wizardbeard

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon envies the boomers⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
I can see the logic. The realities of day to day life and managing a household together are a considerably larger presence than most people realize until they’re shoulder deep into adult life.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
- Some fucking line breaks would considerably help your point be easier to read. Right now it comes across as a crazy screed.
- You’re complaining to a void that doesn’t want to hear you or care, and this is definitively not the right community to post this in. There are various rant, off my chest, and unpopular opinion communities. This is a stretch for a community meant for meta discussion about your specific instance.
- Lemmy was never meant to be free speech specifically, or accepting of all opinions. Just more open than Reddit, and with the ability for people to host their own spaces if their opinions were being suppressed by other instances. There was no goal for every instance to be open to every point of view. Lemmy’s lead dev, Dessalines, is a transphobic “hard tankie” marxist leninist, who runs the Marxist Leninist instance lemmy.ml.
- You will find this kind of “suppression”/“bullying”/“negative responses to out-group ideas and thinking” everywhere online. Especially in spaces set up like Lemmy/Reddit/HackerNews etc with voting effecting content visibility. It is inherent to the design. Even on sites without this format, like 4chan, you still see this sort of behavior. Best get used to it.
- Also, from personal experience, just block communities and users that are assholes. The Fediverse has a low enough count of daily active users that blocking actually makes a difference in the content and viewpoints you encounter.
- Lastly, there are right wing lemmy instances. They tend to be filled with actual nazis and pedophiles, which is why no instances will federate with them.
Spoiler: I agree that calling Jan 6 an attempted coup is a stretch. The most heavily armed group in the US tried to overthrow the government and there was minimal firearm based violence?

That said, none of the chucklefucks that broke into buildings deserve any sort of pardon. They broke the law fair and simple. Feelings of righteousness don’t change that. Only coordinated legal and political effort does.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not unreasonable to ask for a NSFW tag so I don’t casually scroll into an image with the business end of a pocket pussy on my feed.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feel vindicated about loops⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

My morality and logic is just different.

Holy shit you cannot be real. I just choked on my water.

Man you are like the postershild of that meme about playing chess with a pigeon. Knock over the board, shit on everything, and strut away with every fiber of your being reinforcing the idea that you “won”.

You’re more than welcome to find retroactive justification for your actions, or to shore up in your head the concept that the end result justifies your means. But that doesn’t mean “I’m just built different I guess, teehee!” like some sort of badge of honor.

From life experience, and from knowing a number of people like you over my years: If you continue with this sort of attittude towards life, and general pattern of behavior, it will come back to bite you hard someday. When it does you will likely not find many people sympathethic to you or willing to help you, due to your own behavior.

I’m fairly certain that you aren’t the type of person capable of reflecting on your behavior or the responses to it in the last thread or this one and learning to ba a better person from it, but in the rare chance:

Your own descriptions of your own actions meant to portray you as being in the right instead portray you as an impatient asshole with the emotional and psychological maturity level of a 12 year old, who also has an absurdly inflated idea of the value of themself and their actions.

There is not much worse in this world than self righteous fuckstains taking actions that were never asked for or wanted, with the motivation that they are only doing what is best for other people who never asked for their help.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Would it be too much to ask for a NSFW tag on this? Thanks.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently Bluesky lets you require a sign in to view a post⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I’m not saying Bluesky sucks, but this is childish.

Bluesky was started by the same guy who started Twitter, and is only federated in concept.

It was never meant to be “Twitter but better”. It was always meant to be “How can we make the most money off fleeing twitter users?”. There’s a lot of overlap between the money making and being better, but it’s incidental to the real goal. Any claims otherwise are pure marketing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shares his taste in music⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yup. There’s even fake “a portion of sales go to Luigi’s defense” stores online now, that actually just funnel money to completely unrelated groups.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon discovers real life⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Lol, that has nothing to do with the constant psyops run on it. Those have been present since well before the sale. The site allows anyone to post anonymously. It’s the perfect grounds for manufacturing the appearance of consensus.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
On top of this, it sounds like he didn’t offer seats on the private jet to any of you guys either? That’s beyond simply evilly out of touch and into the realm of “are we actually friends if you’re willfully taking separate transportation to avoid spending time with the rest of us?”

I could at least comprehend if he wanted to have 4 extra hours with you all at the destination, but if he’s just going to spend the time savings alone that is a massive dick move on top of the already massive dick move.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
This is specifically not a commuter flight. OP mentions “the jet” as in this guy has or charters a private jet.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would do this for just 1.99⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Beyond the other answers stating that this isn’t real:

Teams doesn’t do one off charges for functionality like this. All functionality is managed by licensing, managed through your workplace’s Azure tenant. Don’t have the license, don’t have the feature. Need the feature? Time to work with Microsoft billing to get you a new license (or additional one) and then your IT team to have the license applied to your account.

