cecilkorik

@cecilkorik@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VC behind ‘996’ work culture debate says 5-day weeks won't build billion-dollar startups⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  “As you can clearly see on this chart I made of the value I put on things, the value I put on my own work is the highest, and the rest of you are very low, and you should feel bad that I don’t value your work! What are you going to do about it? Work harder? Haha, that will just make my value go up even higher!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VC behind ‘996’ work culture debate says 5-day weeks won't build billion-dollar startups⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  “I work this hard, everyone should work this hard!” – someone has no idea what hard work is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It will be hardly any work once a law passes, because they’ll make sure it is. Everyone knows where the proprietary code is. It doesn’t just get merged in “by accident” unless you are a really shit developer (and to be fair some are).

  Besides, no one is saying they have to open source it. To be honest, the outcome from this petition that I would most like to see is simply a blanket indemnity to the community attempting to revive, continue and improve the software from that point forward. If the law says that it’s legal once a software is shut down, for the community to figure out a way to make it work again and make it their own, and puts no further responsibilities on the “rights holder” at all, I think that honestly solves the problem in 99% of cases. It would be nice if they gave the community a hand, released what they could, and tried not to be shit about it, (and I know some of them will be shit about it, but we’re pretty resourceful), as long as they’re not trying to sue every attempt into oblivion I think we’ll make a lot of progress on game preservation and make the gaming world a much better place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  From my understanding (and experience) dating apps/online dating in general is dead, fucked up beyond repair by capitalism, toxic incels, predators, scammers, crooks and most recently AI. No technology can possibly survive such an onslaught and most of them wouldn’t profit from doing so. They have a financial incentive to attract repeat customers.

  In person meeting and dating should be the obvious alternative, but apparently nobody goes out socializing anymore since COVID and nobody can afford hobbies because of the economy and chronic social malaise and terminal online doomscrolling has broken people’s ability to form human connection anyway so I think civilization is probably just ending after these last few generations, frankly.

  If there is a useful option I’d love to know what it is too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am looking to broaden my youtube channels that I follow. What female channel are you following?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In absolutely no particular order:

  www.youtube.com/@VBirchwood - historical fashion/lifestyle
  www.youtube.com/@EmmaThorneVideos - a self-described “silly little guy” (hint: not a guy) politely mocking religion and other stuff that deserves mockery
  www.youtube.com/@darbinorvar - woodworking and maker stuff
  www.youtube.com/@AtRachelGilmore - Canadian independent journalist
  www.youtube.com/@AnnaRudolfChess - originally chess (she’s an international master and chess commentator) and video games but after a long mental health hiatus, lately more mental health discussions and variety
  www.youtube.com/@LauraFarms - farming, obviously
  www.youtube.com/@SpaceMog - astronomy, astrophysics, space
  www.youtube.com/@karilawler - retro computers/video games and programming
  www.youtube.com/@acottonsock - Playing The Sims with sometimes inappropriate commentary
  www.youtube.com/@EngineeringwithRosie - engineering explainers with an emphasis on renewable energy
  www.youtube.com/@BeckyStern - electronics maker stuff
  www.youtube.com/@aprilclucks - incredibly deadpan sarcastic Australian life advice and mockery of everything and herself too usually

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because they look rusty and old doesn’t mean they’re junk, but even if they are, there will be no urgency to dispose of them. Most people who aren’t minimalists don’t dispose of things except for aesthetic reasons, unless they’re out of room. Many rural people have a relatively narrow scope for aesthetics that doesn’t include what you might call the front yard, and being rural, it’s really hard to run out of room. Therefore, there is no urgency to dispose of stuff that has become “junk”, and when you do, you will probably do it all at once, as a project, once you start feeling like you’re running out of room, which takes quite awhile, so you’re very likely to see the development of the junk pile in its intermediate stages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a term for something like Imposter Syndrome, but instead feeling like it’s other people conspiring to give you an illusory taste of success with intent to pull it away and screw you over?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s just called capitalism.

