javiwhite
@javiwhite@feddit.uk
- Comment on The duality of man 6 hours ago:
When is it ever about anything else?
- Comment on No brainer 20 hours ago:
Getting your tackle out; a war tradition almost as old as bonking someone on the head with a metal object.
Less practiced by armed militias and moreso ‘crackhead locals’ these days; it remains an incredibly effective tactic.
- Comment on Buying bread 1 week ago:
- Comment on YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators 1 week ago:
Yeah I can appreciate that take mate. The level of audacity they would need to think something like this wouldn’t be noticed is almost unimaginable. Lying by omission does feel like the best comparison to make regarding this.
Rest easy friend; there will be plenty more corporate nonsense for us all to jawdrop over tomorrow!
- Comment on YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators 1 week ago:
If you give a letter to a postman, and the recipient asks why you put “P.S: I love you” on an official piece of documentation, your first thought wouldn’t be “that damn postman, opening my mail to try and enhance it”.
The same is true for YouTube. People have been uploading videos for decades with them ending up on the platform the way they are uploaded, so it stands to reason that longtime users would expect this behaviour to continue, especially if there have been no Comms around any changes.
Of course Google isn’t to be trusted, and anyone trusting YouTube to be ethical clearly isn’t paying attention to anything. But that doesn’t change the fact that youtube have intentionally hidden this change from their user base. Sure, the result was public facing, but the cause was kept secret; and that’s the nuance you’re overlooking.
- Comment on Famous VPN company Mullvald says it will no longer use OpenVPN 2 weeks ago:
Damn you sir, you didn’t need to call me out with that last sentence.
No, I know it wasn’t my shoe, but look at how well it fits!
- Comment on What if Australia were Ukraine? Trump and Putin prove our strategy to trust the US is a roll of the dice 2 weeks ago:
Oh agreed,
We could roll a d20 with only 20 being the passing mark, everything else fails; which gives a 5% success chance… and that still seems optimistic when describing a relationship with America.
Basically, Aus, Canada, UK and every other American “allied” nation should have a magic 8 ball that only returns with “yeah you’re fucked” when asked anything about the relationship with America, it’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when.
- Comment on Change your profile to Clippy (call to action) 2 weeks ago:
Activism like this isn’t for people on Lemmy, who have already been exposed to the likes of decentralisation, open source Vs closed source etc… its predominantly for those that still think brand name = quality.
I don’t use social media these days, but i do have inactive accounts; I’m considering logging in and changing the pictures to clippy. It may have absolutely no effect, or it may be the 16th clippy PFP that someone sees, which may then prompt them to ask why everyone is changing their photo to clippy.
So whilst it won’t change anything in a large way, it can act as the catalyst for those who are still unaware to try and educate themselves on the subject, and hopefully lead to them leaving Microsoft products altogether like you’ve alluded to.
For example; I’m already not using any Microsoft products, so continuing to not use their products is less impactful than by changing my mainstream photos to clippy, even if it has no effect.
We can try to tell people about the evils of microsoft until we’re blue in the face… But if they “research” it themselves, it’s far more likely to stick.
- Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 2 weeks ago:
Oh I see what you’re talking about. I thought you meant the link to fffmpegs forgejo site rather than the crosspost link.
Maybe it’s just the app I’m using, but sync was able to redirect me to the Open source community that this was originally posted too. (It’s hosted on lemmy.ml, but the poster is from Lemmy.zip, which is why the post link is Lemmy.zip).
When I open via browser though, I see the OSA block that you’re referring too… An interesting difference for sure. But I suppose if all posts from lemmy.zip were blocked, we wouldn’t be seeing this one either, so I’m guessing it’s just post shares that won’t work?
- Comment on What if Australia were Ukraine? Trump and Putin prove our strategy to trust the US is a roll of the dice 2 weeks ago:
Most GMs just use a coin, but D2 dice do exist.
- Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 2 weeks ago:
You sure that the issue is geographical? I’m in the UK and was able to access the site without using a VPN or anything like that.
- Comment on Aspergers officinalis 2 weeks ago:
Somewhat related story; my middle name is Peter, and I had seemingly misheard it, as for the first 6 years of my life I thought my middle name was pizza.
