rekabis
@rekabis@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 week ago:
This ignores that the inventor has less motivation to actually invent. Author have less motivation to create.
Tell me you haven’t read the entire book without actually saying you haven’t done much more than browse a few pages.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 week ago:
Businesses were innovative long before patents and copyright became a thing. In fact, evidence shows that society was more innovative without patents and copyright than with.
For your reading pleasure:
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t have a problem with actual pedophiles that are caught in these dragnets.
My problem arises from the lack of rigorous and well-documented investigation into the target before shite starts popping off. As the article pointed out, there is nothing wrong with a 22yo dating an 18yo. And the problem here is a sense of vindictiveness trying to manufacture targets where not all targets are guilty of pedophilia.
So: you want to take a pipe wrench to warm over a pedophile? Make sure there is oodles of evidence that clearly and unambiguously makes the person a pedophile, and sure as shite I will look the other way. But the problem is that there is no self-reinforcing framework in place within the vigilante system to ensure and enforce this threshold of evidence. And without this system, innocent people are going to get hurt or killed.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 3 weeks ago:
Looks like I’ll finally be migrating my final workstation off of Windows 11.
I mean, I still have a while. The Dell T7910 still meets all of the Windows 11 Workstation 24H2 requirements, so Rufus only needs to modify that one part of the installer. And once I have Windows installed, I can do upgrades over Windows Update.
But once the machine gets too old for that…
At least OpenSUSE meets most of my needs.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 4 weeks ago:
Oh, absolutely! Still have mine in my desk drawer for any long-chained calculations. The Deci-Lon was the absolute GOAT in both its long and short forms.
IMHO the only slide rule that was consistently better was the Faber-Castell 2/83N.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 4 weeks ago:
You use a click eraser or a normal block eraser.
Only filthy casuals suffer one at the end of the pencil.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 4 weeks ago:
.5mm or .3mm for me, the only place I use a .7mm or a .9mm is with woodworking.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 4 weeks ago:
No K&E either. Which for any draftsperson, ex or current, is a heretical omission.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 4 weeks ago:
I find myself inordinately amused by the unsolicited vitriol of your comment. Sounds like you have a lot to unpack with that particular model.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 4 weeks ago:
The fact that Rotring, Staedtler, and K&E mechanical pencils are missing is deeply troubling.
I also have an emotional thing for the Pentel P200 series, and the Pentel Techniclick in black has been my absolute personal favourite for light-duty scribbling and note-taking since the 90s.
- Comment on (Blog) How I'm Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech 1 month ago:
The MacOS link for Iridium Browser goes straight to a 404.
Anyone have a direct link to the latest DMG?
- Comment on Anyone remember this? 1 month ago:
Oh, most definitely. Used it nearly every day.
I have used the same web browser, in terms of ideology, codebase, and heritage, for nearly a third of a century, now.
NCSA Mosaic -> Netscape -> Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox.
I now hew more to alternates such as LibreWolf and Floorp, but I still run Firefox EME-Free as my default.
- Comment on Ukraine: Zelenskyy offers to quit in return for NATO entry 1 month ago:
I think the rest of NATO should eagerly take him up on his offer… sans the resignation. Because Ukraine needs Zelenskyy at this point.
That alone would enrage Putin and his KGB puppet currently sitting in the Oval Office.
And then the rest of NATO can go completely weapons-free at Russia and Belarus.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online 2 months ago:
How does this not flagrantly violate the First Amendment?
I mean, besides the fact that Trump has dismembered the rule of law and has rendered the constitution unenforceable and irrelevant - we should still be holding the government to account as much as possible.
- Comment on MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs 2 months ago:
Canada might need these sooner rather than later.
With the breakdown of democracy and the rule of law in America, the Constitution just became wholly unenforceable and therefore irrelevant. That means that Trump could make good on his fever dream of invading Canada.
And there are many Americans who would jump at the chance to obey his command to slaughter Canadians. With only 40M against America’s 334M - and 0.097M military personnel against America’s 2.1M - it would be absolutely no contest.
Our only way of making such a fascist act of aggression as painful as possible would be with asymmetrical warfare using tiny, hard-to-defeat drones that could act independently and strike without warning. Deploy 10k of these suckers onto a battlefield, and the only survivors would be those within sealed armour or flying at high altitude. Because even an A10 Warthog can be taken out if it unexpectedly ingests a half-dozen of the explosive buggers.
- Comment on If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once? 3 months ago:
The rectum is considerably larger than your mouth, and can hold a lot more shit.
- Comment on Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is 3 months ago:
Some people were never meant to operate machinery of any kind, much less machines physically larger than they are.
Like, don’t even let this person touch a lawnmower.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 5 months ago:
Then how about we simply eradicate all the Israeli invaders?
It’s an exceedingly simple solution - if we remove the settlers that are killing off the native peoples and stealing their land, there would be no more conflict!
Or are you more in favour of killing off the rightful Palestinian land owners instead?
- Comment on Honey 5 months ago:
I don’t consider that causing harm.
but I still don’t give moral consideration to plants in either case.So you are species bigot, and a hypocrite for refusing to take the ideology to it’s logical conclusion.
Cool beans.
- Comment on Honey 5 months ago:
Plants scream when eaten:
- Comment on Honey 5 months ago:
Any that’s the hypocrisy of Vegans. Milk and honey are the only two animal-based food sources that don’t involve the killing of animals. And in the case of most cow breeds, milking is actually needed as they have been bred to produce far more milk than their calves drink. And with careful management of the hive, you can harvest a lot of honey from a mature hive without negatively affecting the hive itself - it just delays/defers new queen production and swarming, which is desirable anyhow - no beekeeper who has hives primarily for crop pollination wants to have hives swarming each and every year.
- Comment on TikTok Lays Off Hundreds of Staff—to Replace Them With AI 6 months ago:
Wow. That platform is gonna end up being a dumpster fire a lot quicker than it already is.