JillyB
@JillyB@beehaw.org
- Comment on Expectation Vs Reality 6 days ago:
A strong net wouldn’t be burned away that quickly. A regular explosive would still clear it away faster.
- Comment on The offline messaging apps challenging internet shutdowns 1 week ago:
I’m not that knowledgeable about this stuff but I think meshtastic would have better range due to running over lora. That’s the whole reason you need a separate radio for the communication to a node. Also the nodes require very little power. You can set up one with a small solar cell for cheap and just leave it somewhere. Black Flag Civilian and Benn Jordan both have plans to make your own nodes. There are plenty of others out there.
- Comment on Boy George pulled from West End performance run after releasing pro-Israel song 2 weeks ago:
Hamas was also financed by Israel in order to sink the efforts of the PLO. The secular PLO looked like it might actually get some peaceful recognition of statehood and Israel knew a violent Islamist leadership would torpedo that. Israel has been fighting against Palestinian statehood, limiting movement of Palestinians, controlling resources, supporting “settler” bandits that colonize and kill Palestinians, etc.
Israel has been slowly taking over Palestinian land and killing their people for decades. The Palestinians can’t vote in Israeli elections. Their statehood has been blocked by Israel so they have limited diplomatic solutions. What peaceful option do you propose they should have done?
The Oct 7 attacks killed about 1200 Israeli civilians and soldiers. In response, Israel has killed 1200 Hamas militants and 82,000 civilians, wounded a further 174,000, blocked humanitarian aid, leveled apartments, hospitals, schools, etc. Acting like both sides are bad when one is fighting for survival, and the other is committing a genocide is just arguing in support of genocide. If you’re somehow still ignorant on this topic, I suggest you do some more digging into the history of Israel and Palestine. If you have learned about it and still support Israel then go fuck yourself.
- Comment on No Spoiler 👁️⃤ 2 weeks ago:
I had to do a bunch of my own learning about the gulf war. Similarly, it happened before I was born but recent enough that history teachers didn’t consider it history. I now think it set the stage for a lot of the US geopolitically and I really should’ve learned about it in school.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 2 weeks ago:
It’s both. I knew a guy who was half black, half Japanese but he was born and raised in Japan. Despite being native born and culturally Japanese, he still faced a lot of discrimination because he was black. Among the expats, we were all discriminated against due to being foreigners, but the black people got it the worst.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 2 weeks ago:
And the literacy tests of the Jim Crowe era were just making sure people could read well enough to vote. It was educationalist, not racist. The purpose of this sign is to exclude non-native Japanese people.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 2 weeks ago:
I used to live in Japan. When I would go to a rural or off-the-beaten-parh izakaya, it was a coin flip. Either I would be told they are full (a lie, like this sign). Or the owner would be super excited to show a foreigner their culture and would personally serve me.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 2 weeks ago:
I lived in Japan for 2 years. I had several expat friends with stories of going to the hospital, being told they were full, their Japanese wife showing up, and suddenly they have space. Other stories of legal disputes between a Japanese person and a foreign immigrant will always go to the Japanese person. Japanese culture is very non-confrontational, but don’t think their brand of racism is safer. If we’re comparing racism and deciding one is less bad than the other, we’ve already partially accepted that it has a place in society.
- Comment on Tasting the Smell ☣️ 3 weeks ago:
Or gone to smash tournaments. Luckily the weekly I run doesn’t have a lot of stinkers but there have been a few over the years.
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds 4 weeks ago:
Nintendo are excellent marksmen when it comes to their customer’s dicks. They have been for a long time. -smash competitor
- Comment on Health yeating 1 month ago:
Bug Gazpacho
- Comment on Suggestions for Multiplayer Browser Games 1 month ago:
I’m not sure if it’s still active, but tagpro.gg was my first online multiplayer game that I actually got good at. It’s just played with the arrow keys and you controll a little ball playing capture the flag in teams.
- Comment on LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach 1 month ago:
Hey look, it’s me
- Comment on The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. 1 month ago:
Electricity and magnetism got me to change my major from physics to mechanical engineering. I thought I loved physics. Turns out when it’s a bunch of pixie bullshit that I can’t feel or see, I don’t like it so much. Vibrations is the E&M of Newtonian mechanics though. Had to take that one twice.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Y’all just need sharper knives
- Comment on 340 Local News Outlets Now Blocking The Internet Archive 2 months ago:
Anna’s Archive offers a paid service for large dowbloads specifically for AI training. Maybe they’re concerned the Internet Archive will offer a similar service.
- Comment on MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits Back 3 months ago:
So it’s basically a Solja boy console situation?
- Comment on Boop Snoots 3 months ago:
Recently announced starfox remake. The characters look absolutely terrible.
- Comment on What was the last physical retail store game purchase you've made? 3 months ago:
Somebody left a ps4 game on the bus one time. I brought it home only to realize it was someone’s mixtape left in an old game case so somebody would pick it up. That’s guerilla marketing.
- Comment on Best use I've seen of this template 3 months ago:
ISILDUUUUR-san
- Comment on liquor is fine though, its the carbonation they worry about 3 months ago:
I believe a twea is a Twisted Tea
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 months ago:
App stores are also monopolies who are abusing their positions. There’s been recent/current litigation about exactly that. Those other services are cool but are not just a kind service to gamers. It’s to keep the industry on their platform. It’s to increase market dominance. They could spin those services off as separate if they wanted but that wouldn’t support the market dominance so they won’t.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 months ago:
I’m not saying they for sure will get worse. I’m saying that a market dominance gives them the incentive and ability to do it. In general, we should resist market dominance so that incentive and ability just isn’t there to begin with.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 months ago:
Valve’s cost of hosting is pennies. They’re one of the most profitable companies in the US. They could lower that number to 5% and still have plenty of margin, I’d bet.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 months ago:
30%
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 months ago:
The first step of enshittification is being very pro-user. All of the good will from your users will build you a dominant market position so you can squeeze them later. We should resist any company dominating any market. Just because valve hasn’t screwed you over personally doesn’t mean we should just lovingly accept market dominance. The more competitive the market, the better.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 months ago:
It doesn’t have to go public to do that. It can get sold to private equity. The original owner can pass the business to their kid who has grown up privileged and huffs their own farts. Going public is a guarantee of enshittification but it isn’t the only way.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 months ago:
They take 30% of all PC game sales. If that isn’t abusing their position, idk what is.
- Comment on My Country music collection 3 months ago:
Plenty of hip hop has all sorts of accents. Also, there’s no such thing as “no accent”.
- Comment on Moon Mommy Milkers 4 months ago:
Haha where’s this image from? Hahaha like where could I find others?