Cube6392
@Cube6392@beehaw.org
Six sided devops engineer and baseball fan
I am also @Quill7513@slrpnk.net, but this is my primary and more active account. The slrpnk.net account is for ecology and lemmy.world stuff
- Comment on Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers 3 weeks ago:
i took a month long hiatus and am probably gonna continue that pattern. the threadiverse has gone completely insane the last couple months and i worry about the people for whom this is their sole gateway into the fediverse, and what they think the consensus on what reality is. i’m mostly on mastodon at this point and have been just… talking to my neighbors more
- Comment on "English" 1 month ago:
took out some unnecessary letters, changed how to spell gray so everyone’s always confused about which is right. overall good stuff
- Comment on Risky Buisness 1 month ago:
Haliey Welch
- Comment on Triggered 1 month ago:
turkeys straight up fly, they’re not even semi flighted like chickens
- Comment on Lionsgate Marketing Consultant Built Movie Trailer Filled With AI Generated Fake Movie Reviews Of Old Films 2 months ago:
I think the issue is that this marketing consultant didn’t build anything. They just prompted an LLM to generate output
- Comment on Microsoft is building a data center in a tiny Indian village. Locals allege it’s dumping industrial waste. 2 months ago:
Microsoft is still who vetted and hired the contractor and who selected the location.
And yeah. Past CEOs of Microsoft have continued to be shitty. They’re who’s responsible for what’s going on. I just wanted to talk about the ways white knight philanthropy doesn’t help, it just perpetuates colonialism, and Bill Gates+Microsoft have always been in lock step in this regard.
The point is the true villain here is colonialism
- Comment on Microsoft is building a data center in a tiny Indian village. Locals allege it’s dumping industrial waste. 2 months ago:
So construction waste is a subcategory of industrial waste. Typical industrial waste includes toxic materials like excess cement, fiberglass, bits of plastic from wires and cables. But once the data center is in place, most likely the waste will be e-waste in nature. Think heavy metals, copper, and yet more plastic. And the thing is… This is why they’re putting this data center here. Disposing of this toxic waste will be cheaper because it’s less regulated. The long term cost of high tech industries like this to neo-colonialized communities like this is the communities themselves. It doesn’t matter to Microsoft they’re making the water undrinkable. They don’t have to live there.
And realize, too. Bill Gates’ philanthropic missions aren’t accidents. He may not run the show at Microsoft anymore but he still benefits greatly from their business. His philanthropic efforts aren’t about making the lives of people who are exploited better. They’re about maintaining that cheap form of labor just a little bit longer. And that may not be Bill Gates’ actual intention, but the fact of the matter is he’s a billionaire. He could make much larger changes in the world by not being a billionaire. He has power and influence to do things the rest of us can’t, but instead of treating the illness he treats the symptoms. His actions sustain the system he benefits from
- Comment on Chrome will block one of its biggest ad blockers 3 months ago:
The ad company blocking an ad blocker is totally about security
- Google stans
- Comment on Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit 3 months ago:
Hey good news. Turns out you can use bing and not get back Reddit results
- Comment on Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit 3 months ago:
They don’t care about traffic. They care about the existing barrel of data for the data models
- Comment on If you could change the ending of one movie, which one would it be, and how would you change it? 3 months ago:
I would change the end of Chinatown. It would no longer mention Chinatown. My goal is not to make the movie better. Just it infuriate people more
- Comment on What is Firefox supposed to do? 3 months ago:
It drains battery on fresh installs for me. I just don’t bother. I don’t really see the appeal of chrome tbh. Obviously I have to use it occasionally since google content locks shit and so do employers, but there’s like… No real reason I’d use it as a daily driver. For my use cases and hardware its just plain worse
- Comment on How did gravity worked on the Death Star? 3 months ago:
I hate that retcon. Let Han Solo be a sleazy piece of shit conman. Stop trying to make his lies real via retains. Don’t make him shoot in retaliation. In the original edit he has an arc. He goes from sleazy piece of shit to respected rebellion leader. Almost like he was a metaphor for how a lot of insurgents have backgrounds as pieces of shit. Now the cannon has him as a squeaky clean guy always doing the right thing even when sometimes he doesn’t realize he’s doing the right thing
- Comment on Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’ Gaming Staff Votes to Unionize 3 months ago:
I knew a dude who worked at Activision Blizzard and his description of his workplace sounded horrid. The weird part was his fawning bright eyed love for the office culture. He viewed it as a perfect dream workplace. I don’t even know it there’s a takeaway from all that. It just always struck me as notably odd
- Comment on Google's reCAPTCHAv2 is just labor exploitation, boffins say • The Register 3 months ago:
I eventually gave up and decided to see if they were being hostile to my network and privacy settings. Lo and behold, I was able to log in when I adjusted the strictness of my VPN. Fortunately the service I was trying to exchange currency for was a better VPN with more security and privacy, so I was willing to take the L on that one interactions
- Comment on Google's reCAPTCHAv2 is just labor exploitation, boffins say • The Register 3 months ago:
I spent a huge amount of time last night clicking on motorcycles because I absolutely could not convince PayPal or Google I was a legitimate human who wanted to exchange currency for goods and services
- Comment on What is Firefox supposed to do? 3 months ago:
Were having radically different experiences. Firefox consumes way less power than chrome on all my machines
- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios has unionized! 3 months ago:
The rest of us computer engineers should show solidarity by also unionizing. We’re stronger together
- Comment on Global IT outage: Airlines, businesses affected by CrowdStrike, Microsoft issues 3 months ago:
Most of who got hit though was people who contracted with crowd strike directly though. Its not like Microsoft pushed crowdstrike onto people.
