PhilipTheBucket
@PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au
- Comment on Palestine Action protest: police begin making arrests at London demo 3 weeks ago:
It is easy to be against atrocities in the aftermath, when there is no cost. Most of the time, the weight of “allowed” political opinion, and quite a lot of real public opinion, is at the very least tacitly accepting. If it was otherwise someone would have put a stop to them.
That’s one of the bright spots is that public opinion about Palestine is radically shifting, in a way that will make it hard for Israel to sustain any of this for too much longer I think. Of course that’s of no value to any Gazans who are already dead or about to die, waiting for “progress.”
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to music@lemmy.sdf.org | 0 comments
- Comment on Practice makes perfect 3 weeks ago:
When I was young I was hanging out with this girl who was teaching me how to kiss.
We spent some time together, and then the next weekend I saw her again, we start making out, and she instantly says, “You’ve been practicing!”
I admitted that I had practiced with a girl I sort-of knew, expecting that she would be upset. She said, “No, you’re better! I like it.” And lo, I received some valuable wisdom.
- Comment on In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS 4 weeks ago:
Haha yep. The whole family was involved. I don’t even think it’s necessarily a bad thing, it’s definitely not comfortable but as long as you don’t have bad intent, it’s probably better that everyone has some kind of tabs on what’s going on, and you have to face up to justifying to them why and how you’re hanging out with their daughter.
- Comment on In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS 4 weeks ago:
There are motherfuckers out there now with NO idea what it was like potentially having to talk with a girl’s parents first, any time you wanted to call her
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 4 weeks ago:
That’s why I used the specific phrasing “had it downloaded to their computer” instead of claiming that they were the ones to do it. You’ll notice that those users in your footprint also fall into a category of people which this won’t do a damn thing to influence.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 4 weeks ago:
Ding ding ding
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 4 weeks ago:
Maybe so. But Chrome got there some way, their computer didn’t come with it. 100% of the computers in that sample came with Edge configured as the browser and nothing else installed, and 81.95% of them are currently accessing the internet using something else. That to me indicates some kind of decisive action to use something else, on somebody’s part, and also that Microsoft’s years-long endeavor to correct the “problem” by just continuing to ask like a drunk man at the bar in the hopes that the answer will change is not a winner for most people who use computers at this point.
Probably it’s only as low as 81.95% because they do stuff like this. Obviously those people do still exist in a big contingent. My feeling is though that it’s no longer 1998 and there’s no longer this supermajority of AOL users out there who are confused by the very concept of a browser. Those people are in old folks’ homes now, their kids who grew up programming are the middle-aged people of today who aren’t hip to apps and TikTok, but they do understand about browsers. That’s just my feeling and a narrative I produced out of my ass, sure, but it does seem to match the data.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 4 weeks ago:
Citation: It is known
How many of them? How do you know?
“Many. It is known.”
I also like how you put “users” in quotes for some reason. Anyway, good talk.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 4 weeks ago:
https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-2025-q1
Check “Market Share by OS” and switch it to Windows. Every one of those 67.359% of people who is using Chrome had it downloaded to their computer on purpose instead of just clicking “Internet” and getting Edge. Obviously they feel strongly enough to do that, so I don’t see how they would be amenable to losing all their bookmarks and settings and just going with Edge when one day their OS tries to trick them into it.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 4 weeks ago:
I love how in their minds this is going to be a win. Like there are going to be all these people out there who just quietly accept that they’ll use Microsoft Edge from now on, and also in addition not form any kind of revision to their brand impression of Microsoft going forward.
I am sure there are some people who just kind of don’t give a fuck about computers who that will be accurate for, but I feel like it’s a much smaller minority than Microsoft seems to think that it is.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 4 weeks ago:
Sure. Show me the full context, where before saying that Clarence Thomas was a greater man than MLK Jr he says, “I’m going to list out a few examples of statements which, if you ever hear someone say after a blow to the head, mean they should go to the hospital right away. Number one:”.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 4 weeks ago:
MA!
They’re posting weird shit on the internet again!
- Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words. 4 weeks ago:
Holy God man. I expected it to be bad and it was so much worse.
I do understand saying deliberately wrong things just to get attention, and I think assassinating anybody is a horrifying and wrong thing to do, but out of all the variety, the thing about Clarence Thomas being greater than MLK Jr makes me want to go punch his corpse in the face.
- Comment on Anon doesn't understand streamer fans 5 weeks ago:
I actually understood sports fandom for the first time because of watching streamers play video games. I was like ooooohhh, this is a very challenging skill, and I’m watching someone do it very very well, and I’m fucking hyped and I want to see more.
I never in my life had that for basketball or anything. But it made sense when I saw it for video games.
- Comment on Amazon, Google, Microsoft reportedly warn H-1B employees to stay in the US 5 weeks ago:
“Sure, you may all go to Turbo Gulag. But if you traveled or just peaced out, I’d have to pay 0.001% of my profits to keep you on, and I don’t want that.”
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 5 weeks ago:
Do these guys even know how to do a rigged demo?
Also, in case you'd rather just see:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p7ffxkcsq2xwt3t2mbk52puc/post/3lz344mxmb22a
- Comment on *proposes* 5 weeks ago:
Years upon years ago, I was working as a laborer, and my GF at the time learned that I loved little kids' snacks, fruit snacks and gummies and things like that. She started packing for me little packets of treats in my lunch, which I enjoyed.
One time I made the mistake of offering one to one of my burly Romanian coworkers. I didn't want to be rude and bust out snacks without sharing them. "Want some lucky duckies?" I said, and offered him the little packet of cheese crackers shaped like ducks. He looked at it, confused, and asked, "What is this?" I explained. He looked back at it with pure contempt and said, "No. I do not want this."
His loss man, lucky duckies are fucking delicious.
- Comment on Anon buys a car 1 month ago:
If he just had his buddy do the second part of the story instead, it would have been believable. But, it would have missed the emotional payoff that way.
- Comment on They made his car "cease & desist" 2 months ago:
This is vital context. They didn't disable his truck because he talked trash about it. He loves his Cybertruck. They disabled it because he's black and dances around like a black person while he's talking about it, and that means he's not welcome at the party. If he was Tim Pool making a song about how much he loves his Cybertruck they'd have invited him to the next event to put it on stage.
- Comment on Anon thinks about life 2 months ago:
It is rare for me to read something on the internet that literally knocks me back in my chair a little
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It is hard to get account-banned from Reddit. Like mad hard. I mean, I'm not up on current events over there, maybe things have changed and they brand you as "antisemitic" and ban your account sometimes, but I feel like much more likely is that this is a you issue.
No, everyone doesn't deserve a second chance. Certainly not everyone deserves a fourth chance, on the same platform.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Honestly I'm 100% on Team Steam as far as this screenshot, for the record. I just thought the story was interesting. Her shirt has a big hole for her boobs to come 80% of the way out through, and the game has sex bots in it, among other issues. I feel like this is a likely-successful attempt to garner more publicity for the game.
- Submitted 2 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 4 comments
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 2 months ago:
I mean the private equity people get rich. It works for them. Sure, the hospitals / software companies / investors / employees / customers all suffer, but fuck 'em.
- Killer Whales Hunt Fish in Highly Coordinated Pairs and Perfect Their Movements With Practice, Drone Videos Revealwww.smithsonianmag.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to [deleted] | 4 comments
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 2 months ago:
"Now that we threw all the supplies overboard, we're going a lot faster now."
- Comment on Flame Light Fighter 2 months ago:
Yeah, I mean it's fine, I wasn't saying it was cheating or anything. I was just curious if there had been some development I didn't know about.
- Comment on Flame Light Fighter 2 months ago:
Got it, that makes more sense. I thought this was the model output, and I was confused.
- Comment on Flame Light Fighter 2 months ago:
Dude... how does it have a perfect pixel grid? I didn't know generative models could work that way. Or is it a pixel art model that's just always trained on an 8-pixel grid or something?