ogmios
@ogmios@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Civil disobedience earring/keychain set (requires bread tie) 1 week ago:
You idiots are so dead if there’s ever a real conflict.
- Comment on Historians alarmed as Trump seeks to rewrite US story for 250th anniversary 1 week ago:
Yea man. How dare they celebrate their 205th anniversary!
- Comment on Historians alarmed as Trump seeks to rewrite US story for 250th anniversary 1 week ago:
Under an executive order issued in January, the president has started to churn out his own approved version of US history that professional historians fear will resort to the tried and tested authoritarian playbook of airbrushing out inconvenient and inglorious chapters that do not align with his vision of American greatness.
The executive order is literally just planning for celebrating the 250th anniversary, and this is the whole of the reasoning behind the alarmist headline. But it’s all okay, since getting people to hate Trump more is the goal, so if you have to bend the truth a bit over your knee to achieve that, who can blame you right?
“Journalism”
- Comment on AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals 1 week ago:
I mean, it was trained to mimic human social behaviour. If you want a completely honest LLM I suppose you’d have to train it on the social behaviours of a population which is always completely honest, and I’m not personally familiar with such.
- Comment on “The masters of the universe are Jews,” former US Senator declares in Israel 1 week ago:
I mean, my whole point is that you have to actually learn for yourself if you ever want to understand the minutia of how and why that strategy works.
- Comment on “The masters of the universe are Jews,” former US Senator declares in Israel 1 week ago:
The reason is that most people think they already know everything they need to know and never actually develop themselves spiritually to the point they can actually understand what’s being said, and act against it. Instead most people will continue to pump tokens into the skinner box which “proves” they are owned in these people’s eyes, without ever doing anything to contradict the notion that they’re owned.
It’s not about being true. It’s that they’ve successfully sold enough people the perspective that it’s true, that people are willing to go along with it in exchange for profits.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi cuts product returns by 50% by changing up its pin soldering 2 weeks ago:
I was really confused by the headline for a minute until I realized they were talking about products returned instead of profits returned.
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, all I can say is that 5 years ago we were trying to get people to buy local because of China, and now Trump has managed to get all the people who didn’t listen back then to become really hardcore about buying local now, thanks to his tariffs.
- Comment on Sydney woman who sold a cartoon cat T-shirt told to pay US$100,000 in Grumpy Cat copyright case | Australia news | The Guardian 2 weeks ago:
How can you call that logic? Clearly, as she must pay $24m for a copyright claim, then those corporations ought to also pay around $24m for their legal obligations.
- Comment on Sydney woman who sold a cartoon cat T-shirt told to pay US$100,000 in Grumpy Cat copyright case | Australia news | The Guardian 2 weeks ago:
In September last year, the court ruled a default judgment in favour of Grumpy Cat Ltd. The company was awarded damages of US$100,000 per defendant.
If the payments were made in full, the company would win more than US$24m.
Curtis earned just over US$1 from the sale. In the six years she had been running her store, she had generated about US$200 in revenue.
This is why copyright laws are a joke to the public. Corporations can infringe with wanton abandon and pay pennies on the dollar as just a cost of doing business. Random nobody makes a simple mistake and gets raked over the coals for ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND times what she actually made.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 2 weeks ago:
$568m is a day Apple will never get back!
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 3 weeks ago:
I vaguely remember reading that some dude created 8chan because he thought 4chan was too heavily moderated or smth, which considering the little I saw while perusing 4chan ages ago, makes me wonder the depths to which 8chan can go.
You’d be surprised how uptight people can be about certain things, even while being extremely liberal with others.
