fizzle
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- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 7 hours ago:
TACO means Trump Always Chickens Out.
He didn’t fully capitulate but he went from “We need complete ownership and will use force to get it” to “we’ll tarriff eu countries who don’t give it to us” to “there will be no tariffs and we have the concepts of an agreement which is pretty much the same agreement we’ve always had”.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 14 hours ago:
If Trump starts costing the oligarchy money, they will discontinue support for republicans.
About 12 hours ago there was an article about eu tariffs on oligarchs. About 6 hours ago Trump chickened out of the Greenland thing.
Not saying there’s a direct line between these two events, but its the people making billions off Trump who are keeping him in power.
- Comment on how to dust properly 4 days ago:
Dust generally falls and settles. Dust raised surfaces with a duster, most of it will settle on the floor. Vacuum floor, then mop.
Yes, not all dust will be collected in this way but the vast majority will.
Note that I don’t use a damp whatever until the last step. Dust is so much easier to deal with when it’s dry. When it’s wet you’re just pushing it around.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 1 week ago:
It seemed more sudden and severe than just “oh some people didn’t not like him and then things changed”.
I didn’t know much about him really but he seemed to be investing in tech that could really shape the future, which I thought was “progressive”. Like when the first Tesla hit the market “big oil” had been suppressing the EV industry forever and putting your money behind something like that was bold and progressive.
Now he’s a Nazi supporting conservative nutty governments all over the world.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 week ago:
My partner has normalised spatial awareness, and no situational awareness. I do my best to herd her around for the good of mankind but I can only do so much
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 1 week ago:
Yeah this is going to be part of my strategy.
Increased availability of better quality content, less reliance on algorithms serving up the next thing.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 1 week ago:
I’m yet to encounter this really, my kids (twins) are only 2. However, this is the answer as I understand it - limit access in terms of time and content, and relax those limitations as appropriate.
That said, I’m going to struggle. Everyone needs to find the right balance for their own home, but I suspect I will lean more towards allowing less access to more curated content than most parents. I just can’t abide the kind of brain rotting content that’s available. I can’t stand advertising of any kind. I know this will make me unpopular - or less “cool” than other parents, but I’m hoping that I can make up for it in other ways.
- Comment on Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience? 1 week ago:
No idea mate.
- Comment on Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience? 1 week ago:
What? Edited posts dont disappear.
- Comment on Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience? 1 week ago:
I’ve never heard of federated communities.
Keep in mind the fediverse is not lemmy. Lemmy is the software that allows you to read, post, and comment, but there are others like piefed.
The basic problem you’ve described is a potential problem, but in practice it’s not really significant.
I’ve never really cared much for the idea of “community” online and certainly on reddit. Like what is a community really other than a category of similar posts ? The idea that it’s the people that make the community and that you need one cohesive place or platform for that community to exist just isn’t accurate.
For example, every instance might have it’s own “selfhosted” community. If you search you’ll see a half dozen. Just subscribe to the few busiest like everyone else, and you’ll see all the posts. I guess what I’m saying is that “the community” informally exists across all instances.
The best thing about federation is that you can choose not to follow specific communities if you don’t want to support their content. Like maybe you’re into manga memes but you don’t want to support the lack of moderation on some instances.
I don’t know exactly how it works but piefed has a feature where if a post is a link to a news article then it will list the comment sections for all cross posts under one post. Something like that anyway, I’m not sure exactly how it works, but often when looking at a post for an article you’ll see comments from other posts of the same article.
- Comment on IF NO HEN 1 week ago:
Yeah me too. I dig it.
- Comment on IF NO HEN 1 week ago:
This might shock you but… you don’t have to actually get it tattooed ?
- Comment on Trump Administration Deploying More Border Patrol Agents to Minnesota | More than 100 agents will be redirected from other cities after the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE officer. 1 week ago:
It is if youre not in the kitchen, dont care about those who are in the kitchen, and need a distraction from whatever you dont want people to look at.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 2 weeks ago:
I agree that things are looking bleak, but im still hopeful for the future.
