rottingleaf
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- Comment on Google and Microsoft consume more power than some countries 3 months ago:
Just the mention triggered me , and as you absolutely correctly pointed out, this is just internet
No reason to get upset
- Comment on Google and Microsoft consume more power than some countries 3 months ago:
Detailed analysis reveals that Google’s and Microsoft’s electricity consumption — 24 TWh in 2023 — equals the power consumption of Azerbaijan (a nation of 10.14 million)
It’d be fine with me if Azerbaijan consumed few times that in a few seconds and stopped stinking for a century or so.
- Comment on Never give up 4 months ago:
That’s true. It also doesn’t invalidate it if I do waste it though. OK, bye
- Comment on German Chancellor promotes government cloud from SAP and Microsoft 4 months ago:
I understood the general meaning, and for the rest we have Google translate =)
- Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal 4 months ago:
No, it’s another distinction. Three different things. Something legal can be moral or not. Something made law can be legal or not. For example, if it’s forced in some way so that formally you couldn’t prevent it becoming law, but it’s still illegal, it’s still illegal.
Which is, other than copyright except for protecting the fact of authorship, why all censorship and surveillance is illegal, and, say, why Armenia legally includes Van, Erzurum, Nakhijevan etc, and the fact that Wilson’s mediation and French mandate have been buried by force just means that Cilicia and Melitene are as well.
Restoring law and order takes effort, though.
- Comment on German Chancellor promotes government cloud from SAP and Microsoft 4 months ago:
Yep, I was thinking that maybe plural may have ä
- Comment on Never give up 4 months ago:
You are making a good example of a person who maybe thinks they can argue in good faith but very clearly doesn’t, with emotional pressure and such.
- Comment on German Chancellor promotes government cloud from SAP and Microsoft 4 months ago:
Isn’t it Kommentärsektion? Not a German, so just asking
- Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal 4 months ago:
There are people who think that something being official law is automatically legal. It’s a bit inconvenient that Nazi Germany is the first example that comes to mind to explain why they are wrong.
- Comment on Never give up 4 months ago:
Well, this comment of yours doesn’t look like a good faith argument.
What I meant is that it takes two sides for one. And when two people are ready to argue in good faith, one may downgrade the level of contention from “argue” to “discuss” without any loss.
(For me and my sister it would still be argue, but we are just rude to each other.)
- Comment on German Chancellor promotes government cloud from SAP and Microsoft 4 months ago:
What you are describing would mean they are very stupid in the exact thing which is supposed to be their strong side.
It’s just corruption. Politicians have long learned that to appear stupid is advantageous - plebes don’t get alarmed when they see something wrong, but can explain it by stupidity, and they also don’t insist on rolling it back.
These people are vermin. The best thing Germans can do for their future is to interrogate meticulously, investigate and jail for life all of the German politicians who’ve touched power in the last 20 years, with death sentences postponed by 20 years, and maybe also check their family members. The second best thing would be a good French 60s’ style revolution, which would likely lead to the same anyway, because what’s secret would no longer be that.
Similar for many other European countries.
No, I’m not fascist, actually kinda anarchist (more ancap than ancom, but tolerant to the latter).
- Comment on German Chancellor promotes government cloud from SAP and Microsoft 4 months ago:
They meant backdoors hidden in plain sight, so making it readable, but innocent. People do that.
- Comment on German Chancellor promotes government cloud from SAP and Microsoft 4 months ago:
I don’t get it, what you are describing is bad for the bottom line too. If we don’t mean that of Scholz’s personal finances, of course.
- Comment on German Chancellor promotes government cloud from SAP and Microsoft 4 months ago:
It’s possible and not so hard, just too boring for people to do automatically, and also bureaucrats have a very different MO, one that you need a commercial company infected by that culture for.
Also governments steal money. It’s obvious they do. Both in legal ways, when some secretary has salary disproportional to the work they are doing and the need for it at all, and in illegal ones (just for the fun of it).
It’s about power and dealing with people of their culture.
The state is interested in less dependence from big corps, but its officials are interested in more dependence, because that means huge contracts with little transparency and lots of time to hide things that don’t look nice.
