cecilkorik

@cecilkorik@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delivery robots are spreading across LA. Residents ‘both pity and hate them’⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the difference between communism and socialism?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism with wealth redistribution is considered to be a potential method of achieving socialism or at least a significant amount of it.

  When you really get into the weeds on a lot of these ideologies you’ll find that the 40,000 foot overview of the single word that defines them is actually quite different from the actual process of getting there, and the people arguing for these ideologies actually understand that. They also understand that the means of getting to the goal, or even just closer to the goal, is sometimes the more important and worthy part than the actual end which may not even be realistically attainable nor permanent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the difference between communism and socialism?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’re describing sounds more like communitarianism than communism. Despite the confusingly similar name they are actually very different ideologies. (though they also have some similar precepts at the same time)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Beamdog's Whimsical Baldur's Gate 2' - Warlockracy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “And on top of everything else, Viconia is consorting with vampires… lesbianly.”

  I died.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location — $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stories like this always feel like misdirection efforts to deflect blame from the actually responsible devices and organizations. The amount of normalization of openly-broadcasting-at-all-times cellphones in our society can’t really be explained with anything less than an overwhelming multi-level propaganda campaign.

  Who needs spies anymore when you can just convince everyone, even military personnel, to carry around an always-on camera and microphone with onboard power and various long-range wireless options (and get them to willingly keep it continuously charged for you!)

  WTF are we doing to ourselves and why anybody tolerates this nonsense I have no idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's receiving and who's loosing electrons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it depend on which one has more or less loose valence electrons?

  I think that’s a reasonable rule of thumb to start from, but like most things in physics it’s not guaranteed and is rarely exactly that simple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it that when the graphics driver freaks out in your browser when watching a video, the page always turns this specific shade of green?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is probably just someone’s effort to pick a color similar looking to a green-screen in film, since it is serving the same technical effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When a sports drink list sodium and chloride as separate ingredients, separated by other ingredients, is there a difference between that and just listing salt as an ingredient?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have any examples? I’m not a chemist but I don’t believe you can have “chloride” alone as an ingredient. If it were alone it would be elemental chlorine, which is an entirely different animal and I sincerely doubt any drink maker would be putting free chlorine into their drinks.

  A “chloride” on the other hand is a compound of chlorine already combined with some other element, which is presumably not sodium or you would’ve not said the sodium and chloride were separate. So you could have “potassium chloride” for example, but this would not turn into “sodium chloride” simply by existing in the same liquid as elemental sodium, because it’s perfectly happy sticking with the potassium and being potassium chloride.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why does almost nobody live here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically, that’s not where the farmland is (or, when it was first being settled, the fur, which provided the major economic incentives for why that area was settled in the first place). You also have to think about how the land was settled. Settlers from the east used mountain valleys to get around. Mountain valleys in that circled area aren’t easily traversable and don’t go anywhere or lead anywhere useful. Settlers from the southwest used ships and followed shipping routes up the coast. When you consider both these settlement methods simultaneously (and they were in fact used almost simultaneously) you will come to the conclusion that these are some of the most remote areas to be settled in the continental US, and their relative remoteness has a lot to do with why they were settled the way they were.

  Meanwhile, from the perspective of a ship sailing up the coast there are few good protected anchorages to use as a sheltered waystation or safe harbor in case of inclement weather directly along the coast, but if you go just a little further you’ll reach good port lands (it’s literally called “Portland”) or Seattle and you might as well journey just a little further to stop there instead if you possibly can. When you consider people taking a long and perilous journey around the horn of South America (there was no Panama Canal) you’re almost at the end of the line, and you aren’t going to want to stop 99% of the way, you’re so close that you’ll push on to the end, and that’s why Portland, Seattle and Vancouver developed where they did. The farmland got worse the further north you went and became increasingly unsustainable so nobody really went much further before the gold rush provided yet another economic incentive to draw people there, but that’s a different story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I was in the market for a good used car, which car would be the best to outrun the cops?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That seems like the kind of problem that a radio and a spike belt were designed to solve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The blue light from your phone isn't ruining your sleep⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hot take: Manipulative and mentally destructive social media algorithms are the reason your sleep is disrupted. It’s what is on the screens that is the problem, not what color it is.

