ExtremeDullard

@ExtremeDullard@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prison looms for Brazil's Bolsonaro after court rejects his appeal⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, I guess Trump’s tariffs didn’t work: it did jack-squat to convince the Brazilians to not serve justice to their own fascist leader. All it did was hurt the American consumers. What a surprise…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also the day that the world found out that Hitler had a micropenis.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Most Americans aren’t on board with this shit

  They’re obviously onboard with different shit, else Trump wouldn’t be president. Twice.

  As shit goes, I preferred the old-timey one. At least it was dignified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also the day that the world found out that Hitler had a micropenis.⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t necessarily disagree - hence my adding “deserved or not”, if you re-read what I wrote.
  But regardless of what you think, it had that reputation.

  And it doesn’t no more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also the day that the world found out that Hitler had a micropenis.⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m old enough to remember the United States as a country that won a World War, won a Cold War, went to the moon, and had a reputation - deserved or not - as a shining beacon of freedom and democracy. Respected or feared by the entire world.

  Now it’s a country run by a paedophile fascist with dementia, elected twice by an equally mentally feeble populace - causing consternation and concern around the world.

  Americans should be ashamed of themselves. But of course they aren’t because they’re not actually capable of feeling shame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah right okay.

  The Android version of Signal works well in Waydroid in Ubuntu Touch also, bu running it permanently in the background like Signal is designed to do is problematic for several reasons that make it kind of a painful proposition. But if I needed it just to send or receive a message punctually, it would be a great solution.

  Okay then, it sounds like Whisperfish might work well enough as a primary Signal client to make SailfishOS worth giving a spin. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I meant have you tried it? Do you know if it’s any good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious: I’m currently evaluating mobile Linux OSes to transition away from Android. What I got going right now is Ubuntu Touch on a Fairphone 5, but there’s one big drawback with this one for me: the lack of a decent native Signal client.

  I’ve always planned to give Sailfish OS a spin, and I’m almost certain I can install it on the FP5 easily. But I’m not all that keen on ruining my Ubuntu Touch install, and possibly not being able to reinstall it if I want to go back.

  So before I install Sailfish OS on it, can you tell me if it has a decent Signal client? If it doesn’t, then maybe it’s not really worth investigating in the first place for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like a buffet would fix this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s my point: the only emotion Trump elicits in me is nausea and repulsion. And it’s not even a political assessment: he’s simply not a pleasant human being. Why people vote for unpleasant human beings, of find unpleasant human beings somehow appealing, is utterly baffling to me…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like a buffet would fix this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I genuinely have no idea how this guy managed to convince so many trumpanzees to vote for him. Like Nancy Pelosi correctly said, he’s a vile creature: even if you somehow agree with his policies, he’s clearly a terminally nasty and mean misanthrope, and someone nobody with any penchant for nice human contacts wants to spend anytime around of. I completely fail to fathom how such a repulsive human being can have such charisma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like a buffet would fix this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This picture says “Some guy is sick, four compassionate people are helping him, and one malignant narcissist with dementia has put his brain on pause until the event that isn’t about him and that doesn’t interest him is over, and everybody’s attention returns to him.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Godfather of AI' says tech giants can't profit from their astronomical investments unless human labor is replaced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This race to displace human labor with AI is a typical late-stage capitalism race to the bottom because it ignores something fundamental: workers are also consumers. No job, no money, no purchases.

  In other words, all companies embracing AI are collectively working their ass off to destroy their own and everybody else’s markets. It’s global economic suicide.

  But… capitalism being what it is and doing what it does, it only looks at what the competition does, expenses and no further than the next quarter. So corporations see AI as a way to reduce expenses and get ahead of the competition that does the same thing.

  They all know AI will destroy everything eventually, including themselves, if they all do the same thing. But they can’t help it: corporations look no further than their own selfish interests with the narrowest possible set of criteria, and the bigger picture be damned. Always.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prusa partners with Israeli company⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Prusa partners with Israeli company

  I was planning to buy a Prusa printer soon, but now I’m not so sure. This is disappointing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You might be right there. Oh well. if it’s a bot, it trolled me out of a full minute of my life…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But here? We deal in maximum chaos per Euro spent!

