arcterus

@arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Louis Rossmann runs for office. Why is he not Teddy 2.0?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Also the SPARTAN program was pretty fucked, so this just looks bad in every way IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your kubernetes seems a bit unstable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It'll be fun to see how long it takes them to completely destroy the app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bash Americans again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It's more than just mental healthcare. American society is just broken in so many ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bash Americans again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Block the main instances/ones publicly recorded somewhere. That would basically cripple it for most people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific unprogress...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Relevant username

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn't have to be the newest device if I understand the chart right. It does need to be relatively up-to-date (IMO it's kind of silly to use GrapheneOS but not update it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A real question about trans athletes and records⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mm, sounds about what I'd expect of you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A real question about trans athletes and records⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just doing my part to provide as little empathy to you as you provide to others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A real question about trans athletes and records⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Compared to other competitive swimmers, yes, he was. 500th ranked in just the USA college system means you're never getting anywhere close to being a professional swimmer competing at world championships or the olympics. Never. Not even close.

  You really love ignoring everything other than the 500 free.

  Since you brought up the Olympics, I wonder how many of her competitors (other than obviously Douglass) actually made it.

  Incorrect.

  Unless you're talking about pretty much worthless pool records, I am indeed correct. Since you love calling me incorrect, how about you actually provide some numbers other than an unsubstantiated ranking from a letter written by someone supposedly om behalf of anomymous teammates. She did not set NCAA records, USA records, etc., unlike someone else she competed against.

  Grow up.

  Right back at you, ma'am.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A real question about trans athletes and records⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where?

  I literally wrote in the parenthetical which term you used. Are you blind?

  Went from a "bad" mens swimmer to the best womens swimmer while swimming basically the same times as pre-transition. There's nothing to say that even if Lia didn't "transition" that he would have improved his times.

  I think I'm done. You're just repeating conservative talking points without actually thinking about what you're writing. Lia Thomas was never a bad swimmer. As mentioned, the improvement in her rankings was within normal bounds for three years. You've also curiously avoided noticing how the other rankings were below 1st despite her starting at a higher ranking in men's competitions. Likewise, none of her times have ever blown away the competition. She didn't set records. The 1st place finish isn't even in the top 50 all-time for NCAA.

  I feel like I'm talking with my relatives who voted for Trump. Given that you don't even have the decency to use the correct pronouns, kindly go fuck yourself conservacuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major password managers can leak logins in clickjacking attacks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once again I am reminded why I always use an adblocker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major password managers can leak logins in clickjacking attacks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is an extension, but it's significantly simpler than the other providers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A real question about trans athletes and records⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It's obvious you don't actually have a researched opinion since you just used the wrong term for a trans woman (they said trans men, in case they edit it).

  You seem to, once again, be ignoring that on top of the decrease from transitioning, they are still a human being, and thus age and practice like any other human being. From sophomore year to their redshirt senior year, they grew, trained, etc. like any athlete. Expecting them to just drop 15% or whatever from their sophomore time and never improve from that is completely idiotic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A real question about trans athletes and records⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The numbers you are using I've only seen from that letter made by people complaining about her, frequently posted everywhere by conservative sources. Also, it's fucking obvious she'd have slower times. That is the entire purpose of requiring trans atheletes to be on hormones for a couple years.