RIotingPacifist
@RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 days ago:
My point is that in November he will try shenanigans and people will need to take to the streets to enforce the results of the election.
If he failed to steel the elections in November his days will be numbered.
The outcome of the elections is less important than the willingness of people to defend them, when he sends in the FBI to steel uncounted ballotboxes in purple districts.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 days ago:
In November he’s going to try and steel the election, if we effective block that, his days are numbered, so get organized locally.
Sorry lone wolves, you had your shot and and all your incoherent takes achieved was a poll boost for him. L
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
How it is now but a little better.
Some stuff boosters claim it can do will actually be doable (it might actually be able to write decentish code for example, which TBH is just taking what it does now and wrapping it in some basic checks to make sure the code works and they aren’t hallucinating shit).
It’ll be widely adopted in its accountability dodging function
oh oops we bombed a school full of girls, it’s not our fault AI told us to)
oh we burned the company to the ground by firing the people who actually for work done, AI’s fault
Etc
But I don’t know how widely it’ll be used if users start paying the actual costs instead of all the AI companies being subsidized by investors losing money.
- Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie? 6 days ago:
How do you define hiding information?
If you constantly hide the fact you hate your boss from him, does that count because that’d be a problem in most jobs.
- Comment on Would it be possible to have a successful career as a lawyer and never lie? 1 week ago:
Define lie.
- Comment on My mom really love NBC Good News tonight. How come there isn't a show where they report on the good news of the day instead of all the bad crap all the time? 1 week ago:
The good news shows are the morning shows at the weekend but they also end up basically being ads for small businesses that have an in with the producers.
There are a couple of decent YouTube good news shows I think though
- Comment on How to find a fan that blows 90° from intake? 1 week ago:
Are they worth it vs just redirecting the input/output?
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 1 week ago:
we could also see in the future more cars that can swap their battery in charging stations.
I know they have been demoing this tech in China, but if you have at home charging a major advantage of electric vehicles is that you don’t need worry about refuling during normal usage. So I think battery-swap technology is going to be limited to long distance trips (which are kind of only a major thing in the US & China due to the way both isolate their workers from their homes to prevent them from organizing).
I was going to say if people are comfortable renting the battery in their car, they might as well be comfortable renting a space in a larger vehicle such as a train, but I think Americans do regularly rent their cars (or at least only pay interest on the loans they take out to purchase the cars), so maybe it’s not so crazy, but I personally wouldn’t let anyone swap the battery in the phone or laptop for one that is likely less well taken care of.
electrified highways would be amazing.
We already have those: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_electrification
Tyres are a major source of microplastics that doesn’t stop when they go electric: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5664766/
Electric scooters with swappable batteries work super well in urban areas.
This sounds cool though
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 2 weeks ago:
Luigi that ain’t a hwithe name!
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 2 weeks ago:
Cops seem to be OJing it, getting plenty of publicly available evidence tossed because they fucked up processing it
- Comment on Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black? 3 weeks ago:
Paints absorb light really Red paint should be -#00FFFF so under white light the light becomes FFFFFF-00FFFF -> FF0000
Of course under blue light (0000FF) it becomes 000000
If you mix paints you end up with -FFFFFF which turns any light into 000000.
Basically consider paint a transformation when it comes to light rather than a source
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This is sort of how putting hits on people actually works or has in certain scenes.
You don’t sign a contract or put out a bounty (unless you’re the state, that’s illegal), you just let everyone know that you’d hypothetically pay whomever killed the person you want offing.
As a bonus you can then say you were just joking (ofc that risks you being offed too)
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 1 month ago:
Civil wars require 2 sides capable of taking power.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 1 month ago:
People forget that labor unions were a major factor in Tiananmen Square, US labor unions are not a credible threat to take over so don’t need to be put down as brutally.
- Comment on What would you do if you knew your neighbor was an ICE/DHS agent? 1 month ago:
I’m not going to directly confront them, but I would be sharing his movements & address as widely as I’m legally allowed to.
- Comment on What do you think is the opposite of Kiwifarms? 1 month ago:
if people can’t say “fuck” or “lick the outlet” anymore.
