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Comment on Tesla Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas investigated as possible terrorism in ~news
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Comment on Tesla Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas investigated as possible terrorism in ~news
Eji1700 LinkFrom what i've seen, I doubt it is. We know it's active army special forces on leave. I would not be shocked in the slightest if they were overconfident and were insecurely transporting all their...From what i've seen, I doubt it is.
We know it's active army special forces on leave. I would not be shocked in the slightest if they were overconfident and were insecurely transporting all their 31st camping stuff (fuel and fireworks) and low and behold blew themselves up.
The idea this is somehow a suicide bombing just seems to unlikely. They'd need to both want to kill themselves, send a message, but not harm many others? They could have easily driven that truck into the foyer and then blown themselves up and done a LOT more damage.
I think the only interesting question remaining is what set off the explosion. High odds a smoker, but might be there's something to do with cybertrucks that can cause a spark in rare cases.
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Comment on Pornhub is now blocked in almost all of the US South in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentYeah too many people don't understand why these laws are actually making it through. As much as there's a very nasty/puritan component to it, there's a very real "well what the fuck can I do"...Yeah too many people don't understand why these laws are actually making it through. As much as there's a very nasty/puritan component to it, there's a very real "well what the fuck can I do" angle. It's not unreasonable to say you don't want your kid to be exposed violence/sex/whatever or to at least have some controls on it.
Movies have a rating system, stores have to abide by certain advertising laws. The internet, in theory, abides by having you lie and say "yeah i'm 18" when you're not, but it's obviously the weakest of these systems as there's no accountability.
This ABSOLUTELY bumps into citizen privacy and internet privacy, but it's very clear that the equivalent real world analogues are being forced to play by rules that the internet sites do not need to. I feel like the "ideal" solution is somehow having an opt in system that flags "everything coming from my IP should require a password I set to view adult content".
Sites indicate what flags they apply (violence/sex/drugs/whatever), user configures what flags they want to trigger the pw on.
This is of course a stream of consciousness mock up but it's probably in the right direction. Of course that's also super unlikely to happen for all sorts of technical and political reasons.
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Comment on 'A terrorist attack,' says New Orleans mayor after driver plows into crowd, killing at least ten in ~news
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Comment on 'A terrorist attack,' says New Orleans mayor after driver plows into crowd, killing at least ten in ~news
Eji1700 Link ParentHaven't seen anything solid on the "flag" still. Claims it's a covered flag, was covered during the attack, is just a camera covered with a jacket, etc.Haven't seen anything solid on the "flag" still. Claims it's a covered flag, was covered during the attack, is just a camera covered with a jacket, etc.
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Comment on What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) in ~anime
Eji1700 LinkFinally taking another stab at Katanagatari with the wife. Tried years ago and while I did love it it does stretch its episodes. Easier when watching with someone else but I do wish it could have...Finally taking another stab at Katanagatari with the wife. Tried years ago and while I did love it it does stretch its episodes.
Easier when watching with someone else but I do wish it could have gotten a dub
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Comment on What are your personal highlights for this past year? in ~life
Eji1700 LinkGot a house, then got married. Marriage went perfectly, getting a house went about as good as it could. I look forward to a much less eventful 2025.Got a house, then got married. Marriage went perfectly, getting a house went about as good as it could. I look forward to a much less eventful 2025.
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Comment on All main Disney animated canon films are going to be destroyed and you can save five, which five do you pick? in ~movies
Eji1700 LinkHunchback, Fantasia, Tangled, Emperors New Groove, Aladdin. Picture I used for reference in case anyone else wants one https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fb43az2wkjde21.pngHunchback, Fantasia, Tangled, Emperors New Groove, Aladdin.
