FarceOfWill
@FarceOfWill@infosec.pub
- Comment on NatWest to hike chief's pay as bank returns to full private ownership 1 week ago:
Something like a 20% loss, before inflation. Figures will come out next year when it’s actually complete. Not sure if the government took money out in that time by dividend but it would be a bit weird to so I assume not.
But then, the cost of not doing it would have been much much worse.
- Comment on Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be 1 week ago:
There was definitely a problem at first on mastodon with people buying a server instance for the black community, and then not actually blocking all the standard bad servers.
Basically giving them a server full of targets to harass.
I guess you could say setting up an instance and maintaining a blue sky block list is sort of similar, you’re taking it on yourself to see all the horrible stuff, even seeking it out, to protect others.
The blue sky approach lets people use multiple Blocklists though and masto just has the one of the server you’re on and your personal one. Lots of room for improvement.
- Comment on Mitochondria 2 weeks ago:
Got it. I’ll look out for Targaryen Vs Mitochondria in the next season to learn more
- Comment on Mitochondria 2 weeks ago:
What the hell is a “powerhouse” anyway?
- Comment on Germ Blaster 2 weeks ago:
To be fair they probably didn’t rub each individual finger over their disgusting body parts while in the toilet.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation boss says games should be shorter because development costs are ‘not sustainable’ [VGC] 2 weeks ago:
The playing time isn’t sustainable either
- Comment on European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X 2 weeks ago:
I did just hear libsoftiktok joined and got banned pdq too.
Great news honestly, I thought they were dumping all this on custom Blocklist but if they’re also moderating themselves it really makes me consider making an account.
- Comment on European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X 2 weeks ago:
But isn’t the aim for their blocking to be so good they can serve Nazis and antifa on the same platform without them conflicting?
Is that really much better than twitter the nazi bar?
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 3 weeks ago:
No I agree, it’s mostly useful to fertilize the plants elsewhere in the garden.
But it seems everyone here is thinking of lawns and I realise late my concept of a garden is utterly alien to what most people actually do. No lawns for me!
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t have my books handy, but while they take a lot back this varies by species and the fallen leaves can have a lot of N and P in some cases.
Though I’ve always seen them shredded and used for making compost anyway rather than leaving them on the ground. Too easy to get rot that way. And you really want to spread them around the rest of the garden if you’ve planted trees that do drop N in the leaves
- Comment on rollin' deep 4 weeks ago:
Ankles and knees are a complete con. I want my money back evolution.
- Comment on Tough news for protesting farmers: Labour doesn’t actually need their votes 4 weeks ago:
Pissing off farmers is more likely to gainn support in rural communities than lose it.
- Comment on How a post on Reddit accidentally kickstarted the revival of Angus Steakhouse 5 weeks ago:
The customers they have are getting absolutely rinsed
- Comment on On Mushrooms 5 weeks ago:
The fungus grows
- Comment on malicious backdoor found in widely used game mod by Low Level [YouTube] 5 weeks ago:
There were rumours about one for rimworld but I’m not sure if it was real or on steam.
- Comment on 'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls' 2 months ago:
I agree but I can see why someone might not want to invite the people they feel ruined their home back to have another go.
- Comment on Godot fork- Redot emerges after recent events within the Godot project. 2 months ago:
I’m torn, because this is useless, but also I’d quite like them up high on a platform for everyone to point and laugh at.
- Comment on Fears for patient safety as GPs use ChatGPT to diagnose and treat illness 2 months ago:
You can build excellent expert systems that will definitely help a do tor remember all the illnesses, know what questions to ask to narrow things down or double check it’s not something weird, and provide options for treatment.
These exist and are good
Chargpt isn’t an expert system and doctors using it like one need a serious warning from the BMC and would eventually need to be struck off, same as using ouija boards or bones to diagnose illnesses.
- Comment on How to Monetize a Blog 3 months ago:
it’s up to us commenters to back you up.
Totally worth reading, just great internet creativity - Comment on Manchester rioter's mum who went on £1,200 Ibiza trip must pay compensation amounting to cost of her holiday 3 months ago:
It’s just a total coincidence the costs are the same then? Weird story
- Comment on That's a big burger 3 months ago:
What is that? A car for ants?
- Comment on Boy, 15, is first person charged with riot over recent English disorder 4 months ago:
I didn’t see it earlier but I’d have assumed this was saying the police should be chasing Rotherham child abusers not wasting time on riots.
- Comment on Bluesky: Social media site reports surge in new UK users after Elon Musk's riot comments 4 months ago:
Do you have a link to a non blue sky blue sky instance for people to jon?
- Comment on Britain ignored its far-right threat and demonized Muslims. Now racist mobs have spiraled out of control. 4 months ago:
The suffering is real but the link to migration is entirely made up.
Not enough GPs for the population? They’ve retired.
Too much traffic? More and more people own cars and the entire country outside cities is designed to require them.
No home? Councils were banned from building them in the 80s of course we don’t have enough housing.
giving an inch on the core anti migration argument is a mistake because it makes the action to actually fix these problems harder.
No action on migration can ever be enough because the racists want to kick every black person born here out, and the “legitimate concerns” crowd won’t see any improvement in their lives and will keep demanding bigger and bigger action alongside them. - Comment on More than 100 arrested in London as violence flares after Southport stabbings 4 months ago:
It’s a fair point, thanks for the correction.
Not sure how I got the wrong impression, probably heard he’d been killed for being too woke or something.
- Comment on More than 100 arrested in London as violence flares after Southport stabbings 4 months ago:
People imagining something awful for years will be triggered when it finally (allegedly) happens but their fears are ultimately based on fearmongering.
Plenty of people are scared of the two assasinations of MPs by right wing lunatics.
Or that mosque pipe bombing Or lots of other thanks that happen over and over because of these problematic communities you mention. Do we really need to understand the hate and intolerance to punish it? I don’t think so - Comment on Cyclists are dying on our roads at an alarming rate - why don't we care? 5 months ago:
Just the criminal ones. I think that would leave private eye
- Comment on The disturbing online misogyny of Gamergate has returned – if it ever went away 5 months ago:
Did they also mistranslate the Chinese women commenting on trailers that the studio is gross and don’t want women playing their game?
It’s honestly tragic, if you read that article it’s primarily about the Chinese game industry culture with one game and studio used as an example because it’s a supposedly a AAA game to rival western studios.
ign.com/…/how-black-myth-wukong-developers-histor…
We’re being asked to believe ign has slandered a large Chinese studio, entirely made up, and kept the article up regardless. It just doesn’t hold water. Harrassing some poor women off social media and writing long comments about everything being made up is easy, but ign are still standing by the article six months after it was published.
- Comment on The disturbing online misogyny of Gamergate has returned – if it ever went away 5 months ago:
There are so many outlandish claims in this comment with basically nothing backing it up
This 100%
I deleted my reply because it was too much but the original ign article on wukong is very tame. I can’t see why they’re so worked up to harass the author off the internet.
Some days beehaw not having downvotes is a real issue.
- Comment on Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers) 5 months ago:
With the number of trackers on most sites you usually get a performance boost with an extension vetting each network call