Eldritch
@Eldritch@piefed.world
- Comment on Orion Browser 3 hours ago:
Really, that’s actually interesting.
- Comment on Orion Browser 13 hours ago:
Aaaah so even less reason to use it sadly.
- Comment on Orion Browser 14 hours ago:
On Linux there is Falkon. Windows too. (QT WebKit) And the reason I won’t use this will likely be the same as Falkon. Missing plugins etc. Other than that they are fine. Bitwarden has a desktop app. (Electron? Dunno but it would be ironic) But no auto fill ability. Darkreader? Nope. There may be some limited adblocking, but no greasemonkey type functionality.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Piefed has two user rating systems. Your attitude, which is public, and allows people to see what your ratio of up votes to down votes is. The other being reputation, which is generally reserved for administration and moderation iirc. Which is an accumulation of how other people upvote and downvote you. Basically the sort of thing anyone could get just by looking at the public information just condensed all in one spot.
Anyone calling it social credit score is being disingenuous. The most controversial feature it has is its content filtering system, which is disabled by default.
- Comment on [Episode] TRIGUN STARGAZE - Episode 4 discussion 2 days ago:
Definitely what I was wondering the original is a classic to me.
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 3 days ago:
Oh no. Actually AFAIK its basically public for everyone to see unless disabled. At least attitude is. Yours is currently scored at 86. Meaning you’ve been 5x as likely to upvote as downvote. I think the rep one is different. Nothing more happening with it ATM than that I think.
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 3 days ago:
Aaaah, cool yeah. I never looked too deep at it. Just knew that much.
- Comment on Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details) 3 days ago:
The software kind of scores you on a few metrics. Like the ratio of the things you vote up vs down. I’m sure there are others.
- Comment on Netflix Becomes Max-Level Patron Of Blender's Development Fund 3 days ago:
Well, those donating time and resources often get extra consideration. But Ton has been fiercely independent for decades. And even though he’s stepped down from his leadership role. I think the board he helped put in place has things in good hands. They, KDE etc have forged their own path and shown the viability of their models. They’d be fools to abandon that or relinquish control after 30 years.
Tons have come and gone with little fan fair. Blender OTOH has quietly made inroads into industry and the hearts of many many people. I have used blender since the mid 90s. Where it is today compared to back then is unimaginable. I can’t wait to have my mind blown by where they go in the future. Nodes and simulation are really shaping up. Who knows, between them and the love the NLE editor has been getting. Adobe, Houdini, and even Nuke might get some competition.
- Comment on Guitar technology 3 days ago:
You haven’t seen his arc piano then.
- Comment on Netflix Becomes Max-Level Patron Of Blender's Development Fund 4 days ago:
If all the other top level donators haven’t done that by now I don’t think there’s much to worry about. And if they had plans to, I think they would have to face off against the other top level donators. So it wouldn’t be that easy either.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 5 days ago:
Aaaah cool. So plain speak wise, perception often becomes a persons reality. Even if not permanently. And the wealthiest use manipulation through propaganda to control perception and what individuals perceive as reality. Pitting them against eachother. I don’t see anything too controversial about that. But I can see why ML would. They’re very dependent on said propaganda and manipulation.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 5 days ago:
I see the cineplex is projecting again.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 5 days ago:
So, communist as in the more socially liberal anarco type of communism? Less vanguard, more community building, consent and mutual aid?
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 5 days ago:
Anarchist based instances are definitely one of the better options. You’ll still find ML there. Even running some communities. But easier to avoid over all. Less likely to have immature micromanaging admins as well as auth propaganda.
Though really, just find about any other instance that federates with the servers the communities important to you are on. And you should be good.
- Comment on What do you think is the opposite of Kiwifarms? 1 week ago:
Nope. Sadly among all the other things checkering Louis Rosman’s past now, kiwifarms is supposedly part of it.
- Comment on Amiga vs. Atari ST: A rivalry that defined 16-bit home computing 2 weeks ago:
Ugh yeah.
- Comment on we need more users 3 weeks ago:
It’s not just Europe. Plenty of us in the United States looking to circumvent the vanguard party. And fascism is rising globally. We need decentralization and federation to survive going forward.
