rottingleaf

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Justice should be equal⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Except in every step things can develop the ways you haven’t thought about.

  And courtroom shows are kinda common enough in movies and even in reality. People will have strong feelings, but this doesn’t seem a major thing for many.

  So - too much copium. I hope you are right and I am wrong, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're trying to charge Luigi with terrorism! Imagine that!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, my aunts, uncle and cousin live in a country reproducing “Animal farm” the last 6 years, with the end goal of being occupied and turned into a reservation. That book is more like reality than many would think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're trying to charge Luigi with terrorism! Imagine that!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Still, as a person not interested (usually) in agreeing with my counterparts, notice how this is a “good guy with a gun” situation. So maybe militia movement has a point. They just don’t know how to use their correctness in one part of society’s fabric, but that’s up to those who know those other parts. Cooperation and collaboration, all that.

  And almost any “good guy with a gun” can be called a terrorist formally. It’s an arbitrary separation.

  So maybe gun rights really are human rights.

  You’ve probably noticed how in any group the best decisions are made when every opinion is respected, and if it’s incomprehensible, made comprehensible with good and kind effort, and where aggression and expulsion are minimized.

  It’s the same in politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The **Most open** Operating System"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the PC isn’t used only as a DAW, so I might still need Linux as opposed to FreeBSD. I’ve been running some form of Linux for a long time, now.

  If you’re of the “advanced user” kind, you might find it easier to use than Linux - cleaner, much better documentation, ports collection, ZFS without pain or any combination of GEOM classes with UFS (which has snapshots here btw). It’s a different OS, but a very pleasant one. Same X (or Wayland), same applications, etc.

  One can also use Linux emulation with CentOS 7 or Rocky Linux 9 environment for Linux binaries.

  Don’t even know what it is, actually.

  It’s a descendant of BSD, and things like Ultrix and SunOS 4 were BSD, so one can say it’s the most commonly used thing of what feels like Unix today (after Linux).

  OK, I think this reads like sales text.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny, after the breakup of USSR there existed for a few years such an entity as “CIS armed forces”. It does not anymore because national governments want to control their own militaries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any country can become such, but as you’ve said yourself - everyone having nukes is more realistic than nobody having nukes, and the “mass destruction” part can even have upsides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It should, but that’s only one level.

  First Germany should build a competent armed force which will participate in all the ongoing wars on the globe to gain experience.

  (I’m not a German citizen nor I intend to become one.)

  It’s a common misconception that using peaceful means is always more moral than fighting a colonial war.

  One can imagine a simple experiment. Country A conquers country B and brutalizes country C. Would it be more moral for Germany to peacefully trade (including military goods\technologies) with country A or to use said armed force to get a piece of country B? Country B suffers in both cases, but in the latter case Germany doesn’t finance the aggressor, and also presents some competition and can make life in parts of B controlled by it better. It can also offer military help to C for some preferential treatment.

  Ah, also country A already has such a fighting force, all bullies already do. A military has to fight wars to remain competent. So there’s no vegetarian way to defend from influence of bullies. And there’s no neutral way as well - either you are a bully or you actively fight bullies. Maybe both. If you are neither, then you become weaker with time, and thus simply part of supply chain for bullies. Also neutrality always helps bullies and never the victim, that’s Eli Wiesel quote, if someone didn’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I’m in Moscow and it’s barely below 0 degC.

  But - yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wearing a sweater still makes sense there. To spend less energy.

  But in that case it’ll be more a matter of heat isolation. Though when such a low temperature exists on the outside consistently, air humidity drops and it sucks heat less. I think it works this way, but that’s pure intuition or something, my physics knowledge sucks definitely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The **Most open** Operating System"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And even when they are not on paper, they are in fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The **Most open** Operating System"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s good to bug them about it, but last I checked they just didn’t want to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The **Most open** Operating System"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  DOpus is one thing I can’t really understand why is not ported yet. It comes from Amiga anyway, I understand they might have done a lot of OS-dependent things since moving to Windows, but it should be doable, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The **Most open** Operating System"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For audio specifically you might find FreeBSD easier to set up. As a DAW, not as a desktop in general.

  ALSA+PulseAudio\Pipewire+JACK are kinda messy compared to newpcm+JACK .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The **Most open** Operating System"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, there are open things about it. As in - TCP/IP is open. APIs to develop Windows programs are open.

  In the same way as Solaris, HP/UX, Digital Unix and something else were open. Except Sun would even send OS sources in addition to documentation to customers interested in optimizing something they’d do, or so I’ve heard.

