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- Comment on There's always money in the banana stand 9 hours ago:
Liberals upvoting you and agreeing furiously because they voted for “most lethal military” Kamala cop city Harris will downvote this comment without reflecting on the irony.
- Comment on The "unhackable" Xbox One has been hacked — and Microsoft can’t patch it 15 hours ago:
Well yes, but Plex started as a port of XBMC to run on Mac os; you installed XBMC directly on the Xbox, it turned your Xbox into a streaming box.
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 23 hours ago:
Israel weaponized the Holocaust and drilled two falsehoods into everyone’s head:
- Jews were the only victims.
- The Holocaust is a special genocide that hasn’t happened before or since, is the worst crime in recorded history, and no one should dare question that.
This allows them to genocide Palestinians while calling everyone who questions their ethno supremacist expansionist colonial project a Nazi.
6 million Jews were murdered, out of 17 million victims.
Genocide of Indigenous Americans (1492–1832): it is estimated that 90% of the indigenous population, amounting to over 55 million people, died due to violence, forced labor, and disease after European colonization.
Mao Zedong (China, 1958–1961/1966–1969): Historians estimate that between 30-70 million people died due to famine, persecution, and forced labor during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
Mongol Conquests (13th Century): Under Genghis Khan, it is estimated that 30-60 million people were killed, representing about 10% of the world’s population at the time.
To name a few… Hitler was a monster, but he was hardly the worst monster.
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 1 week ago:
Palestinians say “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, which means free from occupation and free for all who live on it.
Zionists want you to believe that it’s an antiemetic slogan, their actually genocidal version is pushing for Jewish only occupation from the river to the sea.
- Comment on Iran laying 'sea mines' across Strait of Hormuz shipping lane 1 week ago:
If you keep your job and don’t lose the house before your income increases to match hyperinflation, yes.
Most people will find themselves unemployed or making monthly enough to buy a chocolate bar for a while.
Has your income been keeping up with inflation the past few years? You think it will keep up with hyperinflation?
Your mortgage is $1,000 a month and you earn $3,000 a month. When hyperinflation occurs, you owe $1,000 a month, food costs $4,000 a month, and you still earn $3,000 a month. Are you certain you won’t be in that position?
- Comment on Iran laying 'sea mines' across Strait of Hormuz shipping lane 1 week ago:
Iran has the upper hand right now, they’ve destroyed (confirmed) half to (reported) all US early warning radars in the middle east, they’re hammering Israel right now, their government is intact and has a potentially less moderate leader wanting to avenge his father’s death, they have enough missiles and cheap drones to bankrupt the US in a war of attrition but Iran is also landing a lot of missiles now including 1,000kg payloads and cluster missiles. Interceptions are fewer by the day, and the payloads are larger by the day.
Iran’s strategy is working, and it only works if they don’t give the US and Israel a chance to restock. So they’ve said it’s not up to the US to decide when this war is over, that they have no interest in negotiating with the US as they don’t trust them anymore, and they will do what they think they need to to ensure the US doesn’t do this again.
It’s gonna be a long one, a mission accomplished banner won’t do here, Trump and Bibi will have to admit defeat and beg them to stop.
Iran is huge, Israel is tiny. Can Israel afford to have Tel Aviv destroyed as they financially ruin themselves and destroy the world economy? They’re insane enough to think they can.
This was the biggest gamble for the dying US empire, and it backfired miserably. Though every analyst that didn’t just barf red white and blue progranda said exactly this will happen, so they deserve it.
- Comment on Iran laying 'sea mines' across Strait of Hormuz shipping lane 1 week ago:
Well, as your spending power decreases because of everything getting more expensive, your mortgage is there relatively more expensive than it used to be.
Even fixed costs are more expensive because your money is worth less and you need more of it.
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 1 week ago:
They’re not using dram sticks you can put into your computer. The best we can hope for is manufacturers shifting production back to consumer RAM.
But your income/spending power may very well be reduced to where you can’t order that RAM anyway as a result of the economy collapsing.
- Comment on ..? 2 weeks ago:
You overuse the word tankie. Being anti maga doesn’t make you a socialist, it makes you a liberal.
- Comment on ..? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen enough of your comment history, you go around spreading liberal talking points and pro empire/war progranda. You’re not a socialist, you may have some socialist ideals you’re developing, and I hope you read more, but your current arguments do more harm than good for the working class.
- Comment on ..? 2 weeks ago:
Lol you’re not a socialist, you’re a liberal.
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 2 weeks ago:
They pitch their product as ethical. Go ahead, ask it about Israel committing genocide in Gaza and see how much it’ll gaslight you.