Nuclear war is a possibility, but very unlikely.
I think basic preparedness in these troubled times is just sensible. Not “prepper” stuff, but enough water and caned foods for 3 days or something.
Other than that just build local, off-line relationships.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 2 weeks ago:
My kids are 2. Im working on my “dad talk”.
The best I’ve heard so far is something like: there are two activities that can irredeemably ruin your life: sex, and driving. Both are infinitely riskier with booze.
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 3 weeks ago:
Amazing.
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough. I don’t watch
gambling adsprofessional sports either. - Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 3 weeks ago:
More power to you brother, but yeah this holds no meaning for me.
- Comment on What is with these videos where it's just someone reaction to shit someone else is doing? 3 weeks ago:
Unpopular thing to say but… I just don’t understand watching other people gaming.
Note that I did not say “people who watch twitch are idiots”.
Just that I personally don’t get it, never will. I’m fine with that too, people do loads of things that I don’t find at all appealing.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 3 weeks ago:
Not completely self hosted. Searxng is just a front end for a bunch of other engines, so it fetches results from google et al. Its good but glitches a lot as the engines themselves try to block it.
Yacy is self hosted, it crawls the sites you tell it to.
The LLMs are great. You can self host the models or just link to the hugging face API. The models you can find there are tuned for specific purposes and are far superior for those purposes. You can also train “agents” on top of those models, like upload your policy and procedure manual and ask it to create additional procedures in that context.
- Comment on How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering? 3 weeks ago:
Because more than half of voters didnt want him to be punished.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 3 weeks ago:
The short answer is yes, and most companies do.
I have a small consultancy with a few staff, and im passionate about self hosting.
Using FOSS projects I’ve configured a selection of private services, which includes search and Gen AI. If I can do this with no resources…
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 3 weeks ago:
Woah, citric acid powder?
- Comment on Is there an endgame to Trump he is trying to obtain? Or is he making it up along the way at the cost of Americans? 3 weeks ago:
Nah.
He desperately wanted to be POTUS again so he didnt go to jail.
Since then hes really just enriching himself generally.
I presume he would like to ensure he doesn’t go to jail in the future somehow, but IDK if thats a specific end game or a general goal.
I bet hes asked doctors whether its possible to transplant him into Barron’s body.
- Comment on Does playing audio at a high volume bluetooth wirelessly use more phone battery power than lower volume or are equidraining? 3 weeks ago:
Obviously.
- Comment on Does playing audio at a high volume bluetooth wirelessly use more phone battery power than lower volume or are equidraining? 3 weeks ago:
Would there be a stream of data indicating a volume setting? Or rather a once off “volume up” or “volume down” signal? My guess would be the latter but I might be wrong.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 4 weeks ago:
Thats pretty much what I mean - if you dont care then thats your problem. However, im trying to explain why other people dont like these cards and why its unethical for shops to offer them.
Its not merely your name and email. They would know your address, age, family situation, and which common maladies you suffer from like high cholesterol, headaches, diabetes, and so on. But thats just the information they collect directly at colesworth. They can exchange thus data with everyone else, and match up your visa card. So anything you buy anywhere really becomes part of the extensive profile they have.
You might not care about all that, after all… what difference does it make to you what ads you get shown or what a shop might think you might want to buy.
However, I just feel like thats none of their business. I shouldn’t have to provide this wealth of information in addition to fair price for the goods I wish to purchase.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 4 weeks ago:
These companies charge people extra if they refuse to provide personal details and buying habits.
If you can’t see a problem with that then I can’t help you.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 4 weeks ago:
Australian media regulator publishes a list of numbers used only for fictional purposes like TV shows or whatever:
https://www.acma.gov.au/phone-numbers-use-tv-shows-films-and-creative-works
I’ve always used the first one. Every store seems to have it registered a billion times. They sometimes say “woah there’s 100s of people on this number” and I just tell them to pick one. They never care.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 4 weeks ago:
I feel aggrieved to not get the deal by not having a card.
If the card didn’t exist everyone would get the benefit.