SnotFlickerman
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- Comment on Why America Sucks at Everything 2 days ago:
We don’t just worship the dollar, we literally elevate thieves and conmen and praise them for suckering so many people. They’re just smart businessmen by fucking over the populace for their own gain.
- Comment on Don't let the smoke out 1 week ago:
The best kind of smoke machine.
- Comment on It shows you love them 1 week ago:
Well I’d say the nuance here is that while it’s hard to break through when those ecosystems have a hold on them, and it’s hard to compete with them, being a censorial editor for them really only makes sense if they really can be considered not in their right mind and not have the capacity to think or care for themselves.
I don’t really think censorship is the solution as much as finding a way to break the spell of whatever has overtaken right wing thought.
I think the public right wing response to both Luigi Mangione and to Musk promoting H1Bs shows that while they’ve sucked down racism, on some level they understand that the corporate world exists to harm workers. They just haven’t found solidarity with the workers of the rest of the world yet, and it’s finding a way to crack that barrier and get them to see themselves in others. I think it’s very hard but not impossible.
I think part of the problem is the nature of our media and how consolidated it is and how rare real independent news media is at the moment in this country. I think we’d do better to tackle that at a community level than we would to just outright censor it.
Like, an example… You have a child and you want to know what they’re watching on television for their mental health. Is it better to watch those things with them and discuss the themes and ideas with them and help them contextualize it all in a healthy way or censor the things you don’t like and never discuss them so the child enters the world wholly without the knowledge of these subjects. I’d say based on personal experience that the latter doesn’t work out so hot for the kid.
Censorship and control of information without discussion isn’t a good path, whereas openness and communication does.
- Comment on It shows you love them 1 week ago:
Stop normalizing this and start normalizing filtering your parents internet with a Pi-Hole and blocking whole swaths of the right-wing ecosystem.
Everyone complains about people wanting them to be the computer guy in their family but no one ever uses that to protect their family from misinformation and then blame it on their ISP.
- Comment on New delivery 1 week ago:
- Comment on Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com 1 week ago:
- Comment on I kinda feel like if I had one good fart, that'd really sort things out for me right now 2 weeks ago:
How old are you? I’ve heard it said “Never trust a fart over forty” so you might want to hit the toilet for that, depending on your age.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 2 weeks ago:
Dear fucking god this is the real issue and why Mastodon is the solution because the agencies can have their own self-hosted presence. Is it perfect by any stretch? Oh fuck no, but it’s a lot closer to those groups having an independence and not relying on the corporations good graces for any of it to keep functioning.
- Comment on How many games do you manage to play at the same time? 2 weeks ago:
I have a hard time even playing one but that’s depression.
- Comment on Out of his depth 2 weeks ago:
The old diamondback sturgeon came swimmin’ along
Minding his business one day
Rooting and sniffing and urging to spawn
In the mud flats of San Pablo Bay
- Comment on If me and a bunch of my lemmy friends got on a yacht. Went into international waters what could we get away with legally and what would still be illegal? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Defend your cheese 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on *agressively keeps pressing 0* 2 weeks ago:
This is a private, for-profit company. How do they make money? When it launched in 2016 it was a pay-for-play service.
crmbuyer.com/…/gethuman-hacks-through-customer-se…
For between US$5 and $25, one of the eight-person company’s five dedicated problem solvers, aided by bots, will call a customer service line on a client’s behalf to sort things out.
They seem to have a presence on Github, but I can’t confirm anything about their backend or if any or all of this is open source.
github.com/orgs/gethuman/repositories
Anyone have any input on how they’re making a profit these days? Because if it’s “selling your data” then fuck this.
- Comment on *agressively keeps pressing 0* 2 weeks ago:
A lot of the time they’re trying to hide those customer support numbers these days, too.
They’re really trying to push all customer support to bullshit online AI assistants that are half-real people half-automated responses.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 2 weeks ago:
The text is behind a paywall and I would actually like to see the details of what this idiot fuck said.
