Shanmugha
@Shanmugha@lemmy.world
- Comment on The balance of security and privacy sounds weird when privacy IS security. 2 days ago:
Not exactly, but security as in “let us pass a law that makes end-to-end encryption in messengers illegal” can go and fuck right off
- Comment on just beat it 1 week ago:
I think I’ve got your point: that’s not whar we call sound, but yes, the showel and casing will reverberate
- Comment on just beat it 1 week ago:
So, ultra-not-sound. Thank you, o wise one (/s, of course)
- Comment on just beat it 1 week ago:
No, there is a well-known experiment: take something that produces sound, put in a glass, suck air out. Won’t hear a thing
- Comment on just beat it 1 week ago:
It does (ok, one catch: if there’s an atmosphere), sound has physical nature. The trick is in asking whether music/art/languages exist after any sentient life is gone
- Comment on Florida ban on kids using social media likely unconstitutional, judge rules 2 weeks ago:
I saved a screenshot of this to post when it happens, if you give your permission
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Trust me on this, bro
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 2 weeks ago:
Of course. Just one nuclear reactor bro, just one more trillion dollars investment bro
- Comment on Tragic 3 weeks ago:
Me on Windows: can I play a game at 10 PM? - Nah, I’ve serious not-your-business shit to do, so enjoy your throttling animation
And that was years before “Ima going to screenshot whatever you are doing every 10 minutes or so, processes it on your computer and store. Safely store? Lol no”
So no, it was my first operating system, but modern windows is a pile of hostile crap
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Thank you. This is much appreciated
- Comment on Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is 3 weeks ago:
Yup. Which is why I also cheer up seeing “I use Arch btw” (me too use Arch). Can’t imagine myself giving educational speech on what open source software is and why it matters, but I surely can spam memes here and there
- Comment on Peak masculinity 3 weeks ago:
Damn, I am not caring about my girl enough. Take my upvote! :)
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 4 weeks ago:
Yess. I boggles me that the narrative is still “devs this, devs that”. It doesn’t take becoming a game dev to understand that actual software developers are not calling shots on plot twists, monetisation model and so forth. Like, what the hell is wrong with people babbling about devs?
- Comment on By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall 4 weeks ago:
This needs more comments of the same acknowledgement of just how hilariously shit is fucked up that app devs spend time working against an OS
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 5 weeks ago:
Nah. Anything that says “yes, kernel-level anticheats will work here” - I will be out. To the point of LFS and offline games only, if need be
- Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts 1 month ago:
Damn. I hate how it hurts to know that’s what will happen
- Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts 1 month ago:
So now we can finally go back to good old code optimization, right? Right? (Padme.jpg)
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 1 month ago:
Once again, need of regulation means humans are under-developed.
Caring for short-term benefit paying for it by damaging long-term profits is exactly why I call such people idiots, together with trying to use “companies”, “capitalism”, “incentives” and a whole ton of other illusions to run from responsibility. Do I need to explain how not taking responsibility means becoming a slace?
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 1 month ago:
-being smart my ass, lol (that’s insult to the idea, not you). That is not being smart, that is being stupid life-wise
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almost any social system is an immature mumbo-jumbo produced and kept in place by idiots. All -isms fall into this category
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the idea that humans are capable of recognising how life works is flawed in your eyes? Thanks, I end this conversation
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- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 1 month ago:
People following incentives blah-bkah is people being morons. See also “I was following orders” fallacy applied to army
Capitalism strives for something? Niice. And I thought “economic system” does not have any strivings
Anything has to be enforced because we consistently fail to produce developed and balanced humans. Whatever -ism you try to build around what kind of people we have now, it will fail. So cut the crap about capitalism already
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 1 month ago:
No, that’s not a rhetorical question. The “profit above all else” you have described is a bullshit tracing back to this: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_primacy
And again, there is no such thing as “companies direct responsibility”. Humans do
So once again, what does capitalism has anything to do with people being absolute morons?
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 1 month ago:
Right. And how does capitalism have anything to do with it?
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 1 month ago:
And pure unadulterated something-else-ism would not, lol. The concept of responsibility that hard to grasp?
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 1 month ago:
No, I toss both in the same garbage bin, while separating from what is usually referred as spiritual process. But if that is all you’ve got to say, let’s leave it at this point
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 1 month ago:
Oh, so many things I can say in response. I will try to make it brief, though
Yes but so what?
So, for example, tons of people think themselves into depression and suicide because of some bullshit morals they have come to value more than anything else. I would rather have merciless killers to deal with, but not this kind of suffering going on around
You can’t have society if people go around destroying that society
Oh, but we do. Show me a country with empty prisons (preferably without prison-as-punishment laws even)
You make rules and enforce them to stop that destruction. Thats morality in a nutshell.
Which is plain declaring “I have failed”. Failed in building a sustainable society. Failed in producing people capable of living in a sensible way. Failed to even restrict those who I failed to mold into something not that kind of destructive. I write “I” here, because in the end, if we look back in time, for every damn “moral code rule” that got spread, taught and enforced we will track that one idiot who enabled all this bullshit
This has been going on so long that it’s hard wired into most of us.
True. And because it got wired that deep we have enormous amount of suffering, because life cares not about “right” or “wrong”
For the psychopaths that don’t have that hardwire, we have places to put them. I.e. prisons and boardrooms.
Surprise: it is possible to live without any moral conditioning and still not fall into destructive behaviour. And also, we continue to revere people who have done things far from “morally right way”. (Jesus, Krishna, Gautama to name a few most recognizable names). Today every single one of them would have ended up in a prison or mental hospital, which also speaks something about what morality actually is
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 1 month ago:
You even understand what you just said?
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 1 month ago:
Yes, and I have spent tons of time trying to understand why. Did not reach the understanding, but looks like I am starting to accept this as is. Thank you for reminding that not all “other people” are “those who do not get me no matter how hard I try”
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 1 month ago:
Lol. You got nothing of what I said, but I’m ok with it
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 1 month ago:
Thank you :) And maybe it is not. If reality is an illusion and I am only dreaming, why can’t I dream myself immortal and stop getting so sleepy in the evenings already. But yeah, a comet could wipe us all and meaning only exists in the mind of observer, this is a hill I can joyfully die on
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 1 month ago:
That is a word salad I could support, as dbtng already said:)
Ok, but seriously, I studied only a bit of philosophy and no ethics, and the question of discerning between objective reality and subjective observer can keep us occupied for many lifetimes, so no use in trying do dive deeper