SpaceCowboy
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on to hell I say 2 days ago:
What region northern lights may I see it?
No.
- Comment on "Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day 1 week ago:
Nah, these expressions will just fall out of use. You think this is the first time people came up with funny fad expressions?
Sorry, but you ain’t all dat and a bag of potato chips. Fo shizzle.
- Comment on Holocaust Museum LA deletes post saying 'never again' applies to all people 1 week ago:
It demonstrates more about y’all that attacking a literal holocaust museum doesn’t even give you any pause. It’s very obvious to any bystanders that you aren’t a pro-Palestinian movement (how does any of this help Palestinians?) you’re in an antisemitic hate group.
Do you remember time before the pandemic when you weren’t terminally online, how you would feel about a group harassing a holocaust museum? Would you think of those people were cool and hip, or would you think of them as hateful losers? How do you think anyone not in your internet bubble thinks of you when you engage in a harassment campaign against a holocaust museum?
There’s a reason why your group is treated like a carcinogen by every mainstream political movement. It’s not because the Jews are controlling everything. It’s because you’ve become so siloed off from the rest of the world you’re incapable of considering how your actions look to anyone not in your silo.
You’re doing a harassment campaign on holocaust museum for fuck’s sake. Just look at what you’ve become.
- Comment on Holocaust Museum LA deletes post saying 'never again' applies to all people 1 week ago:
This thread is about being angry at Jews in Los Angeles because of actions by Jews on the other side of the world. Go outside and touch grass if you think it’s trolling to say this is just straight up racism to blame an entire ethnicity for the actions of the few.
Antisemitism is racism towards Jews with a shitload of rationalizations layered on top of it. So go on and rationalize how being angry at Jews in LA for things happening on the other side of the world isn’t Antisemitism. Go on… explain how this isn’t antisemitism.
- Comment on Holocaust Museum LA deletes post saying 'never again' applies to all people 1 week ago:
It’s the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum, not a Tel Aviv Museum. This is attacking American Jews, it’s not attacking Israel. It’s attacking Jews in the US because people are angry about things Jews on the other side of the world are doing. Blaming an entire ethnicity for the actions of other people of that ethnicity is plain racism.
STOP SUPPORTING ANTISEMITISM.
- Comment on Holocaust Museum LA deletes post saying 'never again' applies to all people 1 week ago:
The word genocide has been weaponized to the point where Jews can’t discuss the holocaust without being attacked for it.
But sure, you’re not antisemitic at all!
- Comment on Misogyny or something... Idk 1 week ago:
It’s quantum incest… you just made it be incest by observing it.
- Comment on WATER! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah kinda. I ask it to do something simple like create a a typescript interface for some JSON and it just gives me what I want… most of the time.
Other times it will explain to me what JSON is, what Typescript is, what interfaces are and how they’re used, blah blah, and somewhere in there there’s the code I actually wanted. Once it helpfully commented the code… in Korean. Even when it works and comments things in English the comments can be kinda useless since it doesn’t actually know what I’m doing.
It’s trying to give you what you want but can sometimes get confused about what you’re asking for and give a bunch of stuff you didn’t actually want. So yeah, the comic is accurate… on occasion. But many times LLMs will give good results, and it’s getting better, so it’ll mostly work ok for simple requests. But yeah, sometimes it’ll give you a lot more stuff than what you wanted.
- Comment on WATER! 2 weeks ago:
Some days it will be but other days it won’t be. Most of the time it can save me typing because it’ll do what I want. Sometimes (for similar tasks in the same context) it’s just be completely off. Once it helpfully commented my code… in Korean.
LLMs are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 3 weeks ago:
Since the Nazis were fighting the Soviets in cold conditions, they did a lot of research on hypothermia. Their methodology involved putting Jews out in the cold and measuring how long it took for them to get hypothermia.
There was a lot of debate over whether the results of their research should be used or just be destroyed because using it might encourage future scientists to use immoral methods in their research. They ultimately decided to use that research.
But when they looked at the data, there was no real science happening. They were just freezing people to death out of cruelty with no benefit to science.
A lot of “Nazi science” is very overrated. Turns out cruel and hateful people don’t make for good scientists. Science is done by people and people and if those people ignore morality, they become very warped. “Science at all costs, ignore morality” doesn’t actually result in useful research. It may feel like ignoring ethics in favour of scientific progress is a strong pro-science stance, but it’s just another fascist power fantasy.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 3 weeks ago:
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
The Treaty of Versailles was really unfair to the German people but that didn’t justify anything the Nazis did. The terrible things the Nazis did also didn’t justify the terrible things the Soviets did.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 3 weeks ago:
Every day thousands upon thousands of people were being killed. Why? Because they were wearing the uniform of an enemy country. Killing people for wearing the wrong clothes (or maybe just standing too close to someone wearing the wrong clothes) is what a war is.
It strikes me as odd to be super upset over internment when more Japanese people were killed when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked. Internment was obviously bad, but compared to other shit happening at the time? I guess the people killed in the war couldn’t tell their story afterwards, so we don’t care about that? Or maybe it’s because we’ve been indoctrinated to believe that killing someone for wearing the wrong clothes is good and honourable?
There was a Japanese insurgency in Hawaii, so some of the people held in internment camps were actually insurgents. Obviously most of them weren’t. But what’s the difference between that scenario and hitting a military target and a lot of civilians getting killed because they happened to live a little too close to a military target? Because that kind of shit was happening all the time in WWII.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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] 1 month ago:
Is there anything you’re seeing that indicates Hamas can accomplish anything other than getting more people killed?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yes, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and Iran often hit civilian targets. And not by accident, they actually target civilians.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
How old are you?
I’m no spring chicken and that’s way before I was born.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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] 1 month 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] 1 month 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] 1 month 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] 1 month 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] 1 month 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] 1 month 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] 1 month ago:
Bargaining chip for what? What is the goal of Hamas at this point, other than to continue the conflict indefinitely?