Aceticon
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- Comment on Far-right websites got hacked and defaced; 6.5 terabytes of data got leaked. 12 hours ago:
Nice neoliberal propaganda picture.
The actual Leftwing solution would be to remove the fence.
Also you’re “curiously” bypassing the whole “deeming people victims or oppressors based on the genetics they were born with rather than actually being victimized or victimizing others” part of my argument, which just so happens to be the core of it.
Leftwingers (and Humanists) help people based on their actual need, fight against any unjust treatment (not just for some identities but not others) and force the actual aggressors to compensate the actual victims for what they did to them, not give excuses for the aggressors or ignoring the victims because of their respective identities (unlike what’s so poignantly illustrated by the way the Democrat Party in the US has treated aggressors and victims in the Gaza Genocide).
So even in that propaganda picture of yours were the Ticket-buying Inducing fence stays up, the person on a wheelchair would get help under traditional Leftwing thinking because they have an actual need for it, not because of, say, being old - if they’re old but have no such need (say, a very wealthy person who had a very good life with proper food and living conditions so they did not end up on a wheelchair) they don’t get a wheelchair ramp merely for being old - and similarly a person who is not old (and hence not in an identity deemed in need by Identity Politics) and yet is on a wheelchair also gets a wheelchair ramp under Leftwing thinking because they too have a need, which is all that matters, not whatever identity label has been given to them.
So even in the Capitalist environment where that fence stays up, Leftwingers would help those who need help because they need help, whilst the Identity Politics warriors would be deciding if they would at all get help and how much help those who do get help would get, based on their identity rather than their actual personal need.
- Comment on Far-right websites got hacked and defaced; 6.5 terabytes of data got leaked. 16 hours ago:
The transformation of Powerfull vs Powerless way of fighting inequality into a miriad of split identitarian fights which claim that people’s victims or aggressor status is wholly defned by the genetics they were born with (rather than, you know, actually being victimized or chosing to victimize others) which naturally ended up with the oppressed fighting amongst themselves as competing “identities” for the crumbs from the Powerful absolutelly is a modern phenomenon.
If you want to see the old style, just look at how traditional Unions still left in positions of relative strenght operate: they don’t fight for different salary and work condition improvements for people with different genders, skin colors or sexual orientation, the fight as all the workers vs the bosses.
Everyone being equal sounds great and all. Show me a left wing country that’s achieved it.
Show me a country were Identity Politics has merelly just reduced Inequality (as defined by the Gini Coeficient) since it became fashionable (so, the last 3 decades).
From what I can see, the countries with the most and loudest Identity Politics are the ones going in the exact opposite direction - higher inequality, collapsing social mobility - like the UK and the US. It’s “curious” that after the powerless fighting as a group against the powerfull were fragmented into different “identities” based on their genetics, each fighting for their “own” group rather than all together, the powerful have managed to capture an ever increasing share of the wealth and the median quality of live has even started going down.
As for your quoting tankies as examples of “left”, well, tankies are fucking authoritarians, so if you’re expecting they’re following the actual principles of being Leftwing rather than mindlessly parroting some Soviet slogans or whatnot and thinking Stalin was a great man, you are seriously deluded or ill informed.
It’s funny that people like you defending Identity Politics have a view of what is Leftwing that is basically the Red Scare. You’re helping prove my point.
- Comment on The Long Dark gets a big free visual enhancement update out now 18 hours ago:
It’s a great game with great gameplay and which is surprisingly replayable in survival mode if you go a year or two between plays.
It’s also one which, IMHO, doesn’t need visual enhancements - their choice of visual style was masterful (it works and is a lot cheaper in terms of 3D modelling costs that something more realistic would have been) and it’s the gameplay (which is pretty much all emergent gameplay in survival mode with no fixed set-pieces) that makes it a great game.
- Comment on Gives a mom a reason to live 5/5 19 hours ago:
Sometimes you win by coming second.
- Comment on Far-right websites got hacked and defaced; 6.5 terabytes of data got leaked. 22 hours ago:
Mate, the basic principles of Equality and Fairness of the Leftwing naturally include minorities having the same rights and treatment than everybody else.
The artificial slicing of Equality into “one group at a time ‘Equality’” is exactly the strategy by which the Left was divided, distracted away from the biggest inequality and descrimination of all (that of Wealth) and made to fight each other and whatever rage-baite du jour served by the far-right populists to their muppets.
