Photuris

@Photuris@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just when you thought having to listen to the endless BS was finally over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I swear to god, there are people who want these meetings to last longer (and they purposely wait until near the end of the meeting in order to try and drag it out), and for the life of me I don’t understand it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We didn’t see this one coming a mile away.

  Palantir execs and shareholders are buzzing with anticipation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Argentina wants to monitor social media with AI to ‘predict future crimes’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How very “libertarian” and “small government” of him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frances Ryan: Young people want to ‘go private’ – I’m a lifelong supporter of the NHS, but I can see why⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not.

  But here in the US, we just die, so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frances Ryan: Young people want to ‘go private’ – I’m a lifelong supporter of the NHS, but I can see why⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So long as both public and private exist, and the existence of private options doesn’t create incentives to erode funding of the public option (that’s the big danger), that’s fine.

  People who can afford it choosing private options frees up the queue for the public option. And they’re still finding the public option. Likewise, when the private option innovates, those innovations eventually make their way to the public space. A public option also forces the private facilities to keep costs relatively competitive, even as they do charge for premium service. They can’t go apeshit on charges like the American facilities do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Forgejo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come glasses for hyperopia/farsightedness (reading glasses) are there on the shelves, but glasses for myopia require a prescription?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I ask myself the same thing.

  Fortunately, these days, if you know your diopter and pupillary distance, you can go online to places like Zenni and just order them. That’s nice - I haven’t had to get my prescription re-checked in years (it never changes).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the skibidi are you adding skibidi to the Cambridge Dictionary? We think it has "staying power", answer word boffins⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Cambridge need to be more conservative here. Wait ten years and see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The triumph of AI marks the end of the information age.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to hoard books.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The triumph of AI marks the end of the information age.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Goddamn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apart, low in cholesterine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, been burned before. Adding “gluten free” isn’t as stupid as it sounds.

  Been burned by the adhesive on paper straws. Been burned by instant coffee (flavorings, apparently). Been burned by “plain” hashed brown potatoes (spoiler alert - they weren’t so plain, because of cross-contamination in the packaging facility - they didn’t clean their conveyor belts between product runs. That took some legwork to figure out). Been burned by fucking apple sauce (malt; and also, why?!).

  Imagine living in a world wherein all food products might have at least a little bit of rat poison in it. You’d start really appreciating anything intentionally labeled “rat poison free,” even if it’s something that “shouldn’t” need it (like “plain” bacon).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apart, low in cholesterine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It sounds ridiculous, but you’d be surprised how often wheat makes its way into ingredients such as “spices” (like tamari, for example), often unlabeled as such.

  If you have celiac disease, you figure this stuff out over time. I’m glad to see bacon labeled as “gluten free” - it means I can trust it. Packaged bacon might have seasonings or glaze applied to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UN demands censorship of the Internet, "we need to take global action"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m 100% with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers quietly planned a test to dim sunlight. They wanted to ‘avoid scaring’ the public.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m ok with using novel techniques to work on climate change, but right now in the immediate moment the only technology I’m really interested in testing and perfecting is guillotines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hot take: killing the internet is a good thing. Once the internet is dead, we go back to physical media and physical interactions. We become free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mensa⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, so there is a pattern to this, and it has nothing to do with IQ per se.

  It has everything to do with political alignment. And it’s a multi-variant association (1. booty v. boobs, and 2. race / ethnicity / religion).

  I’ll use US-centric political terminology here.

  Hear me out:

  1. Men who prefer big healthy asses tend to lean left/Democrat/liberal/progressive. Men who prefer big boobs tend to lean right/Republican/conservative/fash.

  2. Men who are willing to date outside their own race / ethnicity tend to be more progressive than those who prefer to stay within their own race / ethnicity (although progressives can happily find partners within their own ethnic group, too; whereas conservative almost always look within their own ethnicity first).

  So, an appreciation for big booty Latinas signifies a. someone who leans left (booty), and b. a progressive willing to date outside their own race (assuming he’s not also Latino).

