a_wild_mimic_appears
@a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Im an unworthy Fraud when it comes to Tech 2 days ago:
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- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 2 days ago:
I loved it and played against my little brother on one keyboard constantly, that was fun!
Too bad that the follow-up game went through developer hell, took ages and looked and played like shit :-(
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 2 days ago:
I fully agree, this is a pragmatic gift if you kept your discourse about sexual topics open with your child from the beginning. I would’ve gone for a gift card so they can choose themselves in privacy, but it’s fine either way.
For prudish families who learnt of this gift this would be gossip material for the next year tho. So many puritans in the US, the neighbors might be the biggest issue, so i would’ve kept it on the down low.
- Comment on Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US 1 week ago:
proton is currently moving their infrastructure out of switzerland because of this bullshit, so no reason to lose your cool
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
it doesn’t even stop there - it will be used to punish people who do not exactly like it’s expected, with the mere accusation of playing/reading/watching/thinking something “unchristian” as reason.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
yeah, there was quite a long time where useful software was bundled with toolbars or, the worse option, malware that hijacked your browser, which was a pain in the ass to remove. I was the techie in the family, and i got pretty good with tools like hijackthis and knowing by heart what services and background programs should start on a standard win98 or xp installation. (in this time i also was THE guy to ask at my job when issues with 56k modems came up, diagnosing a lot of issues by listening to the dial-up tones)
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
There was a time in the 90’s where ads were mostly banners, and that was fine; google’s text-only ads were completely acceptable.
But that didn’t last long - it went downhill with the proliferation of popups, especially the nefarious kind which created even more popups or tried to stop the user from closing them, and usage of dialog boxes.
And whoever was the first person to add sound to an ad, i wish you and your entire family tree that your genitalia translocate to your forehead.
- Comment on You either know what cute aggression is, and understand it...or you think the concept makes a person sound like a future serial killer who's going around squeezing the life out of puppies. 2 weeks ago:
it’s a bit like intrusive thoughts, a mental picture of violence. it’s a bit embarrassing to acknowledge to have such violent imagery, but i don’t act on it.
Intrusive thoughts is something many people have, and if you aren’t damaged as fuck, you won’t act on them. Something else to compare it with would be the call of the void - that feels similar.
- Comment on You either know what cute aggression is, and understand it...or you think the concept makes a person sound like a future serial killer who's going around squeezing the life out of puppies. 2 weeks ago:
Count me in on cute aggression - my 4 cats are regular victims of cuddle attacks, and one of them is so extra cute and loves me so much giving me soft love bites on my arm (maybe she has the same thing?) - when she does this i really get aggressive when petting her - and she loves it, giving me lots of kisses while i stroke her belly from top to bottom.
excuse me, i’ve got to grab my kittie now - aggressively lol
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 2 weeks ago:
ok, so the system must be able to complete payment themselves using well-known “fancy” credit cards, which belong to a white guy working in Big Tech (or an equivalent business credit card, which would be easier) complete with linkedin profile.
sounds more complicated, but should still be doable. but it’s a mind experiment anyways (and probably already in use by secret services to keep a low profile on their agents).
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 2 weeks ago:
That’s a good argument, so probably the location should be in a pretty high COL suburb, maybe a gated community.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 2 weeks ago:
i know it’s not that easy, i’m quite paranoid about my trackability, but running that browser in a small VM would be an option.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 2 weeks ago:
I have an idea for a business: a browser with vpn. the catch is that the vpn connects to the poorest areas of the country you live in, and the browser reports your machine as the most crappy thing that can browse the web - which should result in low, low prices everywhere!
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 3 weeks ago:
wait for a rainy day, no watering needed!
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 3 weeks ago:
And that is exactly the situation in Russia: it’s an
- right-nationalist (“rescuing” suppressed people from the evil Ukraine - that one is super ironic because it’s exactly the same argumentation Germany used with the Sudetendeutsche)
- authoritarian (arrests for holding up empty pieces of paper, drafting for the war - but only in the poor areas far away from Moscow) regime
- centered on cultural identity (anti-gay laws, “restoring the CCCP”, persisting propaganda comparing the Ukraine war with WW2, "we have to defend ourselves from NATO)
It’s pretty late, so i don’t repeat the exercise for China or bring up more examples - i’m pretty sure that if you try to counter my points someone else will give you more examples.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 3 weeks ago:
You ignore 50% of the political compass here - authoritarianism sucks just as much as fascism or unbridled capitalism.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 3 weeks ago:
but the only way to break through this is to change the platform. Since both of them already keep their posts equal on both sites, it makes switching easier for everyone; removing their content from Xitter would be an incentive for others to switch.
The ideal way would be to try and band together a large amount of “regular posters” and completely switch on an agreed date together; that would have a pull effect for others to do the same.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 3 weeks ago:
It seems that multiple people don’t get what you are trying to say, and i would really like to know. if you have the time, could you elaborate?
