BlameTheAntifa
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- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 1 day ago:
I’m only surprised it took this long.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 3 days ago:
When this bubble eventually bursts, and it will, the economic fallout is going to be catastrophic.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 3 days ago:
I am quite surprised at the amount of people that think people exist that would praise a monopoly and celebrate shareholder value.
If you’ve never been to the US, don’t. Half the population unironically hold those beliefs as sacred.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 3 days ago:
Point 3 of Umberto Eco’s traits of ur-fascism.
Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering’s alleged statement (“When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun”) to the frequent use of such expressions as “degenerate intellectuals,” “eggheads,” “effete snobs,” “universities are a nest of reds.” The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 3 days ago:
Same. Intel and Nvidia are both on the boycott list.
As great as AMD is right now, I still don’t want them to become a monopoly. The fact that we have a duopoly is already a major problem.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 3 days ago:
Based on the last sentence, I believe it’s satire.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 3 days ago:
In the Itch.io incident, Stripe laid the blame for that on “banking partner” rules, claiming they were looking for ways to fix it.
- Comment on Microsoft investigates Israeli military’s use of Azure cloud storage 3 days ago:
Murdersoft
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 4 days ago:
He would be an incredible President precisely because he doesn’t want it.
- Comment on Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court 5 days ago:
Why wouldn’t everyone just trust a corrupt, illegitimate, unelected, unaccountable, fascist organization that shows open contempt for the US Constitution, rule of law, democracy, and basic ethics? /s
- Comment on xkcd #3126: Disclaimer 5 days ago:
Not ChatGPT output — I’m just like this.
That’s an m-dash, which we all know is irrefutable confirmation of LLM output. /s
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 6 days ago:
I want WebOS back.
Or a clean, normal, non-Android phone version of Linux.
- Comment on Enlightenment 6 days ago:
It makes perfect sense. Centrists are the only people who don’t realize that centrists are enablers of authoritarianism. The Golden Mean Fallacy is a logical fallacy for a reason.
- Comment on We are mainstream now🔥 1 week ago:
Synonyms include: fascists, nazis, magas, tories, bigots, etc.
- Comment on We are mainstream now🔥 1 week ago:
I have been seeing an uptick in both slop and RWA trolling recently and have taken it as a sign of rising popularity. I just hope moderators can, and will, be able to keep up with pushing out the toxic elements. I would hate to see the fediverse become Reddit 2.0.
- Comment on ‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians 1 week ago:
Absolutely.
Here are some alternatives to Murdersoft’s most popular blood-soaked products:
- Windows → Fedora KDE Plasma Linux
- MS Office → LibreOffice
- Github → Codeberg
- VS Code → VS Codium
- Bing → DuckDuckGo
- LinkedIn → You don’t need a social network for wage slavery
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 1 week ago:
In 2018 SCOTUS ruled that states can require businesses with no physical presence or relationship to a state to collect sales tax for the state, effectively invalidating the Constitution’s Interstate Commerce Clause. Florida may be hoping this precedent along with a corrupt, illegitimate fascist majority in SCOTUS, will allow states to project their own local laws onto the entire country.
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 1 week ago:
People are downvoting them because no one is beholden to the laws of a state/province/jurisdiction/etc that they have no relation with. Foreign authorities do not get to force their will onto foreign entities.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 week ago:
Already done. I moved everything to Codeberg a year or two ago. I strongly recommend it to anyone looking for safe, non-corporate, community-oriented version control. It’s also German and non-profit.
- Comment on Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order 1 week ago:
The way it’s portrayed online you’d think the Netherlands is the most civilized society ever formed by humankind. I know that nowhere is perfect, but it does seem like a really nice place to live. If only the language weren’t so silly.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 1 week ago:
What are you considering as alternatives?
- Comment on Great Advertise 1 week ago:
There is a mathematic perfection that our brains easily recognize even if we can’t articulate it. The human brain is unmatched at the task of visual pattern recognition.
- Comment on heaven 1 week ago:
The torture for the true sinners probably happens, but at the hands of the normal people who didnt make it to heaven.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 week ago:
So Valve says the processors - such as Stripe and PayPal - pressed the issue based on pressure from MasterCard (and possibly Visa). MasterCard says they had nothing to do with it. Itch says that Stripe was directly responsible in their case with a blanket ban on anything generally sexy, but that Stripe blamed their banking partners.
So Stripe, at least, is directly responsible but insists they are under pressure from banking partners. This means the pressure is coming from one or more actual banks. Since we don’t have names, we have to do some research to find out who Stripe works with. The possibilities I was able to dig up on a quick search include:
- Citigroup
- Wells Fargo
- Barclays
- Goldman Sachs
- Evolve Bank & Trust
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 1 week ago:
Alexa has ads since the beginning and I can’t imagine that would change just because they are replacing the backend with AI. The first time Echo wasted my time trying to selling me something in my own home was also the last time. I don’t understand how anyone can be okay with that.
- Comment on Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication 1 week ago:
Aha. Sorry, I misunderstood. I saw the first line about Proton Pass already supporting MFA and I wasn’t familiar with Ente Auth. I did just look it up and I can’t believe I’ve never heard of it before. It’s even AGPL-3.0, be still my beating heart! Thank you for pointing it out!
ente.io for anyone curious.
- Comment on Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication 1 week ago:
You really should not keep your MFA codes in the same place as your passwords, especially if you are syncing those passwords between devices and/or a cloud service.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 1 week ago:
Getting certain Windows apps to run on Linux is still impossible, unfortunately.
What I don’t understand is that file syncing is well supported. While I would never condone using a Google product, Celeste and Insync both support Google Drive. Aside from those, Dropbox has a native Linux package, and a self-hosted NAS is always a sound investment.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 1 week ago:
It’s a shame that generic desktop apps don’t have the same level of support that games do. That would be an enormous boost to Linux adoption.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 2 weeks ago:
What was AI 50 years ago is now AGI,
You’re not wrong, but that’s also a bit misleading. “AI” is all-encompassing while terms like AGI and ASI are subsets. From the 1950s onward AI was expected to evolve quickly as computing evolved, that never happened. Instead, AI mostly topped out with decision trees, like those used for AI in videogames. ML pried the field back open, but not in the ways we expected.
AGI and ASI were coined in the early 2000s to set apart the goal of human-level intelligence from other kinds of AI like videogame AI. This is a natural result of the field advancing in unexpected, divergent directions. It’s not meant to move the goal post, but to clarify future goals against past progress.
It is entirely possible that we develop multiple approaches to AGI that necessitate new terminology to differentiate them. It’s the nature of all evolution.
