cecilkorik

@cecilkorik@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No, because it’s not a competition. There is more than enough to go around, except for the people at the top rationing it out and keeping 99.999999% of it for themselves. That’s why it’s a hard world.

  Being selfish is not the solution, emulating the people who are being successful by being selfish is not the answer. Stop fighting over the crumbs the successful leave for us after they’ve eaten all the pie and thinking you will eventually collect a whole pie if you are just selfish enough. It’s a myth, it’s not realistic. They didn’t put their pies together out of crumbs. They baked it the oven they made us build for them.

  Don’t fight against your fellow crumb-gatherers. We live in one of the wealthiest and most prosperous times that humanity has ever existed in. We simply need to start acting like it. If austerity were actually necessary, we certainly wouldn’t be able to afford having billionaires and trillionaires either. It’s a lie, and people are getting insanely rich because people keep believing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean by “entire” distro? The distro itself doesn’t download the “entire distro”, it’s made up of packages, like almost every distro is. You’re only installing the base system, the packages are where the rest of the downloads come from. What “parts” of the distro’s base system don’t you want? The dockers are already pretty stripped down and minimalist by default, I’m not sure what else you could cut out to still have a functioning OS?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hooray! Fewer people on twitter is a good thing for all of humanity. I hope all of them get locked out of their accounts for inauthentic behavior, and they keep instituting even more extreme hurdles for people to come back until eventually nobody does. Kill the platforms. Kill them with fire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why does crossing legs increase blood pressure?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The pressure in your arm is not unrelated to or disconnected from the pressure in your legs. They are directly correlated. If the pressure in your legs goes up, so will the pressure in your arm, it’s the same system. The pressure in the entire system is what the arm measurement is supposed to show, that’s why they’re taking it. They usually don’t care about your arm specifically, they are trying to understand the whole system, including the pressure in your legs, which will be reflected in that same arm measurement. That’s the whole point, otherwise it wouldn’t be a good measurement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A proprietary Linux distro⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If they make modifications to GPL programs, they must publish those modifications. But if they don’t modify the actual programs, there is nothing they have to publish, they can just point to the official source code and say “that’s the code we’re using”, it’s published.

  The key thing to understand here is that an OS is not a modification to a GPL program, it is simply a collection of them. While there are enough of them that you can create an entire OS out of entirely GPL components… importantly, you don’t HAVE to, nothing in the GPL says they are only allowed to exist alongside other GPL software and components, otherwise you couldn’t use them on Windows for example. When you’re making an OS, any component you don’t want to use GPL code for, you just don’t use a GPL component for it, you write your own that does the same thing and fills the same role for your OS. As long as they are doing that from scratch, not by modifying the GPL original, they can have as many proprietary programs in their OS too if they want, even required parts.

  The proprietary components might be required for their OS to function, thus making the whole OS proprietary, but it can still be mostly GPL code, as long as they haven’t modified the GPL parts and have written the proprietary parts from scratch or with appropriately licensed libraries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you avoid AI music?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Piracy. Private trackers are genuinely better stewards and curators of their libraries because unlike the the slop factories, they’re made by real humans, for real humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I went to a mechanic for my car and told them I had a problem with the aft starboard tire would they think I'm a dork?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that would be a strange thing to say, and unless they also happen to be boaters, most mechanics probably have no idea what side “starboard” is, and maybe not even “aft”, so it won’t even be useful information to them, which actually makes it quite frustrating. Similar to someone coming in with a vague and incomprehensible complaint that there car is making “a noise” and they want it fixed, but they can’t explain in any useful way what the noise is, where it’s coming from, when it happens.