Whomever in some Neoliberal Billionaire-Funded Think Tank who came up with that perversion of Equality deserved whatever massive bonus they got for such a brilliant strategy of convincing people that are all being victims of the many that it’s people like them but of a different ethnicity/gender/sexual-orientation that are their real enemies.
You’ve been had and made into a footsoldier in a fabricated war were the working class got divided into “groups” by ethnicity, gender and even sexual-orientation and turned against each other whilst the people doing the most damage and causing the most suffering keep on pillaging to their heart’s contents and, worse, it’s been done via preying on your qualities as a human being who desires a fairer world.
- Comment on Far-right websites got hacked and defaced; 6.5 terabytes of data got leaked. 22 hours ago:
There’s no class war, at least not in a country like the US: the billionaires have been into the pillaging stage of their conquest for decades and they’re just making sure the riff-raff remain out of their way.
Things are well beyond the “elites” merely taking an unfairly outsided cut of the growth and well into taking from the rest that which they and their parents accumulated, hence why quality of life for the majority has been going down for a while now and the last two Generations are set to be worse off than their parents.
- Comment on Far-right websites got hacked and defaced; 6.5 terabytes of data got leaked. 22 hours ago:
I’ll give you a hint: billionaires don’t buy newspapers, social media and TV channels with shitty-shit Returns On Investment (if at all profitable) to make money from them - what they’re really buying isn’t the business, it’s an audience for “opinion making”.
- Comment on If they where only reprogrammable.... 1 day ago:
Short datasheet for the curious.
- Comment on Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech 2 days ago:
Well, I for one did nazi that coming…
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 4 days ago:
The more services you have depending on a 3rd party which can do whatever the fuck they want, either directly or by changing the rules when the feel like it (i.e. not bound by rules they cannot change, such as root DNS providers are) and then doing it, the less your system is actually self-hosted, IMHO.
For me the whole point of self-hosting is exactly being as independent as possible of 3rd parties that can just fuck you up, be it on purpose (generally for $$$) or because they go bankrupt and close their services.
This is why I’ve actually chose to run Kodi on my home server that doubles down as TV Box even though I can’t easilly use it from anywhere else (it’s possible but it involves using a standalone database that is then shared, which can only be safelly down with custom ssh pipes) rather than something like Plex.
It’s kinda funny to see people into self-hosting still doing the kind of mistake I did almost 3 decades ago (fortunatelly in a professional environment) of trusting a 3rd party to the point of becoming dependent on them and later getting burned when they abused that trust, and which led me to avoid such situations like the plague ever since.
Mind you, I can understand if people for whom self-hosting is not driven by a desire to reduce vulnerability to the whims of 3rd parties (which includes reducing the risk of enshittification) and is instead driven by “waste not” (for example, bringing new life to old hardware rather than throwing it out) or by it being a fun challenge, don’t really care to be as independent as possible from such 3rd parties.
- Comment on Hot in the car today 6 days ago:
It was supposed to be a fart but it came with friends.
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 1 week ago:
It only works until the inevitable costs from the accumulated problems due to AI use (mainly excessivelly high AI error rates with a uniform distribution - were the most damaging errors are no less likely than little mistakes, unlike with humans who can learn to pay attention not to make mistakes in critical things - leading to customer losses and increased costs of correcting the errors) exceed the savings from cutting down manpower.
(Just imagine customers doing things that severely damage their equipment because they followed the AI customer support line advice and the accumulation of cost as said customers take the company whose support line gave that advice to court for damages and win those rulings, and in turn the companies outsourcing customer support to that “call center supplier” take it to court. It gets even worse than that for accounting, as for example the fines from submitting incorrect documentation to the IRS can get pretty nasty)
I expect we’ll see something similar to how many long established store chains at one point got managers who started cutting costs by getting rid of long time store employees and replacing them with an ever rotating revolving door of short term cheap as possible sellers, making the store experience inferior to just buying it from the Internet, and a few years later those chains were going bankrupt.
These venture capitalists’ grift works as long as they sell the businesses before the side effects of replacing people with language generators haven’t fully filtered through into revenue falls, court judgements for damages and tax authority fines and it’s going to be those buying such businesses (I bet the Venture Capitalists are going to try and sell them to Institutional Investors) that will end up with something that’s leaking customers, having to pay mass8ve compensations and having to hire back people to fix the consequences of AI errors, essentially reverting what the Venture Capitalists did and them spending even more money to cleanup the trail of problems cause by the excessive AI use.
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 1 week ago:
Example of an ISP providing 10Gb/s in Portugal here and at 15 euros a month it’s pretty cheap too.
