Wildmimic
@Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 3 days ago:
nah, linux is fucking great, and i spent 35 years of my life with windows because gaming wasn’t really an option. Switched about a year ago (time flies, damn), and i got nearly all kinks in my setup worked out by now, which is something i never was able to do in windows, since it’s windows. Only thing i’m missing is a software akin to autohotkey, and i wish playnite were available in linux (ideally with umu and prefix management integrated)
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 4 days ago:
I dki so too - just upgraded my X2600 with a shiny X5950, the nicest cpu my aging mainboard can run. with 16 cores and 64 gigs of ram i see a future when i simply replace the entire machine for daily use and make this one a very nice server.
- Comment on So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up? 6 days ago:
Be honest before inviting them, that if they behave that way they should stay away. Any suicidal ideation should be discussed with their psychiatrist. There is no shame in cutting ties with toxic people.
- Comment on Running GoToSocial on an old wifi router 6 days ago:
and he looks a bit like surprised pikachu
- Comment on Soon Aadhaar could be needed to enter restaurants, housing societies as govt plans offline Aadhaar push 1 week ago:
oof. sorry to hear that. explains why they have no issues dealing with russia.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 1 week ago:
Where does this notion that oil&gas are dead dinosaurs come from? I know what you said is the truth, just as coal is the remainder of the huge forests that existed before bacteria could break down cellulose, but i would really like to know where this wrong factoid comes from - it’s literally everywhere
- Comment on Maybe most of society doesn't have much critical thinking because those who get those "critical thinking" genes go crazy from overthinking things and therefore fail to pass on the genes. 1 week ago:
I learnt most in school, if i had to pin it down mostly in language classes (German, English) because of the literature i was exposed to and the discussions we had about current events, philosophy because its philosophy and art classes because of the teacher and interpretations of art pieces in context of the time they were created. Also my biology teacher who taught us to keep an open mind and a lot about the scientific method.
The important part were the teachers, who didn’t just let us memorize stuff, but encouraged us to ask questions.
- Comment on Soon Aadhaar could be needed to enter restaurants, housing societies as govt plans offline Aadhaar push 1 week ago:
I learnt about Aadhaar here about a month ago and was appalled at this technological nightmare, which (of course!) fucks over the poor and disadvantaged the most, with shit like “you cannot get an Aadhaar because you don’t have one”. I didn’t realize that this abomination could be cranked up to eleven too!
My suspicion is that this will lead to an “official” india and a “inofficial” one, with the inofficial part being ruled by gangs and crime syndicates with all the bullshit that comes with that.
- Comment on Maybe most of society doesn't have much critical thinking because those who get those "critical thinking" genes go crazy from overthinking things and therefore fail to pass on the genes. 1 week ago:
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 2 weeks ago:
I never leave my home without headphones, but often i do not even have music on, just using active noise cancelling to reduce the outside sound. For me it’s all too loud and hectic, too many people talking and cars driving. So even as i do as you do, it has more to do with reducing stimulation than increasing it.
- Comment on PIGS GONNA PIG 3 weeks ago:
The Github has very academic exercisy python code that created hypothetical overlays that are indistinguishable from small specks of dirt, which could result in a hypothetical sticker.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 3 weeks ago:
I hope they put out the last FF VII remake part before that, so i can finally start playing them all! I don’t care what they want to waste their money on afterwards lol
- Comment on PIGS GONNA PIG 3 weeks ago:
This would get you in hot water with real life cops soon. Better go for adversarial patterns:
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 3 weeks ago:
That’s because of the awful spaghetti code that is the basis of Space Engineers. I gave up on that game years ago, because those devs were vibe coding before it was cool, and it shows.
- Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy? 3 weeks ago:
ProtonMail does not log things by default, but they can still be court ordered to do so by swiss authorities - if you want to run any business at all, you have to submit to a jurisdiction, you can only choose which one to run under. And even if your chosen authority is alright by itself, it can still be misled by other jurisdictions like the French did, using the terror-cudgel against climate activists.
