KumaSudosa
@KumaSudosa@feddit.dk
- Comment on My boyfriend feels weird about sleeping over at my place because I live with my parents. How can I help him loosen up? 18 hours ago:
In that case it wouldn’t be that common to have a “casual” boyfriend coming to sleep over after a month though
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 2 days ago:
I’m thinking it might have some comedic value and if you’re trying to beat the stock market…
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 week ago:
Just because you have anecdotal evidence of the contrary doesn’t mean it can’t be true, quantitatively. I, too, am a childless man - although I do have a wife - and don’t resonate with this, but that doesn’t mean I’ll just cast aside the findings. Many, especially young, men are unhappy in their everyday, partly due to a lack of sense od community in the “modern” world.
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 1 week ago:
Absolutely a nuanced area. But on top of not modelling random people as full individuals it’s hard to determine what spying on people might actually mean. I don’t really want to defend working for a company as nefarious as Palantir - even if I honestly hardly knew them before Trump #2 - but convincing yourself that gathering people’s data isn’t problematic is quite easy, and we all inherently accept a wide array of surveillance measures as - willing or unwilling - members of state entities, be it a video camera in a clothing store or governments logging our tax data. Then comes the fact that employees below the level of “board of directors” usually don’t know everything going on in the company; I wouldn’t fault a junior dev choosing to work for, say, ‘cool’ Google or Apple in 2017.
Of course it’s relevant that humans are egocentrical animals; I wouldn’t give my own life to save five people that I don’t know in Moldova. Being too empathetic is a poor trait in a dog eat dog world. Of course we need standards and to hold others up to these standards; I don’t know your friend, what he does at Palantir or when he started working there - maybe he’s a lazy ass that holds them back haha - and I do think, especially with all that’s transpired the past 5 months, that it’s a problematic company to be part of - I just wanted to discuss that I don’t think it’s just lack of empathy
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 1 week ago:
Sure he does, intellectually, just like I understand the ramifications of buying a smartphone, clothes “made in Bangladesh”, or using a public AI model. Still the human conscience doesn’t apply too much significance to something that abstract. It doesn’t keep me up at night that my lithium is mined by Congolese children - but if I had to buy it personally from a one-armed indentured labourer I’m sure I’d stop immediately. “Out of sight out of mind” isn’t an excuse for committing heinous acts, I’m just saying that it’s not simply that he “doesn’t care about other people”
- Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux 1 week ago:
Jeg havde sgu heller ikke hørt om det før, indtil jeg så en lille spalte i avisen om det forleden
- Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux 1 week ago:
A couple dozen of Danish municipalities are working on replacing Google and Microsoft entirely in schools with a project called OS2Skole (skole meaning “school”). It’s expected to save them around €3 million in yearly and the intention is to de-Googleify and de-Microsoftify children already from an early age and to make it open source.
Mind you that the project was started before Trump got re-elected.
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 1 week ago:
I think it can be difficult to relate to such abstract concepts and consequences that you don’t feel directly. After all, it’d be much easier to press on a button that’d kill 10 000 people living 10 000 km away from you than to stab one person to death. Out of sight out of mind.
My point being that I don’t think he’s indifferent to people that he doesn’t know, he’s simply not able to process all the ramifications of this particular thing. The effects of data collection and manipulation is quite subtle, after all, like the frog in the slow burning pot
- Comment on Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds 2 weeks ago:
I’m impressed by how many narratives you’re able to tie me to out of the blue. And just for the record my parents are from Iran so take your “Europeans and people of European descent” bla bla narrative somewhere else. Geopolitics is filled with nefarious actors and calling out any of them is never a problem. You’re a problem.
- Comment on Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds 2 weeks ago:
I’ve only ever tried to watch travel videos, yet they still feed me the occassional far-right propaganda and even islamism
- Comment on Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds 2 weeks ago:
And the Taiwanese 😂
- Comment on Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds 2 weeks ago:
So when a person shows up at your house with a gun, you should also just move out and hand it over?