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 3 weeks ago:
and we are talking about reasons why people are still there - those two aren’t one, because you can read their posts somewhere else too. Except if you meant that people are still there because those two are still there.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 3 weeks ago:
Cory Doctorow is on mastodon, just like Molly White
- Comment on Nexus Mods to Enforce Digital ID Age Checks Under UK and EU Laws 3 weeks ago:
They are not a Very Large Online Portal and do definitely not have to implement this in the EU under the DSA. There is a list, if you are on it, you have to do it, if not then not. Also, the EU wide system for eID is not yet completed and currently there is a plethora of single services, one per country, for eID.
I know that they have to do this stuff in the UK, but fkn leave me alone with that shit. It only causes me to switch location in my VPN and doesn’t help anyone, not even the kids this crap law pretends to protect.
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 4 weeks ago:
I would say that the general mood here that generative AI for creative use or technical tasks is fine, enabling people is a good thing. We are primarily an anarchist community, and generally not happy with the massive corporate control over something that should belong to everyone (bc the models are the cultural output of everyone) and the amount of VC money that is used to push AI where it doesn’t belong in search of the next big thing.
Quite a few people run models on their own hardware (like me, to support me when learning stuff, or when my wife wants new seasonal pics representing our cats in cute styles) or are using AI Horde
There are users on our instance that are not cool with GenAI in general, but they are the minority.
- Comment on Half of today’s jobs could vanish—Here’s how smart countries are future-proofing workers 4 weeks ago:
It’s depressing that the US, which is pushing AI hard, is also dismantling the structures they would need to get a populace with the soft skills mentioned above. The destruction of “everything woke” equals the destruction of soft skills.
- Comment on StopKillingGames - Yet another reminder for European citizens to fight for software ownership before the timer runs out. A signature takes mere minutes and preserves many games and lots of fun. 4 weeks ago:
Since you need an Digital ID to sign, given by your government, i can’t think of many issues.
- Comment on Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up 4 weeks ago:
aaah i misremembered, it was Ted Cruz, oops :-D
- Comment on Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up 4 weeks ago:
especially that Abbot, who brought this one up, voted against it in the end, which is pretty confusing for an european tbh
- Comment on StopKillingGames - Yet another reminder for European citizens to fight for software ownership before the timer runs out. A signature takes mere minutes and preserves many games and lots of fun. 4 weeks ago:
876k now - at this speed it will be done tomorrow, or at latest in 2 days!
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 4 weeks ago:
i have it too, and i used it a lot, but most people i knew at that time went for Sony
- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 4 weeks ago:
Most of my friends are women, i have more issues with men than women; and they also aren’t judging when i open up. But i know that they aren’t representative.
The issue is that it only takes one overzealous woman to ruin a mans life in the US: having trouble with cops on the playground, losing a job over social media accusations without proof - at least for the large majority of men. (things are different when we look at people in power, where hard facts aren’t enough to remove them - this enrages me just as much as any woman)
In that way, women are as much an aggressor as men are, it’s just that their tools are different. Where a aggressive man might tend to physical violence, aggressive women are able to dish it out with social violence.
I just wanted to show up that painting men as the source of all evil is shortsighted. There are a lot of women applying pressure to keep men in the role they are in, cementing the patriarchate just as much as men are.
And why shouldn’t they? If you don’t want to work outside of passion projects, or want to be a homemaker while your husband brings in the money? If you shy away from responsibility and feel safer when a strong father figure decides? Or being fine with men being in charge, as long as they have control over their husband? Those lifestyles are all valid too, and they profit directly from the patriarchate in one way or another, even if it might not be healthy at all.
There is no (or next to none) help for men to step outside of this structure. I am totally for helping women to get their rightful place side by side to men, but there also has to be a discussion about how not only men are oppressing everyone, but also how women are using their tools to oppress everyone, and how it is harmful to just paint one side as the perpetrator here.
There also should be more of an discourse about how life and values for men should look after achieving equality, because just replacing the patriarchate with an matriarchate is not gonna cut it.
- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 5 weeks ago:
You know what i see? Men being afraid of going alone with their kid to the park, because the mom’s there believe they are a sexual predator just by gender. Men not appliying for kindergarden or school jobs because of a tendency of mothers to see every man in childcare as a pedophile. Men getting called the cops onto them in the parking lot when going to their car after shopping.
And it’s the same with violence against women - every man is automatically seen as a brutalizer, or someone who would daterape.
As long as those prejudices exist - and they are mainly female prejudices! - men will not open up. When you are seen as a threat even if you aren’t one (see the man and the bear in the woods), there is no way they will become empathic, because innocently playing with your child in the park could have lifelong consequences for you.