  For an actual answer, I’d turn to the idiom of dangling a carrot which evokes the idea of an animal chasing a carrot being held out in front of it on a stick by its own rider, unable to reach the carrot since it moves forward as they do, but chasing it forward anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah people thinking the Democratic Party is going to save them are delusional IMO. They are part of it and many of them have been working towards the same goal. They are a false opposition at best. Not all of them, some of them are legit, like Bernie, and look how he has been treated by the Dem establishment. Any real resistance is marginalized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica's Original Creators Have Been Removed From Unknown Worlds "Effective Immediately", As Krafton Makes Concerning Leadership Changes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh good now maybe the Subnautica developers can go independent to make a spiritual successor that isn’t called Subnautica and isn’t garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck Canada in particular, as usual. It’s starting to feel a bit personal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  KSP1 is the bees knees and the modding community is still going as strong as ever. Still worthwhile even at full price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t absolutely know what the future holds for our own planet much less the universe, so it’s impossible to answer this with any conviction, but based on my current understanding or the general scientific consensus, and the fact that the universe is expanding and that expansion is accelerating, no, by placing them at the edge of the observable universe and the effects of relativity, their hypothetical signals will never reach Earth and almost certainly not the Earth that we know of that’s orbiting Sol and full of humans patiently observing the universe for signs of their lost ancestors.

  But we don’t know with any certainty that the universe’s expansion or acceleration is going to continue indefinitely, we don’t even fully understand why it is happening. However, if the universe is infinite, and is going to last an infinite amount of time, well “infinity” is a very long time and you can’t rule out the fact that another wormhole could open and bring them (or their signals) home at some point now that you’ve proven such a wormhole can exist. So when you put all the things we do know and the things we don’t know together, I’d give them about 50/50 chances, with a margin of error of plus or minus 50%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Stellar Blades] This game completely broke them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most game media/advertising/reviewing is garbage and cannot be trusted. I play games that look fun. I have a particular definition of fun specific to me alone. I’ll watch actual gameplay to decide if it looks fun to me. I might watch technical reviews and benchmarks that tell me if my hardware will be able to play it. IDGAF what culture war moralizing poop that some idiots want to headline it with and babble about to get views on their articles and channels.

  I don’t think Stellar Blade looks like the kind of fun I personally enjoy so I’m going to pass, but I’m not going to judge or shame anyone who’s enjoying the fuck out of it because there’s nothing to shame. It’s a game. It’s made to be played and be fun for people to play. Have fun. Don’t worry about the drama storms. They’re pointless and devoid of meaning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed [404 Media]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Party says 1984 has always been our guiding principle, just like we’ve always been at war with Eastasia. I certainly don’t remember a time when it wasn’t so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With all the animals that die in the sea, is it possible they get pickled in there?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ocean salinity varies slightly but averages around 3.5%. Brackish water would be less than 3% as long as it’s saltier than freshwater, which is limited to 0.05%. Brine, which OP is asking for, is water with 5% or greater salinity. The ocean doesn’t get that high but salt lakes definitely can, the Dead Sea is almost 35% salinity. Also why it’s called the “Dead” sea, FWIW. Maybe you could pickle stuff there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm trying to understand a financial question in a video. A lady is saying that she will Payback equity when she refinances, but I'm not sure how that helps her in the context to the video.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From my understanding of this messed up situation:

  She has half of the equity in the house, he has the other half, maybe not exactly half and half, this is common after a divorce and the actual proportions are irrelevant. In order for HER to acquire full equity in the house (the house she lives in and considers hers and that the divorce has apparently assigned to her), she must pay his half of the equity BACK to him when she refinances. Thus, she both “has” equity and “owes” equity. Both are true. She has her half (which is money on paper and represents her ownership of the house, not money you can spend), she owes the other half which is also equity, just not hers (which is real money she DOES need to spend, and will be refinanced into the form of a larger mortgage with higher payments). Once she refinances, he gets the lump sum representing his equity, and she gets a bigger mortgage. He could then use that lump sum to pay back the alimony with. But that’s all in the future, and the future is an uncertain place that doesn’t help anyone now and that nobody wants to wait for.

