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SkyeStarfall ,

Wealth and capitalism is anti-democratic. And this is a prime example.

SkyeStarfall ,

Billionaires are not democratic.

SkyeStarfall ,

Not without grassroots movements and uprisings. Especially when it comes to stuff like labour laws and slavery. If factory owners got their way, we would still have worked 12 hour workdays 7 days a week. The wealth was not shared with the people, anything gained was taken by force in the form of unrest and movements. In many ways the French Revolution was the subtle threat to every nation unless they gave the people what they wanted.

Then not to mention stuff like women’s rights and civil rights, which were not given thanks to wealth, but again due to grassroot movements and civil unrest. In many ways we still are facing tons of inequality today, due to the profit incentive of the people with wealth. See rising wealth inequality for example. If wealth and capitalism is what gave regular people political power, why do we not see this trend continue today?

If anything, I’d argue we got democracy and political power in spite of capitalism and concentration of wealth. Maybe it has more to do with the developed technology than with the economic system. Stuff like the printing press and easier access to knowledge. Requiring an educated populace to operate factories and producing more complex technological items. These kinds of stuff paving the way towards people getting “funny ideas” and thinking back on their position in the world, no longer accepting what was the status quo, but instead striving for something better.

I’d even argue that today’s capitalism is a compromise, because the people in power tried their hardest to stay in power, but not the ideal that we could have had.

SkyeStarfall ,

Rulers also knew that if they ended up behind other countries they would end up crushed by economics or times of war. Technology was vital long before democracy got its hold in the modern age. The industrial revolution happened under the British monarchy, after all. Did they block that development? The printing press was also created under the holy Roman empire, long before capitalism, and we can see how well that went with many monarchies trying to suppress it. Maybe they tried, but they failed.

Don’t look at the answer starting from capitalism and working backwards. History is much more nuanced than “the system we have right now is the best and is what caused good things”. It very well could be that the system itself is mostly coincidental, or due to parallell historical factors.

And technology would have been developed no matter the economic or political system. As it did, and as it does. As long as people researching new things get sufficient time and resources to do so. And they do, and did, because being more technologically advanced makes you stronger compared to others.

I mean, hell, saying capitalism is what solely incentivized development is completely ignoring how many resources state actors are pouring into science even today. From the US military to the global academic network. It wasn’t very different back then, at the start of capitalism. Philosophy traces back to ancient Greece, after all, and exists everywhere in between.

My whole point is that saying that “capitalism gave us political power” is the too simple answer. And I argue against it, because it posits capitalism as this objective good that should stay when that is not certain. And it may well be what is actually standing in the way of democracy. Maybe political power would have been spread to the people quicker if it were not for capitalism, hard to say, because capitalism quickly entrenched itself in the whole world. But history can give us clues.

In the end, it’s important to not necessarily attribute too much to capitalism, because, well, we live in, and have been, surrounded by capitalism our whole lives. With no part of the world really escaping it. We don’t have anything else to compare to, as we only have one world. We are always looking from a capitalistic point of view by default. But maybe there is more to everything than just capitalism.

SkyeStarfall ,

Nationalization? That’s not a new concept.

SkyeStarfall ,

I wouldn’t be okay with trump in the first place, so I don’t see how that’s much of a gotcha.

SkyeStarfall ,

Yes I support my position over others, what a revolutionary concept

SkyeStarfall ,

Here’s another question though

“Would I like this game more if I didnt have my cool item right now?”

Hard to say yes… But in practice the answer might very well be yes. Challenge in games is rarely something you directly ask for, you want the reward after all, but often the fun is in exactly overcoming those obstacles, and not actually the reward. In that sense encumbrance might feel bad… but being able to grab every single item always could very well ruin part of the fun.

In the end games are sets of challenges presented in certain ways, and its just whether those challenges work well from a game design perspective.

SkyeStarfall ,

Just because you don’t like inventory management doesn’t mean others don’t.

as boring as my actual job

Again, subjective, considering the popularity of job simulator games, like truck sim.

SkyeStarfall ,

Also did this person really refer to an experience they had 12 years ago??

I can’t even remember the shit that happened to me 2 years ago. The world was an entirely different place back then.

How Much Spying do We as a Society Wish to Allow? (www.youtube.com)

Almost everything based in technology spies on everyone now a days and most people are alright with it. I don’t understand why people are okay knowing this spying exists. Louis Rossman does a great job here showing us the disgusting tactics used by big corporations to gaslight people into believing them over what these...

SkyeStarfall ,

This is capitalism, not communism.

SkyeStarfall ,

What are, parasocial relationships?

SkyeStarfall ,

Ehm, no, the criticism for parasocial relationships isn’t that you’re a “parasite”, it’s that it can be unhealthy for you if you’re not careful. (Unless the parasite is targeted at the media person, in which case some do exploit this for profit and fame)

And it’s more than just liking a media person. It’s about feeling as if they are a friend that you personally know, and treat them like that.

Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach (krebsonsecurity.com)

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious…

SkyeStarfall ,

Cloud based systems can be perfectly sound. You can read how other managers do it, which are also audited by security experts. It’s just LastPass being bad.

