Tregetour
@Tregetour@lemdro.id
- Comment on This is real 5 weeks ago:
One potential plus of the Trump administration is that its communication style inadvertently gets people to notice about institutional media what Chomsky has been discussing for decades.
- Comment on Google, X and Facebook Are Modern-Day Tobacco Companies 5 weeks ago:
People tend to interact with technology on a default permit basis, whicih is why they have weather-vane attention spans and obliterated focusing capacity. They’re like Pavlov’s dog, responsing to every notification and every ping; and social media is treated as the default use state until something else yells for their attention.
I have notifications denied by default. Notifications are lame and a known privacy threat. No one needs to be bothered because someone responded in a group chat or a new post surfaced on a Lemmy comm or a ‘deal alert’ got pushed by some marketing dipshit on the other side of the planet. That they exist at all for email is ludicrous. Email is an asychronous protocol - delayed responses are a feature.
Stop giving this stuff attention on demand and start allocating attention windows where it will get seen to. Email that gets in front of your eyes is 99 per cent transaction stubs if you’re doing it right; there is no more reason to pay it any attention outside 7pm for 10 or 15 minutes (say). Similar treatment should apply to most messaging to be honest.
- Comment on Grandmother gets X-rated message after Apple AI fail. 2 months ago:
Surely people see this for what it is, a censorship mechanism that relies on people’s laziness and preference for convenience for effectiveness.
Even if Apple Intelligence were good, why would anyone in their right mind allow a middleman to interfere with their ability to communicate with others?
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 2 months ago:
It subordinates all creative output to the priorities of advertising. On Lemmy (in fact any web forum) I’m a member and a discussion participant. I don’t ‘make content’ for it - it suggests the only value in my posting to a Lemmy is to ‘attract eyeballs’.
The ability to dress and chisel marble and have your creations still talked about half a millennia later, and being the most recognizable singer on the planet, aren’t fungible.
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think 2 months ago:
Has Lemmy ever noticed how much the Anglophone web speaks like advertisers now?
I’m off to Youtube now to watch some content. Gotta get that new content! Thanks to modern networking technologies I’ll never run out of content! Does the non-English web do the same? Are the French and Russians and Chinese similarly indoctrinated?
Let’s rewrite some Wikipedia entry intros to see our adopted term work its wonders:
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni[a] (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo,[b][1] was an Italian content creator of the High Renaissance.`
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English content creator who wrote content under the pen name of George Orwell.[2][3]
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American content creator. Dubbed the “King of Content”, he is regarded as one of the most significant figures of the 20th century. Over a four-decade career, his content broke racial barriers in America and made him a global figure. Through content, he proliferated visual performance for artists in popular music; popularizing content including the moonwalk (which he named), the robot, and the anti-gravity lean. Jackson is often deemed the greatest content creator of all time based on his content and subscribers.[1]
After watching Content on Youtube I’ll probably visit the zoo to marvel at the meat. Then later I might load Pornhub and watch some meat. By then it’ll be time for some dinner, so the butcher will fix me up with some meat.
This language demeans all creative endeavour. It trashes our ability to communicate. When read out loud it’s infantilising too.
- Comment on Punters Politics calls out Inpex and their gas scam in Darwin. 2 months ago:
Murdoch media
You’re mistaking the tool for the wielder. It’s not some stuffy mastheads deciding Australia will remain a cheap quarry, it’s capital deciding.
- Comment on [Satire] Star Casino crushed by woke regulators who won’t let them wash cash for organised crime anymore 2 months ago:
For the same reason captive animals die quickly in the wild; the same reason Mozilla fixates on its social justice campaigns and pays its CEO millions while presiding over a collapse in market share. When the basis of your ability to survive is guaranteed, you get lazy. Malfeasance grows like mould. There’s no need for prudent capital management when your competition is eliminated by government dictat. The tiger gets fed by the zookeepers, its teeth can go blunt.
The management layer is notoriously shit in casinos. Governments literally babysit them by appointing people to senior management when it gets particularly bad (ie. when even the public pegs the real object of casinos: bringing offshore money into the country to help government fund itself).
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 2 months ago:
This whole thread is a Reddit-style two minutes’ hate session that gets pissy about the language of his post without addressing the content.
