UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on The US Is Considering a TP-Link Router Ban—Should You Worry? 7 hours ago:
As always US wants the data, they just don’t want anyone else to have it for free
I guarantee you that American data is going to Chinese companies. Temu has your data. Alibaba has your data. Bilibili has your data. They’re just getting it by purchasing from American data centers.
- Comment on You can't see me 10 hours ago:
Good news for any aspiring commercial web developers interested in filling an underserved niche.
- Comment on You can't see me 11 hours ago:
I was spitballing. I did not verify whether the domain name was taken.
- Comment on GOP districts to lose big if Trump halts clean energy factories 11 hours ago:
Big chunk of this is just Texas and Florida, where wind energy has been a boom business for nearly a decade. Wind produces enormous but short-lived electricity surpluses. That, in turn, creates big incentives for battery tech to manage the excess until prices recover.
Basically, ERCOT - the Texas system that causes wholesale electricity rates to periodically go vertical - has artificially stimulated a massive boom in both raw electricity and electricity storage.
I don’t think Trump’s policies change this outright. The incentives to build out green energy remain enormous even under basic market conditions. But they will change the rate at which new wind/solar get built out. So Texas has more rolling blackouts to look forward to as a result of this policy.
- Comment on US refuses to co-sponsor draft UN resolution condemning Russia aggression in Ukraine 11 hours ago:
If the US is blocking token resolutions condemning senseless bloodshed, it must be a day ending in “y”. Can’t think of a country currently in conflict where we’re not openly cheering for more death and destruction.
- Comment on You can't see me 11 hours ago:
The NSA manages something on the order of dozens of Zetabytes of information. I am not particularly worried about them linking my IP address to “FartSnifferFanatic.toot”
However, I am very concerned with FartSnifferFanatic.toot littering my browser history and cookies cache with trackers that Amazon can then use to suggest purchase ideas.
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 1 day ago:
Most people are perfectly content to pay a reasonable price to get access to the things they want. But if you make that impossible, they’ll find other options.
That’s a sliding scale, though. Streaming comes at a fixed price.
- Comment on Why I ditched my Pi-hole but still block ads - mattsayar.com 1 day ago:
Listen, I appreciate the perspective, but this is just an ad.
- Comment on The US, for being the greatest pusher of capitalism around the world, has the most socialistic policies for its major sports leagues 2 days ago:
Circus subscriptions just went up again.
- Comment on The US, for being the greatest pusher of capitalism around the world, has the most socialistic policies for its major sports leagues 2 days ago:
Me, a socialist: “Please, I’m begging you, sports should be a municipal amenity not a profit driven cash grab.”
You, an American Capitalist: “And then they made me pay for parking! And then I had to give Ticketmaster an extra 12% on top of the entrance price! And then half the stadium was just 20’ advertisement billboards! And it’s all going into the pockets of a dozen extremely rich oligarchs, most of whom don’t even live here!!! JUST LIKE COMMUNIST RUSSIA!”
- Comment on All of Humane's AI pins will stop working in 10 days 3 days ago:
My man is going to get a permanent desk at TrashFuture if this keeps up.
- Comment on Little know fact 3 days ago:
He was hotter as a furry.
- Comment on Did I post this to the right comm 3 days ago:
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Bible
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Protocols of the Elders of Zion
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The latest Jordan B Peterson brainfart
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Anything tagged “Longtermist”
Big Image + Short Blurb is great for getting a quick rise out of people. But if you want to properly pill someone, you need to hit them with the firehose of content. The YouTube rabbit hole rots your brain not with a six second short but with a thousand five hour reactionary rants.
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- Comment on I miss myspace 3 days ago:
Everything was somewhere in between slashdot.org, ytmnd.com, and 4chan.
The nostalgia is entirely wasted on anyone who lived through 90s internet. It was cool because I was 12 and getting to drink from the information fire hose was a daily adventure. But it had all the same garbage politics, slop content, and horndog users of the modern internet.
The biggest difference between then and now is that Then Internet was considered a kind of counterculture (which meant 90s Reichwing Radio DJ Rush Limbaugh screeching like a stuck pig every time he heard about a new fad or meme he didn’t like) while Now Internet has your Rush Limbaugh tier content and your Chinese Rednote apps bumping into one another in the same oversized wave pool.
- Comment on I miss myspace 3 days ago:
It would be worse. The site got bought out by News Corp (FOX’s parent company) in 2005.
The site would be some kind of TurningPointUSA / DailyWire right-wing trash factory. Every song on there would be Ben Shapiro rapping or Oliver Anthony releasing the “Rich Men North of Richmond” techno remix.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 3 days ago:
Nevermind how cybersecurity is a niche field that can vary by use case and environment.
At some level, you’ll need to learn the security system of your company (or the lack there of) and the tools used by your department.
There is no class you can take that’s going to give you more than broad theory.
- Comment on Get ya every time 3 days ago:
Extra exhausting when you hear some chest beating 2A loving conservative insist that Vietnam/Afghanistan proves police states can’t ever work in America.
