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- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 3 days ago:
It’s still fun to hear the man himself talking about a larger than life virtual reality.
The tech still scares me, I’m not even sure I’d be okay with EEG-like patches that work both ways (scifi, I know), not to mention brain surgery, for pure decadence. But the quality of life benefits really can be huge for many, and that really got my fantasy going, once I ‘accepted’ we figured out the limits and safeties of bodily autonomy.
- Comment on Techno feudalism, here we come 4 days ago:
both corporations and consumers have shown
I don’t think this a preference question. More like something intrinsic to a society based on market.
- Comment on True wisdom 1 week ago:
They call it ‘The Valley of the Hung Hobo’.
- Comment on What's yours? 1 week ago:
Hey baby… You lookin fine tonight!
- Comment on Finished my 10" rack (for now) 1 week ago:
Like when you set up 10 pins for someone else to knock down with a ball and it’s pretty symmetric?
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 2 weeks ago:
It’s also pretty slimy that reporters had to snoop it out of the new EULA and Nintendo didn’t put out a press release addressing it.
I’m really happy you recognize a megacorp’s evil behaviour, but you don’t have to agree with something just because you understand why and how it works.
I guess the proper answer to your diss would be: cope better. Maybe I don’t understand this corner of the internet yet, but I feel we’re missing out on great debates and ideas if soapboxing is more important.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 2 weeks ago:
I do understand their point in a weird twist of copyright and marketplace spirit:
Companies lose money on consoles, so they can’t afford to sell the hardware without people paying for the software.
All in all, I don’t think it’s totally anti-consumer behaviour, but they will face the appropriate backlash in some form or the other.
As someone who grew up on Nintendo I don’t wish them ill, even though they are suffocating that part of the emulation industry. I’d rather we find the reason of the imbalance why we don’t have 80 bucks to easily shell out for a game and address why Nintendo feels it needs to sit on it’s old IP.
- Comment on Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads 3 weeks ago:
Where were you for the last decade? I’d think tiktok is starting to wind down by now, but me and my shaking stick wouldn’t know that.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 3 weeks ago:
There’s no guarantee anyone on there (or here) is a real person or genuine.
I’m pretty sure this isn’t a baked-in feature of meatspace either. I’m a fan of solipsism and Last Thursdayism personally. Also propaganda posters.
The CMV sub reeked of bot/troll/farmer activity, much like the amitheasshole threads. I guess it can be tough to recognize if you weren’t there to see the transition from authentic posting to justice/rage bait.
We’re still in the uncanny valley, but it seems that we’re climbing out of it. I’m already being ‘tricked’ left and right by near perfect voice ai and tinkered with image gen. What happens when robots pass the imitation game?
- Comment on Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows" 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but providing that push at the wrong time… Maybe I just presented it the wrong way. I think there was some snootiness to how I advocated it. Like I knew more than them, which might be the case… but it’s still alienating.
Maybe we can wait until they ask.
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 4 weeks ago:
Just put on some moosic.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 4 weeks ago:
Only being used because someone is paying you to do it, then snuffed out after an extended death throe.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 4 weeks ago:
Naw, you’re right. There are still ways to get a decent windows experience, but it will fall to the domain of power users.
I personally see MS not really caring about their windows users. With more than enough revenue from enterprise to keep them going for decades, they will lose grip on gamers and older casual users, who remember windows before the marketplace and preinstalled adware.
With all the flavors of Linux (and a proper walled garden like Apple), I’m thinking Windows will follow Skype in the next decade or so.
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 5 weeks ago:
By not switching to Na based batteries and keeping a lid on Li mining.
- Comment on When the world connected on Skype 5 weeks ago:
But they had a good run. God knows I stayed with windows thanks to my skype account being accepted. But even those day are bygone.
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 1 month ago:
Maybe the time is right for a 3rd party to rise?
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 1 month ago:
They’ll have their hands full extracting the lithium from the dead Tesla batteries.