There aren’t usually any upsells displayed to end users. In our environment we’ve only seen a rare “this functionality is not available on your license, go complain to your admin” type message, but usually it just doesn’t display unavailable options.

On top of all that, Microsoft is dumb, but not this dumb. Last thing their team of lawyers would want is for them to be involved in some sort of “involuntary pornography” case or something.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Careful citizen, it seems you’ve had a little too much to think.

More seriously, I wish you all the luck in the world with convincing people that their personal two minutes hate isn’t a good thing.

Doesn’t help that there’s a lot of people down so low that idealogical elitism and self righteousness is nearly all they have going for them. It’s a legitimate issue that there are a bunch of people who are so depressed about the state of the world that they end up defining themselves by the fact that they aren’t part of the “bad group”, so any humanization of that group robs them of something vital to them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Never too Late⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’m not going to try and justify the people who think it’s ok to be bigoted towards white males. It’s not ok. I’m also not going to pull the “those people don’t exist” bullshit, because it’s bullshit.

But no one of that particular flavor of asshat is here in this post or comment thread. So get out of your own head and get over yourself. For your own sake.

Complaining about misandrists and/or people racist against white people is not acceptable behavior publicly. At best it makes you look socially incompetent, and at worst it makes you look like someone who wouldn’t mind being lumped in with nazis.

On top of that, the amount of people publicly anti-“every white male ever” is pretty damn low lately. Low enough that you can generally get through life as if they don’t exist.

It’s been over a decade since I’ve seen any news orgs worth mentioning run anything along the lines of “Young white men need to be taught not to rape”.

If you can’t escape it, change the spaces you’re spending time online, and the people you are spending time around in real life. I haven’t heard that sort of shit to any significant amount for a very long time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good morning, I choose a healthy breakfast⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Holy shit, I thought Unicyclopedia had died ages ago.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My only real counter to that is Project Zomboid. It’s a complete game. It’s in EA due to them wanting to add many more gameplay systems to the existing complete sandbox. They have a roadmap somewhere. They don’t release major updates without multiple ones being added.

Last major update (41, a few years ago) was drivable cars (and all the spawning systems, loot, and map changes to make them fully fleshed out) and multiplayer. I’m sure there was more, but those were the standout things.

The new major update (42, available through a public opt-in beta branch right now) is a complete overhaul to gunplay, liquid management/mixing, crafting systems, lighting engine, and the addition of NPC animals with a full husbandry system. And that’s only the highlights. It will stay in beta as they get better data for balancing the new features and the absurdly increased player count surfaces bugs they didn’t find through internal testing. Once it’s balanced and stable (maybe a year), they’ll push this update to the main branch where it will continue to get minor bug fixes as things crop up (usually bugs surfaced by the modding community by the time it hits stable).

Then they’ll keep crunching away on work on human NPCs and simulating story stuff with loot generation, which I believe will be the next major update in a few years.

Each intermediate release is a complete game, it just doesn’t have the full set of features on the roadmap. It still is the best zombie survival sim on the market as is.

But it is absolutely a unicorn of early access.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Everyone keeps labelling GabeN as the only one holding VALVe to standards, but by his own admission he’s more of the equivalent of a board member now, not deeply involved in the day to day anymore. I think the only ones that truly know his level of involvement would be people at VALVe.

What I’m getting at is that I have the same concerns about what will happen after he passes, but I don’t think he’s the only person standing in the way of VALVe going full corporate.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The examples I’ve seen are a year+ with no updates. Not definitive, but I highly doubt they’re doing this for the cases you’re talking about.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon cheats through college⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I wish I hadn’t went straight in, personally. Wasted a lot of money and time before I got my shit together and went back for an associates a few years later.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon cheats through college⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My company doesn’t even allow AI use, and the amount of times I’ve tried to help a junior diagnose an issue with a simple script they made, only to be told that they don’t actually know what their code does to even begin troubleshooting…

“Why do you have this line here? Isn’t that redundant?”

“Well it was in the example I found.”

“Ok, what does the example do? What is this line for?”

Crickets.

I’m not trying to call them out, I’m just hoping that I won’t need to familiarize myself with their whole project and every fucking line in their script to help them, because at that point it’d be easier to just write it myself than try to guide them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon cheats through college⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Also: assuming you know what the easy bits are before you actually have experience doing them is a recipe to end up training incorrectly.

