myrmidex

@myrmidex@belgae.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the world⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Luz, that coat cost more than your house! Oh, that’s how we joke. She doesn’t even have a house.

  I love Lucille :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox as a platform is officially dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine a non-FOSS time machine

  We’ve successfully transferred your right foot to 2005! Please subscribe to our Premium plan for a full-body transfer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t Arrested Development fit in here too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LemmyNSFW and Saidit are dead. Which Platform is next?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it absolutely is, but I don’t think it was ever purposefully designed that way. More like it grew out of the single root account on a server. But I could be wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LemmyNSFW and Saidit are dead. Which Platform is next?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also the ideology of a nsfw community is a straight-forward issue.

  What does this mean? I’m talking about how an instance should or can be governed. Poster before me indicated an instance should be managed by a community, which drags politics - thus ideology - into the conversation. It’s hard to create community governance on a platform with a single root admin. This is also the case on git repo’s in terms of governance. And when that is the case, moving away seems the only option - unless the developers feel adventurous enough to implement a whole community-as-root-account feature, where they will then run into the questions I’ve mentioned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LemmyNSFW and Saidit are dead. Which Platform is next?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then it gets ideological rapidly. How to come to an agreement: majority vs consensus? Once a conclusion is reached, can all press the button or just one delegate? It brings so many questions.

  I think it’s much more elegant to just abandon one server in favor of the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with "Plex Servers"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love wireguard for this. If they can’t get that working, then no jellyfin for them. Filters out the PEBKAC people wonderfully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They have 20~25% in Belgium so far. Let’s hope Trump sufficiently shows these voters that fascism isn’t all that great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did Zohran Mamdani win conservative voters over without using the terms "socialism", "communism" or "capitalism"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A book I’m currently seems to agree:

  Obama began his re-election year with the certainty that he knew the name of all 69,456,897 Americans whose votes had carried him to the White House. Of course, these votes had been cast secretly, but Narwhal’s data was so detailed that the analysts were able to identify the Obama supporters in every district. Each elector was given a probability rating between zero and a hundred. Zero meant they would vote for Romney. A hundred meant they were a guaranteed Obama supporter. The trick was to ignore those voters and focus all the campaign’s resources on voters in swing states with scores betwen forty-five and fifty-five.

  • The Hour of the Predator
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are hierarchies inherently bad in all aspects? or are there domains where heirarchies are good to have?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps the lower strata of the hierarchy experience nothing but downsides, whereas the top likely experiences minimal to none. This might be where narratives come into play to make the lower tiers believe the hierarchy is good for all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok I’ll bite: en.wikipedia.org/…/United_States_invasion_of_Pana…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best "screwing around" Game Request⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything Elder Scrolls kept me busy much longer than the main story, most notably Morrowind. Also, I replayed GTA IV last week, was heaps of fun, especially compared to GTA V which I played a few months back. Read Dead Redemption 2 is a good one for this list as well, I enjoyed that one immensely, but I mainly focused on the main quest during that run-through, so this is a good reminder to myself to pick this up again soon (sadly I fell back into the pull of Satisfactory so it might be some weeks/months/… before I get to it)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Marx was alive during the Cold War and beyond, how would he react to the communist states that rose to power? Would he approve or disapprove of them?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Judging by his behavior during the First International, I reckon he would have approved of Lenin’s vanguard and applauded the rise of the Stalinist empire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had big Gavin Belsom vibes with this one

  "Why is it that when I type my own name into my own company search engine, the fucking Internet rains shit‑bolts down on me? I want this to stop!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One app maker told the BBC it had seen an 1,800% spike in downloads. “Many of these free VPNs are riddled with issues,” said Daniel Card, a cyber-security expert with the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS).

  “Some act as traffic brokers for data harvesting firms, others are so poorly built they expose users to attacks.”

  He told the BBC despite posing a range of potential privacy risks, such apps “end up in the hands of kids trying to watch age-restricted content”, or adults “trying to get round blocks”.

  Ah yes, there it is: won’t anyone think of the children. I expected that argument higher up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When will we have reached enough productivity?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As soon as a capitalist has enough money.