be laughed out as so fringe it’s ridiculous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that is a current weakness that’s being worked on, I’m seeing requests of more or less that github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4485

  to make it federate or block, but unless I’m missing much newer updates, that is kind of the problem. My guess is on the whole it mostly resolves itself as… he probably will piss off the mods of cafe eventually as well, and the limited audience of only being visible to cafe would result in a near shadow ban effect to mostly starve them out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s my understanding of it, I’m not an expert so… I’m only giving 70% confidence in my answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Put simply, Lets say hypothetically he’s like you on lemmy.cafe.

  and we’ll say he’s posting to to lemmy.world/c/memes which he was banned from.

  His post will show up to lemmy.cafe users connected to memes… but his posts will only show up on the lemmy.cafe version of memes. When cafe federates back to world, world will just ignore the posts and not share them.

  In addition they won’t be seen by, lets say programming.dev here, while it hasn’t banned this person, it’s looking to world for it’s copy of the community, which will not have your friends posts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“It Wouldn’t Be Surprising If, in Two Years’ Time, There Was a Film Made Completely Through AI”: Says Hayao Miyazaki’s Own Son⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean the concept seems pretty obvious. Obviously it won’t be supprising when a film is made completely through AI… What will be suprising will be if it doesn’t suck.

  I find it weird that this is being viewed as a difference between the 2, when to me the quotes seem pretty much the same. IE the father

  father: “I see you did this, it’s terrible and I want nothing to do with it, it’s an insult to life”.

  Son: “I don’t think it’s unlikely people will make a movie entirely through AI, whether anyone will want to see it is anyone’s guess”.

  I don’t see any quotes from the son on his opinion of quality, and if anything I see skepticism towards quality. I don’t think anyone can deny, a lot of people are going to try really hard to make full movies entirely from AI. That’s as obvious of a statement as “people will try to make cars that drive themselves”.