derbis

@derbis@beehaw.org
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Joined 12 months ago

That's funny but I think Son is easily the dumbest billionaire. He's also the bag-holder for the whole WeWork grift. Got more dollars than brain cells.

My company would be conducive to this. What kind of dev are you? We are not hiring right now but I can pass your resume along if it's a fit. We're tiny so it won't just get lost in the shuffle

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I'm not sure what's wrong with this article but even AI articles are more coherent these days. Old model? Unsupervised machine translation?

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You can disable so-called essential components and I believe it ships without almost any of the bloat. So essentially you could just take one drive out, or not have it in the first place. Or at least that's my hope

Unfortunately we're a game company 😕 so maybe not much of a match. But if anything like that comes up I'll let you know

It's ltsc an option for 11 like it was for 10?

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If it's a third person game, I'd rather be looking at her ass throughout the playthrough than his.

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I'm torn on this topic because on the one hand there's enough evidence for the harm it does, but one thing these finger wagging experts seem to ignore is that if you keep kids isolated from the tools then you're leaving them behind.

I was probably an Internet addict as a kid with dial up and a CRT monitor, but I don't regret it given how well it prepared me for the tech-dominated present.

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It "stems" from a deliberate effort to conflate them by the likes of the ADL .

Your article itself says:

Police now believe this was a Russian-inspired destabilisation operation rather than a home-grown intimidation campaign.

Your article itself also says that the police are the source for this assertion, and goes on to say

In June, the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver of Moroccan and Algerian descent in a Paris suburb sparked almost two weeks of riots across the country in which schools, buses and police stations were torched, shops looted, mayors assaulted and police attacked in nightly clashes. The violence, which did not specifically target Jews, was fuelled by widespread resentment of perceived police racism.

And if that weren't enough, it's already demonstrated that expressing support for Palestine is being conflated with antisemitism.

The government initially banned pro-Palestinian demonstrations

So the government bans support for Palestine, the police enforce that ban, and the police say antisemitism is rising among young Muslims.

All this from the same article, that you posted. Very weak sauce.

I was on it back when it was in closed beta and even went to their launch party. People were even saying how much the quality was declining as the closed beta got larger. It's been a shitfest for a while - it seems tailor-made for blowhards to speak authoritatively without having any real authority on an issue.

To react to the article:

most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora

The first one is subjective but the second one isn't - and neither are true.

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Yep. BIG deficiency in this article. I don't use a VPN because of shadowy "hackers" who sit in front of their keyboards with a pistol and a balaclava. I use it because ISPs and governments have demonstrated they can't be trusted.

How about this?

I live in the United States, where I already have no digital privacy, and tunneling my internet traffic through a VPN owned and operated in another country won't meaningfully improve my privacy or safety

Uh, what? If someone wants my traffic logs in the US, now they have to go through Mullvad, which has a track record of not providing or collecting it.

They don't even know who I am, much less have all the data that my ISP has about me. So selling it would be pretty useless

Oh last edit: turns out this is the guy who was trying to well ackshually us into thinking Chrome nerfing ad blockers is not a big deal.

Hate that phrase. Great way to excuse malice.

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Huge resources have been devoted to tracking down people, mostly anonymous and with little reach, over speech that authorities interpreted as supporting Hamas, the letter notes. By late November, 269 investigations had been opened and 86 indictments filed.

“It is quite amazing the number of criminal investigations, when it comes to Palestinian citizens of Israel, most of them completely anonymous, many of them almost with no audience,” Sfard said. “The gap between that and the freedom and impunity for those who advocate all kinds of things – ethnic cleansing, killing civilians, bombarding civilian areas, and even genocide – doesn’t square up, and that’s something for the authorities to explain.”

This right here. Don't let anyone tell you Israel is not an apartheid state with separate sets of rules based on who you are.

Speaking with the Financial Times last week, Figma chief executive Dylan Field said: “It is important that those paths of acquisition remain available because very few companies make it all the way to IPO. So many companies fail on the way.”

I.e. "Our business model never included plans for us to actually have to compete!"

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Be that as it may, the more relevant effect to this article is the Dunning-Kreuger one. The author seems to have no idea that his dismissal of the limitations of manifest v3 means he is dismissing that this absolutely constrains what ad blockers can do, and very significantly. And his confident tone only adds to the discord he believes he is correcting.

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Maybe some examples would be in order.

Counterexamples might include Firefox, Blender, and Lemmy.

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Yes. Thank you. This article is apologia for Google, and very unhelpful. There is a reason anyone interested in controlling their own browser is unhappy with this arbitrary limit.

