schnurrito
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- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 6 days ago:
I think you’re supposed to ask questions here that people elsewhere might think are stupid questions. The idea is that in this community, there are no stupid questions.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
What now? Why do you think the premise is true?
Suggested reading: slatestarcodex.com/…/i-can-tolerate-anything-exce…
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 3 weeks ago:
Taking freely licensed photos in the summer. Open source software development in the winter.
- Comment on Who decides when the US goes to "war" 3 weeks ago:
Starting point for research: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 4 weeks ago:
It is supposed to believe that climate change is a … scam?!
You can believe that climate change is not real, but a “scam”, how does that even work?
- Comment on Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF for posting the blogger's story 5 weeks ago:
I am too young to remember that. Of course browsers are now free (at least as in beer, many also as in speech) again and that is a good thing. In my childhood, computers were pretty much synonymous with Windows and the web was mostly unusable without Flash Player and it’s a good thing that that has changed. Still, we don’t live in the utopian society I imagined the Internet would lead to.
- Comment on Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF for posting the blogger's story 5 weeks ago:
2004: The Internet is going to lead us into a utopian future of free communication where we exchange ideas with each other without corporate media being gatekeepers telling us what to read, write and think!
2024: Hi, I’m Meta and everyone gets their information from my platforms and I can decide what ideas to allow there. What do you mean we weren’t supposed to have that anymore by now, whoever told you that kind of nonsense.
- Comment on Have you ever seen coal in real life? 1 month ago:
Touch, not sure. See, certainly. I have seen steam locomotives operate many times in my life because I live in a country where those are still in use as tourist attractions.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I think the line is easy to draw: astralcodexten.com/…/moderation-is-different-from…
I oppose most censorship, but I do not oppose moderation. If you don’t want to see certain people speaking freely, you shouldn’t have to, but you shouldn’t be allowed to keep them from speaking freely to each other.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Remember when reddit was a free speech platform where pretty much everything legal was ok except doxing?
What went wrong that we can’t have places like that on the Internet anymore?
- Comment on Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you? 2 months ago:
No, mainly because even when I try to manipulate people, I usually don’t succeed.
- Comment on Why do some languages use gendered nouns? 2 months ago:
Not really. Your description fits Interlingua a lot better than Esperanto.
For example the word for “legalize” looks like legaliz- in lots of European languages, but in Esperanto it’s “laŭleĝigi” (laŭ = according to, leĝ = law, ig = cause to be, i = verb infinitive). There are many more examples like that, even the Internet is called Interreto in Esperanto.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It is a job and at a job you follow instructions you get even if you think they are stupid.
- Comment on Why can't code be uncompiled? 4 months ago:
Others have explained that decompiling is a thing.
I mainly work in Java where (due to the way Java bytecode works) decompiled code is actually very close to the original source code.
Most games are written in low level languages like C++ where that is not the case, variable and function names are lost during compilation.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 4 months ago:
Because you’re in a bubble of “big corporations bad”. Not uncommon on the fediverse for obvious reasons.
- Comment on If someone pleads not guilty in court and is then found guilty of the crime anyway, does perjury get added to the list of crimes as well? 4 months ago:
Yes
- Comment on If someone pleads not guilty in court and is then found guilty of the crime anyway, does perjury get added to the list of crimes as well? 4 months ago:
This is common in European countries, but in the US and other common law countries, defendants who choose to testify are under oath like any other witness.
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 4 months ago:
It is “Fußball” in German which is what I speak natively. But I still usually say “soccer” when I speak English because that is unambiguous.
- Comment on Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy? 6 months ago:
Yes. In my teenage years, these kinds of web forums were the norm, now they are almost as outdated as Usenet or mailing lists. I think that is a shame because I found web forums utterly addictive while on reddit and lemmy I tend to quickly run out of things to read.
- Comment on Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy? 6 months ago:
I really just think the reddit/lemmy structure isn’t very suited to small communities.
For small communities we should have a platform structured like a traditional web forum with flat threads and thread bumping. This causes people to get endless streams of discussion even with relatively few users.