Wildmimic
@Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
- Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 16 hours ago:
SMS is insecure as hell, RCS suffered from issues between Apple and Google, both were limited for a long time by Telecoms and priced too high after reaching your allowance (i remember my first mobile contract having a whooping 10 SMS/month included). The amount of data messenger apps use is negligible even with pretty low data limits as long as you are not attaching whole movies.
I personally only use Signal - i have removed all Meta products from my life. If someone without Signal wants to contact me, they can use snail mail, i really don’t care - i won’t sacrifice my privacy for the convenience of others.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT Game Moves to Xbox From PlayStation 16 hours ago:
That’s what is happening when a company is working for their shareholders and not for their costumers. AAA games are an expensive endeavor, and when penny pinchers and greedy management are the dominating force, the willingness to do something new instead of rehashing the same thing that has made a profit over and over is low.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT Game Moves to Xbox From PlayStation 16 hours ago:
He’s probably (and reportedly) not easy to work with, because he’s an artist, and these tend to be uncompromising regarding the realization of their vision of their work. This collides with penny-pinching publishers and people who don’t appreciate games as an artform.
- Comment on AI Job interview warns against using AI yourself 16 hours ago:
Lol, all LLM-detection methods are bullshit nowadays. A few days back i saw a post where an excerpt from Mary Shelleys Frankenstein was marked as 100% AI-generated. If they use LLMs to interview you, you can use LLMs to respond - tit for tat.
- Comment on Reproductive strategy 2 days ago:
And duck vaginas in response have a maze of dead ends. Duck reproduction is FUBAR.
- Comment on How hard/fast would a baseball have to go to completely pass through a pitcher? Like leave a hole through flesh? 1 week ago:
Damn, the moment i saw the post i wanted to comment this lol
- Comment on German joke 1 week ago:
German humor is fine, but much of the german language humor does not translate well, because it is often using puns, double entendre or subversion of expectations, and you have to actively listen to them - just hearing it without paying attention might cause that you don’t ever realize a joke was made. And I wouldn’t say it’s mean, but it is often dark and hitting where it really hurts regarding whatever goes wrong in society. I heard once that people start laughing if they can’t bear the pain anymore, and a lot of german humor fits this saying well.
- Comment on German joke 1 week ago:
It’s somewhat of an antijoke. Translation would be:
Two camels are sitting in a cellar chopping petroleum. One of them says: “Tomorrow is Christmas, you know?”. The other one replies: “Yeah, I came here by bike anyways”
The whole joke is based on subverting expectations. You don’t expect camels sitting in a cellar, a liquid can’t be chopped, camels can’t speak (and wouldn’t care about christmas either), camels don’t ride bikes, and noone chooses a bike as a mode of travel especially in expectation of Christmas.
I personally never found it that funny, but my mother was laughing as if it were the funniest thing ever said.
- Comment on German joke 1 week ago:
Diese Art von Witzen die mit skurrilen Szenarien und Dialogen gearbeitet haben waren im Deutschsprachigen Raum in den 70ern angesagt - Ein bisschen vor meiner Zeit, aber man hat ja Eltern und Verwandte, und der hat sich in meiner Kindheit in mein Hirn gebrannt.
- Comment on German joke 1 week ago:
Zwei Kamele sitzen im Keller und hacken Petroleum. Sagt das eine zum anderen:"Du, morgen ist Weihnachen!”. Sagt das andere:"Ich weiß, ich bin eh mit dem Fahhrad da.”
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 1 week ago:
Lol, an illiterate fascist! You are truly part of the greatest race of all.
For everyone else, i will provide Sartre again:
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.”
And now we have arrived at the last sentence with this guy:
“If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 1 week ago:
No, it didn’t, because A/I hasn’t broken any laws, just as google doesn’t break any law when indexing neonazi propaganda that is illegal in germany. A/I has been under legal attack more than once, and it is very obvious that it didn’t work, because nothing they do is illegal.
Designating someone as a terrorist in a country where the law and justice mean something should need a previous sentencing for a crime that gives a legal basis for such a designation (aka planning or executing attacks, murders, blackmail, you know, the stuff the current US administration is very guilty of). This designation is the equivalent to sentencing someone to life in prison without any legal defense; the US executive took the place of Jury, Judge and Executioner all at once.
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 1 week ago:
I am talking about that discourse with fascist is, indeed, useless - your reply just underscored Sartres words perfecty. Thanks for that.
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 1 week ago:
By default they list everything. You can contact them and remove stuff, but by default all the smut, trash and bullshit of the web gets indexed. A/I would remove illegal content too, but this wasn’t even tried. Don’t deflect.