Picture I used for reference in case anyone else wants one
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Comment on Half-Life 3 playtests begin and 2025 reveal “quite possible,” says Valve insider in ~games
Eji1700 Link ParentI just want you to know that as someone with the minimum experience coding professionally starting that list with "should be easily achievable" instinctively spiked my blood pressure. This is of...Minimum expectations, should be easily achievable or basically already done via engine:
Source 2 or newer engine Same great graphics, with an overhaul for 2024 standards. Honestly their tech was before it's time, updates here could be minimal and it'd still work Same great physics engine, updated to 2024 standards. Same addendum as above. Gravity gun Same great gunplay, touched up Same basic gameplay. Good level design, with mix of vehicles, puzzles, and gunplay Great control scheme, broad compatibility for PC / Linux / Console if applicable Continues the main story in a way that makes sense Bring back all the old classics. Antlions, airboats, gman, whatever else. It should feel nostalgic and new at the same time. Same voice actors, if possible Awesome trailers and release marketing. Hit the nostalgia notes.Realistic stretch goals they'll do to make it stand out:
Multiplayer mode without gameplay altering MTX. Cosmetics galore, go nuts. Not required, but multiplayer can be fun. Some sort of new physics-gun like tool. I can't conceive of what. Maybe something to spawn and build things, i.e. Gmod? Some new suit-based upgrade system? Some sort of new gameplay mechanic that doesn't detract from the original gameplay, but adds on and compliments it. Maybe a "home base" system, or RPG mechanics done in a tasteful way (for SP). Even more advanced physics things? Fluid dynamics? Fun new vehicles. Drones? Open world? Not at all necessary, but maybe. If it's not done right, it could ruin the experience. Halo 3 ODST is a great example of an "open world" game that weaves in linear levels in way that makes sense and is fun. Easter eggs / dev commentary, perhaps as an updateI just want you to know that as someone with the minimum experience coding professionally starting that list with "should be easily achievable" instinctively spiked my blood pressure.
This is of course mostly a joke but I think people overestimate what even the "easy" part of stuff like this is.
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Comment on Half-Life 3 playtests begin and 2025 reveal “quite possible,” says Valve insider in ~games
Eji1700 Link ParentWhile I think the pure hype of the older generation would certainly spread, I agree that you're likely overrating the audience that cares for HL vs the audience that cares for GTA VI. HL and HL2...While I think the pure hype of the older generation would certainly spread, I agree that you're likely overrating the audience that cares for HL vs the audience that cares for GTA VI.
HL and HL2 hit just right and were huge cornerstones because of how they changed the field, literally setting the standard for the future. A big argument as to why 3 wasn't made (nor ep 3) was they really weren't sure what else they could do. Alyx was made because, once again, they set the standard for VR, and we also saw that while it was astonishing, it didn't exactly finally launch VR into every day life.
If HL3 was just another half life with some great mechanics and the lore many have been craving, it wold do fine, but it absolutely would pale in comparison to GTA VI. Maybe they can once again pull a rabbit out of their hat and do something that is another milestone, but I'm really not sure how.
Hell, personally, I'm excited just to see if they can stick the landing on the story. The spoiled HL3 ending was actually great (it's so so hard to do these stories right) but I've no idea if HL3 can actually pull any of that off, would now that it's spoiled, or won't just end in yet another cliffhanger.
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Comment on South Korean researchers convert cancer cells back into normal cells in ~health
Eji1700 Link ParentYeah it’s a mess in both directions. You first get the media and sometimes the lab vastly overhyping results. Then you get 99% of it washing out in trials because oops it doesn’t work/kills...Yeah it’s a mess in both directions.
You first get the media and sometimes the lab vastly overhyping results.
Then you get 99% of it washing out in trials because oops it doesn’t work/kills people/whatever.
Then some small % becomes part of a new therapy that probably adds 2-5 months+ of lifespan for the people diagnosed and properly treated.
Only the initial speculation has the sex appeal that the media wants, and thus you never hear the rest. I am of course over simplifying tremendously but medicine is hardly the only field with recycled miracle stories while real progress is ignored.
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Comment on Why democracy? in ~society
Eji1700 LinkI think you fundamentally misunderstand one of the main selling points of representative democracy, which is handling the transition of power. Lets start with a perfect government. Dictator,...- Exemplary
I think you fundamentally misunderstand one of the main selling points of representative democracy, which is handling the transition of power.
Lets start with a perfect government. Dictator, democracy, communism, doesn't matter. Imagine whatever you want, it's perfect. Everyone in power is great and things are great.
So.....what happens in 100 years when literally every single person involved is dead? How do you select new people?
Historically, it was basically "rulers choice". "I rule absolutely so my kids will or my favorite general will or my concubine will or whatever".
