breakfastmtn
@breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca
Sneaking all around the fediverse.
Also at breakfastmtm@firefish.social breakfastmtn@pixelfed.social
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
*smash cut to nine months later*
- Comment on "Please fill out this survey about how we didn't hire you." 4 days ago:
Probably worth doing if you can write “eat shit” for every answer.
- Comment on Should I avoid communities on lemmy.ml? 6 days ago:
Yes.
I won’t subscribe, post, or comment in ml.
- Comment on What is the best post sort for Lemmy? 1 week ago:
Scaled takes smaller communities into account and bumps them up so they don’t get buried by posts from larger communities with more engagement.
- Comment on What is the best post sort for Lemmy? 1 week ago:
Scaled was a game-changer for me.
I use scaled on web. Voyager can remember your sorts for different communities. I typically to use new for smaller communities and scaled for larger ones and the home feed.
- Comment on Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi? 1 week ago:
The mechanism is impeachment. It’s broken because of polarization.
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 1 week ago:
lol no. But nice try. I applaud the attempt!
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 1 week ago:
I think banning individual social media services is not the solution. The solution is to create meaningful laws that hold any company, Chinese or American, accountable for data privacy and misinformation/election interference violations.
You, in a nutshell. You’re saying that they shouldn’t address specific threats. Why not both?
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 1 week ago:
No, you’re conflating privacy and espionage.
I’m not moving the goal posts. The order for China to divest is about espionage. The ban stemming from their refusal to divest is about espionage. Your privacy law doesn’t solve this problem because it’s not a privacy problem, it’s an espionage problem.
To take your murder example, it’s like saying ‘I don’t see why everyone’s so worked up about China coming here and shooting people. People get shot here every day and the army doesn’t get involved!’ Despite sharing some details, domestic gun violence and war are different. You’re focusing on the trees and missing the forest.
🙂 perfect is the enemy of good
I’m not opposed to your proposed law. I’d support the hell out of it. It would solve other important problems, even if it wouldn’t solve this one. But saying that a country can’t do anything about espionage unless they pass that law is unrealistic.
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 1 week ago:
You’re conflating privacy and espionage. The reason basically every country in the world has laws about foreign ownership of media and telecommunications infrastructure is not because of privacy concerns – it’s because of the potential for espionage. That fanciful law with no chance of passing in the US (even if it should!) would reduce but not eliminate the problem. It’s illegal for China to operate weird little secret police stations in foreign countries to threaten, intimidate, and control the Chinese diaspora, but that hasn’t stopped them from doing it. Having them control powerful monitoring and tracking tools doesn’t make it harder. They are very capable of surreptitiously doing shit they shouldn’t.
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 1 week ago:
Yes, which doesn’t solve the problem because the problem is in China. The Chinese government can demand any information that ByteDance possesses. Under Chinese law, they are bound to comply and bound to deny that they were even asked under threat of extremely harsh punishment.
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 1 week ago:
That wouldn’t solve the problem because the Chinese government is not bound by US law in China.
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 1 week ago:
It prohibits other companies from providing support services to them too.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 4 weeks ago:
Witcher 3 (but there’s still time!)
- Comment on Well, they finally got around to me 1 month ago:
I think we’re only accepting goose enthusiast youtube refugees right now but, what the hell, you seem like a good egg - I’ll check with the king!
- Comment on Well, they finally got around to me 1 month ago:
Bummer. Still working in Canada, if you want to move here…
- Comment on The Two Genders 1 month ago:
100%! You can totally see her draw elemental magic from the water running down the cave wall then cast it as ball lightning (or electricity at least?). She uses both Quen and Igni in the trailer too though. There’s also book lore about magic that could lend itself well to game play, like the costs of casting more than you’ve drawn and the skill required to draw from different “elemental planes.” Witcher mage would be a fun build!
- Comment on The Witcher 4 got a surprise reveal at The Game Awards, and this one is all about Ciri | PC Gamer 1 month ago:
They added the (never promised) metro system last year and just released another huge free update two days ago.
- Comment on Hypersensitive tankie mod 9 months ago:
- Comment on Official Trailer for Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 12 1 year ago:
Feb 4th is so soon too! Yessssss!
- Comment on All karma lost since v. 0.19 1 year ago:
I’m sure it’ll get removed. Voyager used to have it and I was shocked it disappeared a couple months ago in preparation for 0.19. Now it just shows post and comment counts.
- Comment on All karma lost since v. 0.19 1 year ago:
It’s not tracked anymore as of 0.19 (“don’t serialize karma”). Dessalines talks about how it’s being removed (and should’ve been removed sooner) here.
- Comment on Why is propaganda frowned upon? 1 year ago:
It kind of depends on the context it’s used in. The common meaning has also changed over time. All government press releases could be considered propaganda and they generally aren’t frowned upon. Having a Ministry of Propaganada used to be common until the word gained a negative connotation.
News propaganda is frowned upon because it’s fundamentally dishonest, even if individual stories are true. It’s masquerading as an attempt to discover truth through fact-finding when in reality it’s disseminating received “truth” through an authority. If, for example, the Russian government wants to spread a false story through RT, it doesn’t matter the size of your mountain of facts negating it, you cannot overturn received truth at RT. It’s not easy, and is often impossible, to discern between discovered and received ‘truth’ from propaganda networks.
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- Comment on This ad that says “Wake up! A beach house is not a dream.” 1 year ago:
It’s real in that this was actually produced by an Israeli construction company. It’s fake in that this isn’t actually happening or approved by the state.
- Comment on If I construct a huge glass box and cover a fully grown tree - then fill the entire thing in water, what would happen to the tree 1 year ago:
It would die. The roots need to do gas exchange too. Ideal soil composition is generally 45% mineral, ~25% water, ~25% air, and 5% organic matter.
Tree bark also does gas exchange.
- Comment on The current state of Instagram 1 year ago:
It would vary by server, but pixelfed.social and pixelfed.art just require sexually explicit or violent images to be marked sensitive.
- Comment on The current state of Instagram 1 year ago:
Might be a good time to dip a toe in the waters over at Pixelfed, if you haven’t already.
- Comment on PS5 & PS4 Will Lose X Integration This Month, a Year After Elon Musk's Acquisition of Twitter 1 year ago:
Burn baby burn
