RIotingPacifist
@RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world
- Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year? 4 days ago:
What’s funny is the AI bubble has exposed how bullshit the economy is in general, like GDP is really just a measure of how fast money moves, which Nvidia, Microsoft & AI companies shovelling money through a circular economy counts as growth, even if they lose money doing it.
- Comment on Is it just me or does it seem Google is either AI filled or becoming obsolete? Is there an up and comer that can be what Google used to be? Or are we stuck oogling stuff forever? 4 days ago:
Google has been getting worse since before AI, it’s because it’s advantage stemmed from indexing the public web, but as the web turned into a half a dozen walled gardens it lost that edge.
It’s losing customers to AI so it’s trying to clone their features, pretty, but it’s been trying this with just regurgitating Wikipedia for a while.
I don’t know for sure but I suspect internally the incompetent middle management layer are pushing AI usage as a metric and forcing engineers to ruin their best product because management don’t know the value of Google (because they are by and large morons who use AI).
The AI usage can be avoided with other search engines but the walled garden problem is here to stay, on a closed Internet search is always going to suck.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Main problems with hosting your own mailserver:
- Spam protection is not as good as with hosted options because you just don’t have the same scale of data
- Mail deliverability issues - Generally once you have setup everything (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) on a dedicated IP that is not from a residential ISP, it stays working but sometimes you find out that say live.com/hotmail simply won’t accept your mail and there is nothing you can do.
I do it, it’s not a complicated setup, I don’t even know what mailserver I used whatever Debian recommended (exim or postfix) , dovecot for Server->Recpient. I am a little more paranoid about my server than I would be otherwise (outbound firewall, apparmor profiles for anything that is listening, monit to alert on high CPU usage (anti spam sometimes goes crazy), but not anything that is too much effort (e.g I haven’t gone full hog with SELINUX, etc)
- Comment on Gonna be straight forward, how is Donald Trump not considered a Global/Donestic Terrorist? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Gonna be straight forward, how is Donald Trump not considered a Global/Donestic Terrorist? 1 week ago:
But last president atleast were attacked or provoked by recognized threat
Not to defend Trump but that’s not true. US has been starting illegal wars of aggression for it’s entire existence.
The Iraq war was “justified” largely for the same reason the Iran war is being.
- Comment on Why is the US so into Israel? 5 weeks ago:
True, I don’t like the term globalist as it’s too often abused, but the fuckers profiting from these arms companies can live anywhere and don’t give fuck about either country beyod their ability to capture the governments and sell them weapons & tech.
There are stronger bonds between arms manufacturers regardless of nationality than those arms manufacturers and the people of the country the company is “based in”.
- Comment on Why is the US so into Israel? 5 weeks ago:
The US is a global arms manufacturer with a democracy attached, if there wasn’t an Israel to prop up the US would find something similar and arm it to the hilt.
The US Military Industrial Complex gets to remind everyone why it’s a superpower, it gets to make and sell it’s weapons, survialiance tech, etc, it keeps it’s opponents weak and desperate but armed such that there is always fear to keep selling the forever war (both to the US, but also ton Israelis (and to a lesser extent to Jewish people living elsewhere)), by political maneuvering it gets to police feespeach.
liberals/conservatives get to feel like they are not racist because they support a minority led country, who many don’t consider white in that context.
If it wasn’t Israel it could be a different proxy state in the middle East or maybe Africa/Asia.
IMO it has very little to do with Jewishness and a lot more to do with geopolitics, yes they use the Holocaust for propoganda 🤢, but they don’t give a fuck about Holocaust survivors. Also and this is small compared to committing genocide, but they’ve redefined the Holocaust to exclude all of the non-jewish victims which were historically included as recently as a decade ago in common usage of the term (e.g what I learnt in school, what was on Wikipedia, etc)
- Comment on Why is the US so into Israel? 5 weeks ago:
Highest Percentage by State:
- New York: ~8.5%–8.8%
- Washington D.C.: ~8.4%
- New Jersey: ~6.2%–6.3%
- Massachusetts: ~4.5%
New York, DC & Mass are hardly battleground states, and while I don’t know as much about New Jersey they haven’t voted for a Republican president since Bush Sr
- Comment on Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath? 5 weeks ago:
Why do you think emotions make you inferior?
That sounds like insane cult shit TBH
- Comment on Is there any way I can study Marxist theory in a way that wouldn't seem too boring or dry? 1 month ago:
For clarity MLism was reverse engineered by Stalin to justify the violent oppression of the working class, it spread to other regimes that wanted to justify the same, but Lenin didn’t have a lot to do with it.
- Comment on is my sister likely to be aroace? we think so but we would like a good starting point to help her on her journey. 1 month ago:
Aromantic+Asexual
- Comment on Is not how a state spends its funding and other money open for citizens of said state request it? If so how do they request it? 1 month ago:
So you mean the state budget?
It’s typically available, e.g ebudget.ca.gov/home
- Comment on How would society look like with no companies at all and every single thing is free? 1 month ago:
Anarchy (good)
- Comment on How would society look like with no companies at all and every single thing is free? 1 month ago:
We already overproduce everything that is necessary for daily life, food, housing, energy, clothes.
The problem with waiting for post-scarcity is it ignores that it’s a few assholes hording essential things especially housing that force us to work and earn those assholes more money and power, as long as that continues, increased production doesn’t matter as they’ll use the extra production to buy even more stuff we need to survive!