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From this garbage article

The chanting, I think, calling for intifada, global revolution, [is] very disturbing,” Magill said during questioning. “I believe at minimum that is hateful speech that has been and should be condemned.

Intifada means "resistance." Every occupied people has a right to resist. Except, apparently, Palestinians.

... grilled Gay on Harvard’s Middle East Studies courses, which she claimed included “false accusations that Israel is a racist, settler colonialist, apartheid state

Well, it is. No amount of trying to conflate support for human rights with antisemitism is going to change that.

If this is what they mean by "hate" nobody should be surprised that lots of people aren't buying it.

Ngo monitor is right wing bullshit with zero credibility.

And this is what is meant by apartheid. It was never a land without a people for a people without a land. There were always people there. This "safety" is predicated upon ethnic cleansing, and Zionism is now inseparable from that. The implicit suggestion is that Jewish safety requires Palestinian oppression. That is not going to work in the long term. And it's not worked so far.

They're talking about "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." They routinely malign this call for freedom as "antisemitic," and I haven't been to one where this hasn't been said. It's part of their effort to conflate these things, not me being disingenuous.

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As a counterpoint to most of the cynicism here, this is how the company I now work for formed. Caveats include: the founder had a lot of money because he had previously worked for a big name Internet company when it was a startup, and we spend almost all of our time as contractors for other studios rather than developing in-house IP.

Yes, because that organization published a definition of antisemitism that effectively makes it almost off limits to criticize the actions of the Israeli state. And that definition is being codified into policy or even law in many cases. Even the author of this definition has objected to the way it's being used.

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Called DeepSouth of alll things

The team named the supercomputer DeepSouth based on IBM's TrueNorth system, which started the idea of building computers that act like large networks of neurons, and Deep Blue, the first computer to beat a world chess champion.

The name also gives a nod to where the supercomputer is located geographically: Australia, which is situated in the southern hemisphere.

I mean ok, but still, to call anything related to a brain DeepSouth 😶

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Seems really ridiculous to me that they can write an article like this and still use terms like "deathbed," "barbones console," etc.

If anything this shows that hardware matters less and less. The game itself is king and Nintendo is really good at it. Beefier hardware has diminishing returns and people who write articles like this seem to have cut their teeth on the big leaps: 8 to 16 to 64 bit and don't realize that doesn't really matter anymore.

How do you short an IPO?

While that's true I think this meme is far from a fair characterization of that arrangement, given how Mozilla differs so starkly from Google on the direction of the open web. Case in point, their refusal to deprecate manifest v2 for browser extensions.

Just a reminder that Vice was founded by Gavin McInnes, who also founded the Proud Boys and explicitly mentioned wanting to use Vice as a hipster-to-chud pipeline.

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I, personally, believe that we all will come to a comfortable consensus moving forward

This is a somewhat uncomfortable ellipsis for me. Can you be more specific about the emerging consensus? Last time I asked this question it went ignored.

Where are these discussions happening? On the beehaw Lemmy or elsewhere?

I only saw one thread alluding to this posted by a beehaw admin on Lemmy.ml.

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No, it is not. You can look up the one state solution. At this point it's inevitable, just a matter of how much grief we put ourselves through to get there.

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Why does this constitute trolling, though? That means they actually did invent and produce the tech for that whole period, doesn't it? I could understand filling a provisional patent and then only pulling the trigger on the whole shebang when you actually have to protect it.

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It does a disservice to the health ministry to invariably pin it as "Hamas-run" like the media usually does. It's a professional, bureaucratic apparatus. Not really any more Hamas-run than the US Bureau of Land Management is Democrat-run. Which is to say, technically accurate but usually stated with a purposeful insinuation.

All this is to say that you're right, they're concerned with accuracy and credibility. But credit where credit is due, it's because of the health ministry itself, not Hamas.

They ostensibly weren't until... Well, let's just say "recently"

Holy fuck. 373 games. I'm very touched that so many are giving their hard work away to support this cause. Got it and added the extra payment on.

constantly screwed over by apple changing things on their platforms.

This was it for me. Like, you're going to blame valve because apple keeps pulling the carpet out from under devs and users?

I was hoping we weren't going to have to put up with this propaganda crapola off Reddit. Oh well.

More like, "they will be offered part of the proceeds of any further watches we steal."

I don't know if I'm personally part of the class, but if I am, as relief I would want an injunction for them to fucking leave me alone, not shares in their operation.

Can I ask, why do people make comments like this? What's the appeal?

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Those grifters get their audience from somewhere...

Man I really don't get how discord has become the default for so many things. It's chat. It's persistent, but not in a way that's easy to look through. Like, support forums or discussions about things that aren't just fleeting? Whyyy