  So she suggests that she’ll forgive his alimony if he forgives the equity she owes him, because that is probably a much bigger amount of money that she owes him and would then get to keep, compared to many many years of alimony that she might not even get if he’s not going to be around that long and isn’t working or goes bankrupt or whatever else might happen in the intervening years.

  The key moment in the video as far as I’m concerned is when she mentions her husbands “new wife and kids”. I think that if you strip away all the reasonable-sounding explaining and arguments, that’s what this is really about, she wants to get as much as she can in cold hard cash right away, even if it means cashing out some of her ex-husbands 401k now, so that the other wife and kids don’t get their hands on it and then she doesn’t have to worry about them anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “remove any thing that they might be able to do” is a hilariously broad brush to apply to three letter agencies in this day and age that were doing things like this 50 years ago.

  I’m not saying it’s realistic that OP is being targeted for such surveillance. But if they are, good fucking luck! Flashing your firmware ain’t going to do shit when they’ve just gone ahead and replaced the chips on your board with their own that act exactly like a normal chip but have extra code that doesn’t get flashed when they don’t want it to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You absolutely can slap a Lambo body on anything (provided it fits) and there is a literal cottage industry that exists around doing so. It’s not popular because, let’s be honest, it’s pretty silly, and everyone involved acknowledges its pretty much just for fun and entertainment. The status symbol of “owning a Lamborghini” goes away forever the second you start the engine.

  There is a lot of psychology that goes into designing the appearance of cars. Like, an extreme amount. Car companies spend millions designing and refining body shapes and styles, and building brand images, and pushing commercials that seed these ideas into your head about their brand looking a certain way and that look therefore implying quality, they’re connecting all those dots in your head, one marketing campaign at a time, and it works because we’re honestly pretty gullible creatures at least when somebody wants to spend millions upon millions of dollars researching exactly how they can weasel their way into your brain.

  And this might surprise you, but the same “looks incredible but the worst piece of shit ever” can certainly apply to luxury vehicles. Aside from notorious reliability and repairability issues, Lamborghinis don’t usually win any races either. They won’t win a drag race, they won’t win an oval track race, they won’t win a rally race. They’re fast, certainly, but they’re not the fastest and for what you pay for a Lamborghini you could build a much, MUCH better purpose-built race car. You could probably build 10 purpose-built race cars. Hell, people build race cars out of junkyard parts that can beat Lamborghinis. They’re not the end-all-be-all of cars, nor are any of the other luxury brands. They have some nice features but they also have a lot of dumb features and yes, a lot of cut corners too. They’re designed to be desirable and profitable, not to be the best.

  So to answer your question, it absolutely IS the case for cars, in fact it’s probably even moreso the case than it is with computer parts. Unless you really need to roar down the highway towing a 10,000 pound trailer at 80 mph and still get up to that speed in 5 seconds flat, you really only need like probably 30-50 horsepower max for most of the daily driving that people do, but people’s driving habits and attitudes would have to change and they would hate the feel of gradual acceleration, so they would simply never buy such a car. I think we really underestimate how incredible even the cheapest “crappiest” cars are. We’re talking about machines cheap enough for almost everybody in our society to own, that can drive at high speeds, in perfectly dry, climate-controlled comfort, carrying many passengers and cargo, in almost any weather short of a tornado or flood, with excellent reliability for hundreds of thousands of miles, that provide constant lighting and electricity and entertainment, all while maintaining a high degree of safety for the occupants.

  If you’d rather putter around on a riding lawnmower with a Lamborghini body kit on it, you absolutely can do that, but you have to understand that once you start comparing the limited features and abilities it provides you will quickly find what you’ve constructed is the real “piece of shit” in comparison. Just don’t forget your slow-moving vehicle sign!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with moths and lamps in lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s awesome thanks! (Community discovery is still something I struggle with on Lemmy)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with moths and lamps in lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit had a community “OutOfTheLoop” for these type of questions. It was very helpful for people like me who do our best to ignore these nonsense viral image macros that get blown out of proportion. The problem on Lemmy is, judging by the comments here, I think almost everyone here avoids those things like the plague, so there’s few if anyone “InTheLoop” around to explain for us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are you here and not on Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome!

