Aceticon

@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrimp fried rice⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  To get that photographic level of precision, I would expect more something along the lines of a modern horse using an Image Generation AI coupled to a Natural Language Processor trained on horse sounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shrimp fried rice⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Also one would expect to see a theme more interesting for horses - like, say, grass - in a drawing from a horse, though maybe this one could be more of a social critique, subtly alluding to the plight of enslaved horses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not lying if what they mean by “not fully configured for use” is that the private data being captured and sent to their servers is not fully matched to a personal identity in their systems.

  After all, they didn’t say whose “use” that device would not be configured for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I remember it correctly, the Dodi repack just needs some audio library configured in the Wine instance via Winetricks as a built-in library.

  If using Lutris, you need to enable logging for that game, then try and run it. After it fails to run, look at the log and near where it stops you’ll see it complain about failing to load a certain DLL (and after that lots of failing to load other DLLs as a consequence of failing to load that original DLL). Google the name of that DLL and you’ll find which library it is part of. From Lutris, run Wintricks for that game (it’s in a pull-down next to the “Start” button for the game) and under Winetricks “Libraries” add that library to that Wine instance as a built-in library (if that doesn’t work, download the DLL, put it in the game dir and try adding it as native).

  If what you see in the logs is, instead of a “Couldn’t load DLL”, a “Couldn’t find function in DLL” what you have is not a missing library but instead a library version mismatch. Go to Winetricks an try to force the use of the native version of the library (sometimes the built-in version of a common DLL in Wine is the wrong version, and you need to force Wine to use the version of that DL that comes with the game, i.e. the “native” version).

  If all that fails, Google that game’s name together with “Linux” to see if somebody else has figured it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At least from Lutris you can run your games (pirated our otherwise) genuinelly sandboxed with something like Bubblewrap or Firejail, which as far as I can tell you can’t do in Steam (unless you sandbox Steam itself, which is problematic if for example you want to deny networking to some games but not others).

  IMHO, if you sandbox them it’s actually safer to run pirated versions of games in Linux than running the official versions from Steam with no sandboxing, at least for AAA since pretty much all those companies have done or do abusive shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been gaming on Linux for over a year now, and most of my games library was on GoG, though I also have a number of games on Steam.

  Using Lutris for GoG games, in my experience the rate of “just runs out of the box” games (via Wine) is pretty much the same as for Steam (via Proton), both being somewhere around the 9 in 10.

  The Steam App basically wrapps the whole Proton thing with automated configuration, including game-specific configuration scripts, and that’s the same as launchers like Lutris and Heroic doing with Wine, but if you’re trying to use Wine directly without such a launcher its like trying to run Steam games without Steam and just doing all the Proton configuration (both general and game-specific) yourself - the old way of running games in Linux from a decade ago with was a complete total PITA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny you say that.

  I started pirating games again when the official version of The Sims 3 from Steam wouldn’t run on Linux no matter what I did, but a pirated version (which I got just to check if I could get it to work) ran just fine.

  Once I figured out how to run that version of the game in Linux (as well as how to sandbox it with Firejail), that knowledge meant I could just as easilly run other pirated versions of games.

  Now, generally I’m the ultimated patient gamer (notice how all of that was for The Sims 3, which is from 2009, with its latest DLC being from 2013), but in my Redbeard persona I can just as easilly get recent AAA games as I can any other (probably more easilly, even, as those are the game torrents with the most users).

  So I’ve downloaded a number of those, and installed a couple.

  And you know what: even the supposedly best ones are BORING. Even highly regarded large open world ones, with their beautifully crafted supposedly alive worlds feel shallow and formulaic in terms of game play and don’t really hold my attention for all that long. I literally have 4 or 5 downloaded recent AAA games waiting to be tried, which I simply can’t be arsed to install because everytime I do try one it just turns out to be dissapointing and I find myself going back to Indie games I’ve played again and again like Project Zomboid or The Lone Dark, or even really old AAA games like The Sims 3 or The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (all bought and paid for, BTW).