- Comment on Go into debt if you have to 2 weeks ago:
I’ve definitely had natural gas that turned out to be liquefied. Luckily, I was on the toilet already.
- Comment on Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer? 2 weeks ago:
What’s your living situation? You mentioned not necessarily having the room for a drumkit. Similarly, do you really have a need for a pressure washer? Do you live on a large property in an area whose climate necessitates regular pressure washing? Do you have the knowledge and tools to commit to regular maintenance of either the drumkit or the pressure washer? I don’t mean like fully disassemble style maintenance, but whatever is suggested in the owner’s manual.
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 2 weeks ago:
He has never been pro-net neutrality.
He is willing to throttle traffic that he doesn’t like, which is explicitly anti-net-neutrality.
- Comment on AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives 2 weeks ago:
No, you’re thinking of Crash Bandicoot.
- Comment on 2025, still no flying cars! 2 weeks ago:
www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/tech/…/index.html
The company expects to sell the vehicle for $300,000 each with the first delivery by projected for the end of 2025.
Exactly.
- Comment on 2025, still no flying cars! 2 weeks ago:
www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/tech/…/index.html
The Federal Aviation Administration has certified for testing a vehicle that a California startup describes as a flying car — the first fully electric vehicle that can both fly and travel on roads to receive US government approval.
The company expects to sell the vehicle for $300,000 each with the first delivery by projected for the end of 2025.
www.forbes.com/…/is-subaru-now-making-ufos/
Subaru goes out of its way however to stress that this aircraft is strictly a concept for now, but does add that engineers from its aerospace and automotive divisions are collaborating on developing a working prototype, even showing footage at the show of a blue, unmanned test vehicle flying at low altitude.
The Subaru even looks kind of like this 1950’s mockup.
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think that it’s that you can’t comment at all, it’s almost rather that you can only comment.
Plebbit only hosts text. Images from google and other sites can be linked/embedded in posts. This fixes the issue of hosting any nefarious content.
You can link to other things and embed them in a text post using code, but there is no ability to upload anything, so the content really is all just text (since links are created using text commands).
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 2 weeks ago:
No matter what choice you make, Lemmy or Plebbit or something else, it’s clear that decentralized/federated services are the real future. The return of the torrent swarms but forum swarms instead.
At some point something clicked with everyone, and they realized “the cloud” is someone else’s computer, someone else’s property. We all collectively realized you never feel truly free when you’re on someone else’s property, you’re always playing by their rules. At least with decentralization the levels of control are distributed so you have less of one person wresting control from anyone else.
It’s a bit like growing your own garden. You do it because you know what you’re putting into your garden and getting out of it. If you choose to use pesticides, that’s your choice, and no one else’s. When you choose how to run your own self-hosted services, it becomes your choice what comes and goes from your network.
- Comment on AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives 2 weeks ago:
Exactly, creating the exact conditions for them to be scammed!
- Comment on AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives 2 weeks ago:
Story Time: It’s 2003 and I’m working at a local television station in buttfuck nowhere Louisiana.
We had just recovered from a massive disaster that had taken out tons of our equipment because somehow, the radio tower next to the building had never been properly grounded and so since it’s the tallest structure in the area by far, when it finally got hit by lightning we got fucked.
Anyway, just back on our feet when a computer virus wrecks more than half the systems in the building.
We would eventually find out that it was the manager who ran the station, the local Big Boss, the guy who answered to corporate.
Literally, no punishment for him at all despite making everyone’s jobs harder for weeks on end. These people are fucking easily manipulated and we do nothing to punish them when they fuck up.
- Comment on When people ask me what I did for new years. 2 weeks ago:
I was in bed by 7:30, got you beat, boyeee
- Comment on The writers have run out of ideas 2 weeks ago:
Everybody knows the Cybertruck can’t go down stairs.
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- Comment on It's that time of year again 2 weeks ago:
“Got out of shape”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Sir, that would require me to have been in shape at some point in my life.