And sure, local can be more secure, but you’re then at higher risk of losing access to it, should the worst happen.

SkyeStarfall ,

I don’t see older games being rated lower as a problem. Yes standards rise over time as games and technology gets better, that’s fine! If you took a mediocre modern AAA game and showed it to a reviewer 20 years ago, I’ll bet all my money it would be game of the year.

It makes more sense to let standards rise and adjust reviews to still keep a reasonable rating scale.

SkyeStarfall ,

A laptop is exactly the same as a desktop, just more portable.

SkyeStarfall , (edited )

?

The internals and software of a laptop and a desktop are almost identical.

SkyeStarfall , (edited )

What? The components are the same and work exactly the same way, maybe on just less power and different thermal configurations on laptops. Meanwhile phones use a different CPU architecture (at least, I don’t know the specifics of the rest), and a completely different OS structure. Meanwhile laptops use the exact same operating systems as desktops.

The same software will work the same in a desktop vs a PC, but that is not the case between a pc and a phone. It could in principle, because they are capable of the same things, but in practice it needs a rewrite, and so a lot of software doesn’t exist on phones.

SkyeStarfall ,

It means the OS is maturing, and has all th most necessary things. It is a good thing, indeed.

And yeah, our magic bricks have gotten to the point where it’s almost difficult to know what more one could want.

SkyeStarfall ,

Why not? It’s free speech if I denounce a business for their positions, is it not?

Or are you saying you disagree with free speech?

SkyeStarfall ,

Also, we are all looking at this backwards. The very definition of survivorship bias.

We always only see the luckiest people. All the richest people have been super lucky, because if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be the richest. And also the most ruthless for the same reasons.

If you look at all the lottery winners, then by definition you will see people who gambled and won. Because someone has to win. That doesn’t mean the lottery winners have some better skillets or are smarter at picking numbers than those who didn’t win.

SkyeStarfall ,

Ok, you got me, I should have read your username lmao

X plans to collect biometric information, job, education history for safety, security, and identification purposes. (thehackernews.com)

“Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” The revised policy of X(Twitter) is expected to go into effect on September 29, 2023....

SkyeStarfall ,

The saudi rulers are Elon’s friends. There is nothing there for him to learn from.

SkyeStarfall ,

aljazeera.com/…/saudis-kingdom-holding-company-to…

SkyeStarfall ,

Isn’t Russia one of the few countries that Cuba has a friendly relations with? Especially considering the US embargo on them? It isn’t very surprising they are choosing to stay silent.

SkyeStarfall ,

Nono that’s genius

…ignoring the part that it’s just a discrete approximation of an integral a la a Riemann sum.

SkyeStarfall ,

Why the quotation marks?

Neo-Nazi groups spew hate outside Disney World and near Orlando, officials say (www.nbcnews.com)

Groups of neo-Nazis and white supremacists spread antisemitic, white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ messages outside Disney World and in the nearby Orlando, Florida, area Saturday in the latest examples of rising antisemitism in the U.S., officials said....

SkyeStarfall ,

To me it always seemed weird how saying “we should eradicate jews by our own hand” or “we should kill this jew” would probably not be okay because of inciting violence, but saying “we should eradicate jews… Through the law/state” instead is perfectly acceptable and not inciting violence.

Is one level of indirection really enough to make it okay? The end result is the same.

This is also why such free speech has problems. If you’re the one spewing that shit it’s all fine and dandy for you, but if you’re the targeted minority what can you do, exactly? Certainly you cannot legally physically defend yourself! You’re just destined to have to defend your literal existence with speech, like jeez. It’s so lopsided.

SkyeStarfall ,

The truth is, we do have enough resources. We just care more about the economy and profit than our future climate (which will also strongly affect the economy, but that’s in the future so…).

If we actually valued the climate as much as we ought to, switching fully to renewables would be a bargain.

SkyeStarfall ,

Don’t underestimate the battery potential of gravity!

According to …wikipedia.org/…/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity#…. The round-trip efficiency of pumped storage is 70-80%, that’s pretty darn good for cheap mass-storage. There’s not much more to gain there.

SkyeStarfall ,

With some high voltage long-range transmission lines you could viably do it pretty much everywhere. Just requires some cooperation.

Yes it will slightly reduce efficiency over very long distances, but it’s not unreasonable amounts.

Not counting games that were unfun because of bugs, what’s the most unfun video game that you’ve played and what made it unfun?

Most of the video games I’ve played were pretty good. The only one I can think of that I didn’t like was MySims Kingdom for the Nintendo DS. Dropped that pretty quickly. It was a long while ago, but I’ll guess it was because there were too many fetch quests and annoying controls.

SkyeStarfall ,

Here’s a big question though

What’s the difference between predatory tactics to hook people into a game, and “normal” gameplay, whatever that is? If neither cost any money or have microtransactions in any way?

Is Diablo 2 using predatory mechanics? Is Counter Strike? Is Factorio?

