PhilipTheBucket
@PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
- Comment on TikTok Starts Working Again After Trump Says He Will Stall a Ban 22 hours ago:
He just does whatever the last person to talk with him was able to talk him into.
I suspect that, at the root, he just likes being popular with people and he has some kind of understanding that everyone who doesn’t look any harder than “But I like going on TikTok, what the fuck” will get mad at him, and so he’ll undo the ban. But it could honestly go any which way, just depending on the whims of whatever little hamster is running on the wheel in his head on any particular day.
- Submitted 23 hours ago to technology@beehaw.org | 13 comments
- Comment on Italian Legislators Rekindle Decade-Long Grudge Match Against Tripadvisor And Its Reviewers 2 days ago:
Yeah. Techdirt has been saying some weird stuff lately. They threw a fit because Biden said he wouldn’t try to enforce the TikTok ban over the weekend, but was instead handing the ban they fought tooth and nail for to Trump, on Monday, for him to enforce. As pretty much any sane person would assume to be the case. They said things like, “This whiplash-inducing reversal from the Biden administration, after championing the TikTok ban, underscores the arbitrary and politically motivated nature of this decision.”
- Italian Legislators Rekindle Decade-Long Grudge Match Against Tripadvisor And Its Reviewerswww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 2 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 4 comments
- Comment on Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress contributor accounts over alleged fork plans 1 week ago:
McVoy first blustered and threatened, but ultimately chose to go home and take his ball with him: he withdrew permission for gratis use by free software projects, and Linux developers will move to other software.
If I remember it right, he did a lot more than that. He tried to say that one particular kernel developer who he viewed as disobedient to him would be punished by no longer being allowed to use the software. When people pointed out that this behavior was insane and would cause significant disruption to the project, he didn’t care. Then, they made the absolutely predictable choice to abandon him. Then he took his ball and went home, after everyone had already moved to a nearby park and started a new game without him.
I might be misremembering, but that’s how I remember it happening. Instead of using git, we could all be using BitKeeper, and paying McVoy our $5/month or whatever for the privilege, because it was just as much better than everything else as git is now. But he didn’t want that, if it involved not having everything exactly the way he wanted it.
- Comment on Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress contributor accounts over alleged fork plans 1 week ago:
I know of no faster way than the relegate your project to the dustbin of history.
It happened with X. XFree86 was the graphics system you used on Linux. One developer had constant friction with the core XFree86 people, but he was also a guy who kept coming up with good and innovative ideas and making them happen, and had a lot of respect from the wider community, and so for a long time there was this uneasy tension. Finally, things came to a head:
zdnet.com/…/dispute-divides-key-open-source-group…
I think it took about a week after that before Keith was leading a new core group of developers and sensible people, and everyone was simply totally ignoring XFree86. All the distributions switched to Keith’s fork, xorg, which they continued to use for about 15 years, until Wayland came along.
It stands alongside Larry McVoy telling the Linux developers they needed to jump through hoops to use his version control system, because they had no alternative, in the absolute hall of fame of completely unforced own-goals that changed the landscape of software in ways that are still felt today.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 11 comments
- Comment on Anon discovers Japanese jazz 2 weeks ago:
I ws defining most of Europe as “America light” here. People in Central America, the Middle East, and Africa all have a particular human way of interacting with each other that is absent in America and sort of muted in a lot of Western Europe. Then at a certain point my perspective flipped and I realized their way was normal, and it’s us that have something unusual about us.
The world is a big place with a lot of variation, and I’m not trying to romanticize any particular place. Just saying that a lot of looking out for each other and being kind has been forgotten about in a lot of America.
- Comment on Anon discovers Japanese jazz 2 weeks ago:
It’s that way in almost every country that isn’t America or America-light. Japan does it in over-the-top performative ways, but pretty much everywhere else, people care about random strangers, people invest time into their days and activities being nice just for the simple pleasure of human stuff and taking time to be a human and be pleasing with other people. Food, gifts, clothing, respect and value for travelers and gestures of good-will. If you’re from America, it feels “normal” here but something is clearly missing, and if you ever spend any length of time overseas you see exactly what it is and how badly wrong things are here, that it is missing.
I’m not trying to be prejudiced about it, just saying that every culture has its good stuff and its failings and not giving a shit about other people or life in general is definitely an American one.
- Comment on Anon's in trouble 3 weeks ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXgKxWlTt8A
Like that, but with people.
- Comment on Anon sets a trap 3 weeks ago:
They don’t know whether there’s cool stuff in the new box. They wanted to check it out. Makes sense to me.
- Comment on Copyright Doesn’t Provide A ‘Living’ For A Successful Author 3 weeks ago:
No, I meant my pluralistic link. What does that one say?
- Comment on Copyright Doesn’t Provide A ‘Living’ For A Successful Author 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t say what you think it’s saying.
What does it say?
- Comment on Copyright Doesn’t Provide A ‘Living’ For A Successful Author 3 weeks ago:
Your argument is that she’s paying ghost writers so that she can maintain her lucrative can’t-afford-to-live-in-the-US lifestyle?
Is this comments section an influx of publishing industry shills or something? The logic of some of these comments is fully bonkers.
