OctopusNemeses
@OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world
- Comment on What even is my eXpEriEnCe here? 7 hours ago:
The world didn’t need as many programmers as we were led to believe. Showing text, images, and video is a solved problem. There doesn’t need to be a new framework every 6 months. They don’t need to throw out the last one to churn out a rehash of the same website so coders can justify their existence with some metrics of performance designed impress people who barely understand what they’re seeing, but nod their head in approval so nobody realizes they’re bluffing to hide their tech illiteracy. Everybody in the room is doing the same thing. The nerd with slide decks is grinning ear to ear at the approval. Maybe he starts to believe in the mythology that he might be a unicorn himself. It’s exercise in collective delusion. It needs to work because everybody involved is getting crazy rich. So the delusion must go on.
You don’t have your plumber come in every year and redo to all the pipes. Each time adding another superfluous section that serves naught but to make work for him. You sure don’t let him install a coin operated meter so he gets a cut of your water bill every time you need to flush, and then praise him like he’s the second coming of Jesus. He might be Jesus the plumber, but he’s no messiah. Maybe next years rework you’ll have him install a credit card swipe on your bathroom door.
Nobody is building entire trillion dollar multinational corporations around plumbing. Nobody is holding quarterly plumbers development conferences to announce the latest in pipework technology. In which the whole world streams it and watches in awe as they reveal the all new pipe join. Now for $999 a piece. You can’t call your plumber fast enough. Technology is cool but people can’t separate the science and engineering from the the trade work. They think the people making increasingly more cumbersome Rube Goldberg machines of code are the ones doing the science and engineering. Quite frankly I’m certain too many programmers think that too.
- Comment on Reddit repost bots taking over entire communities 2 days ago:
I’ve run this experiment before. ~90% of accounts sampled on the top 20 /r/all with not prior post history before 2-3 months got converted to cryptocurrency spam bots. Some of the remainder were porn spam. A few deleted accounts. A few seemingly real people. This was during the heights of cryptocurrency mania. Believe me or don’t. I can’t be assed with source dropping internet-pseud wankery.
Bot deception tactics have certainly changed since the prevalence of LLMs. I haven’t been paying attention to what the patterns have shifted to. Before these times, it was easily spotted because they were relatively simple.
I believe earlier this year someone on /r/theoryofreddit spotted closed networks of subreddits where bots engage with each other. Those are used to farm accounts on a massive scale.
- Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 5 days ago:
Marty would be teenager from today. He’d be livestreaming Doc Brown’s experiment. He’d see his dad watching the dancing baby in the 90s and be like, “I’ve seen this meme, it’s classic”. They’d be like, “wtf is a meme”.
- Comment on About to ruin your whole day 1 week ago:
Also when an appliance malfunctions. There goes my last paycheck. Maybe two…
- Comment on New 'Star Trek' Movie Writers Tease "Dark" Story And New Franchise 3 weeks ago:
American culture never recovered from the grimdark post-9/11 era of the 2000s. They had to tell themselves everyone has a dark side, even the purest heroes, in order to justify The War on Terror™.
- Comment on Anon has seen it all before 4 weeks ago:
The warrior alien who solves problems through brute force, and struggles to understand Earth customs in comedic ways.
- Comment on How IMDB Users Rate Season 4 of SNW 5 weeks ago:
I thought the US ad tech industry would collapse considering how fake it is. Even the reddit CEO openly admitted they fabricate user activity back around 2010. Some how they don’t care at all. They just want to consume the slop.
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 5 weeks ago:
Japan is probably the closest by actually having the hikikomori problem in public discourse. Most of the rest of the world they probably end up homeless.
- Comment on when the old geezer in front of you shits his pants 1 month ago:
Put a laugh track. It would be a hit sitcom pre-2010.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I didn’t look at all the comments, but this is intentional. One of the streaming platforms (probably Netflix or Amazon) originally made an algorithm that tailors posters to the individual. It’s the usual A/B testing psychological bullshit designed to maximize your likelihood of watching a movie.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There’s nothing the internet loves more than a big spectacle. You’re all proving his point.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 2 months ago:
That’s a marker of the upwardly mobile. At some point they reach a threshold of wealth where they can be paying other people for their time.
