TheFogan

@TheFogan@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's true⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  As Mitch Hedberg would say

  They used to use it

  they still do.

  But they used to, too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s a bit of that, but also a bit of… unsubtle enshittification. I mean the obvious, AI features that nobody likes getting crammed into everything. Apples Intelligence making siri unable to do simple tasks it used to be able to do easily.

  A lot of people would be happy to pay premium price for things that do exactly what they want. But more and more software companies are reversing what they do… and even when they do what you want, you still have to be vigilant on them changing their minds and removing features, or adding subscription costs etc…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nope, not visiting that⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or… isn’t there the theory that time travel just creates an alternate world. but all timelines exist… so there’s a second line where there’s 50 people that brought their year 3000 band, and their instant ALS cure pod, partied with Hawking then arrested trump for his crimes before he could run for president.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One way to guarantee your paper blows people away⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean you can be right about the problem, where it will lead. but try and solve it an a completely wrong way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I gave up electronics club⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oddly when it came time to negotiations, they somehow realized actually calling yourself a Decepticon, was not a good name for inspiring trust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does capitalism differ from crony capitalism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Would TRUE capitalism have any problems?

  Well only a TRUE Scottsman could tell you how TRUE capitalism works.

  But OK so in short the gist of theory in capitalism.

  Free market ideas - IE capitalism with no government oversite. If a company makes shitty products, someone else will make a less shitty product and all consumers will switch, or if a company starts dumping toxic waste into the drinking water, people would figure it out and stop buying that product… Parts of it are kind of a pipe dream because, some products are inherantly expensive to get started in. Lets face it, Facebook, Windows etc… aren’t dominant because their products are the best, pretty sure you could poll their userbase and find abysmal satisfaction among them. Yet even a giant as big as google, can’t accomplish the resources needed to compete in those markets… let alone a startup out of nowhere.

  Now regulations obviously that’s where crony vs regulated comes up in discussion.

  Obviously to me the big part is, safety matters. First off the bat, information, consumers can’t even make decisions if they don’t know. If you are putting poison in food, or calling something healthy when it’s loaded with crap, consumers have to know that.

  Environmental is a bigger problem. Obviously requiring you to shield and not leak toxins into the drinking water… is a big problem, and it creates a huge problem, as the companys selling gas, or manufacturing chemicals etc… that spend less on safety are at a huge advantage in pricing to the consumer, who can’t tell why the more ethical companies are so expensive, only that they are more expensive. But the more safety that’s required, the higher the bar to entry is…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With what's happening to Grok AI, from a socialist perspective (Marxist or not), how do you think AI would be taken care of?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree on that… Especially the leaders. Schumer and Jeffries have proven again and again that they find progressives a bigger threat than republicans. However we have seen it is possible to get progressives past them and into power. Aside from violent revolution I don’t see anything else that represents a way forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With what's happening to Grok AI, from a socialist perspective (Marxist or not), how do you think AI would be taken care of?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well we can fully agree, democrats are republican light. The bottom line is most democrats are opposed to rational policies like, removing ICE, DHS, Regulating AI etc… All politicians who are for any of those things, are democrats, no politicians who are for those things are republicans, and the system does not allow 3rd parties. Point is the only strategy within voting… is.

  Primary all centrist/moderate democrats with someone that actually stands with the majority of people. Support those primary candidates as best as possible, and then vote for whoever the democratic nominee is, as I still would hold that the worse democrat is still currently better than the best republican.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean there’s 2 sides. Analog fails in more gradual forms. Digital obviously has the advantage of… replicating massively over large distances very quickly… IE your document could be backed up to a remote server as often as you save it. Versioning can exist so, you can have every change every update… differences between the file at 3:33 and 3:34 pm.

  True on the gist that, a single corruption can’t hit a whole typed document usually, IE your 20th keystroke on a typewriter can’t randomly damage the first 19 characters.

  I would say though digital excels in being able to be replicated, and versioned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alchemy is so hot right now.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I guess the concept there though is, isn’t making things into gold pointless anyway. We can lab make diamonds too, the jewelry industry works to keep them as a distinct alternate product to protect their slave mined ones. Is the quantity used for electronics enough that it would make a difference in typical manufacturing?

  Actually kind of the ironic thing to me based on the time. Did gold have a practical use in the days of alchemy? I mean obviously mass producing gold, basically would have made it completely useless back then, it could make a small group of people very rich, provided they kept the method secret and were careful about how much they sold. It seems like the whole idea was flawed on it’s head even if they hadn’t based it on completely incorrect basis of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to vote?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  agreed that’s human nature at it’s core. Reddits tried for years to push the “Upvote things that bring good discussion, downvote things that don’t”. But yeah humans always will be humans, I don’t see a time when a majority will ever follow that understanding, though I try my best to still follow it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure they don’t bother with just photos, I’m sure there’s some guy that’s replaced the one that died in prison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After getting Silent Hill 'back on track,' Konami wants to make it an annual franchise⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So… now that we’ve got our series to finally get the love it deserves, spent 3+ years polishing and making the game the way the fans have all been clamoring for for years. We are now ready to mass produce, copy/paste the formula until we kill the franchise so spectacularly no one asks us to make another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just on twitter, or parts of reddit, or the internet in general etc… I mean there certainly was no shortage of outrage… with say the little mermaid etc…

  Now I will admit a good portion of it is that producers have really gotten shitty on writing in general, and often try and compensate it by throwing in a less represented in media character. IE say the last 2 doctors, girl ghostbusters etc… IE things aren’t terrible because of diverse casting, but if it is terrible, diverse casting isn’t going to fix it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  same reason why every black person in all positions is considered DEI even when they have decades of relevant experience pages, graduated top of their class in ivy league schools, and some white guy with middling experience, possibly even in the wrong field… gets put in and nobody questions it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an actual picture of Mohamed or painting that we can view? Without pissing off all of Islam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s something I find kind of amusing about Catholicism.

