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- Comment on What would have to happen to make everybody realize we weren't exaggerating when we said Trump would be like Hitler? 6 days ago:
You go further, people don’t necessarily know how oblivious America is either, and go more by romanticised Hollywood tropes about the land of opportunity and cowboys.
Source: Have family all over.
Also, we pretty much see America as an enemy more often than not these days. You can shove that 51st state implication.
- Comment on What would have to happen to make everybody realize we weren't exaggerating when we said Trump would be like Hitler? 6 days ago:
As someone from outside, lol no.
Most Americans don’t understand that other countries have sovereignty as good as their own. Or that they are as good as any other people.
Okay, that bit is true. Hitler was a bit more than just oblivious, though.
- Comment on What would have to happen to make everybody realize we weren't exaggerating when we said Trump would be like Hitler? 6 days ago:
They don’t want Hitler, they just want everything he stood for with a few groups swapped out. If they actually wanted Hitler that would be bad, because dad/grandpa fought against Hitler.
Any apparent hypocrisy is just a technicality, and people only point it out because of their derangement syndrome. /s
- Comment on What would have to happen to make everybody realize we weren't exaggerating when we said Trump would be like Hitler? 6 days ago:
He would have to grow a tiny mustache and start speaking German.
Okay, maybe it’s not that bad, but it really does seem like people have trouble generalising the concept of a fascist outside of it’s historical visual trappings.
- Comment on Whats a good Resource on Learning 6502 Assembly, for someone who has little to no experience Programming? 2 weeks ago:
Wow, what a place to start!
- Comment on Stop trying to make ‘kagis’ a thing. 1 month ago:
We really need a single word, given how often it comes up.
- Comment on Low-quality papers based on public health data are flooding the scientific literature 1 month ago:
The motivation isn’t, but the technology to generate a slop paper is.
- Comment on The word literally makes me so irrationally angry 2 months ago:
Yes, I think it’s a pretty common pet peeve.
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 2 months ago:
You’re right, it is absurd.
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 2 months ago:
Your whole profile is “I’m a leftist theory guru”. And then you don’t actually have anything to offer when engaged.
- Comment on New ATHEIST community. 2 months ago:
And honestly, most of Lemmy is already pretty close, haha.
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 2 months ago:
Not if you’re doing it purely for clout.
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 2 months ago:
Humourism is a thing. Y’know, Hippocratese wrote about it. They used to do bloodletting to balance the humours.
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 2 months ago:
Lol, who’s side are you on?
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure last time I read a thing you sent me and replied, you just told me to read more things.
- Comment on Just blocked hexbear 2 months ago:
Free thought, or aimlessly contrarian?
You could pretty much swap in flat Earth theory here and it would still make perfect sense.
- Comment on Dead OS Walking: 30 Days on Windows XP in 2025 — fireborn 2 months ago:
Lol, and this guy is blind on top of it all. I respect the commitment - people in my life are pissed I’m not on all the big walled gardens.
I’m not eager to turn this into a malware museum
It’s an XP machine on the internet. I think it already is.
- Comment on A high-resolution spectrometer that fits into smartphones 2 months ago:
Yeah, the basic principle does sound solid. It sounds like they’re not even relying on it to work like random filters, but are applying statistical analysis to whatever superposition of speckle patterns comes out of the device.
The level of precision they’re talking about sounds more impressive than I would guess for it, though (1nm over 1um), and I don’t see the connection claimed with optical trapping or ultrafast imaging at all. If it checks out, I expect we’ll hear more in not too long.
- Comment on A high-resolution spectrometer that fits into smartphones 2 months ago:
Wow. Big if true!
- Comment on A high-resolution spectrometer that fits into smartphones 2 months ago:
If someone can replicate this research, it would basically amount to a way to measure the composition of anything. That seems like it could be handy to me.
- Comment on Cancel Lemmy - A piefed community to discuss Alternatives to and moving away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
Most of the research I’ve been doing has mentioned that Piefed seems to take less resources than Lemmy for some reason.
Interesting! Having looked at the Lemmy code, I do have my suspicions about the way it (currently) manages database access.
Yeah, getting a static IP has been a pain for decades. Best of luck!
- Comment on Cancel Lemmy - A piefed community to discuss Alternatives to and moving away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
Ah, I was thinking of the similarly-named Kbin.
Although nothing in there seems to be federating over.
- Comment on Cancel Lemmy - A piefed community to discuss Alternatives to and moving away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
I think I’d distinguish between a voluntary boycott and a top-down choice by some media monopoly. The latter is what the fediverse is designed to avoid.
How close are you to self-hosting? I’m pretty curious what the overhead is like, since Python is intrinsically going to need more.
- Comment on Cancel Lemmy - A piefed community to discuss Alternatives to and moving away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
I’m gonna say Python is not the correct choice here, when Lemmy can already get sluggish. Cancel PieFed? /s
PHP was a weird choice for anything in the 2020’s, but Mbin is defunct anyway.
- Comment on Cancel Lemmy - A piefed community to discuss Alternatives to and moving away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
Why?
- Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 3 months ago:
Nope, that works fine for me. Do you hate this enough to switch?
- Comment on I don't like the Linux clipboard situation 3 months ago:
Uhh, so I’ve been on Xfce for a while, and I’ve never seen this. When did the madness start?
You mean into a GUI shell emulator, right? (I didn’t even know there was a clipboard that functions when not in a graphical session, otherwise)
- Comment on Call to defederate from feddit.org over zionism 3 months ago:
I don’t want to defederate anything. That’s super Orwellian and shitty, but so is .ml sometimes and I still do stuff over there.
- Comment on Inside Nvidia's GeForce 6000 Series 5 months ago:
I think you’re a little late, but nice.
- Comment on Inside Nvidia's GeForce 6000 Series 5 months ago:
Am I missing something, or is this very not retro?