IrateAnteater
@IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on huge tracts of land 8 hours ago:
“Capitalism” isn’t some self aware entity that you can blame all evils on. It’s humans all the way down. And it’s not even the cartoon evil type of humans; those are rare. Everyone responsible at each step of the way is terrifyingly ordinary.
- Comment on no way right 3 days ago:
I seriously doubt that will happen. The current administration has shown zero indication that they give two fucks about what the people want.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 1 week ago:
The other side of the coin is that customers aren’t obligated to buy. There’s always a limit to how expensive you can make a product/service before people will simply stop paying for it. Trying to find that balance point can be damned difficult.
- Comment on Sheeple 1 week ago:
I mean, you can. Probably shouldn’t though.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 1 week ago:
VPN becomes VPS and life goes on.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 1 week ago:
The VPNs will be harder to ban. Not just from a technical standpoint, but politically as well. Big businesses will be absolutely opposed to VPN bans.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 weeks ago:
I work in a factory making turbine engines, if I worked in a factory making 50k$ watches we would produce just as much CO2.
You absolutely would not. Not even remotely close.
Also, you’re ignoring the emissions over the lifetime of the thing. As soon as the watch is manufactured, it’s emissions contribution is done. That turbine will continue generating emissions over it’s entire existence.
- Comment on Arcturus looking for playtesters! 2 weeks ago:
Because this is Lemmy, I feel like I have to ask, Linux support? Or is it Windows-only for now?
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 weeks ago:
The kind of waste I’m talking about doesn’t give two fucks about proportionality. CO2 in the atmosphere makes no distinction between being emitted by a single person or three million.
Also, fuck living in a world where only things arbitrarily deemed “useful” are considered worthy. Does art have no place in your world? It’s not “useful”. Should people be banned from having hobbies? Those aren’t “useful”.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say so in this case. A watch is probably about as close to “good” conspicuous consumption as it’s possible to get. Think about it: it’s generally a “buy once, keep it forever” item, takes essentially 0 resources to keep functioning (generally the expensive ones don’t require batteries), uses very little material to manufacture, and all the price is coming from specialist labour.
It’s a waste of money, but it’s a harmless waste, especially when compared to things like private jets and yachts.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 weeks ago:
That’s pretty much the theme for most of the responses here.
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 3 weeks ago:
We already have a definition for this, the Karman line.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 3 weeks ago:
In new build stuff, I’ve actually been seeing a lot more torx.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 3 weeks ago:
Blame Henry Ford. The superior screw head style was available to him, but he refused to use it.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 5 weeks ago:
I don’t currently use a VPN provider, but when I do, it now won’t be VPNSecure.
- Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE 1 month ago:
You’re free to do whatever you like, but I really can’t imagine cutting myself off of seeing most of the world, simply because of a bunch of theoreticals. I fly fairly often for work and I’ve not even experienced half of those (I’m not even sure what problem you might have with airport limos). Most of those issues are easily avoided anyway, since they are a product of your own planning.
- Comment on Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide 1 month ago:
When the people end up with nothing left to lose, things tend to get exceptionally shitty for a few generations. Then it’s a die toss to figure out if what comes after that is any better or not.
- Comment on Resistance is futile 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t say that’s controversial, but it’s really just a matter of choosing which platform you think will enshittify slowest.
- Comment on What if 1 month ago:
I absolutely love that his name is the first thing anyone thinks about when someone so much as mentions a couch.
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 1 month ago:
They would. Just not in the way they’d prefer.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 month ago:
Re-invent. Your still far too late to be first.
- Comment on Synology restricts choice of hard disks for new Plus NAS 2 months ago:
I don’t support this decision in any way, but I can at least think of some legitimate motivation for it (assuming the Synology branded ones aren’t marked up from the equivalent Seagate/Toshiba ones). I imagine Synology has to deal with a lot of service calls and returns for issues that are caused by shoddy drives (like those Seagate drives with the fudged lifespan numbers), not by anything that they can directly control.
In reality, the above was probably what sparked the idea, but I’m betting that they’re going to jack up the price of those drives just to squeeze out a little more profit for this quarter.
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 2 months ago:
Sound quality will be exactly the same among any of the services that offer lossless files (ie all of the ones that aren’t Spotify). That’s literally the point of lossless.
- Comment on Google has illegal advertising monopoly, judge rules 2 months ago:
Alright, hear me out: we split up Alphabet. Ads and search can be one company, since those two are always going to be related, while Chrome, Android, and the hardware division become the other company. This should help reduce Google’s current incentive for privacy invasion.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Where are you referring to? In North America, much of the infrastructure wasn’t changed, it was created for the first time to accommodate cars.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
So after reading the article, are you editorializing or did Wired change their title? No where does it mention the legality of selling the Sakura in North America. It only mentions that Nissan has not chosen to sell it outside of Japan.
- Comment on can't beat the classics 2 months ago:
Depends on what knowledge we are talking about. Personally, I’d be feeding it tons of manuals so that I could ask questions like “Which version of software x introduced feature y?” There’s no extra context I need, I just need a version number to give to a customer. And in my industry, that type of info just doesn’t show up on Google. So having an LLM that can answer the question in seconds saves me an hour of sifting through manuals.
- Comment on can't beat the classics 2 months ago:
That’s exactly what I was thinking. And this is actually the first time I’ve heard of some use of LLMs that I may actually be interested in.
- Comment on There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now 2 months ago:
I never understood this one. What kind of course would you be doing that required very expensive paid software, but you didn’t know ahead of time that said software was required. I think the imaginary OP is just an idiot.
- Comment on PC's for millenials (and Gen Z somewhat) is the same thing as cars to boomers 2 months ago:
At this rate, scavenging and cobbling together essential items out of trash.