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  1. Comment on Algorithmic Complacency: Algorithms are breaking how we think in ~tech

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    Great video, really eloquently explains why the feeling "the internet used to be better" goes deeper than just ads or SEO spam. Content being given to you is very different than you going to find...

    Great video, really eloquently explains why the feeling "the internet used to be better" goes deeper than just ads or SEO spam. Content being given to you is very different than you going to find content. The pseudo-agency of a data trail feeding into a recommendation algorithm is good enough for most people to not examine the implications much more deeply, and it's increasingly clear how big of a problem this is. It goes beyond just a lifestyle choice of how people choose to spend their free time, social media platforms are exceptionally powerful tools for shaping public perception. We're seeing the consequences of this play out right now in the US.

    8 votes
  2. Comment on Shorthorn Project - Run modern programs on Windows XP/2003 in ~comp

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    In the era of ubiquitous translation tools with the target of the most spoken human language (and the lingua franca of software), spelling mistakes like "awesone", "beatiful", and "tecnology" are...

    In the era of ubiquitous translation tools with the target of the most spoken human language (and the lingua franca of software), spelling mistakes like "awesone", "beatiful", and "tecnology" are not a language barrier thing, they're laziness.

    2 votes
  3. Comment on Shorthorn Project - Run modern programs on Windows XP/2003 in ~comp

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    Doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

    Shorhorn is awesone project
    revolutionize your world

    Is a project to transform Windows XP/2003 in a moderns systems, with beatiful interface, compatible and very fast, based in One-Core-API tecnology

    Doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

    6 votes
  4. Comment on I don't want to be this kind of animal anymore | Disco Elysium analysis in ~games

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    Action Button is a fantastic channel, I can't recommend enough. The Boku no Natsuyasumi video and the Tokimeki Memorial videos are two of my favorite essays ever.

    Action Button is a fantastic channel, I can't recommend enough. The Boku no Natsuyasumi video and the Tokimeki Memorial videos are two of my favorite essays ever.

    2 votes
  5. Comment on 5 Calls in ~society

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    If you're in the US and you're feeling overwhelmed, there is something meaningful you can do. 5 Calls helps you find your representatives and gives you guidance on how to call them to make your...

    If you're in the US and you're feeling overwhelmed, there is something meaningful you can do. 5 Calls helps you find your representatives and gives you guidance on how to call them to make your voice heard.

    2 votes
  6. Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck in ~games

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    My PC is strictly a gaming machine so I don't need it to be general purpose. It's currently running Windows which makes it unsuitable for general purpose computing anyway.

    My PC is strictly a gaming machine so I don't need it to be general purpose. It's currently running Windows which makes it unsuitable for general purpose computing anyway.

    2 votes
  7. Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck in ~games

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    This is an older, unmaintained version of Steam OS. Not the version for Steam Deck.

    This is an older, unmaintained version of Steam OS. Not the version for Steam Deck.

    1 vote
  8. Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck in ~games

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    Now they just need to officially support installing it on my gaming PC.

    Now they just need to officially support installing it on my gaming PC.

    28 votes
  9. Comment on CES 2025 in ~tech

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    Waiting for a good OLED 4K 120hz+ 27" display without compromising on text clarity due to weirdo subpixel layouts.

    Waiting for a good OLED 4K 120hz+ 27" display without compromising on text clarity due to weirdo subpixel layouts.

    5 votes
  10. Comment on Pornhub is now blocked in almost all of the US South in ~tech

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    I think supergauntlet's point was we have too many people who spend too much time working and not enough time parenting, so it's much harder to use personal responsibility as a rebuttal against...

    I think supergauntlet's point was we have too many people who spend too much time working and not enough time parenting, so it's much harder to use personal responsibility as a rebuttal against the argument of "please think of the children" etc.

    The neoliberal worldview is definitionally opposed to anything that hinders the capital class from gathering wealth, and that is especially inclusive of things like labor protections. In their view a free market would be enough protection for laborers because an abusive employer would lose employees to other, non-abusive employers. Of course we know this isn't how it works in practice, and that without government that represents working people enforcing boundaries, the capital class will exploit and extract from labor until people break.

    I don't see any incompatible thoughts here. There are factions of religious people who want to ban porn for morality, factions who want to ban porn for health reasons, factions who don't really care but will ally with those factions, factions who want this kind of bill passed to restrict internet freedom generally and the porn ban is a vehicle for that, etc.

    There are enough people with these factions to have passed these laws. Simultaneously we are living in a neoliberal deathspiral, the capital class continues to amass wealth and power while more and more people are unable to provide for their basic needs of housing, food, and healthcare, let alone a luxury like having free time to enrich your family or getting an education.

    12 votes
  11. Comment on Kagi Small Web in ~tech

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    It's really good, and it's truly indie. Unlike Kagi which is trying to be a big company, Marginalia is just one guy doing something to help the web he loves. Really inspiring stuff.

    It's really good, and it's truly indie. Unlike Kagi which is trying to be a big company, Marginalia is just one guy doing something to help the web he loves. Really inspiring stuff.

    9 votes
  12. Comment on Kagi Small Web in ~tech

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    I don't necessarily disagree with you but what Russia ties are you talking about? I hadn't heard that. Do you have any reading I can do on the subject?

    I don't necessarily disagree with you but what Russia ties are you talking about? I hadn't heard that. Do you have any reading I can do on the subject?

    4 votes
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  14. Comment on European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X in ~tech

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    anyone can create an algorithmic feed, you can pin as many different ones as you want and browse them at your leisure blocking someone fully removes them completely from your view, everywhere, no...
    • anyone can create an algorithmic feed, you can pin as many different ones as you want and browse them at your leisure
    • blocking someone fully removes them completely from your view, everywhere, no exceptions
    • shared block lists allow you to easily en-masse block trolls, engagement farmers, bots, etc
    9 votes
  15. Comment on How Donald Trump won, and how Kamala Harris lost in ~society

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    Or impeachment! But yes, what I mean to say by "extreme" is "outside of established norms."