There's a couple of problems with this, but one of the BIG ones, is it's very inflexible. You're hoping that the new guard will understand things as well as the old guard, and be able to adapt and shift to the times.
The problem is, if they CAN'T be flexible (like say there's a huge fucking war brewing and no one knows if they should get involved or not), there's really not a whole lot of options for the populace. In general as much as rulers rule, they've needed people. The more people you have, the more output you can produce, and perhaps as importantly, the more likely you are to be able to defend your country from those who have a difference of opinion on who's land it is and what rules they should follow and who should be allowed to continue breathing.
So...we have our neighboring war, and a pissed off populace, and some form of absolute leader who refuses to do what the populace wants, to their detriment.
Well the classic release valve for this is all sorts of civil issues, with the most extreme being full out civil war. Civil wars are often really really really bad for the country involved as you are only weakening yourself, making life worse for EVERYONE, and making you more attractive to be attacked by foreign powers (who will get involved one way or another). There are few worse outcomes for a society than all out civil war.
And this is where things like democracy come in. It's a release valve that splits power. Don't like the current regime, well rather than having to take up your pitchforks and have everyone dead in the street in a months time, you just ride it out to the next election and vote them out. Huzzah, movement is made on getting a different outcome.
The details get fuzzy from there because there's still LOTS of different ways to do this, and because ideally you also want to split power so one election doesn't occur and then end in "and guess what i'm NEVER leaving". Further countries have a desire to flexible, but only to a point. You can't make trade agreements with a country who's changing their laws and rules every day, so ideally you stagger your elections so there's some level of short/middle/long term offices to help ease transitions.
Of note, all of this is premised on the idea that you really really really don't want the populace shooting each other and your military because you CAN'T win at that point. People often point out how impossible it would be for a country to defeat a modern military, but at the point any significant % of the populace is fighting the modern military, that country is in serious shit. Sure bombs, tanks, and helicopters and what not are nearly impossible for some citizen with a rifle to deal with, but it doesn't matter when your entire infrastructure is completely choked due to a lack of workers (as they're shooting you and the other workers) and you're deploying forces to blow up your own assets.
So, is this preserving economic order? Arguably, yeah, because the real goal is to preserve the average people not burning the entire place down. There are absolutely regimes that accomplish this by being autocratic and keeping their populace divided and weak. While I take issue with some of the points, I do think The Dictators Handbook is a relevant read for the discussion. The short version is "if your country is already in the shit, keep it there. Starved people with no infrastructure have a much harder time rising up vs your well fed and happy military"
With all that said, to more directly address your post-
Bluntly, I think your framing is horribly slanted and working backwards. You think "the right" has power because of the current system and that it was designed for that. I don't agree, and think that's a very very shallow view of governmental systems, doubly so on a global scale.
Further like many people trying to propose a "better" system, you seem to start from "well if we just did this it would be better", but the problem is if you had a populace that could reasonably do "that" you could probably do ANY political system and be fine, because your populace isn't the self destructive ignorant scared but sometimes well meaning masses that humans actually ARE.
My analogy, as always, for these things is that you've been given a plot of land on a gorgeous beach. So many people propose some beautiful resort that has all the amenities and is gorgeous, and is going to be fucking GONE when that first hurricane/flood/tsunami/whatever hits. Democracy is the political equivalent of a bunker. It is designed to try and prevent the worst case, not assuming the best case.
Finally, i'll say that you are judging modern democracy on its corruption and then presupposing and comparing your system assuming it has none. This is often the issue with conversations about communism/socialism/whatever, as they point (correctly) to how democracy has slowly been eroded by financial interests and power over the many years, but what is the mechanism in your decentralized autocracy that prevents the same thing from happening to it?
At the end of the day power IS a thing and distributing and controlling that power is important. One of the best things about the successful democracies has been that they've mostly manged to get the military OUT of politics, and in theory tried to keep money out as well (obviously both have been eroded). A system that starts with some "all powerful authority" with the ability to seize assets or whatever for the state, is of course going to be the huge target for the next corrupt person in the system who decides they can run things better. History is littered with governments that started as X but very quickly converted into "Military dictatorship" or something akin because oops they have all the guns and a very good argument when it comes down to "you and what army".
