theparadox

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just work a little harder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Free access to healthcare goes a long way, and it changes the system in a number of ways.

  In America, imagine an entire parasitical industry exists. It exists by collecting money from people in exchange for offering them access to healthcare. The more treatment someone receives, the less profit that industry makes. The more hurdles they place between a patient and the services they need, the more money they make.

  Imagine having a medical condition but knowing that if you lose your job, you might lose access to the treatment for your condition.

  If you are poor enough here in the US, you might qualify for MEDICAID. Depending on where you live, you likely have to jump through a ton of arbitrary hoops to keep your coverage. If you get a job, maybe a raise or extra hours, even a slightly better job? You might lose your MEDICAID.

  Or some politician decides to cut the optional state expansion to MEDICAID. With less income from these sources, the only hospital near you might decide it’s not profitable to stay open and now you have to travel an extra hour or two to the nearest hospital.

  It doesn’t need to be a utopia. It just needs to be better than this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we now protesting that they reversed their decision?

  …no? I’m not really protesting so much as offering what I think the other person is trying to say. I think they are saying that Google crossed a line, and walking it back doesn’t change that fact.

  In my opinion, Google has crossed countless lines over the last 5-10 years. I’m looking for alternatives that meet my own needs. That search has accelerated over the last few years, when the things Google has done have been most egregious. This isn’t a protest. This is disillusionment. I’m abandoning ship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had a pretty good experience with it aside from this recent problem with my phone. It’s a big deal right now - I have a number of self hosted services I use on my phone. When I left it enabled, it would happen multiple times a day, though it would get fixed if I just quickly disable-enable it… at least until it randomly happens again in an hour or two.

  Unfortunately, my mother has been having a number of health issues so there is no fucking way I’m going to risk missing calls and texts…so I just deal with being disconnected for now. I really wish there was a solution or something I could do to figure out what’s going wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had to stop using it. In the last few months I have more and more suddenly lost all connectivity outside of my tailscale network. I tried excluding apps but I still will randomly fail to receive SMS or calls, suddenly getting them delivered in a rush when a disconnect from tailscale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it was fairly obvious that the move was going to piss people off, they just misjudged to what extent. Modern business strategy is to claim to listen to customer feedback and just quietly plan to implement it anyway, just do it more subtly, more quietly, and more slowly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is very hard to make a device that is affordable, compact, efficiently cooled, and modular. Offering complete support is also infinitely more difficult when hardware is not controlled for. GPU and CPU are both customized AMD chips.

  If you want to swap your GPU, build your own SFF. Hopefully they’ll have SteamOS available for general use soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why all the free-stuff Facebook groups you’re part of just changed their name⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Much of it was all posted in a short period of time. I ignored him after he picked it up and told me what it was for. I’m just always saddened and frustrated that there seem to always be people jumping to take advantage of any situation, be a middle man.

  In the long run, it’s again at least better than wasting it. I don’t have the patience to deal with trying to sell most things. It’s not like I went out and bought the stuff with the intent of giving them away to someone who needs it for free. It just… doesn’t feel as rewarding as knowing it is actually going to help someone besides a middle man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why all the free-stuff Facebook groups you’re part of just changed their name⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was honestly really put off when some old guy nabbed a ton of stuff I had on there so that he could sell it all at his church’s fundraising auctions. Like, I’d rather not throw it away but eww.

  He was almost always the first to respond to my posts when I was trying to downsize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Had an issue with Comcast today. They forced me to use their Xfinity app, but what I needed to do wasn’t an apparent option within the app. The only option I saw was a support chatbot. The chatbot listed a link to the option I was looking for. The link opened a webview within the Xfinity app, in which there was a link to download the Xfinity app.

  Unnecessary Apps and chat bots. Two of my least favorite things referring me back and forth, forever, in an endless loop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the hoops… [they]… make you jump through with regard to layering

  I played around with a few atomic distros and it seems like rather than layering, running things in containers is the preferred solution.

  It won’t be the solution for everything that layering could “fix”, depending on your situation, but it is something that I wasn’t initially aware of when I started playing with Bazzite, Fedora Atomic, and now Aurora.

  Basically, if you could just run whatever you need to run in a container, that might be another solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Just Fired Over 30 Employees From UK and Canada in an Attempt of Union-Busting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Money, or more importantly the power and privilege that money provides, has always been more important than humanity, if you have enough of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Just Fired Over 30 Employees From UK and Canada in an Attempt of Union-Busting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s extremely profitable. If you have a problem with that, I’ll fucking ruin your life. If you look like you might be able to make ruining your life difficult and it’ll cost me a lot to ruin your life, I’ll just save myself the trouble and spend it to give you enough to make you forget what you were upset about. It’s a cost benefit analysis, really. Yay capitalism!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So once again, it’s capitalism. Surprise surprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tire of this life⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least until the corrupting force of micro-plastic-capitalism causes your house to get seized and you must begin the adventure of a lifetime to retrieve it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s at the point where it helps people code more easily, but maybe I’m just exclusively experiencing edge cases and turning to it for the wrong uses. I’ve only had failures. Hallucinations that waste my time, and flawed algorithms.

  My favorite was a few weeks ago when I was having a rough day and needed a complicated algorithm to make a decision based on an inputted date. I told it that if I plug in value A to its algorithm, the answer is wrong. It went step by step explaining its "reasoning"and it returned the correct answer and then at the pivotal step it plugged in a different year than was in A, for just that step, and then proceeded to confirm to itself that if you plug in A, you get the right answer.

  Maybe someday it will help, or maybe some problems it is useful for, I’ve just never had that experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, my partner loves BTBAM. I was going to mention them as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know Plini, will check out The Omnific!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another great band!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Arch Echo
  Intervals
  I’m also a fan, I just didn’t want to go too nuts with my list because I needed to get to sleep! I’ll check out the rest.