  But the “most open” thing looks like 2003 “get the facts” style propaganda, except back then they had technical competencies, now it’s purely the oligopoly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The **Most open** Operating System"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SPARC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The **Most open** Operating System"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenWindows is not that. OpenWindows is the best thing ever with OpenLook. I’d really want OpenLook for 64bit Intel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the big lie. Inflation hurts the rich when bond rates are at an insufficient premium to inflation rate. Those who don’t have savings, can complain that their work wages are not rising fast enough, but that is a complaint towards their employer who is raising prices enough to pay higher wages if they weren’t oppressing their workers.

  I don’t understand this paragraph. Maybe it’s correct, but the way you use words confuses me. Inflation means that the same real world items cost more of conditional units, that is, money. The bigger proportion of your interactions is done with money and the smaller frequency is, the more you lose from inflation.

  Corporatist/Republican media helped swing election to most genocidal supportive candidate over this lie. But a war on Russia made the inflation self inflicted.

  What war on Russia? Russia invaded a sovereign nation, leveled cities, killed civilians in droves.

  Goal shouldn’t be that profits can’t exist. It should be poverty elimination, easier life for everyone, and inherent resistance to having profits used to rule over you more harshly.

  With superprofits from cocaine, prostitution and other forbidden things going to mafia groups associated with politicians - yeah, one would think such profits shouldn’t exist. Whichever path you like most, you won’t be allowed to tread it while people with the opposing interest have so much power.

  It is not power hungry DNC or RNC who will ever provide UBI. It is candidates who want to disempower Israel first wars and rulership. A campaign for UBI is first and foremost an extermination of the corrupt rulership, replacing it with the empowerment of individuals.

  So how are you going to do that?

  It’s like elaborating in detail what you are going to do when we settle Mars and build safe dome cities, without any plan at all how you are going to make that economically plausible.

  AI, including current LLMs, as a humanist oracle, has the power to make you/us less stupid if its mission/programming is truth.

  No it doesn’t, it won’t ever be smarter than the dumbest human and also however many oracles you consult, you still bear full responsibility for your own decisions.

  Regulating AI for “national security domination” is inherently coopting that oracle function. Google/reddit/lemmy has been such a function of filtering up answers for you to digest for many years already.

  Once again, treating these technologies as ever possibly acceptable to tell people what to think is nuts. These are glorified predictors. Their role is to fill the holes where you don’t have anything better. These are by definition worse than anything dedicated. And of course they can’t think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can escape inflation by substituting goods, and you only lose from inflation if 1. you have too much cash, or 2. your income rises slower than inflation.

  If you have enough cash for it to grow faster than inflation, you win and those who have less lose compared to you. So your relative power grows.

  Inflation makes the poor poorer faster than it makes the rich poorer, actually it doesn’t do that.

  And by “inflation” specifically people usually mean devaluation of money due to growth of monetary mass, which itself is a result of closing budget holes with emission.

  So UBI is a massive economic/prosperity boost above and beyond inflation. Eliminates poverty and crime, reduces the need for savings,

  Eliminates small crime. Superprofits from selling cocaine working together with corrupt officials will not really change with UBI.

  Politicians can no longer lie their way past even an idiocracy that understands “I like money”.

  There’s never enough money.

  More program cuts means higher UBI.

  Only if politicians act as you want them to.

  It would be treason if your AI suggests the empire is not pure good, and Israel has done something wrong, and contradicts the CIA/media disinformation plan.

  The problem here is not with what you are describing, but that you are seriously considering treating a computer program as an oracle, that can ask questions about good and evil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Investing in dead ender climate terrorist energy is a mistake.

  I hope that’s not your opinion of nuclear energy. People criticizing it miss the fact that a grid has to support some baseline.

  All things are good and needed, which are not about burning fossil fuels (and sometimes even those, if getting “greener” energy somewhere pollutes more than just taking a canister of gasoline or diesel fuel). And the more diverse energy supply is, the smaller is each particular environmental impact, be it from greenhouse gases, lithium, ruining watersheds when building hydroelectric stations, similar impacts of wind farms, oil spills, escaping gases, toxic liquids, plastics, … .

  People miss that nuance. You make humanity sustainable again by diversifying as much as possible, so that any particular kind of harm would be minimized, and so that no particular industry would possess strategic power. Not by dividing energy into holy and unholy and burning witches. It’s just math.

  Promising reindustrialization is a lie, and tariffs won’t do it. It will bleed Americans dry while letting oligarchs pillage what’s left.

  Promising won’t because promising ain’t doing.

  But input is leverage, and leverage is power. Look how “free” input from corporations into Linux gave them control over it. So if reindustrialization really-really happens, it will improve politics of your country. It’s the way it works. When you live off cheap Chinese labor, your economy depends less on your own.

