0xtero
@0xtero@beehaw.org
Glorified network janitor. Perpetual blueteam botherer. Friendly neighborhood cyberman. Constantly regressing toward the mean. Slowly regarding silent things.
- Comment on 12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI’s brutal work culture is a warning for all of us 1 day ago:
I meant, the priorities for the society as a whole. Our governments and laws are formed accordingly. On individual level it’s same here as well. We have people who reject (or abuse) the system, who hate the taxes etc. But our society is formed to provide certain things like free access to education, healthcare and collective social security for elderly and those who can’t support themselves.
- Comment on 12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI’s brutal work culture is a warning for all of us 6 days ago:
Never heard of 996 but feels like these types of articles pop up every time there’s some kind of tech hype cycle going on. Silicon valley is full of IT heroes, ready to sacrifice it all - their families, health, environment - in order to make it big. Get rich or die trying. That’s the American Dream, right? Work hard, provide full value to shareholders and some precious honey might trickle down to you. The American “success culture” we Europeans apparently lack.
Meanwhile, here I am, I’m living in northern European social democratic utopia with free healthcare, education and annual, fully paid 6 week vacation while wondering why my 4-day work week is taking so long,.
Different priorities, I guess.
- Comment on Donald Trump just shared an AI video to Truth Social depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys 2 weeks ago:
USA is not a serious country. What an absolute shit hole.
- Comment on Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W 4 weeks ago:
Ah, thanks I wasn’t aware of those instances. I guess it’s the same old, same old story as always - politicians (in general), even in EU are not really looking to do the “right thing”. They’re looking to do the most populistic thing.
- Comment on Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W 4 weeks ago:
If the EU has a system which does not rely on third parties for verification and allows the platform to verify directly with a government-run service
The EU has been driving union wide “Digital Identity Wallet” It’s documented here: ec.europa.eu/…/EU+Digital+Identity+Wallet+Home
- Comment on Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W 4 weeks ago:
There’s actually a project that tracks EU MEP’s and their X activity leavex.eu/politicians/
- Comment on Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W 4 weeks ago:
It’s kinda sad.
The European Commission even has their own Mastodon instance (ec.social-network.europa.eu), but it seems they can’t get any of the Commission employees or Parliament MPs to use it. It only has 10 account and from what I can see, only one “real” active user, Veronica Gaffey the Director-General, for Digital Services (DIGIT), who isn’t even posting on her real account but under the title @EC_DIGIT_director_general
As far as I know none of the EU member countries have their own Mastodon servers and most politicians at least here in Sweden seem to be using either X or (the technically minded “progressives”) Bluesky, while they complain about American Big Tech.
As always with politicians, actions don’t correspond to rhetoric.
- Comment on Sincere question: why play long video games? 1 month ago:
I swear I’m not trying to troll
But you’re doing it anyway. If you really are old enough to be posting “back in my days” shit on the Internet, then you must also be old enough to be able to reflect on what you’re actually trying to say and start a discussion about.
Games, like any hobbies are done with whatever expendable income and time we have after everything else “important” is done. They are hobbies. Taste in this fleeting field of entertainment is just as personal and subjective as anyones taste in music. I’m pretty sure you know since you used to have a band in high-school after all.
So what exactly are you trying to say with your post?
- Comment on nooki is a small, comfy corner of the internet built on AT Protocol. Share posts, stories, and ideas while keeping full control of your data 4 months ago:
“Built on AT protocol, centralized on BlueSky”. No thanks.
- Comment on Bluesky rolls out age verification for users in Ohio | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
Good one, got a chuckle out of me :)
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 4 months ago:
If we think Elon, Gates and Bezos are far-right, exploiting, scum billionaires, then Thiel is about 715 Texas sized football fields to the right of them politically. Dude is insane.
- Comment on LinkedIn set to start to train its AI on member profiles 5 months ago:
Same techbro hegemony as Meta’s “Facebook AI Friends” they are trying to roll out.
