wonderingwanderer
@wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
- Comment on LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats 1 day ago:
Oh man, I always thought if your drive was already encrypted that a hostile actor couldn’t encrypt it for ransomware. I don’t know where I read that but it was a long time ago and I guess someone lied to me, but it’s whatever.
So what’s the vulnerability that would be exploited, something about using the swap space to get into the encrypted drive? Or does the attack apply to the outside of the container? I’m curious cause I’m working on hardening my own system currently and I want to make sure I’m not leaving any gaps in my blind spots
- Comment on LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats 2 days ago:
That’s hilarious. Big corporation apparently can’t afford basic cybersecurity. Always pinching pennies.
Anyway, any big organization should encrypt their core systems to prevent ransomware attacks. Individuals should too. It’s just good practice.
- Comment on LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats 2 days ago:
The web version is even worse! It’s all cloud-based, and you need a subscription unless your University pays for a license.
The only reason to use it would be to write things in Libre and then copy/paste them into MS and manually fix all the formatting.
I hated it, because all the professors could just smugly say “You know you have free access to Office 365 with your student email, right?”
That’s not the fucking point! I don’t give a shit if it’s free, I don’t want to use a fucking microsoft product, especially one that’s cloud-based, when there’s a perfectly good open-source alternative that I can run locally on my own hardware.
Just one of the many problems with the corporatization, commodification, and enshittification of education. If the focus was on learning and academic freedom, FOSS solutions would be encouraged. But no, you’re forced to use proprietary software, because “
reasons” capitalism… - Comment on LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats 2 days ago:
I don’t know enough to understand the connection. Can you please explain?
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 2 days ago:
You don’t like butter block?
Avocados aren’t really supposed to be sweet. More like savory, with that buttery texture. They’re really good on toast, no matter what the boomers say.
Others have made some good suggestions. Salt, pepper, chili sauce or sriracha. A fried egg if you want it. Top notch.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 2 days ago:
You had me at the first half
- Comment on LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats 2 days ago:
In college my professor wouldn’t accept pdfs for assignments because it guess he couldn’t check the metadata or make comments or something.
So I literally had to download MS office just to submit assignments in their format…
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 3 days ago:
Yup, and anyone who actually tries to find a solution makes themself vulnerable to ridicule, scorn, and accusations when they inevitably fail.
Much safer just to stand on the sidelines and point the finger. Nobody blames the people who never even tried. The people who tried and failed take all the blame.
It’s really short-sighted if you think about it…
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 3 days ago:
Not really.
If you have the agent installed, it’s like having your gun assembled.
If you have your agent enabled, it’s like having your gun loaded.
If you give your agent permissions, it’s like taking your gun off safety.
If you don’t have your agent properly sandboxed, it’s like having bad muzzle control.
And if your agent is actively running, it’s like having your finger on the trigger.
This breaks every weapon safety rule. That’s how you get a negligent discharge.
Hence, it’s like scratching your back with a loaded weapon.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 3 days ago:
Unless you’re managing app permissions on android 🙄
- Comment on thx for the diabeetus 4 days ago:
Is that how they bred orange chickens?
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 4 days ago:
Yeah, people need to understand that a false accusation of that sort can fuck you for your entire life. Some people say “well you deserve it,” because the assumption is that if you got accused then you did something to deserve it. Let’s see how that mentality ages when the fascists take over and start their purge by accusing all their opponents of whatever nonsense they can think of.
People will point to famous examples of men who escaped accountability (for actual crimes, mind you, not false accusations), and say “it didn’t destroy his life!” Well, yeah, cause that person is rich and famous, well-connected and powerful. Those ones always evade accountability.
I’m not talking about the too-rich-to-go-to-jail criminals running the country. I’m not talking about the kavanaughs or the trumps or the weinsteins.
I’m talking about the average, ordinary dude who has to work for a living but can’t find a job cause everyone in town has heard the rumors. I’m talking about the dudes who barely have any friends as it is, hardly anyone to vouch for them, and those who do slowly turn their backs as his cause seems more hopeless by the day. I’m talking about the nobody-class loser whose picture winds up on a secret facebook gossip group or on tea or wherever else and gets absolutely slandered and libeled by clout-chasers or dare I say petty retaliators for any perceived slights.
These people don’t have weinstein privilege or kavanaugh privilege or any other kind of privilege coming to save them. These people have their lives ruined, with no hope of redemption even after it comes out that the accusations were frivolous. Cause is anyone really going to trust them again?
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 4 days ago:
The end goal is probably a vat that billionaires can hook their brains into at the end of their lives so they never die.
That probably has something to do with their push for virtual reality and the ‘metaverse’ (fuck zuck for appropriating the greek language for his pet project; I used to use that word to describe a sort of hypothetical hyperdimensional multiverse where “spirits” inhabit 4D/5D topologies).
Oh and why they’re training AI agents in “environments” now (basically, 3D-scanned renderings of real life spaces).