  Just to be clear, the correct and accepted terminology options are “rear passenger side”, or “right rear”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to select specific frequency bands on common Android smartphones (something with custom ROM support) besides giving root access to closed-source app like NSG?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Librem 5. It’s alright, for what it is. I don’t need a lot from a “phone”, I hate them in general and try to minimize my use to the extent reasonably possible in this bizarro-land dystopia we live in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to select specific frequency bands on common Android smartphones (something with custom ROM support) besides giving root access to closed-source app like NSG?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know there still were android phones with custom ROM support but from what I understand the radio chip is a totally separate chip that is essentially a black box even in AOSP. I am far from an expert though, and I gave up on Android and all its related proprietary lockdown garbage a long time ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are all of the Bananas and Oranges in FL from California?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because we’ve been lied to and the whole food supply chain is rigged for a variety of complex and intertwined political reasons that make no sense and never did but served political purposes at various times. It’s all fucked up, and that’s on purpose, and that’s the way they like it and as a reward for looking the other way, we get all the fresh fruits and vegetables we want at any time of year and if we have to tariff or bomb a few countries to make sure that happens then by god you’d better believe we will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for Playtesters - We're Building a Fast-Paced Pixel Strategy RPG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck! Seems pretty solid otherwise and I hope you guys get the attention you deserve!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for Playtesters - We're Building a Fast-Paced Pixel Strategy RPG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks interesting, wishlisted, but some feedback (although I’m not sure the Youtube compression algorithm is doing you any favours) is that the pixel art looks a bit badly scaled and muddied at times, it looks somewhat better in the static screenshots, you may want to look at what scaling filter you’re using though because when I hear “pixel art” in a game I’m expecting some pretty crispy sprites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So they’ve been working together and planning all this shit for at least 20 years, you think? *idly sharpens guillotine*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I very much doubt this will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back and causes us to rebel against the system and tear down these structures of oppression that benefit business and capital at the expense of people and humanity. But it could be, and that excites me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did AI 2027 predict US government restricting access to a very advanced ai?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are really only two options here. Either this is:

  • Late-stage capitalism grift, or
  • Genuine approach to technological singularity

  If I was interested in betting on it, and since we live in late-stage capitalism we pretty much have to be interested in betting to survive, then I would place all my bets on late-stage capitalism grift.

  If it’s the former, then it’s just a thousand monkeys on typewriters hiding inside a gorilla suit and reading the best one and who really fucking cares what “future” these assholes are trying to sell to us. Don’t buy it.

  If it’s the latter, then all bets are off, nobody can predict what happens after singularity is reached, it’s literally unknowable, and if this is indeed the pull of technological singularity that we are feeling, then I think we are either too close and have too much momentum and too little thrust to escape now, or we are already past the event horizon anyway. Humanity as we know it is over.

  I’m 99.9995% sure it’s capitalism grift though. Just watch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I think it will grow organically, and often in bursts when Reddit does something particularly publicly stupid or frustrating. We’ve seen this before, we’ll see it again. I don’t know if we’ll ever see a mass exodus. I don’t know if this will ever “replace” Reddit per se. Obviously it has for me, but on a whole, I think it will continue to be a niche community, and I’m fine with that. There are good people here, my kind of people, and I like it for what it is, not for what it could become. I really don’t need the tiktok-memelord-masses and the teenagers and the onlyfans trolls in my life. I think they’ll find their own places to congregate and feed off each other, and I don’t think it will ever be here, no matter how shitty reddit and tiktok and whatever other dumb apps they use become.

  I don’t want the Fediverse to be massively exclusive but it doesn’t need to be massively inclusive either. Its nature means it can be inclusive, and I welcome any community who really feels like they belong here. But I’m realistic about who is actually going to feel included here, and I don’t think we need to go out of our way to “attract” more users, we just need to do enough that the people who want this sort of thing, can find it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does the word data mean per se ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to start by understanding that for mobile phone companies, they are using an extremely specific and industry-focused definition of “data” that relates ONLY to the way mobile phone networks are implemented and billed.

  If you are trying to understand it purely from any sort of more general, widespread definition of “data” which is what most people seem to be describing below, there are way too many steps and details between that and what the mobile phone company calls “data” for you to wrap your head around in a single question.

  So I’m going to tell you what data means to a mobile phone company:

  It means ANY internet traffic you use (upload or download) on your phone (or if you are sharing your phone as a hotspot, any used by the hotspot) AS LONG AS none of the following are true:

  • That internet data is not for the purposes of sending and receiving phone calls to your carrier-assigned phone number across the carrier’s own telephony network (ie, it is a “regular” phone call, you have no control over how the carrier routes its voice calls but even if they do route it across the internet, typically you will not be charged data for this)
  • It is not a SMS text message, and
  • You are not on WiFi at the time (the WiFi goes through somebody else’s physical internet connection where the WiFi is connected to, not your phone’s).