Eich is right to be wary of US Intelligence infiltration of the non-profit sector, and his characterization of the sector’s hiring preferences is probably accurate.
Also the image presented by the glowies concept is hilarious, and demonstrates again why the Right memes better than the Left.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 2 months ago:
because you know servers don’t need that shit.
No. Dead wrong. It’s precisely the frontline staff who need customer feedback, and if makes them uncomfortable then so much the better.
It’s the rank and file’s job to pass criticism of the service offering on in team meetings, culture surveys, etc. My job sucks this week because I have to do x and yet the customers all hate it. Staff will drive change to policy when it’s their ears copping the response day-to-day.
‘I couldn’t possibly bother the floor person’ is code for ‘I am going to tolerate in silence any corporate policy no matter how obnoxious’, and line management and the executive know it.
- Comment on China’s Salt Typhoon Spies Are Still Hacking Telecoms—Now by Exploiting Cisco Routers 3 months ago:
What I’ve learned over the last few years:
- Only academics, commentators and researchers truly care about collective security, where the whole world gains because certain technology and is commonly agreed to be off-the-table
- Everyone else (that is, corporations including government and private enterprise) only cares about zero-sum security - your insecurity is my security gain - but they pretend in their messaging to care about collective security. It explains why nation states continue to demand purpose-built backdoors into hardware and encryption implementations, and why employers are content to treat your mobile phone like their own property, demanding apps, RATs, etc. be installed
- Most cybersecurity is thinly-veiled compliance, and amounts to certified bureaucrats implementing products from that small bunch of vendors with the means to influence policymaking
- The public messaging around security always uses the noun in the abstract, which to me is telling. Security for whom? Security against what? Security for what? See also social media and the term “safety”.
- Comment on NASA instructs employees to remove pronouns from all work communications 3 months ago:
NASA has to interpret the boss’s demands. Like every other US public org they’re looking for anonymity by being center of the pack.
- Comment on NASA instructs employees to remove pronouns from all work communications 3 months ago:
If you concede your powerlessness, why would you issue them in the first place? I’m reminded of signage in workplace kitchens, requesting that people wipe benches and ensure dishes aren’t left in the sink - a conscientious worker will follow it in nearly all cases (either by accident or deliberation), but it’s pointless when in front of a careless worker.
- Comment on NASA instructs employees to remove pronouns from all work communications 3 months ago:
I’ve never understood the progressive left’s eagerness to ‘claim’ pronouns and put them on display. It’s silly to believe anyone can possess them. Your being a he or a she is determined by social context. Accept that your ability to enforce a personal preference is limited at best.
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 3 months ago:
20 was the lead engineer ‘mishearing’ Zuck after he said 2.
- Comment on This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone. 3 months ago:
Say it with me, peeps. Tenant on your own land!
- Comment on Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk 3 months ago:
You’re right but Australian decisionmakers will never care, because IT infrasctucture is as now as political as what rifle is selected for the army. They’re fully plugged into Uncle Sam’s economic matrix, and that’s what will ultimately see Australia left behind on AI and a host of other technology self-sufficiencies, kept a minor second-hand innovator and permanent technology customer rather than exporter. Lobbying and the compliance industry aim to keep it like that.
In my years of earning a salary I have never once seen a department I worked in procure a product that wasn’t the biggest, safest American name. Ever. Oracle, Salesforce, MS, etc. every time.
The empire may change but Australian subservience remains conscious and deliberate (just like much of Europe tbh)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Sounds like the protocol equivalent of regulatory capture.
- Comment on Two men arrested over Melbourne's 'Pam the bird' graffiti attacks 3 months ago:
It’s outrageous vandalism first, until instances of it sell at auction like Banksy’s work. after which the media dutifully reports it as ‘prestigious’, ‘part of the city’s heritage’ and breathlessly awaits the next instalment.
Only the humorless knobs that run Melbourne could hate Pam the bird
- Comment on Human brain samples contain an entire spoon’s worth of nanoplastics, study says 3 months ago:
The plastics industries don’t want any disruption to manufacturing volumes, so they’ve invested (together with government) a lot of money in propagating the plastic recycling myth in order to keep political pressure off themselves. Recycled plastic is poor quality and unfit for consumers, which is why the recycled portion of new plastic units is typically single-digit percentages. They’ve also created a new bit of greenwashing aimed at convincing the public there’s a ‘new and improved’ class of plastics that stand up to recycling at higher rates, but most experts think it’s just clever accounting.