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 3 weeks ago:
4chan in the past years was mostly known as a FBI honeypot.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’ve put a fair bit of effort into trying to understand the Japanese perspective, because as a northerner it frankly displays an odd contrast of values, being extremely sexually liberal, while also holding firm to tradition and social responsibility. It appears to me as though they manage this by maintaining quite clear social boundaries regarding empathy for each other’s individual perspective, and so they don’t appreciate when things which hold a strong sentimental place in many people’s hearts, such as the master of anime’s unique style, or a Shinto shrine in a popular video game, are portrayed in an uncharitable light within the public sphere.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The tools matter because of the sheer volume of content which literally any meth head can produce, which has already severely tainted the whole online ecosystem, and will only get worse.
- Comment on "I was born in the wrong generation" has turned from edgy to a sad reality for some 4 weeks ago:
I’m a pretty odd person.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on American Truck Simulator is adding a road trip mode where you drive different vehicles, 'say, a powerful pickup or even a sports car' 4 weeks ago:
Oh great. Nothing is safe from the Trans Am agenda.
- Comment on "I was born in the wrong generation" has turned from edgy to a sad reality for some 4 weeks ago:
There has never been a better time for explorers. People lament that there’s nothing ‘undiscovered’ anymore, but after studying STEM and digging into history I’ve learned that the fact we currently have access to everything those early explorers left behind for us gives us an unprecedented window into what out world actually is, and how it actually works, if only you can look at it with an earnest desire to learn.
Mark my words: Those who actually manage to rise above the din will grow to shine more brightly than anyone has for thousands of years. There is incredibly opportunity in hope right now.
- Comment on Why do European Leftist call their government's right wing despite having free healthcare? 4 weeks ago:
Because ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ are concepts used to split the voting population into two roughly equal groups which can be placed against each other to balance the other out. Where the divide needs to be made in order to achieve two roughly equally sized groups is different for each population.
- Comment on It's a sin in Christianity to consume media based on ancient mythology and folklore? 4 weeks ago:
Because irrational hatred is so ubiquitous that it goes entirely unquestioned (and even defended as you’re likely to see in response to this post), almost nobody seems to be aware that the scientific method was actually developed by the Catholic church as the religiously approved way to explore the mysteries of our world. The view that the religion is rigid and exclusionary just plain isn’t supported by reality. You can certainly find bad examples and pretend you’ve “proved” something, but there are far, far more good people who aren’t brain dead zealots.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 4 weeks ago:
I think someone calculated the time it would take to read every single one you’re expected to agree with in normal every day life, and it worked out to needing 76 work days to read everything you “agree” to in a typical year.
- Comment on US cuts may affect FOSS projects funding (F-Droid, Tor, Let's Encrypt, TailsOS) 4 weeks ago:
I just like spreading the good word when people complain about some of Windows’ shitty features.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 4 weeks ago:
I was taught in college to only include a single question in one email unless you can’t get around it, because many people will only see the first one.
- Comment on US cuts may affect FOSS projects funding (F-Droid, Tor, Let's Encrypt, TailsOS) 5 weeks ago:
but that way DRM and windows would be AI too
That’s why I use O&Oshutup to turn off many of windows’ automatic functions. Probably my last windows machine anyways.
- Comment on US cuts may affect FOSS projects funding (F-Droid, Tor, Let's Encrypt, TailsOS) 5 weeks ago:
I’m considering the term more broadly here, to refer to it because the function takes control away from the user without their input.
- Comment on US cuts may affect FOSS projects funding (F-Droid, Tor, Let's Encrypt, TailsOS) 5 weeks ago:
I don’t use AI, in any form if I can help it. That was a 100% all natural ty[p.
- Comment on US cuts may affect FOSS projects funding (F-Droid, Tor, Let's Encrypt, TailsOS) 5 weeks ago:
Cunt funding by $1 and drive passion by 100x.
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 5 weeks ago:
It’s totally immature.
If that’s something you think you’ll have fun doing, I fully recommend it!
- Comment on How a false X post about pausing tariffs led to multi-trillion-dollar market swings. 5 weeks ago:
It’s kind of frightening that people who control that much capitol are apparently unaware that social media is not gospel truth.