  But I have to ask, why are you guys here and not on Reddirt?

  Hilarious typo if it wasn’t intentional.

  Where the population us much larger and its basically the same?

  First thing you quickly realize here is that larger is not necessarily better. Small is beautiful, you can have actual thoughtful conversations with individuals here without the incessant dogpiling and low effort meme replies. I have even got smacked down (and rightly so) for accidentally bringing some of that with me at one point. It’s not needed or desirable here.

  It appears a few instances dominate this landscape anyway?

  When you actually look at the comments I usually find almost everyone is on a different instance, in fact when there are relatively small numbers of comments like the are on most posts, you often won’t even see the same instance in the comments twice unless it’s the same person. Yeah, some instances have “huge numbers” of people and communities (lemmy.world) but I think a lot of them are honestly just rarely used, abandoned, or otherwise non-participatory, and the communities can be used by anybody (which is exactly the point of federation). The people actually spending their time here are on a wide variety of instances, often even using different frontends or software. And that’s great. To me, the ecosystem feels healthy and diverse.

  Its not like this is unchecked social media, they still moderate these places right?

  The point is you can choose an instance whose moderations suit you. (Almost?) all instances moderate to some degree, complete unmoderation is how you end up infested with child porn and other horrible shit. But the directions they moderate in, and the specific things they moderate, can vary wildly depending on the preferences of the owners and the countries they operate in. They also federate with and defederate different instances, which is a large-scale form of moderation. Most instances defederate (and have been defederated by) hexbear and lemmygrad. But not all of them do. Some also defederate lemmy.ml. But not most. And of course those three still federate with each other, and with some other instances. The point isn’t to completely prevent isolated echo chambers, it’s to allow the instances themselves (and the users who join them) to choose how much echo they want to hear compared to how many challenging views they disagree with. Everyone should be able to find a balance that suits them. Most of the people complaining about the content on Lemmy have probably just chosen the wrong instance, frankly, because most people don’t understand how this works and the biases and moderation attitudes inherent in all these different instances is not always super obvious at first glance.

  Reddit sucks now. I still check there regularly but I find both the content and the commenting less and less interesting and find myself spending less and less time there. It hasn’t been a sudden process, but the more time I spend on Lemmy the more I like it and the more communities I find and engage in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honesty, empathy and respect.

  Good luck ever convincing me an LLM has any of those. I’m not even convinced most of humanity does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did Musk and Trump fall out over?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly my point. If they do in a few days “come back from” that and are all buddy buddy again, then I think that indicates it was just a staged performance for show and distraction and none of it was real fighting. Suggests it was all just an act. (IF they do come back from it. Which remains to be seen)

  Muskrat has already backed down from a few things he said in the “heat” of the argument, like that he was going to disassemble the Dragon capsules. So I wouldn’t jump to your conclusion that they can’t possibly “come back from” this, my point is just that if they do, it was probably all just an act to begin with because I agree if it’s real, stuff was said that either one of these vindictive sociopaths is likely to forget.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did Musk and Trump fall out over?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m putting 50/50 odds that it’s an intentional, theatrical distraction from other more important things that are going on, or it’s just the inevitable outcome of two malignant narcissist sociopaths being in the same room together too often. If they quickly kiss and make up I’ll lean more towards the former than the latter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this genocide denial?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It also sounds like sealioning. So yeah genocide denial by either shutting you up or making you appear to be the bigot would be the goal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If Barbra Streisand cannot delete her name from her house on the Internet, you cannot delete your comments. The Internet only forgets when you don’t want it to. If you want it to forget, it never will.

  Posting a comment on the Internet is something that can never be undone. Once it’s out there, it’s out there forever. You can try and delete it, and you might make some progress, you might even be successful, but there are no guarantees, and the more you want it to be deleted the less likely you’ll be able to pull it off.

