rottingleaf

@rottingleaf@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  When talking about people with ASD that’s called unmasking and is one of the main goals of therapy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
  • lube can be removed without further notice
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m autistic, so talking about “common sense” might be funny, but - IP is technically an extension of contract law to a very abstract area. If we are being this rigid, then sovereign citizens must too have a say in politics. If we are being this rigid, then I want all Turks gone (or sworn fealty to me, LOL) from Khodorchur, Dayq province of Western Armenia. If we are being this rigid, then all governments in the world are illegal.

  You get the idea.

  And if we are, then why won’t we be even more rigid and ask how can one own a number? Which is ultimately any intellectual property. Piece of information is not a blockable resource.

  And if we are not, then I don’t see any public value in an institution that harms people.

  And there’s none, this is purely a device of power. When you realize this, and look at other such devices of power, you also realize that your society (as one that, well, imposed such IP laws on most of the world as a condition for economic interaction) is not free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Shut down themselves even better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can use Linux with RAM compression to have the same kind of economy that MacOS does.

  Just nobody bothers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talking to dead people through AI: the business of ‘digital resurrection’ might not be helpful, ethical… or even legal.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No difference from talking to dead people via Markov chain fed their quotes.

  I mean, Star Wars holocrons have such UIs sometimes - an avatar of their maker, which one can talk to, but, first, those are closer to AGI, second, there’s no “model”, there’s just data (texts and images mostly) in there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the issue is - I would buy something positioned as a very long-living and good machine for that price.

  Like Sun workstations were. The design and experience of everything.

  The issue with Apple is that these things look expensive, temporary and inconvenient (that feeling of concept nice to look at … for a day or so). And what’s worse, they are.

  I hope Larry Ellison gets geriatric demented sooner, maybe then he’ll try to resurrect Sun as a separate entity. Just joking, even to Larry Ellison I only wish good health.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You need technology cheaper than fossil fuels. Some of fossil fuels’ downsides are upsides for some people (political control), which necessitates the difference in cost by a big enough margin to counter those invisible benefits. A revolution.

  There’s no urgency, I think, because Earth’s population is going to start shrinking. The emissions are going to slow down for that reason.

  Countries that won’t have some quality, not quantity, approaches to their economies by then are going to fall hard.

  I guess that’s how EU is going to make the world owned by Europeans again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s simple, you have a shared resource running out, nobody wants to grab less of it.

  Grab less of it yourself - the others will compensate for you. Produce some of that resource - the others will just profit from it for longer.

  The biggest emitters are too strong to be climate-crusaded, the smaller ones do successful bribing and greenwashing, but I think there will eventually be climate crusades - against those poor bastards who formally fail to do something right, but don’t really contribute meaningfully to emissions.

  Other than finding some wonderful (like in Total Recall) process to turn fossil fuels into matter practically not separable and not usable as fuel, I don’t know what one can do.

  Profitable personal mobile nuclear batteries are still not reality.

  Some new magical principle of producing energy, sufficiently decentralized (here go big NPPs). There’s none, so prepare for dark future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fitness app Strava gives away location of Biden, Trump and other leaders, French newspaper says.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unlike this, fitness apps don’t require external connectivity or computing resources not satisfied by today’s handheld devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Decided to say something popular after his snafu, I see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concerns about medical note-taking tool raised after researcher discovers it invents things no one said — Nabla is powered by OpenAI's Whisper⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As an ADHD person (among other things), I don’t think I can be replaced with an LLM either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple To Revive The Design Of Its Iconic iMac G5 From More Than 20 Years Ago With Its Rumored Smart Home Display, Featuring A Small Square Display⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree, that round plastic glossy thing could look nice. A bit like SW-themed website design in Star Wars: AotC times.

  But that’s if the actual GUIs would not cause nausea.

  And if they wouldn’t try to make it look expensive.

  Actually what I liked in Apple designs in my childhood - they looked modern, friendly and kinda not too pretentious, in other words, cheap.

  The majority of their customers apparently have the opposite criteria.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First time I see something like this net upvoted. Mood improved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s often no in any way complete source code after 25 years.

  Media degrade, get forgotten hell knows where, get occasionally destroyed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no such thing as untrackable.

  The feeling of being a completely honest and lawful citizen was really nice at some point, buying games in Steam, GOG or just bookstores, too bad it was mostly gaslighting and they were not going to be honest with us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Impostors, in other words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can use VMs even more ambitiously. If your wi-fi is not supported by FreeBSD - there’s a wifibox port, basically it runs a minimal Linux with PCI passthrough.

  And of course if I need Windows, it won’t be bare metal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, please no, hell no, fuck no

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since a government is, in its pure form, only a body of people,

  That implies that logical structure of that body is negligible, if used to transfer human traits to a government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Inconsistency of style most likely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most importantly with respect to elf/goblin part: I found that distasteful and resent the implication that I said anything to that degree. I do not think people are fundamentally different, only that the conditions (material basis and social superstructures) that they find themselves in allow for and promotes certain kinds of actions and ways of being.

  In Tolkien’s lore goblins were made from elves through torture and various degrading conditions and magic.

  I agree about trust, but it can’t be global, only friend-to-friend, in real life as well.

  And trust in government should be taboo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and I feel dumber to have read your comment

  Then I have improved your self-consciousness. Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OK.

  The CEO is supposed to maximize the profits of investors or owners or whatever, not act like in this example.

  Just like the government to which you pay taxes is supposed to use it for some public good.

  Neither do what they are supposed to do, because that requires some kind of checks by a mechanism above both, and there’s no such.

  Is that more clear, or have my bad English and bad explaining skills failed you again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OK. I further made equivalence between that CEO and the government which you charge with making use of taxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fool blocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that your reading comprehension or my bad English?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be awesome, but would have limited results if there are still a few enormous companies with patent and IP laws preventing competition.

  You can’t have that eternal fight between democratic egalitarian monopoly and competitive jungle. The whole point of civilization is to have both representation and competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone from fucking Russia, people with biggest income in your country are usually first businessmen, second - something else, while in Russia those would be cockroaches from MFA, PA and other thieves, plus a few oligarchs who at some point were among those cockroaches.

  So it may not be as bad yet, but frankly yes, you are giving out vibes of going in the same direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Taxes are theft the specific way they are designed in most countries.

  Another example of theft is a hired administrator administrating by the criterion of their own pay.

  I mean, it is understandable how this works - their pay is a counterweight to the incentive to “mismanage” the company if someone else pays a fitting price. The issue here is that these two incentives do not completely neutralize each other, in some dimension their components add up.

  Why I had to say that taxes are still theft - because a CEO is equivalent to a state official in this issue. It’s the same problem.

  Political ideologies divide these problems, because political ideologies are like hedge funds, they diversify investments, so that every political ideology could be usable in every landscape for every policy. They are the opposite of consistent, by design.