arcterus
@arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone
- Comment on 13 hours 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 week 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 week 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 2 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 4 weeks ago:
It's more than just mental healthcare. American society is just broken in so many ways.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Block the main instances/ones publicly recorded somewhere. That would basically cripple it for most people.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 4 weeks ago:
Relevant username
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 5 weeks 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 1 month ago:
Mm, sounds about what I'd expect of you.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Once again I am reminded why I always use an adblocker.
- Comment on Major password managers can leak logins in clickjacking attacks 1 month ago:
There is an extension, but it's significantly simpler than the other providers.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 month 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 1 month 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.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 month ago:
She swam for the men's team 2019-2020 while undergoing hormone therapy. Then there was a year break because of COVID. Then she swam for the women's team 2021-2022. That's a two year break.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 month ago:
It should also be noted that a college athlete's times and rankings would presumably improve every year. Freshmen competing against seniors are just less likely to win (in most sports at least). IIRC I saw an analysis of her rankings that indicated the improvement was within normal bounds for year-over-year improvement.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 1 month ago:
I personally don't think that's really feasible unless they provide smartphones for every citizen themselves, and even then people like my grandparents would basically not be able to live given that they only barely know how to message me (and even that they do wrong sometimes, so...). They can certainly make it difficult without a smartphone, but they likely can't completely eliminate physical IDs until those issues are gone.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 1 month ago:
While it'd be difficult, you can usually make do with a browser or visiting in-person (e.g. with a bank, they need to know who you are anyway, so visiting in-person is mostly just an inconvenience). Physical ID is likely still going to be a thing for the forseeable future since at minimum there are bunch of old people who basically don't know how to use smartphones (or at least use them well).
Messaging is more problematic. You could probably use a combination of something that functions on your computer and a dumb phone for urgent things (although since messages/calls wouldn't be E2EE, you'd have to assume the govt knows the contents of the convo).
IMO it's entirely feasible just quite inconvenient.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 1 month ago:
If govts actually start making stuff like grapheneos illegal, maybe I'll just stop using smartphones. If they're gonna be that blatant about wanting to be a surveillance state, then I see little reason to help them.
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 1 month ago:
I think if they kept the features but made it close everything by default it'd be pretty good (asking if you want to save before closing). I basically don't see a real reason to keep stuff open with apps like this, honestly.
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 1 month ago:
I can't wait for the AI future.
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 1 month ago:
I'm ngl this looks somewhat useful minus the copilot crap. Having lists and headers and so on are useful for actually taking notes.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 1 month ago:
My dude, the chips aren't manufactured in the US. If the tariffs don't apply to the chips that are inherently imported from outside the US since basically only TSMC and Samsung make them at this point, then there is no tariff at all. Companies in the US import the chips, then use the imported chips as part of their products. All the companies in the US do is assemble the imported parts (and sometimes not even that).
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 1 month ago:
I'm convinced you're a bot. That is not in fact how tariffs work since the chips are not made in the US.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 1 month ago:
Looking into it, the US implementation goes down into the components, so yes. Except, I believe it'd be $50 chip @ 100%, other components at whatever tariff rates they may have, and then the 15% per-country/region tariff applies to all of it on top. So if the other components have no tariffs, it'd be $172.50. I'm now wondering how expensive everything would end up if you have tariffs on materials as well.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 1 month ago:
Pretty sure that's their point. Say a product costs $100 dollars with no tariffs. If you import the product from the EU with a 15% tariff, it's now $115 with tariffs (assuming no tariffs importing the chips into the EU). If you manufacture the product in the US, you need to pay 100% tariffs for all the chips. Obviously thr impact depends on how much the chips cost relative to the entire product, but if the chips are half the cost ($50), then with a 100% tariff you're now paying $150 for the product manufactured in the US.
- Comment on GameVault - The Identity Update 2 months ago:
I've never used them, but if you want streaming, you can use Moonlight/Sunshine. It'd be very cool if a project integrated everything together, so you could choose whether to download the games or stream them from the server.