Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on FTC to launch investigation into Microsoft’s cloud business 1 day ago:
Interesting choice… Musk has a bone to pick with Microsoft so even if the FTC gets hobbled, this investigation may get to survive the changing of the administration.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 2 days ago:
Hey… that just gave me a small idea… what if we made a “flock” or “herd” of Mastodon servers? The group of servers would all federate with each other, have the same block and allow lists, moderation policy and teams spread throughout them.
When you make an account you can be assigned a random instance name within the flock. If your instance goes down you could still possibly log in using other servers? Main benefit would be spreading server costs and maintenance effort and de-centralized operating, but still keep a centralized feel to it?
- Comment on USA President term limits 2 days ago:
It would take a HUUUUGE leap of logic
US Fifth Circuit of Appeals and Supreme Courts: “Hold My Beer”
For example, if Trump’s Republican Congress gets rid of elections, then this Amendment doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 3 days ago:
People want to leave X, but they still want the same old, rather than new stuff to make things better as a whole. They don’t want to have to do this “pick a server” thing, they want to have an algorithm spoonfeed them popular content, and it would be best for them to have to put in zero extra effort. In Masto you have to put in the hashtags to get found, and search/subscribe to hashtags to find stuff you want, and that seems to be too hard for people.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 3 days ago:
I don’t think it’s the worst outcome or the Fediverse needing to be written off because of this. At least for now BridgyFed is a thing, and it’s not like we have to capture every refugee, Mastodon has thriving and tight-knit communities.
- Comment on David Zaslav says Trump will fuel big media mergers 1 week ago:
Yep. Big corps are going to have their payday. Fixing Trumpism and the whole, “I got mine, fuck y’all else” American attitude is a problem I have no solution for.
Rampant capitalism and corporate feudalism, there are many different solutions to resist it. Some are violent, but the ones I would prefer are starting more collectivism in the local community. Just like how in the Fediverse and FOSS communities, like-minded individuals share thoughts, knowledge, crafts, media. This can be expanded to all fields, some easier than others. There are obviously pain points (moderation, doomscrolling, poor default filtering, clashing ideas and just straight up trolling, limited features, reliance on tons of unpaid volunteer work and so on), but what we’ve got here is impressive despite all that.
Community gardens with shared harvests, municipal and community-owned broadband networks, employee-owned grocers and retail, slowly and broadly expanding outward with a federated and negotiated supply chain model between interested parties.
It’s difficult, will encounter lots of problems as it grows and would cost more time, effort, and money, but this would bring power back to the people rather than those at the top.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 2 weeks ago:
That Kingston DataTraveller I have as well and it’s my ol’ reliable from at least 9 years ago. For some reason PCs put up a fuss with recognizing other people’s USBs at boot, I’ve never once had an issue with the Kingston.
It is true that it is slower but for a live distro, install and troubleshoot disk it does the job perfectly fine.
- Comment on Is it okay to take drugs to make yourself a better person? Does it make a difference if "better" is mental or if it's physical? 2 weeks ago:
Sure I think so overall, but “drugs” is a broad category, so I’ll try to hone in on it.
If you are normally healthy, if you feel sick from a cold, flu, fever, allergies, motion sickness etc. there’s little reason that you shouldn’t take OTC medication to help you get through recovery and purposely abstaining is needless suffering. When you feel you’ve recovered is when you stop using them.
If you are prescribed medication by a physician then you take it as prescribed. If taking it doesn’t feel like it is effective or it makes you feel worse, you talk to the doctor to make adjustments or switch medication.
For casual recreational drugs (ranging from caffeine, alcohol, cannabis, tobacco) occasional use is fine, but my opinion is that you would rather have the default be without it, if the default is with it in excess then you should consult a doctor.
For abuse of OTC drugs, prescriptions and illegal drugs, it’s a sign of a problem if you’re on them and can’t get off. They are a trap that is very easy to fall into and hard to get out of.
I don’t hate people that have been caught in that trap but I think they deserve a lot of helping hands, so that it would be possible for them to live a healthier life and have that be their normal rather than being on a drug trip be their normal. At the same time I don’t blame many such folks, a drug trip sounds like a way better life than just sitting on the street sober as a homeless person. They are victims of their circumstance. People need to have a normal living space if we want people to live a normal, sober life. Drugs are great but they break our brains and bodies if used improperly.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
Likes: the small community, traditional forum vibe. No ads, no oppressive corporate hand to keep things advertiser-friendly. Interests and views tend to align, but I can have a healthy disagreement on many issues with most users here.
Dislikes: heavy use of downvoting simply unpopular opinions (a mild annoyance). Difficult to pick between posting in a rarely active niche community and a very active but general community (sometimes I just crosspost). The threat of centralization, with Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml having by far the largest communities (I would like to see more active communities spread across sites, though I make an effort sometimes to comment on different servers). Some big features I’d like to see that still seem far from implementation, such as multi-communities.