Optics, that’s all they’re going for.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 3 weeks ago:
I’m stating my opinion on the matter…
I think you should engage with challenging ideas as the post says, I don’t think it’s an “ideal of intellectualism”, I just think it serves your own interests to be open to realize you’ve been mislead.
- Comment on LibreOffice Online, a self-hostable libre office environment, is coming back! 3 weeks ago:
Because you can use it on any device without having to install the whole app and sync the data separately… It’s super convenient, and cross-platform.
It’s still self hosted and you own the data.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 3 weeks ago:
You tell them to fuck off because you engaged with it and found it completely meritless/abhorrent, not because you’re above engaging with it. If they present new evidence for lizard people, you should skeptically examine the evidence and tell them to fuck off when it doesn’t hold up.
You don’t have to engage with them and waste your time debating them, but you absolutely should be open to challenge your own positions.
- Comment on Earbugld question: Does anyone actually like to silicone tipped earbuds over the solid plastic ones? 3 weeks ago:
Clearly deaf.
- Comment on Tesla Switches Full Self-Driving to Subscription Only 3 weeks ago:
I bought my model 3 with fsd in 2019, back when the only thing Elon talked about publicly was the push to increase ev adoption. Always hated the guy, but loved the car. Again this was before he came out as a full blown Nazi.
Not defending him, I think he’s a moron who hired really smart engineers to build a great car. I think his drug addiction and Nazism and stupid decisions have ruined the company, and fuck it I don’t even care about it anymore. Fuck Nazi Elon.
That out of the way, yes. Destination to destination, day or night, rain or shine, stop signs, lights, roundabouts, u turns, merges, overtaking, bridges, tunnels, pedestrians jaywalking, handles it all.
It’s not perfect, while it slows down in school zones, it doesn’t actually read the posted speed sign and goes faster than it should, it does weird decisions and jerky moves at very low speed in parking lots, of the address you entered is not a coordinate of the parking lot, it will pull over and disengage on the road in front of the building regardless of whether that’s allowed there. It does still make some mistakes occasionally, so I never trust it to actually not pay attention, but it drives me everywhere.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Costco slices their ribeyes thick. 3 at ~1 pound each is right around that prime price.
- Comment on Borrowing money against their stuff to get more stuff to borrow money... 4 weeks ago:
Looking at Vietnam… Seems to work great when the imperialists fall to crush you.
- Comment on HelixNotes - a local-first markdown note-taking app (Rust + Tauri, AGPL-3.0) 4 weeks ago:
Oh, forgot to ask, are mobile apps on the roadmap?
Obviously your chosen tech stack makes that difficult, but notes on the go are pretty essential.
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 4 weeks ago:
Now what to do about the lazy writer who used AI to write the article and didn’t bother fact check it and make sure the quotes are real?
Fixing the article, weekend or next week, doesn’t address the problem itself.
- Comment on HelixNotes - a local-first markdown note-taking app (Rust + Tauri, AGPL-3.0) 4 weeks ago:
Sounds good, I’m trying out the app and seeing if I can really use it to replace obsidian, and I might dedicate some time to contribute if I end up using it. I agree with your assessment that obsidian’s customization with its plugin eco system leads to it becoming a side project that you have to baby instead of just a note taking app.
I don’t use a lot of plugins on obsidian, but I use rely on a few that make organizing notes easier, mainly:
- Daily notes: I really like being able to click one button to create a note with a date and organized into date folders, these are usually quick notes that reference bigger notes. Not being able to do it with a click means I just won’t do it at all, so my quick notes could very quickly become a giant list of unorganized files in the vault root.
- Templates: not a huge deal, I can manually apply templates from a template .md file, but it’s a nice feature.
On sync, two problems with using “whatever” to sync entire vault:
- I have to install and configure syncing on every device, and make sure they’re connected
- Merge conflict and sync order! I used to use seafile I sync, and I can’t tell you how frustrating it was to lose entire notes because they were overwritten externally.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 4 weeks ago:
Exactly, copyright and priority technology means everyone that wants to innovate must first reinvent the wheel and waste enormous energy doing work that’s already been done.
Look at Google photos, since they killed Picasa and exclusively offered it as a proprietary SAAS, they completely stopped innovating for over a decade. Look at immich in comparison, it’s already a better offering and it has only been released as stable for less than a year.
- Comment on HelixNotes - a local-first markdown note-taking app (Rust + Tauri, AGPL-3.0) 4 weeks ago:
Your website says “No sync. No lock-in. No bullshit”
Would you mind elaborating on the thought there? Why no sync?
I use obsidian with self hosted live sync, my notes are mine and they live on my hardware, but they are always in sync between my devices. If I’m on my desktop and take notes, I can pull them up on my laptop or even my phone. With this, I can’t reference my notes (or update them) until I’m back on my desktop.
