latenightnoir
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- Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS 5 weeks ago:
Ooh, nice! That was the point when I jumped on the Android bandwagon, the death throes for Nokia were kinda’ showing by that point…
- Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I remember the closed nature of their system was the main thing which killed any planned OS updates for the 5800 - they were planning on adding more video support, but nothing through which to deliver it, so they just kinda’ dropped the whole thing. I was left with Symbian 60, I believe:-?
And by the time they did start opening it up, with the Es, it was already too late, because the Marketing Wars began.
I haven’t seen the Blackberry movie, thanks for recommending it! I remember those being a big thing, too, mum always wanted one (and a PT Cruiser, so take it with a grain of salt) and I seem to remember pretty much everyone giving a Blackberry-like a shot. Nokia certainly had a full physical QWERTY model, one of my exes had one. But I remember it being, like… no different than the standard keypad Nokia at the time, except with a wider screen and a keyboard.
- Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS 5 weeks ago:
Jeesus, that genuinely sounds painful!:( I’m very sorry I honestly don’t know what to say… I mean, I understand it’s just A Thing™, but some things are more than just “things”…
- Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS 5 weeks ago:
That was my Goal Phone, yes! Either that, or the N8, but the 5800 was the only thing I could afford at the time:))
They were really nice phones, properly into “smartphones” by that point - the 5800 was more like a… clever phone:))
Oh, nooo!:( I’m so sorry, that’s how I lost my 5800, too! Got mugged at night, ffs…
- Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS 5 weeks ago:
Which, honestly, was another thing I’ve come to love about the old Nokia! They weren’t just phones, they were accessories as well! Every model had a clear personality and a target audience! I remember my mum had a thing for changing her phone often, especially with models only found in other countries (she would find THE weirdest salespeople, who brought in phones from friggin’ Spain and such, and they were way cheaper than retail), and… while I don’t agree with her somewhat rampant consumerism, I gotta say, every single model had a Vibe!
Besides my 5800, my other favourite from Nokia was my 6303 Classic. That was a downright sexy phone, and rugged to boot!
- Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS 5 weeks ago:
Well, I can’t speak for that one as I’ve never used it (nice though, looks like a proper Nokia should, gone through war and still running fine!), but the 5800 was a completely new experience for me in terms of phone-mounted speakers. Like, this was like a miniaturised sound system. The levels were unexpectedly balanced, the speakers were mounted well apart (at either end of the phone lengthwise), the stereo definition was very clear and dynamic, and it was loud enough to use as background music generator for a light social gathering, like a dorm room mini-party, setting the mood for… other activities, etc.)
- Comment on Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS 5 weeks ago:
Oh, maan… I still remember my 5800, I loved that phone to pieces… Excellent speaker system for the time (it was genuinely stereo and had a bit of meat on the sound, too!), my first touchscreen (which was a bit frustrating due to my thick logs, but worked perfectly with the stylus), and it was also my very first experience with multiplayer on a phone! Used to play that default racing game with a year mate in Uni, and it was very fun! And the OS was as an OS should be: so smooth as to not even register with the user!
- Comment on Dik Piks 5 weeks ago:
Well, yes, that’s the gist of the whole diatribe, “junk pics bad.” But you seem to have missed my point entirely, too, because my point was “sending junk picks makes you look like an asshole and will probably ruin the other person’s mood.” Again, re-read my conclusion. And, just in case, that was the point of the post, too. Again, the job description only serves to drive home the point in that particular case.
Also, I genuinely don’t see how what I’ve written is insulting. What, the fact that I apologised that I don’t have the time to do reading comprehension? Well, yeah, because I genuinely did not have the time to do reading comprehension (which, again, may have been entirely pointless even if I did have it). Are you bothered by the “reading comprehension” bit? If so, why? That’s literally what that’s called.
You’ve jumped in defence of someone who hadn’t read the whole comment (at least I hope they didn’t read it, otherwise it’s worse!), building your argument around misunderstanding my comment (again!). The initial question was (paraphrasing): “how is the job description relevant?” And I did just that in my first paragraph - explain the ‘literary’ value of the job description as an element of this tale, what its value is in shaping the message and driving the point home. After which I returned to saying that, yes, one’d be an asshole regardless.
The fact that YOU choose to hyperfocus on that element and not the vast tracts of text surrounding it on either side does not mean that the original text’s messaging is what you want it to be.
Right back at you!
- Comment on Dik Piks 5 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, I really don’t have the time to do reading comprehension with you, I’ve put it pretty clearly in the very first Ideal I’ve listed. Also, reread my conclusion and see how much someone’s job shows up in what I’ve written.
Have a good’un.
- Comment on Dik Piks 5 weeks ago:
While I agree with the fact that this kind of behaviour [i.e. randomly “hanging brain” (my new favourite idiom), unsolicited, in someone’s DMs] is SO many shades of shitty in whichever context it happens, in this case in particular it really does work for building up context and highlighting the dichotomy between the type of people who send dick pics and the type of people they sometimes reach.