    Or impeachment! But yes, what I mean to say by "extreme" is "outside of established norms."

    8 votes
  16. Comment on How Donald Trump won, and how Kamala Harris lost in ~society

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    Voting on emotion doesn't make you stupid. It's human nature to look out for yourself and your family. To the extent that voters are unplugged from politics and are uninformed/misinformed, yes,...
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    Voting on emotion doesn't make you stupid. It's human nature to look out for yourself and your family. To the extent that voters are unplugged from politics and are uninformed/misinformed, yes, true, and they've been conditioned into this state by the very people we're talking about trying to defeat. If government was doing as much as it could be for people they'd be far less likely to fall into the radicalization funnels that the right has so skillfully created. We don't need every voter to exercise critical thinking on every issue. We need is leadership that can appeal to their emotions in a similar way that the right is now, and then use that attention to win elections and enact policies that truly help them.

    Also, regardless of how you may personally feel about it, I would encourage you to consider how much of this mess has been exacerbated by us supposedly "smart" folk disrespecting our fellow Americans and calling them stupid etc. There is a significant portion of them that are racist and misogynistic and do not deserve our respect, but not every person who voted for Trump holds those views and we NEED those people to come around to our side eventually. We need to hear them, try to understand them, and befriend them. The chickens WILL come home to roost and people are going to be in even more pain and hurt, ALL of us are. When those people see that Trump doesn't give a fuck about them and will not be helping them, they're going to be adrift and that is when we extend a hand and say, "yes, this is all so fucked up, what can we do about it together?"

    Trump and his goons are far more organized this time, but they all have a critical flaw: they're only in it for themselves and they're greedy as hell. There's going to be infighting amongst them that hamstrings a lot of their agendas and it's going to be painfully obvious how self-interested they are when things start to fall apart for the average person, and meanwhile Trump and his buds are laughing and lining their pockets. Make no mistake, we're in serious trouble. They're going to gut our country from the inside, and when take it back (we WILL) it's going to be in tatters. But we will take it back. Then the real work begins.

    Problem Challenge 1: Democratic donors are wealthy and in control and are a part of the problem. When I say the defining mode of our politics is class warfare I am talking outside of party. D or R, if you're a moneyed interest you're part of the problem and we want you out. Money in politics is going to keep corrupting the whole system until we can fix it. Our vehicle to do so is easiest through the Democrats because of how ingrained the laws to enforce a two party system are, and yes that will be a real challenge. I don't know what this will look like. We either pull the Democrats forward or we abandon them. (Also, it's possible the "brand" Democrat is irrevocably tarnished anyway.)

    Problem Challenge 2. The Republicans own the Supreme Court, yes, until we expand the size of the court. Sound extreme? Yes it is. So is Project 2025. So is stripping naturalized citizens of their citizenship. So is preventing women from controlling their bodies. So is giving tax cuts to billionaires and corporations. Two can play at this game. We play and we play with morals and with the good of the people in mind. To your last point about election integrity, yes, a serious challenge and I don't have a playbook for you. I'm personally comforted by our elections being controlled at the state level and being very difficult to really "rig" meaningfully.

    To sum all of this up: what's the alternative here? We give up? We lay down and take it? I refuse, and so should you. This is an opportunity to take our country and transform it for the better. DO NOT GIVE UP.

    33 votes
  17. Comment on How Donald Trump won, and how Kamala Harris lost in ~society

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    I think it's a failing of the Democratic party to go far enough supporting the working class, and the social issues are not the problem. The Democrats have failed spectacularly at resisting the...
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    I think it's a failing of the Democratic party to go far enough supporting the working class, and the social issues are not the problem. The Democrats have failed spectacularly at resisting the Republican's efforts to paint them as the party of social issues. They should have been ignoring the attacks about trans rights and been screaming from the hilltops about Lina Khan's FTC, the CHIPS act, the Inflation Reduction Act, the investments in infrastructure and manufacturing, the IRS going after corporations cheating on their taxes, etc.

    The defining characteristic of our politics is class warfare, and the Democrats need to wake the fuck up and stop letting themselves get bogged down with identity politics. Yes, trans rights and gay rights (I'm a gay man myself) and women's rights and minority rights are CRITICALLY important. But none of those things are going to happen if we can't win elections, and we can't win elections if we let the Democrats keep being milquetoast on supporting the working class and being loud about it.

    Federal workers program to build houses -- build 3 million new houses, with union workers, cost capped to the ability of the person to afford it. Break up big big tech, tax the rich, tax the corporations, use that money to ACTUALLY IMPROVE THE LIVES OF WORKING PEOPLE!

    It is not a surprise Trump won. People are hurting. They aren't stupid, but they are tired and they are worn down and that is BY DESIGN. The billionaires and the corporations are winning and we need to get our shit together to fight back, or we're all fucked.

    87 votes
  18. Comment on Any recommendations for books, novellas and short story collections? in ~books

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    I love Greg Egan so much. <3 His stuff is just a little less accessible than Ted Chiang's.

    I love Greg Egan so much. <3 His stuff is just a little less accessible than Ted Chiang's.

    3 votes
  19. Comment on Any recommendations for books, novellas and short story collections? in ~books

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    If you haven't read any of Ted Chiang, he has two great collections of short stories and is a brilliant writer. Scifi.

    If you haven't read any of Ted Chiang, he has two great collections of short stories and is a brilliant writer. Scifi.

    6 votes