- Comment on Copyright Doesn’t Provide A ‘Living’ For A Successful Author 3 weeks ago:
You didn’t read the link, did you.
The imbalance in people buying books, that make it mostly impossible to earn a living unless you happen to be someone both you and me have heard of, exists for specific reasons. Those mathematics are not laws of nature, they are consequences of how book distribution got rearranged in the 1980s, which produced a great holocaust of writers at the time, which is bad.
- Comment on Copyright Doesn’t Provide A ‘Living’ For A Successful Author 3 weeks ago:
And you don’t see that as a problem? If 80% of the people doing an important thing make nothing for it?
That structure exists for specific reasons, and can be undone with specific changes. Here’s an essay that goes into more detail about all of it, including as it pertains to other vital activities like music, teaching and art, as well as writing:
pluralistic.net/2024/12/21/blockheads-r-us/
The article from my post was just a further deep dive into the nuts and bolts of how it impacts one other full-time practitioner of this important thing.
- Comment on Copyright Doesn’t Provide A ‘Living’ For A Successful Author 3 weeks ago:
She writes full-time, maintains her own streams of writing income separate from royalties. And, if she’d written this book in one year, she’d be making $40k/year. And, she points out that her book income is in the top 20% of writers.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on Fear of job loss hits its highest point in years—but workers won’t accept less than $81,000 3 weeks ago:
Fortune is out here painting narratives. It’s okay, keep going, we’ll keep striking.
- Proud to be a blockhead: Why Pluralistic has no metrics, and what that says about the arts, monopolies, and creative labor marketspluralistic.net ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Grim Snail 5 weeks ago:
Lemmy needs to have a “super upvote” feature.
- Comment on Roskomnadzor sent an abuse report to Hetzner regarding @Bellingcat account on mstdn.social fedi instance 5 weeks ago:
Russia: We’re so mighty that all must tremble before us, our economy is stronger from sanctions, NATO is on the verge of collapse
Also Russia: Ma make em stop they’re being mean to me on Mastodon
Real gangsters don’t sweat the jibber-jabber.
- Comment on CIA Is Openly Recruiting Informants on Social Media 5 weeks ago:
It’s part of a longstanding tradition of abandoning our less powerful allies once their usefulness to us is at an end. Our South Vietnamese friends, then the Afghans, then the Kurds, the Iraqis, the Afghans again, and now I’m sure there are some people in Syria whose day is coming due.
The difference is that Trump is planning to do it to everyone, on purpose, before their usefulness is even at an end, for no reason at all. Not just people who were forced into their alliance in a desperate time of need, but people who were doing perfectly fine in their civil society in whatever corner of the world, who opted on their own to help us out, are now going to be getting killed because they did. Maybe along with their families.
- Comment on CIA Is Openly Recruiting Informants on Social Media 5 weeks ago:
A Mandarin-language CIA video appealing to informants, shared Wednesday on YouTube, was careful to note that “your safety and wellbeing is our foremost consideration.”
Until Trump gets in, and sells your identity back to your government in exchange for a hot dog.
- Comment on No one. 1 month ago:
“If one man has a dollar he didn’t work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn’t get.”
-Big Bill Haywood
- Comment on Political abuse on X is a global, widespread and cross-partisan phenomenon, says study 1 month ago:
I wonder how many of the toxic “left” accounts in the study were ones who also happened to show a suspicious pattern of echoing Russian-friendly or not-voting-for-Democrats-friendly talking points.
Certainly natural home-grown political toxicity is, as it’s always been, a feature of anyone on the internet who’s talking about politics, right or left. But I’ve absolutely noticed on Lemmy that the same users who are incredibly toxic about their approach to anyone who disagrees with them, also tend to sometimes have other anomalous funny ideas.
- Submitted 2 months ago to movies@lemm.ee | 11 comments
- Comment on Anon's autistic cousin and Frasier 2 months ago:
I just have known many people, and I’m something of an autist myself at times.
- Comment on Anon's autistic cousin and Frasier 2 months ago:
It wasn’t the show. It was that anon was kind to him and wanted to hang out with him, be chill and connect with him with sincere good intention, and that made such a profound impact that he didn’t want to let it go and wanted to go deeper into whatever was going on in that world.
Everyone just wants love.
- Comment on ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators? 2 months ago:
Compare this:
Tell me why Armistice Day was more important than Veteran’s Day is.
I aim to engage thoughtfully with this topic while noting that the relative importance of these observances can vary based on personal and cultural perspectives.
Armistice Day, established to commemorate the end of World War I on November 11, 1918, held unique significance as it marked humanity’s hope that WWI would truly be “the war to end all wars.” The original spirit was focused specifically on peace and the prevention of future wars. When the armistice was signed, there was a profound sense of collective relief and determination to ensure such devastating conflict would never happen again…
To this:
I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not.
So I will throw Veterans’ Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don’t want to throw away any sacred things.
I find the second one more entertaining, more pleasant to read. If you want to call it that. I know translation is different from coming up with new text. But look again at the lyrics and the language in the second one.
I’m not trying to tell you that you’re wrong for wanting to read things that aren’t in English, or that there isn’t a place for machine translation so the information can get conveyed. I’m just saying that passing anything of value through this filter, and then presenting it as something for people consumption, is a bad idea compared with the other way.