- Comment on THIS is true wisdom 2 weeks ago:
Should crosspost this to !wiseposting@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on wypipo 3 weeks ago:
I questioned it a few years back on reddit and was told it’s an old American saying for white people, and its apparently from the sound a whip makes rather than the biscuit.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 3 weeks ago:
if purity is the reason you do nothing, instead of doing something, then you’re part of the problem.
I’m always happy to talk about routes of how we get to a better place, but if you’re just wanting to argue then I’ll pass.
So long as it fits your world view you mean; else it’s inflammatory language like I’m ‘doing nothing’ or I’m ‘Virtue signalling’ and being ‘part of the problem’, but of course, I’m the one looking to argue.
I already established a very obvious talking point for a route to get to a better place, and it starts with the tribunal kier and his cronies refuse to have, but that talking point was brushed over rather than addressed so whilst your words fit the bill, your actions certainly do not.
The one thing we can agree on is that this conversation is pointless. Our priorities clearly differ greatly, to the point where a separate party just makes sense. You can call it pissing in the wind, or a waste of a vote, doing nothing etc… but that’s exactly how I view voting for labour in the next election; they’re going to bleed votes to reform and SNP, and then you’ve got the left wing voters who want to see actual change, rather than this Tory lite approach to politics jumping ship too. The only people left will be the centrists; and that’s never going to win an election.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 3 weeks ago:
actually doing something that has an impact is not virtue signalling. We fed over 8k people last year, and that’s much more helpful to the working class than failing to get elected.
Nobody is suggesting feeding people is virtue signalling, stop with the strawman already. I’m suggesting that pointing to your work at a food bank and then banging on about “being morally better” and “virtue signalling” in the very next breath is laughable.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 3 weeks ago:
There will always be tension between where ideology, and hopes of a better world, meet with what is currently achievable.
So an independent investigation into our current involvement in Gaza isn’t currently achievable for what reason? What part of a better world are we missing, where a supposedly democratic nation, can’t carry out an independent check on it’s public offices?
This is just pure virtue signaling.
As the trustee of a food bank
Pot. Kettle.
The idea that by purposefully throwing away your vote is somehow morally better than voting once every 5 years for the lesser of two evils is asinine in the extreme.
Call it whatever you like, but what’s asinine is to keep voting for the same party, and expecting different results.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 3 weeks ago:
Do you truly believe kier beat the Tories on his own merit, rather than the Tories self imploding? Even after winning, he had around 1m less on the popular vote than Corbyns loss in 2019… Why? Because voter apathy and a general disdain for the tories handed labour the last election, rather than them winning on their own merit.
The only reason I and many other people voted for Kier was exactly as you said, 14 year of tory regime has decimated the countries welfare, and intentionally so… But the countries complicit nature In the bombing of children in Gaza continues, if it wasn’t for good ol’ Jeremy there wouldn’t even be an inquiry as labour have rejected the bill to hold an independently run tribunal to investigate the governments complicit nature in the Gaza genocide and that is just too big of a pain point for me. I refuse to have the blood of innocent children on my hands, even if it means life at home gets easier.
This is ultimately how democracy works right. Labour pretending to be the left wing option of the UK has left many voters disenfranchised… Now, labour can own up to being the centrist party they’ve become, and those who want the lesser of two evils can continue to vote for them… The rest of us who want to see real societal change, can try a new approach.
- Comment on One Angry Man 3 weeks ago:
Ant
- Comment on it's called speedrunning, my dudes 4 weeks ago:
“When life gives you a frog go through the anus” - Aristotle, probably.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 4 weeks ago:
Yeah agreed, that was a question clearly posed to rile up the moderates in the party, knowing how he would respond with his hardline anti-war stance.
Whether or not I agree with the statement, I judge his character higher for that response; unapologetically honest, to a fault even, and stood by his beliefs. That is definitely evidence of him being a poor politician; had he less integrity, he may never have been ousted… But equally, with less integrity; he’d probably end up just another Blair clone like Starmer.