  In a practical sense, just use to built-in features to delete your account and posts. It’s not perfect or guaranteed, but it’s the best you’re going to get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of the current crop of billionaires literally became billionaires by disrupting the establishment, overhauling whole industries and toppling the old systems of power and control. They were by definition anti-establishment. The problem is… now they’re the establishment and they’ve implemented their own, even worse systems of power and control.

  Much of the pre-Trump establishment is gone now, and no one should regret that, except for the unfortunate detail that the post-Trump establishment is far, far worse than anything that came before it.

  The problem with popular revolutions is that they don’t always end up being very popular once the revolution has succeeded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does HTML actually run on a computer?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are conflating a bunch of different things here and it’s hard to tell exactly what you’re even asking. HTML is completely separate from Javascript and CSS. Together, they are web technologies and typically all three are used to display a webpage, but only HTML is actually required. The others provide additional functions, each in their own way.

  More to your point. HTML is not a programming language. It is not turing-complete. It is a markup language. It does not get “compiled”, it gets “rendered”. This may seem like a semantic difference, but these are actually different things and they are handled differently by code and in fact by completely different engines within the code. HTML rendering engines are still very complex beasts, and while you can draw some similarities with a compiler, they are not the same thing.

  Most web standards are defined by the W3C, that includes HTML and CSS. But there are many different standards, even ones defined by the W3C, and many versions of those standards as well. All of these are handled by the browser’s rendering engine. However, there’s also a lot of bad code in the world that still needs to be rendered correctly, and you might be surprised how recently some of these standards actually developed. The browser wars have flared up many times and each time “standards” were usually the casualty. Mozilla has this brief explainer of the three different “quirks” modes currently used for compatibility on the modern web.

  Javascript engines are their own whole different ballgame, as Javascript/ECMAscript is indeed a turing complete programming lanaguage, and all the big players (V8, Spidermonkey/Warpmonkey) are highly sophisticated JIT compilers with multiple layers of on-the-fly optimization. The deeper technical details are frankly beyond me.

  Modern web browsers are as complex, feature-rich environments as any traditional operating system, and they have as many different aspects to them as any complete operating system does. They are not “one engine” or “one compiler” or “one standard” as much as they are an ecosystem of engines, compilers, standards, protocols and libraries all working together while remaining compatible with each other and all the other software that is out there, to ultimately present the user with a coherent, consistent and accessible representation that hides most of the immense complexity of what is going on behind the scenes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The US is not really a functioning democracy right now so it’s kind of a crapshoot to be discussing what they do now, however if you’re interested more in the idea of what they’re supposed to do, they propose and vote on new legislation, same as the members of the house of representatives. Generally, bills can be proposed by either group, and both bodies must pass the bill for it to reach the president to be signed into law.

  What makes the two different is that the senate is intentionally much smaller, and all states are equally represented (2 senators each), unlike the house which is proportionally represented with more populous states having far greater numbers of representatives and thus votes. The senate also changes members less frequently with senators being elected for 6 year terms compared to the president’s 4 years and the representatives at 2 years. The idea for the senate is for it to be responsible for considering longer term effects of proposed legislation, as well as to consider and propose legislation on issues that affect the whole nation equally including the smaller states that have less of a voice in the house of representatives. In theory, it’s a very thoughtful and well-balanced system. The reality is… well, we can all see what’s happened to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a person use AI or whatever and get rid of their name and history off the net? And can it create a new ident with a bunch of history pictures and so forth?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The internet remembers forever. Literally. The more you want something gone, the more tenaciously the internet will preserve it and treasure it and amplify it.

  You can absolutely create a new fake profile. You can create lots, an endless amount of them. That’s trivial. AIs are doing that all the time, some people legitimately believe most of the internet nowadays is just bots with fake profiles arguing with other bots with equally fake profiles. And it’s plausible they could be at least a little more right than most people would imagine. See the dead internet theory

  But trying to have something removed from the internet is like asking your family to stop telling that embarrassing story at every gathering. All it does is let everyone know there’s an embarrassing story, and intrigues everybody to find out what it is. And they won’t stop until they do. See also the Streisand Effect.