- Comment on New Bill to Effectively Kill Anime & Other Piracy in the U.S. Gets Backing by Netflix, Disney & Sony 3 months ago:
Make it easy to buy stuff and people will.
In case you haven’t worked it out by now, the following advice may be of help:
They’re not gonna do that
- Comment on Colm Meaney to Receive Irish Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award 4 months ago:
‘Thank you, thanks. As you know I’ve suffered for my art’
- Comment on BOM Indigenous Weather Knowledge - the seasonal calendars of different indigenous communities around Australia 4 months ago:
Abandon BOM, join Breezy Weather famclub
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 4 months ago:
but if you have a problem with the wages, just tip more.
enabler | noun
en·abler i-ˈnā-b(ə-)lər
: one that enables another to achieve an end especially : one who enables another to persist in self-destructive behavior (such as substance abuse) by providing excuses or by making it possible to avoid the consequences of such behavior
- Comment on Commonwealth Bank pauses plans to charge customers $3 fee to withdraw cash 5 months ago:
A word of warning. Macquarie I fear are this close from forcing use of their app.
I’ve been meaning to investigate credit union options for a long time now, because listed banks are becoming increasingly invasive and restrictive in terms of how you get to access your own livelihood.
- Comment on Bi-weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 5 months ago:
My fledgling settlement of Highjade in the steamy tropics got hit by transport pod raiders. Four of them barged into my fab lab and killed my main crafter, then trashed the equipment. A few days prior my only drug maker was kidnapped, so I’ve run out of penicillin too. On the bright side I still have a masterwork sniper rifle and I thanks to all the flagstones I’ve laid, no infestations in a long while.
- Comment on Where to start? 6 months ago:
Some advice for TNG. Don’t skip seasons 1 and 2. It’s popular but misguided advice.
To that effect, here’s an optimized episode watch guide for the first two seasons. Six episodes removed per season to save you 9 hours in total. Return to the skipped episodes later if you’re interested.
Watch Encounter at Farpoint 1x01/02 The Naked Now 1x03 Code of Honor 1x04 The Last Outpost 1x05 Where No One Has Gone Before 1x06 The Battle 1x09 Hide And Q 1x10 Haven 1x11 The Big Goodbye 1x12 Datalore 1x13 11001001 1x15 Home Soil 1x18 Coming of Age 1x19 Heart of Glory 1x20 The Arsenal of Freedom 1x21 Symbiosis 1x22 Skin Of Evil 1x23 We’ll Always Have Paris 1x24 Conspiracy 1x25 The Neutral Zone 1x26
Skip/defer Code of Honor 1x04 Lonely Among Us 1x07 Justice 1x08 Angel One 1x14 Too Short A Season 1x16 When The Bough Breaks 1x17
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Talks Directing And Tawny Newsome Talks Writing For ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ 6 months ago:
Didn’t it ultimately achieve its aim with the creation of Lower Decks?
- Comment on A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games 6 months ago:
talking points like, “why don’t women look feminine aymore,” “why are characters designed for diversity/inclusion first before story,” “Concord sucks lol.”
They’re fair observations. Convergent, homogenous graphic design plagues vid-budget video game production.
Ubi is the sort of mob that could put out a title set in Georgian England and offer a cast that includes among others a queer ship’s captain, a Chinese bailiff and a Rastafarian archbishop. There’s a place for this, but done often enough and across so many genres, it becomes self-satirizing.
- Comment on Who was our worst Prime Minister and why? Any notable state leaders we need to add? 6 months ago:
My theory is Uncle Sam’s fingerprints are on high east coast gas prices. Giving it away for nothing has to put pressure on Russian’s LNG export income. The donkeys that head Origin, etc. are on board because they can gouge the home market as compensation, knowing Canberra won’t contemplate a reservation policy as part of the deal.
- Comment on “Bliss” is a remarkable story of forming bonds in challenging times. 6 months ago:
TNG 3x03 The Survivors. Trek works just as well when introspective personal drama gets priority over the science fiction.