PhilipTheBucket
@PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah, maybe. I thought I made it pretty overt in the community rules, let’s see how it shakes out in practice.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
No no – me. Your judgement is flawed, obviously. Only mine is correct. /s
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Maybe it needs some kind of re-framing, so it’s clear that it is only for bad mod decisions. If it winds up as just people wanting to continue bickering when the mods are trying to stop them I will probably have to change something.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
No, no, see: It’s going to be all people who just want to make a valid point and the jerkface moderators wouldn’t let them (which definitely does happen.) That other thing, where they are just convinced they need to be able to be unhinged at other people and throw insults around and now I’m going to give them a perfect place to do it, that doesn’t sound like something Lemmy would do.
(You may have a point. IDK, I’ll try being liberal with the banhammer if that does happen that way.)
- Submitted 1 week ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on Palestine Action protest: police begin making arrests at London demo 2 weeks ago:
It is easy to be against atrocities in the aftermath, when there is no cost. Most of the time, the weight of “allowed” political opinion, and quite a lot of real public opinion, is at the very least tacitly accepting. If it was otherwise someone would have put a stop to them.
That’s one of the bright spots is that public opinion about Palestine is radically shifting, in a way that will make it hard for Israel to sustain any of this for too much longer I think. Of course that’s of no value to any Gazans who are already dead or about to die, waiting for “progress.”
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 2 weeks ago:
Matrix is an absolutely pale imitation of Discord.
Yes it is very upsetting that the most popular chat platform in the Western world is in league with Sauron, but Matrix as a replacement is a glorified ICQ client that regularly yells at you that your device is untrusted now and there’s no hope of fixing it, you loser.
- Comment on [deleted]@quokk.au - For content that was deleted somewhere else 2 weeks ago:
My point isn’t that this link obeys the rules. My point is that the rules are often weird and pointless in a lot of cases including this one. (And also super-strictly enforced against harmless content, except when the mods decide they don’t want them to be, at which point they suddenly are not even against harmful content sometimes.)
Case in point: Literal obvious disinformation on an important topic being posted to !news@lemmy.world. I reported it. Let’s see if they are as strict about their rules when it comes to that content as they are about this thing being banned permanently unless it gets picked up by some 0-editorial-control political click farm “news” site, at which point it suddenly becomes allowed.
(IDK why I am so salty all of a sudden about this today, but I am.)
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to newcommunities@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Michigan governor asks to 'lower the temperature' after church attack 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, good luck with that
- Comment on In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS 3 weeks ago:
Haha yep. The whole family was involved. I don’t even think it’s necessarily a bad thing, it’s definitely not comfortable but as long as you don’t have bad intent, it’s probably better that everyone has some kind of tabs on what’s going on, and you have to face up to justifying to them why and how you’re hanging out with their daughter.
- Comment on In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS 3 weeks ago:
There are motherfuckers out there now with NO idea what it was like potentially having to talk with a girl’s parents first, any time you wanted to call her
- Comment on Netanyahu addresses empty hall, after most delegations walked out in protest 3 weeks ago:
Who left: Almost everyone
Who stayed: Oh, I think you know
- Comment on Kremlin bans fuel exports until the end of the year as Russia’s supply is disrupted by Ukrainian drones 3 weeks ago:
s/bans/is unable to provide/ - Comment on Is there some sort of "underground" net for old computing? 3 weeks ago:
I was going to say SDF as well.
Want to log into a TOPS-20 system or a PDP-11? Well, you can. Poke around, make some C programs. I haven’t mucked around with anything all that much but they have a 100% real deal old school nerd society going there.
- Comment on EU wants to deport people to countries with which they have no connection 3 weeks ago:
People work by habits. “The king rules all,” “Whoever wins the election takes office,” free speech, court system, traditions and habits. A big part of how fascism can get traction is by redefining words, so that something horrifying they want to do slides its way into reality under protective coloration pretending it is something else that people already have decided is okay. “FISA warrant,” “prisoner of war.” “Enemy of the state.” “Hate speech.” This new thing that’s happening with the word “deportation,” where it basically is starting to mean “law enforcement snatching some random person and putting them in a turbo-prison outside the country with not even a pretense of due process,” is a shockingly extreme example.
Actual deportation was already horrifying enough, with the lack of having to do anything wrong most of the time and with the flimsiness of the due process involved, but usually the feds had to at least had to show up in court and make some kind of claim, and someone who was a citizen or otherwise had a strong factual counter-claim had a reasonable chance of proving it and fighting their deportation. Also, the punishment you were subjected to was “only” getting separated permanently from your home and a lot of times from your friends and family, and any further punishment was from some unrelated government as an unrelated process if any. This new thing isn’t that. It’s not deportation. It’s “deportation.” In a lot of cases it’s just prison, organized in some other country in coordination with the law enforcement that “deported” you, without a trial or judge being involved, and with no way to fight to get free or prove your case. There’s a massive fucking difference. I don’t know what Germany has in mind, but in the US at least, people in the news should not be calling this new thing “deportation.”
- Comment on Greta Thunberg Steps Down from Gaza Flotilla Steering Group 3 weeks ago:
Can somebody give this guy a hug or something
I know you’re not supposed to engage with the trolls but I feel like he might legitimately not be ok
- Comment on Greta Thunberg Steps Down from Gaza Flotilla Steering Group 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Greta Thunberg Steps Down from Gaza Flotilla Steering Group 3 weeks ago:
The fact that every one of these messages ends with “mentalhealth/i-need-help-now” is extra entertaining to me
My gentleperson, relax. You can always clarify what you meant about American Democrats, if you want, and we can talk. If you get unhinged every time someone on the internet says something that you take in an unkind way you’re going to spend a lot of time being unhinged.