If they can put all the pieces together before they die, then they can hook their brains into these computers and control a little avatar so they never have to die and can continue making our lives hell (at least as long as they maintain ownership of private capital, or until we seize the means of production and redistribute the wealth).
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 4 days ago:
I’m guessing you didn’t see any of the comments overreacting to the misleading statistic instead of questioning the methodology and deceptive reporting, and accusing all these survey respondents of being woman-haters and nazis instead of considering the fact that responding “no” would imply an absolute statement (“it never happens”) while a yes could mean anything from “it sometimes happens” to “it always happens”?
I’m not assuming anybody’s gender, but you say you think there’s an imbalance, so I’m providing some counterexamples to the assumptions your making.
And I personally think it is unhealthy for the community to have such a large gender imbalance.
There is a lot more than could be said about this, but all I’m saying right now is I can see a large gender imbalance in this thread, and I don’t think that’s a good thing.
What do you think the overall gender balance is on the fediverse? Is it just this thread where you notice an imbalance? I typically don’t ask people about their gender, but if I had to guess I’d say most communities skew at least a little towards being mostly men.
I’m not saying that’s a good or a bad thing. To be honest, I wouldn’t mind if more women were active on lemmy. I think that would be a good thing. But then again I wouldn’t be surprised if most women on lemmy hide their gender in order to avoid having their inbox flooded, and I don’t blame them.
There are a few prevalent users who are open about being women, some who even have their faces in their profile pictures. I don’t know why. They must be brave, or maybe have their inboxes closed. But I for one appreciate the anonymity. I try to avoid letting my online presence be traceable to my person. This is the internet, after all.
But outside of women-specific communities, even accounting for women who don’t reveal their gender, I doubt most instances have an even gender balance. And I don’t know how you could realisticly achieve that without somehow compelling women to participate in communities that they’re not even interested in. This isn’t a nightclub where the bouncers turn away men to keep their ratios pristine.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 4 days ago:
Sounds like something from a horror manga.
I’m seeing the chimera from FMAB saying “Edu…wardo… koroshite…kure… onegai…”
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 4 days ago:
If there was a modicum of honesty in the study design, it would have five or so options:
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Yes, all do
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Yes, most do, but some don’t
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Yes, about half do and half don’t
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Yes, some do, but most don’t
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No, none ever do
So you can see how misleading a simple “yes/no” can be, and that really puts into perspective why people are taking issue with the murky methodology, and what those who take the bait are really falling for.
Of course, even with more robust multiple choice, there are still many pitfalls, such as:
- Does this include women who lie to hide actual abuse?
- Does this include women who are the abuser in the relationship and lie about it?
- Does it also ask about whether men tell the truth about dv/sa, in cases when they’re the victim or the abuser, and in cases when the allegations are true or frivolous?
And probably more that I haven’t thought of. So there are a lot of variables, and if they only included the one leading question then it’s just ragebait really shouldn’t pass peer review (unless all the reviewers are afraid to critique it!) And the journalists reporting it (coincidentally the authors of the study) are being quite dishonest either way.
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- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 4 days ago:
Yeah, it’s “choose a side or else you’ll be treated like you’re on the other side.”
Socially-enforced campism, basically.
But I’ll never win the oppression olympics, so why would I even try to compete?
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 4 days ago:
Okay, well those people are uncouth, uneducated troglodytes deserving of ridicule and scorn.
But we shouldn’t conflate making an absolute claim such as “all women are liars” with making a particular claim such as “that particular woman is lying, because I didn’t do the thing she is accusing me of.”
Too often people treat any claim to innocence by an accused man as some misogynistic attack on all womankind. If a guy is innocent and gets accused of something, it’s not misogynist to say “No, that’s not true. I didn’t do that.”
The converse is also true about making absolute claims such as “No woman is a liar.” It’s simply divorced from reality, and all that it would take to disprove it is one example of a woman who lied. Emmett Till’s accuser lied, did she not? That’s just one famous example, but studies have shown that upwards of 5% of reported, official cases turn out to be demonstrably false accusations. That’s 1 in 20, just of cases that make it to court.
The lesson is to avoid making absolute statements. It’s not about “all women lie” or “no women lie,” because both are false statements. It’s about assessing the credibility of accusations on a particular, case-by-case basis. But people don’t like when the answer is “it depends” or “it’s complicated.” They want some blanket solution which will always apply in every case, but that’s just not how reality works.
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 4 days ago:
Yeah, that’s why it’s called a “gender war.” But if you criticize it in the wrong spaces, you’ll have a dozen feminists jumping down your throat about how “there’s no gender war! That’s just made-up manosphere propaganda!” While they go on making generalizations about men, and if you say that’s a generalization they’ll go “nOt AlL mEn!!1!” sarcastically as if they’re making a point.
But that only applies when you talk about “gender war” in the context of criticizing misandry and generalizations about men. If you bring up “gender war” to criticize misogyny and generalizations about women, in those same spaces, you’ll get those same feminists commiserating with you and saying things like “I feel that, sister, men are such evil swine!”
It’s pointless, and yes, social media directly contributed to this radicalization, polarization, and normalization of extremism over the past decade or so.
