OctopusNemeses

@OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a guardian angel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  anon prolapsed up to the blockage point. The damage was internal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pray for him in these trying times⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve managed to convince investors that my brute force solution is worth trillions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True love⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone said you’re not human until you turn 35, and that line stuck with me. I think it was an actor or comedian on a podcast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patrick Stewart, stage giant also of ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ fame, dies at 86⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He is an inspiration to generations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it still there‽⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Built in toy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will confess that I have obsessively watched merge requests on a daily basis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Open source is the modern marvel that nobody talks about. Like the industrial revolution or the building of the pyramids. I know it’s preaching to the choir on lemmy. Open source made the 21st century digital revolution.

  Sometimes I wonder how much the average person can comprehend the scale of what has been accomplished over the past few decades. I’m sure they attribute it to the power of the corporations’ drive for profit. None of that would have happened without the combined effort of people around the world building out one software library or application at a time. There’s a behemoth underneath the shiny corporate tech products that is the real achievement.

  Some say, born to late to yadda born to soon to whatever. Guy, we have lived in very interesting times. You just haven’t been looking. We’ve lived through the middle of something incredible. I’m sure Jim Ramses was super annoyed at another brick to haul back in 10000BC so the pharaoh can have his stupid tomb or whatever. He wasn’t thinking, they’re going to be nuts over this stuff in a few millennia.

  That being said, I think open source is facing existential trials in the near future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries being social⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  30 is the narrative online where you’re pretty much 100 years old. They’re convinced once you hit 30 you might as well be her grandpa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It used to be a library⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The social contract was that everyone was a custodian of that library. That’s how we got Wikipedia.

  Social media and monetization broke that social contract. Another building was constructed beside the library. People were checking out books from the library and selling them at the market.

  Now with LLMs, those books are being burnt. There’s a trillion dollar giga-sized building next to the derelict library and the fast becoming defunct market that is industrial scale mass producing pulpy books.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As of today, I have stopped using Reddit entirely.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried recently? Because the paradigm of having many reddit throwaways is a thing of the past. These days you can still register as many account as you want but the instant shadowban comes the moment you try to post something.

  Emphasis on the shadowban, which is the default behavior. You can still submit posts and comments from as many accounts as you want but nobody else is going to see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon isn't worried about population decline⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When the population was predicted to explode into the 21st century, the news said this was a big problem. Now the population is expected to gradually decline. The news is saying this is a big problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What even is my eXpEriEnCe here?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Put a laugh track. It would be a hit sitcom pre-2010.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fancy referral link spam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes a woman⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem will go away if they post enough “china bad” on social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"influencers" are setting us back⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  bash.org style joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone get this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What are the vibes though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Truck is Stupid Big⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s another symptom of the infinite growth mindset that is not only plaguing boardrooms but average citizens.