- Comment on Do we know how much apps would cost if we had to replace as revenue with subscription fees? 1 month ago:
I think $8 is premium lite which is just no ads.
- Comment on Do we know how much apps would cost if we had to replace as revenue with subscription fees? 1 month ago:
YouTube costs $8/month to not show ads.
- Comment on Do we know how much apps would cost if we had to replace as revenue with subscription fees? 1 month ago:
It’s hard to tell, because companies that make their money from ad revenue also spend a lot making their apps more addictive in order to sell you more ads.
You can tell that they are making less than whatever their premium costs though, so for example YouTube makes less than $8/month selling ads.
If people aren’t trying to sell you shit, and don’t have to make their website more addictive it’s relatively cheap to run, for example Wikipedia that has a pretty dynamic read/write load, get 11 billion unique devices a year on just the English site pageviews.wmcloud.org/siteviews/?platform=all-sit… which is about half of the page views: pewresearch.org/…/wikipedia-at-25-what-the-data-t… but spends ~$180m/year across all languages, so it costs about 1c a year/unique device if I’m doing my math right.
Obviously some service like YouTube will cost more because it uses more bandwidth and Gmail will cost more because each user is served individual emails and spam filtering has always been CPU intensive, but the hardware costs are fairly minimal anyway (most of the cost is on staff), so if it wasn’t for the ads Google would have less staff and hosting their services would be much cheaper, maybe not 1c/year but almost certainly less than $1
Obviously Lemmy instances are currently much smaller than reddit, but I’d bet by unique user count Lemmy instances are likely running far more effectively than reddit and likely in the sub dollar category.
On the flip side if you want to make something a subscription only service you need to spend a bunch of money processing payments and subscriptions, probably more than the actual hosting costs.
- Comment on can i still consider myself to be a valid asexual? 1 month ago:
There’s no queer police coming to dictate who isn’t valid.
Fuck/don’t fuck whoever you want, you’ll always be valid.
#NoQueerCopsAtPride
- Comment on Has society or scientists ever solved definitively the Chicken and the Egg theory? Or is it just like a whose on first thing? 1 month ago:
The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated form of the red junglefowl (Gallus gallus), originally native to Southeast Asia. It was first domesticated around 8,000 years ago and is one of the most common and widespread domesticated animals in the world. Chickens are primarily kept for their meat and eggs, though they are also kept as pets.[1]
The red junglefowl (Gallus gallus), also known as the Indian red junglefowl (and formerly the bankiva or bankiva-fowl), is a species of tropical, galliform bird in the phasianid family, found across much of Southeast and parts of South Asia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_junglefowl
A species (pl. species) is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. It can be defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
- Comment on Has society or scientists ever solved definitively the Chicken and the Egg theory? Or is it just like a whose on first thing? 1 month ago:
Not really there is a well defined line that defines what is/isn’t a chicken, that’s really the only thing needed for this question.
The issue is the term proto-chicken isn’t well defined.
But for it to be considered a different species it would have to not be able to reproduce with a modern chicken (which doesn’t mean it can’t reproduce with early chickens).
- Comment on Has society or scientists ever solved definitively the Chicken and the Egg theory? Or is it just like a whose on first thing? 1 month ago:
Nope.
There will be an exact egg that contains the first chicken (defined as an animal that can fuck other chickens and produce offspring IIRC), that came before the first chicken because the chicken was in the egg.
- Comment on Why does this sub require a URL? 1 month ago:
This is in fact a stupid question, click discussion!
- Comment on William Shatner And ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Actors React To News Of Series Ending 2 months ago:
Its weird Everytime i go back to reddit it pushes more and more hateful subs on me I think they just keep adding underscores or something.
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 2 months ago:
Redditor going full reddit over a law that they haven’t read and a pull request they barely understand.
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 2 months ago:
the users and maintainers of Linux itself, the systems that make up Linux, and even the maintainers and contributors to many Linux distros, who are real human people and not faceless corporations, think following unjustified laws is unjustified
They do? Sorry but this law is a nothing burger I don’t think I’ve seen any serious contributors to serious distros say anything about it that matches the tone of Reddit/Lemmy posts or single maintainer distros.
Hell the systemd fork being slop by someone who didn’t understand the existing systemd ratelimiting really excemplified how reddit the whole circus is.
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 2 months ago:
The AI was the slopfork written by one of the hyperventilating redditors.
You pretty right except the California law that the systemd change was in response to doesn’t do verification it just returns whatever age bracket is stored.
- Comment on How are criminals apprehended by vigilantes able to go to prison? 2 months ago:
Citizens arrest is a common concept: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen's_arrest
- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 2 months ago:
I’m fine without criminal charges but someone should have to convince a jury of my peers that there is corruption and not just political differences at play
- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 2 months ago:
True, if we repeal Citizens United, then the worst recalls go away.
But the bar should still be much higher than it is in CA, Oakland just had its mayor & DA recalled over fear of crime, while violent crime was declining rapidly and before any of their policies could have an impact anyway (recall efforts were started on Day 1), I don’t think I’ll ever be convinced recalls are a good idea unless a grand jury can be convinced of meaningful corruption.
- Comment on Is there a reason that all elected (not appointed) officials shouldn't be subject to a recall vote? 2 months ago:
People don’t like politicians, billionaires can pay people to stand around in street corners and get schoolboard representatives recalled, even if it fails that that’s a ton of money the union now has to spend defending a person that was democratically elected just months ago.