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thedirtyknapkin

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  • Pete Hegseth Is Trying to Resegregate the Military

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  • even banning trans people from enlistment is intentional for keeping people they don't like down. historically in america military service has been a MASSIVE social stepping stone for the underprivileged. it's hard for them to call you a coward when you fought in a war for them. it's hard for them to say you would be a bad neighbor when you were a good brother in arms.

    many black families used it as their first step out of poverty and into acceptance. now trans people, who are derided as cowards and corrupting influences on your community, are being denied that privilege. vance and co. are very aware of this.

  • [meta] Attributed

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  • the etiquette is to find the original yourself, it's usually not that hard, just reverse image search it, or not post it. why would you feel so obligated to share a comic with no author that someone else made?

    it's easy to be a shitty person without intending to. that's why we need to police our own actions and be conscious of the effect we have on others. when sharing the already stolen art we are perpetuating a problematic cycle. just because you didn't start it and many others are doing it, that doesn't make it less wrong.

    sharing someone else's dumb joke is one of the lowest forms of interaction anyway. i have numerous friends that have devolved into that being the only way they communicate with others. i mostly just don't talk to them anymore. i really don't care about the reels they send me. no one should ever feel like they have some kind of right to post someone else's art.

    i also generally hate the anti self promotion rules so many subteddits have. the ones that don't are objectively better that the ones that do. what would you rather see? one more shared content mill whith the same 50 posts over and over and exclusivity stolen art. or something like r/comics with like 10 artists that all use it as a common platform to share their work.

    you may find the content that is currently popular there questionably horny, but that's more of a reddit demographic problem than an issue with letting artists self promote. in just arguing that i prefer a platform like that where you interact with the artists and new authors pop up and disappear regularly. you also get unique interactions like the artists quickly throwing together a comment reply as a bonus panel.

    my point is that this place could be a better community than so much of reddit if we use it as a history book and learn from its victories and mistakes. it starts with policing ourselves and each other towards these goals. not reposting unatributed slop is one of those things we should not be doing if we want a good community.

  • Maybe someone will write an article about about it later...

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  • hmm, while I'm doing menial/mindless tasks i really like educational podcasts and audiobooks. i can pay attention just fine while doing yard work or driving to work. i find music doesn't occupy my mind enough while doing things like that.

  • A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth

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  • is already so bad. i do astro timelapses and it's all you see anymore. they stand out so much now, if the quantity gets 100x'd it'll be a nightmare.

    it will blot out the stars...

  • It's free real estate

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  • realistic scifi can be fun for general audiences still. they just have to focus on the right bits.

    look at the early seasons of for all mankind. it's about the realistic process of achieving space flight goals. it spends 60% of its runtime on how the launch even comes to happen. then it shows the bits that go wrong and the ways they manage fix them and the political/personal drama of the decision making process on all sides.

    now, that's a very dry show for people that like science, politics, and history, but the realistic scifi could just as easily be wrapped in a funny show about dumb politicians and crazy rich people. use the same strategies, but make it about the engineers at space x having to work under musk. show them having to suddenly pivot away from lidar for no reason other than musk's ego. show them trying to talk about space flight with a podcast bro. create drama when one of the main character's lives is actually on the line because no one trusts the new valve gasket supplier musk brought in for political clout.

    the parts stat trek glosses over are the parts realistic scifi focuses on. like how they decide what planet to go to next. the episode always starts with them already there or randomly being drawn somewhere. or like what actual physics would matter in what they're doing and not "plasma phase inverter coils" needing to be "degaussed of subspace radiation".

  • Prepared for this day

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  • hence my drawer of converters having Whole partition just for vga converters. I've needed all of them at least once.

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  • i did mean 11, My pc is plenty powerful it just doesn't happen to include a tpm chip. i have no issues with power. it handles 4k 120p 10 bit timelines fine. upgrading right now in this market would be asinine if software wasn't pushing me into 11.

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  • man I'm facing either needing to get a new pc in THIS market to use 10, or find an entire new professional software workflow to do my job. professional video on Linux isn't real. hobbysist video sure, but pro video work with partners just isn't realistic on linux.

    this is the first thing that's actually pushing me hard.

  • Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy

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  • hmm it's more like if the supermarket closed... you still need food (social interaction). so where do you get it now. like you ate out sometimes before, you let others cook for you every so often. but for many, discord is their primary means of keeping in touch. you need to find something to replace it. so we're all debating if we grow our own food or drive 4 hours to the next closest which already has going out of business signs up.

    not wanting to use a platform that someone prefers is the easiest way to lose touch with someone these days. like i struggle to socialize with tiktok people these days just because i don't get their references and they can't send me their memes. if they're also an imessage diehard we probably just haven't talked in a while.

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • hmm idk, i only know like 2 people in my life that still use Facebook heavily. i know it's different in India though.

