TheRtRevKaiser
@TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org
- Comment on We only learnt of our son’s secret online life after he died at 20 4 weeks ago:
I saw this headline and expected something very different than what I got, and I’m really glad. I think the last decade has made me really cynical about technology and the internet, for some good reasons, to the point where a story like this is almost surprising. I found myself a little caught off guard by how emotional I got while reading it. Thank you for posting this.
- Comment on AIPAC Planned to Spend $100M on Elections This Year. It Already Surpassed That. 1 month ago:
This post isn’t really on-topic for c/technology. Please post it in c/Politics instead.
- Comment on Amazon Sells Fake, Dead Toshiba Hard Drives as New: Detailed Inspection & Proof of Their Scam 2 months ago:
I suspect their argument would be that they are more like a flea market. If you buy something fake or faulty at a flea market then the flea market probably isn’t liable, the seller is. Now, I don’t think this argument holds water, especially in light of Amazon’s practice of combining all of the stock of a single product into one place, regardless of who the seller is, so that there’s no way to know if you’ll actually get product from that seller.
- Comment on I Gazed Lovingly Into Strangers’ Eyes on ‘Eyechat’ 2 months ago:
I don’t think you’re trying to be xenophobic with this just, but I feel like you should know that it’s probably not landing the way you want it to…
- Comment on 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!) 2 months ago:
Also, tomato, “people are trying to make you ashamed of being white” is a pretty common white supremacist dogwhistle. I’m sure that’s not how you intended it, but I think you’d be better served avoiding it in the future.
- Comment on 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!) 2 months ago:
Hi Tomato - a lot of what you’re saying here has already been addressed elsewhere in the thread. The OP isn’t just addressing Lemmy, but other Fediverse services like Mastodon as well. He also notes in the article several people who been addressing ways in which Fediverse culture has been toxic to black users. These aren’t imagined problems, they exist in a lot of places off of and on Lemmy, and providing suggestions to make these sites better for black users is a good thing, not something to get defensive about. This post isn’t accusing you personally of anything, but if you feel challenged by it then it might be a good opportunity for you to interrogate those feelings.
Also, others have addressed your comments about not seeing other’s race online, etc, but I think it’s worth taking a step back and pausing. If people of color say they experience racism online, even though you don’t notice what race other people are, do you think it’s possible that there may be systemic problems or unconscious biases that might cause those folks to experience racism even when it is unintended? Those are the kinds of problems that aren’t solved by saying “I don’t say racist things to people and I don’t see color”. They’re problems that are built into our society just by the fact that we were all born and raised in an imperfect culture.
Nobody is accusing anyone of anything here, and nobody is trying to make anyone feel ashamed of who they are. But we can all benefit from stopping, thinking about the ways that we interact with others, and taking the time to try and be sure that we aren’t acting in ways that harm others even if that isn’t our intent or we weren’t aware of the harm in the first place.
- Comment on Technology@Beehaw.org, Community Culture, and Moderation 2 months ago:
I completely agree. Thank you for this comment. This is one of the reasons that in many cases we try first to just talk to users. Lots of folks have bad days, or just have certain issues that they really struggle with staying calm and being kind about.
- Comment on Technology@Beehaw.org, Community Culture, and Moderation 2 months ago:
I’d love to hear your thoughts on this, but please remember:
- Be Nice. You might think your cranky comment isn’t a big deal, but when there are dozens of them it can get pretty overwhelming. The dogpile is real.
- Technology@Beehaw.org is not a “free speech zone”. I think Beehaw admins have been pretty clear on this, but our overriding concern is community building and creating a corner of the internet where people are good to one another, not creating yet another site where people can say whatever they like regardless of the harm it might cause others. I understand this might clash with what some see as a fundamental philosophy of the fediverse, but we disagree. This isn’t the place to re-litigate those disagreements.
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- Comment on Elon Musk’s misinformation machine made the horrors of Southport, a small town in the UK, much worse 2 months ago:
It’s practically a guarantee that this Sharon’s dog is the most obnoxious, poorly trained little shit to ever walk the earth on four legs, too. Nobody wants your fucking dog, Sharon, it’s an unholy terror.
- Comment on 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!) 2 months ago:
I read that point as posting less when it comes to issues of race and racism specifically, but it’s possible I’m reading that into it. If so, it could be a little clearer.
- Comment on 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!) 2 months ago:
Other commenters provided feedback that was given in good faith. Those replies were left up. I hope you can see why we might consider jumping straight to comparing the poster to Hitler when you disagree with their well intentioned post about how to better be anti-racist on Fediverse communities to be a bit problematic.
- Comment on 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!) 2 months ago:
I agree completely. We do work hard to keep things inclusive and nice™ on Beehaw, but Technology is our largest and most active community by a fair margin, and sometimes folks don’t respect the vibe on the instance when they comment - either because they don’t realize what instance the post is on, or because they don’t understand or maybe don’t care to understand the ethos of the instance.
