Rentlar

@Rentlar@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But when I landed in Minneapolis on Monday and saw the size, scope and lawlessness of the federal onslaught unfolding here, I understood that Good’s killing was emblematic of its true mission: to stage a spectacle of cruelty upon a city that stands in stark defiance of Trump’s dark vision of America.

  Honestly, I’m so proud of the ordinary Minnesotans standing up and fighting back in response to this spectacle. This is what the resistance looks like, and it will only grow the longer Trump continues this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Couple Says ICE Agents Gassed Them as They Drove With 6 Children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully they have added this encounter to MN ACLU’s collection of abuse documentation www.aclu-mn.org/ice-feds-form/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Without getting into current politics can someone describe to me what an authoritarian regime looks like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Umberto Eco, in 1995, laid out 14 common charactistics that characterize what he describes as ur-fascism, fascist societies independent of the time and place.

  1. Cult of Tradition – A syncretic belief in ancient truths, rejecting modern interpretations.
  2. Rejection of Modernism – Viewing the Enlightenment and rationalism as the root of moral decline.
  3. Cult of Action for Action’s Sake – Valuing action over reflection, leading to anti-intellectualism.
  4. Disagreement is Treason – Suppressing dissent and critical thinking as threats to unity.
  5. Fear of Difference – Exploiting xenophobia and racism to unify the in-group against outsiders.
  6. Appeal to a Frustrated Middle Class – Mobilizing those feeling economically or socially displaced.
  7. Obsession with a Plot – Promoting conspiracy theories to justify aggression against perceived enemies.
  8. Enemies are Both Too Strong and Too Weak – Portraying adversaries as simultaneously formidable and feeble.
  9. Pacifism is Trafficking with the Enemy – Viewing life as perpetual warfare, dismissing peace efforts as betrayal.
  10. Contempt for the Weak – Glorifying strength and dismissing compassion as weakness.
  11. Everybody is Educated to Become a Hero – Promoting a cult of death and martyrdom.
  12. Machismo – Elevating aggressive masculinity and denigrating non-conforming sexual behaviors.
  13. Selective Populism – Claiming to represent the unified will of the people, dismissing individual rights.
  14. Newspeak – Employing an impoverished vocabulary to limit critical thought.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Machado Offers Her Nobel, Trump Says It Would Be an ‘Honor’ to Accept It⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, Trump will be the first person using the threat of war to extort someone into giving them their Peace Prize. Some peacemaker, I tell you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alchemy is so hot right now.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If we could go back in time to tell the alchemy conspiracists about disappearing gold that would be wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a Coolermaster AIO, it’s nice, if you can pair it with a low noise power supply (my RMX shift series I am very happy with so far over two years) and your case fans don’t whine, then you will have a pleasantly quiet experience on your desktop with most tasks up to light gaming.

  Performance wise I think they aren’t too different, there are premium and budget types for both liquid and air coolers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to vent about plastic milk jugs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have never even really noticed them in west coast Canada’s 4L milk jugs (215 mL/7.25 oz more than a gallon). I’m in bagged milk land for the holidays, so I can’t check right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emoji blobs or construction vehicles? Help me choose my game's visual identity | 😊 vs 🚜 |⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about construction vehicles with a cute little indication of their status… some suggestions:

  “tired” becomes a little tornado cloud coming out from the bubble.

  Idle is zzzs coming from the bubble

  You could use these kinds of marks, as inspiration.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stephen Miller Cites Children of Immigrants as a Problem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s what you get when you take humanity’s problems of greed and cruelty, add hotcake mix and cook in an egghead shaped wafflemaker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So generally the national laws are well documented as to what’s a crime and what’s not. Often there’s a website.

  Civil vs. Common law jurisdiction matters a fair bit. (As a gross simplification), in a civil law country that text is supposed to be the be-all end-all, judges are supposed to interpret cases based on whether the text of the law was followed or not and use their own discretion on whether past decisions should influence an active case. In common law jurisdictions, precedence from past cases matter a lot, and those decisions are cited by lawyers to say why it should be the same judgment or reasons why this case is different than previous to judge differently.

  Then you have sub-national (state, province, prefecture) laws. Those will be well defined but their free availability from an official source online may vary.

  Local by-laws will also depend on the location, they have less money so it may not be readily available digitally.

  Some governments delegate rulemaking in specific areas, industries or fields to an internal ministry/department, to a professional body (engineers, doctors, lawyers etc.), or an organization (HOA, non profits). They are usually authorized by the law to set, modify, and enforce rules in that specialized area, with a maximum penalty they are permitted to give out for infractions.

  So there’s no book of all rules everywhere that can be searched that apply to a specific area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Things never just worked all the time and I don’t expect they ever will.

