salacious_coaster
@salacious_coaster@infosec.pub
- Comment on Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us? 1 day ago:
Had the same experience on Blue sky. I was never into Twitter, so I checked out Bsky to see if that was better. Nah. Just different political circle jerking.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
The hero the Internet needs
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
At long last, and at grotesque costs, we finally have a machine that repeats anything a billionaire says. What a time to be alive.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
Wrong. The single biggest thing most of us can do to reduce harm to the environment is not have kids. Each human, no matter how responsible, can’t help but add to the problems. The mountain of diapers for each baby alone is obscene. Each baby you don’t have is a whole ass person that will never add to food or electricity or water demands at all.
- Comment on Why do you think I USE search operators? 1 week ago:
“spouse husband”?
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 1 week ago:
Yes. I can only imagine Light Yagami doing 52413 in the Death Note
- Comment on Folks not buying PCs from US vendors 'tariff' stockpiles 2 weeks ago:
“Why aren’t flat broke US consumers buying our premium AI PCs that offer literally no advantages over their current hardware, and also include horrific spyware?”
- Comment on What are the differences between 1) probabillities, 2) possibillities, and 3) plausabillities? 2 weeks ago:
Possibility: it can technically happen Probability: statistically significant likelihood of happening Plausibility: a possibility that passes the laugh test
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft and most other tech giants have long since stopped feeding their cash cows in favor of squeezing them until they’re dead.
- Comment on Hell yeah bröther 2 weeks ago:
That’s the sickest burn since “President Poupon”
- Comment on This California community's water will be shut off if it doesn't approve a stunning 300% rate hike by Monday 2 weeks ago:
Huh. It’s almost like you can’t use finite resources as if they’re cheap and infinite forever. Fuck golf courses.
- Comment on Why do Conservatives physically look evil? 2 weeks ago:
This is one of those times when you’re gonna have to acknowledge your own cognitive biases to move on. We all have them. This one is pretty obvious.
- Comment on Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green 2 weeks ago:
Demand from who? Not the users, that’s for sure.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft support was already mostly useless. So, yeah, a useless AI probably could replace that, but it would also probably be more expensive.
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- Comment on Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games! 2 weeks ago:
Picking up Rogue Legacy 2 at half off. I really enjoyed the first one
- Comment on Sign me up 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know, personally. But these are the guys that had a moral panic over a tan suit and Dijon mustard, so I would believe it.
- Comment on Sign me up 2 weeks ago:
I continue to have my mind blown that anyone takes this hysterical, cartoonish, right wing fear mongering seriously.
- Comment on US consumer confidence weakens on job market worries 2 weeks ago:
unexpectedly
🙄
- Comment on Microsoft’s new genAI model to power agents in Windows 11 3 weeks ago:
Once again Microsoft, I do not want this.
- Comment on Crosspost if you agree! 3 weeks ago:
OP: roll for perception Half this thread (rolls 1): What’s this Boomer shit??
- Comment on Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer? 3 weeks ago:
It mostly started with the cold war. The US was obsessed with stopping the perceived threat of communism. In the process, it discovered the benefits of power mongering and war profiteering.
- Comment on Scientists achieve 1,000-fold increase in solar electricity using ultra-thin layers 3 weeks ago:
That is a super misleading headline. What’s the efficiency improvement over existing technology, instead of raw barium titanate?
- Comment on Salesforce and Slack announce price hikes following expansion of AI integrations 3 weeks ago:
What a time to be a snake oil sales person.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 3 weeks ago:
Your defense of the Democrats boils down to “at least we’re not the GOP.” And you’re not wrong. I’ve done my part by voting against the GOP in every election since I was eligible. The Democrats themselves don’t even do that. I wish their effort would at least match mine, seeing as it’s their full-time job. And I wish you held your reps as accountable as your fellow voters.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 3 weeks ago:
As individuals, we can only influence our friends, family, and kids as best we can. Sometimes that’s not at all. We’re all now familiar with the trope of “Fox News ate my parents’ brains”.
This isn’t a game or a movie that necessarily has to have a happy ending. Sometimes shit’s just fucked. As long as the propaganda machine is in place, millions of people will be brainwashed.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 3 weeks ago:
I agree with you that the parties are not the same. The GOP are outright evil puppets of the billionaire class. The Democrats are ineffectual cowards who’ve made careers out of paying lip service to the right thing, and every now and then doing something helpful if it’s convenient for them and doesn’t piss off their billionaire donors. A lot of the time that ends up translating to the same results for most people.
I don’t buy the “sorry, our hands are tied” line we always get from the left. Dems throw up their hands even when they do have majorities. The first meaningful opportunity the Democrats had to obstruct Trump’s agenda, after the left base had been screaming for weeks for their representatives to do something, Schumer rolled over immediately. I can’t take this party seriously anymore.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 3 weeks ago:
It’s not a rhetorical problem. It’s a propaganda problem. People aren’t being reasoned into right wing politics. It’s being beaten into their heads day and night by talk radio, cable news, local news, and YouTube; and this has been going on very deliberately for decades. The right wing powers-that-be have been busily, patiently, creating a massive, pervasive propaganda machine for a long time while the left sat on their hands. We’re now seeing the results: a world where the right can do and say literally anything they want without consequence. Their base is very literally brainwashed through brute force repeated messaging that nobody can compete with.
We needed the Democrats to do something about this propaganda machine before it became unstoppable. They already didn’t do that.
The best thing any of us can do is try to steer kids away from the propaganda before they get sucked in.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 3 weeks ago:
Working class: “Can we have meaningful reform?” Conservatives: “No.” Liberals: "No 😘 🌈 "
- Comment on Hosting virtualbox for my students 4 weeks ago:
Please ask for your department’s help before setting up rogue hypervisors on your school’s network. Depending on network security, you might not get far anyway.