  Then you have wasted your money. The Flipper can do any chaos whatsoever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  […] Turns out it’s the keys to the entire electrical grid!
  …
  I am now fully ready to hack my neighbor’s TV to only show Motorhead concerts.

  Sigh

  This is nonsense like this that gets a useful tool like the Flipper banned in countries with even dumber politicians.

  You want to be part of the electrical grid? Stick your fingers in the mains outlet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All cults go through phases of culling the non-believers. Anytime you justify a cult leaders anti-social behavior solely for the benefits you get by keeping the cult going you've begun this process.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of them end up culling the believers too in the end.

  That should be concerning to MAGA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨necessary read⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It means let the fuckers know they can retreat from their extreme or misguided political stance and come back to a more reasonable point of view without consequences. It’s a variation of Sun Tzu’s “Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.” : if you don’t, they’ll fight you to the death because they have no other option.

  My problem is, however reasonably the idea, that’s a bit too rich for me to apply to imbeciles who turn their country into a fascist hellhole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨necessary read⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I keep saying: Trump isn’t the problem, he’s a symptom.

  And the disease is that a majority of voting Americans are either morally bankrupt and gullible enough to overlook all that Trump did and said and elect him, or actively fascist.

  And that’s why, when people tell me I need to “make space” for those people and give them an exit ramp, so that when Trump finally turns on them too, and they realize what they done did, the nation can heal and come back together, I say: fuck this shit.

  I don’t want to make space for immoral morons and fascists. These people deserve what they’re about to get, and what they’ve inflicted on the rest of us who didn’t sell out, and they’ll never come back from the moral quagmire that made them think it’s a-okay elect a fascist POTUS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because you think this is new?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what happens when Big Tech trap people in information silos and the media manufactures different fake realities depending on the bias of the particular billionaires who happens to own the outlets: people don’t share a common experience anymore and don’t have common facts to agree on. As a result, everybody has their own truths from their own information bubbles and nobody know the actual facts anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect a lot of people use Facebook because they’ve always used Facebook - mostly older folks at this point - and a lot of the younger folks go there because their favorite association / football club / local restaurant / library are there too.

  Meaning Facebook’s success today is mostly inertia: there’s no way any open-source replacement would pull a critical-enough mass of people away from Facebook to fight the inertia enjoy any meaningful success. I’m pretty sure open-source developers know this and chose something fancier and more exciting to spend their time on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Facebook is like Myspace: it’s has-been. If I was a developers interested in contributing to the Fediverse, that’s the last social media I’d choose to spend my time reimplementing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More proof that AI ruins everything - if it was needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s my prediction: when the next global pandemic happen, the rest of the world will close their borders to American travelers to quarantine the country that refuses to deal with pandemics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FSF Announces The LibrePhone Project⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s nice but…

  Here’s my experience with my Linux phone (Ubuntu Touch on Fairphone 5): it’s fully functional and mostly usable as a full Android replacement. But the keyword here is “mostly": The Openstore has native Linux replacement for half of the stuff I need (calls, SMS, emails, browser…) and for the rest, Waydroid picks up the slack (my Android-only banking app, Yubikey app…).

  And then there’s stuff that’s neither available (or rather, working) in native Linux nor in Waydroid. And the killer app I desperately need, Signal, is in that group.

  And that turns my promising Ubuntu Touch phone into a very fancy paperweight I mostly leave at home.

  Here’s my prediction: the LibrePhone will be another paperweight for the same reason. And the sad thing is, it’s not for lack of trying on the parts of the alternative OS and app makers, or lack of good will: they really do try their best. But it’s a chicken-and-egg problem: people don’t want to code for niche mobile OSes and stick to Android, and the niche mobile OSes remain niche as a result.

  Unless the LibrePhone comes onto the market with a certain number of key apps that a vast majority of people will need, it’s doomed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OLAY!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not Stephen Miller: this guy is flamboyant and he has balls - not to mention, hair.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eswatini takes in 10 foreign nationals deported from United States⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All countries that roll with the fascist Trump deportation thing will bear the stain in their history.

  Fuck Swaziland - since they have no respect for human decency, I don’t really feel like using their preferred name either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tell me why!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just as long as there’s never any MAGB bus…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't those into bondage and S/M called "leatherosexuals"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same reason why gays aren’t called bumholesexuals.