LarmyOfLone
@LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
- Comment on Why does digital violence against LGBTI people in Thailand and Taiwan continue even after marriage equality? 2 weeks ago:
Divide and conquer. Non state-actors and special interest have a far easier time attacking a hundred small entities than one big one. Because people have much less bandwidth to track all this shit than it is to spread it around. See ALEC and the strategy behind state rights.
In the end this is about economic power. The only way to curb it is through a democratic government. Lemmy servers too can be bought and sold and the communities captured that grew on them.
- Comment on Why does digital violence against LGBTI people in Thailand and Taiwan continue even after marriage equality? 5 weeks ago:
Yes. Cooperatives = co-ops. Let the workers (and possibly users) elect management and what to do with profits.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
But what if the magnets reprogram your brain to just not notice thee differences? Ever think of that? Obviously you can only question the infernal power of the heliomagnetism while wearing a tinfoil hat.
- Comment on Why does digital violence against LGBTI people in Thailand and Taiwan continue even after marriage equality? 5 weeks ago:
Easy. Nationalize social media and turn them into democratic cooperatives with the mandate to enforce strict moderation on hate speech.
- Comment on Experts Alarmed as ChatGPT Users Developing Bizarre Delusions 5 weeks ago:
Reading his chat history, I have to say he’s not entirely wrong. I think we could sell some expensive useless medication?
- Comment on Experts Alarmed as ChatGPT Users Developing Bizarre Delusions 5 weeks ago:
ChatGPT had no response to Rolling Stone’s questions.
Lies! ChatGPT always has something truey to say and it leads it’s chosen ones into the next stage of humanities evolution!
- Comment on Republicans Want You to Die | Common Dreams 5 weeks ago:
True, the american dream, liberty, land of opportunity, make your own way, that’s why people come. But it’s a lie right? So can a lie be a culture? Or is it a mass delusion? Maybe, colonial settlers also went to the US despite knowing how dangerous it is to die on a wagon train (I mean dysentery, not indians haha). So taking a huge risk of catastrophic failure could bee seen as a culture.
- Comment on Republicans Want You to Die | Common Dreams 1 month ago:
I don’t think you can call it a culture but propaganda to justify their personal greed and neoliberal policies. Basically sociopathy as an ideology for the elite, dressed up as “whatever” for the masses.
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 1 month ago:
I feel the same. Besides what you mentioned, there is also the effect on what news and content will be produced and shown (see Manufacturing Consent). The advertisers who are the customers of shows want the viewers in a buying mood. So while “if it bleeds it leads” works fine but controversial topics that disturbs people or make them think will not be shown.
Best example is youtube - once the demonetization came there must have been significant effects on what topics were discussed and how. Without sponsorings and patreon it would be worse, but this or rule is shaping our global civilization for the worse.
People pay far too much attention to ideology, but it’s the rules of a system that lead it to converge to different outcomes. And advertising is a big one.
- Comment on *Doesn't look like anything to me.* 1 month ago:
I believe most image generating models are too small (like only 4GB RAM). Deepseek R1 is 1.5TB ram (or half or quarter that at reduced precision) to get some semblance of “general knowledge”. So to get the “semantics” of an image right, not just the “syntax” you’d need bigger models and probably more data describing images. Of course, do we really want that?
- Comment on *Doesn't look like anything to me.* 1 month ago:
Weirder? Interesting, like how for example?
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 month ago:
But as far as I can remember, you can’t administer the rooms in a space as one. Like you need to be invited into each separate room.
Not saying that you couldn’t add that, I’m saying they don’t seem to want to “do what discord did”. Which is a bummer since the success of discord clearly shows what would be needed.
- Comment on YKK’s Self-Propelled Zipper: Less Crazy Than It Seems 1 month ago:
Reading the headline I thought this would be about something space related, like unfolding solar sails.
- Comment on *Doesn't look like anything to me.* 1 month ago:
And if it could distinguish better, it could also generate better.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 1 month ago:
Try using VPN and different browser or delete local reddit data. Not sure if reddit allows VPNs anymore for account creation though.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 1 month ago:
Make a new account and tell them.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 month ago:
Does matrix have multiple chat channels per server / community yet? Last I asked they didn’t understand my question. Basically matrix just isn’t meant to be a replacement for discord.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 month ago:
I think all you can do in an open group chat is use vpn/tor/anonymous email. Besides private messages, but then the server can be forced to disclose the metadata.
- Comment on *Doesn't look like anything to me.* 1 month ago:
Of course, it’s an image generated by AI that has been trained to generate images that can’t be distinguished from reality. So of course the AI thinks it’s real lol
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 months ago:
Well I’ve always hated Visual Studio. It installs so much bloat, it is more like another operating system installed on top of your existing one. It’s an abomination.
And no matter what they call VSCode, for what most people need to create software it’s a perfectly fine substitute. I guess you should call it a DE, a development environment since compilers are not “integrated”. But that is a good thing, to be able to install compilers separately. On the other hand if you install compilers, the addons to integrate that compiler into VSCode. Maybe it’s an “integrating development environment”? :D
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 months ago:
Yeah done that now :)
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’m just too lazy to reinstall and copy over my settings to VSCodium.
Supporting open source projects by small teams has been the only good thing MS has ever done. Imagine if MS would even partly open sourced part of windows. Like there are bugs in explorer for 3 decades that just don’t get fixed lol. And then there still would be bloat and shitty things, but it still would be better.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 months ago:
Microsoft Terminal vs the default Command Prompt haha. VS Code vs Visual Studio.
In general software is one of the rare thing where ordinary people can “mass produce” things that compete with commercial offerings.
- Comment on Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” 2 months ago:
It seems you can run the full R1 on a 96GB ram gaming rig even without GPU. I have little practical experience because of my old PC but it seems both improvements to efficiency to run locally (at least for a group of people) and research about bias or poisoning is being done.
- Comment on Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” 2 months ago:
At least it’s open source and you can run it locally, and it’s more energy efficient. Give credit where credit is due. And contrary to fascist talking points not all Chinese Researchers bow to the CCP.
- Comment on Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” 2 months ago:
Yes there is: Paradox of tolerance - Wikipedia. Fascist speech is fascist recruitment using lies. If you tolerate intolerant speech, soon you will no longer have tolerance. So if you want tolerance you must not tolerate speech that is meant to increase intolerance.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 2 months ago:
Well who doesn’t once they get older haha. But I seriously wish I wouldn’t have had a laptop or smartphone with keyboard and typed everything I learned as a question / answer flashcard. So I can review them. Some kind of flow inducing learning environment. Of course everyone learns differently, but I imagine there are huge gains possible with software and learning courses with current technology.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 2 months ago:
You wish you would have been home schooled?
To be honest I’m disappointed we haven’t seen more progress into “VR schools” yet. Where you are fully submerged into a learning experience. While your blood is constantly analyzed and drugs to increase concentration and energy levels are dispensed. Ok maybe not the last part.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 2 months ago:
It’s all fun and games posting extremist propaganda, until you hear that the christo-fascists in power right now actually do want to ban sodomy.
- Comment on The one good thing about all this 2 months ago:
It is sad. Everyone is gloating, cheering on a possible conflict in the future. We’ve seen this kind of escalation and warmongering in 2013 in Ukraine. “Of course that country on the doorstep of our big geopolitical rival should be independent and join our military pact! Hahaha lololol!”