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- Comment on PSA: Instance Update to 0.19 on Wednesday 11 months ago:
Ooo thanks for the announcement. I’m excited for this particular update because of the scaled sort, so this is welcome news.
- Comment on Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration 11 months ago:
Mastodon.social admin and lead mastodon dev Eugen Rochko signed an NDA with Facebook and has since been in support of Threads’ embrace of the Fediverse and asked people to give Facebook a chance. We won’t know if he’s made some deal (monetary or otherwise) with Facebook due to aformentioned NDA.
Many instances of the fediverse are anti-Threads despite his shilling though.
- Comment on Twitch updates sexual content guidelines amid ‘topless’ meta backlash 11 months ago:
Were you on Justin.TV?
- Comment on Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale 11 months ago:
Playnite on Windows is the premiere experience for multilauncher support. Highly customizable, and it has a UX that’s much better to lay-users than something like Gog Galaxy 2.0. Integrations are well QA’d and updated. It’s wild that this was built as a FLOSS project because it’s better than what billion dollar companies have done by a mile.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Twitter AI Is Actually ‘Woke,’ Hilarity Ensues 11 months ago:
Determinism is actually a really silly argument to make for anything. Determinism doesn’t posit that people don’t make choices, but simply that the choices made are determinable, even if they in every way resemble “free choice”. We are a part of the variables that determinism says contributes to these choices, but your solution is we sit with a sock in our mouth because it’s so very mean to tell Elon he’s a cunt “because he has no choice”. You’re, put plainly, a fool, if you believe for a second that predetermined choices make someone any less of an asshole. Elon Musk is a harmful, narcissistic asshole is no different than “the total result of Elon Musk’s predetermined decisions are to behave as a narcissitic asshole.”
Yes, under determinism, he has no choice in the matter, just as a gun used to kill someone has no choice in being a killing machine, or a pencil in a 4th grade classroom has no choice in being a penis drawer.
Deterministic sophistry being used to soften, excuse, or in any way lessen the value of peoples’ individual actions is mere sophistry, and completely misses the point of the philosophical theory.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Twitter AI Is Actually ‘Woke,’ Hilarity Ensues 11 months ago:
I don’t agree with punitive “justice”. It’s ineffective, bad, and wrong.
But I do agree that, while rehabilitative justice takes place, we must protect society from those who are doing harm to others.
The adult approach is to think about an effective way to prevent him from doing more damage while not giving the wrong signals to the rest of society.
Your “adult approach” allows him to continue to freely do harm to people, and in no way addresses it nor the harm those who think he’s acceptable perpetuate.
He has a tail of followers so care needs to be taken that he doesn’t become a martyr for them.
This is another excuse to do nothing.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Twitter AI Is Actually ‘Woke,’ Hilarity Ensues 11 months ago:
I should add that I reject the idea of anyone making a choice. Neuroscience is pretty confident that choice is not an actual thing; it’s all cause and effect. The behavior we are seeing from Elon Musk now is caused by his genes, how he was brought up, and how people are treating him. We can control one of these three things to get the effect we want.
Is this how you excuse any wrongdoing of any person who’s ever existed? Holding people accountable, both in private and public, is a part of that influence upon who he is. At this point, I’m comfortable saying Elon Musk is a lost cause, and the best thing we can do is make him less capable of harming society yet further.
Not everyone gets a redemption arc, that’s only a thing in novels. Elon Musk has no desire to understand normal people, and that’s something is simply impossible to contend with.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Twitter AI Is Actually ‘Woke,’ Hilarity Ensues 11 months ago:
Elon too, while misguided, wants to do good
There’s no reason to believe this.
But look at how his dad has treated him growing up
An explanation as to why someone’s a bad person doesn’t make them less bad.
Plus I’m pretty sure he’s neurodivergent.
He’s autistic. Most autistic people aren’t narcissistic megalomaniacs, and if they are, they should be called out for it.
If anybody wants to get him to see the error of his ways, more abusive language is certainly not going to help.
A moot point, he will not accept anything but the yes men he grew up around and lived the last 52 years being applauded by.
He’s being pushed into a corner and in his mind he sees a world that is increasingly broken by vile people who don’t understand him or his vision for improving the world.
I do understand his vision, and the vision is broken and harmful.
Elon has in fact done a lot of good for the world, but he needs people he trust to keep his feet on the ground.
He has? Like his racially segregated factories? Or the monkeys he experiments on the brains of?
That can’t be achieved by chastising him, but by praising the things he does well and getting him to spend more time among “normal” people and good role models
This is ineffective with people in such a power position.
In the meantime though, to protect the world from powerful broken men, we need regulation to keep them fenced off.
