Eldritch
@Eldritch@piefed.world
- Comment on What are you guys using to sort and name music? 18 hours ago:
Yes, 100% this. I use both of them regularly. A lot of new releases are on band camp and not even on discogs anymore. But combined with music brains Picard, they are awesome.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
Firearms are a double edged sword. Maybe they help, maybe they hurt. But when society turns against you, and no place is safe for you. All the guns in the world even in the face of an unarmed populace won't save you.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
Violence is the answer for authoritarians. But it never lasts. Because it's just a tool. The answer is respect, justice, and consent.
Without them you end up in inane cycles of violence like we have now.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
And even there. There's no guarantee. Going to Europe where fascists in Russia, Hungary, etc loom? Maybe you'll be safe a little longer somewhere on the Asian continent with the currently slower rolling fascist forces there. But it's only temporary. You can't ultimately escape.
The question is. Where well the breaking point be for most people. What event will cause the public to drag these fuckers from their homes and hold them responsible. Because that's what it's going to take. For them to remember that they rely on us. Not only for their wealth. But continued existence. Only when that fear has been driven into them, will things even start to get better.
And it might surprise us. It may just be a red state that does it. One of these Republican sycophants getting dragged from a town hall. Assaulted by a whole community for their rolls in making things worse for everyone. Police are going to have a hard time locking up a whole town. And these elected ghouls that love to ignore their constituents will reel in terror. To be clear, violence isn't the answer. Fear is. The fear of knowing we far outnumber them. That they could be subject to violent accountability at any moment. Dragged from their safe beds even.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes there's family or other things you just can't take with you. Support structures you might not have somewhere else. Friends and neighbors. Mutual aid.
There can be circumstances that override that. But honestly, the more that flee. The easier it is to get what the fascists want. And at best you're only helping yourself short term. Because no matter where you go. They will come for you if they can.
- Comment on House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 2 weeks ago:
Yep. The United States was one of the bigest inspirations for Nazi Germany. It goes back to the countries founding unfortunately.
- Comment on House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 2 weeks ago:
Yep back in the 1930s.
- Comment on Anyone have the new c64? 4 weeks ago:
That always depends. But, if you want an experience that supports all hardware and software. You can buy it cheaper than building yourself. And you're supporting Chris/Perry as well as the designers who I believe are all now official commodore.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 4 weeks ago:
Define people. Because obviously people don't here. The average person I talk to IRL on a daily basis don't know what it is, have never used it, and likely never will. And a system where the people currently pushing this wouldn't exist would certainly change things.
Your argument basically amounts to "nu uh".
- Comment on Lemmy be like 4 weeks ago:
Yes, I have seen posts on it. Sufficed to say, despite being an anarchist. I don't have an account there for reasons. And don't agree with everything they do.
The situation with those bans I might consider heavy handed and perhaps overreaching. But by the same token it's a bit of a reflection of some of those that are banned. Overzealous and lacking nuance etc.
The funny thing is. They pretty much dislike the tech bros as much as anyone here does. You generally won't ever find them defending their actions. They want AI etc that they can run from their home. Not snarfing up massive public resources, massively contributing to climate change, or stealing anyone's livelihood. Hell many of them want to run off the grid from wind and solar. But, as always happens with the left. We can agree with eachother 90%, but will never tolerate or understand because of the 10%.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 4 weeks ago:
The point is, most wouldn't. It's of little real use currently, especially the LLM bullshit. The communities would have infinitely better things to pit resources to.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 4 weeks ago:
And the point of anarchist or actual communist systems is that such scale would be miniscule. Not massive national or unanswerable state scales.
And yes, I'm an anarchist. I know DB0 and their instance and generally agree with their stance - because it would allow any one of us to effectively advocate against it if we desired to.
There would be no tech broligarchy forcing things on anyone. They'd likely all be hanged long ago. And no one would miss them as they provide nothing of real value anyway.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 4 weeks ago:
I see, so you don't understand. Or simply refuse to engage with what was asked.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 4 weeks ago:
While you aren't wrong about human nature. I'd say you're wrong about systems. How would the same thing happen under an anarchist system? Or under an actual communist (not Marxist-Leninist) system? Which account for human nature and focus to use it against itself.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 4 weeks ago:
Oh I have no issues with it being relevant in the same sense the Z80 68k or 6502 still being relevant. Just not part of a controlling duopoly.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 4 weeks ago:
Or, what if it just became irrelevant. It's had a great run. But honestly ARM has shown plenty of versatility and power. While being licensable unlike x86. And things like riscv have similar of not better potential.
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 5 weeks ago:
Contacts are about control. When fascists are in charge. Everything is politics
- Comment on Why isn't Mbin more popular? 1 month ago:
Yep, reliability and popularity. There's still plenty of space for it. But I think piefed has kind of come in and sucked up all the extra oxygen in the room for the moment.
- Comment on ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results 1 month ago:
That and conservatives abhor thinking. They need someone or something to defer to. And LLMs can give them all sorts of moderately intelligent bullshit they've come to expect . From their leaders and politicians. But better and faster. With possibly even less accuracy.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 1 month ago:
While I would love this personally. I think this is still a bit of a browser support issue Etc. But yes jpeg XL please. Smaller size for similar fidelity as JPEG. Even lossless with transparencies much better sizes than PNG. Though I know there is traction on the PNG side again and they are talking of implementing something other than lzma compression. That's still the future. Jpeg XL is here and now. Not As tied as webp is to a single company Period and not quite as esoteric as avif is.
- Comment on Uptick in inflammatory posts 1 month ago:
I've seen one Dunno about a large influx. But it didn't last long.
- Comment on Look Mum No Computer is a musical twin-stick shooter action-RPG that looks wild 1 month ago:
It's been bumping around his patreon for a while I hear. But he only put out a general video a few days ago
- Comment on The Fediverse is the Left Wing Circle Jerk 1 month ago:
They can't. Not without my consent. And minors can't not without their parents consent.
And if we're all going to rail against things because they can have side effects. Viagra can cause heart attack and death. Boner pills kill y'all. We should outlaw Viagra or similar medications they'll literally kill you. Puberty blockers and transitioning won't do that. In fact generally the opposite.
- Comment on The Fediverse is the Left Wing Circle Jerk 1 month ago:
I never said it was. There's 100% side effects for every medication around. They generally don't really impact most people however. And are often preferable to the condition they seek to solve.
And regardless I don't think anyone should take someone implying that something is the work of demons seriously. Or give any weight to anything you say over scientists and doctors who consult with their patients. Who all say otherwise
- Comment on The Fediverse is the Left Wing Circle Jerk 1 month ago:
Puberty blockers don't do any sort of transition. They literally just block puberty. Which runs its course when the puberty blockers stop. There is no transition. But this is the thing with your type. You get indoctrinated with an concept and then imagine all sorts of crazy things to explain it.
- Comment on This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service 1 month ago:
At the very least fathered the internet we know today.
- Comment on Lemmy has a problem 1 month ago:
Too true
- Comment on Is there a alternative platform to roblox for players and gamedevs? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Which of theses games should i play? 1 month ago:
Yep, luanti can do *Minecraft. And much much more. Luanti has the potential to become a platform more like roblox.
- Comment on Some people think that proprietary software for a 3d printer is a plus? 1 month ago:
You aren't disagreeing with anything I said. It's all very asterisk-y. And if my personal preference/position is unclear. I run non proprietary *nix systems at a 7:1 ratio to proprietary. Precisely because of the better support. Come October that ratio is going to be getting even more lopsided.
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