InternetPerson

@InternetPerson@lemmings.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Compared to what I’m used to regarding storage upgrades on other highly integrated devices like smartphones for example, the storage upgrade costs of the steamdeck seem much better and almost fair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For example, it might record if people are browsing for baby products or other personal items.

  Don’t mind baby products and dildos or whatever.

  They could see bank activity and even login credentials when someone is temporarily displaying their own passwords.

  This basically ignores all security measures regarding everything. Sensitive communication, company secrets and so on.

  That’s fucking seriously huge. What the fuck?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of different species which serve as pollinators besides bees. Afaik, some are more specialised into specific flowers/plants than others and without them, these plants wouldn’t be able to reproduce. (Yucca moths for example.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, did I make the impression?

  I am just trying to understand you and have a civilised discussion with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That took a very uncivilised turn.

  Why are you so angry?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am absolutely with you on that one.

  But I think it’s tied to how we do business and less a problem which is very specific to the movie industry. Or in other words: it’s our fucked up capitalism in action again.

  The workhorses of such shows get almost neglected while the shiny poster people and producers get most of the share.

  And that’s basically everywhere the case. CEOs, managers, superiors are making insanely more money than those who are contributing a lot of work. It’s an unfair system which is holding the movie industry tightly in its grip as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i don’t need to present an alternative to glueing yourself to things….

  I’ve had this kind of talk a lot of times. And when it actually comes to “those alternatives”, which critics say activists should pursue instead, one common reaction is silence, as they are lacking ideas about those.
  I’ll leave you with that.

  the jury is not out on that…

  As far as I know, it is. If there are new studies, which I don’t know of and which come to a clear conclusion, I’d be thankful if you could link them here.

  and i don’t really care about your opinions pretending like you’ve read research about how effective gluing yourself to things it….

  Well, that’s your decision. If you don’t believe in facts, then don’t. But then it’s not surprising if people call you out on that, if you don’t provide proof for your position.
  If you’re interested – which you don’t seem to be – I’ll happily share the studies, historical examples, reports and surveys I’ve collected on that topic.

  it’s honestly pretty fucking evil of you to promote it.

  I didn’t promote it. Maybe you can explain what gave you the impression?

  nobody should hurt themselves to spread your political message.

  I agree that nobody should hurt themselves. Although I can understand if people see themselves driven to such measures out of desperation and/or in order to prevent worse.
  Regarding that activist group “Letzte Generation”, I couldn’t find any reports about injuries due to glueing.

  Also I wonder where you get the “your political message” from as I didn’t make any statement about my political stance on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chicken vs Egg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Compared to other religions, I understand that take, if we neglect stuff like not living up to their own doctrine of, e.g., equal rights between women and men, or the Khalistan movement, which has caused death and abused human rights on several occasions, also by killing civilians.

  Still, as most organized religions, it became emergent as a tool of mass control and subjugation. Moral behaviour is not formed by critical thought and self-reflection, but by devotion to some mysterious higher power. Which is and always has been a core issue of problematic behaviour we can so often observe today with religious people. A side-effect is that it has the danger of hindering progress and societal evolution by having a creationism as one of it’s core teachings, as far as I know.

  A further form of subjugation, hindering freedom of individual human (and harmless) expression, can be found among the Kakkars. For example the “dress-code” with having uncut hair, cotton undergarments etc…

  I could go on. So to make it short, no, religions are usually detrimental for the long term constructive development of humanity and Sikhism is no exception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. But it’s still less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You probably meant 1 / 0.

  0 / 1 is 0.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You require more fuel to move compared to fuel consumption while running idle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate activists glue themselves to Munich airport runway⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  a. self-mangling is a good way to discourage sympathy or participation b. disrupting a bunch of random travelers, and actually endangering them […] not helpful in getting sympathy for the cause… just press coverage… which will be mostly negative. […]
  it’s so fucking stupid and counter productive

  The jury is still out on that. I’ve found research and surveys pointing in both directions. The positive and negative effects of such forms of protest are not sufficiently studied yet. Also historically, there are good examples for both.

  Therefore, I wouldn’t judge yet.

  actually endangering them because planes are in the air and need to land

  From what I know about that activist group, they always ensure safety. On street blockages, they make room for ambulances, they also inform emergency services.
  I haven’t looked it up for this case, but I can imagine, that they considered this.
  I think, planes usually have enough fuel to land at another airport for such cases. There are emergency protocolsmror stuff like that anyway. So no one is really endagered here. Just inconvenienced.

  c. there are a lot more direct ways to cause disruption, and a lot more sympathetic, less self-harming tactics to get press coverage

  What do you have in mind?

  e. did i mention it even fucks up the activists physically!!!

  Not really though.
  Despite that, every member knows the risk. They know what they are doing. They are not stupid and think about such protest actions thoroughly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chicken vs Egg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or are they local?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chicken vs Egg⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Religion is usually bad, so I don’t have an issue lumping them all together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is just that teeny tiny ethical problem of not paying the creators and distaibutors for something we enjoy. This becomes a practical problem as well. If they make less money, it’s likely that even more movies or series get killed or never even started.

  Idk what to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We, yesterday for a train ride. We, next week, for the way back. We almost every month for that purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, at least where I live, they are increasing prices.

  Makes me feel like it’s time to dust my old pirate hat…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Install an android emulator. Problem solved.

  Start pirating again. Problem solved.

  Make your own movies and shows. Problem solved.

  Start a company, get rich, buy Netflix, problem solved.

  Stop watching stuff, do something else. Problem solved.

  Found a secret society, infiltrate politics worldwide, stir chaos and destruction, let the world burn and built a new Netflix from the world’s ashes where you still can download stuff. Problem solved.

  See? It’s not that hard!

  (In case it wasn’t clear, I am joking.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stack Overflow, technically a neutral term. Idk though whether the name in such a context would violate any trademark laws even if it’s a non-profit platform.

  Snack Overflow

  Nullpointer Exception

  Access Violation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily, no. There are a plethora of non-profit services and pages on the net.

  What platform do you think you used to write that commeent?

  Regarding platforms of for-profit companies, you are more right than wrong though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s original work they contributed for free. Lending others that kind of expertise and time, just that it get’s used by a machine learning algorithm, which aims to reproduce this, without giving it back to them or the community in a similar free manner, feels violating.
  Apart from that, creators feel ownership over their content and it feels wrong not to be asked what happens to it. (Although those probably wouldn’t – or shouldn’t – use SO anyway, as their content gets commercialised anyway by giving it SO for free.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, there are a lot of people who like to be told a story and immerse themselve into such lore and reallymenjoy such scenes.

  Despite that, the cutscenes in games of the TLoZ series are really not that long, which you would probably know, if you would’ve played the games.