SpookyBogMonster
@SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 1 day ago:
I love checking Lemmy in the morning, and seeing all the German language Memes. I can’t read them, since I don’t know German, but I like knowing that they’re over there, doing their thing ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on the year of the linux desktop 4 days ago:
They meant the verb, not the noun
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Post hog, loser, I bet my girldick is bigger than yours
- Comment on Rushmore 1 week ago:
Yeah, for any gringos with a limited Knowledge of indigenous history, imagine if ISIS genocided 99% of the world’s Catholics, and then built a giant statue of its founders on top of the ruins of the Vatican.
That’s what Mt. Rushmore is
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 1 week ago:
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 2 weeks ago:
Yeah? Well I blew into your mom’s mold last night!
- Comment on Asking the difficult questions 5 weeks ago:
I saw the title, and hoped someone was summoning Demons from the Key of Solomon or some shit. Like they were worried about their dog getting possessed.
But yeah, “am I hurting my dog’s brain with a card trick” is pretty funny too
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 5 weeks ago:
As someone who hasn’t been in a Best Buy in over 15 years… What the fuck do they sell then?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Some friends and I got together and watched Weapons for Halloween (on a friend’s jellyfin server) and we had a great time
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 1 month ago:
It’s a proxy server that works kind of like an Advanced version of the Wayback Machine. So old PCs like this, can connect to something like what the internet would’ve been like when they were first made.
I have the Protoweb browser on my Linux mint machine, running through wine. It’s fun to poke around at, and great for internet archaeology
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 1 month ago:
Run protoweb on that bad boy, and keep it alive 😎
- Comment on The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network 1 month ago:
I read something awhile back about a project to make a community run internet via mesh network. In tuscon, I think
- Comment on Change my mind 1 month ago:
You’re missing “Arguing on Facebook” followed by, “Still Arguing on Facebook, after Zucc replaces all your friends with robots”
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting Theory. 1 month ago:
I find that a lot of straight liberals will practically foam at the mouth to identify a Bad removed that they can be homophobic towards.
Remember all of those homoerotic images of Trump and Putin that libs loved to be openly disgusted by?
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 1 month ago:
I know capitalism is evil and all that jazz, but the Japanese consumer electronics boom was so sick
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 2 months ago:
Good thing I haven’t seen an ad in over a decade
- Comment on Who was your first childhood videogame crush? 2 months ago:
Posts you can pinpoint the average Lemmy users age with
- Comment on Sounds about right 2 months ago:
“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism”
- Comment on When real life generates the shitpost 3 months ago:
Even then, Jerry was always the weakest link on Seinfeld
- Comment on What's *your* favorite way to play old games? 4 months ago:
My use case is that this Mini PC acts as a living room console, and I like the Emulation Station front end, and that Emulators more or less work out of the box.
But my big issue with it, is that Steam has effectively been broken on Batocera for a long time now. So, if I could run all of my ROMs and more modern stuff via Steam, all on one OS, that would be great
How would Bazzite fair in a living room console kind of use case? What is setup like? Especially for emulators. Could I have it boot straight into a front end, like ES or Lutris?
- Comment on What's *your* favorite way to play old games? 4 months ago:
I have a mini PC running batocera, which has been great! It’s hooked up to the TV and can run up to PS3, and even Switch, though I haven’t been able to get a Switch emulator running yet.
And I can technically do Xbox360 too, but 360 emulation is in a sorry state, in general. And it’s even worse on Linux, because there’s no native Linux version, so batocera has to run the 360 emulator through Wine.
Other than that though, it’s great! Considering dual booting Steam OS to play more modern stuff, as well.
- Comment on Something we all can agree on 4 months ago:
Really use your noggin for this one.
Why would the Russian and Chinese governments want to influence a small collection of web forums with no real influence on the wider world?
No, they’re not here, they’re on Reddit. As are the US and Israeli governments, for that matter. Online influence campaigns are carried out by governments in places where they’ll be most effective, and by more than just your spooky oriental despotisms.
Now, why might .ml users, in general, be generally pro-china? The people who made Lemmy as a platform, and the folks who were first to adopt it (instances like Lemmygrad and Hexbear), were ideologically Marxist. Specifically, Marxist-Leninist. Marxist-Leninists, generally, support the existence of actually existing socialist States, as being socialist.
Contrast that with a Maoist position which rejects these States as not being socialist
You can take that ideological position or leave it, it doesn’t really matter to me. But what’s the more likely explanation here?
That the people who made, and first adopted, Lemmy as a platform tended to have a certain ideology, and so the early instances, like .ml, have people with a broadly shared opinion on a certain topic?
Or that the Chinese government, who probably had no damn clue what Lemmy is, is actively devoting money, and hundreds of people to influence a tiny speck of a Web forum where some nerds circle jerk about Linux, instead of focusing on influencing Facebook or Reddit.
- Comment on Usernames are very personal 4 months ago:
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Holds up spork >:3
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 4 months ago:
Yeah Tesla only incidentally makes cars. Their accrual business is being a Carbon Credits dealer. Which just goes to show that the whole concept of carbon credits is nonsense. Climate change can’t be solved by market mechanisms
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Baby girl, the “tankies” (what does that word even mean anymore?) That you’re so scared of, made the god damn platform you’re on!
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 4 months ago:
I wanna talk to Isaac Newton about his wizard alchemy hobby
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 4 months ago:
Thank you to the workers who actually programmed, tested, and implemented the thing*
- Comment on I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration 4 months ago:
I’m most stoked about RSS integration. I miss Firefox’s old RSS features
- Comment on AI Is a Total Grift 4 months ago:
Digital Avatars in teams arent actively destructive to the internet, the environment, and people’s grasp on reality.
I think you’re universalising a personal grievance, without fully accounting for the impacts of Metaverse bullshit, which was never practical or feasible to begin with, and the AI Apocalypse sweeping the internet
- Comment on I'm doing my part 5 months ago:
Yeah, this kind of vague, “kill your local pedophile :)” sentiment is often just an anti-LGBT dogwhistle and makes me uneasy.
If someone is going to post shit like this, and not actively tie it to the very obvious class dynamics of wealthy human traffickers, conservative Christians who promote child marriage, and politicians who protect them (without also being Anti-Semitic), then I just kind of assume it’s a thinly veiled call for violence against queer people