SreudianFlip

@SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're completely serious⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, those shitgibbons are always lurking around the margins looking for an opportunity. It’s an eternal problem, and another actual fascist conspiracy is driving it right now. Fuck Stephen Harper and the IDU.

  Most discussions about Libor in the early slashdot/digg/reddit fora were not ethnically aligned, the craven ones got downvotes at first. I never read any upvoted threads about NSA abuses that referenced hate speech. No one notably mentioned Jews or other hate targets regarding UFO coverups until space laser MTG. I also think those posts and threads were downvoted and moderated at first.

  A lot of the r/conspiracy discussion in the early 2010’s still had quite a few left-leaning anti authoritarian participants, buoyed by recently being right about some large actual conspiracies, and they were numerous enough to repress obvious racism. It didn’t become a lost battle until the Q brigade showed up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're completely serious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  People forget. Back in the day it was talk about Libor and NSA abusing FISA and UFO coverups, much of which was actual conspiracy not theory. It wasn’t clearly aligned politically, just suspicious of power. The trumplings didn’t show up for quite a few years and quickly shit all over the floor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years Later⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Cobol mavens burned both ends of the candle and made bank, while making banks work.

  Many were old enough to retire after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years Later⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you mean Media Access Controllers, or macOS?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't like having an iPhone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a fine phone, nowhere near flagship though.

  Screen is only 750px wide.

  Make sure you update to latest iOS. 5 years old is okay but expect to lose security updates as soon as next year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't like having an iPhone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While I agree with the sentiment (fuck Apple) and understand your basic concerns, many of these gripes are just discomfort based on lack of knowledge, or old ios, or particular to your situation.

  • cables: most people have this issue in different ways with different devices anyway
  • the tradeoff is security (not privacy) vs convenience; but in the end ‘no random APK’ is a huge convenience as someone who has to worry about security all the time
  • you can mess with home screen layout now in ios, and just make sure you go to the right screen before installing a new app to conserve layout (or change settings)
  • App store sucks as bad as Lotus Notes ever did, but even worse, how sleazy is it that all of the in-app costs are obfuscated deep in the app description–it’s so so so unethical from a retail design perspective
  • unless you’re embedded in apple tech with multiple devices that need to sync core apps, there’s generally no requirement to sign into an apple account device-wide, which means an updated iphone is probably as private as a basic graphene install without much effort, and probably more secure
  • if I didn’t have to use apple products, I would probably just run GrapheneOS, but with the full knowledge that it will take more effort and money to maintain where an iphone would just be easier to get a similar level of security
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ancient food are absurdly complicated.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, a lot of us around the world just use The Four Ingredients, and prefer bread that is simpler yet tastier. Your numbers might be very regional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CursorAI "unlimited" plan rug pull: Cursor AI silently changed their "unlimited" Pro plan to severely rate-limited without notice, locking users out after 3-7 requests⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, I guess an encyclopedia article is more relevant than a dictionary definition, so sure. I was using the looser secondary definition… in this case an elision that references a dialect in order to call up regional relevance to the opinion expressed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CursorAI "unlimited" plan rug pull: Cursor AI silently changed their "unlimited" Pro plan to severely rate-limited without notice, locking users out after 3-7 requests⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, cf. 1.b definition of idiom in the OED: dialect usage, and 2.a is dialect usage for effect. Maybe the definition is changing with the ages, or your usage is overly strict.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CursorAI "unlimited" plan rug pull: Cursor AI silently changed their "unlimited" Pro plan to severely rate-limited without notice, locking users out after 3-7 requests⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well we can argue over the niceties of the word idiom, but as it’s referring to the way the word is pronounced in specific regions of North America, it qualifies as meeting one of the definitions of idiom.

  Elision refers more to the absence of an understood word, such as saying ‘my bad’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CursorAI "unlimited" plan rug pull: Cursor AI silently changed their "unlimited" Pro plan to severely rate-limited without notice, locking users out after 3-7 requests⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the English language, specifically North American dialects, this is a form of idiom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm, I live out in the countryside with only coax available, and a measly 1Gbit down 150Mbit up and 9 - 11ms ping. No caps.

  Wait, that’s awesome and steady and reliable. Expensive sure but with heavy multiperson usage and no noticeable issues, I am wondering WTF you’re on about unless it’s some weird edge case?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Generally, Safari was kind of middling in function and design until around 2018, when it got more streamlined or something; at least, its apparent performance improved over the other browsers on macOS. It was novel on Windows but pretty limited and just, meh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many people delete their posts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I was going to explain but

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it that uniformly bad? I guess the exceptions to the rule stand out starkly then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know that this is a global forum, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, do your regional school districts let teachers design their own curriculum?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the analytics cross over a certain threshold, trigger an ad.

  This is extremely simple and does not require an LLM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Battery would be grand for a household solar install. Seats would be nice on the porch. The frunk can hold a lot of chicken feed, and the cabin would make a fine henhouse for a small flock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That cadence…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of my work is with Macs, and even one server is running macOS, so for those who don’t know how it works ‘over there’, one runs Time Machine which is a versioning system keeping hourlies for a day, dailies for a week, then just weeklies after that. It accommodates using multiple disks, so I have a networked drive that services all the mac computers, and each computer also has a USB drive it connects to. Each drive usually services a couple of computers.

  Backups happen automatically without interruption or drama.

  I just rotate the USB drives out of the building into a storage unit once a month or so and bring the offsite drives back in to circulation. The timemachine system nags you for missing backup drives if it’s been too long, which is great.

  It’s not perfect but very reliable and I wish everyone had access to a similar system, it’s very easy, apple got this one thing right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Such a prescient episode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the best answer in the thread. Add in eye contact and eyebrow gesture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Prepper (federated podcast) - episode on system monitoring, terminal tools, local AI tools, NixOS, Kubuntu 24.10⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe ‘digital resilience’ is a more accurate, less sensationalist term?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Word has been broken since v.5.1a. But you’re right about Excel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna be really pissed if my chtistofascist parents were right⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all just food prep for the Archons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans is Trans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep but that’s a separate issue, geopolitics at play. Fascists and conservatives support each other internationally. I guess you can only assassinate character with a meme lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans is Trans⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see this misguided gripe all the time, people forget how important cultural and political messaging is for organizing and motivation.

  I interviewed an old guy who fought in the spanish civil wars and he had this massive collection of pamphlets and leaflets and newsletters and posters from that period and, let me assure you, other than design, style, and medium, the messaging was consistent with current sarcastic memes and even shitposts. That stuff is important.

  Effective resistance strategy incorporates many tactics. You look to your expertise, and draw strength from others where you can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary, such as the way Costco mostly operates. Being the good guys has a lot of brand value. With a little nurturing of the vast propaganda machine known as advertising, that could be improved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my clients is a small company that has been running with seven staff working from home, scattered around the globe, mostly rural. Since 1999. Everything has been held together by skype: chat, video, audio.

  Should be interesting finding the right new workflow!