There’s simply no conceptualization of what domestic resistance takes or who you need to win in a protracted insurgency.
We’ve just got a bunch of keyboard commanders who think your League of Legends rank would make you a modern day Rambo.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
You had me until “unbiased therapy”
- Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices. 6 days ago:
They offer data pacakages that are 50GB (for example) for social media data , and only 1GB for regular internet
In fairness, social media and streaming are absolute data hogs. I could get by very easily with 1GB for the old school message board internet of the early '00s.
- Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid 1 week ago:
I’ve seen Democrats cackle with glee every time a hurricane hits the Gulf Coast, because “That’ll show those stupid climate change deniers!”
And I’ve seen Republicans making the “keep an aspirin between your knees” joke about abortion every chance they get.
This feels like a country full of people who absolutely despise one another. I don’t know how you operate a social safety net under those conditions.
- Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid 1 week ago:
“We’re winning! We’re winning! We’re making those little liberal piggies squeal!”
That’s all that matters. Policies are a fucking joke. They’re not real. It’s all vibes-based politicking.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
That link isn’t resolving.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
I’m going to recommend it be changed to “The Gulf,” since it meets all criteria for a name change - most importantly that it be a name in common usage by locals.
So now when I refer to “The Gulf States”, I’m typically referring to Alabama and Florida and Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 1 week ago:
You have drug cartels.
- Comment on Mexican president blasts US for harboring drug cartels 1 week ago:
She don’t miss
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills 1 week ago:
Memorization is not the same thing as critical thinking.
A library of internalized axioms is necessary for efficient critical thinking. You can’t just turn yourself into a Chinese Room of analysis.
A well designed test will freely give you an equation sheet or even allow a cheat sheet.
Certain questions are phrased to force the reader to pluck out and categorize bits of information, to implement complex iterations of simple formulae, and to perform long-form calculations accurately without regard to the formulae themselves.
But for elementary skills, you’re often challenging the individual to retain basic facts and figures. Internalizing your multiplication tables can serve as a heuristic that’s quicker than doing simple sums in your head. Knowing the basic physics formulae - your F = ma, ρ=m/V, f= V/λ etc - can give you a broader understanding of the physical world.
If all you know how to do is search for answers to basic questions, you’re slowing down your ability to process new information and recognize patterns or predictive signals in a timely manner.
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills 1 week ago:
Learning how to evade and disable AI is becoming a critical thinking skill unto itself. Feels a bit like how I’ve had to learn to navigate around advertisements and other intrusive 3rd party interruptions while using online services.
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills 1 week ago:
This isn’t a profound extrapolation. It’s akin to saying “Kids who cheat on the exam do worse in practical skills tests than those that read the material and did the homework.” Or “kids who watch TV lack the reading skills of kids who read books”.
Asking something else to do your mental labor for you means never developing your brain muscle to do the work on its own. By contrast, regularly exercising the brain muscle yields better long term mental fitness and intuitive skills.
This isn’t predicated on the gullibility of the practitioner. The lack of mental exercise produces gullibility.
Its just not something particular to AI. If you use any kind of 3rd party analysis in lieu of personal interrogation, you’re going to suffer in your capacity for future inquiry.
- Comment on Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness? 1 week ago:
Reminds me of the time Vivek Ramaswamy bilked investors for millions with a phoney Alzeheimer’s drug
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 week ago:
Hard disagree. The entire point of Lemmy is to move away from Corporate run, Billionaire run, Millionaire run, social media
Lemmy is a protocol for networking individual privately hosted social media instances. It is not a panacea for corporate control of social media infrastructure. You’re still hosting these sites on AWS / Azure / some other large corporately controlled private hardware setup. You’re still securing the URL from a private DNS. You’re still paying for these sites out of the surplus of a handful of wealth(ier) patrons and their friendly donors (or ending up like Hexbear.net, with a domain name up for grabs because it was mismanaged by part time broke amateurs).
Saying “Not our problem” is a woefully shortsighted.
There’s not a lot we can do about it individually. I would argue that the fractured - often openly hostile - intra-instance infighting on Lemmy feeds directly into OP’s image’s “this is too weird and scary” attitude.
If popping into the Fediverse and just picking a Lemmy instance was as straightforward as selecting “Communities I’m interested in” on other bigger social media feeds, the onboarding would be smoother. But if you poke around and see people going whole hog frothing at the mouth “Everyone on <instance>.<whatever> is morally degenerate and has ruined the community at large!!!” reactionary in between instances, that’s an immediate turn off that I don’t think anyone within the Lemmy network knows how to deal with.
Its the same intra-channel fighting we saw on Reddit, just ported into a more decentralized network. And it neglects the fundamentals of modern web hosting (we’re all at the mercy of the IANA / Cloudflare, etc / the major hosting companies).
Lemmy is, itself, a shortsighted patch on a much larger and scarier problem. The instance infighting only reveals how shortsighted.