SpaceCowboy
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 1 week ago:
It would probably be fine if there was someone competent in Whitehouse to manage the fallout.
But since there isn’t, you are very likely correct.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 1 week ago:
Yeah I’m getting real dot com bubble vibes from all of this.
- Comment on The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says 1 week ago:
Only because after 15 years the AIs will have finished exterminating the human race.
- Comment on The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements 1 week ago:
I like it for desktop, but for me XFCE is all I need. I figure I want to mostly focus on the application I’m using not the Window Manager. I click the icon, application opens and I do stuff, and occassionally run apt update && apt upgrade and kinda forget the OS is even there.
With games I tend to have more issues with older games becoming broken after awhile than with new games not working because the OS is old. Only problems I’ve had with new games is because I had a computer that was >10 years old and eventually the hardware couldn’t run new games anymore. But then I mostly play strategy games and base builder games, so maybe that’s why I don’t have a lot of issues there.
Debian is the best OS for people that don’t want to think about the OS.
- Comment on The Debian project is proud to release Debian 13 "Trixie", a major update that brings new features, updated components, and numerous other improvements 1 week ago:
It’s sometimes unstable. But sometimes it’s mostly stable.
testing, stable, oldstable, etc are pointers to named branches (named after Toy Story characters BTW). Unstable is also a pointer but it always points to sid (the neighbour kid that breaks the toys).
Testing isn’t a rolling release. Yesterday testing pointed to trixie. Today stable points to trixie (because testing was completed and trixie has been “released”) and testing now points to forky which is a new branch that is basically a copy of unstable. They’ll do testing on forky and fix things and eventually stable will be pointed at forky (which will be Debian 14) and they’ll make a new testing branch called something else.
It’s an odd thing to call things “released” on a project that’s done openly. Debian 13 was just released today, but you can install what will be Debian 14 right now long before it’s released by installing forky. You can also contribute to their testing by submitting bug reports. But if you do install forky (testing) today, don’t be too disappointed if there’s a bunch of things broken because it’s the same as unstable right now. It will get more reliable as things are fixed and eventually be considered as stable. When Debian 14 is “released” you won’t need to upgrade anything if you’re on forky because you’ll have already been on it for a year or more.
But yeah, unstable is unstable, it’s just somewhere people can chuck packages on and experiment. Things will break there. Testing is testing, it’s there if you want to help out with testing. And stable is stable, you get that if you want something reliable and you don’t want to mess around with software occasionally breaking and having to track down what broke and submit bug reports.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 1 week ago:
You can also have a foot race with a Polar Bear. It’s fun and if you win, you get to live for another day.
- Comment on Expand North! So much room up there. 1 week ago:
In Canada pedo businessmen go to prison. In the US pedo businessmen go to the White House. We are not the same.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Is there anything you’re seeing that indicates Hamas can accomplish anything other than getting more people killed?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yes, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and Iran often hit civilian targets. And not by accident, they actually target civilians.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
How old are you?
I’m no spring chicken and that’s way before I was born.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
So just give the terrorists whatever they want?
Why wouldn’t Hamas just recover their strength and do more terrorism in the future? If they can expect to always be given a way out, why would they ever stop their terrorist activity?
There’s a reason for the old saw “we don’t negotiate with terrorists.” And Hamas clearly doesn’t give a shit about the lives of Palestinian civilians, so what’s the end game? Or do you not want it to end and just be Hamas terrorism forever?
Hamas has been doing this for decades now. October 7 was obviously beyond anything else they did before but Hamas firing rockets at civilian population centers, Hamas taking hostages has sadly been a commonplace thing for a long time. If you’re not aware, Yahya Sinwar was a prisoner that was previously released in exchange for hostages. Then he planned the October 7 attack. So Israel releases some more Yahya Sinwars in exchange for hostages and then what? In a decade or two we do this thing all over again?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You can’t defend the actions of Hamas you only know how to attack Israel. Why are you incapable of criticizing Hamas?
Right now it’s not all that different from how Germans kept fighting in WWII even when it was obvious they’d lose. It’s tragic how people can become so indoctrinated in hatred they can’t end a war when their cities are completely destroyed, there is zero chance they can win, they only thing they can accomplish is getting more people (mostly their own) killed. But they continue to fight out of hatred or some insane idea that it’s somehow honourable to get their own people killed or whatever. Even after Hitler offed himself, Germans kept on fighting and people kept on dying.
The leaders of Hamas are all dead, their cities are bombed to shit, but Hamas still holds onto the hostages to keep the war going. Why?
Look at the photos of Gaza. This is the accomplishment of the “al-aqsa flood” of Hamas. Was it worth it? Did Hamas do anything good for the Palestinian people?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Hamas has always been extreme in rhetoric, but the violence afaik began when Israel
Apparently you’re too young to remember the Hamas suicide bombings in the 1990s.
I think you should do a little more reading on this subject.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
So you’re good with Palestinians suffering so these nutjobs can have a “bargaining chip”? You’re good with Palestinians suffering so some nutjobs can have revenge?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Did you miss the part where Iran brags about their “Axis of Resistance”?
They also officially state they want to “wipe Israel off the map” while developing nuclear weapons. So they explicitly want to be an existential threat to Israel.
Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis are all Iranian proxies. That’s not me saying that, that’s Iran stating that. They’re all tentacles of the Ayatollah’s regime. Most of the problems in the Middle East can be traced to Iranians using Arabs as cannon fodder to further their petty hatred of Israel.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yes Hamas wants their imprisoned members released to replenish the ranks.
You do know that Yahya Sinwar was released in a previous exchange of prisoners for hostages, right? Some people claim that Israel propped up Hamas with these kinds of negotiations.