- Comment on What do I put down on my resume? 2 weeks ago:
The wording makes sense, but resumé training I have taken has emphasized starting lines with action words that show where your experiences and accomplishments are.
- Comment on What do I put down on my resume? 2 weeks ago:
Operated [equipment] at Walmart.
Trained to use a variety of pallet organization machinery.
Handled a high volume of goods skillfully operating motorized forklifts
- Comment on Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall 2 weeks ago:
Oh sure, next let’s have an AI open my Steam and play the games I want for me.
- Comment on Actual Budget is a fantastic FOSS budgeting tool that you can self-host 2 weeks ago:
Neat, I did already transfer my budgeting to GNUCash a few months ago, but this looks shiny too.
- Comment on what's stops one from scavenging the best parts of old phones and putting them into a new one? 2 weeks ago:
I’d say that I could do it for you, even, given sufficient effort, time and money. However, it would be the size of a shoebox. And don’t you dare open that shoebox or else all the parts are going to come falling out.
- Comment on POV: me shitposting in every comment section of posts that refer to bananas 2 weeks ago:
Lamp oil, rope, bombs? You want it? It’s yours my friend. As long as you have enough bananas.
- Comment on Walking into Pfizer or Eli Lilly 3 weeks ago:
How to tell whether you are working in a school tech lab or an industry tech lab:
Are all the specialized machines 15 to 40 years old?
Do the specialized machines have to be wheeled out from storage every time you want to use them?
If either answer is yes, you know you are in a school’s tech/medical lab.
- Comment on Where does a man get a proper shoe horn that will not break 3 weeks ago:
Yeah the one you mentioned is probably better but if you use it properly, holding the horn vertically and don’t step on it with your heel, that should drastically have the shoehorn last longer even if plastic.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, Starmer is right though…
By definition if you make all the money you need to live from investments like stocks, bonds, or leasing out homes then you aren’t working class. If you work a regular job, but have some additional income from investment savings you are working class, but the Labour government isn’t having to focus on those investments going up as much as making your working life more comfortable.
- Comment on Where does a man get a proper shoe horn that will not break 3 weeks ago:
I used the OMSORG, the ikea one with a cute lil face on the holding end. Shoe horns don’t break in my experience but I always put on nice shoes slowly with them, rushing might cause me to step on the shoe horn and deform or snap it…
- Comment on Blizzard promise "something for everyone" in Warcraft's 30th Anniversary Direct next month 3 weeks ago:
A new in-game plague? /s
- Comment on Minecraft is losing VR support next year 3 weeks ago:
This is why Java edition and mods reign supreme.
- Comment on As Corporate Landlords Spread, a Mold Epidemic Takes Root 3 weeks ago:
More accurately, it’s an epidemic of corporate landlords not fixing stuff that needs to be.
- Comment on Wednesday it is, my dudes. 3 weeks ago:
We need a version of “What does the Fox Say” with every animal sound replaced with ‘mu’.
- Comment on Get good. 3 weeks ago:
“They’re deliberately trying not to look like they’re talking about me!”
“They must be talking about me!”
- Comment on The Death of the Junior Developer 3 weeks ago:
The bad firms are going to lay off most or all of their juniors, hire AI leash-holders or something and do fine to code everything their hearts dream of, but at some point (5-10 years my estimate) enough of the seniors have left and shit hits the fan in a way where AI models can’t save the company from its own creations.
The thing that ChatGPT doesn’t have (at least right now) is the ability to tell management to piss off. I assure everyone that this is what the recipe for disaster for many firms will be, if any.
The smarter firms will have a keep a sizable contingent of juniors, who will work with help from LLMs, but have seniors teach them to have a bullshit detector in their industry.
Or, we start up all the coal power plants to keep the ever-hungry AI chatbots alive so humanity is fucked in the end anyway.
- Comment on Hmmm 4 weeks ago:
The whole point of casinos is to get people to feel like they are one play away from winning big, in perpetuity.
- Comment on Microsoft's LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that's your problem 5 weeks ago:
How about, a company offering a feature that is OPT-OUT would be responsible for the contents of that feature. That will convince companies to actually require user consent.
- Comment on Why does the PC gaming industry still use such deceptive pricing? 1 month ago:
Look, you will have a sizable contingent of people shelling out an additional $20 to $80 just to play a game a few days early, with little to no other benefits. Their impatience is capitalized on.
- Comment on Linux malware “perfctl” behind years-long cryptomining campaign 1 month ago:
What I love about Linux software vulnerability and exploit news articles are these hilarious “evil penguin” illustrations. Windows’ bug ones are not nearly as interesting with usually like a skull on a monitor.
- Comment on Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations 1 month ago:
Expectation: it doesn’t work well at all
Result: It kinda works?
