AVincentInSpace
@AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 3 days ago:
OpenStreetMap ftw
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 4 days ago:
Which is true, and a good argument in favor of diabetics having easy access to sugary things – not having them when they’re needed can literally be life-threatening. It is not, however, am argument for everyone having easy access to them – corporations bet on people getting addicted to them, and sugary drinks in particular give a sharp increase in risk for developing diabetes.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
I mean, the comment also contains a statement of fact that is false.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
The debate over pineapple on pizza is old hat. It’s played out. Boring, one might even say, though for the record I’m firmly on the pro side.
What’s not played out is strawberries on pizza.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
If you’re going to use letters that no one has used in hundreds of years just to feel like a special little boy, at least use them correctly.
- Comment on It's gay to brush your teeth 1 week ago:
I’ve heard this said a lot, but I’ve yet to see any evidence that anyone believes it and it’s not just an exaggeration/troll.
I’m having a little trouble believing even the manosphere is genuinely that deranged.
- Comment on Not The Same 🥸 2 weeks ago:
It is on paper. You can host your own PDS (low-resource-requirement server that stores your posts). in practice, well over 90% of users use the default PDS, and even if you don’t, you’re subject to the whims of the relay (big-iron datacenter type server that retrieves posts from every PDS and aggregates them into a single stream for appviews to then display) that other people use to look at your posts. Bluesky is the main relay, and they have been known to censor people for the crimes of speaking out in favor of trans people in sports, or being Palestinian. Blacksky, a competing relay, seems to be a bit better, though I don’t personally know much about it. But the fact remains that running a relay server is really expensive, therefore few people can afford to do it, and a relay server is a gateway through which all posts must pass before they can be seen, therefore it’s a censor’s dream, and those two facts together make Bluesky de facto centralized.
- Comment on Not The Same 🥸 2 weeks ago:
bUt bLuEsKy iS dEcEnTrAlIzEd!
- Comment on Every time 2 weeks ago:
do not even get me started on the Sonic movies
- Comment on When do we riot? 2 weeks ago:
Call it Pascal’s Wager if you like, but if it’s not too late to do anything, me doing my part, however small, will help, and if it is too late, my efforts won’t make it worse.
- Comment on How to move a sofa 2 weeks ago:
Is this that communism/neighborhood community thing everybody keeps talking about?
- Comment on Block your ads 1 month ago:
please tell me this is photoshopped
- Comment on Can't fathom it 1 year ago:
i forget to eat and i regret to inform you we are not immune to this
- Comment on 1 year ago:
au contraire, i think it makes you quite reasonably upset
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 year ago:
By leaving the game open when they go to sleep. Come on, anon, you know this.
- Comment on Anon uses Discord 1 year ago:
that’s true. however, you’re gonna have a tough time finding something to run on there that isn’t worse than discord by any reasonable metric.
like, buddy, i get it. i also selfhost. but let’s not lie to ourselves. google drive is LIGHTYEARS ahead of collabora, matrix is a buggy mess, jellyfin – okay, well jellyfin is actually unironically better than netflix, but that’s assuming you have the technical chops to run a seedbox and the money to bulid a sufficiently beefy transcoding server (either that or put up with external video players, excessive bandwidth usage, and in some cases stuttering bc of software decoding), and you can either overlook the moral issues or buy everything on blu-ray, and ChatGPT and friends might suck total ass but they can still run circles around anything you can load into ollama.
this is also ignoring the fact that you would need the technical know-how to self-host, which as techies we tend to underestimate. is docker easy for us? yes. is it easy for joe random who may or may not have ever intentionally opened his browser devtools? no. plus there’s still configuration files to think of. but even if you’re using one of those easy vps services that does all that for you, you’re still selfhosting a freaking chat platform. assuming you want to talk to anyone who isn’t an LLM, you’re going to have to either convince them to join your chat platform and then do moderation, or federate, in which case, what can you get from a single user instance that you can’t get by joining someone else’s instance and saving yourself a LOT of hassle?
- Comment on A scientific discovery 1 year ago:
i’ve heard of jokes going over people’s heads but i think you had to duck
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 year ago:
Ah yes, let me just boycott my health insurance provider. Since it’s provided through my work, it’s real easy and convenient (not to mention cheap!) to switch to a different provider. And as for socialized medicine I’m sure Congress will get right on that, just as soon as the Democrats have a majority in the Senate. What’s that? They already had that and they sat with their thumbs in their asses not passing any laws because of something something bipartisanship? No matter, I’m sure it’s fine. If we put them in charge again I’m sure things will be different!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 year ago:
The more-or-less stated goal of the second amendment is that the people have the tools needed to overthrow the government if they need to.
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 year ago:
You and the guy you’re replying to
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 year ago:
you have more respect for literal farm animals. ergo you do not see him as human.
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 year ago:
What did he deserve, then?
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 year ago:
Yeah, a bunch of people doing what the second amendment was explicitly written to allow them to do looks like, uhhh… January 6, 2021.
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 year ago:
least rabid ml user:
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 1 year ago:
both your accounts are on world, though, and at this point i honestly wouldn’t be shocked to hear that you woke up tomorrow to find you could no longer log in
- Comment on I get it, but you're both part of a bigger problem. 1 year ago:
exactly. like, mate, i hate to break it to ya, but people do have to pay to use stock footage. artists do get paid for that
- Comment on Just put a spray tan over it 1 year ago:
And because of people who want to cosplay as Homestuck trolls. Don’t forget them.
- Comment on Just put a spray tan over it 1 year ago:
do they sell skin dye that does that intentionally? cause i know people who’d kill to have their skin permanently be a wacky color or art piece without actually having to tattoo it
- Comment on Anon plays spin the bottle 1 year ago:
this guy is so close to realizing that just because a few assholes hang out somewhere doesn’t mean the entire space is a toxic shithole