Wildmimic

@Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ — In shocking group chats, men encourage one another to drug and assault their wives – and swap tips on getting away with it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  These crimes are always about power and control, not about sex. I think a part of it comes from feeling powerless (or having felt powerless long ago) in other areas of life. This is obviously no excuse and absolutely abhorrent behavior, but as we can read in the article these men will walk the streets again after a few years, so psychotherapy for them should be mandatory, with their sentences extended if the therapist thinks it’s necessary to prevent further victims.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My brother has or had now a drinking problem. Now he is asking for the worst tasting crap that he can take a cap full like an airplance bottle so his body whenever he thinks about it will remember⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is also used as nail polish to make children stop chewing nails.

  I actually loved the taste of that stuff - it made it worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hungarian foreign minister has been briefing Russia on EU meetings – WP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been saying that Orban’s party is an FSB asset for a while now. I wish i had been wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I grew up with DOS games - Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Defender of the Crown, Hanse, Strike Commander and Wing Commander, Aces of the Pacific, Flight Simulator 3, Stunts3D, Hot Rod - Those are the games that showed me what unlimited amount of worlds can be inside of a computer. System Shock 1 didn’t hook me (but the remake has), first time playing System Shock 2 and Thief blew my mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It still sets your phone in a state that marks it as security compromised. This could lead i.e. to banking apps not working. I’m not so sure about the “acceptable” state of things here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ear virus⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, Annie Lennox’s eyes were piercing people with her glances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s counterrorism chief, whose own wife was killed by ISIS, quits over Iran War saying Tehran posed ‘no imminent threat’ to US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Was on my way to post exactly this. This semantic overloading of the term antisemitic will lead to jews in other countries dying, mark my words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dynamically generated background decoration NPC wandered into the first picture

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP's ink-blocking firmware may violate new global sustainability rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that they are fine - but i haven’t had the need for color prints for ages now outside of 2 occasions where i needed like 5 copies each. For myself i prefer digital only either way. Just in case i really need something like return tickets a b&w printer is enough.

  The B&W one costs under 100€, the cheapest brother color laser 300€; the 200€ difference should last decades in the print shop, and the toner cartridges are a lot cheaper for b&w only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP's ink-blocking firmware may violate new global sustainability rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But it would make a good law outlawing corporate assholery as a whole and might make a difference. Imagine a world in which corpos are not allowed to fuck over anyone, not their supplier, their partners or the customer… the world would be different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP's ink-blocking firmware may violate new global sustainability rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too - the print shop can deal with the issues, i have no problem paying a little extra for not having the headache of troubleshooting printer crap. Although I might get myself a B/W Brother printer for the everyday stuff - my ex sadly got my old one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP's ink-blocking firmware may violate new global sustainability rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the colors will always be off in a random direction in the RGB spectrum, this is easy to blame on the cartridge manufacturer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree on this. I just commented on my AvPD, which makes social contacts … complicated (just look in my comment history).

  I haven’’t been without a partner since i was 18. Im 46 now, and newly out of a relationship (but we had a good run). I never actually tried to flirt with anyone. The only thing i really did is to listen well, make appropriate compliments and give my input. I don’t even look good, I’ve been a fat fuck since childhood and a nerd on top.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been told the same thing from my aunt, which moved into the countryside with her newlywed husband long ago. She only got to get friends after her firstborn got into school - the 8 years until that time were very isolating, even with work contacts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poland Will Eventually Seek Its Own Nuclear Weapons, Tusk Says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are not so many options available to protect your country in the case of unwarranted aggression. Not that I am a fan of Iran’s government, but if they had a stockpile of nukes and capable missiles available to flatten Israel, they wouldn’t get fucking bombed by fascists to try to take away attention from their domestic issues today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly the weather here sucks currently, but thanks. I hope you have a nice day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not even distasteful, it’s simply honest. It is no secret that many men like young women, or else the “barely legal” category wouldn’t exist, and this theme is even completely in the open when the US Republicans push for lowering the legal age for marriage.

  This exists in nearly every society, from the western “barely legal” porn theme over Mohammed having child wifes to japanese mangas which sexualize schoolgirls. It is therefor important to acknowledge that these impulses exist, make sure children are protected by law and to have a societal understanding that children are harmed if those impulses are made reality.

  Those who suffer from having those impulses need ways to cope so that children are safe - either by offering therapy, “barely legal"-porn or “fauxbait”, without ostracizing those who choose these things over harming children. If a different label for the same thing helps to even keep one child safe it’s worth it. That would be a responsible way to deal with this situation.

  It’s similar to those having a bad temper and aggressive impulses - giving those people an “out” by offering therapy, from competitive settings where they can live out their impulses (which can be anything from sports over video games to board games) to hitting each other with pool noodles and going into the woods to scream until their throats hurt.