I can also recall that in this case Proton said that had their user actually bothered to use any VPN, even Proton’s, there wouldn’t have been anything to give to authorities except for an exit node IP.
- Comment on Aldi just launched its own £16.99 rival to Ring's battery video doorbell – and it's completely subscription-free | TechRadar 4 weeks ago:
Individuals can apply for registration of a fixed camera which must be approved by the privacy agency of the state. If it is approved, you can film into public space, but normally this comes with rules like the anonymization of visible faces and car plates when you are a normal citizen.
Without doing this you are allowed to place a camera for constant monitoring at a fixed place if it films your private property only.
For normal businesses the same rules apply, although you might get a camera approved which watches the area around your entry/exit easier.
Those rules made dashcams illegal in most of the EU, but legislation has caught up in those cases in a few countries - but not all yet.
- Comment on YSK that Li Rui is one of the most important figure in Chinese history. Many Chinese people don't know about him. 4 weeks ago:
Well that was an roller coaster! It’s interesting that he could stay defiant and still live, even if came at a great personal loss. It look like in the end they just kept him around because they grew accustomed to his dissent.
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 4 weeks ago:
I would say no, since it’s too sycophantic which can lead down some dangerous paths.
In many countries there are NGOs or social services that can offer therapy cheaper, but it’s hard to say exactly without knowing where you are. I read your other replies and based on what you wrote, you have had a pretty rough youth; you don’t learn to hide stuff on the regular if your environment is accepting. If you ever get the chance for psychotherapy, take it.
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 4 weeks ago:
Ah i didn’t know that Boll is responsible for those movies lol - his movies are trash, but sometimes fun to watch while sneering about the film.
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 4 weeks ago:
great, sometimes a bad movie is exactly what you need lol
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 4 weeks ago:
That’s more like he has been lobotomized because it was too woke, the new one gets the “christian childhood"-treatment
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 4 weeks ago:
She was my second crush! I recently discovered that there are Bloodrayne Movies; i did not check imdb yet how trash they are lol
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Piping mouse 4 weeks ago:
yeah, that’s called bondage
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 4 weeks ago:
Lol the first LLM with included cognitive dissonance and self-loathing
- Comment on Utter nonsense 5 weeks ago:
I agree - it’s so busy that trying to learn from that just will lead to more confusion. The only thing this is good for is for showing the variety of organic chemistry, and it doesn’t even do a good job at it.
- Comment on Utter nonsense 5 weeks ago:
This does not ring a bell at all - It makes sense to look at it this way around, might have helped back then. But when i remember how old my professor was back then, and looking at how “new” the concept is, i’m pretty sure that he didn’t think too fondly of such newfangled stuff.
It didn’t help that the module had originally 5 hours per week, which was cut down to 3 hours without reducing the material to learn, resulting in a very old-timey approach to the whole module, since there wasn’t much time at all. I learnt most of it audiotaping the lessons while copying what was written on the blackboard, and actually learned it at home.
- Comment on Utter nonsense 5 weeks ago:
You’re right, that’s absolutely necessary to learn, to take the language metapher further it’s like learning to declination of verbs. I meant it really clicked for me when i started to get a feeling for charge distribution and how electronegativity of specific ligands changes it, especially to predict what will happen in cases where more than one reaction is possible.
- Comment on Utter nonsense 5 weeks ago:
at least thermodynamics follow pretty static rules, that module was only an issue for me because it was a seminar where we had to work in groups, which i suck at.
I realized that organic chenistry you have to study until you get a feeling for how charge is distributed along a molecule to identify where and how it can react with other molecules, and what intermediarys (real or imagined) are formed, which boils down to learning as many reactions as possible. it’s a bit like learning a language with fucked up grammar.
- Comment on Utter nonsense 5 weeks ago:
omg i’m getting flashbacks from my org chem course. The exam regulary failed about 2/3 of students, i needed 3 attempts to pass, and i studied like stupid for it (the second attempt was sooo close to a passing grade, i was really annoyed at that).
