Cethin

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember, most of the Germans who supported Hitler didn’t realize the Jews were being massacred.

  This is not true. It’s a myth. A lot of Germans claim to have not known, but it was widely available knowledge.

  “Nazi policies were widely available to the population.[10] Berlin Radio broadcast the mass-execution of Jews in Białystok and the burning of synagogues in July 1941.[11] Numerous speeches spoken by Hitler in 1942 allude to the destruction of Jews.[12] Notably, on 24 February 1942, Hitler’s speech celebrating the Nazi Party’s foundation alludes to his prophecy of 30 January 1939 in which he foresaw the destruction of European Jews.[13] This speech was then reported the following day in the Niedersaechsische Tageszeitung. Hitler publicly referenced his original 1939 prophecy at least four times in public in the year 1942.[14] Historians such as Confino and Koonz argue that Hitler’s emphasis on this prophecy during the height of the Holocaust meant that it became a shared ideal among the society.[15][16]”

  And we didn’t go to war to stop Nazi ideology, we went to war to stop Germany from conquering the entire fucking world through military means.

  Eh, some of both. Notable, there was almost a fascist coup in the US, known as The Business Plot or The Wall Street Putsch.

  ^Trying to stop an ideology with force only makes that ideology stronger, gives it validation.

  The implication of this statement is that Fascists can never succeed because their method of action is force. If you were correct, anything they do would actually only make what they’re attacking stronger. I think we both know this isn’t true. Nazi Germany didn’t fall from the inside. The Nazis gained almost total control over the nation, through force.

  I’m not one to rule out tools. We should ridicule, we should talk, and we should fight. Yeah, the person fighting can’t really talk, and same for the person ridiculing. That doesn’t mean these aren’t tools that need to be used on occasion. They are there more to show not everyone agrees with them. Discourse is to make people who do agree with them change. They have different goals, so their tactics are different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you point to some other times in history where the threat of being beaten up has been effective in eradicating an ideology?

  WWII?

  Yeah, it usually doesn’t eradicate it. That’s basically never how we measure effectivity though. Being nice hasn’t either. Again, the point isn’t to change the person being attacked in these cases. It’s to show others that their views are not acceptable by society. It’s to show others that it isn’t a widely held belief and to not listen to them.

  Yeah, unless we go on an all-out war against them it won’t be eradicated through violence. Growth can be slowed though. That’s why I said we need both violence and dialogue. They both can be useful tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It probably won’t change that person (unless you kill them). It’s to show everyone else that it isn’t tolerated. It’s to prevent them from going around doing whatever they want as if it’s normal, which will make other people believe it’s acceptable and may start believing the same things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually not as simple as that, assuming they’re connected to the grid. Power transmission is costly too, which needs to be accounted for, not just the power consumption/generation. Them being off-grid also isn’t really reasonable because they’d need a lot of redundant power sources and backups, which would be better as part of the grid.

  They should still be paying for all this, but estimating the real cost is non-trivial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, and it has the potential to be very effective. I think we need both of these —punching Nazis and talking with them to change their views.

  Another big issue that goes with this is a lot of people will say that if their were bigots once then they should be shunned. This is very harmful though. If we do that then their only reasonable option is to double down. If they lose their group and also can’t be accepted by the rest of society then they’re never going to do that.

  I think this problem is much larger than only this right now too. People make their opinions equal to them as a person. They feel if they change their opinion then they’re failing as a person. This isn’t true though. Changing your opinions when you’re shown new information is a sign of strength.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know that he didn’t get it. He just hadn’t a different method of fighting back. Not everyone is going to be able to go around knocking them out. The vast majority of people won’t in fact. There are still other tools they can use to stop the spread, or, in rare cases, reverse it. You have to be careful to not legitimize it though if you’re doing something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone needs to make a monument, like that woman hitting the nazi with her purse. Maybe, until then, some graffiti to make the location to people passing by? Or maybe some other cheap temporary display.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but nothing protects you from Fascists if they want to go after you. There’s so many laws that are malleable enough that they can always come up with some excuse. You should be legally protected for doing what this person did, but they’ll still try. We’ll see if their bullshit holds up in court I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel | Ben-Gvir's fascist lynch-mob wears noose lapel pins⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure that’s true to an extent. I’m not saying your experience isn’t real. I grew up in the south though, and my family is from WV. I’ve heard a lot of racist shit, though it’s mostly from older people. I’m sure it’s all dependent on context though. There’s probably no reason for people to say racist stuff most of the time because there needs to be something happening to bring it up. If there’s no black people around, or whatever group, there’s no reason to say what your views are.

  I do agree that rural places have a bad reputation. Worse than is deserved. Even if Republicans consistently win, there’s still a mix of viewpoints. Even within the party there are a fair number of different reasons they at least used to use as a reason to vote for them. They were the party of “fiscal responsibility” for example (though this was a lie, but it’s at least something they said).

