Barbarian
@Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
Linux server admin, MySQL/TSQL database admin, Python programmer, Linux gaming enthusiast and a forever GM.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Many people (not all) rent because they can’t afford to buy, not because they don’t want to own property.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
(remember, your aunt charging below market is the exception, not the norm)
Isn’t this definitionally true? The norm, by definition, is the market rate.
- Comment on Wait until they find out about chickens! 2 months ago:
It’s actually worse than that. Starvation takes a long time to happen (~3 weeks). Lack of access to water takes a much shorter period of time. If water pipelines and/or pumping facilities get screwed up in any way, cities will become mad max much faster and in a much more intense fashion. In a water-starved population, people are mostly composed of water…
- Comment on Can relate. 2 months ago:
Cyberpunk was supposed to be fiction, not a blueprint :(
- Comment on Might as well go cyberpunk, I guess. 2 months ago:
If you got a powerful tablet and installed Kali on it, isn’t that effectively a cyberdeck?
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 4 months ago:
LLM’s aren’t real AI
I think that’s mostly a semantics issue. When people talk about AI here on Lemmy, they generally mean AGI. LLMs are not AGI, as far as I understand it.
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 4 months ago:
anti-anything google
I hear that. Went through the technical reasons for the manifest V2 deprecation (if this is only to target unlock origin, why did they implement filter lists into the browser? Why does unlock origin lite work just fine?) and it got down voted to oblivion. Haters gonna hate I guess :))
- Comment on #StopKillingGames Update: Sweden and Poland pass threshold as initiative reaches 25% 4 months ago:
While we’re on the topic of EU initiatives, the tax the rich initiative, aiming to set a floor on tax rates for the very wealthy, and have member states use that new money for environment, employment and social policies.
- Comment on Never underestimate the surveillance power of Babushkas! 4 months ago:
Modern Romania isn’t totalitarian. Thankfully, these days the old ladies just snoop on everyone to gossip and complain passively aggressively, not to report to the state. I’d argue that’s an improvement.
- Comment on Never underestimate the surveillance power of Babushkas! 4 months ago:
Deadly serious. By the end of communism, they had over a million informants. You had to make the assumption that everyone you talked to and every old lady on a park bench was an informant.
Funny story, I know someone who was recruited to inform on her colleagues at work, but after the third time in a row she told them everything is wonderful, everyone is happy and productive, she was promptly fired (as an informant, not from the factory).
- Comment on Never underestimate the surveillance power of Babushkas! 4 months ago:
It’s actually a bit deeper than that, at least from my Romanian perspective. Our old ladies were literally hired by our security services to monitor and report ön everything going on in their neighbourhoods. They were essentially human CCTVs, facial recognition and behavioural pattern matchers all rolled into one while being paid pennies.
- Comment on Suffering 4 months ago:
The absurd is a result of the confrontation between human need and the unreasonable screams of the victims being run over infinitely.
- Comment on "Deadpool & Wolverine" has made more money in its' opening weekend than the entire box office runs of "The Marvels" and "Madame Web" - combined. 4 months ago:
My Adventures with Superman
No, never heard of it. I’ll check it out at some point.
I did like One Punch Man, and yes, they lampshade the sheer ridiculousness of his power level, and even mess with preconceptions by having the origin story be as mundane as possible. I think the core difference between One Punch Man and Superman/Captain Marvel is that OPM isn’t supposed to be taken seriously. The mismatch is the joke.
- Comment on "Deadpool & Wolverine" has made more money in its' opening weekend than the entire box office runs of "The Marvels" and "Madame Web" - combined. 4 months ago:
If it’s a bad movie, it’s still a bad movie.
For me personally, the reason I absolutely despised Captain Marvel had absolutely nothing to do with the gender. I hated that movie for the same reason I hate almost all depictions of Superman: universe defining power with no real character growth, meaningful struggle or change.
They start with godlike power but don’t know it, discover they have godlike power, and then proceed to trivially dismantle the plot with some contrivance thrown in that doesn’t pose any danger at all to them. It just makes for incredibly boring storytelling.
