salacious_coaster
@salacious_coaster@infosec.pub
- Comment on US consumer confidence weakens on job market worries 12 hours ago:
unexpectedly
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- Comment on Microsoft’s new genAI model to power agents in Windows 11 1 day ago:
Once again Microsoft, I do not want this.
- Comment on Crosspost if you agree! 1 day 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 days 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 5 days 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 5 days ago:
What a time to be a snake oil sales person.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 6 days 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 ? 6 days 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 6 days 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 ? 6 days 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 6 days ago:
Working class: “Can we have meaningful reform?” Conservatives: “No.” Liberals: "No 😘 🌈 "
- Comment on Hosting virtualbox for my students 1 week 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.
- Comment on Pizza order shows the world is on the brink 1 week ago:
What part of this article says or demonstrates the “world is on the brink?”
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 1 week ago:
Doubtful. The oligarch class only needs a handful of good developers to make working code for rich people use. The rest of us are being stuck with half-assed AI slop. They’re trying to carve 99% of us out of the economy (the parts that pertain to them) and relegate us to backbreaking wage slavery. Killing middle class jobs is the point, they think.
Not saying it’s a good plan, but it sure looks like what they’re trying to do.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yes, it’s common. My understanding is it’s actually more common in Europe and elsewhere, and on the rise globally. It’s getting crowded on this planet, and people want easy answers.
- Comment on Need clean laundry in the apocalypse 2 weeks ago:
For an effective demonstration, check out Project Zomboid.
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 2 weeks ago:
I’m still on Reddit for certain communities. But most of r/all and r/popular is just manufactured slop with bot-driven voting. It’s an outrage machine, like Facebook now.
- Comment on A World Without iPhones? 2 weeks ago:
When we all have green text bubbles, nobody does
- Comment on Why is lemmy so political?! 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty easy to filter out most political stuff on Lemmy and Reddit and similar platforms. Just subscribe to communities you like and stay out of All. If I go to All, I know what I’m in for. That’s on me.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 2 weeks ago:
Oh good, another reason not to buy Samsung anything. I already just didn’t like their UI.
- Comment on It's called seeing through a glass darkly. 3 weeks ago:
Did that kayak melt??
- Comment on No looky for you! 3 weeks ago:
A grammar Nazi takes time out of their day to give someone crap about a comma splice or argue about whether or not it’s appropriate to capitalize the first word after a colon. OPs like this are not “Grammar Nazi” fodder, it’s just language anarchy normalized by terminally online brainrot.
- Comment on what language would be best for me to learn? 4 weeks ago:
The language of wherever you want to spend substantial time. Probably not Russian I would think, but you do you
- Comment on Ancient 1 month ago:
There’s some kind of newfangled joke meta here, that I guess I’m too old to understand.
- Comment on Fuck you, Genie 1 month ago:
FuckThank you, Genie - Comment on Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis? 1 month ago:
Seems like a misnomer to call it an “AI jobs crisis.” LLMs just made it much more visible that CEOs and shareholders are greedy, shortsighted, and don’t know how anything works. Duolingo was already mediocre. Now it’s going to be completely useless.
- Comment on Everyone who need a little motivation 1 month ago:
The Modelo can 🤣
- Comment on Reminder that Trump and Musk are only Thiel's meat puppets. 1 month ago:
Palantir is a mysterious and powerful data analytics firm
- Comment on UN Experts Say US’s Deportation of Hundreds of Men to El Salvador Violates International Law 1 month ago:
Oh good. I’ll look forward to an end to the illegal operations very soon, then.
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 1 month ago:
Look. He had the stupid tariff idea. He liked it because he likes the thought of getting his way by punishing people who defy him. That’s how he sees tariffs. It wasn’t a good idea. People told him that. So, being a stubborn narcissist, he wanted to do it more. Now here we are.