  All of it is simply channeling destructive impulses into non-harmful ways to cope, and only an open and honest discourse will help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You brought up the theme of porn preferences the moment you implied the downvotes have anything to do with “their porn will be limited”. If you say that everyone that downvotes that braindead take watches that stuff, get corrected, and then double down by insinuating that i watch “kiddy porn”, you will have to read what i actually watch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just wanted to make clear that i do not have a horse in this race. I am slowly approaching an age where pornography as a whole simply isn’t that interesting anymore.

  Also, for me personally it’s a question of ethics to prefer female friendly pornography - it’s still no 100% guarantee that everything is above board (i can’t exactly run background checks on everyone involved to make sure), but its important for me that my “consumption” is ethical in most areas of my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you choose who you are attracted to or did you discover it?

  You seem to mix some things up. There are pedophiles who have sexual attraction to children but know better, and there are people who rape children because they like the power imbalance.

  The first group has simply discovered their attraction (and mostly beat themselves up over it) and would benefit from therapy and support, which they don’t get because of people like you. They also can benefit from things like “fauxbait”, where they can live out their kink without hurting anyone because there are only consenting adults in play.

  The second group are in the Epstein files. They do it because they get off on the thought that someone is helpless. They are not pedophiles, they are simply the worst kind of rapist.

  Make sure to direct your disgust on the second group, not the first, because the first one doesn’t deserve it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know that there are people out there that can distinguish between a fantasy and reality? There are many people out there that have those fantasies that would never touch a 17 year old out of principle. This is a type of roleplay, and as long as there are only consenting adults in play, there is no harm done to anyone.

  Denying that those impulses exist is one of the reasons that people who are real pedophiles cant get professional help without fear of persecution. Pushing them into illegality just for having those thoughts is not only not fair (because they don’t have a choice who they are attracted to), but also pushes them into the dark corners of society where they cant get help and the really illegal shit happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t watch that stuff, because i rarely look at pornography, and if i do, i prefer well developed bodytypes. But I will downvote anyone using a CP-scare to silence something legal.

  Since there are only verified adults on display, there’s only one reason why someone cries for censuring - a moralin-drenched opinion and ignorance of other’s preferences.

  People like this are the same who go after any type of media that doesn’t align with their own world view, and they always use censuring and hiding stuff for everyone, overstepping their limits and defining themselves as the only valid moral compass by which anyone should live - because they personally can’t cope with content they don’t agree with (mostly out of a misplaced sense of shame)

  The same mindset empowers strongmen and populists in politics, who know exactly how to play those fools - with real life consequences (think pizzagate). This kind of behavior simply cannot be encouraged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Server randomly locked up. Trying to find out why⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That might introduce more issues than help. If high speed particles impact your shielding, you might get a “particle shower” from the impact on your electronics. Radiation Hardening is part of the design of the chips - mainly creating less dense structures with bigger transistors, because they don’t flip as easily as the very small gates on a H200. That’s also the reason why most space based computers have the processing power of a system around 2005.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name this Paper⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Categorizing how hard a cracker got burned by measuring its caloric output with water as intermediary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turns out llms also have “artificial hive mind”, top AI models all say very similar sounding things, do you think that we can use this to detect bots?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, they all crawled reddit and wikipedia a lot as training data, so you expect you’d get always the same mixture of fact and redditor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The same people who rage against authority love moderating communities where their ideology is the only one allowed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If your opinion is that Age verification is a good thing or the Brave Browser isn’t a product of a company which has a right-wing homophobe as CEO then your opinion is colliding with hard facts.

  Age Verification is simply deanonymization of the internet through the backdoor, raising a lot of privacy and cybersecurity questions. Paradoxically, it creates security risks for the children “being protected”.

  Brendan Eich is NOT a good person. He is a verified homophobe , conspiracy theorist and his browser, even if it’s currently a good deal for the end user, is under constant pressure from shareholders to produce more revenue. It is therefore prone to enshittification in the future. Also, even if the browser blocks third party trackers by default, should you opt in to Brave ads, there is local behavioral tracking and tokenized reporting going on , which enables indirect tracking.

  You have your right to your opinion. You don’t have the right to be shielded from criticism for your opinions, and it is the in the literal job description for a moderator to curb misinformation to ensure the health of a community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds a bit like if we die, we retreat into the human noosphere and become a concept instead of a person

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My PS2 archive is around 2,9TB compressed, so “modern” is relative. PS3/XboxOne is a multitude of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This thing works self-contained and off grid - using materials that have huge surfaces to condense the water. It is mentioned that there are powered versions too, but the principle itself does not need extra power, the Sun drives the condensation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forgive me, Doctor, for I have sinned: I haven't watched anything Trek in almost 2 months⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or go play the new Star Trek Voyager game! I really like it, just wish they had gotten more voice actors from the series.