theparadox

@theparadox@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the demonstration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For instance, I too voted for Harris, and I’ve been called a gEnOciDe suPpOrTeR, a bOoTLiCkEr, and. bLuEmAga™. Just for voting against a fascist.

  The hatred between left leaning Lemmy users over the last election is crazy to me. Instead of focusing on getting rid of the current fascist regime together, so many just dogpile on anyone based on whether they voted for Harris. I feel like every other political post has a flame war that starts with a comment blaming the news on anyone and everyone on the left who didn’t vote Harris or criticized dems during the campaign.

  There are those of us with a bit of nuance though. I was and still am disgusted and disappointed with the Dem’s positions and empathize with those who sat out in 2024 but I voted Dems them over the party looking to fast track fascism and white nationalism. I regularly get flamed for suggesting we move on from blaming each other and focus on getting rid of the fascists here and now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The reason women cover their drinks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He is. He’s more or less the USA’s shadow president - he maneuvered himself to be Trump’s right hand man and has the clown president’s trust for many domestic issues, particularly anything related to non-white people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the hoops… [they]… make you jump through with regard to layering

  I played around with a few atomic distros and it seems like rather than layering, running things in containers is the preferred solution.

  It won’t be the solution for everything that layering could “fix”, depending on your situation, but it is something that I wasn’t initially aware of when I started playing with Bazzite, Fedora Atomic, and now Aurora.

  Basically, if you could just run whatever you need to run in a container, that might be another solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Just Fired Over 30 Employees From UK and Canada in an Attempt of Union-Busting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Money, or more importantly the power and privilege that money provides, has always been more important than humanity, if you have enough of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Just Fired Over 30 Employees From UK and Canada in an Attempt of Union-Busting⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s extremely profitable. If you have a problem with that, I’ll fucking ruin your life. If you look like you might be able to make ruining your life difficult and it’ll cost me a lot to ruin your life, I’ll just save myself the trouble and spend it to give you enough to make you forget what you were upset about. It’s a cost benefit analysis, really. Yay capitalism!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So once again, it’s capitalism. Surprise surprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are only those companies for whom the incentives to betray you aren’t yet high enough. Either the incentives become high enough for the chosen company to betray you, or the incentives become enough for another company with enough money to buy the chosen company and betray you…or bury the chosen company in the hopes that you’ll open yourself to being betrayed or exploited by the other company.

  Welcome to unfettered/unregulated capitalism aka the natural end result that capitalism pushes society towards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of curiosity, can you describe, with a bit more detail, the kind of work that was repetitive and became worse?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tire of this life⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least until the corrupting force of micro-plastic-capitalism causes your house to get seized and you must begin the adventure of a lifetime to retrieve it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s at the point where it helps people code more easily, but maybe I’m just exclusively experiencing edge cases and turning to it for the wrong uses. I’ve only had failures. Hallucinations that waste my time, and flawed algorithms.

  My favorite was a few weeks ago when I was having a rough day and needed a complicated algorithm to make a decision based on an inputted date. I told it that if I plug in value A to its algorithm, the answer is wrong. It went step by step explaining its "reasoning"and it returned the correct answer and then at the pivotal step it plugged in a different year than was in A, for just that step, and then proceeded to confirm to itself that if you plug in A, you get the right answer.

  Maybe someday it will help, or maybe some problems it is useful for, I’ve just never had that experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, my partner loves BTBAM. I was going to mention them as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know Plini, will check out The Omnific!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Another great band!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Arch Echo
  Intervals
  I’m also a fan, I just didn’t want to go too nuts with my list because I needed to get to sleep! I’ll check out the rest.

  Also; I think mentioning Protest the Hero in the context of instrumental music does a HUGE disservice to Rody Walker’s vocal talents and lyrics.

  Agreed. I honestly mentioned PtH just to mention them. I often can’t work to their music because my brain fills in their vocals for me, which is sometimes too distracting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. Even high level languages will consistently produce the same results. There may be low level differences depending on the compiler and the system’s architecture but if those are consistent you will get the same results.

  AI coding isn’t an extremely human readable higher level programming language. Using an LLM to generate code adds a literal black box and the interpretation of the user and LLM’s human language (which humans can’t even do consistently) to the equation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal on the inside, business on the outside⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love working with instrumental metal, typically prog or “djenty” stuff, in the background. Sometimes a bit of post-rock.

  I was surprised how many of us there are. A lot of “professionals” I know listen to metal. Engineers, developers, IT folks. It will randomly come up and everyone will say something along the lines of “Oh, really, you too?”

