ChairmanMeow

@ChairmanMeow@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  AI bros aren’t that smart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t think they can vote if they’re not a citizen, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exercises should i do at the gym to correct winged scapula and rounded shoulders?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The form required for deadlifts basically requires you to stand up straight. It’s actually helped me personally to get a better standing form.

  Definitely have someone explain and help you with your form though. It can be hard to tell for an inexperienced person if their form is good, and bad form is risky when deadlifting.

  The weight doesn’t even have to be that high, it’s all about learning the proper form, which helps you realize a better posture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no evidence afaik for extensive Russian meddling in the Dutch elections. Our electoral system makes it difficult for foreign meddling to have any extensive impact. The far-right hasn’t really grown much here, it consolidated into a single party. They’re also not explicitly pro-Russia either.

  They’re stuck in a coalition government with three other parties and really haven’t made much of an impact at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At the request of the Turkish government, X blocks access to student and opposition accounts amid nationwide protests.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. When a right-wing government asks, he complies. When a left-wing government does, he sues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s sarcasm mate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But isn’t that part of making the reader explore and experience the world of magic, just like Harry is? There’s no narrator here who already knows everything, you’re experiencing the stories through the eyes of Harry, and only really know what he knows. In that context, it doesn’t really make sense to have these early clues. The reader can’t anticipate everything because Harry can’t either.

  Magic in general is just a plot device that can do whatever the author needs it to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure Olivander already mentions when Harry chooses his wand that it’s basically a twin of Voldemort’s, and in the subsequent books it’s explained that that + Lily’s magic is causing plenty of weird things to happen, including what happens in book 4. Sure, the exact reason why it happens is still “magic” but that goes for most magic systems if you delve deep enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit tracking upvotes for mod actions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mods can take subs private temporarily if they notice brigading. They can also contact admins who could use other tools at their disposal. Not fun, but effective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit tracking upvotes for mod actions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Admins and mods have other tools to deal with those issues. But given that Reddit is a corporation it will likely also remove content that are in a murky area rules-wise, or given the current political climate selectively apply the rules. That creates a risk for redditors who try to use the site legitimately as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly the photography market as far as I know, those raw images take up a lot of space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit tracking upvotes for mod actions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What Reddit believes to be “bad content” has historically been a little dubious. So I can understand people are apprehensive about this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure the reasoning behind that was given in book 1.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see people enter with left signal flashing and then they’ll take the 3rd exit (out of 4 total).

  Pretty sure that’s how you’re supposed to signal. In most places it’s not a legal requirement but it is recommended and taught by most driving instructors.

  Although I do assume they switch to their right signal before taking their exit. If they don’t, then yeah that’s wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tuta would also be required to implement a backdoor in their encryption if this law passes. In this post they’ve stated they will refuse to do so, because it’s not possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the biggest issue is that if you already need to separate payments, returns, shipping, etc… you’re left with a shop that also advertises products for other shops, possibly competitors. Then the question becomes… why bother federating at all?

  I think it’d be better to set up a FOSS shopping platform, eg something that competes with WooCommerce or the likes. That’s significantly easier from a financial and legal perspective, and I think it’s an easier sell to actual merchants (why pay a license for that shit, use this one for freeee). Then once you have that running, you could think about optional federation as an addition to an already well-functioning platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in the IT department for a fairly large payment service provider. I can tell you now that you seem to be vastly underestimating both the financial aspect of this as well as several legal aspects.

  • Federation would almost certainly have to be opt-in rather than opt-out. I don’t think you’re going to pass KYC checks for any PSP if it’s opt-out, the risk of someone (ever so briefly) selling illegal goods through your website is too great otherwise. Stripe would just shut down your account (if they even let you open it), PayPal probably won’t let you open it at all.

  • Selling goods from other sites through your own, makes you liable for any returns, warranty claims etc… Simply “passing these on” isn’t going to cut it. If the other site disagrees with the customer claim, you are on the hook for it, because it was sold through your website.