It’s no different with the Ukraine Russia situation. Corbyn is calling for de-escalation rather than war with Russia; which will inevitably be spun into Corbyn being Pro-Putin in the media rather than anti-WW3. Sure he could keep his mouth shut, and play the game, but why should he? The country is tired of politics. “Nothing ever changes”, “they’re all the same” are common complaints citizens have… So maybe we should stop voting for people based on their capacity to be dishonest, and instead look at the people who seem to have some integrity.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 4 weeks ago:
The material he gave them was campaigning against Zionist activities in Gaza way back in the noughties; before all the genocidal stuff happening now, and his defence was anti-zionism </> anti-Semitism… which I think in today’s light is a very obvious statement, but back in 2019; the average person wasn’t aware of what was happening in Gaza, and so the papers ran with the antisemitism angle.
I get what you’re saying about playing the game; he could have been dishonest and claimed that the parties issues with Israel’s warmongering was actually antisemitism, apologised and given an empty promise about change, to which no-one would bat an eye (a politician lying is a politician breathing etc…), but that’s the exact problem with politics… Corbyn was a breath of fresh air in an otherwise toxic environment; unapologetically honest, and cantankerous when it comes to people pussy footing around an issue, and this is exactly why the media dogged him so heavily… they couldn’t buy him, and he was gunning for their owners hoarded wealth. If it wasn’t the anti-Semitism angle, they would have found something else to try and beat him with.
Even now, he’s attempting to force the UK to address the ongoing British involvement in the Gaza genocide; ofcourse the Tory lites rejected any investigation, which in itself is reminiscent of Blair’s labour and Iraq.
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 4 weeks ago:
This is exactly my point. The antisemitism angle was pushed so ferociously by the media, that it caused people such as yourself to act against your own interests.
Tell me, do you still think ousting Corbyn was the right move? Are we in a better position now under Kiers labour?
- Comment on Half-a-million members sign up to new left-wing party founded in Britain 4 weeks ago:
As a lifelong labour supporter, I get what you mean, but ultimately feel as though I’ve been duped by this logic one time too many; the labour party are closer to the modern tories than they are the labour that brought us reforms like the NHS and so on.
I’m tired of labour being the only viable option because they’re the limp-dicked version of the Tories; Corbyn was the closest we got to seeing a supposedly left wing party actually introduce some socialist policy; and look at the furor that kicked up in the papers… The powers that be were clearly concerned about him, as we had a real chance for change (particularly with him having sights on taxing the rich their fair share) but instead he was smeared and the party showed its true colours by jumping at the opportunity to oust him.
No man or woman is above corruption; and people shouldn’t blindly follow anyone; but Corbyn has a lifetime record of activism… So if the options are Tory lite Vs a new party led by a lifetime activist. The question for me isn’t; “will this split the labour vote” but rather “why would anyone continue to vote labour, despite it being ultimately fruitless?”.
It wasn’t the Tories that just said no to a 500k strong petition to repeal the online safety act afterall. Fuck the Tories and fuck the Tory lites.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 4 weeks ago:
Make the joke a bit spicier and the taste should disappear.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Did you miss the first 9 words you quoted or something? Seems like you’re misrepresenting what was said in quite a profound way.
OP claims it’s not obvious from the title; you claim it’s obvious from the rules; Both of these statements can be true at the same time.
Also, now that they’re aware, they’ve blocked the community to prevent any engagement… Can you explain how that translates to them not accepting the situation?
- Comment on Piss Post 5 weeks ago:
Wise words, though I bet that’s a sentence you didn’t expect to write when waking up this morning.
- Comment on Piss Post 5 weeks ago:
I would argue that it becomes less of a curl, and more of a spew at that point.
- Comment on Piss Post 5 weeks ago:
I imagine it would take a great deal of both mental and physical fortitude in order to curl one out whilst standing tall.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
No more than? Id say it’s way more.
Group think is a passive acceptance of beliefs you have read/interacted with, without any desire to challenge those beliefs even if one feels they might not be accurate.
Using LLMs to answer basic questions is the active delegation of thinking to another entity. You’re delegating the entire task, and alleviating yourself of all thought.
It’s like comparing someone using multiplication tables to calculate a sum, Vs using a calculator; except in this instance, the calculator is only accurate 1/3 of the time.