  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

  I mean to me the whole concept of the catholic religion believing this is one of the 10 commandments. Then simultaneously praying in front of crucifixes or Virgin Mary statues etc…

  I mean Jesus you could half way go with assuming trinity and considering him god… but it explicitly says “in heaven” and doesn’t give any kind of “except of me”.

  Actually something kind of funny to me, it says “in heaven”, “on earth” or “in the waters below earth”. Assuming christian theology… the biggest exception that comes to my mind… is things that are in hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stupid sexy raft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So… did this scientists great grandchildren invent reality TV?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah to me that’s the biggest objection… he’s long dead, he has no surviving family that wants good for him to my knowledge. So to me that’s kind of on the same level as, digging up mummies. The evil actions he commited in life don’t really come into play here, and agreed it’s really stupid idea to think that his behavior is genetic.

  Kind of reminds me of when most of the nazi generals swore to have no kids to not carry on their DNA, except one, who said “No I won’t sign that pledge, that’s eugenics which is nazi ideology”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US we have Breast Cancer Awarnes month and a bunch of others. All we do is throw money at a problem and hope it goes away How come the Gov don't take care of people from starving?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But then what leverage would horrible jobs have to prevent you from quitting if you weren’t worried of starving? and where is the money to start more wars and fund failing nations like argentina going to come from if we spend all our taxes helping the american people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… depends on how long you are looking to keep them in. Assuming the community is half way wealthy (which, kind of is normal), then cops and tow trucks would be pretty quick to respond, and well, blocking it with cars etc… would seem prohibitively expensive and legally troublesome (as there’s no way in hell it’s not getting traced to you).

  I’d agree with the concept, sabatoging the gate mechanism with a chain, or vandalizing the electronics would likely accomplish a similar goal, without abandoning an expensive vehicle that is easy to trace back to you. (which again, even in the best of scenarios is likely only inconveniencing the residents for a few hours).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do air purifiers really reduce dust much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the point being made is, dust doesn’t stay in one place. Dust on hardwood floor or carpet gets kicked up when you walk on it, leading it to eventually land on tables/shelves etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wait for GTA 6 has now been so long it must be some kind of record - right? [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The wait is nothing, though I guess the definition of “active development”, publicly confirmed development etc… To my knowledge HL3 has been in some form of development since, HL2, but

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean there’s that… but there’s also the fact that nobody has been stupid enough to break the seal on the Mutually Assured Destruction nuclear issue. Report after report shows trump is really really anxious to find a reason to use a nuke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we go from being against fake pictures of the moon to accepting things like changing out the entire sky?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  was claiming to be able to take superzoom photos of the moon, but were actually just replacing the very fuzzy moon with a clear image

  theverge.com/…/samsung-fake-moon-photos-ai-galaxy…

  is indeed samsung that did this.

  Now you see, that’s the problem there… they were claiming to do X, but were actually doing Y.

  Just as lets say if we did have AI person removal… but you said "actually lets you see what’s behind the person that would obviously be a problem, as obviously that’s actually impossible.

  Likewise you hear space zoom… you have to point the camera at the moon… you assume that the camera is capturing the moon, and the image you are looking at is the moon in real time. Obviously not likely to happen but imagine for a second while you were looking at the moon through your camera, and say a meteor hit the moon leading to an enormous explosion and crater that would be visible through a telescope, or hell maybe something extreme enough that it’s at least partially visible even to the naked eye. The feature as described would let you see it enhanced in more detail than you could with the naked eye, while in reality it would replace the abnormalities and give you a picture of how the moon looks in it’s training data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are bots on lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like a post a bot would make!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do they do with aborted fetuses?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m far from an expert on the topic, I believe things like unused tissue (IE also things like amputated limbs, bad organs etc…) is more or less cremated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do they do with aborted fetuses?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  from my understanding it’s usually donated to medical research, but due to some anti-abortion rhetoric falsely producing fake stories of them being sold, it’s otherwise discarded as medical waste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yes or nazi’s, but for the most part having a stance on Nazi-ism wasn’t a driving factor for many to purchase EV’s. People bought EV’s specifically because that’s one of the main advantages of an EV, is they were expected to be better for the environment.

  Why I point that out in the nothing phone. It’s selling point was the glyphs that let you roughly know what messages were coming in on your phone while it is face down. So in short you could set your phone down and know if your wife was texting you with an emergency, while not hearing a ping and turning away from your friends to see that you have enough energy for candy-crush. IE literally the exact opposite of facebooks marketing

  which you know is literally the opposite of facebooks marketing plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To me I’m most supprised on this one, I mean, wasn’t the whole point of the nothing to be a phone that doesn’t distract you as much, lets you stay in the moment.

  what the hell kind of partnership is this. This is as dumb as say an electric vehicle company partnering up with climate change deniers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Degrees Celsius is based on freezing and boiling point of water, so if they came up with a base 10 numbering system and water is key to their biology, then they’d probably come up with that.

  Waters boiling point isn’t a constant though… it’s dependent on the atmosphere.

  Hell there’s also no telling if our preference to base 10 is relative to our number of fingers so neither of those are givens.