SreudianFlip
@SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Why do we produce so much porn? 3 days ago:
Indeed
- Comment on Why do we produce so much porn? 3 days ago:
Oh, read some Octavia Butler then! Brilliant and, well, kinda what you just said. The Xenogenesis series.
- Comment on Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting 1 week ago:
groak is your password too?
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 week ago:
Sam_Bass’s comments are mainly mildly contemptuous one-liners. Condescending is part of the persona, and when others interpret that manner as right wing, it seems to affirm sam’s misanthropy.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 week ago:
I fully believe that you are antifascist in sentiment. I also see that you are asking people to show some skepticism about media that is obscure in origin and used to evoke strong feelings.
I was a media literacy activist for decades and this was one of the basic points, that framing can reverse the meaning of an image or video or even story. So you are essentially just asking people to show a little media literacy, which is laudable.
Your manner of argument, in a highly charged subject, is tone deaf, which is what seems to have triggered the downvotes. Righteousness is druglike, the veracity of the recorded action is immaterial, and we all need the narrative that punching nazis is normal. Plus, actual nazi propaganda techniques include sowing doubt about their existence, making false equivalencies, minimizing their transgressions, etc., and the tone deaf manner made it look like you were doing that.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 week ago:
You know, the subcontinent has around a billion people on it? Who see it scattered all around, for thousands of years.
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 1 week ago:
I guess foggy there means it’s “mildly” xenophobic when you don’t bother to get someone’s name right.
A lot of names got changed during immigration due to wilful xenophobia last century, for example. Xenakis to Johnson, etc.
Structural linguistic problems like not having notation for foreign pronunciation isn’t necessarily xenophobic, but failure to address the problem might be.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 2 weeks ago:
Well, for one thing, the supply of googly eyes will run out and you will have to adapt.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 2 weeks ago:
Gold is good as notation for big things, like an excavator and a dozen barrels of diesel. You can’t trade that shit for cucumbers and canned tuna.
You can use gold as an excellent long lasting conductor for electric equipment. You can make it very thin. It would make a comeback in basic dentistry, as you can actually eat it: it’s non-poisonous. Doesn’t tarnish. A smith can do a lot with gold.
Gold is a resource. That said, I don’t have any right now. Just some silver coins, and some packaged goods like knives and flour mills (business leftovers). Given the market insecurities now and gold’s all time high price, wish I did.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 2 weeks ago:
To clarify, when people colloquially refer to “the collapse of society” they don’t mean that all forms of society would cease to exist, but the failure of the nation state, or possibly the international order, and the long supply chains that go with it. Etc.
So society at various scales would still exist, in overlapping ways and jurisdictions. Basic units like neighbourhoods and firefighters and towns and regions would be organizing based on the old rules and adapting. People organize well in the absence of warlords, so that and extinction events are the threats to trade.
The value of trade goods might be indeterminate if a comet wipes nearly all of us out. Otherwise, many people love to dicker and argue about the value of things, so I’m pretty confident about rare raw materials like gold having both utility value and a reasonably inflated exchange value in a prolonged regional or international crisis.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 weeks ago:
Al is a pretty good guy but he can’t be everywhere. Maybe he can use some A.I. to help!
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 weeks ago:
Yes, and that’s exactly what everyone forgets about automating cognitive work. Knowledge needs to be intergenerational or we lose it.
If you have no junior developers, who will turn into senior developers later on?
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t familiar with those two products so I Gurgled them and the search results were… interesting.
- Comment on Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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' 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
OK Richard, I will bite. Why three (3) quote marks?
WHY THREE, RICHARD goosehonking.jpg
- Comment on xkcd #3164: Metric Tip 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month ago:
…unless you have watched Star Trek and the like.
- Comment on Wild Seals 2 months ago:
Oooo, sepi gets it!
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 2 months 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 2 months 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.