  Even when the only costs are my time and storage space, modern AAA games aren’t worth it over Indie games of older AAA games with far less dazzling graphics.

  As I refuse to pirate Indie games, by now I’ve pretty much given up on piracy simply because all the games I’m willing to pirate are kinda shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I went back to sailing the high seas for games when The Sims 3 from Steam wouldn’t run on Linux no matter what I did, whilst a pirate version run just fine.

  Pirating in Linux is actually much more complicated than running the game from Steam, or from other stores via something like Lutris, because for official versions of a game there are usually scripts doing all the necessary Wine/Proton configuration, but not for the pirate versions of a game, so if it fails to run directly you have to enable logging, dig through the logs yourself and figure out which libraries need to be configured with Winetricks, which is how gaming in Linux used to work 5 years ago (and why very few people did it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel only allows 10% of required aid into Gaza as it starves Palestine⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re executing their own version of the Holocaust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cause and Effect⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IMHO, understanding the Scientific Method and, maybe more importantly, why it is as it is (so, understanding things like Confirmation Bias, including that we ourselves have it without noticing it, which skews our perception, recollection and conclusions as well as Logical Falacies) is what makes the most difference in how we mentally handle data, information and even offered knowledge from the outside.

  Even subtle but common Propaganda techniques used in the modern age are a lot more obvious once one is aware of one’s one natural biases and how these techniques act on and via those biases, purposefully avoiding logic.

  Personally I feel that that’s the part of my training in Science (which I never finished, since I changed the degree I was taking from Physics to EE half way) is what makes me a bit more robust (though not immune: none of us are, IMHO) to Propaganda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This has been pretty much the way of the Tech Industry since the Internet bubble burst around 2000 - people who didn’t ride that bubble up to it’s peak trying to inflate a new bubble (along with some people who did ride that previous bubble up but wanted to make even more money).

  It’s why the Tech Startup ecosystem has never again been domain of naive techies trying to do cool stuff that it was in the 90s and it’s now all about Pitching and Networking To Find Investors and were Founders are mainly people from salesmanship-heavy backgrounds (Finance, Marketing, MBAs) rather than people from a STEM background.

  The entire thing is now a machine to pump up investment bubbles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Rapture could have happened, but nobody would know because everyone got left behind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet a lot of babies would disappear.

  But yeah, beyond that, I doubt there’s a adult out there who hasn’t broken several of the 7 deadly sins many times: in present day society Greed and Envy are probably broken pretty much all the time, Wrath is probably a very common one for “conservatives” to break, and then there’s Lust which is pretty common, Glutony which is certainly widespread given the overweight “epidemics” in most countries and Sloth is likely very common in car-centric societies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I for one stopped seeing YouTube videos ever since they started requiring me to Sign On because I’m using an AdBlocker and am behind a VPN.

  If for some reason it’s actually required that I watch it, I’ll disconnect from the VPN and watch it, if not, I just move on.

  In the last 6 months or so I have disconnected my VPN to watch a YouTube video maybe once, whilst I just moved on maybe hundred times or so (less and less as I increasingly I won’t even click on links for YouTube).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A natural leader is someone who is seen by others as a leader. It is not the same thing as a good leader.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If “good leader” is in the sense of “somebody who leads others to good outcomes” rather than in the sense of “somebody who is good at leading others”, it does make sense that some who are natural leaders and hence good at leading people don’t actually lead people to the best outcomes or even good outcomes.

  History is full of people who naturally inspired others to follow them and then used that for their own personal advantage, ultimatelly screwing their followers.

  Just because you’re good at getting people to follow you doesn’t mean you’re good at finding the right path or that you have good intentions towards others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A natural leader is someone who is seen by others as a leader. It is not the same thing as a good leader.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it makes sense that some people who “posses the attributes and skills of leadership” would none the less lead others to bad places.

  If in the original post you read “good leader” in the sense of “somebody who leads others to good outcomes” rather than in the sense of “somebody who is good at leading others”, then it does make sense in that some natural leaders whilst being good at leading people don’t actually lead those people to good outcomes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even a smallish LiPo battery will give you some time. The question is how little becomes too little.