  The issue with rural places is that you rarely come into contact with people from other backgrounds. If you hold an opinion about a group there’s rarely a chance for it to be refuted. If you’re in a more urbanizwd area then you don’t have a choice but to interact with people who are unlike yourself. You then come to understand they’re very similar to you. This isn’t to say rural is bad, but it is insular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For the setting point, I agree three is more classic post-nuclear-apocalypse, but also that’s a big negative. Fallout isn’t just post-nuclear-apocalypse, it’s post-post-apocalyptic. The radiation should be a lot less prevelant and there should be societies rebuilt.

  Three feels like it should be set very soon after the nukes fell. A lot of the narrative and environment don’t make sense with the timeline they wrote. There’s speculation this is because it was originally supposed to be set much earlier, but they pushed the date back late in development to make the story BoS VS Enclave, which wouldn’t fit earlier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s better than NV as a whole, but there are things it does do better. Probably the biggest is the random events. They have a lot more variety and interaction then NV. You might end up with a BoS Remnant group spawn and a Deathclaw, and they’ll just start fighting. NV doesn’t really have this. It’s much more contained and scripted.

  In this way, 3 is closer to 1 and 2 than NV is. A large part of the first two games are the random events as you travel the world. NV is almost entirely predictable, with the same things always being at the same spots. 1,2, and 3 are fairly unpredictable while exploring. Landmarks will be the same, but what you see along the way usually won’t be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a lot of privacy stuff, but I also know that I’m being tracked. I’m not using the VPN for privacy though. I’m using it to watch porn, so I don’t really care. If I did want privacy there’s a lot of things I could improve, but I’m not that worried about it.

  As for the targeted advertising, I don’t see any of that. I wouldn’t be surprised if that were in French but I wouldn’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This might not be totally the right definition, but I think it is:

  Latin is dead, but we still understand it. There’s no one left who speaks it really, but we know how to use it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I VPN to Montreal servers. Everything is still displayed in English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to be this person I guess, but the defining trait of steampunk isn’t the use of steam alone. It’s that energy is transfered by delivering steam to where it’s used, rather than using it in-place to crested electricity. This means that steampunk machines operate off of some kind of kinetic energy, rather than electrical energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s only true if they trust them. If the goal is to ensure they can keep track of dissidents then no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨By technical standards were 3D TVs impressive, Why didn't they catch on back then?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My family had one at one point growing up. As everyone else has said, there wasn’t much content. There was Avatar and maybe four or five others. The real killer though was the glasses sucked. You didn’t want to sit there for two hours with them on. I preferred 2D but comfortable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically not algebra, right? Algebra is where you move things around and solve for variables, and that kind of thing. This is just arithmetic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anti-cheat is not heading toward more support without the intervention described in the article.

  I don’t know how many times I have to say this, but one more time: The vast majority of games work on Linux just fine! That number is only increasing.

  Whatever that results in. Valve is talking about potentially a SteamOS-specific fix

  Source? You say I need to provide sources. Where’s yours for this. This isn’t how Linux works. You can add and remove kernal modules at run time on Linux. This will not be OS specific, and it also won’t realistically address any actual issues that may exist and aren’t already solved.

  It’s not most games, nor is it most publishers, but between those games and publishers, it represents most players, most dollars spent, and most time spent playing video games (at least non-mobile, anyway). It is an enormous hump to get over if you want to make a gaming device appealing to more customers.

  It is not, on PC at least. The most played PC game is CS, and second is Minecraft, according to this. I’m not saying it’s nothing, but also it’s far from everything. The vast majority of hours played by people are on games that work on Linux.

  Sure it does. As an example, let’s say there are X players for a game in a month, and 3-7% of those are on Linux. If, as Facepunch says, more than half of that 3-7% are cheaters, then including them is doing more harm than good to your cheating problem.

  This number is bullshit probably. If their AC can detect cheaters then they wouldn’t have this issue in the first place. You’re trying to tell me you believe they can accurately count cheaters but are also incapable of stopping them? Yeah…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their story doesn’t make sense. The one thing they always say is how few users are on Linux. If that’s true then most of the hackers can’t be. It doesn’t make sense. It does nothing to actually solve the issue. An actual fix wouldn’t matter what OS someone is on.

  If you use Linux, and game on it, then why are you saying things are going the way of not supporting it. Clearly you must see what way the wind is blowing. Damn near everything works fine. It’s only EA, Riot, Chinese games, and a tiny number of other games. Everything else usually just works.

  It’s going to prevent a more potent vector, which is exactly what they said.

  It prevents exactly zero vectors on Windows, which is where the problem is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your explanation is bordering on conspiracy theory, so yes.

  So the only thing that’s allowed to be speculated is that the companies are perfectly honest and never lie? Yeah, maybe you’re not that reasonable.

  Rust cited why they cut support, as did Apex Legends, as did GTA Online.

  They didn’t “cite” anything. They gave a reason, sure. It’s not honest though. If less than 5% of players were on Linux, how many hackers do you think they stopped? They didn’t cite any statistics or anything, and I’d wager that they increased the number of hackers as a percentage. All the script kiddies are on Windows, not Linux. Sure, they can’t control Linux as much, but it’s also not a significant source of their hacking issues.

  The rest often don’t even bother with supporting it in the first place because of how it always plays out.