Those who stay poor might look at them like they’re spending money recklessly to pay for the help. They don’t realize the financial crossover that’s happening.
- Comment on Dare to dream 2 months ago:
It’s fancy referral link spam.
- Comment on Anon likes a woman 2 months ago:
And of course it turned out moot is directly linked to the Epstein class.
- Comment on US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects” 2 months ago:
The problem will go away if they post enough “china bad” on social media.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 2 months ago:
You’re talking about the logical fallacy. Or maybe you’re not, I don’t know. It’s only a bad mindset when the authority isn’t qualified.
- Comment on Neo, wake up! 3 months ago:
You can go back in with superpowers and any objects you want.
These thinly veiled right wing memes are always thought terminating.
- Comment on quick explanation 3 months ago:
bash.org style joke.
- Comment on Anyone get this? 4 months ago:
What are the vibes though?
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 4 months ago:
It’s another symptom of the infinite growth mindset that is not only plaguing boardrooms but average citizens.
- Comment on Channel 5 found Gen-z "looksmaxxing" influencer Clavicular is funded by Peter Thiel 5 months ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if this kind of thing is widespread. It has always felt uncanny how internet cultures pivot into bizarro worlds through the 2010s. We now know Epstein played a direct role in 4chan. We’ve always known Thiel is one of reddits early investors, but that has flown under the radar. Nobody talks about that.
- Comment on Channel 5 found Gen-z "looksmaxxing" influencer Clavicular is funded by Peter Thiel 5 months ago:
That’s seems to be the formula. Especially when they’re targeting younger demographics or quite frankly simpletons. Normal + crazy = extremist cultures. Nobody can get through to the cult followers because they’re lead to believe you’re trying argue against the normal thing when trying to explain that they’re misled about the crazy thing.
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 5 months ago:
The last point hasn’t actually happened.
- Comment on UwU🥺👉👈 5 months ago:
Academia is rife with bigots. This is an example of Horseshoe Theory in real life. They’re pigeonholed into their narrow track in life that they haven’t spared much thought for other topics. Not all that different from someone who is uneducated and ignorant.
They over-estimate their proficiency in other areas by assuming because they’ve studied hard at one thing, they must be good at anything. At best they know of the concepts of the -isms and repeat the right words when prompted to do so. But catch them in a moment such as this and all is revealed.
The internet is historically like this on account of it leaning towards the academically privileged classes of the world. People conflate socially maligned behaviors with education and professional status.
All you’ve done is reinforce that point. Because she is a scientist or because another person is a lawyer they are less deserving of this behavior??? As if a less privileged woman would be. You conveniently weaved your narrative around this. Education and class are inextricably linked.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
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The difference in attitudes from a decade ago is 180 degrees backwards. Young people and academics are where revolutions begin or end. Those people have been demoralized and pacified.
- Comment on Is the "Gen z stare" a real thing? 5 months ago:
I’ve seen it before from retail workers. The first time I thought they were on drugs.
They don’t activate until they decide to act. They don’t engage in formal greeting. Like, “Hi, how can I help you?” Like an idle NPC that hasn’t been triggered to run its script yet.
It’s probably related to the perpetual screen use that causes derealization or whatever. Like how streamers walk around in real life but their mind is engaged in the virtual world of their chat channel, and the real world to them is the virtual one.
- Comment on Guess who will be classified as an extremist by Palantir in 2030 for expressing criticism of pedophilia 6 months ago:
More like they’ll persecute you for being a pedo. The go to move for these chuds is to accuse others of their own crimes.
- Comment on Anon argues on reddit 6 months ago:
Meh. It’s a required feature at this point. Someone has stalked me on lemmy too.
At some point people started taking the internet beyond seriously. As if every random thing that’s mashed into the keyboard is tantamount to sworn affidavit than must be held up to scientific peer review.
- Comment on 6 months ago:
A fork won’t do you any good. This has to do with Play Services, not the OS.