nickwitha_k
@nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Is it weird to show your son how to shave his pubes if he asked? 1 day ago:
I would say that I think it’s weird because I think shaved pubes are weird (and experienced horrific razor burn when I tried it back in college).
Sounds like you are a fucking rockstar dad though. That’s a very vulnerable thing to think about asking your parent for a teenage boy. Lots of self-consciousness and trying to figure oneself out. That he felt comfortable asking you says a lot. That you stepped up to ensure that he knew how to do so safely says a lot too.
- Comment on Project Diva 1 day ago:
I had to look it up a few months back. But then I remembered that there was this whole big thing that I thought was uninteresting and forgot about.
- Comment on Project Diva 1 day ago:
Thank you for your diligence.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 3 days ago:
Cat in the Hat. Kid’s got a while life ahead of them to get depressed about the vile things humans have done (and still do) to each other. Let the kid have a few months of happiness.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 3 days ago:
Cat in the Hat. Kid’s got a while life ahead of them to get depressed about the vile things humans have done (and still do) to each other. Let the kid have a few months of happiness.
- Comment on Anon is a survivor 3 days ago:
That’s also what I read from that.
- Comment on Subnautica's Original Creators Have Been Removed From Unknown Worlds "Effective Immediately", As Krafton Makes Concerning Leadership Changes 1 week ago:
Just hope it isn’t The Neptune Protocol.
- Comment on cooking question 1 week ago:
Exactly what I said. But you missed the bit about Virginia-Perique blends.
- Comment on cooking question 1 week ago:
Not a good idea. Such a broth can be used as a pesticide but it’s also dangerous to humans and animals. Nicotine also absorbs through the skin so, anyone trying this (which I can’t recommend but for it’s dangers and general lack of need for pesticides in home gardens) should be extremely careful and use all PPE (durable waterproof gloves, goggles, long sleeves, trousers, and waterproof footwear, as well as respirator if there’s any chance of aerosolizing) when applying. Seriously. While it has been used historically by home gardeners, the toxicity is no joke.
And, always remember: Proper PPE is sexy.
- Comment on Welcome to Silicon Valley. People here believe parking is more important than housing 2 weeks ago:
Assumed it was either there or Palo Alto.
- Comment on Owners of laptops with very cheap aftermarket batteries, is it worth the discount? 2 weeks ago:
Ah! That’s unfortunate. If adventurous, maybe hunt down a used battery that partially charges and swap sells?
- Comment on Owners of laptops with very cheap aftermarket batteries, is it worth the discount? 2 weeks ago:
What sort of batteries does it use? If it’s just Li-Ion cells like 18650s, it should be fairly easy to DIY. If it’s a proprietary Li-Poly, probably going to be more problematic.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 weeks ago:
In your statement, you provided much more self-awareness and abstract thought than an LLM, by its nature, is capable of. They are not intelligent.
I don’t disagree that what’s going on in our meat computers (simplification) isn’t terribly special, in the grand scheme of things. And, there’s little reason that similar processes and results can’t be realized in other media. But, LLMs, by themselves, will never be capable of it because of their innate characteristics. Brains have numerous specialized structures that are networked together, so, probably the best bet would be building systems that can fullfill similar functions, and connect them.
- Comment on yeey 2 weeks ago:
What’s a little heavy metal poisoning between friends?
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 2 weeks ago:
Oof! Hey, at least on the bright side it would be an extended repose.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 2 weeks ago:
First thing? Honestly, probably curl into the fetal position and start bawling for a while as I fully relax for the first time since circa 2007.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 2 weeks ago:
BBS’s
You can still do that, if you want.
- SDF (shameless plug) is still around
- Tildeverse, a loose association of pubnixes exists
- Gopher and Gemini (a protocol inspired by Gopher) have had some minor resurgence.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
As someone else stated, they are indeed worse than people say. The has been massive consolidation in the industry, to the point where nearly every app is owned by the same company. And that company has been caught, multiple times, catfishing their own users with bots that then ghost them.
The company is pure Chicago School economics; they don’t care about their users or product, just extracting money from people. Generally, this is men (though not always) as the culture cultivated in the apps is pretty shallow and messed up.
Overall, it’s a much better time to engage in some sort of social hobby of the like. Success rate will likely be higher and the experience less depressing.
- Comment on *tap tap tap* 3 weeks ago:
All woodpeckers are just really good at functioning with chronic brain damage.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 3 weeks ago:
That’s some eco-fascism-adjacent thinking, at best. You’re using your negative opinion of humanity to justify mass murder.
- Comment on Tips off the cops 3 weeks ago:
I recommend Kinoite, if you’re doing anything graphical. Gnome support for DRM leases hasn’t been great. Saying that really does pain me as I still think that Gnome 2.x is my favorite DE that I’ve used.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 3 weeks ago:
King Charles doesn’t have this power in a constitutional monarchy.
He does have the power to dissolve parliament, immense wealth, as well as physical and financial security not enjoyed by the general population. And this is granted not by merit nor democracy but, because his ancestors had the resources to kill anyone who thought that they weren’t granted the right to rule over everyone by their god. And his uncle was even a big fan of Hitler, which was covered up for decades.
Monarchies of any sort are fundamentally unjust power structures that are relics of a bygone era with no business existing in modern times.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 3 weeks ago:
Americans don’t understand what a King is, or how monarchy fits into a modern democracy.
It doesn’t. That’s why. Being the descendent of those who had power to kill anyone who disagreed with their claim of “divine right” and getting a special title for it is directly opposed to democracy.
- Comment on Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for making AI ripoffs of their biggest characters 4 weeks ago:
Midjourney makes money selling access to their model. Midjourney’s model, like those of OpenAI, has no value without the training data. In fact, the model is a derivative work of all of the works that it was trained on. The training data was obtained without license to resell or create derivative works.
While I hate how much the Mouse has screwed with IP law and prevented productive reforms, I hope they refuse to settle and get a judgement that bankrupts Midjourney and establishes the precedent that AI companies have to follow the law and make licensing agreements with any creator’s works that will be used. Can’t exist as a company if that happens? Boo-fucking-hoo. It’s not society’s job to subsidize the wealthy’s desire to run a business model that depends on violating the law and causing financial harm to artists.
- Comment on Nuclear family 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 4 weeks ago:
When playing Forbidden West, I pretty quickly concluded that Faro was based on him. And the Zeniths were very much Bezos and friends.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 4 weeks ago:
I get it but didn’t “get it”. I suppose I tend to think in terms of small groups rather than manipulating rubes that have been keeping in a state of perpetual outrage through decades of right-wing talk radio and TV, and are so desperate to be told what to do that P. T. Barnham would say “Hey now, that crosses a line.”
I’d still suggest that it might be less charisma and more an audience so primed that they’re near auto-ignition being subjected to a Hitler-fanboy who picked up a few things from professional wrestling.
Then again, I also don’t “get” celebrity worship and numerous other NT things.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 5 weeks ago:
He’s also had a lot of help due to being born with an emerald spoon in his mouth.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s being neurodivergent but I have never understood his “charisma”. He’s always been a vile, crass, babbling, moron whose only “secret” to deal making had been finding rubes that didn’t think his lifetime of theft of service, as well as just plain theft (that for was never prosecuted as it should have been because white collar crime) magically wouldn’t apply to them.
- Comment on If we replace most plastic with a non plastic alternative and would that really be better? 5 weeks ago:
Exactly. The actual cost of durable goods tend to be pretty consistent, when corrected for inflation. It’s just that wages are so terrible compared to what they should be, if they were not completely divorced from the value created by labor.