Palantir provides infrastructure, same as the others. They fit well, especially when viewed from the perspective of who you are allowed to provide services to on basis of ideology.
A/I also do not explicitly allow or endorse terroristic content. They provide infrastructure for communication to people, same as any other hoster or mail provider. Only difference is their antifascistic stance and that they have been repeatedly the target of repressive actions.
And no, only the people who attack antifascist infrastructure based on the words of a nazi government - You know, the currrent US administration - are fascists or fascist bootlickers. Need examples?
-Heil Hitlering Musk (just to start off with something graphic) -Hegseths removal of women and non-white people from positions of power in the armed forces -Trumps fawning over his “good relations” with every dictator on the planet -The US voting together with Israel and fucking North Korea in the UN to prevent condemnation of the aggression of Israel in the West Bank -Ex-Kristi Noems restructuring of ICE and border authorities (forgot their 3-letter-acronym) into the equivalent of the SS, which is being used to stick people with the wrong skin color - sometimes even ignoring citizenship or protected status, while ignoring court orders - into concentration camps before transporting them to autocratic states to dump them into CECOT regardless of being guilty of a crime, and to shoot protesters and PoC -Vance’s endorsement of groups like the AfD, Orban et. al (AfD has been recognized as an extreme-right organization by the authorities in Germany -The reconstruction of the DOJ to serve and protect the executive and ignoring orange fuhrers pedophilia -The infiltration of the supreme court by christofascists -The blackmailing of TV networks which have comedians critical of Trump on air using the FCC, treatening to pull their licence -The misuse of military assets for PR stunts involving Kid Rock and iBrainworm Kennedy -The abduction of a foreign head of state to enrich Trump and his buddies -The witchhunt on minorities like somalians in Minnesota, drag queens and trans people nationwide -The ignorance of the resulting rise in violence and even murders of PoC and democrats by far-right groups, because it is a positive thing for them - other countries would have started organized action against this amount of far-right terror. -The designation of Antifa as a terrorist organization (do you realize who tho only group which sees Antifa as terrorists? I´ll let you in on a secret: the only people who perceive antifa as terrorists are fascists) -The assault on public education at large and the attempt at rewriting history, trying to color slavery as something positive for PoC -The bullying of every ally the US ever had on the international stage, similar to how Hitler started bullying the countries surrounding Germany in the leadup to WW2 -The threats of invasion, annexation and exposure of long-term allies to enemy aggression
I could go on far longer, but i do not want to waste more time at you. If you are just a brainwashed, lost soul, stop watching the crap Youtube and Meta are throwing in your face, you are too easily influenced to discern the difference between neonazi propaganda and reality. If you are a true believer in that shit, my condolences go to the part of your family that doesn’t want to have contact with you anymore (probably your kids and ex-wife), and the rest of what i would put here is intentionally self-censored, but you will probably get the gist.
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 1 week ago:
They hate us because they are fascists and hate is their core concept. And we’ve seen how much of a fuck they give when we try to converse with them on equal ground over the last decades. Never forget what Sartre said:
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
Discourse with a fascist is useless in the vast majority of cases. What isn’t useless is to show the inhumanity, selectivity and selfishness of their language when shown in a public forum. Note how they started acting after Walz started naming these people “weird”. They don’t cope well with being shown to be what they really are. Chastising them for being inhuman drekheads and naming things as they are is not “cringy”, it is an imperative.
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 1 week ago:
Or a fascist like his rotting orange half-corpse fuhrer and his braindead lackeys.
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 1 week ago:
Google provides search results for everything under the sun, legal or not. AWS is used by real terrorists. Microsoft Azure is used in genocides. Palantir is used to prop up the surveillance state. Meta advertises child porn. X is providing communication services for far right groups. I do not see them being designated a terrorist group - providing infrastructure for communication is not the same as being a terrorist. If you can’t differentiate that, you are either brainwashed or a fascist yourself. Be ashamed, if you are even able to.
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 1 week ago:
They are being sanctioned because the fascists running the US are using their power to disenfranchise antifascists. They offer an opinionated service, quote:”…recognizes and promotes anticapitalism, antiracism, antifascism, antisexism, antimililtarism, and the refusal of authoritarianism and hierarchies.”. They are being sanctioned because providing infrastructure to ideologies outside of those aligned with Trump and his cronies is being construed as “terrorist activitiy”.
Go lick some more fascist boots and fuck off.
- Comment on So Austistici/Inventati just got designated as a "global terrorist organisation" by the Trump administration, what do I do now? 1 week ago:
I read their announcement a few days back, where they emphasized their ability to bring services, when taken down, back up pretty quickly. I am not involved in that space, and i am pretty sure that it will be a lot harder to restore services under these circumstances, but are you sure they won’t come back up? They seemed very motivated to brace this storm, even if only to create a testament regarding overcompliance of business entities.