  A progressive / Democrat / liberal / lefty can also date PAWGs, big booty Black women, etc. and be perfectly happy.

  A Republican will only date someone within their ethnicity 95%+ of the time (some exceptions exist, but it’s relatively rare), and they ALWAYS prefer big mommy milkers, caring very little, or naught at all, for booties.

  So there you go. This is 100% anecdote, but one day, I guarantee, the research and science will back me up on this, as soon as someone conducts it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Great game, but I could never play it for more than ten minutes at a time before getting woozy and nauseous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The party of Small Government and Free Speech at work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  GOOD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lead ammunition to be banned for hunting and shooting in England, Scotland and Wales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The solution to guns is to ensure that only the state can ever have guns.

  Why? Because the state will never be taken over by bad actors who seek to destroy democracy and institute autocracy.

  The well-meaning liberal-minded and just people in power today will be in power tomorrow and forever, so we can always trust them to have all guns, hold the cryptography backdoors for all consumer electronics, hold the reins on banking, have sophisticated mass surveillance capabilities, curtail free speech and open protest, intimidate rumblings of labor unionization, clamp down on people advocating for Palestinian people, disproportionately imprison brown people and immigrants for infractions that white people walk away from consequence-free, and so on.

  Why? Because terrorism must not win, and we’ll never ever change what the poorly-defined word “terrorism” means on a whim based on current perceived political enemies or anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lead ammunition to be banned for hunting and shooting in England, Scotland and Wales⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s good to practice, because one day you may need to shoot fascists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear of 'being cringe' blamed for lack of dancing on nightclub dance floors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone has a fucking camera in their pocket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just.....why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IoT has gotten way out of hand

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok Is Reportedly Making a U.S. Version of the App⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Rednote 小红书 is much better than TikTok anyway, obvious propaganda and all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call Of Duty: WW2 pulled offline amid hacking claims after it starts messing with PCs and citing random lawyers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And now I’m officially 100% done with gaming, since that’s the last game I’d continued playing from time to time (when I have a spare few minutes and a whim to fire it up, that is).

  Oh well, part of getting older. I think I also have Halo and a Modern Warfare on that XBox, but, meh. WWII was the best CoD (the most fun, at least to me).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Productivity will go up, wages will remain the same, and no additional time off will be given to employees. They’ll merely be required to produce 4x as much and compensation will not increase to match.

  It seems the point of all these machines and automation isn’t to make our individual lives easier and more prosperous, but instead to increase and maximize shareholder value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 Employees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You think they guy who writes code to make Xbox games work, or the woman who does data analytics in R and Excel to optimize cloud hosting traffic shaping rules (or whatever), is the same as ICE and the SS?!

  Jesus Christ. Climb out from under your rock and go meet some real people doing real things, and do some real things of value yourself. Maybe learn how to make something with tech. Maybe learn a little bit of code, I don’t know.

  I work in tech. I am not rounding up my Hispanic neighbors for ICE, nor am I building spyware infrastructure for Palantir. I write code to help doctors and nurses do their jobs more effectively and efficiently. But fuck me I guess for trying to earn a living by providing some value. And fuck Microsoft employees for writing code to allow people to play video games or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 Employees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, fuck you.

  People need an income, and they work hard to provide for their families.

  Tech employees are people, too. And many of them spent years perfecting a very difficult set of skills that the market is quickly deciding isn’t as valuable as it once was, because their corporate employers regard them merely as resources to be exploited and then discarded at the first opportunity. That sucks.

  It sucks whomever it happens to, be it warehouse workers, truck drivers, call center employees, retail and customer service employees, or office knowledge workers. Just because a person had made a pretty good salary doesn’t mean they haven’t still be exchanging their precious time for dollars like the rest of us, grinding away their life at a job rather than spending quality time with their loved ones and persuing their own hobbies and interests.

  Seriously, fuck you dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe someday 😌⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody told me all this when I signed up. I was simply instructed to pick an instance, and I did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always wanted to sail.