  There are exceptions and edge cases, but as a general rule, that’s what a mobile phone company will consider “data”. Anything you upload or download or stream on the internet almost always qualifies, unless you’re on a WiFi connection like at home or work, assuming you have that WiFi connection enabled. Youtube is data. Netflix is data. Emails are data. Phone calls can be data, if you’re using an “app” like WhatsApp or FaceTime or VOIP or any sort of video-calling feature.

  It is measured in millions (mega) or billions (giga) of bytes. Text and static images, like wikipedia and many other webpages are, use negligible and almost irrelevant amounts of data. Apps, app and OS updates, streaming audio and especially downloading or even just playing games and video content (movies, TV shows, video calls) use very significant amounts of data and can quickly use up the quota in hours depending on the quality settings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On an emergency power supply with AC and DC electrical plugs, which do I use to charge or power appliances?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Changing power types is inefficient.

  Batteries (which is what your emergency power supply uses) and solar panels are DC. They will be most efficient powering other DC devices directly.

  Rotating generators (powered by engines, turbines, wind, anything that creates movement through motion pretty much) are AC. They will be most efficient at powering AC devices directly.

  As soon as you’re changing DC into AC, or AC into DC, you’re losing power (usually a quite significant amount) in the conversion process. DC->AC requires an inverter. DC->AC requires a rectifier. Both are inefficient.

  The direct answer to your question is that your DC power bank will be most efficient powering DC devices, and less efficient powering AC devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any such thing as "edutainment" shows for adults?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically almost everything is educational in some way, if you’re willing to engage with it in the right way. Like you said, period dramas and historical dramas are often a great way of learning about (some aspects of) history. The problem is you need to be able to sort out the fictional elements from the non-fictional elements and without at least a little bit of background that becomes challenging. Some methods that might be useful is cross-referencing by watching multiple shows about the same topic from different sources. If both shows include the same element, there’s a good chance it’s based on some real historical evidence. But you also have to understand that evidence is not proof, and there’s a lot of disagreement in science and understanding, and that’s good and natural. Not everything is going to match up exactly. You have to do your own research and actually study real sources and do your own experiments. This is why edutainment starts to become of limited value.

  The problem with growing up is that you’re getting to a higher level of education and understanding, and that comes with caveats. No longer can you just rely on simplistic expositions of “this is absolutely how it works” and you start to get into a lot of “seems” and “maybes”. There’s a lot of stuff we just don’t know with absolute confidence and as we have learned from the historical documentary Star Wars, only a Sith deals in absolutes.

  Most things at the adult level are not explicitly going to teach you things (because they effectively can’t) as much as they are going to motivate you to research further, experiment yourself, or become interested in things you might not otherwise find interesting.

  With that said, there is tons of educational and entertaining content out there. Sometimes stuff that seems stupid is actually very educational. Sometimes stuff that seems boring and educational can be entertaining as hell. If you want a bunch of Youtube channels to help point your recommendation algorithm in the right direction, try some of these channels (in no particular order or topic consistency):

  • Hydraulic Press Channel
  • Technology Connections / Technology Connextras
  • Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t
  • styropyro
  • NileRed / NileBlue
  • Xyla Foxlin
  • Chris Spargo
  • Wilson Forest Lands
  • James Condon
  • FarmCraft101
  • Tom Scott

  Honorable mention for bugfishhhh’s insane and comedic hour-long video on the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England which came out of nowhere but I’m here for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do people really "need" friends?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A romantic partner is ideally also a friend. They can often handle both, but they’re just one friend and that’s putting a lot of weight on their shoulders. And things in life change. What happens if your romantic partner gets seriously ill and you can’t confide in them anymore? What if the romantic partner is the person you’re having issues with and you need an outside point of view? Not everything is so minimalist in real life. Good luck trying to keep it minimalist like you’re proposing, but life often has other ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delivery robots are spreading across LA. Residents ‘both pity and hate them’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe give people the UBI before the jobs go away and they become homeless? Just a thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI is so smart, how come it doesn't track the time and date?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not “smart” it’s a “convincing text generator”. It’s very good at being convincing, like making you think it is smart. But it doesn’t know anything, it doesn’t understand anything, it is a parrot repeating what other people on the internet have said in similar situations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, has age verification really become the new normal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t age verified anything and I don’t plan to. It’s only normal when you normalize it. If something will no longer allow me access without verifying my age, I will either find a way around it or I will no longer use that thing. If Youtube is not going to let me watch age restricted videos, so what? I will not watch age restricted videos on Youtube. I will instead use an addon to find them on odysee or peertube instead if possible, or I’ll just live my life accepting that video probably wasn’t one I really needed that contained the only key to living a happy life. It’s not that important, certainly not important enough to verify my age to the surveillance police.