- Comment on Greta Thunberg Steps Down from Gaza Flotilla Steering Group 3 weeks ago:
Edit : so mad i calles you for lying about what i said. Cry cry cry
It’s a bold rhetorical strategy Cotton lol, let’s see if it turns the readers around to their point of view
Honestly I couldn’t even really make sense of what you were trying to say, I don’t think I hallucinated anything aside from my own confusion. I do think there is a powerful analogy at work here though. “Gothenberg” as you are calling her (I think? him? what? anyway), when she saw that the organization that was “officially in charge” of forward progress wasn’t really upholding the values, just left them to whatever their bullshit was, and continued fighting directly for change (as part of that organization), because that’s what’s important. Some other people in contrast when they see that the DNC is a bunch of horse manure dressed up in expensive suits, start SCREAMING about how Democrats are the worst and forward progress has to start with attacking them at every turn.
First strategy makes sense to me. Second one not so much. Like I say, be like Greta.
- Comment on YSK the basic techniques for "deprogramming" people who you think are in a cult 3 weeks ago:
Coincidentally I saw this not long ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJU3AuF3AWs&t=6526s
There is quite a lot of backstory going back through all the extensive extensive video obviously, but basically this woman’s mom consulted with a lot of expert help and sorted out exactly how to strategically break her daughter out of the cult.
“She still believed in Jordan’s mythology, she still loved him and missed him, but she was realizing that the most stressful thing in her life was him, that she dreaded his letters and phone calls. Her month at home eventually passed and it was time for her to return to Virginia to be with Jordan. Don’t worry. It was all part of her mother’s plan, which Abby has since dubbed ’operation catch and release.’”
- Comment on Greta Thunberg Steps Down from Gaza Flotilla Steering Group 3 weeks ago:
I mean I wasn’t going to say it before at least understanding what they were even trying to say, but yes lol
- Comment on YSK the basic techniques for "deprogramming" people who you think are in a cult 3 weeks ago:
Ask thought-provoking questions while being warm and curious. Be prepared to listen deeply. You will know if you have listened well if you can repeat back to them what they said. Be humble and open to hearing what they say.
Keep conversations positive, productive, and civil. Never get angry. Stay resourceful. It is better to end the interaction than to say something counter-productive.
I feel like almost all of this post is also just general good advice in general.
- Comment on Greta Thunberg Steps Down from Gaza Flotilla Steering Group 3 weeks ago:
For someone who creates so much drama all over the world simply by her presence, she has a surprising lack of tolerance for exactly that type of drama.
Almost as if her goal is actual forward progress, instead of drama and wankery. Be like Greta.
American Democrats
No idea what the fuck this part is about
- Comment on Amazon, Google, Microsoft reportedly warn H-1B employees to stay in the US 4 weeks ago:
“Sure, you may all go to Turbo Gulag. But if you traveled or just peaced out, I’d have to pay 0.001% of my profits to keep you on, and I don’t want that.”
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 4 weeks ago:
But votes are information that normal users should definitely not be able to see at all.
Votes on Lemmy are public. lemvotes.org exists, and Friendica and mbin both expose votes, and then obviously it’s decently simple (though not super-trivial like those three methods) to set up your own instance and look over all the votes.
You might feel that there should be a special category of “lesser” (you say normal) user that is unable to see votes, even though another category of user is able to. We could talk about that philosophically, but regardless, normal users can see votes. Vote accordingly. The error lies with the Lemmy UI being designed in a way that doesn’t make it clear to people that their votes are not fully private.
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 4 weeks ago:
Do these guys even know how to do a rigged demo?
Also, in case you'd rather just see:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p7ffxkcsq2xwt3t2mbk52puc/post/3lz344mxmb22a
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 months ago:
Yeah. There would be a way to do it that I feel like might potentially be useful. The described method (doing clustering instead of just having a similarity threshold to group tabs together, vectorizing the entire tab title through a whole fucking network instead of just tokenizing it and calling two tabs similar if they have uncommon tokens that are within a certain similarity level) really sounds to me like people who have no real idea what they're doing, just being "ML experts" all over the codebase and fucking things up, and probably walking away very proud of themselves while helping themselves to bunches and bunches of the Mozilla Foundation's Google-money.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 months ago:
Like why should including a feature with “AI” in it get them VC money?
Spoken like someone who's never interacted with Silicon Valley VCs... just imagine someone with tons of a money, a moderately competent business background, and very little understanding of even the basics of technology that you and I take for granted. And then make them stupid and greedy.
"AI? Yes please! Here's some money, I've heard of Firefox so I know you're good for it." It's not really any more complicated than that, I don't think.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 2 months ago:
No matter how unjust it’s been, the only imaginable way out is to somehow let him “save face" what ever that means in this situation.
It is literally a cliche of geopolitics for the mighty empire to continue the senseless and horrific war against some small country that's effectively defending itself, year after year, because of this logic. But then in the end to reluctantly agree to the "unimaginable" way out (saving face with some kind of explanation that literally no one believes), because at the end of the day, the simple physics of the situation will allow nothing else.
I more or less agree with you about Putin's logic and mindset actually. My overall point is there is more than one country and leader in the world that can be stubborn. The defenders are often more stubborn, at the end of the day, it turns out (to the shock and confusion of the attackers who thought they had a monopoly.)
