zarkanian
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on YouTube ads have ruined the good, old-fashioned Rick Roll. 1 day ago:
If you’re seeing ads on YouTube, you’re doing it wrong.
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 2 days ago:
Well, if you’re that curious, there is a book about it. The Wikipedia article goes into some detail about what the systems were used for.
They didn’t just truck people into the camps and immediately kill them, so they had to at least track capacity.
- Comment on "Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online 3 days ago:
There isn’t a workers’ party, either. The US is one of the few industrialized nations that doesn’t have one.
- Comment on "Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online 3 days ago:
There are actual statistics in this article, unlike these which I think you made up.
You sound like those people saying that COVID was no big deal because “more people die in auto accidents”. How many people have to be affected before you deem it newsworthy?
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 3 days ago:
Bluesky gives you the option to choose an insurance, too.
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 4 days ago:
Mastodon has one big, official node, too, though: joinmastodon.com.
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 4 days ago:
How is it easier to use?
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 4 days ago:
What makes you think they didn’t feed them?
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 5 days ago:
I think the average person understands how to use email.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 5 days ago:
Mastodon is just too confusing for the average person
You’re mistaking motivation for ability. If you understand email, you can understand Mastodon.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 5 days ago:
There were Nazis on X for years before this. They’re leaving because Trump won.
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 5 days ago:
Because you hate Palestine?
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 6 days ago:
My favorite part of this:
…Collins said that “part of the reason we did bought InfoWars is because people on Bluesky told us it would be funny to buy InfoWars” adding that “those people were right” this “is the funniest thing that has ever happened”.
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 3 weeks ago:
You don’t see how reading is better than watching a video?
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 3 weeks ago:
I think I might like them better if they didn’t auto-play. I hate anything that auto-plays.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 4 weeks ago:
Hasn’t the Turing Test been irrelevant for a while now? Even before the new AI boom?
Artificial intelligence is a moving target. Every time a goal gets reached, they just move the goalposts, because “well, obviously this isn’t real intelligence”.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 4 weeks ago:
Cybertruck owners are already being punished.
- Comment on So tired to see Elon Musk in my home page EVERY DAY 4 weeks ago:
Feel free to downvote and ignore them. Presumably, the people who posted them thought that they were worthy, and I doubt their minds were changed by your non-argument here.
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 4 weeks ago:
You used to. Not anymore. Musk made it so that if you try to view somebody’s profile, and you aren’t logged in, you don’t see anything except for a big box asking you to log in.
Also, it’s not so much about stalking per se, but being able to reshare posts (and thus bully) their targets. The way X is right now, they’d have to have a direct link to the post in question and then screenshot it.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
Nononono, that was 30 years ago. Can you believe it? Don’t you feel old?
(It actually feels like 60 years ago to me, but I’m weird.)
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
How is that better than a web browser? Web browsers were supposed to be the “everything app”.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
This is partly corporate greed and partly a failure of the Web. A website should be all you need. You shouldn’t need a separate app for every little thing.
- Comment on You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first 1 month ago:
Well, 99% of the people who vote. The people who dissent do it by not voting.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
Didn’t he pay too much for it in the first place?
- Comment on Women in STEM 1 month ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Women in STEM 1 month ago:
Okay, how was the truth stretched here?
EDIT: Fun fact for you, in the USA in 1970 8% of stem workers were female. Today, its 27%.
It should be 50%.
- Comment on Women in STEM 1 month ago:
They gave the Nobel Peace Prize to a war criminal.
- Comment on Women in STEM 1 month ago:
In what ways?
- Comment on I have no idea how to react to this. 1 month ago:
The more you look at it, the more wrong it becomes.
- Comment on I have no idea how to react to this. 1 month ago:
I mean why else would an LGBT+ person vote Republican unless they’re just plain stupid?
Greed?