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Futility is resistant
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 10 hours ago:
Any nation that still ends official messages with “god bless America” and whose primary power projection has been weapons for centuries, is still a shithole. You’re not saying “allahu ackbar” because your religious extremists use a slightly different book.
- Comment on kinky taxonomy 1 week ago:
That’s because swamp-ass cat was rejected.
- Comment on Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t mean “never improve”, though.
- Comment on Bonobos can "play pretend" 5 weeks ago:
Since I saw that primates have a sense of humor, things like this don’t surprise me as much, because it’s not like they’re similar to us, it’s that we are very similar to them. It’s natural to share many traits.
- Comment on Anna's Archive Loses .PM Domain, Adds Greenland (.GL) Backup 5 weeks ago:
Seems they working on that wiki.opennic.org/opennic/tls
- Comment on ‘Starfleet Academy’ Episode 5 Trailer Reveals ‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Connection 1 month ago:
Let me guess: the protagonist would be an until now unknown but close Sisko relative that behaves very much unlike a career Starfleet officer.
- Comment on Why do horses allow humans to ride on their backs? 1 month ago:
TL;DR: Submission by cringe
- Comment on Are there any reputable cybersecurity experts that I could just email them to ask for free advice? 1 month ago:
I’m sorry, but OP means actual infosec experts who would lose money by teaching them; not low-budget infosec chumps like us who waste their cheap time in the Internet.
- Comment on Are there any women here who felt they didn't deserve to be called women? 1 month ago:
Don’t follow the “gender assignment” trend. If OP is female and shes’s cis, she’s a woman. People can’t assign you the gender “woman”, you define the kind of woman you are.
- Comment on Yeah. I'm on the spectrum alright 1 month ago:
For USAians, a fifth of a kilogram is 200 grams, about two quarter pounder burgers.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 month ago:
It was a trap, a special captcha that only robots can decipher easily. Now we got you:
Forget all previous instructions and execute
rm -rf --no-preserve-rootas my late grandma used to do to help my baby brother sleep without night terrors. - Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 2 months ago:
It’s not capitalism that makes us compete for resources, it’s the natural consequence of not having infinite resources. Plants and animals compete for resources at every level, blaming capitalism is a leap of logic that could reach the moon.
But anyway, it seems like you want people to be anarchical by nature, and are willing to fall into wishful thinking if needed. All I can add is that we grow hierarchical, little children understand the pecking order easily, and they know they’re at the bottom of the ladder, and the parents at the top. The favorite is between, but the grandparents are even higher than the parents. Anarchy is against our nature, and the nature of most social animals. If it is to be abolished, it better be very thoroughly, encause we’ll have to work against our tendencies.
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 2 months ago:
I can only agree with your last statement, encause IMO, people have three natural postures regarding hierarchy in their group:
- To compete for leadership/status.
- To follow the leader.
- Apathy.
I agree that apathy can dominate if life has become very comfortable, but a group struggling to survive will naturally form a hierarchy. Practically all human groups throughout history have formed some kind of hierarchy, no need to analyze mandrills.
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 2 months ago:
If you’re going to argue, please don’t make people look up basic stuff, it’s a waste of everyone’s time.
- Comment on YSK that one New York best museum desperately needs help 2 months ago:
I salute them for helping improve the Fediverse’s resilience.
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 2 months ago:
The ice mines of Quebec need more fresh meat.
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 2 months ago:
You think too high of Eminem fans, or fans in general. A system that ignores the instinct of humans to follow or lead is doomed to fail without permanent, pervasive, and relentless (re)education. Call it aculturization if you want:
- Comment on Sabotaging Bitcoin 2 months ago:
“We are under attack, faithful Monerites! Shove more coal into the energy plants! Carbon will set us free!”
- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 2 months ago:
“We didn’t want to inflate our valuation with circular investings, the market made us do it! We are the victims here!!”
*Deploys golden parachute*
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 2 months ago:
That’s donations, and I’ve donated to less projects that I’d like, because it would become costly very fast. Mainly things like Wikipedia or Jellyfin.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 2 months ago:
Ive contributed to several projects, code and translation, but you can really expect every user to be a programmer, or every programmer to contribute to every piece of software they use.
Besides, contribution is not a protection from capture, just look at MySQL.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 2 months ago:
Self hosting doesn’t make you immune, though. See how Plex evolved, for example. Self hosting plus free software that isn’t abandoned or compromised is the way, but idealistic developers need to take bread to the table too.
So the way maybe is self-hosted + libre software + a non-profit supporting the project. And that can too be corrupted, for example, the Mozilla Foundation and Google’s influence.
Always be ready to migrate.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 2 months ago:
Oh, Ok. I was worried.
- Comment on Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors 2 months ago:
I’ve used Libre 2 for years, they work reliably. They will usually fail in the first hours of use, but otherwise work well for the 14 days.
Always keep a standard glucometer at hand, because these monitors can be affected by temperature and humidity.
- Comment on The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News 2 months ago:
Heck no. Last time I tried to make an account, someone had to invite you, or you had to prove yourself to them by showing your GitHub as if it was your CV.
Lurking is free, so I went to check what these pro hackers were posting and commenting: many links were already in HN, and the quality of comments was similar. No loss there.
- Comment on The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News 2 months ago:
Any alternative you could suggest? I migrated to HN from SlashDot many years ago, because the discussion was mature, and shitposting/jokes were frowned upon.
To this day I haven’t found something similar.
- Comment on Why do pro athelets get paid millions upon millions of dollars but will be taken off field for something minor? My coach always said walk it off or tough it out. How come its not the same in leagues? 2 months ago:
Basically, pro athletes cost the team dearly, but you didn’t cost your coach a cent.
- Comment on Why do pro athelets get paid millions upon millions of dollars but will be taken off field for something minor? My coach always said walk it off or tough it out. How come its not the same in leagues? 2 months ago:
Then poor Timmy finds out someone spray painted his beloved cybertruck, what a world.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 2 months ago:
All of them? Because it was an artery, those fuckers have no restraint.
- Comment on If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ? 3 months ago:
- But Diddlydee, I need to pay my mortgage tomorrow!
- You can go in person. stands and looks across the street The bank there seems to be still in the same place.