  And on the other size you can always give it more battery: after all the original mobile phones were the size of a briefcase.

  Ultimatelly how bad it is to go with a Raspberry Pi depends on how much more it with the software it has consumes than what a custom circuit designed for saving power using software configured for that (for example, not running needless services). Further, how much would, say, the extra power used in an HDMI connection over other more lower level protocols of talking to a display really matter next to the power consumption of the display itself or the GSM module which tend to be big power users?

  I know for sure that if you design a custom board with a basic STM32 microprocessor and add a 2G GSM module to it, most of the consumption ends up being the 2G module anyway, so you could probably get away with just using some hobbyist board with it instead of designing your own with just what you need and a proper Voltage Converter. However I haven’t really tried doing a battery powered smartphone with an ARM SBC so I don’t really know for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mobile telephony support just comes as a module, so that’s actually the easy part.

  The harder parts are to make the whole thing consume a low enough amount of power that you can keep it running from a non-monster-sized battery, and I suspect that an RPi 5 board isn’t very good for that (hobbyist development boards tend to not have been designed to avoid wasting power, even when the underlying microcontroller/processors is actually decent at it), and integrating an OS with support for a touch interface, especially if you want to avoid Android.

  I mean, it’s not too hard to make a brick sized dumb phone and even have it be a mobile phone powered by AA batteries, but if you want a mobile smartphone, it gets more complex.

  Unless you have the time and skills to take up the challenge you would probably be better of getting something like a Volla phone with Ubuntu Touch or a Pine phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Paradox Of Tolerance is about how we should not tolerate the intolerant, not about what sacrificing ourselves to inconvenience the intolerant, must less sacrifice others to inconvenience the intolerant.

  It’s really only about the Tolerant tolerating the Intolerance leads to an increase of Intolerance, and doesn’t really cover how far and justified is to make onself or others lose something to inconvenience the Intolerant, or in other word, the devil in the details part of any solution.

  That said, your idea has merit and it has parallels to what some of the right does - for example, how the right creates spaces which they pass as leftwing to attract leftwing people and then when enough of a critical mass arises they use it to spread rightwing-distortions of leftwing ideas or even just outright rightwing ideas: look at Twitter or, even better, Reddit or even what the DNC has done to the Democrat Party in the US.

  The discussion there is not anymore “how much is right to sacrifice the rest to inconvenience the NAZIs”, but instead is “how moral and ethical it is to create fake NAZI spaces to fuck with the NAZIS” - so it doesn’t involve sacrificing the rest at all - and personally I think it’s pretty damn ethical and moral to fuck with the NAZIs like that (after all, they want to do far worse to other people than merelly honeypot them into an online space that just gets closed after a while, so it’s not even close to how harshly they deserve to be treated)

  How easy or hard it is to pull that off, especially repeatedly, is a different matter, as the Technical bit of setting up such instances is easy, the hard part is to attract the NAZIs to the honeypots, which is a Marketing problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Deterring them from the Fediverse (as in not letting the use the protocol) is a near zero impact for them outcome, possibly technically impossible (it’s an open protocol and the software is open source) and possibly with a lot of negative impact for everybody else (it risks undermining the main point of the Fediverse - Freedom).

  Much more important is deterring them from spreading their hate to other people (in general) and as it so happens, when it comes to the people in the Fediverse, them segregating themselves in their own server actually helps with that: other servers can simple defederate, taking away their audience, hence they’re not actually spreading their hate to others in the Fediverse.

  With them not being self-segregated it’s a lot harder because it they’ll do what they are doing right now: join servers all over the place, post comments all over the place, so in response they get banned if they go too far (and then just open a new account) and others tend to try and nullify their poison by downvoting them or pointing out the with logic the stupidity and/or inconsistence of their position, all of which is a lot more fallible than just defederating the NAZI instance.