- Comment on OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ 6 months ago:
ChatGPT in its PhD thesis defense: “Oh, I’m sorry for the misinformation, let me try this again…”
- Comment on Ubisoft CEO responds to the Stop Killing Games petition, stating the publisher is 'working on' improving its approach to end-of-life support, but that 'nothing is eternal' 7 months ago:
He should probably read what the Stop Killing Games campaign is trying to establish before responding. But he probably “has people for that”. And it shows.
- Comment on How a simple mistake ruined my new PC (and my YouTube channel) 7 months ago:
Right after this message from our sponsors!
- Comment on What Are People Still Doing on X? 8 months ago:
Yeah. On Twitter as well
- Comment on What Are People Still Doing on X? 8 months ago:
Sure. Just saying this is federated and you don’t really control where this post ends up.
- Comment on What Are People Still Doing on X? 8 months ago:
Uh, there are plenty of Nazis and tankies on fedi. Chances are you’re using software written by hardcore tankies (Lemmy devs)
- Comment on Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet 9 months ago:
this is potentially the last social identity you have to create.
…as long as you stay centralized on the central BlueSky instance. Once you move out to a (potential, future) federated server, that identity (and it’s super duper verification) doesn’t follow you.
- Comment on The Last of Us Part III: Joel of the Dead 9 months ago:
Dude. Don’t keep the bong so close to your keyboard.
- Comment on Bluesky rolls out blue check verifications 10 months ago:
I think at this point it’s pretty clear that BlueSky is in the traditional social media business instead of being in the decentralized social media business.
Maybe that’s a good decision for BlueSky, they certainly seem to have the growth at the moment, but I think we probably have to forget the dreams of it ever pushing the decentralization angle again.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac 1 year ago:
It’s spez so of course they’re going to go for NSFW subs. Pretty sure that’ll just cause people to move to Onlyfans and other, already NSFW platforms.
Can’t really see anyone paying for sub access apart from porn.
- Comment on Microsoft is hiking the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and launching a new “Standard” tier 1 year ago:
It’s the circle of enshittification
- Comment on Dr Disrespect finally shares why he was banned from Twitch 1 year ago:
Dr. Disrespect: I’ll fucking own this problem!
Also Dr. Disrespect: Owns up to inappropriate message exchange with a minor.awkward_side_eye.jpg
- Comment on Cities skylines 2 is broken 1 year ago:
Economy 2.0 is next week I think (hope!) - so this is just vanilla breakage.
- Comment on Spotify Premium User Slams App Over Audiobook Feature 1 year ago:
So, is this the type of SLAM you’d typically see in a moshpit? Or are we talking about wrestling slams?
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 26th 1 year ago:
Manor Lords all the way. There’s a big Cities Skylines II patch coming out this week (I hope). I might fire it up and check it out. It’s getting close to “release quality” after pretty crappy release.
- Comment on I would maybe like a smart watch, can you help me decide? 1 year ago:
So your requirements with cellular calling (eSIM) is already fairly restrictive and depends on which market we’re talking about. Where I live (.se) you get to choose between Apple and Samsung and since Apple was out of the question, you’re stuck with Samsung.
Not entirely sure if your second requirement with long battery life can be fulfilled. You’ll be charging the watch every day, probably more often if you take calls on it.
There’s some rumors that Garmin Forerunner/epix will get eSIM support, but that will be also carrier dependent.
- Comment on What do you personally use AI for? 1 year ago:
I don’t and the energy consumption of public AI services is a stopper for “testing and playing around”. I think I’ll just wait until it takes over the world as advertised.
- Comment on Fallout Show, so bad that no one will remember it in 3 months 1 year ago:
But if it was reality
“In a future, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles brought about by nuclear decimation, citizens must live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from radiation, mutants and bandits.”
And you picked a girl punching a guy the exact moment to suspend your belief? Damn dude.