We’ve done some cleanup in the thread, but removals can take time to federate (if they federate at all, which is not guaranteed in my experience. Hopefully the discussion from here out will be more inclusive, but we’ll be keeping a closer eye on the thread in any case.
- Comment on 4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!) 2 months ago:
We’ve removed some of the comments in this thread for expressing the exact racist sentiments which would warrant this type of post and for arguing in bad faith. This is a perfectly salient conversation to be having in this community so we will be leaving this thread up, but as a reminder, please engage in good faith and be nice. If you don’t want to have conversations about anti-racism in Technology then I suggest you unsubscribe from this community and others on Beehaw.
On a personal note: I would be absolutely thrilled to see more, better discussions of the intersections of areas like race, gender, and sexuality with technology, and fewer arguments about which Linux distro is better.
- Comment on Twitter API has a list of users who are allowed to use racial slurs 3 months ago:
I think pinned comments were added in a recent update, but in that case Beehaw hasn’t updated for various reasons that have been explained elsewhere.
I’m less sure about the flairs. It would be a very helpful moderation tool in a toolbox that is quite limited at the moment.
- Comment on Twitter API has a list of users who are allowed to use racial slurs 3 months ago:
Hey Folks, Technology Mod here. We’re aware of the reports that this post has gathered. I recognize that this is probably fake and that the source is suspect.
While we don’t have any source requirements in the sidebar for this community, in general better sources would be preferred. However, the post has generated enough discussion that I hesitate to remove it. Unfortunately, Lemmy doesn’t provide many tools for us to deal with situations like this, such as pinning comments, editing titles, or adding flair. For now, I’ll be leaving this post up, but I’ll continue to watch the discussion to see if other actions might need to be taken.
Thanks for your patience, folks.
- Comment on Speaking of controllers: What's your favorite WEIRD controller? 3 months ago:
Holy shit I just looked this up and this article says there are forty buttons! Also apparently if you didn’t eject in time, the game would erase your save file?!?
- Comment on Speaking of controllers: What's your favorite WEIRD controller? 3 months ago:
LOL I had completely forgotten about this controller. One of my roommates in college had one of these and I usually wound up with it. I didn’t hate it, though, for a third party controller it was surprisingly decent. The fan was mid, but you could feel it, from what I remember.
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 4 months ago:
No worries. I don’t think anybody in the comments here have crossed any lines yet; I’m just trying to defuse things before they get to that point. I’m finding that !technology is one of the communities where we’re most likely to have to lock threads or remove comments, other than maybe !politics, and I’m trying to be more proactive about reminding folks to deescalate when things get tense.
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 4 months ago:
That joke was…Mint?
- Comment on This is What Prime Air Drone Delivery Looks Like - Core77 4 months ago:
I thought for sure that this was a joke, or that the gif of the drone sort of…pooping out that package was fake. But I found the same gif on Amazon’s PR website. This has got to be the dumbest possible way to get a package delivered…
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 4 months ago:
Please try not to escalate comment threads that are already tense. Remember to be(e) nice. I think think it is understandable that someone might be frustrated with the regular, low effort responses to practically any mention of Windows or a number of other topics.
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 4 months ago:
Hey, I totally get your frustration here, but in the future please keep in mind the primary ethos on Beehaw and try to be nice in your comments here. I sympathize with how irritating the constant barrage of “just install arch” as if that’s a simple fix for every problem, and I think it would be valuable for users on this forum to think about this before they comment, but let’s try to stay respectful and kind to other users. Thanks!
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 4 months ago:
Let’s not start this kind of low-effort distro warring in the comments on Beehaw, please.
- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 5 months ago:
We have one overarching rule on Beehaw: Be Nice. Please try to consider this when you comment on this instance in the future.
- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 5 months ago:
We have one overarching rule on Beehaw: Be Nice. Please try to consider this when you comment on this instance in the future.
- Comment on Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed" 7 months ago:
Hi @FfaerieOxide. Beehaw has one rule: Be(e) Nice. This kind of personal attack isn’t really in the spirit of Beehaw, and I’d like to ask you to please reconsider how you interact with users on this instance. You can disagree with someone without being insulting or demeaning.
- Comment on Chatbot letdown: Hype hits rocky reality 7 months ago:
It’s decent for generating ideas for names. I’ve used it for tabletop stuff a couple of times to give me NPC names or lists of personality traits, and it’s good sometimes for breaking writers block when I get stuck on some detail that I can’t figure out what word I want to use or what to name something. You can usually get it to give you some sort of okay suggestions, but the volume of ideas is usually enough to spark a better idea for me. The only weird thing I’ve noticed is that GPT4 (or whatever flavor bing/copilot is currently using) REALLY likes alliteration to a degree that is downright corny. It’s kinda weird but sort of funny honestly.
- Comment on Anyone else addicted to Balatro right now? 7 months ago:
Some of the decks and jokers you unlock change the game pretty dramatically.
- Comment on Anyone else addicted to Balatro right now? 7 months ago:
I’m in the same boat, I’ve made it all the way to Orange and just can’t seem to put together a winning run. Which deck have you been trying it with?