  My preference is that I don’t need perfection, but if something doesn’t work, I’d like some kind of indication why and what I as a user or someone of advanced competence can do about it. (See Linux vs. Windows for example)

  The issue you are facing about lagging and not responding tech is threefold:

  1. Microprocessors can do so much more than electromechanical parts of old, for much cheaper and take up far less space. The downsides are that they are embedded on a board and can’t be replaced without specialized tools, and second is that some companies (looking at you, Apple) bar the chip manufacturers from making replacement parts or put onerous software blocks so that independent technical experts cannot repair it themselves even with the skills and know-how.

  2. Personal appliance device makers, to save money, use the cheapest processors they can get away with, which are slow compared to the software they are expected to run. So they lag, and they need multiple taps to respond.

  3. Software makers tend to have high end hardware for developing and testing, though some product makers will have test devkits to emulate hardware. Like the makers of an app for Google TV don’t have every specific model of TV. When they update they have to make assumptions about hardware performance, or they just don’t care and ship something unoptimized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Countries/Cities without Walmart's/Giant super centers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In Canada: Vancouver, BC. Just don’t go beyond the city limits.

  Kingston, ON: if you can get past big box suburbia near the highway, the downtown is small and charming.

  Montreal, QC is also very cool. Downtowns of major cities in Canada are generally very nice places to be, but outside there it depends on the city how sprawling the suburbs are.

  I’ve never shopped at a Walmart in Japan. It’s really fun to visit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop scrolling and adore this animal for a little⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  !superbowl@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Jamaican accent just makes me smile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  di copypasta

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... This one tries to break into the Cameraman's glass box⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Hey guys, welcome to my unboxing video!” -bear

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron [GN]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched it yesterday and only a couple things I have to add.

  First is that the bipartisan CHIPS act basically shovelled taxpayer money into Micron’s pockets to increase their manufacturing, but they are reducing their consumer output anyway, so Steve’s point is consumers are not getting anything out of the subsidy they made.

  Second is, since any potential increase in production is to cater to their largest data centre customers only, Steve is suggesting that this could be part of a push to move people to subscription-based cloud computing by making personal computing tha you buy and own unaffordable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Family’s Crypto Empire Collapses: Nearly $1 Billion Wiped Out as World Liberty and Memecoins Crash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Trump crypto value has nothing to do with any economic outlook. It’s the bribe gratuity funnel for the Trump family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well we can assume political discussions have a lot of psyops and people with agendas. I appreciate that many of the loudest voices/posters make it very obvious ;)

  Some of the craziest niches aren’t on here (like if you clean sewers and septic tanks, DM me, you ought to do an AMA) but I have encountered people replying on mostly tech related topics on programming, linux, asklemmy, no stupid Qs where someone with niche tech knowledge could answer. My knowledge is in trains, electricity, Japanese and Japanese electric trains, you can ask me about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The differences is that you have the power to make a new community or Lemmy site with blackjack and hookers. (Piefed is kind of like that for people unhappy with the Lemmy software or developers.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Update on Cities: Skylines II - Development moved to Iceflake Studios⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t need anything from City Skylines 2 other than a fully fledged custom 3d asset importer. Then it will be as if the game has thousands of unpaid staff making content. Though if this next team picks up from an unfamiliar location it might still be a long time before we could even think of getting it.

  More updates will be nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hurry! Release the server code on the high seas before the Sony lawyers find you!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rush⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neil planted a drumstick in the ground as a teenager, it sprouted into a drum pedal, and before he knew it, cymbals were in full bloom around him.

  May he enjoy eternal bliss with his infinite-piece drum kit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New World will stop receiving updates following Amazon layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew that this game was overhyped and its life would be limited, but now is the time to try to preserve this game as much as possible ahead of shutdown date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Brthday sut

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and in some places especially small towns, it is for some people, since it’s the main hangout spot (3rd place) in town.

  Though I don’t think young people do that as much, “regulars” tend to mean 1-3 times a week. My university had a bar that had a “ritual” where Friday afternoons it would be a completely full house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would I buy this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With CoD BO3 extensive ability to be modded and workshop support, it could be theoretically possible.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system— up to 9x increase in output lets 213 GPUs perform like 1,192⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do expect operational savings from this optimization, but my guesstimate would be a 2-5x savings rather than the reported 9x savings when looked at over a fixed time period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system— up to 9x increase in output lets 213 GPUs perform like 1,192⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It should be noted, how much will that affect the lifespan of those GPUs running double-dutyx8?

  AI’s still replaceable but it will emulate human-like burnout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How FEMA Is Pushing Communities to Fend for Themselves⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Federal Emergency Mismanagement Agency, then you don’t even have to change the acronym.