Nougat
@Nougat@kbin.social
- Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. 8 months ago:
Before they shut down the APIs, I deleted all my posts and edited all my comments.
Spez doesn’t get to profit from me anymore.
- Comment on DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses 8 months ago:
Why is the default setting to enable remote administration?
- Comment on Why does Microsoft want me to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11? 8 months ago:
I have to wonder if you said the same things about Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP.
- Comment on 10 Commandmends for a digital age 8 months ago:
Who’s not interested in whose opinion now?
- Comment on 10 Commandmends for a digital age 8 months ago:
That you've employed a slippery slope analogy far too widely?
- Comment on 10 Commandmends for a digital age 8 months ago:
I have also hired exterminators and taken antibiotics.
- Comment on 10 Commandmends for a digital age 8 months ago:
You shall not think of living things in hierarchical order (x is better than y)
Having to choose between my child and my dog would be a horrible choice to have to make, but I know exactly how I would make it.
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 9 months ago:
Greed? How does Microsoft profit from not supporting twenty year old hardware?
- Comment on Jewish theatregoers felt 'unsafe' at comedy show - BBC News 9 months ago:
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- Comment on Jewish theatregoers felt 'unsafe' at comedy show - BBC News 9 months ago:
Make sure your homework is done before bedtime.
- Comment on Jewish theatregoers felt 'unsafe' at comedy show - BBC News 9 months ago:
No.
- Comment on Jewish theatregoers felt 'unsafe' at comedy show - BBC News 9 months ago:
woooosh
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 9 months ago:
But isn't Microsoft just so evil for making it to their operating system doesn't function flawlessly on twenty year old hardware?
- Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees? 9 months ago:
How does employing someone who’s been convicted of battery not create an unsafe work environment for everyone?
- Comment on The hospital administrators are starting a meeting and "you need to leave" 9 months ago:
Based on "you need to leave," they kicked out patients' families who were already in the lounge, instead of going to one that nobody was already in.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 9 months ago:
AM I BEING CONSTRAINED? OR AM I FREE TO GO?
- Comment on How do you tell the difference between dream and reality? 9 months ago:
I've also heard that if you read something, look away, look back and read it again, and it's different, then you're dreaming. You can practice this experiment when you're awake; this will condition your brain to do that reflexively, and eventually you'll do it in a dream.
One of the possible outcomes of this kind of dream-testing is lucid dreaming. When you're dreaming, knowing you're dreaming inside the dream can give you some semi-conscious control of the entire dream universe. Wanna fly? BAM you can fly. Enemies need smiting? SMITE. Done.
Now I'm wondering if the "real me" that, you know is actually real ... doesn't just entirely believe that I'm really real, but is really just a dream of the next level up. Same thing goes for the other direction, with innumerable layers to the onion. How could I possibly know?
fuck
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Yeah that's the tack I've heard, just buy a month. I decided to buy a year, because I have existed for fucking ever, and there are a good number of those data brokers that drag their feet longer than a month to remove your info.
- Comment on First game you played 9 months ago:
Mattel Electronic Football
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Incogni is cheaper.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on photosynthesis ? 9 months ago:
I think it's very cool that photosynthesis only works because it takes advantage of quantum uncertainty.
- Comment on Somewhere along the way Humanity lost the ability for long term thinking. 9 months ago:
Two million years in the future?
- Comment on how can I develop a thick skin? 10 months ago:
Damaging thought patterns are just a part of the problem for many people. Those thought patterns are part and parcel of the landscape of personal relationships you have in your life, and talking to someone outside of that paradigm can give you the opportunity to think differently.
A decent therapist is going to come to the table with tools and skills to share, because they have training and experience. They're not (hopefully) just some random "other person." They'll also be better equipped to recognize the symptoms of specific clinical health conditions, and address those conditions accordingly, whether that means adjusting what kinds of coping skills they recommend to you, or referring you to a psychiatrist for appropriate medication to be used alongside therapy.
I was raised in an area where if you have a problem: deal with it.
"Deal with it." Okay, how? If you don't know how, and you get stuck in a feedback loop, a therapist can help you break out of that loop. Could you perhaps do that on your own? Maybe, and if you can, it may take longer and be much more difficult. There is no shame in getting guidance through the difficult parts of life from people who have expertise in providing such guidance.
- Comment on Electric vehicles will need 'battery passports' to enter EU from 2027 10 months ago:
How is this going to impact quick battery swap arrangments?
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- Comment on FedEx is launching a new e-commerce platform as it competes with Amazon 10 months ago:
I'm willing to bet the vendor sent those two boxes as two separate "1 of 1" shipments. No idea what the deal with the tree would be.
- Comment on trending hack sending emails about a support ticket 10 months ago:
The people operating the ticketing systems that are being abused will need to individually take action to deal with those incoming false support requests. They’re already aware of it, you don’t need to try and tell anyone.
Another thing to be aware of - sometimes malicious actors will do this in order to overwhelm your mailbox because they’re doing a identity theft or account takeover thing against you, so watch out for emails that say some password of yours was changed, or a purchase was made or something. This might not apply to you, you mentioned other recipients. But it’s still good to know.
- Comment on trending hack sending emails about a support ticket 10 months ago:
This is someone abusing ticketing systems that send autoresponses. Nothing has been hacked, the best thing for you to do is make a mailbox filter rule that trashes those and move on.
- Comment on Instance admin updates + Blahaj 10 months ago:
I've been kind of watching this from the sidelines. Requiring separate admin and general use accounts is definitely a good idea, but it doesn't absolutely solve the problem of "someone who possesses greater power expressing themselves in confrontational ways." Once you're wearing an "admin hat," you can't ever really take it off, and you have to know that your actions are always going to be under greater scrutiny, regardless of the user account in question.
However.
I'm a big proponent of "we call people what they want to be called," but this is the very first time I have ever heard that using generic pronouns is somehow consciously offensive. I get that if Party A has made undeniably clear what pronouns they use, and Party B insists on using generic pronouns, yeah, that could be an action consciously intended to offend or put down - but I also think that it's not necessarily and always that way. Context matters, and the context in this particular incident suggests (to me, at least) that transphobia has absolutely nothing to do with it.
Language is an ever changing thing, although it may change more slowly than desired. When you're talking about extremely foundational bits of language - like pronouns - it takes a huge amount of effort (especially for older people, of which I am one) to get your brain to change gears and use the words and thoughts that you want to. I know this from personal experience. When I am talking to or about a person in my own family, who I have known since his birth 18+ years ago, it is extremely difficult to adjust to a "new paradigm," even when "new" means "several years in the making." I suspect that I will always have to make conscious efforts to think and speak in ways that I want to, and that I won't always get it right. Just because I don't always get it right doesn't make me a transphobe.
Forklift that situation over to text on a screen with someone who is essentially anonymous to me, with whom I may never have interacted with before, it's highly likely that I'm going to get it wrong even if I try. Then, if I use the generic pronoun "they" in order to avoid misgendering someone, and I get smacked down for that? That's just plain unreasonable, and I have no interest interacting with anyone who would throw shade for that reason.
For blahaj to threaten defederating with an entire instance over just that is completely unreasonable. Maybe that threat was taken based on an incomplete or inaccurate understanding of the facts. Maybe there are facts that I don't know. What I do know is that just because someone uses strong language to disagree with someone else doesn't mean there's any bigotry at play.
- Comment on Is there a term for someone that likes other people to smell their farts? 10 months ago:
Exactly.