  Been listening to a lot of Their Dogs Were Astronauts recently. In the interest of sharing my personal favorites bands to work to, because I found a number of them from random mentions in forums:
  Their Dogs Were Astronauts (mostly instrumental)
  Wide Eyes (mostly instrumental)
  Caligula’s Horse (instrumental only tracks available)
  Polyphia (mostly instrumental) Protest The Hero (instrumental only tracks available)
  TesseracT (instrumental only tracks available)
  Apocalyptica (started covering Metallica as cellos quartet instrumentals, now has a number of original songs with guest vocalists)
  Collapse Under The Empire (post rock, mostly instrumental)
  Parhelia (post rock, mostly instrumental)
  Opeth (occasional instrumental tracks, started as death metal, evolved into more prog metal)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simpler times?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This was kind of me in early high school. There was this badass goth chick who, looking back, was very likely “flirting” with me quite a bit. Admittedly, I had my own absurd style that definitely had shades of goth too.

  I recall she bit my arm so hard she drew blood… on more than one occasion. I absolutely had a thing for her so I didn’t mind. She was a grade or two older and had a boyfriend who was either from another town, dropped out, or already graduated. I’d never met or seen him though. Me and her did hang out a few times in random secluded places after school or during down time but nothing romantic ever happened - just talking.

  Looking back on it as a more mature adult, and vaguely recalling her stories, I am pretty sure she had a fucked up childhood and home life. I wouldn’t be surprised if the boyfriend situation was more fucked up than I realized.

  Shortly after graduating high school, I met some people who actually knew the guy (he had allegedly been their dealer a few years prior lol) and apparently I looked a lot like him, only I was a few inches taller and less skinny. The number of times I was mistaken for him was crazy. I guess she had a type? I hope she’s doing ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s the problem: SCOTUS more or less Ok’d the previously illegal “pocket rescission”.

  This means the administration can literally decide to not fund anything appropriated by Congress. That makes negotiations for funding anything pointless. There has to be a line somewhere. At least (for now I think) the administration can’t fund things without congressional approval. It’s literally the only leverage Democrats have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Friday, Oct 3 is one of those sales… tomorrow as of this comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Three concerns:

  • Heat - Will degrade faster and perform worse than it likely can because it will throttle itself
  • Upgradability - Looks like only SSD and Memory are serviceable.
  • Warranty - How is customer service? I have heard mixed reviews on most mini PC manufacturers.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfection.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me of my elementary school computer teacher. That teacher, and his teaching us LogoWriter, changed my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Train your brain⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also ok if you are using it in an effort to make workers obsolete and upend the entire economy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The situation is actually quite awful. I remember when TPM was palladium and there were apocalyptic talks in tech conferences about it being the end of general purpose computers. The idea that your computer could veto what it was used for.

  The backlash only set them back a few decades apparently. Everyone forgot and now it’s a literal requirement for the latest Windows and in two months they’ll stop supporting the old Windows…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal genres⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems Tidal is streaming only. There is Qobuz but I hear them mentioned by people looking for Hi-Fi. Their streaming service seems to pay higher than average.

  I guess I’ll just have to assume the compensation is decent for digital purchases as well. Having Hi-Fi audio quality doesn’t hurt - I can always transcode it if I need to stream or convert it if I need to cram it in a small storage device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal genres⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Random question - anyone know a good site to buy digital music that pays the artists somewhat decently? I’ve got a few artists I need to get albums from after bailing on Spotify and they aren’t on Bandcamp and don’t has album sales linked to their official sites. Hell, even physical copies of some albums are hard to come by in the US.

  I saw “7Digital” mentioned somewhere but I see there multiple listings for the same album at different prices (literally the exact same album, exact same quality) which makes me suspect it’s not as legit as I had hoped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s much easier to replace the business/marketing responsibilities with AI.

  Seriously. There is no much of a difference between a business boss confidently making up a solution so as to appear like they know what they are doing and AI hallucinating because it’s a bad look for AI to say “I don’t know”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Be aware of the venue and how crowded it could be. I’ve been to plenty of metal shows in my youth and been waaay to close the speakers. Surprisingly, what fucked my ears worse than anything was when I got invited by a girl friend to see the band “Live” (known for the song “The Dolphin’s Cry”) at a standing room venue. I was only like 20 but still being packed in tight among countless shrieking girls/young women gave me tinnitus for a week and my hearing has never been the same since.

  Really though, don’t worry about how you are perceived. Just have fun, but maybe bring ear plugs just in case. Hell, I likely should have worn earplugs for most of my concerts regardless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just loss.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quick Internet search… ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass

  They are referring to biomass.

  • 1 cow ~ 1200 lbs / 545 kg

  • 1 rat ~ 0.5 lbs / 0.25 kg

  1 cow ~ 2400 rats by biomass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oops⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My ex would use St. Ives “Apricot Exfoliant” or something, which has powdered apricot pits and walnut shells. Those are waste products that I wouldn’t expect to cause problems but who knows.