  But of course, the tech companies would rather have you blame the color of the screen than their own products. I’m sure they loved adding those color-shifting features to their next products too. not only do they avoid the blame, they get to sell you the solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I was in the market for a good used car, which car would be the best to outrun the cops?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  White Ford Bronco. What can I say, I’m a traditionalist and I prefer my police chases to be conducted at a safe and comfortable speed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's 9PM, any word from Iran?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump makes insane proclamation, everyone is forced to take it seriously, Trump attempts to chicken out, now everyone else is ignoring him until his next outburst. Pretty much the standard news cycle of this presidency. Expect another insane proclamation any minute now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux kernel maintainers are following through on removing Intel 486 support⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  hopefully someone forks off a decent kernel that bridges the gap between older hardware and modern Linux because this feels like a valuable door to keep open in this regressive age of “you’ll own nothing and you’ll like it”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨can i still consider myself to be a valid asexual?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can be a valid Apache Attack Helicopter if you want to be. Nobody else gets to decide whether that’s valid except you. You might confuse or even mislead some people, you’ll have to be prepared for that, but before you consider whether it even matters that some people get confused or misled, you should consider why it’s any of their business in the first place, because it probably isn’t. If it is, then by all means, check whether it’s valid with them, not us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How will you celebrate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s arguably doing more damage to the fascist movement than he is supporting it lately. I think they will be the ones celebrating when he is gone, but they will not stop pushing fascism. The infection has metastasized extensively, and once he is gone it will really get to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would/could the US government actually do if they found out the real identities behind all the "guillotine memes" that people post online?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, first they came for the immigrants, and I didn’t say anything because I wasn’t an immigrant… everyone knows how the poem goes, but it never really ends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be a good thing if we were going away from god in the right direction. I’m not sure this is the right direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  CEOs get a lot of hate but that’s intentional. They’re really just the fall guys, the disposable lightning rods to attract the hatred and the consequences for the true villains actually motivating the evil decisions the CEOs make. Meanwhile they ride the executive suite carousel, round and round the economy, looking important and golden parachuting from one company to another, pretending they’re making the hard decisions when they’re really just making the only decisions they’re allowed to. They make a lot of money compared to the rest of us, but they typically don’t make billionaire money unless they’re owner/CEOs.

  It’s the owners and the financiers and the corrupt politicians and lobbyists really calling the shots. The CEOs are just their henchmen and executioners. They’re well compensated for what they do, but they’re not really in charge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are all billionaires and fortune 500 companies famous?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have absolutely zero interest in discussing anything related to race, religion, or any other hyper-polarized issues in this context, and I have a sneaking suspicion this is some kind of race-baiting sealioning bullshit that is going to quickly devolve into a nazi horror show whether you intend it to or not (and I suspect you might intend it very much).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are all billionaires and fortune 500 companies famous?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost certainly not. “Famous” is a strong word. A lot of fortune 500 companies are holding companies, many of them not even holding household name brands but business-to-business providers that nobody outside the business world or industry they’re involved in have ever heard of. I work for one (more specifically, I work for a massive technology company that is owned by one of them), the parent company is on the Fortune 500, I can pretty much guarantee you’ve never heard of them. I hadn’t until one of their subsidiaries purchased the company I was working for. Many of them are just holding companies that own brands you have heard of, but you’ve probably never heard of the company that owns them. It changes more often than you’d think, sometimes they change names and owners so frequently you might suspect they’re specifically trying to avoid the attention of becoming “famous”.

  You can, of course, look them up on the list. But they’re just a name, and a description, and a breathless history of how they started and how innovative and clever they are, and a vague collection of noteworthy brands and assets, but it’s all ephemeral. They have nothing to be famous for. The only thing that puts them on the list is how much they own, and how much new stuff they buy to make sure they keep their share of the market and prevent anyone from challenging them. They don’t do anything besides owning.