  More generally, there is no perfect way to “deter them from the fediverse” (just try to actually analyse the problem space and you will soon find that there’s no foolproof method), and hence the discussion has to be about how far should we go and what the delivers the best results, which brings us around to the point I was making: having the NAZIs in their own instance does more to stop them spreading their poison the Fediverse audience than somehow blocking that and keeping on trying to stamp them down individually when they’re mixed with the general fediverse population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand the feeling.

  I also look at it Logically and that yields a more subtle take.

  My point is that thinking that ANYTHING is acceptable to contain the NAZIs (even when it hurts the rest) is forgetting that the whole point of stopping the NAZIs is to protected everybody else and their freedoms.

  I’ll give you a parallel example: start by “Everybody should be thrown in Jail to make sure all criminals are in Jail”. This is obviously senseless. Once that’s accepted the discussion becomes “how far should we go to make sure criminals go to Jail” and onwards to “how many innocents wrongly in Jail is acceptable” and “how many criminal who evade Jail is acceptable”.

  All that is what lead to things like a Justice System with Presumption of Innocence, different sentences for different Crimes and an Appeals System.

  When it comes to stopping NAZIs the same reasoning applies - “ANYTHING is acceptable” is obviously senseless (killing all human beings would certainly stop the NAZIs, but I expect we both agree that it’s a bit too much) so the discussion is then moved to “how far are we willing to sacrifice the rest in order to stop the NAZIs”, which is the area of thinking anchoring my original point - if the NAZIs are contained (by their own choice, even), then maybe it’s not worth it to sacrifice the freedom of the rest by mangling the Fediverse if all that would deliver as a result is the near-zero impact outcome of barring the NAZIs from their own separate space in the Fediverse whilst they can still gather elsewhere.

  In my view by wanting that you asked originally a lot more people than the NAZIs add up to, to sacrifice a lot for something that will make the NAZIs lose very little - or in other words your idea amounts to “throwing the baby out with the bathwater”.

  I don’t think that “lets’ fuck up what’s important for almost everybody in order to barelly inconvenience the NAZIs” is a wise position.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They would have one either way - I mean, just look at Twitter, Reddit, FOX News. Even when there weren’t such NAZI spaces bought and paid for by billionaires, NAZIs had their own websites, mailing lists and whatever.

  Weakenning the freedom inherent to the Fediverse’s implementation just because the NAZIs might use it to create their own space is just indirectly constraining yourself because of the NAZIs, which IMHO is the opposite of what we should be doing.

  Would you defend changing HTTP(S) and HTML to somehow stop NAZIs using it because as they are now they can be used by NAZIs to spread their message? How about e-mail? How about pen and paper?

  You can’t just throw the baby with the bathwater “because NAZIs”.

  If you really want to stop NAZI messaging altogether you can’t do it by Technical means, you have to do it by Social and Political means - Laws Censoring NAZI messaging - and even there, look at Germany that does it and all they seem to have achieved is that the NAZI symbology is hidden whilst a large part of the NAZI way of things is widespread in society (hence the AfD success) and some elements of it are even shared by the majority (hence Germany’s very overtly race-justified unconditional support of a nation commiting a Genocide). De facto Germany’s banning of NAZIsm hasn’t stopped the kind of Fascism like in the US right now or the AfD there, were they use the NAZI propaganda techniques and share many ideological elements with the NAZIs but just don’t use NAZI symbols.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Them making their own space actually lets us much more easily reduce our exposure to them - without their space we get them everywhere and each of us have to ban such users individuals to avoid their poison, whilst if they’re congregated in a server we can just ban that server and/or its forums.

  In terms of the NAZI bar metaphor, this is more like the NAZIS setting up their own bar and congregating there rather than trying to take over other bars - everybody else can very easilly avoid even looking at the NAZI bar, much less going there and listening to them spreading their ideology - yeah, by default the sound of their activities does leak to the street, but we’re the ones who can chose to close the door, not them.

