SreudianFlip
@SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds 3 days ago:
It was off, it’s LTT. It was intertainment with some interview.
Still, L.T. had fascinating things to say, and a refreshing down-to-earth outlook on things like data storage (keeps no files really, just uploads to git and lets others worry about whether it’s worth saving or not), a.i. (important, somewhat inevitable, overblown hype, horrible business practices), and how he geeks out playing with hardware designs for things that are completely out of his expertise so it’s low stress (e.g. guitar effect pedals but he doesn’t play).
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 6 days ago:
Idiomatic usage breaks down into ‘familiar’, so, confusing intuition with knowledge, or ‘discoverable’, which is more accurate and describes things like icons and tooltips and menus, where the rules of usage become more or less apparent with exploration and logic.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 week ago:
Consider this: every record I play has a faint recording of the room, every time it has been played, since no turntable or cartridge is perfectly isolated, and, being diamond rubbing against vinyl, will leave some trace of the room sound behind.
- Comment on Figure AI sued by whistleblower who warned that startup's robots could 'fracture a human skull' 1 week ago:
It’s the underlying crux of the entire series, and even Foundation too. The Zeroeth law requires a massive war to develop it and still doesn’t solve the problem.
- Comment on Anthropic says Chinese hackers used its Claude AI chatbot in cyberattacks 2 weeks ago:
Usually just air quotes right. Well since people caught on to the ‘echo’ dog whistle of 3 brackets some racists moved to quotes too. I was just checking, so nvm, don’t let them try to steal that the way they did with the ok hand gesture.
- Comment on Anthropic says Chinese hackers used its Claude AI chatbot in cyberattacks 2 weeks ago:
Ah, OK then someone needs to tell you that the 3 quotes lately has been used by white supremacists as a dog whistle for jewishness, especially referring to economic control.
- Comment on Anthropic says Chinese hackers used its Claude AI chatbot in cyberattacks 2 weeks ago:
OK Richard, I will bite. Why three (3) quote marks?
WHY THREE, RICHARD goosehonking.jpg
- Comment on xkcd #3164: Metric Tip 4 weeks ago:
‘Tis a tale of competing supply chains. The Empire prevails, despite reason and the will of The People.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 4 weeks ago:
I think you have the start of a good plotline for a sf comedy.
- Comment on China bans influencers from speaking on ‘serious’ topics like finance or health without university degree 4 weeks ago:
Algorithmic clickbait media will always break truth.
- Comment on Where can I buy used computers, and are they on a discount now because of Windows 10 end of life? 5 weeks ago:
Ooo, cooling mat! Well then, no wonder it’s still running. One of the easiest laptops to fix, too, so you could just repurpose it.
- Comment on Where can I buy used computers, and are they on a discount now because of Windows 10 end of life? 5 weeks ago:
To add: my favourite mac of all time was probably my 15” 2012 with a matte hd screen and upgraded SSD drive (which only took 10 fucking minutes, le sigh). All the ports!
- Comment on Where can I buy used computers, and are they on a discount now because of Windows 10 end of life? 5 weeks ago:
Keep that thing off the internet if you can. Security is kind threadbare on that abandoned macOS.
Fantastic form factor for non internet tasks though. The 2011 model is worse for thermal management and the fans work harder so may need replacement, listen for rattles or silence from one side. Keep it ventilated on all sides including bottom.
Debian should run very nicely on that if you want modern software features and low-worry internet security.
- Comment on Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week 5 weeks ago:
…unless you have watched Star Trek and the like.
- Comment on Wild Seals 1 month ago:
Oooo, sepi gets it!
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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. 2 months 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 ? 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Thank you for your service.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 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 3 months ago:
One shitpost meme video in your downloads folder = hundreds of Word docx files. Pick the low hanging fruit.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Neither am I?
You and I might have different definitions of waste and efficiency.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 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.