  Weaponizing AI to control population, and kill people is the new priority. Putting your hopes in DNC so that they can undo project 2025 is controlling you in a way that doesn’t avert the path to collapse in any way.

  Agreed.

  The only escape is UBI and peace. Not something a Israel supremacist neocon DNC wants, because UBI is power redistribution instead of wealth redistribution. The binary of AI and automation is either cooperation where abundance and the profits from abundance can be shared, or extermination of useless riff raff that dares to whine about oligarchy and empire.

  I personally have doubts about UBI. It requires fiscal discipline that no recent US government had. Otherwise it speeds up inflation. Not significantly if we compare it to corporate bailouts, but still.

  Peace is always good. But war is a symptom of problems that still would exist if there were no war.

  I’ve recently watched an interview by Bill Joy (the Sun founder) where he mentions how clear water access has done much more to reduce mortality in the world than antibiotics. I think it’s the same with accessible good automation vs “AI” and other hype phenomena. I think non-oligopolized tech industry and non-oligopolized Web would do hell of a lot more for all kinds of abundance than any new magic wand like “AI”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yakuza creator Nagoshi says the era of game size being most important is coming to an end⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They say people had fun in Daggerfall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  His followers know he’ll deliberately cause instability, that’s what they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand everything, but not the German “s” instead of usual English one. And that use of “u” is awful. Especially since it’s inconsistent. Why are you doing this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, for him when Trump or Harris wins, the election is fair and transparent.

  I’m sorry for the conspiracy tone, but they do keep playing you for fools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants a cute girlfriend.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  that social skills can be learned, for non-neurotypicals that might require more help.

  Mostly unlearning them requires help. It’s called imitation and considered harmful. It takes away a lot of energy with nothing to show for it.

  That little that can be learned mostly, too, consists of gaining experience to help unlearn imitation.

  That was my point. Experience with people should be gained. Learning to imitate something should not.

  Helplessness - yes. I’d tell them, other than therapy, to just keep trying to talk to girls, and stop trying to become “better” inside, because that’s what makes one dull and boring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon wants a cute girlfriend.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Learning social skills is equally possible. Many, many books and classes are dedicated on the subject.

  Except if you are aspie, those will both take enormous effort and feel so insincere that you will drop them past the initial acquaintance, if you manage that effort. Which is the point where you are most likely done for the same reason - people don’t like insincere romantic partners.

  Those non-physical aspects of attractiveness for some of us are not optional.

  And mind that I do have good looks and even hobbies that may occasionally seem interesting for others, and cultural context ; all the most beautiful girls I’ve met where I attended social events would try to get romantic by their own initiative when I was someone new for them. Some would even say I have beautiful emotions, and in general characterize me as a good human, even later (when they thought I don’t hear, in person they’d plainly ignore me). You know why every such spontaneous moment failed?

  Again, because of simply being aspie - ashamed of being too weak (dropping hobbies, easily getting tired, too emotional, headaches, tired eyes, already feeling dirty in the middle of the day) to be good for a girl, ashamed of being stupid (that’s purely anxiety, one can’t look into her skull and tell if she cares, but it exists), ashamed of being insincere because looking into her eyes is a conscious effort, so I’m pretending I’m someone I’m not, and also petrified, because I don’t know what to say. And previous wounds.

  These comments terribly reduce the field of possibilities which would be the reason for such people not having romantic successes, OK?

  The only correct answer is therapy. Preferably the therapist should be a woman too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t have anything to do with what I said.

  I said that all propaganda is problematic, not only that of visible political parties, and not only right-wing one.

  Furthermore I said that the problem is that humans are, I repeat, fucking apes.

  And you writing something irrelevant and some anonymous idiots downvoting me illustrate this very well, because only fucking apes would take this as an attack on their particular crowd of apes, and ignore the actual meaning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, only right-wing. When you want to say something cool-looking, but don’t have the courage to be honest.

  It’s all of propaganda, but even that’s not completely true.

  What’s true is that humans are fucking apes. There’s no victory over that.

  There’s no political good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asian Beauty⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, I have some workout trousers with a Chinese logogram on them. Dunno what it means. Hope I won’t ever

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So it’s not a nasheed

  Thx

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives in the midwest⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Russian language the difference between American and actual Indians is one letter in spelling (easily heard in pronunciation, so only small children maybe mix them up), historically it’s a variation of the same word.

  For “turkey” the bird the feminine version of the former is used (and not used to refer to an American Indian woman).

  The point is, it’s the main word to refer to Native Americans. “Настоящему индейцу завсегда везде ништяк” and all that.