- Comment on Global IT outage: Airlines, businesses affected by CrowdStrike, Microsoft issues 3 months ago:
I’ve seen a weird number of people blaming Microsoft for this today, and an American even weirder number of people making fun of people saying this isn’t on Microsoft
- Comment on EU says X’s paid-for blue check deceives users, breaks law • The Register 4 months ago:
“You’re hosting hate speech. We have laws that say you can’t do that and offer your service in our jurisdiction. Remove the hate speech or we’ll fine you”
“THIS IS AN ILLEGAL SEVRER DEAL”
- Comment on The President Ordered a Board to Probe a Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did. 4 months ago:
Its also a breakdown of America’s willingness to resist authoritarianism. Too many people would rather have a Russian authoritarian government because they’re scared of socialism because they’ve been primed to fear it. Ironically they’re turning to a soviet fascist to protect them from soviet socialism
- Comment on J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History” 4 months ago:
Yup! I was thinking basketball where once the shot clock no longer matters you stand at the top of the key dribbling and if anyone tries to steal it you pass to the corner
- Comment on J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History” 4 months ago:
I don’t understand this sports metaphor but that’s on me for chiming in on a British community discussion of a British celebrity that I do in fact no a little bit about. The good news is you can tell me its from basically any sport y’all like on the isles and I’ll be like “wow so fascinating”
- Comment on J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History” 4 months ago:
All she had to do was hold onto the ball and run out the clock
- Comment on Tough Trolly Choices 4 months ago:
The first one I encounter.
Did I do it? Or did I fundamentally misunderstand the question
- Comment on Objectivity 5 months ago:
How do we rewild academia? Like I feel like this sounds like me being a JAQ off, but like, actually. I want academia to be rewilded. I don’t know how to do that. I want to talk to someone about how to do that
- Comment on Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws 5 months ago:
PornHub is a monopoly. They own xnxx, redtube, xhamster, and several production companies such as brazzers. Their categorization system has also had some ranging impacts on actresses’ ability to get work after they turn 22. I highly recommend listening to The Butterfly Effect by Jon Ronson.
ALSO so we’re clear, I’m not a fan of this legislation because its dumb as fuck and doesn’t help anyone, least of all sex workers. When people lose easy access to porn it usually results in WORSE conditions for sex workers because suddenly there’s more demand in places without safety infrastructure.
- Comment on The disturbing online misogyny of Gamergate has returned – if it ever went away 5 months ago:
Bruv you are severely misremembering the movement that allowed the alt right to coalesce. No one is saying it’s bad to not buy products you don’t want to buy. We’re saying it’s seriously concerning the racism and sexist that attached itself to that movement has congealed into something permanent in our political climate
- Comment on The world's only coal-to-nuclear reactor plant just broke ground in Wyoming 5 months ago:
Wyoming is investing heavily in wind even with the understanding that current turbine designs ultimately cost money to repair and operate as opposed to being a solution that pays for itself. The conversion of a coal plant to nuclear is part of a long term strategy to reduce environmental impact. They’re taking a long view approach that solar and wind can’t in the short term do what they need it to do but that continued use of coal, at all, even just for the short term, is untenable. Meanwhile, Wyoming is ALSO investing in research on using nuclear byproducts to generate electricity. I have a lot of complaints about Wyoming and how chill they are with the alt-right but I have to commend them that their energy strategy for their state basically reflects what we all need to be doing