SreudianFlip
@SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on UK government suggests deleting files to save water 6 hours ago:
One shitpost meme video in your downloads folder = hundreds of Word docx files. Pick the low hanging fruit.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Neither am I?
You and I might have different definitions of waste and efficiency.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Did you mean Media Access Controllers, or macOS?
- Comment on I don't like having an iPhone 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
In the English language, specifically North American dialects, this is a form of idiom.
- Comment on 1 month 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 1 month 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? 2 months 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 3 months ago:
Such a prescient episode.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
This is the best answer in the thread. Add in eye contact and eyebrow gesture.