  • The financial logistics aspect here is really complex. If you’re going to process payments on behalf of another site, you have to deal with reconciliation. After reconciliation you have to the send the money to the other shop, incurring additional (sometimes surprisingly sizeable) fees. And coming from someone who deals with (automated) reconciliation on a daily basis, every payment method does it differently and they all find extremely creative ways to mess up your systems. And that includes unannounced changes, mistakes, random unexplained fees, failure to deliver settlement files, etc…

  • How do you deal with the risk of scam instances? E.g. instance A tells instance B that a product was sold and the payment was processed. B sends it out, but it turns out the customer was the owner of A, and there was no payment at all. B just lost a product with very little chance of getting it back.

  • Then there’s practical aspects. How do you deduplicate products in search? Or will you have dozens of listings for the exact same product?

  The only remotely viable way I see this working is if only search is actually federated. Once you are on a product page, you can only pay using the payment page of the instance that has the product. You won’t be able to pay for products of multiple instances at once, and you might lose some unified styling. But at least that approach has a chance of passing KYC and deals with all the legal issues regarding returns/warranties etc…, and it reduces the scam risk because you’re in charge of your own payments. But at that point, you’ve only federated product search and nothing else, and then as a consumer you might as well just Google it instead.

  I appreciate you have experience in running a business, but running a marketplace, especially a very complicated one, is really not like running a usual business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like this is far too dismissive for a comment that was in my eyes fairly constructive. He correctly pointed out that one of Amazon’s main selling points is their whole logistics division. A federated website doesn’t have that. So either:

  • You somehow also start doing logistics, or
  • You provide a good reason why shops don’t actually care about Amazon’s logistics all that much, and how they could to it themselves instead.

  Maybe you could actually address the core of his criticism instead of outright dismissing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get ya every time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My girlfriend’s uncle is mentally handicapped and has severe autism. He’s very friendly and wouldn’t hurt a fly, and I sincerely believe he’s a good person.

  I would never rely on him in a combat situation, as he’d likely get me killed by accident.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Switzerland was a part of the wars of the 2nd, 5th and 6th coalition against Napoleon against the British.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if that’d work. Do a crowdfunding for certain legislation, and pay it out to whoever votes for it (with a bonus for whoever first proposes the legislation). Dystopian as fuck, but perhaps worth an experiment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blahaj? I'd be curious what led to this decision.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t entirely agree with this.

  banned when you go to what’s meant to be a safe space

  He said he wasn’t in a thread on Blahaj. He was just on Lemmy.

  misgender people despite being asked to stop

  But if he considers dude gender neutral (which is a fairly common view), then he didn’t misgender anyone. Straight from Wikipedia:

  In the early 1960s, dude became prominent in surfer culture as a synonym of guy or fella. The female equivalent was “dudette” or “dudess”, but these have both fallen into disuse and “dude” is now also used as a unisex term. This more general meaning of “dude” started creeping into the mainstream in the mid-1970s.

  So it seems he was falsely accused of misgendering someone, and when he clarified how he uses slang, said use wasn’t respected.

  Ofc I haven’t seen his actual comment and it’s entirely possible he was a total dick about it, but based on his explanation I feel it’s a bit of an overreaction to moderate him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supreme Commander HelpLine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumably it does run through Wine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA releases another shameless IP flip with Sims 1/2 Legacy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You lose out on the reviews of people who tap out after a couple hours of constant crashing and bugs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA releases another shameless IP flip with Sims 1/2 Legacy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The games were free for a long time, and a community patch made them work. That was a significantly better deal than having to pony up 40 bucks for an EA patch that’s barely functional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA releases another shameless IP flip with Sims 1/2 Legacy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of bugs that crash the game. It’s barely functional for most. Just look at the Steam reviews.

  These games were free before, and with a community patch were still playable. This rerelease somehow got a worse patch than the community patch and costs 40 bucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Webrips mate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t Use Session (Signal Fork)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So borked in fact that the author’s fursona face-palmed in response.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Journalist asking the hard questions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Georgia and Moldova both are struggling against Russian influences in their elections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not true. Infinite doesn’t mean “all”. There are an infinite amount of numbers between 0 and 1, but none of them are 2. There’s a high statistical probability, sure, but it’s not necessarily 100%.