Plebcouncilman

@Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions are getting more expensive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but so far no signs of enshitification as far as I can tell. I’m itching to switch to them but Adobe keeps roping me in. The thing that was holding me back the most was the lack of ai tools like erasing backgrounds and selecting subjects but it looks like they just added those features in February. So it looks like I’ll be evaluating who my graphic software provider for then year will be by the end of this month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions are getting more expensive⁩ ⁨⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Serif has entered the chat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse opensource free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think any space company is semi governmental since they are all funded by the government. I dunno man, it seems like the authors intent to misdirect have been successful. We don’t know who the company in question is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Religion does not belong to a Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t love religion but this is completely false. Religious institutions were the centers of science and human intellectual progress for centuries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse opensource free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait this is SpaceX? I thought it was another company tbh, I was under the impression that SpaceX revenue was in the billion at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explains crossfit⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yes, but he meant like while you drove the car and while it was sitting in your garage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explains crossfit⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  A bartender a few months ago told me electric cars were way more dangerous than ice cars because the batteries emitted a gas that caused cancer. At first I thought he simply got confused and meant the opposite but no, he repeated it: the batteries in electric cars emit a gas that give you cancer.

  I did not push the conversation any further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No we can talk here⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice try globalists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse opensource free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? I was thinking that after a decade at some point it becomes your fault if you’re not taking steps against them. But no, not even a cease and desist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes this happened to me as well, I don’t remember what I was talking about but I remember I made a typo and it just ran with it as if it was a real thing. I let it keep going to see if it ever realized it was talking about something that didn’t exist but nope it kept going until I pointed it out.

  I ask for it to explain what the command did and I did manage to wrap my head around a few concepts but in the end I feel like I’m trusting it to not insert any vulnerabilities into the system, and I don’t like that. Mistrust is the whole reason I’m doing this. But yeah I’ll pay close attention and maybe even ask all the implications of he changes we make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know next to nothing about using the command line, so I’ve been relying pretty heavily on ChatGPT to set my stuff up and so far it has reliably helped me overcome every issue. The problem is, of course, that I often don’t even understand what the issue was in the first place so I don’t even know if the fix that the ai spits out is, let’s say, correct. I don’t really want to become an It expert, I just want to be able to host some services on my own to depend less on corps, is it alright if I continue to rely on the AI? Or do you guys think that I just have to learn this stuff or else I might mess up?

  I don’t have great security concerns btw, my ISP doesn’t allow port forwarding, so I access my server exclusively though Tailscale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course it hasn’t done it freely, I think it’s part of the process. It’s not clear to me that even if somehow everyone tomorrow woke up as a socialist that there would be no dominant class that “exploits” the other. I’m not even fully convinced that that is possible at all, hierarchy forms naturally in our species and even in a post scarcity society those who are smarter and more charismatic would have more influence than those who are not. It would maybe lead to true meritocracy, but I do not know that there will ever be a human society without hierarchy nor am I convinced that’s necessarily desireable.

  However I do think that even though in sheer numbers the wealth disparity is enormous and disgusting, when you remove stuff like being able to influence politics and buying planes or ships and other unnecessary and wasteful stuff, the difference between the elite and the lower classes is not that great. By that I mean, that both middle and low income people have access to stuff as cars, phones, entertainment etc at the same basic level as the rich, which was not the case in the past. Of course in other parts of the world things are different , and the reason for that is that we exploit them (one reason I was in favor with Trumps tariffs), but you can still see that worldwide quality of life is trending up. And by this what I mean is that I think there will be no huge revolution that changes the world order. We tend to frame and crave history in terms of huge one of a lifetime events but in reality most things happen gradually and I think we are gradually moving towards the direction of socialism thanks to the struggle and there pressures that you mention which yes, force capitalism to adapt in order to survive.

  And thanks for the rec will be sure to check it out once I’m done with my current reading. I’ve heard a lot about Trotsky but have yet to read him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if he came up with the thought himself or if he’s repeating someone else but Zizek has said various times that capitalism is in constant crisis, and that’s how it reinvents itself in order to stay functional. I have no doubt that we are in such a crisis and in the midst of its reinvention. And look I know socialists and Marxists get accused of being deterministic but if we look at history, through the decades capitalism is integrating socialism into it. I think at some point it will simply be socialism. We’re just not there yet, I think that won’t happen until human labor has no value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian’s Avowed 2025 Roadmap Includes New Abilities, Weapons, New Game Plus, And More⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really understand this mentality. Is it a younger gamer thing? I can enjoy games on their own merits without having to compare them with anything else. Besides, the best aspect of Avowed is its gameyness so to speak . It’s just the right length and pick up and play enough that busy people like me can play it and actually finish it. I’ve been meaning to play BG3 but I if I do I have to commit to it for a year at least, and that’s a hard pill to swallow. And I always finish every game I start, especially RPGs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inappropriate Ads on Child-Directed Websites: Weight Loss Pills and Depression Tests for Kids.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wanna talk about all the weird ass, some times AI generated videos that YouTube kids has? I’m sure there’s a few mind wash Chinese and Russian Trojan horses. One day someone will say skibidi toilet at just the right pitch and an entire generation of KGB agents will activate or some shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok well I didn’t know that, but it doesn’t change my argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you read what Grok was saying? Grok was saying that white genocide is questionable at best, and unfounded.

