arcterus
@arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone
- Comment on PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners 1 hour ago:
This whole situation has been bizarre and really poorly communicated.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 5 days ago:
Wtf does this have to do with kid rock
- Comment on Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping 6 days ago:
Uh, it’s a tertiary source. It’s still a source, just not one you should be directly citing. They’re great for finding other sources though.
- Comment on Become unrecognizable 6 days ago:
911 please send help
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 1 week ago:
I think fundamentally a lot of people do not understand that just because China and Russia (or a number of other countries) are in opposition to the US doesn’t inherently make them “good.” They’re pretty much all shitty too, just in different ways than the US, yet actual problems get brushed off as “the loss of making Winnie the Poo jokes,” as if not being able to make jokes on Weibo is the problem.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 1 week ago:
I will never understand the hypocritical surveillance state apologism when it comes to China or Russia on this site.
If China’s surveillance state was purely for the benefit of their citizens, they wouldn’t need such an extensive censorship apparatus that frequently censors minorities and minority beliefs (e.g. LGBT topics) as well as content that reflects particularly poorly on the government.
- Comment on Gunman pleads guilty to Japan ex-PM's murder 2 weeks ago:
Apparently his actual desired target was the president of the Unification Church and her entire family, but he found it too hard to kill them (I admittedly find it funny that the Church president was apparently better protected than the former prime minister).
I frankly think it was more effective due to luck from what I’ve read. There’d have been less of an impact IMO if the LDP wasn’t so deeply in bed with the Unification Church. Still probably would’ve been investigations, but the LDP wouldn’t have felt so pressured to punish them.
- Comment on Gunman pleads guilty to Japan ex-PM's murder 2 weeks ago:
Sort of. Basically he felt like his life was ruined, so he decided to take revenge. By shooting Abe, he forced investigation into the Unification Church, which is what he wanted. However, unlike Luigi (who I’m assuming you’re talking about lol), Abe wasn’t the direct cause of the issue that affected him, the Church and its leadership was, so this is more like shooting a Scientologist or something who is in office because the Church of Scientology ruined your life.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Actually yes, given that Yarvin is a psychotic techno-feudalist and Wolf (the billionaire) seems to be a big Trump and Musk fan. IMO anyone who supports the current US govt is either a PoS or a fool.
FUTO also tried to redefine the established meaning of “open source” until they finally changed the term to “source first” since they didn’t want to call it “source available.” Perhaps this was in good faith, perhaps this was them trying to trick people into thinking their products are something they are not. There’s also recent claims that their claimed donations to open source projects have not been done in the official way and have basically been tiny one-offs to (potentially) singular developers. Everything around Wolf is just sketchy.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 2 weeks ago:
I feel like this about SimpleX. It was a hellish struggle to get people to use Signal (and still a bunch only use Instagram or insist on doing plain phone calls/SMS). Some of my family continuously complain that Signal is too complicated despite the interface being pretty much exactly the same as whatever app they want to use. I really don’t want to try to get them to use another app ever again.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Don’t watch his content, but my main concern would be that he worked for FUTO (literally moving to Austin to work for them), which is funded by a right-wing billionaire with connections to Curtis Yarvin, and that he’s somewhat active on Kiwi Farms.
I also admittedly find it a bit sus when tech people move to Texas given all the people that go there because of their political views.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 2 weeks ago:
The main issue with Session is they removed PFS when they redesigned everything. Also, it’s admittedly been years since I tried it, but I remember the app being noticeably buggy.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 2 weeks ago:
Also the SPARTAN program was pretty fucked, so this just looks bad in every way IMO.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s frankly mostly “Christians” who get yapped at by some rich “pastor” on TV or in one of those megachurches, and/or just use the religion as a way to justify their existing bigoted beliefs. Evangelicals are basically a plague at this point.
- Comment on Apple quietly released this year's BEST laptop 3 weeks ago:
I do think the lower-end chips actually have great battery life, but once you start going for the higher performance ones you unsurprisingly sacrifice battery for power.
