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Alt account of @Cube6392@beehaw.org for looking at stuff Beehaw defederated
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 15 hours ago:
i think often about that GM and Volvo paid Virginia Tech a lot of money to help them design a safe touchscreen infotainment center and after years of research the researchers basically reached the conclusion “there’s no safe way to put a touchscreen in a car” and now we all have touchscreens in our cars
- Comment on Honestly how????? 2 days ago:
i had a frustrating conversation recently about the ethnic cleansing of Königsburg to create kaliningrad. the person i was talking to kept saying that all the Germans had to be removed because they were nazis. the problem there is that this simply isn’t true. the red army and the Free Deutschland movement cooperated on the liberation of the city from nazi control. after the collapse of nazi germany, the red army largely turned on their former Free Deutschland allies, only keeping the most staunchly authcomm officers around and relocating them to what would become East Germany.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 3 days ago:
like when you looked into it you didn’t find much you were interested in, or like the people you were interested in have left that way of interacting with the fediverse? between the threadiverse and the microblog portion of the fediverse, we are by far engaging with the less popular and populous way of interacting with the fediverse
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 3 days ago:
then why restore the posts and accounts? why did you say the mandate would exist soon instead of already? and yes. the absolutely have the money to hire a lawyer and put forward the legal deposits to challenge this in court. any company with more than 50 employees not approaching bankruptcy filings does
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 3 days ago:
i wanted to take some time to review and reflect, and i cannot bring myself to the same conclusion. as you said, the mandate does not exist yet. plus, this fascist regime has invented new ways of losing in the courts because they simply don’t have total control yet. bluesky has the resources to fight for their users right in court. by choosing not to wait for a court order or even put up a minimal legal resistance, they complied in advance. to me, their decision to remove these posts or ban these accounts reflects not a requirement to comply, but instead company values. they thought it would be easier and cheaper to roll over. i think this is ultimately the underlying flaw of for-profit media companies so i’m not surprised, and the conclusion i reach is that with a for profit media company, i am the product. as the product, i can refuse to have my attention sold to the highest bidder as an “impression.” if i don’t like fascism, i don’t use bluesky. so i don’t
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 4 days ago:
took me longer than i would have liked to realize you were joking 😂
we live in a nightmare…
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 4 days ago:
more than you’d think…
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 4 days ago:
lithub.com/resist-authoritarianism-by-refusing-to…
bottom line: compliance to fascism before it’s forced you to comply is how fascism goes from visible in the public sphere to all consuming slaughter machine. the best way to resist fascism is early and often. make them work for it. especially when the current iteration is fundamentally composed of lazy losers
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 4 days ago:
i largely guage the toxicity of platforms by how quickly you encounter a genocide denier. nostr holds the record in that i encountered one on there literally as soon as i finished onboarding. a record that can only be tied, not beaten
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 4 days ago:
complying in advance is incredibly dangerous
- Comment on Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan 1 week ago:
Japan
bah dum tiss
- Comment on Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan 1 week ago:
yeah i upvoted despite that piece of infommation and was going to come back later because the core truth remains: they only ever do the right thing for customers when forced
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
that’s not what anywhere is reporting, where are you seeing that?
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 week ago:
right now for android i recommend ironfox
- Comment on How solar panels generate electricity 1 week ago:
i was coming in here to say that while this post is a joke, there is a non zero number of solar farms that use hyperbolic mirrors and glass tubes to super heat water generating pressure to spin a steam turbine
- Comment on After viral interview, Palantir launches neurodivergent fellowship 1 week ago:
yeah. i’m fully willing to believe a bunch of these tech ceos are neurodivergent as they claim. HOWEVER. we all know neurodivergent people who don’t weaponize their neurodivergence to justify eugenics, mass surveillance, or just plain being shitty to people. we don’t have to respect your autism excuse when you do something shitty and then ask you why you did that.
- Comment on When you find your favorite anime's fandom 1 week ago:
“oh! i’m excited to discuss the themes of this manga, how the world and conflicts reflect our own, and how this advocates for a political framework centered around eroding authoritarianism by helping our friends”
“the asexual and the lesbian should fuck”
“…”
“it’s not that deep”
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 1 week ago:
so die off the exact same way netscape did, in the process learning absolutely nothing
- Comment on No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog 1 week ago:
people been saying how we as a society measure browser usage is all wrong. i’ve thrown up my hands at this point. the people with the most to gain from correcting this systemic failure, mozilla, have fully committed to sacrificing everything that made themselves valuable. i will continue to use the outcome of their work, at least in part, via zen at work and librewolf at home. as they continue to chase a market that isn’t there—people who don’t want to use a browser with the problems of chrome, but with all the problems of chrome—maybe at some point they’ll realize that they are wasting time and resources on a lost cause and dedicate themselves to some other course of action. but at this point i have more hope that zen and librewolf contributors will fork gecko, switch to goana, or servo will grow into something than that mozilla will ever get their shit together.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
that’s where i’m at, too, but i’ve known a few people who view their body’s need for nutrition as an impediment to their ability to be productive. they’re very sad people…
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
i mean. have you encountered soylent culture? white people get marketed to like eating sucks and all your nutrients should come in a tube
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 weeks ago:
most stainless steel is not true stainless steel and instead simply stains less. to deal with the low pH environment of honey (4 pH), you would need a high performance stainless steel or alloy to avoid leaching flavor from the alloy into the honey. most cutlery is 416 which will corrode under the conditions of being in honey. true silver, i think, would be fine in that environment, but i wouldn’t want to put a spoon in honey without being confident it was a higher performance compound than 416, and at that point i could just get a cheap dipper
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 weeks ago:
only if you’re using a wooden spoon. a metal spoon will leach its flavor into the honey
- Comment on Windows Marketshare since 2010 2 weeks ago:
ipad requests desktop sites and so displays in desktop user agents
- Comment on until next year 2 weeks ago:
which are plot, relevant, by the way, and also help create the beloved feeling of the series’ world that it is a world in motion even when we’re not looking. it’s thanks to the cover stories that the supernovas don’t feel like an asspull despite being conceived of the week they were introduced
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 weeks ago:
and that’s fine. good for you. you don’t have to buy a dipper if you don’t feel like. i like mine because it’s easier and i was tired of using the edge of the jar when a dipper costs a few cents (i think i got mine for 75 cents)
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 weeks ago:
i have and that’s what i’m comparing against. thank you for your unconstructive input. with the teaspoon you can’t twist it to break a run before putting it in your mug and adding the hot water. so the teaspoon ends up being messier.
also what… did you think i was comparing against? my hands?
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 weeks ago:
the honey that comes in the squeezable bottles is lower quality and the bottles themselves are wasteful. i’d rather pay a little extra, get honey from a beekeeper, know my local agriculture is being pollinated by a local beekeeper, and deal with a little piece of wood i have to rinse a little bit.
the convenience is distinctly not worth the degradation in all of the things i like about honey
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 weeks ago:
it’s the easiest tool to use to get the honey out of the jar and into your mug for tea. i got mine at the farmer’s market because local honey is thicker than store honey, but even stores that sell local honey don’t sell these. highly recommend one if you’ve never seen one. it makes making tea so much easier
- Comment on Venezuela Condemns US 'Piracy' as Trump White House Signals It Will Seize More Oil Vessels 2 weeks ago:
now get me pictures of spider-man!