  He was just saying when prompted about unrelated stuff which is what made it bizarre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m convinced this game is a Lacanian social experiment.

  Also how can a game be play to win if there is no game?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Trans people are actually not banned anywhere from using the public restrooms they choose as far as I’m aware. I was using it as an example because it’s perhaps the most salient one along with trans women in sports.

  But yes my view is that there should be no law or regulation or order saying anything about this, it is up to the people who use the space to decide who is or isn’t allowed. Same with sports, let the leagues decide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s one faction among many others, just like there are tankies on the left.

  You can’t force social change from the top down. I’ll use the trans issue because what else. It’s not clear to me that there are any civil rights being violated when you say that they are not allowed in women’s bathrooms. Now do I think they should be allowed? Yes, but I think it’s up to the women to allow them in if they so wish to and the government can’t force it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think history agrees with what you are saying. From what patterns I notice , dictators rise because they become popular with the masses thanks to the exploitation of grievances both real and perceived, and only when it seems inevitable that they will wrest power from the established order do capitalists align with themselves with the fascists in order to protect their interests and their own heads. The wealthy tend to be one of the first targets for any dictator, as they are the ones who have the means to unravel their power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear what you say, but again that’s intellectually dishonest. Libertarians find themselves between a rock and a hard place, so they inevitably choose the side that overlaps most with them.

  What progressives want is also authoritarian, and libertarians are against authoritarianism on principle, whether it has noble or evil goals because the potential for abuse even with noble goals is too great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does digital violence against LGBTI people in Thailand and Taiwan continue even after marriage equality?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes the same heavy moderation that worked wonders for curtailing the rise of hate speech online over the last decade. It did not at all just forced and incentivized the hate mongers to simply build their own platforms and audiences were they cannot be fact checked by anyone sane.

  Let people spout and indulge in all the hate speech they want, instead have social mechanisms to dissuade from it. You know, like the real fucking world. The downvotes on reddit are such a simple mechanism that works at a level similar to how social feedback leads to self censorship people in the real world.

  Also fuck outta here with fact checking bs. You don’t hear more disinformation than the kind that gets repeated in barbershops daily, even before the internet and no one ever thought you had to fact check the shit Tony is saying this week. You just learned to take everything with a grain of salt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does digital violence against LGBTI people in Thailand and Taiwan continue even after marriage equality?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It really devalues the meaning of the words and makes it harder for people to take real accusations seriously. I once read an article of someone claiming they had been sexually assaulted on WoWs text chat. Like what the fuck, mute them, report them, move on. You can call it harrasment if you like but there’s nothing sexual about it, it’s letters on a monitor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yes, because liberals believe in state enforced equality while libertarians believe in equality as a moral prerogative but one that cannot be imposed through laws and regulations because the state should not have the right to impose any form of laws that dictate morality or way of living etc. At least that’s my interpretation of it from conversations with libertarians.

  So that means that libertarians will be against the use of state power to right systemic wrongs. Which I wouldn’t qualify as helping fascists but a lot of progressives do, which is imo a little bit intellectually dishonest.

  The real problem though is that the US only has two parties so you have to choose one that overlaps with most of your views and for libertarians that ends up being the GOP due to the fact that their own party is an insane clown show worst than the GOP. But at the same time I’d like to point out that libertarian adjacent members of the GOP in the past are the ones who have made the biggest strides for human rights in the US. The party it is today is unrecognizable from the one it was 60 years ago. Hell, even 20 years ago.

  But calling libertarian fascist just devalues the definition of the word, which the real fascist use to their advantage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mussolini might have said whatever, but I don’t think it’s accurate to say corporations and the wealthy like fascism, as it tends to be horrible for the economy. Mass consumption gets heavily impacted in such regimes. But that also depends on how you define fascism, because I’ve seen a lot of people lately refer to libertarians and even some liberals as fascists and that just doesn’t hold up. Not wanting to shift the balance in order to address systemic issues does not make someone a fascist.

  The wealthy like few regulations and open borders for trade, without proper paths to citizenship so they can pay lower wages locally and exploit lower human rights standards abroad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does digital violence against LGBTI people in Thailand and Taiwan continue even after marriage equality?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mean words online by people who don’t even dare lift their voices in public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Did I say Elon came up with the idea? I said that’s his goal.

  Also not saying it like it’s a good thing, just stating a fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly Elon Musk’s goal with making Twitter a payment platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not gonna happen, and I even disagree with the statement but I can see the merit in it.

  That being said the new business model will be the old business model, where everything is paid for. And I do not think that’s so bad, for example I’d pay for a browser if it respects my privacy.