  Also; I think mentioning Protest the Hero in the context of instrumental music does a HUGE disservice to Rody Walker’s vocal talents and lyrics.

  Agreed. I honestly mentioned PtH just to mention them. I often can’t work to their music because my brain fills in their vocals for me, which is sometimes too distracting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. Even high level languages will consistently produce the same results. There may be low level differences depending on the compiler and the system’s architecture but if those are consistent you will get the same results.

  AI coding isn’t an extremely human readable higher level programming language. Using an LLM to generate code adds a literal black box and the interpretation of the user and LLM’s human language (which humans can’t even do consistently) to the equation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love working with instrumental metal, typically prog or “djenty” stuff, in the background. Sometimes a bit of post-rock.

  I was surprised how many of us there are. A lot of “professionals” I know listen to metal. Engineers, developers, IT folks. It will randomly come up and everyone will say something along the lines of “Oh, really, you too?”

  Been listening to a lot of Their Dogs Were Astronauts recently. In the interest of sharing my personal favorites bands to work to, because I found a number of them from random mentions in forums:
  Their Dogs Were Astronauts (mostly instrumental)
  Wide Eyes (mostly instrumental)
  Caligula’s Horse (instrumental only tracks available)
  Polyphia (mostly instrumental) Protest The Hero (instrumental only tracks available)
  TesseracT (instrumental only tracks available)
  Apocalyptica (started covering Metallica as cellos quartet instrumentals, now has a number of original songs with guest vocalists)
  Collapse Under The Empire (post rock, mostly instrumental)
  Parhelia (post rock, mostly instrumental)
  Opeth (occasional instrumental tracks, started as death metal, evolved into more prog metal)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simpler times?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This was kind of me in early high school. There was this badass goth chick who, looking back, was very likely “flirting” with me quite a bit. Admittedly, I had my own absurd style that definitely had shades of goth too.

  I recall she bit my arm so hard she drew blood… on more than one occasion. I absolutely had a thing for her so I didn’t mind. She was a grade or two older and had a boyfriend who was either from another town, dropped out, or already graduated. I’d never met or seen him though. Me and her did hang out a few times in random secluded places after school or during down time but nothing romantic ever happened - just talking.

  Looking back on it as a more mature adult, and vaguely recalling her stories, I am pretty sure she had a fucked up childhood and home life. I wouldn’t be surprised if the boyfriend situation was more fucked up than I realized.

  Shortly after graduating high school, I met some people who actually knew the guy (he had allegedly been their dealer a few years prior lol) and apparently I looked a lot like him, only I was a few inches taller and less skinny. The number of times I was mistaken for him was crazy. I guess she had a type? I hope she’s doing ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the problem: SCOTUS more or less Ok’d the previously illegal “pocket rescission”.

  This means the administration can literally decide to not fund anything appropriated by Congress. That makes negotiations for funding anything pointless. There has to be a line somewhere. At least (for now I think) the administration can’t fund things without congressional approval. It’s literally the only leverage Democrats have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Friday, Oct 3 is one of those sales… tomorrow as of this comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deaf people get to avoid a lot of arguments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  During one ASL argument I witnessed, outside a Six Flags if I remember correctly, I saw something that stuck with me. One person literally turned their back from the other person. It never really struck me until then that it’s so hard to ignore someone yelling at you, but all you have to do with ASL is not look.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marriage is FOMO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree but I think there is more too it. Many forces working in tandem to push people into marriage.

  Most simply, marriage is glorified by society. It’s considered the ultimate declaration of love (within normal circumstances). Humans often feel the emotion so strongly and wish to express it. Society tells them this is how they should do it. It’s also viewed as an achievement or a measure of love by many societies. You aren’t committed (married)? Do you have cold feet? Do you not love them enough to marry them?

  I may be viewed as one of those people for saying it, but there are a lot of pressures to conform to those around you. There is a certain life script - a series of things that those around you have done and expect you to do because… that’s just what you do. You find someone, get married, have kids, etc. If you don’t do these things or take too long to do these things you are defacto weird. You’ll be slowly ostracized, gossiped about, avoided, suspected. You won’t share the life experiences of those around it. It will be awkward. You won’t fit in unless you manage to find enough atypical people to surround yourself with.

  Also, most governments create a society where it is beneficial to marry, to encourage stable families and population growth. Certain circumstances can negate the benefits or even counter them, as some commenters have brought up, but in most cases married couples are given boons from the government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Three concerns:

  • Heat - Will degrade faster and perform worse than it likely can because it will throttle itself
  • Upgradability - Looks like only SSD and Memory are serviceable.
  • Warranty - How is customer service? I have heard mixed reviews on most mini PC manufacturers.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfection.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me of my elementary school computer teacher. That teacher, and his teaching us LogoWriter, changed my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a dumb question but I’ve really wanted to use Pangolin and I have trouble finding it clearly explained whether or not it works, with authentication, for applications that are not browser based. For example, if I wanted to connect to my self hosted home git server from VSC via ssh would that be possible through Pangolin? Obviously I could use it to log in to the web interface but what about apps/applications that I need to punch into my home network? The authentication is browser-based so in my mind it would not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been working on the same and ran into the same issue. If not Bandcamp, I’ve had success on Qobuz. Their streaming payments to artists, last I checked, is substantially higher than anywhere else I’ve looked. I’m hoping the same is true of their music sales but I’m sure half of that is dependent on the labels, which likely have something to do with their not being on Bandcamp… or maybe that’s just my cynicism. I know little about how things work in the industry I just want to pay artists for their amazing work.