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 2 months ago:
reframe the discussion
Simple solution. Mimic what paid online news does. Paywall, but like don’t raise the perimeter anytime someone finds a ladder. Like we have here with the linked archive posts. Definitely a good way to keep out the heavy commies.
Selling ad space
Go for it! But you won’t get me to uninstall my adblocker until I am convinced ads are any good to me. Like not the piece of shit manipulations that treat me as a skinner box. Many good examples of incorporating ads into shows, but with dignity and taste and a clear indication that it is an ad.
Also, if the admin deserves compensation for their time, why don’t I get a pretty penny for this? Sure, the admin hosts and supports the frame, but they could twirl their short hairs all night without the buzz.
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 2 months ago:
“just a hobby”
Love the enthusiasm! If anything gives me faith in the world, it’s that we have the Gnu crowd. I thinks it’s hard not to fall in love with it in the gloom of the late-freemium era.
Stop rummaging in other people’s wallet. Money as it is, is a very sensitive topic. Also further down in this thread you bring in addiction, alienating further people.
Reddit is having trouble monetizing, yet you blame druggies from this very community for similar problems we’re facing. What is your point? Where are you going? What do you want?
We have no tools against capitalism besides pushing a friggin ‘buy me a coffee’ button anywhere possible. Maybe Copyleft for those who’d proudly piss in the headwind. If you wanna make the system better, that’s great! It just feels like you are lashing out at the community instead of empathizing. Broadcasting ideals is alright if you only want to vent about it and not actually look for solutions.
Can you imagine me not contributing monetarily but wanting the best for all of us? You are definitely underestimating the number of broke people here, but the things you are campaigning for go straight against the spirit of the movement. Work with what we have to make shit better for all (while somehow hardening against capitalism).
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 2 months ago:
What I don’t understand is why some people only want to participate here if it means they can get to free ride on “volunteers”.
On reddit, the picture was pretty clear: admins are being paid, so your average commenter is volunteering the content, not to talk about the free (or power trip sponsored) work the mods are doing. And of course with the way reddit treated it’s contributors, there was huge animosity towards certain admins. I don’t see the participants here riding any more ‘free’ in terms of making this place work. The difference is that the admin is contributing money, instead of getting paid.
I can get behind a campaign for temporarily funding hosting costs, but that probably would not include rent or pay for the admin. It feels the main problem is rooted in our economy somewhere, but this is also something of a ‘put your own oxygen mask on first’ scenarios.
It is frustrating that someone who does such an amazing thing for the common good is struggling to get a fraction of a Zach Braff indiegogo project. You are also doing a good thing by spreading the message, but the pressure on this donation almost alienates me. Without knowing much about server instances, I imagine there are less fortunate alternatives, like moving the hosts to someone close by, outsourcing certain roles to trusted folk while the admin finds the time and money to fund their hobby again.
I hope I’m not coming over as too cold, it just feels like you are trying to solve a way bigger problem than we have. We need the instances run by volunteers. Would the admin be happier if their project died, or temporarily be handed over (if this is possible at all)? What’s better for the thousands of users? Is it fair to the admin? Shit no. Can they get the funding to pay for their hobby? Maybe. Is it fair if they are using the instance as leverage?
- Comment on World’s smallest LEDs from a new semiconductor: New LED displays packing 90nm 'virus-sized' pixels can deliver 127,000 PPI visuals. 2 months ago:
Just make it sodium based, and a good crying jag will replenish the battery.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
But it’s not really impossibile. I just had a gay friend give up on the local pride rally because it has become overpoliticized by my country.
Just because there is a political aspect and assholes are using the whole queer movement as political propaganda doesn’t mean the community wants to discuss it (especially how these can derail almost any conversation).
Of course I don’t know the exact motives behind your issue, but with the info you provided I can still campaign against malevolent intent in this specific case.
- Comment on Kevin Rose officially relaunching Digg.com 2 months ago:
It was going downhill the same way reddit did after the v4 exodus. There was fun to be had there as well.
- Comment on A TV With Contrast You Haven’t Seen For Years 2 months ago:
Damn dotcom bubble. Can’t have anything nice around.