TheTechnician27

@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “A solarpunk polity would replace centralised forms of state government with decentralised confederations of self-governing communities […]”

  Stalin notoriously loved checks notes heavily decentralizing government power akin to anarcho-communism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s good to see a politician who actually stays informed about these kinds of issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus christ, chill the hell out. 💀

  1. Who still writes letters anymore? Uh… A lot of people? Especially sitting senators to massive, multi-billion-dollar corporations? Would you have preferred they go on some shitty social media platform to “ayo get your shit together fr fr”? Fellas, is it gay pretentious to use your position in government to bring attention to an issue? Have you never written a letter?

  2. One of the reasons a neo-Nazi fuck just won the election is because these online spaces allow fascist rhetoric to run rampant. You’re bringing up a borderline nonsensical edge case to justify why action shouldn’t be taken in 99.999% of cases.

  3. Writing coherently about an actual issue facing a platform like Steam actually shows that he’s more in-touch than most politicians. You sound deeply insecure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you can block yourself. Maybe ask the Lemmy devs to implement it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A US senator can absolutely, unambiguously write to a private corporation in an unofficial capacity asking them to more strictly moderate their platform. You’re just parroting “muh freeze peach” having zero idea where that starts and ends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say it again, Dexter⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Found a real source: www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-79546-1

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Incoming border czar tells illegal immigrants to ‘self deport’ ahead of Trump’s term⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds to me like the racist little baby wants to save the administration money by intimidating as many would-be victims as he can because he knows this is completely economically unviable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix used to not have ads, now it’s ‘celebrating’ two years with them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A vastly better experience for less money? Never! /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ASKfm to shut down December 1, 2024.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  >Owned by an asset management company that also owns e.g. online gambling sites.

  >No indication of authorship

  >Almost immediate, jarring, and lengthy tangent into “applicable regulations” and privacy policies/data handling

  >When we established the Company [emphasis on the capital ‘C’

  Yup, this was written by a legal team masquerading as someone who actually cares about the platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An infinite amount of monkeys each given an infinite amount of time would produce all infinite strings possible on a typewriter (this includes ones that just happen to be terminated with a neverending substring of blank spaces, i.e. one where the monkey stops or presses whitespace keys and nothing else an arbitrary number of times.).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WILD⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jellyfish are cnidrians which also include corals and sea anemones. Jellyfish are a specific lifecycle stage of medusozoans (their own subphylum), while corals and sea anemones are anthozoans (another subphylum of Cnidria).

  So yup, they are polyps before sexual maturity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I think you chose right just because I don’t think this is that unpopular an opinion. Maybe there should be a grindsmygears community for people to air their annoyances, but I can imagine that going downhill from sensible stuff like this to kind of a cesspool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100% agreed, but this doesn’t seem like a shower thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oahsa rocks guys⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about oleic acid-hydroxy stearic acid now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever you feel guilty about not cleaning the house...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could totally fit one in that patch of fur to the bottom left of the eye and the upper right of the paw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea Creature Party⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it depends on what kind of sponge, but I think in all likelihood since most sponges have no symmetry that this comes down to the same politics as an agender person choosing a bathroom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  insultingly tiny, unupgradeable storage aside, that’s surprisingly competitive with most modern Windows laptops

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia skirts sanctions, acquires Nvidia and AMD chips through Dell servers from India⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still worth noting that this objectively drives up the cost for Russia compared to simply purchasing these directly. These servers went from Dell, through Malaysia, to an Indian pharmaceutical company, and then onto Russia. This accomplishes a few things:

  • It drives up the actual monetary cost through logistics.
  • It limits the amount of material Russia can reasonably get their hands on in a given time period by effectively “narrowing the pipe”. So even if they can get their hands on some of it, it’s almost assuredly reduced from what they otherwise could.
  • It means that loopholes are fewer and more far between and can therefore actually hurt Russia if they’re identified and closed. This closure can add additional latency too while Russia searches out a new bypass.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix 2.0 Is Here!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Decentralization actually can be really powerful to give you a backup even if you prefer Signal; Signal’s servers very infrequently go down, but when they do, you entirely lose that channel for an unpredictable amount of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Matrix 2.0 Is Here!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not joining the rooms Element suggests on its own client? Element will show you a list of suggested, popular rooms to join, and a fuckton of these are overrun by spammers and worse. If Matrix has basically zero ability to curate these rooms outside of “here’s what’s got the most members”, then it absolutely should not in any capacity be recommending them, let alone as a way to get started for new users. It’s fucking ridiculous, and before you say “Well why should they be expected to curate the rooms they suggest?”, imagine the fucking disaster Discord would have on its hands if it started recommending servers, and several of its top 100 were just filled with CSAM and Bitcoin scams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be a rebel, pick up trash.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reduce, reuse, recycle, revolt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be a rebel, pick up trash.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Be a rebel by also doing your best to avoid the trash in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ladies Beware!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kraven really let himself go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google plans AI browser assistant "Jarvis" to automate web tasks.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  addons.mozilla.org/…/buster-captcha-solver/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're a different species, so it's cool to eat them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Don’t walk on the grass” signs are usually stupid anyway because vast expanses of bare lawns with nothing but a single kind of mowed grass are almost exclusively dumber, uglier, and worse for the environment than native plants. (To actually answer your question, no, because speciesism is differential treatment without critical thought as to why they’re treated differently, and animals can’t read are way cooler than humans tbh.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're a different species, so it's cool to eat them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Vegan here: hurting and killing innocent, defenseless animals for food because of speciesism is wrong and harmful.

  The rich are extremely harmful to everyone and have no feelings worth valuing, so eating the rich is reducing the exploitation of animals and very, very vegan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Danny DeVito is an absolute unit.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Americans doing absolutely anything to avoid metrication:

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

  Just putting this here so it’s above that absolutely disgusting, genocide-denying propaganda from polar:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

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

  You’re definitely speaking to someone who’s being paid 15 rubles a comment to post here.

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

  The OSI’s definition of open-source software is the de facto definition used by most people, and for most of the remaining people that don’t, they (mistakenly, because they define “free” software, not “open-source”) defer to the FSF’s defintion of free software.

  So yes, you should be explicitly noting that what you define as “open” has nothing at all to do with the far-and-away most widely used definition(s) of “open-source”.