- Comment on Apple quietly released this year's BEST laptop 3 weeks ago:
They have better battery life than most laptops, but it also strongly depends on what configuration you use and what you’re doing. For instance, my M1 Max laptop has never hit its stated battery life and frankly is pretty close to my AMD laptop (when its battery wasn’t half dead). The AMD laptop is admittedly heavier though.
AFAIK they’re about the same as the M4 in terms of battery life. If you look at their marketing, their battery life improvements are based on their Intel and M1 laptops (whose owners they seem to be targeting for upgrades).
- Comment on Apple quietly released this year's BEST laptop 3 weeks ago:
From what I’ve heard, there are AMD laptop chips with better multicore performance, although worse single-core. Other than the spec bump, this is pretty much the same as the M4 laptops.
Basically if you like macOS (and only macOS since Linux will probably take half a decade to show up given the current rate of Asahi Linux support with newer chips) and specifically need more perf for whatever reason (especially for AI), it’s a nice upgrade.
- Comment on Bandcamp's alternative Mirlo to recieve a grant from NLNet to implement federation 3 weeks ago:
Hopefully this develops to be a real alternative in the future. Unfortunately, it seems to not really have much of the kind of music I tend to listen to atm.
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 3 weeks ago:
I would read this if I weren’t arbitrarily blocked for not installing Firefox on Android, but whatever. Wonder what happens if you use iOS lol…
Hard to imagine what I assume is a blog has any actual requirements preventing non-Gecko browsers unless it’s designed incredibly poorly.
- Comment on China and Russia repeatedly tried to defund UN human rights work, report says 3 weeks ago:
Pretty much completely unsurprising given how their govts have acted for the last decade.
- Comment on One Punch Man S3 Director Shinpei Nagai deletes his twitter account due to the pressure, calls out people who took his tweets out of context/exploited the staff's struggles for "rage-baiting" 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t watched it either, but there are some truly terrible clips. In one, it’s literally a PNG of Garou sliding down a hill lol…
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 3 weeks ago:
I like how this fuckwad claimed the layoffs were weighing him down or whatever a few months ago. Apparently he was being weighed down by the boost to his pay.
Achieved double digit revenue growth (15% year-over-year), affirming our success at developing products and services our customers value.
I’m sorry, why do you need to lay off so many workers with this sort of revenue growth? Tech companies have really been masks off with how little they care for their employees recently.
- Comment on Immich 2.1 Released with Better Slideshow Shuffle, New Notifications 4 weeks ago:
Your kubernetes seems a bit unstable.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I vaguely remember something about some torchlit march (in Bavaria?) and people accusing suckless devs of being Nazis. Also their entire concept is just kind of elitist.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I think the development speed issue is less the languages it’s using and more that the devs spend way too long hashing things out and trying to get everything perfect rather than settling for “good enough” due to Mastodon effectively being the reference design for fediverse stuff. Misskey for instance has way more features than Mastodon.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I think one of the biggest problems is that upvotes or whatever they’re called don’t federate. Every time I’ve played around with using a smaller instance, it felt incredibly empty because posts would have almost no upvotes. Even instances of like middling sizes can feel empty depending on who you follow.
- Comment on Oracle, Silver Lake consortium to control 80% stake in TikTok in US, WSJ reports 1 month ago:
It'll be fun to see how long it takes them to completely destroy the app.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 2 months ago:
It's more than just mental healthcare. American society is just broken in so many ways.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 2 months ago:
I mean Japan's political situation is kind of weird. The LDP has basically been in power forever (with super brief interruptions). It lost power recently though so we'll see what happens I guess. IIUC tho anti-immigrant sentiment is rising (at least partly fueled by the massive waves of shitty tourists IMO), which prob isn't a great sign based on what's been happening in other countries.
- Comment on Social media platforms including X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp have been restricted in Turkey 2 months ago:
Block the main instances/ones publicly recorded somewhere. That would basically cripple it for most people.