- Comment on Never give up 4 months ago:
That would be try to attract people outside of social media, not try to divert them inside social media where you’ll waste energy
- Comment on Never give up 4 months ago:
it necessarily widens the debate-space from an unopposed confident statement to a dialogue that the onlooker can take into consideration while making their own decision.
That part would be right if we weren’t talking about social media, which are designed to neuter this effect.
- Comment on Never give up 4 months ago:
So who debates in good faith and how often?
- Comment on Never give up 4 months ago:
he goal isn’t to sway the fanatics, it’s to publicly quash their arguments. To sway curious onlookers away from fanaticism before they become fanatics themselves.
Friendly reminder that the above is what I answered first.
Sorry, but this is a load of bollocks. It’s you putting yourself above some “gullible people” and still using debate skills to deceive them, just in some “good” direction. Maybe you are really right, but they believe you for the wrong reasons, and the process itself doesn’t reinforce that you are right in any way.
- Comment on Never give up 4 months ago:
For my argument it’s sufficient that they are very much not the same.
This is similar to saying that a big company leading in some area can be benevolent and do good things. Yes, it can, like DEC, Sun, at some point even IBM. Doesn’t prove the statement that every social institution and mechanism out there must be replaced by markets.
- Comment on Never give up 4 months ago:
As I’ve just said in two other comments, “changing someone’s mind” is just a return to barbarism and Middle Ages. When a few literate theology doctors would publicly “defeat” their opponents, the barely literate mass of their audience (monks, nobles and such) would watch and approve, and the illiterate mass would kinda get that those pesky heretics\infidels got totally owned by facts and logic.
So any person arguing with that emotion and visible goal should just be left to eat other such ignorami. Nobody worth arguing with has those.
- Comment on Never give up 4 months ago:
The goal isn’t to sway the fanatics, it’s to publicly quash their arguments. To sway curious onlookers away from fanaticism before they become fanatics themselves.
As I’ve said in another comment, this is return to Middle Ages. Debating skills have not much in common with reasoning skills.
- Comment on Never give up 4 months ago:
But - debates don’t better yourself. Only your debating skills in particular get better. It’s a return to Middle Ages with theologists publicly “defeating” heretic and Jewish and Muslim philosophy.
And “turn” is an interesting word, making the association even stronger.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza 4 months ago:
What’s the funniest (and saddest) is when people who are supposedly against private discrimination repeat this when it fits them.
- Comment on Heritage Foundation insists it was not hacked by “gay furries” 4 months ago:
Well, maybe not exactly “hacked”, is that what they mean?
- Comment on Meta to broaden hate speech policy to remove more posts targeting 'Zionists' 4 months ago:
If only all these companies were so eager to censor Azeri posts calling Armenia “Western Azerbaijan”, doing genocide denial or right away calls to murder.
But “dehumanizing” group murdering people in droves right now is bad, because it may or may not intersect with an ethno-cultural group.
It won’t be too long till Hezbollah are my heroes. I may even become more tolerant to Marxism at some point ; one Marxist sci-fi book, which seemed either naive or hidden critique of USSR itself, now seems to be a pretty good description of our world.
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
These things having a clearly visible and usable button to ask for a human should be mandated by law.
Also have you tried writing “operator” to it? That may work. Sometimes.
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
It’s also similar to scammers. When you are not quite certain if you’ve been scammed, you’ll first ask. There’s a percentage of cases where you won’t bother for the sum, because you’ve used the energy on pinging them.
While in case of companies you could have used that energy to, say, post “X is crap” somewhere in the Web.
- Comment on Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage 4 months ago:
Negative number.
- Comment on Meta to broaden hate speech policy to remove more posts targeting 'Zionists' 4 months ago:
Most Zionist Jews I’ve met have become interested in their identity only because of Israel. Thoroughly assimilated before that. Not even one or two family Yiddish phrases for fitting situations (like az okh n vey or something).
Usually carriers of their home’s typical understanding of nationalism, only adapted for Israel. Cause at home it’s kinda frowned upon usually, while for Israel it’s something different, “allowed”, and they get to feel themselves better, of some different blood.
- Comment on Home routing and encryption technologies are making lawful interception harder, Europol warns 4 months ago:
Many people sincerely believe rules are a big thing and such organizations don’t violate those regularly. Even in the EU. Even when nobody will know.