yucandu
@yucandu@lemmy.world
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 2 weeks ago:
To me, they look exactly like all the other stars in the sky, except they move, a bit slower than a plane, and they don’t blink.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 2 weeks ago:
An autonomous taxi can fight a rocket…?
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 2 weeks ago:
I remember just 10 years ago using a special app on my phone to alert me of any potential satellite flares so I could run out and catch them.
Now I can’t look at the night sky for 2 minutes without seeing one.
- Comment on Im pan so anyone can apply 2 weeks ago:
When I was in high school I had lots of really good sex with this one girl, sometimes on drugs. And then nothing since then, cause I’m pretty sure I’m good for life.
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 2 weeks ago:
Banned the people who openly admit it, anyway.
- Comment on YSK: Denazification in West Germany was lenient and ultimately abandoned, with many Nazis remaining in positions of power. 2 weeks ago:
You mean like the Mossad?
- Comment on YSK: Denazification in West Germany was lenient and ultimately abandoned, with many Nazis remaining in positions of power. 2 weeks ago:
East Germany, in contrast, declared everyone that opposed the state to be a ‘nazi’ and had them imprisoned.
Even before denazification was officially abandoned in West Germany, East German propaganda frequently portrayed itself as the only true anti-fascist state, and argued that the West German state was simply a continuation of the Nazi regime, employing the same officials that had administered the government during the Nazi dictatorship. From the 1950s, the reasoning for these accusations focused on the fact that many former functionaries of the Nazi regime were employed in positions in the West German government. However, East German propaganda also attempted to denounce as Nazis even politicians such as Kurt Schumacher, who had been imprisoned by the Nazi regime himself.[34] Such allegations appeared frequently in the official Socialist Unity Party of Germany newspaper, the Neues Deutschland. The East German uprising of 1953 in Berlin was officially blamed on Nazi agents provocateurs from West Berlin, who the Neues Deutschland alleged were then working in collaboration with the Western government with the ultimate aim of restoring Nazi rule throughout Germany. The Berlin Wall was officially called the Anti-Fascist Security Wall (German: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall) by the East German government
Yeah that’s right, I can quote wikipedia too.
- Comment on Trump admits that he trusts Putin more than US’s European allies 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, we know, he loves the weak leaders.
- Comment on French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure 3 weeks ago:
why don’t ships at sea simply disguise themselves as a rock or shrubbery?
- Comment on TIL that in 1996 they made a USS-Defiant CD player 3 weeks ago:
“up to”.
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 weeks ago:
We can ask some russian citizens if they’re available.
This guy has some pretty good cartoon shorts on Russian nostalgia:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQGQT9b9jeI
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 3 weeks ago:
I live in Canada, the general vibe we get through our culture and education is that Hitler was #1 worst guy in history, everyone else was a close second.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 3 weeks ago:
It’s not as bad as that time they permanently deleted user documents and photos.
See they had this trick where if you didn’t have enough space on your drive to unpack an update, they’d just move your shit to OneDrive temporarily, then move it back when the update was done. Only they forgot to move it back, and lost it. Oops.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m not buying the “proactively destroying the planet” angle. I’d imagine there’s a lot of misinformation around AI, given that the products surrounding it are mostly Western, like vaccines…
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
It’s like having an idiot employee that works for free. Depending on how you manage them, that employee can either do work to benefit you or just get in your way.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
I create custom embedded devices with displays and I’ve found it very useful for laying things out. Like asking it to take secondly wind speed and direction updates and build a Wind Rose out of it, with colored sections in each petal denoting the speed… it makes mistakes but then you just go back and reiterate on those mistakes. I’m able to do so much more, so much faster.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 4 weeks ago:
Whether or not my game manager was built using LLM assistance is pretty near the bottom on my list of concerns at the moment.
Considering how useful tools like Claude are to coding, and how easy it is to hide the fact that you’ve used it, I just assume any and all new software I interact with was built using LLM tools.
- Comment on so cozy 🐟 4 weeks ago:
well maybe he shouldn’t have jammed his thumb up its butthole
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 4 weeks ago:
I don’t take uber or taxis. But I’ve had random women come up to me in public places and grab my private parts, or say sexually suggestive things, and it makes me feel kinda paralyzed, like a deer in headlights, cause what am I gonna do, be the guy that yells at a woman for sexual assault? And then I just never go back in that store for a few months.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 4 weeks ago:
However it is objectively true that women deal with this problem in much higher quantities than men do.
How do you know that it is objectively true, if you also know these statistics are based around a culture that discourages men from reporting this problem?
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 4 weeks ago:
You ever tried taking a little girl to the park when you identified as a man?
It gets really weird when complete strangers go up to her and ask her if she knows you.
They don’t do that when you present as a woman.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 4 weeks ago:
The amount of males being falsely accused of sexual assault is much lower than the amount of females being exposed to sexual assault.
And you know this because… vibes?
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 4 weeks ago:
it’s disingenuous as hell to pretend that men being weird or sexual towards women isn’t the most common by a colossal margin.
I’m not convinced. Every guy I know has a story about women being creeps to them, but ask them if they reported it, every single one of them will say no.
And for the very few that do try to report it? They’re usually laughed out of the room. My own mother said “oh but it’s cute when older women do it to younger guys”. That’s not a rare opinion, that’s the default in our culture.
So we don’t show up in any official statistics, because our culture discourages us from reporting, and is less likely to take us seriously if we do.
So no, I’m not convinced that men being weird to women is the most common by any margin. We haven’t even asked men.
- Comment on Russia targets Signal and WhatsApp accounts in cyber campaign | AIVD 4 weeks ago:
Does being a Marxist mean being contrarian to every accusation of wrong-doing against a country that America historically doesn’t like?
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 4 weeks ago:
conversations? on geocities? telnet on geocities? wtf is this?
- Comment on Forget cereal bars, what's your flavor of drug in the morning? 5 weeks ago:
Always with the “extract every ounce of yourself for us”, never with the “take care of yourself to maximize your potential for us”.
- Comment on Forget cereal bars, what's your flavor of drug in the morning? 5 weeks ago:
Almost all of it is tobacco-derived, which is why I always found the “tobacco companies are trying to get vapes banned” idea ridiculous. They’re the ones making the stuff that goes in the vapes.
I think the point of the distinction is regarding cancer. Tobacco on the gums causes mouth cancer, nicotine maybe maybe not.
- Comment on That's why I say hey man, nice shot 5 weeks ago:
Same thing corrupt cops do when they’re caught, they off themselves and make it look like they went out a hero.
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 5 weeks ago:
My snow tires didn’t come with TPMS sensors.
Because they’re not mandated.
Just like LIDAR wasn’t mandated on your car when you bought it.
- Comment on Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you 5 weeks ago:
Do you drive without a LIDAR? Why, do you like to live dangerously?