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There's an uncomfortable comfort in shitposting through the coolzone again after all these years. And yeah, I do kinda want to see some kid micro-ing a few hundred drones through an air-defense network.

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[–] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Repeating and building on my most libbed up opinion: Jack Dorsey was the most benevolent CEO of a platform like Twitter that we can expect under capitalism. It's also incredibly fucking hilarious that he managed to get out of Twitter while retaining the right to create a Twitter 2.0 literal clone of Twitter.

If one day Twitter is a wasteland of tumbleweeds and Bluesky reaches Twitter levels of value. Maybe that will be the event that triggers my predicted Elon's full spiral and inevitable death at his own hands.

Throwing that in the MonkeyPaw-Wish-Caster-9000X (now with 75% more monkey paw!)

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

He should die historic

Choking on hard vacuum or incinerated in rocket fuel are good options

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I hope he goes out the same way Jobs did, with a totally curable cancer that he tries to juice his way through rather than take medicine for. That's the most fitting end for all these tech "geniuses" because it's hilarious to bring up every time someone starts talking about how smart they were

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Still love how he tried to ankle his way up onto the organ transplant list only to be told "You can't cure cancer with organ transplants"

God, I wish I could have seen his face at that moment

[–] LeopardShepherd@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

Cue Curb Your Enthusiasm theme song

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Jack left Bluesky's board because it wasn't racist enough and went back to twitter which is pretty fitting for the guy who invented a website as awful as twitter

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

After bluesky jack started funding nostr which is a protocol for social media (like activitypub) but designed to resist censorship as a primary goal (and marketing focus). I really like the tech behind it, but by sheer coincidence the user population is mostly Bitcoin fanatics and antivaxxers.

[–] hello_hello@hexbear.net 31 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The south has starcraft gamers and the north has artillery that flattens Seoul in less than 2 hours.

Even matchup methinks

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is in response to the coup (which has already flared out, as the president is too unpopular to even order the military properly). He accused the opposition legislature of being North Korean agents, declared martial law to try and close the parliament, and then got swamped by protests before he could get tanks and helicopters into position.

This would have been South on South violence if it hadn't already ended

[–] HexaSnoot@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

What coup? (Serious question. I don't read the news much.)

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

It was the first coup by, for, and of incels.

[–] OutrageousHairdo@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The counter to siege tanks is lurkers, everyone knows this.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

SK just needs to tech up to Defilers for Dark Swarm.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The south has more advanced artillery though, they've been modernizing a bunch of their old systems based off what's been going on in Ukraine; a WWII 105mm howitzer is unlikely to survive towed to 6 miles of the target, set up, and sit there firing shells in the era of drones.

But throw that thing into the back of a truck that automatically tells the gunner where to shoot and can leave before the drones/counter-fire arrives, and you've at least got something that's not just a death sentence.

Here's a youtuber who talks about warfare and economics who went to a korean arms expo

If NK is prepared to fight WWII, but on the Korean peninsula, it's not going to go well.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

lmao. you atlanticist brains are almost as predictable as all the wars you start, lose decisively, and claim victory about.

the SK "military" is a fucking fart somebody had inside a phone booth 40 years ago. it only exists to do crimes against unarmed Koreans, provoke it's neighbors, spend money on US equipment, and hide behind the US' 70 years of threats to do another nuclear war.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Did you mean to reply to someone else?

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

It’s so cool that this is the same usernames and profile pics as twitter for both these guys.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is that one of the QAA guys?

This feels pretty fucked up.

[–] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is. He's got some nasty Internet brain, but I think that comes with the profession

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

I mean if you do a podcast on Q anon and adjacent cults you gotta enjoy gallows humour

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Is BlueSky redeemable? I installed it but most of the shit I've come across felt like reddit but in shitty twitter form.

[–] ComradeMonotreme@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It was super trans for a while, but now it's been flooded with marvel-hamilton-reddit-resist libs, but right wing hate accounts like libsoftiktok have been banned immediately.

It's better than X the everything app though.

The secret is to find starter packs that sound like your vibes (socialist, shit posters etc) follow them all then unfollow the ones you end up disliking.

[–] OutrageousHairdo@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

I've been using it just fine, but I also use it the same way that I use Twitter. I mostly just followed the Chapo boys and my Internet art friends and put it on Following only, instead of interacting with randos.

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I read that pro-Palestine accounts started getting shut down very aggressively pretty much right away, but I don't have an account there so I cannot independently verify that.

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's still early days. They are committed to open source code and their work shares some cadres and ideas with the original scuttlebutt (secure-ssb), so for now I have faith that they can build a sustainable open ecosystem before they get eaten by capitalism. The slogans and technical plans have been saying mostly all the right things, the ceo is a millennial former OWS activist, etc.

The actual practice of how they've responded to the recent growth surge is lackluster. They should be working on end-user/volunteer moderation tooling and instead they're putting out statements about "verification".

Their own site moderation has their hands full with just right wingers and illegal shit, but the flood of transphobic resist libs is still enough to drive some of the cool LGBT leftists off the site, since private accounts are not a thing and will not be for a while.

[–] falgscode@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the ceo is a millennial former OWS activist

many such libs

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

ok this has no bearing on anything but would you consider rms a lib

[–] falgscode@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

ish. he's certainly not a communist.

if anything free software is what happens when your anticapitalist movement has no grounding in anticapitalist theory

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

Whatever, twitter is kkk land, critical support for bluesky

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

StarCraft has been dominated professionally by Europeans for years now

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Some Europeans can compete but they are outliers and it's still accurate to say that Korea produces the best players. If Starcraft ability turned out to be a valuable skill during a civil war (it won't) then it is definitely fair to say that South Korea has the greatest reserve of it taking into consideration the great many retired pro-players (who do not compete anymore in the now dead scene for table scraps).

Europe has got many more current and ex pro FPS players which is probably more likely to be actually transferable (but not really).

If any skill were actually transferable to a civil war it would be organizational skills (of real people not the magic absolute orders of RTS) so as much as I hate to admit it the gamers you actually want on your side is the ex-WoW players.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You definitely don't want 1v1 gamers. But counterstrike, dota, LoL, MMOs, all the team games probably have very transferable skills. The inside of a modern tank, turret/machine gun control looks very similar to many game interfaces, drones definitely.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

AFAIR the US military decided to control their drones with an Xbox controller partly because most kids would be already familiar with it

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just as they designed their grenades (in ww2) to be roughly the same size as a baseball so most kids would be familiar.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 10 months ago

I mean, it's a good decision. Even from my own experience, when getting invited to play FIFA on a friend's Xbox (360), never having played anything on an Xbox before, the controller wasn't the reason I've lost badly, it being somewhat intuitive and handling reasonably smoothly

[–] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not an expert but heard this only really applies to light quadcopters. A large part of modern drone warfare are fpvs which are a lot harder to fly and require specialized controls (and training for them).

[–] Bureaucrat@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

I had a friend who was a pro starcraft player a few years ago. He drank ½-1 gallon of 3.5% milk every day and was thin as a reed and pale as a ghost.

[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

Real life is like vidja game

[–] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Controlling a drone swarm like enders game