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 2 weeks ago:
Of course he was always a jerk, but I still think of a reality where Elon never went (officially) Nazi and just stuck with his otherwise important companies. Tesla being an important early mover in EVs, especially in such an oil-dependent country, and all the cool stuff SpaceX has been up to.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 3 weeks ago:
European governments and the EU definitely don’t care about us, their citizens, but most do see the threat coming from USA these days, thankfully
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 3 weeks ago:
How is that a “crazy theory”? Information control is not directly tied to capitalism but to any form of regime. The Western model and social media is, of course, strongly tied to capitalism and the desire for economic growth. How does that add to it?
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 3 weeks ago:
There is no better regime than the West in this regard. Force things on people? You’re gonna risk a revolt or dissent. ‘Subtly’ make people dependent on your product so they’ll voluntarily use it and share everything with you while you ‘subtly’ control the algorithm in your favour? Now that’s perfect. Social media is the ultimate tool of power and governance.
Although North Korea is a very “successful” oppressive regime, largely able to have full control over information both in and out of the country and to greatly limit desertion. I can’t think of a “better” regime in this regard.
- Comment on Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech 3 weeks ago:
Just to be clear though, it’s not a state programme. But fuck Germany’s stance on Israel for sure…
- Comment on Spread of sexual deepfake images created by generative AI growing in Japan 3 weeks ago:
Huh? I’m not even from the UK or a royalist 😂 what is up with your stupid assumptions? Go touch some grass fam
- Comment on Spread of sexual deepfake images created by generative AI growing in Japan 3 weeks ago:
“Never”? This is literally the only comment of mine you’ve ever seen 😂 bro, don’t tell me there’s not pleeenty of criticism of the Catholic church going around. By far the most scorned religious institution in the West.
Now what does this have to do with criticism of a pervasive issue in Japanese culture? Do we have to attach a list of every problematic institution every time criticism is given, or do you just have a weak ass mental? Bring an argument rather than ad hominem and we might actually have something relevant to talk about. Otherwise you’re just a tosser.
- Comment on Spread of sexual deepfake images created by generative AI growing in Japan 3 weeks ago:
Don’t let fear of being “racist” keep you from calling a spade a spade. Japan has a track record when it comes to issues such as these.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 3 weeks ago:
Element here all the way!
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 3 weeks ago:
You misunderstand. Elon is retired from US politics now, obviously, and will return to being a force of good!
- Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal 4 weeks ago:
What “ethical” car brand do you buy then?
- Comment on UK government withholding details of Palantir contract 4 weeks ago:
Paving the way for Reform next time… The Tories are evil and incompetent… Labour is evil and… well, a bit less incompetent but even more Big Brother… Reform is evil, and probably incompetent. “Probably” being the key word here
- Comment on Russia to enforce location tracking app on all foreigners in Moscow 4 weeks ago:
Russia had some kind of chance during the wild 90s, before Putin and his fellow chekists retook all control. In some ways the West should’ve had a different approach to Russia during this period of time and in the early 00s. Not that anyone or anything but Russian pride and megalomania, and Putin’s ambitions, are to blame for the current situation. At this point Russia has to be defeated and their overblown self-understanding changed.
Russia was kind of the drunk uncle before Putin’s intensification, filled with vodka drinking bear wrestlers, insane driving, and comrade jokes. This personified especially in Jeltsin’s behaviour
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 4 weeks ago:
My company is “fully Microsoft”… fuck me
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 4 weeks ago:
I installed Zorin a couple of months ago and I’ve had no issue playing any game that I’ve wanted or any game already in my Steam library. I was warned that “there might be problems using Linux” but it literally works better than when I had W11
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 5 weeks ago:
Oh don’t worry, using Duolingo would’ve never taught you a language anyway!
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 5 weeks ago:
An AI would definitely do a better job than this twerp. He should live by what he preaches and step down
- Comment on A Medicaid researcher attacked by Elon Musk's DOGE just killed herself 5 weeks ago:
Not a fan of capitalism… but it’s not the right ideology to blame in this case fam