- Comment on Republicans are arguing over if trans people can play sports while the world laughs at us 1 week ago:
I think about a third of the US does not actively deserve it. The rest is either actively fucking with lives in other countries or accept it as either inevitable or as “cost of doing business”, with no intention to change anything. Did you know there is a national census about the percentage of people in the US who can get rekt in my view and the view of many others? It’s called “presidential elections”.
- Comment on As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code 1 week ago:
You did not understand. The “percentage based” thing is as good as dead. You could just flip a coin and it would have the same accuracy. There will be no tool able to distinguish between human code and agent code going forward, percentage based out not.
- Comment on As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code 2 weeks ago:
This is an approach with a with a time limit that is nearly exhausted. These detection methods already suffer from abysmal false negative AND false positive rates, and the further LLM progresses, the worse these detection algorithms will become at actually identifying anything written by a coding agent. The point where they become completely usekess is approaching fast - mainly because these tools are great for adversarial training - every detection tool that is actually working provides everything needed to make sure that future models (or even the current one slightly updated).
The best policy isn’t worth the paper it is written on if you can’t detect violations.
- Comment on Doorless showers just make a mess and everything ends up wet 2 weeks ago:
Doorless showers are fine, but why is the floor in the bathroom not made of tiles, where it doesn’t matter as much when water spils? Strange decision by someone who either had no clue or didn’t care enough.
- Comment on Anon is Japanese 2 weeks ago:
Nope. The same happened In Austria with our ex-state owned telecommunication business; because it was state owned before privatization, they had quite a lot of nearly unfireable workers outside of extreme circumstances - state businesses often used “pragmatization” to secure people they thought weren’t replaceable and to provide those people with security with a bit of a lower pay grade (at least it started that way - later on this system was ripe with corruption, using “pragmatization” as a bonus for people who were loyal to whomever).
Those workers often had pretty high salaries in comparison to the newly arriving employees, accumulating pay raises for the last 20-30 years. And they didn’t want to leave their jobs, because many knew that their skillset was severely outdated and they would struggle to get another job at 50 years of age. The new owners had no use for them because they simply were too expensive and the large amount of unfireable personell dragged stock prices down.
So these workers had to come in every workday, just to sit in an nearly empty room for 8 hours - no work, no entertainment, nothing. Even the most lethargic person gets depression, anxiety and desperation after a few years of that. If you stopped coming in, they actually had leverage to get rid of you. If you called in sick, i heard of quite a lot of cases where they tried to make sure that they really were sick, because if not, it would be a fireable offense.
One of my uncles was one of the people just sitting in the “Pool”, as it was called. He was NOT happy, but he was one of the few people who actually still had some useful skills even in a modernized telecom company, and later on was able to at least get assigned some normal work, but most people who were sitting in the “pool” surrendered sooner or later when getting offered a golden handshake.
- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 3 weeks ago:
This might be another case of the phenomenon where people which get exposed to a lot of AI text start using similar structure and speech elements themselves after a while.
The look is pretty much what Pixar and Disney have formalized decades ago - no shit it will look similar to what ImageGen would look like if you go that route. And in the end this boils down to he said/she said with a dash of witch hunt mixed in.
- Comment on Supporters of famous influencer Andrew Tate rally in Miami 3 weeks ago:
Just book them preemptively. You will find enough to make it permanent if you search their phones.
- Comment on I need an adult 3 weeks ago:
This goes for other colors too, such as blue in ancient greece. Also, Homer regarded wine, the sea, and sheep as all being the same colour, which is ‘red’.
- Comment on How do people easily find out that I'm an easy to pick up on? 3 weeks ago:
There might have been informal information flow between your old and new team - during my school years that was the way how bullying followed me through 3 different schools. Only after switching into a completely different school type on the other end of town the bullying finally stopped.
- Comment on How would I go about turning this into a power-generating wind turbine. 4 weeks ago:
yep :-) but that small dinky wheel will have trouble powering anything more than a bunch of Leds - there’s not enough momentum in those blades, they would have to be longer, less of them and higher up to use more area where wind is blowing stronger and constantly to provide a solid amount of power.
- Comment on How would I go about turning this into a power-generating wind turbine. 4 weeks ago:
It’s already turning, that is what the steam is used for, so that will go from kinetic energy - heat energy - kinetic energy - electric energy, instead of directly going kinetic - electric; you are losing efficiency at every conversion step. If you already have something moving, using it directly with a motor is the way to go.