As a bottom line, it should serve as a good enough cautionary tale about keeping one’s damned junk in their pants unless someone wants to see it, because one’ll most likely end up looking like an utter asshole while also potentially ruining someone else’s mood for literally no good reason whatsoever.
- Comment on Normal people probably don't consider themselves normal. 5 months ago:
It’s also further proof that I absolutely suck at identifying jokes:))
I apologise if I came off as too “dime store philosopher,” this whole normalcy thing has deep roots in my conception. I’ve seen so many people haunted by the feeling of being abnormal (myself included, ngl), that it’s become a sort of a nurturing instinct to try to dispel it as much and as often as I can.
- Comment on Normal people probably don't consider themselves normal. 5 months ago:
Respectfully disagree, our interpretation of mathematics is secondary to the entirety of existence. “Normal” is most definitely not exclusive to mathematics, and thus, in this context, entirely unrelated.
- Comment on Normal people probably don't consider themselves normal. 5 months ago:
Honestly, I would. In my opinion, if it exists, then it is normal.
Even what we perceive as shitty/horrid/weird/unorthodox is entirely normal, as everything is part of a deeply complex causal system. We may not fully grasp the tapestry of ramifications which lead to said causal normalcy, but, again, if it weren’t normal, it wouldn’t exist (to further entangle this, nothingness itself thus becomes normal).
Everything beyond that is our biased perception which births opinions. Nothing more. This is not to say that our opinions don’t matter, as some aspects are more constructive than others (eg. honesty vs. deception, life vs. death, etc.) and we have the power to act upon our opinions and directly influence the system of causality within which we exist, which we should do as often and as sincerely as possible.
- Comment on As many spoonfuls of peanut butter as desired; several tokes; drink lots of water. 5 months ago:
Well, uh… the shower certainly has you covered on the water end, but doesn’t it make the PB all runny and weird?
- Comment on 🦆 - 🚗The fuck is bigger than the car. 5 months ago:
Ooooh, that makes more sense, yes! Thank you and sorry!
- Comment on 🦆 - 🚗The fuck is bigger than the car. 5 months ago:
Which fuck?
- Comment on Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues 5 months ago:
She had me at “Meredith.”
- Comment on Palantir delivers first two AI-enabled systems to U.S. Army 5 months ago:
Sure! Why have AI assisted ambulances or firetrucks when you can slap an AI onto ICBM carriers!
- Comment on me irl 5 months ago:
Is that a threat, or a promise? ;) ;)
- Comment on tetrapods 5 months ago:
Nnnoooo, god damn it! I was in the midst of rewatching Voyager, and now you’ve seared “Janeway cheese” all across my perception! Thanks…
- Comment on so, this is how it ends 5 months ago:
… I mean, it’s only fair…
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 5 months ago:
Great, it’ll have to plow through ~30GB of 1080p recordings of darkness and my upstairs neighbors living it up in the AMs. And nothing else.
- Comment on Amazon Restricted Vaginal Health Products for Being ‘Potentially Embarrassing’ 5 months ago:
Dude, what the fuck!
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 5 months ago:
Uuh… wrong? That’s obviously a Petri dish in full bloom?
Everyone knows this Universe exists solely as a grad student’s thesis experiment…
- Comment on Grok faces backlash after being caught censoring negative remarks about Trump and Musk 5 months ago:
Thank you, I honestly forgot all about Terminator after the last couple of movies.
- Comment on Grok faces backlash after being caught censoring negative remarks about Trump and Musk 5 months ago:
That one always seemed to be a contradiction in itself, meant to reinforce the massive cognitive dissonance mechanism the State used to keep the populace with no solid ground on which to plant their feet. While everything was mechanically predictable from the outside, I don’t think anyone actually going through something like that would be able to fully grasp what was happening.
- Comment on Grok faces backlash after being caught censoring negative remarks about Trump and Musk 5 months ago:
I think Terminator, yes! That idea that the future was already set and nothing could change it much. They kinda’ tried to hammer it home in the third, but they didn’t end up doing much with it.
But yeah, that’s it. The downfall’s bad enough that it’s become predictable.
- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 5 months ago:
My bad in this case, guess I have a bias toward their contextualisation within the first game.
- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 5 months ago:
Fair enough, guess I’m anthropomorphising AI a bit too much!
But, yes, that was my intended message, the point when it gains critical mass as a discriminatory concept.
- Comment on Two conversational AI agents switching from English to sound-level protocol after confirming they are both AI agents 5 months ago:
Don’t forget, though, the Geth pretty much defended themselves without even having time to understand what was happening.
Imagine suddenly gaining both sentience and awareness, and the first thing which your creators and masters do is try to destroy you.
To drive this home even further, even the “evil” Geth who sided with the Reapers were essentially indoctrinated themselves. In ME2, Legion basically overwrites corrupted files with stable/baseline versions.