There have been a few times in this war there has been ceasefires with hostages exchanged for prisoners. Hamas eventually stops releasing hostages and the conflict resumes. The IDF ends up just fighting the Hamas fighters released causing more death and destruction.
Also Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza about two decades ago. But then Hamas got into power with a plurality of the vote and have been constantly attacking Israel ever since. It doesn’t seem like Hamas wants sovereignty, they could have had that if they wanted it. Hamas wants violence because that’s how they maintain power. Violence against Israel and violence against their own people.
You also have access to a search engine, you could use to find out what Hamas really is. They aren’t freedom fighters, they’re an oppressive regime that uses violence to maintain power that’s propped up by Iran.
Nothing Hamas is negotiating for is for the benefit of the Palestinian people. They’re only negotiating for their own interests while Palestinians suffer.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Where are you getting this 1/5 number? According to the Gaza Health Ministry casualties are somewhere around 60K.
Are you claiming that the Gaza Health Ministry is lying?
Also why would you assume Israel is going to stop the war if Hamas doesn’t release the hostages? Our goal is to end the war isn’t it? How do you imagine the war ending while Hamas continues holding hostages?
Hamas massacred villages. I think a it takes a real rube to believe a group that massacres entire villages would never lie to you.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Bargaining chip for what? What is the goal of Hamas at this point, other than to continue the conflict indefinitely?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Hamas tortures people to death if they criticize them.
You may be in an information silo and not aware of how oppressive Hamas truly is.
There is a movement in Gaza that’s against Hamas, but because of the whole thing of Hamas torturing people to death, it’s hard for that movement to gain traction.
Hamas could end this war at any time if they released the hostages. If you were witnessing extreme hardship of your people and you could end it, why wouldn’t you? Holding those hostages is a war crime, every day they continue to hold them they are continuing their war crimes. Why wouldn’t Hamas release the hostages if they truly believed this was a genocide?
- Comment on I'm hotmail 4 weeks ago:
A little while, but I redirected the those that mattered and just bounced the rest.
- Comment on I'm hotmail 4 weeks ago:
I used to be hotmail, but a long time ago I transitioned to gmail.
- Comment on It's just loss. 5 weeks ago:
PETA has killed more animals than I have LOL.
- Comment on It's just loss. 5 weeks ago:
I gonna intercept here for a bit. The Problem with “shutting down single farms” is, that this virtually has no effect at all. T
It would save the animals you claim are being boiled alive. Why don’t you care about the suffering of these animals?
- Comment on It's just loss. 5 weeks ago:
Why are you so obsessed with the source of my meat? If you must know comes from a little French town called Dublé Entendré.
- Comment on LICENSE TO KILL 5 weeks ago:
Just had a moth inside, kinda annoying. Got a box to try to catch him but just so happened the next time I heard him fluttering about he was right by the door. So only had to open the door to and swish him out.
Moth friend is free!
I don’t kill things unless they deserve it… or if they taste good.
- Comment on It's just loss. 5 weeks ago:
Weird way to be judgemental.
- Comment on It's just loss. 5 weeks ago:
I buy all of my food from Food 'n Stuff… and most of my stuff.
- Comment on It's just loss. 5 weeks ago:
Estimates of numbers like 80% and 99% are just made up on the spot. I estimate 99% of the world knows that.
- Comment on It's just loss. 5 weeks ago:
Some website I’ve never heard of before that you term as a “random website” says “We estimate…” a bunch of times without any attempt to describe the methodology used for their estimates.
So that’s bullshit.
The problem with the vegan animal rights movement is you’re always going for the moonshot of ending an entire industry instead of even trying to identify and shut down farms with horrible practices or outlaw those practices. To accomplish the goal of ending an industry, you’re fudging numbers and coming out as being dishonest which means no one will trust you and you’ll accomplish nothing. If animals are indeed being boiled alive (I don’t believe you about this because you’re obviously making up shit on other things) then it will continue to happen because you’re trying to accuse an entire industry of doing things that only some in the industry might do.
If you cared about the boiling animals alive thing (if it actually happens) you’d be trying to get that particular farm shut down, get laws passed to prevent that from happening. But you’re not doing that (you’re not even identifying any particular farms) so that leads me to believe either it’s not happening, or maybe you want it to continue to happen because it somehow helps your vain cause of ending all meat.
- Comment on Force is the last refuge of the incompetent 5 weeks ago:
I think it has more to do with lazy management. Before WFH their job was basically just making sure the employees were sitting at their desks at a specific time and didn’t leave until after a specific time. So 9am, you’re sitting at your desk, at 5pm you’re sitting at your desk then they’ve done their job for the day.
WFH means they need to know that you’re actually working. So they have to know what you do (many bosses don’t actually know what their employees do) and have some way to measure that you’re doing that thing in a reasonable amount of time. It’s actually their job to do this even if you’re in the office, but it’s easier to just make sure you’re in a location where work is the only thing you can do and assume you’re doing work because there’s nothing else to do.
Also bosses are hesitant to verbally abuse employees over video chat as that can easily be recorded. RTO solves problems for managers that like to yell at their employees.
But they can’t say “we’re lazy and we want to be able to yell at you” so they come up with other reasons.
Sure, sometimes the real estate thing can be a factor when a company got massive tax breaks from the government under the promise of that the new Amazooglesoft “campus” will be a big economic driver for a city with a bunch of cities competing to give the biggest tax breaks to entice those companies to go there. The governments that gave those incentives will probably take them away (they should, those companies should be paying taxes) because there actually hasn’t been economic stimulus for the neighbourhoods of those offices spaces because of WFH. So in those cases you have to go to a place so you can buy lunch (and maybe go shopping after work) so your company can still get tax breaks.
But mostly it’s just lazy managers.