I use plenty of tools to assist my programming work. But I learn what I’m doing and why first. Then once I have that experience if there’s a piece of code I find myself having to use frequently or having to look up frequently, I make myself a template (vscode’s snippet features are fucking amazing when you build your own snips well, btw).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon cheats through college⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That was/is one of my biggest complaints about CS courses: the horrendous, uncontrolled, inconsistent-across-course/instructor/TA mixture of concept and implementation skills expected of the students.

Ultimately you need to develop both to be successful in a CS/Software Dev/Programming career, but I’ve watched so fucking many people fail to progress in courses and learning because they’re trying to learn both the concept and how it needs to be formatted in the class specific language’s syntax at the same time. They hit a roadblock in one and the whole thing comes tumbling down because if your code doesn’t work you can’t just work around it to get the other parts done and then come back later. Being able to stub something out to do that requires skills that they’re taking the class to learn in the first place!

Minor mistakes with syntax creates a situation where they can’t get a working example of the concept to play around with. So then they don’t have something hands on to use to cement their conceptual understanding.

Minor mistakes with the conceptual understanding lead to a complete inability to understand why the syntax works (if it even does) to create an example of the concept, leaving them high and dry when the class asks them to think outside the box and make something new or modified based off what came before.

I’ve worked as a Lab Assistant (TA who doesn’t grade) for intro to programming courses. Due to transfer credit shaningans, combined with a “soon to retire” professor getting saddled with the bueracratic duties for their whole department, I ended up running lectures for an intermediate course I effectively had to take twice. I regularly led study sessions in college for my friends in programming classes. Even now, I’m the most experienced programmer on my team of sysadmins/engineers at work and regularly assist co-workers with scripts when I’m not coding custom automations and system integrations.

So I have experience teaching and using this shit.

In my opinion, courses should be split into two repeatedly alternating parts: concept and implementation/syntax. They are separate skill sets.

You need a certain set of skills to be able to communicate. You need a different set of skills to do so in a specific language.

Plus, classwork needs to better mimic real world situations. Even crazy motherfuckers using sed or nano to code should be using linters in this day and age, and no one should be working in an environment where they only have one chance to get it 100% right with no means of testing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Makes your jaw drop in amazement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Looks to me like a downspout that carries the “water” under the concrete and probably lets out somewhere else.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did a simple phone call become so problematic?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Maybe the speech recognition has improved since I last gave automatic transcription a shot, but in my experience it was almost always laughably bad.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forgive them, for they know not what they do⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should have seen it coming⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
… and it’s time to rewatch Silicon Valley again.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨get a free GOAT (shipping not included)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
There are some places in the US where the only reason they aren’t still stuck on dialup is because of the cellular data network and/or starlink sattelite internet.

Especially at the time it could have been useful as a backup connection. Where I work our network team had to work very hard to get all of our locations a backup connection that didn’t go through the same physical “line” as what we already had (so much of the physical infrastructure is comingled).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 192 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Something I love about this game is how there’s no hud, all the info is conveyed through lights on the backpack.

I know other games have done similar, like all the menus in Dead Space existing as projections from your suit in the game world that didn’t stop time, but I’m a sucker for that little bit of extra diagetics (pretty sure that’s the right term).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SNES Mods and Romhacks Collection 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
When the hell did they start updating the site database to include downloads of externally hosted patches?

That effectively means the site is back!

Why the fuck wasn’t that posted about fucking anywhere?

All I can find is articles about the site going read only except for the forum and news posts back in August 2024. I used to check the site weekly, but stopped in September after none of the community made continuation projects seemed to be taking off.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The words "diversity", "equity" and "inclusion" seem to be blocked from NIH website's search function⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They have to. It’s covered in one of the executive orders he made day 1. You can look through all of them on whitehouse.gov if you want.

DEI is explicitly prohibited in governement orgs now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USians - Uh, *we've all seen this* right?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Why is this posted in the shitpost community?

Also, maybe post/link the receipts themselves. The only “breadcrumb” evidence is the characterfile example in the Eliza wiki being AI Trump.

People can write whatever words they want, and there was a hoax a while back with doctored screenshots of “twitter code” that supposedly exempted trump and white supremacist accounts from filtering.

Anyone who’s been paying attention to things should be well and aware that what the post claims has been going on for years by perpetrated by multiple actors. MAGAs have already been flooded by similar “I couldn’t stay quiet about this anymore” posts allegedly by shareblu employees that started coming out as far back as Trump’s first campaign.

Coincidence and “breadcrumbs” aren’t likely to convince anyone new that this shit has been happening.