  Compare that with, for example, how the Zionists captured news@lemmy.world and even up to a level the server itself, by seeking moderation and admin positions there: subverting an existing large traffic forum and the biggest Lemmy instance is way much more pernicious than what the other kind of NAZI are doing by setting up their own - easily avoided - corner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, as I pointed out somewhere else, suggesting “I came, I saw, I came” in English as the name of a strip club or whorehouse is by itself pretty much the whole joke, and people don’t need to know Latin to get it (to get “Veni, Vidi, Veni” one needs to know both the original expression in Latin and that the word “Veni” means “came”), exactly because as you say, pretty much everybody knows “I came, I saw, I conquered”.

  Putting it in Latin for me feels more like a way to signal one’s above average educational or cultural level, that anything that enhances the joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, given that I speak a couple of languages, using Latin there just feels forced: suggesting “I came, I saw, I came” as a name for a stripclub or whorehouse is itself the actual funny part and putting it like that instead of in Latin makes it click much faster and for more people (as they don’t actually need to know that Veni in Latin is “came”).

  The language in there only really serves the purpose of showing that the person making it is well educated and know that phrase in its original Latin, which whilst totally valid doesn’t make it any more funny, maybe even the opposite.

  In my own experience the best multiple language jokes play on double entendres in the more unusual language or both languages, or in how people use expressions in their own language without thinking about individual words, but those expressions in literal form are sometimes hilarious (think about “I need to pick your brains” and now add a Zombie Apocalypse context) - for example you can wordplay with the hilarious the Dutch expression for “wasting time in details” which is “mieren neuken” (literally “fucking ants”) by totally out of the blue talking about “insect shagging” in English in the context of time being wasted, to a Dutch audience.

  That said, those tend to be pretty exclusive jokes in that only a few people get it because they need to know both languages, which is especially hard when neither of the languages is English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That wouldn’t work in Latin (were the correct translation to give the meaning you want would be something like Veni, Vidi, Eiaculatus), but it kinda works for english-speakers who also know enough Latin to get it, though I suspect most don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is that the joke as done by the OP makes no sense outside the English language, just as jokes in other languages based on there being words with multiple meanings or similar sounding words with different meanings in that language, make no sense outside that language.

  That joke doesn’t at all work in “Latin”, it only works when translated back to English because “to come” has two different meanings.

  It would never work in Latin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many hands long do they get?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if it’s something really old and they can put it in a museum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The phenomenon of fanboyism disproves that, IMHO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the Dunning-Krugger effect is mainly displayed by low education people?

  In my own personal experience pretty much everybody displays that in areas outside their expertise, and I definitely include myself in this.

  For example the phenomenon of people offering what basically amounts to Medical advice is incredibly common outside the Medical profession.

  It’s also my experience that highly educated people don’t have any greater introspection abilities than the rest (i.e. for self-analysis and self-criticism) or empathy (to spot when other people feel that you’re talking of your ass).

  Maybe it’s the environment I grew in, or the degrees I learned and professional occupations I had (so, Physics, Electronics Engineering, Software Engineering) that are too limited to make a judgement, maybe it’s me showing my own Dunning-Kruger effect or maybe my observations are actually representative and reasonably correct: whichever way, my 2c is that learned people are no better at the adult mature skills (such as introspection and empathy) than the rest, something which also matches with my experience that the Education System (at least were I studied, Portugal of the 80s and 90s) doesn’t at all teach those personal skills.

  So IMHO, your assumption that the majority of those people have low education is probably incorrect, unless you’re anchoring that on the statistic that most human beings on Planet Earth have low education, in which case they’re certainly the majority of the confidently incorrect even if they’re no more likely to be so than the rest simply because there’s more of them than of the rest.

  PS: Also note that amongst highly educated people there are people from different areas which emphasize different modes of thinking. My impression is that whilst STEM areas tend to emphasize analytical thinking, objectivity, assumption validation and precision, other areas actually require people to in many ways have a different relationship with objective reality (basically anything in which you’re supposed to persuade others).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In Europe, not having a car generally is perfectly fine

  In cities.

  For those living in the countryside, not really, as distances are huge and public transport is rare (think a single bus that stops at a bus station a km or two away and passes maybe once every 2h) or non-existent.

  That said, over 70% of people in Europe live in urban areas.