Games are artificial constructs. If you deconstruct them entirely, unless they got some story to tell as the center point of the game, their mechanics and goals are entirely artificial and constructed to get you to keep playing, be engaged, and have fun, whatever that means and implies.

Because, well, in the end, games do not have a grand purpose. Their purpose is entertainment(or be art, but not all games have that goal). And so if vampire survivors keep you engaged and enjoy the game… Is that really that much different to other games? Another example to this are idle/incremental games, as a pure distillation of what games are. Are they predatory? Is there really much difference from the very core of other, more “proper”, games?

SkyeStarfall ,

Kinky

SkyeStarfall ,

Yeah, it could actually work if it’s tuned properly. Certainly it could at least be an additional tool for moderators.

SkyeStarfall ,

They all are in search of life in some form. They look for water, they analyze soil, they analyze the atmosphere, and so on.

If life existed, it would create byproducts we could detect, or we could find water which is likely to be a pre-requisite for life.

All of these things, in some form, relate to life.

SkyeStarfall ,

Uh, so you shouldn’t criticize games here…?

I prefer people giving their honest opinions to whatever they think the collective deems acceptable.

SkyeStarfall ,

Do a significant amount of people using wayland even want or need to remote exactly like in X?

SkyeStarfall , (edited )

You never care about security until you get your credentials stolen

SkyeStarfall ,

Heavily relatable ngl

SkyeStarfall , (edited )

Sex is far more complicated than just what is assigned at birth. Especially if you take stuff like hormones into consideration.

Nature doesn’t work in discrete categories. Almost everything in nature is fluid and amorphous to some degree. Exceptions to every rule humans can think of.

And if you talk about sex about purely what gametes you have, then that isn’t really very useful to talk about in practice outside of reproduction. When laymen talk about sex, they mean perceived sex more than anything else (and to prove the point, the article talks about sexed places and such…). Leave anything else to medical professionals.

Is Twitter/X really going to shut down anytime soon?

As a disclaimer, I am a passive hater of Twitter/X ie I don’t like it as a toxic social media platform and haven’t used it but I am not asking the users to move to Threads or some other fediverse alternative as a paid promoter. Also I don’t really intend to keep a strict tab on its status since I get any related major...

SkyeStarfall ,

People go where the audience is. The more people leave, the bigger pressure the rest will feel to follow.

SkyeStarfall ,

Actually, no. Giving them money, a personal shelter, and general baselines support goes a massively long way and sets a proper foundation that then later allows people to get clean and improve their mental health much easier.

So, no, first they need to have their independence and dignity respected, and then the other stuff.

SkyeStarfall ,

What else would be the answer, then? Windows is a commercial product by Microsoft. They will never get better unless forced to. They will keep getting worse for profit because, well, that’s what they do.

The whole point about an open-source operating system is that you can make it yours, and nobody can take that away from you. And the more people use linux, the better it gets. Commercial closed sources products can never have the same qualities.

Linux 6.6 To Better Protect Against The Illicit Behavior Of NVIDIA's Proprietary Driver (www.phoronix.com)

Luis Chamberlain sent out the modules changes today for the Linux 6.6 merge window. Most notable with the modules update is a change that better builds up the defenses against NVIDIA’s proprietary kernel driver from using GPL-only symbols. Or in other words, bits that only true open-source drivers should be utilizing and not...

SkyeStarfall ,

Ehm, not at all??

There’s so much hardware with non-proprietary drivers.

SkyeStarfall ,

Or maybe we should keep companies, which rake in billions of dollars, to a much higher standard??

Nvidia could be better at open-sourcing their stuff. But they don’t. Blame them, not GPL.

SkyeStarfall ,

Or maybe we shouldn’t just accept trillion dollar companies doing whatever the fuck they want?

Nvidia is clearly on the wrong here, and infringing on copyright. Do you want to set the precedent that companies can just ignore copyright? Meanwhile when we certainly can’t ignore theirs?

Maybe we should hold the companies to a higher standard. And not roll over and give in basically as soon as they do something we don’t like, compromising the foundation and good parts of what we already have, in this case Linux. Open source and GPL is the lifeblood of Linux, it’s what makes it as good and useful as it is.

SkyeStarfall ,

Linux is the gold standard in many high end GPU applications, like AI, though?

A B.C. study gave 50 homeless people $7,500 each. Here's what they spent it on. (bc.ctvnews.ca)

Zhao says having data on how people who did get the money actually spent it is something she thinks will help counteract stereotypes, increase empathy and potentially get skeptics and the public on board with the idea of providing cash transfers....

SkyeStarfall ,

Yeah, it’s already hard enough not to struggle with mental health as is, even in materially good conditions, and then you add onto that losing everything and being forced to live on the streets with everything that brings? Maybe without even having any form for food security?

You are in a straight up survival situation. And it may be especially painful because you’re not alone out in the wilderness…

You’re surrounded by people. Many of whom are very well off. You are surrounded by people who have a home, food, luxuries, and everything, and you cannot have any of that. You’re not allowed to, by society.

It’s a goddamn nightmare. No fucking shit people struggle or just straight up break. I would too.

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