  The rest support Linux. You’re obviously a Windows user. You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about. Damn near every game works flawlessly on Linux.

  The existence of hackers at all doesn’t mean that Linux anti-cheat is equally effective, and you’d know that if you read the write up from the Rust team.

  That is not what I claimed. I claimed their team hasn’t done shit to prevent hackers. The insane number of hackers in that game proves that most of them are on Windows. If they can’t stop the hacking on Windows then what the hell is blocking Linux going to do? No, they saw it was a small portion of users and decide to just block it to make a show. It didn’t solve anything so why did they do it? How is it that this game, with such a large hacker issue, has the problems but not the thousands of games that support Linux? It’s because Linux isn’t the issue. Teams that can’t actually build real anti-cheat solutions are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to cite sources but you don’t? One example is Rust, a notoriously hacker filled game.

  Of course they’re trying to make money. I literally explained that. The executives see Linux as not providing value, and it’s extra effort to support it. They’d rather instead use it as a symbol of how they’re actually trying really hard to fight hackers, but it’s a lie. It’s just a convenient excuse.

  You haven’t heard an executive say almost anything. They run companies. They don’t publish their every decision. They are the ones making the calls. They’re the ones responsible. They’re also largely technologically innept. They probably don’t even know what Linux is. They just know what they’ve been told.

  You’re only going to be surprised when this continues to happen even though the answer is right there.

  There are like two major companies doing this. There’s EA and Riot. There’s a tiny minority of minor players, like Rust. There’s also a lot of Chinese companies doing it. (China is infamous for having hackers, so yeah, didn’t solve that problem did it?)

  I can’t tell you the last time I booted up a western game and it didn’t work on Linux. (I think it was Squad44, which then added support, and support in the main Squad game has been in for a long time.) Everyone is moving toward supporting it, not away. The only places it’s an issue are large slow companies where the executives have too much control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason they do it usually is because some executives hear the Linux is less secure and that it’s only a small segment of users. It isn’t because it’s effective. The games that blocked Linux are almost all some of the games with the worst hackers. Guess what happened when they blocked Linux? Nothing. The number of hackers that were on Linux were near zero.

  The issue is they cant be bothered to put the actual money/work to create a solution that’s effective. Instead they signal to their audience that they’re doing something by removing Linux, which doesn’t cost them anything and makes a show that they’re actually trying. It doesn’t fix the problems, but they get to make a show out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would doubt it. I don’t even know if that’s a reasonable thing to do on Linux. I don’t see how it could work. Presumably they’re trying to work on something like they did for Easy Anti Cheat. That has a kernel module on Windows, but it doesn’t on Linux. I would assume they’re trying to work with EA, Riot, and maybe some Chinese companies to have their AC option work with Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In case this is serious, kernel-level AC has been shown to not be particularly effective. There were people with hacks for BF6 before it released, for example. Them blocking an operating system doesn’t prevent cheaters. It only prevents consumers from having options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never pause cuscenes, not because I don’t want to ever but because I’m always afraid I’ll skip it instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling that groove⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An easier way to understand it, without knowing the math, is to know how it’s made. You play audio into a very similar device and it’s needle scratches the grooves. When you then have a needle pick up the grooves it’s moving the exact same way the needle was forced to move by the original.

  It’s similar to how a speaker and a microphone are basically the same device. If you take a speaker and plug it into a microphone input, it still works (though they’re tuned differently so it’s not as good). A microphone has a crystal vibrate, which creates an electric signal. If you play that electric signal into a crystal it vibrates and creates the same sound.

  There’s no math or anything being done for this to work. It’s purely mechanical. It’s just a copy of what the needle did when sound was played into it, so another needle running through it recreates the same sound. You can use math to represent it, but none is being done by the device (other than just the laws of physics).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it, but maybe there’s a reason?

  When I lost my faith in religion I was annoying because it had wasted so much of my time and effort, as well as causing stress and creating issues where none existed. I wanted other people to feel as free as I did, and it was obvious that it was more reasonable to switch after I had, and it was easy.

  When I lost my faith in Microsoft I was annoying because it had wasted so much of my time and effort, as well as causing stress and creating issues where none existed. I wanted other people to feel as free as I did, and it was obvious that it was more reasonable to switch after I had, and it was easy.

  Maybe just test your reasoning. Try Linux, or test the boundaries of your faith. See how it feels. Maybe other people have a point, as annoying as they may be.

  Personally, I don’t push the religion thing anymore. I don’t feel like it does much good and is a waste of my time. Pushing Linux though? Yeah, that does do good, for the people switching and for the ecosystem. The more people move off of Windows and other closed platforms the more open things become, and the more choices consumers get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Either it’s bullshit (most likely) or it’s because he surrounded himself with AI-cock sucking yes men. Probably a bit of both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police detonated a ‘stinger’ grenade at a Melbourne protest. Now two activists may sue over their injuries⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a reason to have them, for SWAT (or whatever regional equivalent). They are useful for non-lethal assault of violent targets. If, for example, some terrorists decide to take some hostages, that’s where they should be used.

  They should not be bringing them to a protest though. That’s not the place for them, and the officers should be fired and the department investigated for misconduct.