PhilipTheBucket
@PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
- Comment on Grim Snail 5 days 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 6 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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. 2 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago to movies@lemm.ee | 11 comments
- Comment on Anon's autistic cousin and Frasier 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators? 5 weeks ago:
It’s not enough to be able to put the words in the right order.
You have to know why they need to be said. Otherwise, it’s a big waste. Just throw the book in the bin and go spend some time outside instead.
- I am my own legal department: the promise and peril of “just go independent”www.citationneeded.news ↗Submitted 1 month ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on A more complete explanation for the removal of those Russian Linux kernel maintainers 1 month ago:
They’re not allowed to be collaborating with people who work for certain Russian companies. It’s not a question of security, it’s a question of US law requiring US entities to punish through non-cooperation certain companies that are assisting in the war effort or whatever.
It might or might not be fair, but it isn’t up to the kernel developers, it’s a legal requirement for them.
- Comment on A more complete explanation for the removal of those Russian Linux kernel maintainers 1 month ago:
Hey guys we’re going to blow up the maternity hospital and shell the nuclear plant: I sleep
You can’t work on your software project anymore: REAL SHIT
- A more complete explanation for the removal of those Russian Linux kernel maintainerslore.kernel.org ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@beehaw.org | 27 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@beehaw.org | 15 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago to movies@lemm.ee | 10 comments
- Comment on Microsoft launches autonomous AI agents in November 1 month ago:
- Comment on Looking for some clarification on what im guna call the Lemmy workflow from a new post to the front page. 2 months ago:
I’ve done something like this, with RSS feeds. Read !meta@rss.ponder.cat to see the existing communities, and how to add a feed to an existing community.
The concern about spam is real. A lot of these exist, for example one for Hacker News and a whole instance for Reddit, and a lot of people including myself don’t like those. I agree with you that it’s a good idea but it’s necessary to be careful that it remains a useful seed of content and not an overwhelming spew.
- The British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain.every.to ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 27 comments
- Comment on I didn't know HOW bad Google search has gotten. 2 months ago:
I am fetching the RSS feeds for particular channels, for which I need the channel ID.
Google gives out not only the RSS feed, but also the channel ID, if you click the menu under “share”, as someone else pointed out to me a couple days ago. You are very confused about things. This thing about it being against the TOS is pure fantasy.
- Comment on I didn't know HOW bad Google search has gotten. 2 months ago:
Ed Zitron diagnosed the causes and timing of the rot:
- Submitted 2 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 54 comments
- Comment on Is there a specific example of Target getting a shoplifter convicted for a small individual theft that puts them over the felony limit? 2 months ago:
Perfect sense. I don’t think that’s any kind of official expose by Target, only one person talking about their experience. But you’re right that it’s not conclusive one way or another.
- Comment on Is there a specific example of Target getting a shoplifter convicted for a small individual theft that puts them over the felony limit? 2 months ago:
It depends on the state, but they often can be combined to add up to a felony.
- Comment on Is there a specific example of Target getting a shoplifter convicted for a small individual theft that puts them over the felony limit? 2 months ago:
reddit.com/…/how_does_target_keep_track_of_people…
Someone who claims to be Target LP goes into some interesting detail about their loss prevention, and doesn’t bring this up, in a context where it seems likely that they would have, if it were accurate.
- Comment on 13 years ago, indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams made a weird as hell video about searching your teenager's room for drugs and guns. 2 months ago:
It really comes across how upset he was about fourth amendment protections, when he was a cop.
- Comment on OpenAI, the company that brought you ChatGPT, just sold you out 2 months ago:
I think that over the next few years Sam Altman is going to learn the same lessons that events have been trying to teach Elon Musk since circa 2021.
- You didn’t build that. The people that work for you did.
- Being a big hero is contingent on you and your behavior, and can change.
- Those people who are giving you all this money aren’t your comrades. When your usefulness is at its end, they won’t give you a second thought.
- Comment on WATCH: Migrants tell undercover reporter they are registered to vote and prefer Kamala 2 months ago:
Anyone remember the shenanigans in Maricopa County in 2020?
I remember that when it all went to court, everyone who’d been incredibly bombastic about the shenanigans all of a sudden had nothing to say to back it up other than, “trust me, bro.”
en.wikipedia.org/…/Post-election_lawsuits_related…
There are lots of details including primary source citations in the article.
- Comment on How do you deal with it when you download library source code from github and need to change all the header includes to actually be correct? 2 months ago:
That sounds perfect. Installing the system
-develpackage and-lfreetypeis the right way to do it. Glad you got it working!