That same ISP is from Romania and is also in Spain though curiously in this latter thri Net Only 10Gb/s costs €25 per month,
Personally I don’t see the point of it form myself at home, but for a small business I can see it making sense.
- Comment on 53% of Israeli public opposes aid entering Gaza, new poll shows 1 week ago:
Or put another way, over half the Israelis are in favour of Holocausting the Palestinians in Gaza using starvation to mass murder them.
- Comment on Some people have it worse 1 week ago:
“There can be only one”
- Comment on The fact that some dogs are used to the groomers and some aren't is wild. 1 week ago:
Here’s a theory:
- Dogs are born with already some marbles lost, and it’s different marbles for different dogs hence why different dogs have different things that make them go insane.
- Comment on The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, a large enough solar mass ejection in such a direction that it would directly hit planet Earth would be extremely bad.
- Comment on The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe 1 week ago:
With a high enough voltage the air will ionized and the power will literally jump over many protection mechanisms. Also it can cause certain dialetrics (electrically isolating materials).
An extreme enough event can be way beyond even the biggest of tolerances of safety systems, even if only because it can jump around the system through the air from the external side to the internal and supposedly protected side.
So it makes sense that when a massive electromagnetic storm is inducing electric currents along tens or hundreds of miles long wires, the only guaranteed safe system is to not even have a cable from the grid coming into your house.
- Comment on The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe 1 week ago:
There are powerbanks with solar cells and even in a day which is not sunny, those things will slowly charge the powerbank if you leave under natural light for a few hours (from what I read you get roughly half the rated power from solar cells in a cloudy day).
- Comment on The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe 1 week ago:
During the recent Iberian Peninsula Blackout, which in practice meant a whole day without power and most of it without water, thanks to a past phase of mine as a bit of a prepper I:
- Had a windup radio which I used to keep up with what was going on and some entertainment-
- Quickly concluded that the water supply of the city I live in was likely to get compromised because the pumps are powered from mains so the first thing I did when I got home was fill a bunch of containers with water, most of which I ended up using. Also I already 10L of drinking water stored just in case.
- Had some freeze dried food so wasn’t worried about running out of food (though 1 days is not enough to empty normal food reserves so much that you ended up having to use that).
- My habbit of having some cash with me meant I could buy a bit of extra food from a local grocer which was open at the start of the blackout.
Anyway, my point is not to go full prepper, my point is that some elements of that minset and practices will cover the kind of far more common problems with will leave you without power and water for a few days.
One thing I did find out is that I probably need something like a solar powered powerbank for loading my tablet since that’s how I mostly read books nowadays (didn’t actually need one in this blackout as it was of just a day), so I’ve ordered one.
Little things that mean you don’t actually get unecessary stress in a situation like this.
It’s not something that is going to save you from nuclear holocaust or in general the collapse of human civilization, but it will save you from spending days without food or water or the stress of not knowing what’s going on, such as in such a long and unsual blackout, a flood or other similar more frequent catastrophes.
- Comment on Who needs it? 1 week ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The place is a Village rather than a City.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 2 weeks ago:
“Israel is saving me from Hamas”
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 2 weeks ago:
I was going to suggest that it would be done with lots of tearful emotion, but then I remembered that Gal can’t actually act, so maybe it would be more of a “after saying the words, turning and looking towards the horizon in an heroic pose” medium shot moving into a panorama showing little children in the background.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 2 weeks ago:
If Hollywood ever did a film about Gaza they would unironically use Gal Godot in the role of a Palestinian woman.
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 3 weeks ago:
You’re off by at least 2 decades.
- Comment on butt mogged these zoomers today 3 weeks ago:
Is it just me whose reaction was “So?! What’s the big deal?”
Don’t get me wrong: good for her for having a big booty. It’s just that I don’t have any expectation of the girls in the picture being shocked, nor am I myself shocked or otherwise impressed by her crouching position emphasising said big booty.
For me the whole thing is a kinda normal teen/young-adult showoff pose, hence no big deal.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
Copyright if elements of the game such as 3D models, images and code have been copied.
Trademark if the name of the game is used (i.e. “Stardew Valley Romance Sims”).
Patents for game mechanics.
As a side note, personally I think that game mechanics shouldn’t be at all patentable
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 3 weeks ago:
Any live TV - were I live they all show the same ads.
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 3 weeks ago:
Actually I think it’s worse: human salesmen cost money whilst this shit is mainly automated or uses distribution systems were one person does the work and millions get exposed to it (for example TV), so the numbers involved and the relentlessness of the pestering is far, far larger in scale than if human salesmen were doing it.
