TankovayaDiviziya

@TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  De-anonymising Yandex

  Me: Ha! Good thing I am not Russian!

  De-anonymising Meta

  Me: Damn…and it is hard for me to let go because my social circle use Meta-owned social media and couldn’t care less about privacy…I am toast…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avocado⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, all living beings came from a common primordial ancestor, so it makes sense that some features are shared.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  so I would be weary about gleaning financial advice from a chatbot.

  Oh yes, I use the bots for projections, which I don’t necessarily take on the face value. Some calculations had been off but as long as I gain some actual profits, I am content enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The maker of Deep Seek made it so it would be easier for him to do stocks, which I am doing as well. Unless you all expect us to get degree on how to manually calculate the P/E ratio, potential loss and earnings, position sizing, spread and leverage, compounding, etc., then I will keep using AI. Not everyone of us could specialise on particular areas. But my experience and my purpose for using AI does not defeat what the article is trying to say. I have made the same realisation doing stocks with AI that the tool could easily be used by the lazy for the many trivial things that does not take an ounce of effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right. I just corrected my comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The dieselgate scandal is why I am so disappointed when I heard that Volkswagen outsold Tesla in Europe for the number one spot since the start of the year. I have been hoping it would a less scrupulous company (and non-Chinese EV manufacturer) that took the number one spot for European EV cars sold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*play imagine being sung by random white celeb*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I do think there is psyops to wedge the progressives and liberals. However, this benefits the blue MAGA nonetheless. The blue MAGA kept going on about the “lesser evil” and “perfect is the enemy of good” phrases. It occured to me that it is a thought terminating response from criticising the Democratic Party from actually being active to go further left in order to finally quash the far-right. Moreover, those phrases are also usually conservative phrases to convince people to accept the status quo. This make the Democratic party conservative. And the problem with conservatives is they would rather side with fascists, than to rein the ills of capitalism to keep the monied interests happy. The right and conservative parties in 1934 Germany elected to give Hitler absolute power while the left opposed it. Ninety years later in the US, which party allowed the GOP bill to gut welfare programmes? It is the Democrats with Chuck Schumer. Progressives have the last laugh over liberals/blue MAGA being wrong on “vote blue, no matter who” nonsense (although fascists indeed would like the left to have the last laugh before sending us to concentration camps). The Democrats would vote with MAGA regardless of whether or not they have the majority anyway!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the fact is that there are also a LOT of dumb customers willing to buy crap.

  As much as everyone love Oblivion…it all started from there with the $9 horse armour DLC.

  God knows why.

  Yet somehow there’s enough of a customer base for that that they sell it.

  Kids. Fucking kids. Thankfully I am never that stupid to buy individual DLCs even when I was a child, which is compounded by familial circumstances and education, but kids will be kids. Either they stole their parent’s credit card to pay for useless virtual items, or they were spoiled and never taught with financial literacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Listen and⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This comment is the thread killer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gonna fight⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the right won that war

  I assume you are from the US. It may be the case in your country, but it is not necessarily that the right as a whole won the war, considering that other parts of the world still have leftist and liberal politicians ruling. As a matter of fact, they have gotten more popular as Trump’s brazen corruption and incompetence is setting example why not to elect populist right wing politicians.

  For what it’s worth, if nothing existentially happens that would stop US from becoming a nation anymore like a civil war, politics typically swing back like a pendulum. Even at the extreme, politics could dramatically swing back to normalcy and empathy. We have had countries that were under dictatorship, but are now democratic like Spain and Portugal. Because the problem with dictatorships is that they become too corrupt and reality eventually catches up to those who were swooned by initial sweet promises of demagoguery.

  Of course, what I just said now may not be reassuring to you because I am speaking from a place of relative safety, so you can take it or leave it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We poisoned the whole planet so our eggs wouldn't stick to the pan 🙃⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Teflon found out and yet did nothing. That is willingly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gonna fight⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I approve of any leftist as long as they are anti-authoritarian.

  so that it appears leftists are always fighting since they are all lumped into the same category.

  I always say it is because the left in general has its roots in old school liberal value of “think for yourself”. So there typically tends to be maverick attitude and in-fighting. The best example is the Spanish Republicans during the Spanish Civil War; you have soc dems, communists and anarchists fighting together not just against fascists, but also themselves. The right, meanwhile value order and hierarchy, so they tend to easily set aside their differences. Again, the Spanish Civil War is the best example, with the Spanish Nationalists also composed of various factions with competing agenda, but managed to set aside their differences, which made it all the easier to do because they had a strong man figure to rally to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But even so, Netflix still retain good sound quality compared to alternative sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I definitely look at the file size first. Although, as you already alluded to, sometimes it gets cheated with the resolution being cropped to either the top or side. And a major issue with downloading large file sizes is if you are unlucky enough that there aren’t many seeders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only limitation on sailing the high seas is that the video and sound quality are not as great as legit streaming. You get descriptions that claim it is ripped full 4k or HD, but when actually looking at the encoding, it is not the case. But what can we do? If we are being made to stream in shit, it is better to sail in blue ocean high seas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life is unfair to landlords⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But think of the market!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hear, hear! I miss the days when trolling used to mean piss take. If someone is trolling, troll them back!

  Somehow people forgot to give other the people this memo, including the “you don’t fucking join social networks as your self”. Anonymity makes this all work.

  I do get into political debates, but I don’t overshare my real info and I certainly don’t ban anyone for disagreeing with me. I find it cringe if anyone bans someone for disagreement to maintain “mental health”. Unless someone is stalking or making a calculated harrasment on the person online, sure ban or report the troll, but banning someone because the person does not have a good response shows pettiness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pope Joan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we now doing phrenology, Father?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have kind of arrived to the same conclusion. If people asked me what is love, I would say it is a religion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It has been a long time since I watched Her, but my takeaway from the movie is that because making real life connection is difficult, people have come to rely on AI which had shown to be more empathetic and probably more reliable than an actual human being. I think what many people don’t realise as to why many are single, is because those people afraid of making connections with another person again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zuckerburg and Facebook enable lies to spread because that’s how he makes money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos-- you can tell they are insecure. They became rich and powerful and now want to stomp on people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Found Lily and Mitch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But people don’t experience attraction before puberty, right? How do they know what groups of people they’ll grow up to be attracted to?

  Well, we all have crushes when we were kids, don’t you agree?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever a beast is shown on screen⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And predators in movies waste so much energy chasing one miniscule prey, which yield insignificant amount of calories, for hours if not days. Ladies and gentlemen, Hollywood may have just discovered the first known example of an animal that exhibit autism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't get better than this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d put in a gym set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't get better than this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would just have a gym set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't get better than this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Self-deprecation. Reddit loves to make such post. But I’d say this is going on since time immemorial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Found Lily and Mitch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plenty of kids already know if they are gay or not. In my home country, I have had classmates in elementary school who are openly gay. Some cultures find it awkward to talk about it to children, whereas in some, tolerance and acceptance to lgbt is part of culture. I probably don’t need to mention about the concept and existence of third genders since the ancient times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shut up. It is only ten years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a pic of two besties⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that I think about it, is she happy? Is she traumatised? Is she regretting? Is she laughing at the absurdity of it all?