myrmidex
@myrmidex@belgae.social
- Comment on Another suggestion post 1 week ago:
Seconded, came here to suggest exactly this. Do prefer syncthing over their built-in cloud sync, as the former is much more dependable.
- Comment on the world 1 week ago:
Luz, that coat cost more than your house! Oh, that’s how we joke. She doesn’t even have a house.
I love Lucille :D
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 week ago:
Imagine a non-FOSS time machine
We’ve successfully transferred your right foot to 2005! Please subscribe to our Premium plan for a full-body transfer.
- Comment on the world 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t Arrested Development fit in here too?
- Comment on Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman 2 weeks ago:
Fair point, no argument here! Can’t wait for it all to implode, I’ve got a shopping list ready for when it does :)
- Comment on Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman 2 weeks ago:
You are just stuck choosing between different flavors of shit
Or self-hosting your shit. Or at least find a friend who does…
- Comment on YSK: Wage theft is the biggest crime by annual losses 2 weeks ago:
I thought this was about surplus value, not even mentioned.
- Comment on Belgium boards and seizes suspected Russian shadow fleet tanker 2 weeks ago:
As per Belgian law, the ship cannot be impounded. The minister of defense also seemed to imply the ship had no goods on board.
- Comment on Inside Anthropic’s Killer-Robot Dispute With the Pentagon | New details on precisely where the lines were drawn 2 weeks ago:
On Friday afternoon, Anthropic learned that the Pentagon still wanted to use the company’s AI to analyze bulk data collected from Americans. That could include information such as the questions you ask your favorite chatbot, your Google search history, your GPS-tracked movements, and your credit-card transactions, all of which could be cross-referenced with other details about your life.
So that’s what OpenAI will now do for them…
- Comment on Tempus v4.12.0 android subsonic client release 2 weeks ago:
arghhh alright I’ll be switching over this weekend. Thanks!
- Comment on Tempus v4.12.0 android subsonic client release 2 weeks ago:
Why the Tempo fork? I use Tempo currently, haven’t heard any bad things about it.
- Comment on Warning: Facebook Ads for Free Windows 11 Upgrade Will Infect PCs With Malware 2 weeks ago:
Perfect. Right in the center of the idiots’ Venn diagram.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 2 weeks ago:
Maybe we’re mature enough to have standalone computers…
Once we find a way to make them without child labour, sure.
- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 2 weeks ago:
Time for some V For Vendetta me thinks.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (27 February 2026) 2 weeks ago:
Hetzner announced a 37% price increase for new and existing VPS customers beginning April 1
Must have missed that news, that’ll hurt some people in this community.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (27 February 2026) 2 weeks ago:
Ahhh this newsletter always reminds me it’s Friday again, filling me with glee
- Comment on Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy 2 weeks ago:
To reinforce the plausible deniability of politicians of course. It’s all about manufacturing consent.
- Comment on US tells diplomats to lobby against foreign data sovereignty laws 2 weeks ago:
Europe is. More lobbyists than MEPs + staff in Brussels.
- Comment on New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border security agreement between the countries 3 weeks ago:
Totally agree. Everyone is corruptible.
Chomsky being in the Epstein files is the perfect example.
- Comment on New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border security agreement between the countries 3 weeks ago:
Elites will always be troublesome, but of no importance when they cannot corrupt anyone to do their bidding. That’s why I focus on rulers.
The problem is that people still seem to think that the next politician will change this, which is exactly what the elites want.
- Comment on New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border security agreement between the countries 3 weeks ago:
Still comes down to the rulers imo, as they enable such behavior from the rich. The longer this goes on, the more blatant it becomes. And they’ve been at it for a looong time.
- Comment on New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border security agreement between the countries 3 weeks ago:
So before capitalism you don’t know of any rulers being unjust?
It’s not a feature of capitalism to corrupt, it’s a feature of power structures to be corruptible.
- Comment on LemmyNSFW and Saidit are dead. Which Platform is next? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, it absolutely is, but I don’t think it was ever purposefully designed that way. More like it grew out of the single root account on a server. But I could be wrong.
- Comment on LemmyNSFW and Saidit are dead. Which Platform is next? 3 weeks ago:
Also the ideology of a nsfw community is a straight-forward issue.
What does this mean? I’m talking about how an instance should or can be governed. Poster before me indicated an instance should be managed by a community, which drags politics - thus ideology - into the conversation. It’s hard to create community governance on a platform with a single root admin. This is also the case on git repo’s in terms of governance. And when that is the case, moving away seems the only option - unless the developers feel adventurous enough to implement a whole community-as-root-account feature, where they will then run into the questions I’ve mentioned.
- Comment on LemmyNSFW and Saidit are dead. Which Platform is next? 3 weeks ago:
Then it gets ideological rapidly. How to come to an agreement: majority vs consensus? Once a conclusion is reached, can all press the button or just one delegate? It brings so many questions.
I think it’s much more elegant to just abandon one server in favor of the other.
- Comment on 'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error' 3 weeks ago:
Give it time. All these big tech companies will have AI central to their operations in no time. I reckon the many problems over at MicroSlop lately are a result of this.
- Comment on European Parliament blocks AI on lawmakers’ devices, citing security risks 3 weeks ago:
See EP, not so much fun when your devices are spied upon.
- Comment on Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026 3 weeks ago:
Good. Reminds me why I switched to Pangolin.
- Comment on YNABAlternatives 3 weeks ago:
Will do, thanks!
- Comment on YNABAlternatives 3 weeks ago:
Subscribed! I’m looking for a more bucket-focused approach but haven’t come across a decent app for it yet. Thinking of building my own if this search fizzles out.