Agreed.
Ultimately, Elon Musk is a genuinely harmful and bad person, who is both uncritically malicious to those who dare criticize him, and is incredibly foolish at every endeavour he involves himself in. “His” successes come as a result of people he hired walling him off in his companies so that he continues to invest in technologies while being blind to any important part of production he might find interesting enough to meddle in.
Your take on him is one I can empathize with, and I even held myself for a while, but at the end of the day, it’s a benefit of the doubt he expressly does not deserve.
- Comment on Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight 11 months ago:
Well, Epic instigated them to ban the app so they could claim the ban as a tort under competition law.
- Comment on Apple isn't happy about India's demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C 11 months ago:
India is 6% of Apple’s market, and growing.
- Comment on Apple isn't happy about India's demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C 11 months ago:
Well, that’s not exactly the demand. The demand is simply that if they wish to sell a product in the country, it meets their regulatory specifications by June 2025. Apple doesn’t have to upgrade their older models, they could also simply stop selling them.
But if they wish to sell a product, it must meet the manufacturing requirements of the region in which they wish to sell. Hardly a big deal if you ask me.
- Comment on Montana Judge: TikTok ban likely a 'fundamental constitutional violation' 11 months ago:
Because these aren’t conservatives. Not in the economic sense. These are fascists who campaign under the guise of conservatism.
- Comment on Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where 'machines can make all the food and stuff' isn't a bad idea 11 months ago:
So, you don’t believe in voting as a human right, and you think prisons have ever solved even a single solitary thing in their entire history?
Miss me with that lmao
- Comment on The Analogue Pocket now comes in a rainbow of classic Game Boy colors 1 year ago:
No atomic purple q-q
- Comment on Trump’s Truth Social Has Lost $73M Since Launch, New Filing Shows 1 year ago:
It’s yet another hole in his wallet… assuming it’s even him paying for it. I’ll say one thing, these troglodytes are good at just not paying for things they owe for. Whether it be fines for putting up an illegal sign, or lawyers and other service-people.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
All games are flawed; SV’s unacceptably so and your copium just justifies GF getting worse on that front.
- Comment on X CEO Linda Yaccarino stepped in to remove a pro-Hitler post 1 year ago:
It included a photo of Hitler with the caption, “At least now the world know, why he did, what he did.”
- Comment on DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip 1 year ago:
Shut up, you’re wrong dingus
- Comment on Malware on the fediverse? 1 year ago:
Stripped of executable code. IIRC the issue in particular was that sidebars observed HTML and you could put an iframe with potentially malicious code into them.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X launches two new premium subscription plans 1 year ago:
So, when we include the eventual mobile prices too and we’re looking at a pricing scheme that’s roughly:
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lmao
- Comment on 1Password discloses security incident linked to Okta breach 1 year ago:
Please don’t bring up LastPass in this conversation. They aren’t relevant to anything wrt security, and worse yet, they remain extremely opaque with their security protocols.
- Comment on Even the Tesla Cybertruck's Brake Lights Don't Make Sense 1 year ago:
Hey, I found the driver!
Image - Comment on Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome 1 year ago:
It’s not even ironically unfunny, so no.
- Comment on Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome 1 year ago:
I wish one of the options was Bill Gates’ 1976 Open Letter to Hobbyists.
- Comment on Spotify Removes Offensive Imagery But Keeps Transphobic Song Despite Outcry 1 year ago:
100%. These people cannot return to being “acceptable” to exist. Purge them from society and force them to retreat to the dark corners from which they’ve been hiding since the end of WWII.
- Comment on Telegram is a breeding ground for extremists, scammers, and terrorists. It’s time for moderation to get serious. 1 year ago:
Man, chill, we already know you’re from kbin.social, you don’t need to keep riding it into the ground.
- Comment on Telegram is a breeding ground for extremists, scammers, and terrorists. It’s time for moderation to get serious. 1 year ago:
Ah cool another kbin.social person lmao
- Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 1 year ago:
Wikipedia just summarizes the primary sources.
Wikipedia actually much prefers secondary and even tertiary sources to primary sources. They have rules against original research, and follows the guideline that “secondary or tertiary sources are needed to establish the topic’s notability and avoid novel interpretations of primary sources”. It’s only with exception that primary sources are allowed, in which the primary sources “have been reputably published may be used in Wikipedia, but only with care, because it is easy to misuse them.”
Not disagreeing with you, just a bit of nuance.
- Comment on Telegram is a breeding ground for extremists, scammers, and terrorists. It’s time for moderation to get serious. 1 year ago:
The fool who’s rampaging around in the thread here, who also happens to be OP
