LarmyOfLone

@LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I’ve always hated Visual Studio. It installs so much bloat, it is more like another operating system installed on top of your existing one. It’s an abomination.

  And no matter what they call VSCode, for what most people need to create software it’s a perfectly fine substitute. I guess you should call it a DE, a development environment since compilers are not “integrated”. But that is a good thing, to be able to install compilers separately. On the other hand if you install compilers, the addons to integrate that compiler into VSCode. Maybe it’s an “integrating development environment”? :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah done that now :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m just too lazy to reinstall and copy over my settings to VSCodium.

  Supporting open source projects by small teams has been the only good thing MS has ever done. Imagine if MS would even partly open sourced part of windows. Like there are bugs in explorer for 3 decades that just don’t get fixed lol. And then there still would be bloat and shitty things, but it still would be better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft Terminal vs the default Command Prompt haha. VS Code vs Visual Studio.

  In general software is one of the rare thing where ordinary people can “mass produce” things that compete with commercial offerings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A24's "Warfare" is now Certified Fresh with 94% on Rotten Tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to play devil’s advocate: Make a Disney movie where it’s a bomb sniffing dog who gets separated from his handler and then runs all the way back to America to find her again. How could anybody be against such a heartfelt story about bomb disposal? Woof woof!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had no idea y cunt was this powerful⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all fun and games posting extremist propaganda, until you hear that the christo-fascists in power right now actually do want to ban sodomy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The one good thing about all this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is sad. Everyone is gloating, cheering on a possible conflict in the future. We’ve seen this kind of escalation and warmongering in 2013 in Ukraine. “Of course that country on the doorstep of our big geopolitical rival should be independent and join our military pact! Hahaha lololol!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨logs are for quitters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  *in a silly high voice due to all the helium

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it doesn’t. Either one, democracy is still better… Science does best with freedom from suppression.

  U.S. science no longer leads the world. Here’s how top advisers say the nation should respond

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This comes a bit down to utilitarianism vs ethics based on principles. But that’s a lie, it’s really about who has power.

  I’m just watching a video by Majority Report where he talks about the question “Why is democracy is good” which the Democrats sort of fucked up in the election. And he makes a pretty painful point that it’s a “show me, don’t tell me” question. If you live in a democracy and constantly exploited, overworked, fucked over, in terror of economic hardship or terror attacks, harassed by police, then what is the point? What is the benefit? I’m not making the point that democracy is bad, but that a shell of a democracy, a fake, is leading especially the “dirtbag left” to adopt a pretty hostile posture.

  So what is the actual quality of life in China vs the USA? What are the actual material benefits looking at living in an apartment, working, raising children and living a peaceful life?

  How do YOU know that life in China isn’t actually better and people more happy than in the USA? I don’t believe that is true but it’s a valid question. Of course China has massive problems and corruption and abuses. But there are a billion people there that were on a medieval level after WWII. The CCP has massively invested in e.g. education and healthcare and infrastructure.

  Or compare quality of life in China vs democratic India. Same can be said about Iran.

  Sure you have freedom of speech with the means of communication owned and controlled by the oligarchs. And you can say whatever you want on reddit and get downvoted to hell - which goes to my previous point, that the propaganda is so internalized and polarized now that you don’t need threats of state violence to keep the population in check.

  So those opinions are not just for fun. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer is an aphorism that is leading the west inevitably towards fascism. So all the “posturing” about how superior our principles and freedums are is just… well it’s a delusion. It’s happening right now. They are stealing your future right now and there is nothing you can do because they control the media.

  But still the socialists are completely rejected and banned from the largest lemmy instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that over the last decade any nuanced opinions on those topics has become less and less “politically correct”. And that is the correct term, anyone who isn’t politically correct and in line with the liberal mainstream opinion (= imperialist propaganda by the US state department and think tanks) must by definition by a paid shills of Putin, China or Trump. There are those people of course, but the dynamic has become more and more polarized and steeped in conspiratorial thinking. And that is by “design”. It’s profitable and it serves the US imperial agenda and it’s easier to avoids the frustration of talking to trolls and fascists - just paint everyone of a different opinion with the same brush.

  I mean you can’t even talk about talking about it, like not seeing those people as anything but “assholes”. The range of allowable opinions has drastically narrowed. It’s not even liberal in the modern sense of the word. People are too scared to be liberal any more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The actual left wing, the something socialists something are partly on hexbear.org and lemmygrad.ml. And they are called tankies and blocked on lemmy.world. So how left wing can most people here be? The thing is that “left” has become synonymous with (neo)liberal values. Like there doesn’t have to be a free, independent press or social media and them being owned by capitalists is just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horses ARE Forever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather have a ultralight carbon fiber donkey carriage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Should have added “Also I die every time you people stop talking to me anyway…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snow White, Disney, Rachel Zegler and a toxic debate that's not going away⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So if some actor complains about something deplorable, and then there is a huge manufactured fake backlash, is it always ok to write “The actor created controversy by…”?

  Lets make your argument more absurd and say there is a hypothetical problem with boots stomping on faces. All day and night these people would randomly pick certain people and start to stomp on their faces. Hypothetically it’s recently been legalized by Trump via executive order.

  Is complaining about that creating controversy? Is there any line of deplorable, morally unacceptable behavior that would shift the framing from “creating controversy by complaining” to “spoke out and became a victim of a manufactured outrage by fascists”?

