SreudianFlip
@SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Wild Seals 4 days ago:
Oooo, sepi gets it!
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Dude, now you’re making it personal with totally the wrong person. What a dork.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Yes, this is all self-evident to anyone who recognizes overconsumption and premature or planned obsolescence.
My point is that advertising and other misinformation makes it extremely difficult for the average person to make rational decisions about technical issues when making purchases, so blame lies much more with companies, governments, and culture than the teeming hordes you look smugly down on.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Oh yes, advertising doesn’t work, which is why it’s fucking everywhere
- Comment on ICE just bought new tool to monitor hundreds of millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s great how the law is complex enough to criminalize any aspect of your life that is needed for persecution!!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
This is a good time to mention how we have been propagandized about the Luddites.
This is precisely the issue they had with the newindustrial tooling up they were facing, it wasn’t the tools, per se, that they objected to, but the de skilling and Disenfranchisement of the way those tools were being deployed by industrialists.
Being a luddite was and is about ownership of the tools and abuse by capitalists on skilled workers, and the disruption of our important knowledge base and skill sets.
- Comment on BOTS - a biting, satirical commentary on how online discourse is weaponized to divide and sow chaos. 4 weeks ago:
lol at 7:10, a presentation slide in the background reads:
JOE ROGAN CODE NAME: Uncle Fester BRAIN SMOOTHNESS: warm pudding
- Comment on FOSS App to Edit videos ? 5 weeks ago:
LaTex tribe expands to video eh?
I first learned computers by sneaking onto campus and borrowing an account to layout a book using Tex. It’s convolute. I can see a certain masochistic thrill in command line video editing.
- Comment on Usernames are very personal 1 month ago:
Thank you for your service.
- Comment on Make it make sense 1 month ago:
You attribute an uneducated, uncivil approach to human nature, but I have been in human queues around the world, and they vary hugely based on cultural and social differences.
What you think is human nature seems to actually be driving culture in your region.
Yesterday I had a swasticar driver actually let me in on a disorderly merge. I was amazed, it was a first. Clue: nothing about Hondas changes people to be better. Tesla and BMW drivers are just shittier at sharing. This is culturally allowed.
- Comment on Make it make sense 1 month ago:
Well yes, society functions only with cooperation. Uncivil behaviour ends with violence and dismay.
However 3s usually allows for slow adjustments which alleviate caterpillaring.
- Comment on Make it make sense 1 month ago:
3 fucking seconds
The answer is a simple 3 second gap.
That’s it, just 3-mississippi (or 3-onethousand) seconds behind the car in front of you and most of the avoidable jams go away.
- Comment on Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring 2 months ago:
Or, like, you know, they got bumped and it’s get a hotel or fly another airline.
- Comment on UK government suggests deleting files to save water 2 months ago:
One shitpost meme video in your downloads folder = hundreds of Word docx files. Pick the low hanging fruit.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Neither am I?
You and I might have different definitions of waste and efficiency.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
As someone who conserves water usage whenever possible, and is a long ways off from success, that’s simply not true.
Very few societies actually use water responsibly by design. Agriculture and industry are water-subsidized, removing incentives. Daily practices are wasteful, appliances are wasteful, plumbing and infrastructure is wasteful, policies are wasteful, the culture is disrespectful.
- Comment on Just a reminder that one out of three calories produced in the US gets thrown away because of shit like this 2 months ago:
I didn’t barge in, it’s a thread in a forum and some imperious commenter was being toxic and it’s just fucking exhausting to deal with sometimes, so if someone helps out that’s usually great.
If you want to talk about the issue instead of picking fights, fine. Otherwise don’t turn the place into reddit.
- Comment on Just a reminder that one out of three calories produced in the US gets thrown away because of shit like this 2 months ago:
You
Nah, wasn’t me. Read.
fat for eating too much
Wait, is anyone in the medical community contesting that? Besides, that’s a tangent to the comment that triggered you, I think.
asserting with no evident rationale that this must be directly connected to businesses… having food left over
Yes, I think the comment that irked you is assuming that the reader accepts the premises that the USA is overconsumptive, that this is due to an ideology of endless surplus, that the cancerlike imperative that line must go up is laying waste to everything, and that these thought patterns lead to bad decisions like OP is calling out.
Not evident to you, I suppose… fair enough.
- Comment on Just a reminder that one out of three calories produced in the US gets thrown away because of shit like this 2 months ago:
Yes it is.
See? Easy when you don’t have to justify a position. Shall I make an appeal to authority to seal the toxicity?
- Comment on Just a reminder that one out of three calories produced in the US gets thrown away because of shit like this 2 months ago:
Food sovereignty and food security are much more detailed and nuanced than this, but yeah this illusion of shameless abundance has been the operating principle for many decades, justified by industrial production methods at grand scale.
We now know, or rather have remembered, that diversity in production is the secret. The andean civilizations cultivated thousands of varieties of potato before colonization, so that microclimates and disease resistance and ripening and a variance of growing conditions could be addressed, for ensuring a ready supply across all possible disasters. Much of that legacy has been lost.
Industrial production squashes this kind of resilience in favour of ‘illusions of shameless abundance’, tied to scaled up methods. For instance, the Cariboo potato is a yummy garden variety but proscribed by AgCan because it messes up tractor attachments.
- Comment on They're completely serious 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Did you mean Media Access Controllers, or macOS?
- Comment on I don't like having an iPhone 3 months 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 3 months 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. 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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’.