    Facebook has seen stagnation or user drops in most mature markets, it's still growing in growing markets. India especially represents like half of all Facebook now.

    no idea where you might be from, but this is not a globally universal issue. this will likely play out differently in different markets.

  • Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users: Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"

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  • they didn't say they were wrong, just an asshole.

    it's like someone died to a live wire and you correct their family that it was the amps not the voltage that killed them. you're not wrong, but you're a tone deaf dickhead.

  • Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

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  • yes, the vast majority of web traffic is phones using apps. no person that uses this platform is an average user.

    even if your family hates tiktok it's still massively popular.

    especially among the youth who probably only have a really shitty locked down chromebook from their school and the recently developing world. in the global south most people never got a decent computer. they all got phones instead. once you're on a phone everything pushes you towards apps.

  • Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

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  • well that's why most people use apps instead. the real internet is so hostile without a guide.

    especially now that you can't use the mainstream browsers and do it. the barrier to entry has gotten so high that i don't blame kids for being put off by computers and prefering their phones for everything. tiktok has annoying ass ads, but no apps are as bad as the average news website...

    it reminds me of trying to learn about cars growing up. i didn't learn about cars growing up. i tried, but everyone i tried to learn from spent the whole time complaining about all the anticonsumer practices that made cars shitty these days. all the hoops you have to jump through to work on them yourself anymore. how the manufactures went out of their way over the course of years to take what used to be a fun tinkerers hobby for the everyman and made it incredibly difficult and expensive to do yourself.

    my take away was "I hate cars". so when i hear teenagers these days say that they hate computers i get it. they fucking suck now and there's this 8 foot fence of knowing how to make them suck less before they can even start wanting to learn about them. but it's going to take them a very very long time to get good enough with the computer that they can accomplish anything on it better than on their phone. so we have trucks full of ladders that can scale that fence, and even if we lose our ladders we know how to scale that fence barehanded if we gotta. but the kids just walk around the fence because they don't value what's inside. why would they?

    so I'm just waiting for the old pc based intent to slowly wither away as we age with it... places like this becoming out last bastions in a world that requires validated apps on phones.

  • Do you prefer fluffy UI over Liquid Glass?

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  • honestly, theirs looks so much better. i can actualy see the the appeal.

  • Do you prefer fluffy UI over Liquid Glass?

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  • i bet they could find some way to premake the hair animations on icons like this. like they really only need to move in 2 directions. you could make that look pretty good with like 200 canned animations. different speeds and start/stop styles is all you should really need. at that point it's not too different from creating a walk loop for a video game. you'd just be calling up various premade animations with a system to string them together believably. it's totally doable. certainly no worse than other "live wallpapers" that were a popular included feature about a decade ago.

  • Man who squirted apple cider vinegar on Ilhan Omar is charged with assaulting and intimidating her

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  • "intimidation" yall saw the video. that was attempted intimidation at best lol. she wasn't intimidated for shit. ran right at the dude.

  • Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

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  • yeah, they really lost their early edge on the granny gamer market lol. they've all jumped ship to those bejeweled like games and virtual jugsaw puzzles. maybe wordle if they're bookish.

    i think there are little things you can play in some of their messaging platforms, but they change so much on those so often that these kinds of users probably ignore 90% of the interface. i think those hit more with the gen z and gen a younger crowds. especially when it can also become social media content. tiktok is great at that.

  • Meta has discontinued its metaverse for work, too

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  • i guess, but it woulf require the least likely people to adopt a new and expensive technology. think about how long it took for the older generations to catch on to the internet and smart phones. they may be glued together now but it took 20 years and every single other person on earth getting one to make it happen.

    warcraft for your lonely aunt is a fine idea. making that vr was poorly conceived. it would have to work on a phone AND be more compelling than just taking on call or text.

    but also, the early adopter types that are more or less necessary to get something like this off three ground were never going to like it. that's us. you can't create a new tech market segment that wasn't explicitly asked for without at least considering the nerds. meta has negative trust among nerds. we all saw this as the marketing and data collection tool that it is meant to be.

    it was never going to happen. at least until they have full control of all of our devices and platforms and can just say we need it to continue existing in society now. that or b2b contracts are the only ways i could see this ever taking off. it would take some serious marketing voodoo bullshit to convince any sizable businesses that this would increase profits.

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    I don't get why they're okay with this

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  • how about a wait and see model that i like with all megacorp pushed updates now. that way i can decide if i want their latest batch of ai bullshit, or read the headlines about which cpus their vibecoding bricked this time before it's too late.

    unfortunately automatic updates require a small amount of trust that the update will not break things or change things without permission. Microslop currently has negative trust.

    maybe this is good for the average end user, but dissallowing powerusers from doing stuff like this is exactly what annoys me about apple. now microslop is even worse about it....

    i just want to actualy control the things i own and not be told how to use my computer.