mitch
@mitch@piefed.mitch.science
I like coffee, Philly, Pittsburgh, Arabic language, anything on two wheels, music, linux, theology, cats, computers, pacifism, art, unity, equity, etymology, the power of words, and getting high off airplane glue. Will use Adobe Illustrator for food.
- Comment on XDA Forum User response to Google 1 week ago:
It's a real dumb idea but I'll be honest, I think all of us should have expected that when Chrome switched to an engine that doesn't allow for ad blockers.
I'm with the rest of the commenters on other threads — I'll just switch to PostmarketOS and make Linux work for me. Very little of what I do on a phone really requires "apps."
- Comment on US agents arrest 475 in raid on Hyundai-LG plant 1 week ago:
I wish the rest of the world would put us under trade embargo. The US imports an absolute fuckton of South Korean electronics and cars. KIA is quite well established here, especially as a budget car.
- Comment on US agents arrest 475 in raid on Hyundai-LG plant 1 week ago:
Jesus, South Korea, now would be a lovely tim to instigate an international incident on behalf of all of the other countries currently being bullied by our racist federal government!
- Comment on Ditto 1 week ago:
My problem is that I only want striped tree squirrels to munch on my junk. Any suggestions?
- Comment on Ditto 1 week ago:
In the way humanity can study the structure of the brain despite being inside one, consciousness is just the means by which the Universe discovers itself. Or something, I don’t know, I’m high.
- Comment on Ditto 1 week ago:
if you ask me, mushrooms are a bullshit double standard. THEY get to show their genitals to passing hikers in the state park, but when I do it, suddenly everyone gets real prudish? What’s THAT about?
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 weeks ago:
Driving is honestly very stimulating for me. I have AuDHD and it is one of the few times I feel calm because I can actively engage all of my senses. Something about keeping an awareness in your head of what's around you and your car really keeps me occupied.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 weeks ago:
Makes sense when even adults use phones as a means to escape even a moment of boredom. How many adults use their phones while driving? That's one of the most mentally stimulating things I can think of, and people get BORED.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
Meshtastic, baby!!
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
All my IT and InfoSec friends have called me alarmist for suggesting even the possibility of a GFW of America, but every day that passes, it looks more and more likely to happen, doesn't it?
Start practicing circumvention techniques now, y'all, while it's still legal and cheap to do so. Learn amateur radio. Learn Meshtastic. Learn all the different censorship-resistant VPN technology out there. Host your own websites or services for friends, family, or your community. It doesn't make it impossible, but it does make it hard, and fascism is nothing if not lazy.
- Comment on 🏹🏹🏹 2 weeks ago:
AI photography is so stupid. That target's got legs. Handsome ones, too.
- Comment on Neil Young Leaves Facebook & Instagram Over “Unconscionable” Policies for AI Chatbot Conversations With Children 4 weeks ago:
I guess, but you will lead a lonely life if you can't find common struggle with people in different scenarios than our own. We can easily lose our soul with these endless purity tests — for some reason, Leftists, progressives, and liberals seem to be constantly on the lookout for the next Jesus Christ, who will just simply energize voters by consequence of, I dunno, magic or some shit.
Neil Young is still a working musician who needs to get his face and music in front of as wide and as general of an audience as possible — why wouldn't they be where people are? That's what makes this stand so important. Homie needs Facebook and Insta and still said no.
- Comment on Neil Young Leaves Facebook & Instagram Over “Unconscionable” Policies for AI Chatbot Conversations With Children 4 weeks ago:
Well, it's not like Ted Nugent is writing any new music. He probably doesn't have anything better to do anyway.
- Comment on this is exactly what copper would say 4 weeks ago:
Fiber optic cable is just glass or nylon, sealed with a thermoplastic. It really is one of the cheapest kinds of cables to make, maybe ever. It's really not worth anything when anyone who needs to run fiber can just buy a brand new spool for the same price as a spool from four guys in a shitty pickup truck who can't describe why they even had it to begin with.
- Comment on this is exactly what copper would say 4 weeks ago:
I dunno who is even still stealing copper considering that a lot of yards are asking for proof of ownership before they accept it. Copper-nabbers are opportunistic, and won't take the time to forge an original invoice.
- Comment on Help. 4 weeks ago:
That, and, y'know, actually showing up for each other instead of relentlessly torturing other men for having the gall to express any emotions beyond the two approved ones, laughter and rage.
- Comment on Help. 4 weeks ago:
FWIW, this is why AI researchers have been screeching for decades not to create an AI that is anthropomorphized. It is already an issue we have with animals, now we are going to add a confabulation engine to the ass-end?
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 4 weeks ago:
in that case, mewtwo is basically just a ripoff of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” what other public domain classics did Pokémon manage to repackage and resell to us?!
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 4 weeks ago:
Hank: “Bobby, when I was little, we had 151 Pokémon, and that was plenty! We didn’t even have confirmation that Mew existed until maybe a decade later, and we were all so happy that we threw a party! Remember, Boomhauer?”
Boomhauer: “Well I tell ya what man igottagetyaonthepokemonromhacksbecausebackthentheydidntknowgaddumnallaboutjapaneseso (chuckling) theyjustchangedthejapanesecharacterstoenglishones man andnobodycaredtheydjustsitthereonno$gbandmakeuppokemonnameslike ‘turt’ or ‘hors’ andwe’dalljustlikestumblethroughthebarelytranslatedgames tryingtofigureoutwhattodoman it was a joy to be included”
Hank: “Yeah.”
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 4 weeks ago:
POV: you are the first Zubat that a player using gameshark sees
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 4 weeks ago:
i am old in terms of internet years, and Bill Gates really is living proof that billionaires can essentially destroy the lives of thousands and thousands of people to gather their wealth, and then spend the autumn of your years choosing which countries or causes get a splash-out of the unfathomable excess, like a little kinglet.
i am happy his money helped fix stuff in the world. but that’s called “catching up to what has been expected of you for 60 years.” he does not get a cookie for working out of the Andrew Carnegie playbook.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 4 weeks ago:
the mergers & acquisitions leviathan eats yet another beautiful thing, just like it ate my precious linode.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 4 weeks ago:
i just wanted to drop my personal favorite self-hosted git alternative, Gogs (gogs.io). i have very modest git needs (i just need a place to host code and interact with the
gitclient), and i think it fits the bill well.i am not associated with it at all, i just want folks to know that self-hosting your own git service has really never been easier or better. there are so many good options, like a similar project, gitea.
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 4 weeks ago:
Hank Hill recognizes 152 Pokémon total. The first 151, and then Stunfisk.
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 4 weeks ago:
Hank, suddenly intrigued: "Wait, there's a 'grass type' Pokemon?"
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 4 weeks ago:
Bobby: "Dad, everybody knows they can't catch Rayquazza... it entices ."
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- Comment on Leaving GitHub. Music server alternatives? 5 weeks ago:
Funkwhale works nice, but honestly, I am a big fan of just using
mpdand piping the audio over a networked speaker, but I'm a simple boy with simple needs. - Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
officer, promote that person
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I thought that Ukulele was a pretty nice way to learn the foundations of string instruments
