CancerMancer

joined 3 years ago
[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago

"Nobody is respecting my right to take away your rights!"

You know what's really fun? All of these "features" affect the Consumer Price Index math so it makes your TV look even more valuable than it actually is, causing the government's official inflation rate to be a little lower than what we actually feel. This is true of smartphones, computers, cars, etc..

The fact you can't fix anything? Not included.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Solid list but you missed Saturn Bomberman. That version is one of the best ones.

Also Astal which was beautiful.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not terribly concerned if people write code and test it with AI, so long as they verify the results themselves.

I recently saw someone try to add a PR to something on github with thousands of lines of changes and then they got mad when people didn't want to do the free labour verifying it. That is a bullshit use of AI

This is the definition of both unnecessary and pointlessly provocative

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 weeks ago

Big bad: "so you have finally come to meet your doo-"

Competitionist: *drops bag of loot on boss, crushing all his bones*

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

Let me hear you say those sacrigilous swears baby

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Personally I wouldn't bet on the next election. Grassroots power takes a lot longer to build, but it's much more resilient in the long run. If you're joining the NDP get ready to play the long game.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I doubt the people are ready for another orange wave, at least until Avi Lewis gets the local activist networks going again. On that note I encourage people to actually join the NDP and help get things rolling. Membership is very affordable (depends on region, was <$20 for me) and they will put every dollar and minute you're willing to give to use.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Mind the context, we are talking about how little our society is capitalizing on the abilities of people, not on some stupid "we only use 10% of our brain" take

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I remember a talk by a Microsoft VP who said that a very optimistic estimate would be that we were using human intelligence and creativity at maybe 5% efficiency. The actual number is likely much lower than that.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

In one of the rare cases I find myself defending anything Linus does, Linus was attempting to install Steam on PopOS and it bricked the OS. Yes, he should read the warnings, but also how the fuck does that even make sense?

A thread on r/linuxmasterrace about this event pegged the fault at approximately 1/3 PopOS, 1/3 the package maintainer, and 1/3 Linus, and frankly I think they gave Linus too much fault.

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