People can say fuck though, I’m not sure where the idea that the Internet is politically correct now just because we outgrew SomethingAwful & 4chan (both sites that still exist).
show the code or go fuck yourself
Except that’s not really true, you can look at the Linux kernel for example multiple out of tree forks existed for years because of personal beefs not coding skills (it doesn’t matter how good your tail-packing filesystem or scheduler is, if you’re an asshole it won’t get merged).
- Comment on What do you think is the opposite of Kiwifarms? 1 month ago:
beautiful place where engineers and geeks lived in harmony.
The peaceful bliss of usenet forums & the nice decorum of mailing lists, lol. The mythical peaceful Internet has never existed.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You can’t leave me hanging, what subculture?
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 1 month ago:
THIS, organize for things you can change.
And so some pointless but fun things too, I bike marshal at PSL/lib rallies, not really going to change anything but it is fun to do.
- Comment on With what's happening in Gaza, what can we as socialists (and non-socialists) do to fix Gaza? 1 month ago:
Effect change in your country, start local!
- Comment on With what's happening in Gaza, what can we as socialists (and non-socialists) do to fix Gaza? 1 month ago:
Nah bro, if we chant “one solution, revolution one more time we’ll totally stop the genocide”
- Comment on At what point do you consider a person an alcoholic? 1 month ago:
Anyone who drinks more than me, everyone who drinks less than me is a lightweight though!
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 1 month ago:
What value would it add to the game?
- LLMs are computationally expensive
- Replacing voice actors with AI means making dialogue worse
- Replacing writers with AI means making the story worse
At the end of the day AI is mostly a marketing term for LLMs and LLMs just aren’t that useful in most games, they just average out a dataset to autocomplete a response, that autocompletion is worse than what a human would have written.
We saw with procedurally generated worlds that it takes a lot of effort to prune what is generated to make the game interesting.
There are particular subgenres of games and applications where LLMs might be useful though.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 month ago:
I don’t know, can you repeat the question?
- Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident? 1 month ago:
guildofletting.com/…/the-implied-covenant-for-qui…
The landlord’s duty to adhere to quiet enjoyment means the landlord must:-
- Ensure the tenant’s actual possession of the property is not interfered with by the landlord or the landlord’s agent
- Prevent any interference with the tenant’s enjoyment of the property. Interference may arise because of an omission or failure to act.
The right is usually used to protect against harassment from landlord, but it extends much further.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 month ago:
Honestly I don’t think they have, what they have online is more time, while the rest of us are out supporting our neighbors or trying to have a meaningful impact on the state of the world, they’re busy glazing Al-Sharaa.
But even on Lemmy their takes are unpopular, they’re just visible because we don’t filter them, and they get an initial boost because we (normies) are busy living life, while they are busy on their discords (🤔 weird how they use the same tools as right wingers to “organize”) telling eachother where to post their way to the “revolution”.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 month ago:
If non ML instances introduced a feature to hide all comments below -3 by default, the tankies would disappear faster than Khamenei disappears protestors.
I’m all for free speech but if we want Lemmy to achieve widespread usage we need to make the cranks less prominent.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 1 month ago:
You’d be surprised how many people simp for authoritarian regimes for free because they think sucking off
AsadKhamenei is sticking it to the man <insert ML bullshit about imperialism here> - Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident? 1 month ago:
That’s the law in pretty much anywhere that derived their tenancy agreements from English law.
Sadly it is not common practice anywhere as you’re landlord violating your lease in such a way, it is difficult to get anything done about it, because ultimately you still need somewhere to live and getting out of your contract isn’t a win, in the way that your landlord getting out of his and rendering you homeless if you don’t agree to his terms is.
I can’t even imagine how that would scale in a modern apartment.
You can’t imagine, the guy taking 1/2 your paycheck having to actually earn that money?
- Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident? 1 month ago:
In what part of the world?
Anywhere where housing law is derived from English law, so pretty much anywhere that’s English speaking.
it would be unreasonable for a landlord to provide that
For 1/2 my paycheck, dealing with noise complaints is pretty reasonable.