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 4 days ago:
I don’t think any guys say “all women are liars.” That’s certainly not the claim in this article, although it’s presented as if to indicate that misleadingly.
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 4 days ago:
I see comments ranging across the spectrum. Some uncritically accepting the interpretations in the article and calling the respondents nazis, others questioning the research methodology such as how exactly those survey questions were phrased and whether the response simply boils down to negating an absolute.
That might be called many things, but I wouldn’t call it a narrow frame of reference.
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 4 days ago:
Misguided children aren’t nazis, but that could very quickly become a self-fulfilling prophecy if you “bitchslap” them and call them nazis.
Suddenly the only people willing to reach out a helping hand to them are the actual nazis.
You know how cults prey on the vulnerable, right? By giving them a place where they feel they belong, and slowly but imperceptibly indoctrinating them into their ideology…
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 4 days ago:
Questionable methodologies aside, I think you’re right about this and it’s an important point. So many people want to treat misogyny like it’s the personal failing of individuals, when the problem is radicalization. People act like these are inherently disturbed people who would have arrived at their hateful opinions no matter what influences they were exposed to. That’s basically an essentialist take and doesn’t acknowledge the complexities of human psychology and development.
You can’t address a cultural or societal issue at merely the individual level, because it’s like rescuing starfish from tide pools. For every one that you save, there’s always a million more. And personal shaming doesn’t help the situation at all.
So many young men and adolescent boys are vulnerable to this radicalization because they’ve been ostracized from their peer groups. They commiserate about their situations with others like themselves. And these predatory manosphere influencers know this and they capitalize on it.
People throw around “incel” like it’s not only an insult, but also this morally repugnant and irredeemable sort of subhuman thing. How does that encourage anyone to self-examine and decide to do better? Society has already rejected them and made it clear that it will never open its doors to them again. And it even emphasizes that it’s outside of their control, i.e. involuntary.
How is that supposed to cultivate healthier views of women? It’s literally telling men “You’re worthless because you can’t get laid.” How do you expect them to react to that in any way other then “Oh gee, then I guess I’d better learn how to get laid.” And then they start down an algorithmic rabbit hole of “dating coaches” and pick-up artists which sucks them into the manosphere grift.
Every time I see “incel” used as an insult or approbation I flinch a little, because it only cements the demise of healthy gender relations a little more each time.
These people started as socially awkward weirdos and loners. They were bullied and ostracized, and turned to the only spaces where they felt accepted. It’s no wonder they wound up being negged and radicalized by predatory grifters.
I’ve pointed this out multiple times all along the way while witnessing this slow downfall, and people always say the same things. “Redpill/blackpill chud INCEL, no one likes you, these people aren’t worth defending, no one healthy or reasonable would let themselves be radicalized, or maybe if they weren’t inherently flawed they wouldn’t be friendless to begin with, etc. etc. etc.” and it all boils down to the same thing: conform or die; the friendless deserve no pity.
It’s fucking hopeless…
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 4 days ago:
That’s up to 5% of reported cases. How many false accusations actually make it to a formal complaint, rather than simply circulating the rumor mill? If your intent is character assassination, you wouldn’t expose your accusations to scrutiny by bringing it to court.
Also, 1 in 20 is a huge number when you consider how many reported cases there are. That is by no means “rare.” Quite common, actually.
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 4 days ago:
If it’s a peer-reviewed study, would you mind linking the actual study? Because it doesn’t seem to be published; i.e., hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet.
If it’s well-designed, then surely the survey questions will stand up to scrutiny, correct?
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 4 days ago:
That’s not the question that was asked. You snuck an “all” in there to make it sound more ridiculous and uncreditable.
The question as phrased in the article simply says “do you think women lie about dv/sa.” It’s vague and open to interpretation, which is why it’s bad research methodology. But it’s more likely to be interpreted as “do you think any woman lies/has lied about dv/sa,” and because absolute statements are easily negated, the obvious answer to that question is yes. Otherwise you would have to claim “No woman ever lies or has ever lied about dv/sa,” and that’s patently false.
But you can go ahead and accuse everyone who questions the research methodology of a poorly-written survey of having committed sexual violence. That only provides an example proving that “Yes, some women lie about it.”
- Comment on 40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence: new research 4 days ago:
I think they were projecting a lil
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 4 days ago:
Anduril is a huge donor/sponsor of Nix Foundation and NixCon
discourse.nixos.org/t/…/70811?page=6
old.reddit.com/…/should_nisos_have_accepted_the_a…
Although it seems to be a matter of debate within the Nix community as to the nature and scope of open-source software and what limitations, if any, can (or should) be imposed…
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 4 days ago:
We do not, in fact, know enough to say there’s no consciousness at that level.
Anyone who tells you that is being intellectually dishonest.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 5 days ago:
That’s fucked up though. What happened to bioethics and review boards?
We don’t understand enough about human consciousness to say that those cells aren’t sentient. We have no idea what sort of experience, if any, they’re perceiving.
This is not okay…