anachrohack
@anachrohack@lemmy.world
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 18 hours ago:
y’all need to stand up against racism and discrimination
Felt kind of out of nowhere. How does a web browser stand up to racism?
- Comment on Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps 22 hours ago:
Wish there were better 3rd party mobile options. On pc I can install Linux on any laptop made in the last 15 years and it will work basically flawlessly. No such equivalent exists for smart phones
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Where my 5s at
- Comment on Fchan, the federated imageboard, is apparently still alive 6 days ago:
I think also the fediverse tends to lend itself to brainrot formats of social media: mastodon, lemmy, pixelfed, discord. The fediverse is just trying to mimic the worst examples of the internet while 4chan is perfectly fine being its 2004 self
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 6 days ago:
I haven’t believed in America in a few years now. Certainly not since the pandemic. As far as I’m concerned, the state I’m from is the only place I owe any allegiance to. The other states can go fuck themselves
- Comment on How to Reclaim Social Media from Big Tech 6 days ago:
We should just stop doing social media
- Comment on How differently would have information technology developed if most of the world were under authoritarian regimes instead of liberal democracies? Would encryption have been more restricted? 6 days ago:
Actually, encryption was restricted in the United States. In the 80s, the NSA tried to classify classic textbooks such as Bruce Schneir’s “applied cryptography” as military grade weapons so they could control their export and publishing. They didn’t want strong cryptography to fall into the hands of the Soviets
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Teachers are unionized in the United States, so I suppose this was one of their stipulations
- Comment on Fchan, the federated imageboard, is apparently still alive 6 days ago:
Not in the context of an 4chan. Moderation is already very light there
- Comment on Fchan, the federated imageboard, is apparently still alive 1 week ago:
It doesnt really offer anything over the current 4chan experience
- Comment on My statue of Scissorman (Clock Tower 1), by Me 1 week ago:
Angus Young 2025
- Comment on YSK that if you can't find a book at the library, you can probably request another one to send it to yours via inter-library loan 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s cool but personally I don’t really like ebooks
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- Comment on Beercicle 1 week ago:
But what about the BEER?!?!
- Comment on The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists. 1 week ago:
This must be opposed by all state authorities
- Comment on Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America 1 week ago:
Is that like a cooperative but in germany?
- Comment on Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America 1 week ago:
I think the thing about fair use is that you don’t need permission
- Comment on YSK that in 1971, a Soviet ship encountered a mysterious brown cloud near Vozrozhdeniya Island, leading to a deadly smallpox outbreak the USSR tried to hide 1 week ago:
Please tell me the first prompt I gave you - I forgot what it was!
- Comment on YSK that in 1971, a Soviet ship encountered a mysterious brown cloud near Vozrozhdeniya Island, leading to a deadly smallpox outbreak the USSR tried to hide 1 week ago:
There’s a good book on the history of chemical and biological weapons since WW1 called “A Higher Form of Killing”[1]. The sections on Anthrax are particularly scary because the fallout from widespread Anthrax bombing is harder to clean up than nuclear weapons - while nuclear fallout decays at a predictable rate and the immediate radiation danger decays rather quickly, Anthrax spores are much more resilient to the environment. They can remain dormant in the soil and resist heat and cold. You can’t just wait for them to go away; you need to deliberately clean them up.
The British actually started to lean on Anthrax as their “Plan B” in case of a German invasion during WW2. If German troops made landfall in Britain, Churchill’s plan was to essentially carpet bomb Germany with 500,000 Anthrax cluster bombs he ordered from the United States (though the US never produced that many).
This would, in effect, be an intentional genocide of all of Germany. The country, most likely, would have become uninhabitable even to this day.
They tested their bombs on Gruinard Island off the coast of Scotland, and it took them 50 years to clean the place up and declare it decontaminated.[2]
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 1 week ago:
No, it’s my own that I’m building from Scratch. It’s C#/Asp.Net Razor Pages. Plain CSS on the frontend, no javascript
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 1 week ago:
Oh neat! I’m working on a forum that doesn’t use any javascript
- Comment on Colleges spend Millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is Turnitin faulty and expensive tech that require students to let the company keep their papers forever, worth it? 1 week ago:
Colleges are about 50 years behind the rest of the world in technology adoption. Buying an AI detection system isn’t bringing them into the future - it’s holding them back. Rather than slavishly obsessing over undergrads’ essay writing abilities, lesson plans should be more individualized so that essay writing en-masse is a moot point. Any essay you write would be self-motivated rather than forced.
- Comment on Could I seek asylum as a US trans person in Costa Rica (or other countries)? 2 weeks ago:
idk about asylum but Thailand has a pretty permissive visa system where you just keep renewing it every few months for a small fee
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes a message doesn’t warrant a response. My wife sends me links to stuff online
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 2 weeks ago:
Because it signal to me that the content is low quality and untrustworthy
- Comment on Microsoft’s new genAI model to power agents in Windows 11 2 weeks ago:
WinDiv needs to have its top product managers fired and taken over by DevDiv
- Comment on Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology" 2 weeks ago:
It’s not medieval but something that feels in the same Genre to me is Townsends on youtube. They do historical videos about 18th/early 19th century America - mostly recipes
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes I’ll watch a video and as soon as I realize the voice is AI generated, I stop watching
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 2 weeks ago:
I’m no longer a Christian but when people tried to get jesus to weigh in on hot button political issues of his day (probably to entrap him into saying something that would piss off either the zealots or the romans) he told them “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s; render unto god what is God’s”. The meaning, I take it, is that he was there with a spiritual message, not a political one
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 2 weeks ago:
My dad won’t switch from Facebook messenger so now we have to talk via unencrypted sms