  If they try to make me age verify my home internet connection, well then I’m gonna have to get real creative, sure, but rest assured I will (with the help of the rest of the privacy-oriented community) find ways to obfuscate the fuck out of all traffic in and out of my network so thoroughly it won’t even matter if they know who owns my internet connection because it won’t even be relevant anymore. VPN everything. Become an open relay. Join the I2P project. Embrace mesh networking. Fuck them, they can’t stop us all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like an opportunity to find it yourself and then be the first to upload it, right when a whole bunch of other people are about to suddenly decide they need it too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I pretend to care about the lives in Gaza and Palestine?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You sound kind of like a psychopath. I don’t mean that as an insult, but since it’s something that can significantly affect your life, maybe you should talk to a doctor or something about your feelings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One is fiction, the other is reality. I understand why, these days, it may be difficult to distinguish the two, but I can assure you that FNAF is fiction, and the AI bubble is reality, and underneath all the slop and the fiction and the scams there is still in fact an objective reality that still exists and will eventually outlast them all, FNAF and AI bubbles alike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Experience with Drauger OS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure Debian’s default desktop environment out of the box is Gnome, but like any decent distro you can usually either get it preinstalled with different environments, choose it during installation (I think it’s part of tasksel on Debian) or changing the desktop environment should not be much harder than installing the appropriate package or metapackage, typically on Debian this is something like task-kde-desktop but there are more details for KDE specifically here. PikaOS likewise has a KDE installer image.

  I think guides are even better on Debian personally but YMMV. I understand the attraction of having a good ecosystem for stuff like that, and Debian is itself very popular, maybe not quite Ubuntu level, but being the upstream for almost every apt/deb based distro means that there is usually pretty good compatibility between guides for different flavors and often the Debian one is where things get started and you can often use Debian guides directly on Ubuntu or PikaOS with no issues and no modifications needed. Occasionally you might need to tweak some package names or paths slightly, apt-cache search <name> or dpkg -l <package> can often help a lot with any inconsistencies you might encounter.

  The reverse is often also possible: I know I have probably used Ubuntu guides directly on Debian in the past, although I can’t remember the last time I actually did that, because the Debian-specific guide is usually what the Ubuntu ones are actually based on and I can’t remember finding a Ubuntu guide where I couldn’t also find something corresponding for Debian. Sometimes I do kind of look at them both and try to understand if they’re doing certain things differently for some particular reason and that helps me understand if there might be version or library issues that might be something to keep an eye on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Experience with Drauger OS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  PikaOS is gaming Debian, and Debian is just pre-Ubuntu-Ubuntu without the Ubuntu-shittiness that Ubuntu adds.

  If you like apt and dpkg and deb package management, that’s all Debian’s work, not Ubuntu, and I don’t see why you wouldn’t be just as happy with Debian. If you like snap… well, then, there’s something wrong with you and I don’t know how to help you. :P

  Debian is the base for a huge number of distributions (including Ubuntu itself) for good reason. PikaOS is built on that good foundation. I’m running PikaOS with KDE on basically all my (modern-ish) machines, and I would happily recommend it to anybody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for input/feedback on what work would look like in solarpunk settings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would expect it looks a lot like what good teachers and librarians and other genuinely useful and intelligent people of culture do, right now, every day. They teach and educate, yes, even when the curriculum is crappy, and they care, and they help and support and defend and they do their best with what they have, they do a huge amount of largely thankless and currently unappreciated and minimized and relentlessly attacked work, not for the money or the recognition, but because it’s the right thing to do and it benefits society and our future.

  That’s real work and real progress. That’s not about benefiting private equity and the stock market and making numbers go up. That’s about improving the world we live in and improving the lives of the people in it for their entire lives, sustainably, on and on to the next generation and the next. That’s pretty solarpunk if you ask me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you will just be able to talk to Mlario, the legally-distinct sicilian plumber who fights tortoises instead. /s