- Comment on Head of Amnesty International Agrees Trump-Led US Is ‘Destroying World Order’ 3 weeks ago:
It’s why Putin and Xi helped get him elected. They plan to be the new imperial world order once trump self destructs taking the US with him. We did it to ourselves letting Republicans gut education etc. But millions of uneducated Americans were harnessed or disenfranchised right and left to achieve this.
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 4 weeks ago:
I know, and that’s why I didn’t down vote you. It’s just not really useful here. The United States calls out China all the time for its imperialism, oppression and abuses. And inevitably ML fall back to United States/West Bad. To defang any criticism. It’s not valid or appropriate when they do it. And it’s not when we do it either. Even when done with appropriate nuance as you did.
This is something that the United States is absolutely going to have to own. The criticism is 100% deserved and doesn’t need any defense or deflection like that. Unless of course, they are openly saying that they are better than the United States or the West. Then it would be absolutely appropriate. If it weren’t for hypocritical criticism, there wouldn’t be hardly be any criticism.
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 4 weeks ago:
Hey now. No reason to start behaving like tankies/ML. If it’s valid for the West to criticize them for their faults. (It is) Then, turn about is just as valid. Even if the criticism comes from a place of hypocrisy like this.
If anything, this should just be a reminder that no state is your ally or a responsible actor. And that the more power and concentration they have, like the United States, Russia, or China. The more brazenly they will abuse the people they’re supposed to represent and everyone around them.
- Comment on How do I contact pixelfed.global admins? 5 weeks ago:
Their email is admin@bararoligt.nu probably the best place to start.
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 1 month ago:
If industrialization raises up a population, financialization plunges them.
Exactly, that’s why China’s economy is slowing.
Corporations in the US are seeing the highest profits they’ve ever seen in history. Wage theft has never been worse. Income disparity is widening more and more every year without any prospect of redistribution in sight.
Definitely, similar is happening in China as well. It’s why larger chunks of their youth aren’t participating and feel they have no place.
Corporations in China, however, are folded into the state as soon as they get too large. Corporate profits are collected by the state and redistributed to the population. China has many more protections to prevent it from choosing greed and sacrificing the working people than the US.
Which is largely meaningless as they exploit workers as hard or harder.
I want what’s happening in China to happen to us in America.
It did and is. The good bits happened over 60 years ago in the US. But we’re rapidly approaching the lack of press freedom and social surveillance China pioneered. Even as they’re approaching our inequality.
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 1 month ago:
In tank space sure. But not in any non-hypocrical space. Again everything you implied about China could be said about the US.
However, it was industrialization brought up living standards. Not any particular party or ideology. In every different government and economic system industrialization has been pushed, it has benefited the population. And industrialization doesn’t make up for the oppression and abuses that said parties or ideologies commit while industrializing.
The fact that industrialization raised the standard of living in the US doesn’t justify their theft of my ancestors land or culture. Or the enslavement of blacks. It certainly doesn’t excuse or justify China’s oppression or cultural erasure of the uhygers. Tibetans or Hong Kongers as well. If you think it does or deny their abuse you’re just a hypocrite. 🤷
- Comment on China's banned memory-maker CXMT unveils surprising new chipmaking capabilities despite crushing US export restrictions — DDR5-8000 and LPDDR5X-10667 displayed 1 month ago:
Nearly everything you mentioned there could be said about China as well though. So, how? In what way does it make China look better? Serious question. And not a defense of the west out the US.
- Comment on Are you happy now, so-called "bleeding heart" libs? 1 month ago:
Nah, their just high.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 1 month ago:
Well, assuming that you are on windows, it’s a whole extra step.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 month ago:
There’s no real way Mozilla could compete. Google has nothing to fear on that front like the browser front. It’s far more likely Mozilla’s ultimate intention. Is to integrate Gemini or similar further into the browser than they already have. Mozilla is years late to the circle jerk, and everyone else has partnered up.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 month ago:
¿Why not both?
- Comment on Christmas, do I need to say more? 1 month ago:
Was gonna say. This and the H. P. Lovecraft historical societies Christmas carrols. What more do you need.