- Comment on Anon is an anthropologist 5 months ago:
- Comment on Anon watches game of thrones 5 months ago:
Davos: “There is land in the reach, go start your own house”
Unsullied: “You… you do realize what we are, right?”
- Comment on First overseas trip with my girlfriend – Any tips to make It our best trip? 5 months ago:
Tourists in Bulgaria, for example, always get caught out by this. They shake their head for yes and nod for no.
- Comment on First overseas trip with my girlfriend – Any tips to make It our best trip? 5 months ago:
Exactly what I wanted to say. All that talk of “perfection” makes me imagine them snapping and going full psycho because a train was cancelled and they need to book a different one.
- Comment on Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now 5 months ago:
Good thing I double-checked to see if someone else made this point yet.
Yeah. Not only that, but the splash screen when you launch the game makes it incredibly clear that it’s one guy called Greg (very humanizing) and he’s working on it, but he’s not some superhero.
- Comment on Anon questions the magic box 5 months ago:
That’s impossible. Everyone knows that Danes can’t communicate.
- Comment on Cursed wretched marketing 5 months ago:
Btw, After staring at it for a while I can kinda switch between red and white at will. Anyone else?
No, that doesn’t seem to work for me, but after messing with zooming in, I can absolutely see it’s white if I’m all the way zoomed in on the black and white pixels in the can, and then as I slowly zoom out, there’s a specific moment when there’s enough of the surrounding blue that the can suddenly turns red.
The can remains black and white in my perception as long as I’m sufficiently zoomed in on it without the background. It’s a pretty neat effect.
- Comment on Alejandro Cáceres, the hacker who took down North Korea’s internet from his home: ‘My attack was a response to their attempt to spy on me’ 5 months ago:
What normal people hear: “He took down the routers with some crazy complicated algorithms”
What IT professionals hear: “He hired a bunch of people to keep sending spam letters to their tiny mailboxes until they were so stuffed that they couldn’t receive any legitimate mail.”
- Comment on Can I still use this salt? 6 months ago:
I’m no expert, but I did watch a minidocumentary that explained that these best by dates are mostly arbitrary aside from perishable foods.
For some products they’ll have taste testers rate the same product packaged at different times from 1-10 with 10 being factory fresh, and when it drops below an average 7, that’s the date they put on the packaging
- Comment on am I 16 years too late for this 6 months ago:
Here you go.. knowyourmeme.com is an excellent site for questions like this!
- Comment on it's all weird plastic boxes and predation, dear 6 months ago:
Yugoslavian communism: there’s dinos and toys on the shelves, and people keep buying them to smuggle over the border
- Comment on Wey hey and up she rises 6 months ago:
Having one line about sleeping with the captain’s daughter might have been even more amusing (and thus more catchy) because of the double meaning.
Very likely, probably why the whole captain’s daughter = captain’s whip thing took off as sailor slang to begin with.
your average deck hand singing sea shanties isn’t thinking metaphorically when he’s singing about getting drunk and laid.
I never claimed it was a metaphor, it’s slang. Similarly, the “gunner’s daughters” were the gun barrels midships on gunships.
And insisting that the one line in the song isn’t about fucking is feels like wishful thinking
I mean, no skin off my nose if you believe that, but it seems pretty clear judging from the fact that the captain’s daughter is a well known slang term for a whip in a song about punishing a drunk that that is at least the correct original intent. Of course anybody can interpret anything any way they want.
- Comment on Wey hey and up she rises 6 months ago:
Think about it inside the context of the song. Every other line is a type of punishment:
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Shave his belly with a rusty razor (give him tetanus)
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Stick him in a scupper with a hosepipe on him (scupper= hole in the side of the ship, so stick his head in a hole and hit him with a hosepipe)
Why would this line suddenly be different?
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- Comment on Wey hey and up she rises 6 months ago:
The “captain’s daughter” was a euphemism for the cat o’ nine tails. So in other words, that line means give the drunken sailor a lashing as punishment.
- Comment on Blackholes 6 months ago:
Sofas are just rebranded wide chairs
- Comment on Pretend you are my boss at the rule opening factory 6 months ago:
rm -rf /*will work just fine.You need the additional flag for
rm -rf --no-preserve-root /.