The line “No sync. No lock-in. No bullshit” tells me you’re opposed to it on principal, meaning you don’t intend to ever add the ability to sync, and that’s a nonstarter for me and a lot of people I image. I’d love to migrate from obsidian to something open source, and I’d love to potentially spend time working on contributing a self hosted live sync like feature, but I need to know if my work and pull request will be immediately rejected on a principal I’m not sure I understand?
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 4 weeks ago:
Open source will innovate so much faster if properly funded, without the shackles of copyright and companies holding advancements secret and not releasing innovations on purpose as long as they hold on edge on “competition”. Competition is only important because of proprietary capitalism, remove capitalism and directly reward the workers and innovation happens for innovation’s sake.
Can’t wait for this to be proven in practice, and to be able to apply that more widely to society. Godspeed Europe
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 month ago:
Eh, I’m sick and I’m bed. Really hoped I’d get you thinking and reflecting instead of shutting down, capitalism is ruining our kids’ futures and destroying our planet, it’s a very important thing.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The worst dependency hell is when a library has a strict version dependency, and another library uses that same dependency. When the second library updates their minimum version of the dependency to one that is higher than the exact version needed for the first, THAT’S dependency hell.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 month ago:
What part of what I said did you find humorous?
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 month ago:
It’s hard to grasp this when your mentality is coming from a lifetime of capitalist propaganda, but yes, you’re stealing from someone.
Imagine a perfect world, where spacious modem homes are constructed in a responsible manner, and where anyone can live anywhere that’s available. No rent, no mortgage, no housing payments at all; housing as a right, funded by the public, and you live in a unit that suits your family in an area close to your workplace.
Now, we don’t live in this perfect world, but to complete the vision just to rule out common talking points: In this perfect world, the housing units are modern and spacious, since they aren’t produced by corporations for profit, there is no pressure to cut corners and no incentive to deliberately keep housing scarce. Construction is planned around need instead of return on investment: durable materials, good insulation, safe wiring, accessible design, decent sunlight, green space, and maintenance that’s done because people live there, not because a spreadsheet says it’s “worth it.” Neighborhoods aren’t carved up by speculation, and empty units aren’t treated like “assets” to hoard; if something sits vacant, it’s because it’s being repaired or repurposed, not because someone is waiting for the market to rise.
And here’s the part that matters for your question: in that world, you moving to a bigger home doesn’t create a private opportunity to extract money from someone else. It just means a smaller unit becomes available to someone who needs it, at no cost, because shelter isn’t a commodity.
But in this world, housing is artificially turned into a revenue stream. When you move up and keep the smaller place as a rental, you’re not “providing housing” the way a builder or a maintenance crew provides housing, you’re controlling access to something people must have to survive and charging them for permission to exist there.
The “fair price” argument only works if the market itself is fair. It isn’t. It’s shaped by scarcity, wage stagnation, barriers to ownership, and the simple fact that people can’t “opt out” of needing a home.
So yes: the theft isn’t that you’re charging above some moral ceiling, like you’d be fine if you just found the perfect number. The theft is the extraction itself, taking a cut from someone’s paycheck not because you produced their home, but because you happen to hold the deed while they have no real alternative. They pay, not out of freely chosen exchange, but because the alternative is displacement, overcrowding, or homelessness. That’s coercion dressed up as consent.
If you want a concrete way to think about it: imagine any other necessity, e.g., water, insulin, oxygen. If you had extra and someone needed it, charging them monthly for access because “that’s what the going rate is” would still feel like exploitation, even if you charged less than your neighbor. Housing is just as necessary; we’ve just been trained to treat the tollbooth as normal.
And to be clear, I’m not saying you’re uniquely evil, or that you invented the system. I’m saying the system makes it easy to feel innocent while benefiting from harm. The moral question isn’t “am I kinder than other landlords?” It’s “am I participating in a structure that turns someone’s need into my income?” If the answer is yes, then whatever the price, you’re taking something that should never have been up for sale in the first place.
The solution doesn’t come from small guys like you giving up their rental properties, because we know the corporations won’t give up theirs. The solution would be a move to that more perfect world, which forces both corporations and small landlords like yourself to give it all up at once.
I don’t blame you for trying to find a way out of the wave slavery situation we all face, but you’re trying to get out of it by becoming part of the problem. The problem is capitalism.
- Comment on 32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital 1 month ago:
China is not communist in any form anymore, they’re authoritarian late stage techno-capitalism with remnants of communist social structures. And before someone says “but they execute billionaires”, they only execute billionaires that get in the way of other billionaires’ profits, they never execute billionaires for being billionaires or for making those billions by exploiting the workers.