  My problem is with the framing and how we’re accepting fascism as legitimate, while hiding the backlash is fake, immoral and baseless. This is the opposite of accepting reality and fighting back. It’s accepting fascism as something that we must respect and tolerate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i just wanna live⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead of fumigation, can you breed them, release them in a house to kill all the cockroaches, then lure them back into their mobile home with food?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snow White, Disney, Rachel Zegler and a toxic debate that's not going away⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d bet you could find actual historic precedence for this. Imagine a german actress making her voice heard in the weimarer republic about the rising power of the NAZI party. Back then, people didn’t know where hate speech would lead. But now we know.

  Hate speech must be opposed (see Paradox of Tolerance). If you accept it you help the fascists. There is no valid opinion except opposing it, so it is not controversial. There was no discussion that can be called a discussion. It’s just an attack by fascists.

  At least on those two points. It is absolutely VITAL that we call out news media that are supposedly neutral like the BBC. If they accept fascist talking point as a valid opinion in discussion, we have already lost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snow White, Disney, Rachel Zegler and a toxic debate that's not going away⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what I was referring to:

  Zegler also stoked controversy with her views after the 2024 US presidential election. Writing on Instagram, she said she hoped “Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace”.

  BBC simply shouldn’t take the critique coming from fascists seriously, it legitimizes it as two valid viewpoints.

  The article mentions the “shade” but it seems she only commented on the elements of stalking and I guess you can also throw in the somewhat necrophiliac element of the prince kissing her presumably dead corpse lol.

  But Snow White is based on a Grimm’s fairy tale anyway, which are quite bloody and cruel and far from the sweet Disney movies, and they also contain centuries of storytelling condensing a cultural subconsciousness and dreams. Disney was always more shallow entertainment going with the times. Enchanted is completely bonkers too but really amazing movie. So it’s all bullshit asking a remake to “stay true”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rocky rock rocking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw rocks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snow White, Disney, Rachel Zegler and a toxic debate that's not going away⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean casting her is obvious bait by the producers. But the BBC calling her comments “controversial”? That’s problematic at least. She opposed genocide and illegal occupation and opposed an authoritarian strongman gaining power. That is not a controversial comment in a liberal democracy and the founding values of the western democracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meanwhile, in Springfield Ohio⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some socialist theory defines fascism as capitalism in decline. I don’t really agree with that definition but it’s not wrong with their critique of capitalism. So if you want to learn more about that, you should look into the (few) socialist academics.

  One simple example would be corporate or capitalist ownership of media or the “fifth estate”. How could you have a democracy when voters are deliberately misinformed about reality? And not because of ideology but for profit and to create better rules to increase corporate profits? What else do you expect to happen?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Financing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stars & sharks⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah those were the good old days, when we still made quarks in this country!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stars & sharks⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean the protons and neutrons are never new, all of this stuff is just second hand recycled garbage!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's coming! :(⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious, how is copyleft license supposed to improve the quality of browser development?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meanwhile, in Springfield Ohio⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never realized until now why they use the “45” so much. Just move one of the black bars and it’s a fucking swastika… And Haitians are really a stand-in for black people.

  The real problem is that we allowed the plutocrats to control both the news and social media and the government. Basically the US doesn’t have a free press any more but a quasi-government controlled oligarch media. As long as these neoliberal policies continue the degradation of institutions and politics continues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let me at 'em!!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm this made me wonder why something like this wouldn’t melt the rock and then sink into the crust and then into the planet. Probably not hot enough.
  And that made me think if we could build something like a big pellet of fissile material, encase it in tungsten or something so that it is hot enough to do so but remains stable, and then let it sink into the earth. Maybe that could be tracked? Then we could learn something about how it moves and where it ends up. But probably can’t be tracked since this isn’t star trek 🖖

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now make a square out of squiggly yarn

  String theorists claim this is the true shape of spacetime!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never ask⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither is ok of course. The thing is that Israel had an overwhelming military and economic advantage for decades. The strategy should have been to aid in democratization, education and prosperity of the occupied Palestinian territories and neighboring countries. Propaganda is an incredibly powerful tool and they could have used it to de-radicalize Palestinians and create a peaceful 1 or 2 state solution. They’ve had decades to do this. But they did the opposite.

  Part of it is I believe the US geopolitical strategy. The USA does NOT like democracy in countries it wants to exploit. This isn’t ideology it’s just a result of playing imperialist games. Imagine countries with oil and resources were democratic and educated, they’d want to own and control their own resources instead of accepting all this despotism and corruption. See Saudi Arabia.

  And of course, see Iran. They had a democratic society and when they wanted to “renegotiate” the oil deals in 1953 the UK and USA created a coup and put a dictator in charge (the shah) to continue to exploit cheap oil. You sometimes see this propaganda of how modern Iran was in the 1960 under the Shah, but there was also repression and torture in prisons. Iran’s theocracy today has a guardian council that is I believe partially structure the way it is to prevent foreign influence or NGOs (the modern tool to create color revolutions). Of course Iran and other groups fight back, and one of their tools is Hezbollah.

  Israel serves as a client state of the US to help control the middle east, and partially their strategy is to keep them unstable, to have the right amount of extremism and repression and poverty and suffering so they can be ruled through force alone.

  Socialists call the USA fascist long before Trump because they do not see people in other countries as equal or “worthy” of democracy or prosperity. So from that viewpoint Israel’s policy was fascist long before Netanyahu. At some point they killed of most of their Kibbuzihm which was their socialist base.

  And all this is the reason why propaganda is presenting this as a pure “good vs evil” conflict instead of the brutal and cruel calculus of power or imperialism using very sophisticated strategies and tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon browses r/AmITheAsshole⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry I was a bit aggressive. I was mocking Trump’s ‘very fine people on both sides’ because it felt like an attempt to say there is a reasonable way to use that term.