Ashrakal

@Ashrakal@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos claims AI could allow 3-day workweeks; man who won't give employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweet words that hide the true meaning; they want the LLMs to be advanced enough to get rid of most of us.

  Good thing they can’t, because LLMs aren’t a miraculous technology at all.

  Still, it doesn’t hurt to keep these lunatics in check.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Work Hard, Enjoy Never⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Once you don’t need to overwork yourself just to get by, then there will be another problem to overcome. Work reform is not the only monster out there to tackle.

  Namely, many modern states consider you their property:

  • conscripting you by force into the military,
  • forcing unreasonable taxation on you,
  • suppressing your “dangerous ideology”, … and so on. Everything, because any of us as the individual doesn’t really matter to the “system” fronted by the politicians “we choose” and owned by the rich lobbyists. If you don’t agree to fight, then you’ll be tortured or imprisoned in a land that you probably don’t even personally care about. If you don’t pay the newly invented window tax, sausage tax, or whatever attempt to milk the common person, then they’ll make sure you’re miserable enough to fold for them.

  The game was rigged from the start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hackers steal millions of Discord IDs and email addresses in "deliberate, multi-stage attack" on security service Double Counter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Discord is out there tripping itself over, quietly poking TeamSpeak “hey, maybe you could make a comeback to break our VoIP monopoly?”, meanwhile TS sits it out quietly developing at a snail’s pace.

  Then we’ve got Stoat, Fluxer, and what’s not currently the trending obscure alternative (think like Guilded was too). They’re all too obscure, and most of time these apps are unsigned & lack notarisation so their code safety is a matter of “trust me” (a wise person doesn’t install random junk on their PC, regardless of it being FOSS or not - one rogue maintainer is enough to bring risk). Adding to their obscurity, I doubt anybody is going to materialise new friends into existence by sheer willpower, will they?

  Unless something happens that makes the casual Discorders jump off their platform, these hiccups are largely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Yes, they’re serious. No, they still won’t make people ditch Discord - at worst they’ll keep obscure platform XYZ for contacting friend group 1, and still use Discord for their daily communities and acquaintances who don’t keep up with any tech news (like privacy leaks) at all.

  That’s just some food for thought, I’m not actually going to debate about what I wrote (no time for such things!) Nevertheless, I sincerely hope Discord flops over, and a bunch of better alternatives appears.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon isn't worried about population decline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Population decline is fine. It’s the population boom driven by World War II panic that was the oddity instead.

  In a matter of time, we might return to population levels from the 17th century, and if we do, then so what? A single individual will become all the more valuable, similar to how European nations valued labour more after the Black Death occurred. History likes to repeat itself, even if not necessarily by events like the plague.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Widdecombe murder suspect Joshua Kerry appears in court over Farage terror charge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Acts of terrorism over a single, public individual called Farage? What’s this world, even.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Current US politics are ridiculous. How come there aren’t large protests with burnt tires, thrown concrete blocks, and biological waste being pumped into government buildings like France had in the recent years? And before anybody points that out, French police and military also have guns, so being armed is not unique to the US forces. Hasn’t prevented the unarmed Frenchies from taking action too.

  Mere words don’t mean anything to these politicians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d personally like to see a LotR in KCD2 format, maybe centred around Rohan or Dale.

  I hope they go in depth with side questing and gameplay loops, rather than focusing on the main story. Kind of how Skyrim was a sidetracking paradise.