bearboiblake
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- Comment on Of course there is. 1 week ago:
Actually, it’s stupider, the original meth subreddit made rules against posting images of drug use because reddit admins were breathing down their necks, some of the userbase deemed that censorship to be communist because something something 1984. Except, obviously, it was done because advertisers don’t want to advertise next to drug use. So it’s literally classic Americans calling the negative consequences of capitalism communism
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 1 week ago:
it sounds a lot more like you’re the one letting israel direct your messaging than literally anyone else involved
i literally don’t give a shit what israel cries about, if I see something is from an israeli source, i reduce the amount of confidence i have in it by 99%. if i hear that something is anti-semitic, that means I need to check if it’s really anti-semitic or if it’s just thinly-veiled bullshit again. if I’m too busy, I just assume it’s bullshit.
honestly, if nothing else, it’s free press, and it might make some zionists wonder why everyone is calling them genocidal and comparing them to nazis
anyways, wishing israel a very dissolved and a happy new execution for war crimes for their state
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
that assumes every business which invests in AI would be bailed out, which is a huge assumption. I would guess the only businesses that would receive bailouts would be those with personal ties to the government
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
Darwin is a UNIX, I believe!
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
Under any system where people have power over others, power will begin to concentrate into fewer and fewer hands, until it becomes a problem. The only solution is anarchism.
- Comment on if they were like this I'd feel a little better for the people who use these 2 weeks ago:
I’m a mobility scooter user - don’t feel bad for us, these devices are incredibly liberating, in a really life-changing way.
Movies and stuff love to show disabled people as unhappy to be “stuck in a chair” but in the real world most disabled people are very thankful for their assistive technology because the alternative is never going anywhere or doing anything.
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 2 weeks ago:
israel chose to make the star of david their flag, but cool whataboutism i guess
- Comment on Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It 2 weeks ago:
GrapheneOS has a feature which automatically restarts the phone if it hasn’t been interacted with after some user-configurable delay. For example, you could configure the phone to automatically reboot if it hasn’t been used for an hour. This way, even if my phone is seized, that reboot timer is ticking. Once it reboots, the encryption on the phone is basically unbreakable.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 3 weeks ago:
Allowing a certificate without proper validation for local only networks is a terrible, terrible idea. I could super easily use this as a loophole to set up a honeypot public free wi-fi, redirect all traffic through a reverse proxy and man-in-the-middle every single HTTPS connection, effectively allowing me to harvest everyone’s passwords in a really quick and easy way.
Just use DNS verification. It’s not that hard.
- Comment on It will not be long before we see ads claiming no ai was used in their product 3 weeks ago:
I saw an AI-GENERATED ad for AI-GENERATED MUSIC that claimed it was made by real humans who had their livelihoods ruined by AI.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 3 weeks ago:
I consider cheat codes to be an accessibility tool for disabled gamers, and I think it is really sad that they are far less common than they once were, and it’s even sadder to see some devs/publishers (Ubisoft comes to mind) try to monetize cheat codes.
- Comment on The British Empire 4 weeks ago:
Or we could take a shortcut and just burn them down directly.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 5 weeks ago:
You think having a government offers any form of protection against aggressive militarism?
If anything, it makes wars and invasions more appealing - if the infrastructure of control and oppression, the police, the military, the courts, etc. are all there, all they need to do is seize those levers of power.
If that infrastructure does not exist and a population is hostile to your attempts to impose it, you would effectively stand no chance against a determined resistance. There are no major military targets, no leaders to assassinate, no positions of power to leverage. They would need to keep boots on the ground to maintain power. And those soldiers, while constantly stationed in hostile territory, can’t do anything else and would constantly find themselves under attack by decentralized militia forces - there would be very little hope for holding such territory, and as soon as the occupying force left, anarchy, and therefore peace and order, could once again be restored.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 5 weeks ago:
Because it is. Politics in all democracies is that way, the US is just letting the mask slip a little.
It’s always been ruling class vs. the rest of us. Who the ruling class are changes and the means of oppression changes but the structure of rulers oppressing those beneath them has been constant all the way back to neolithic humans.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 5 weeks ago:
we have to have a government
Citation needed. I completely disagree.
This reminds me of Always Sunny in Philadelphia. We don’t need to pick someone to “be in charge” to get shit done.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
because seven ate nine through twenty-thres
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 9 months ago:
wait so the people doing the work don’t get paid and the people who get paid steal from others?
that is just so uncharacteristic of capitalism, what a surprise
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 9 months ago:
you can get a raspberry pi and install something called pihole on it, it’s a DNS server with ad-blocking. basically, it converts a domain name like example.com into an IP address, but rather than just faithfully supply DNS, it also effectively blocks some adverts by acting like the domain names don’t exist for servers that run ads
once it’s set up it’ll just work, and it should protect everyone on your network/wifi from some ads
- Comment on Was the supreme court wrong to assess that because america is a capitalist society money is a form of speach? 9 months ago:
Yes. I’d highly recommend checking out the 5-4 Podcast episode about Citizen’s United
- Comment on Is 33 cents a small amount of money? 9 months ago:
even if people were mega geniuses it wouldn’t matter, money talks, and it talks a lot louder than people
- Comment on Fucking leeches 9 months ago:
The solution is for the state to guarantee that everyone must have a place to live. Shelter is a human necessity, it should not be conditional.
- Comment on Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink 9 months ago:
you’re adding way too much into this. who said that someone would guilt you? normally when you make someone sad they don’t say anything about it, they just feel a bit worse and continue with their lives
i’m just explaining to you, there’s no way to rationalize your way out of this. you are in complete control over what you say, unless you have verbal tics. and people will understand if you accidentally say something offensive from a tic. do you not understand this? it’s just about responsibility.
take some responsibility for what you say. that’s all.
- Comment on Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink 9 months ago:
so you think other people should take responsibility for something they can’t control, but you should have no responsibility for something you can control?
you can’t stop yourself from feeling sad, but you can stop yourself from doing something that makes someone else sad
having no concern for the feelings of others is just really irrational and selfish imo
- Comment on Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink 9 months ago:
feelings are important, though? if i can avoid hurting someone and all it costs me is saying blocklist instead of blacklist, that seems like an obvious slam dunk
- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 9 months ago:
i hate trump probably as much or more than you do. please re-read my comment as i actually wrote it, because i meant what i wrote. i did not mean what you imagined i might be secretly thinking or whatever. please don’t jump to conclusions :(
- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 9 months ago:
don’t get me wrong, i would have voted harris. (im not american) but she wouldn’t have been good. she wouldn’t have even been ok. but she was better than trump.
- Comment on The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy 9 months ago:
she still would have supported genocide in gaza, and her term would have pushed people further towards fascism. there was really no real choice in that election, sadly. the usa was already too firmly controlled by the ruling class.