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Comment on Is the age of opportunity for "hustlers" with morals on the internet over? in ~talk
Eji1700 Link ParentBut that's just it, everything from this point onward is going to be swamped with AI generated content. It's lowered the barrier of entry to creation. Hell meme's have seen their own regression to...But that's just it, everything from this point onward is going to be swamped with AI generated content. It's lowered the barrier of entry to creation. Hell meme's have seen their own regression to similar forms (poorly drawn templates) beforehand.
There will not be a service going forward that does much about AI generated content. The only ones that won't have that kind of content will be the frontier services which haven't garnered enough attention to get that kind of flood of impossible to moderate content.
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Comment on Pornhub to block access in thirteen states as age-verification laws expand across US in ~tech
Eji1700 (edited )Link ParentI think you covered it in your response? Either you think stormfront is a different level of entity (dangerous/illegal material) or you think its the same (they're both supporting...I think you covered it in your response?
Either you think stormfront is a different level of entity (dangerous/illegal material) or you think its the same (they're both supporting dangerous/illegal material), which doesn't seem to be the case?
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Comment on Is the age of opportunity for "hustlers" with morals on the internet over? in ~talk
Eji1700 LinkYes, but you don't hear the literally thousands of stories of people who did the exact same thing and failed anyways. It's basically a developed/solved meta. The various metrics these sites use...Most of the stories I've heard are like that, just a guy or a couple guys sitting down and working on something over the course of a few months and striking it big off of it.
Yes, but you don't hear the literally thousands of stories of people who did the exact same thing and failed anyways.
Now it feels like every large Youtuber/Streamer has a team of faceless, nameless production staff that handle all of the video management, thumbnails, analytics, etc. There's no personality anymore,
It's basically a developed/solved meta. The various metrics these sites use and track rewards very base/simple designs that have been shown to be effective. Much like the chain email with spelling mistakes that are obvious, it's actually a method of making sure your audience is filtered for someone already more receptive to your content. And because that audience clicks on the most content, and clicks/engagement are god, all content is catered towards them.
this is explicitly ignoring Tik Tok
I think this is somewhat showing you the problem. Youtube wasn't special, it was just "the frontier". It is no longer the frontier, things like tik tok are. Your views on tik tok echo many views from "established" media at the time youtube was becoming popular.
You watched a trend grow, and all the innovation that's come with that, and have now fallen behind as you don't want to move onto the next trend. This often happens because the next trend doesn't target the same group as the last (an already captured and saturated market), and because it is SUPER hard to tell which trends might blow up into something more or might die off (tik tok is just vine 2.0 in many ways).
but the almost universal truth everywhere I see is that every possible niche online is absolutely packed to the brim with a million other people and bots who will do whatever you do for much less money and time.
This is arguably the issue with globalism, and something high population cultures like china, india, and indonesia have been aware of for a very long time. The western sphere or whatever you want to call it really has never been the norm, only in the perspective of our lives having gotten to ride a portion of the rocket of technology. Things catch up, and staying competitive and finding new niche's is important.
Personally, the area's where I see some promise for the kinds of things you're looking for are mostly related to patreon, and yes even still, the days of putting out something extremely low quality but clever, and then refining your art and growing your community, are likely over. Or at least not going to be nearly as common.
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Comment on Pornhub to block access in thirteen states as age-verification laws expand across US in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentNot really sure if you're misunderstanding my meaning or i'm misunderstanding yours, but I don't feel stormfront is a relevant example. That said, I do believe there have been plenty of calls to...Not really sure if you're misunderstanding my meaning or i'm misunderstanding yours, but I don't feel stormfront is a relevant example.
That said, I do believe there have been plenty of calls to outright get rid of stormfront, which strikes me as one step beyond age verification.
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Comment on The return of non-PC language in the US mainstream in ~talk
Eji1700 LinkPersonally I think a large part of it is that like most politically motivated trends, while some of it stuck (much less casual use of the words in question) people got tired of the taboo policing...Personally I think a large part of it is that like most politically motivated trends, while some of it stuck (much less casual use of the words in question) people got tired of the taboo policing when a lot of people have had such phrases in their vernacular forever.
At the end of the day the core idea behind the entire PC movement was, oddly, the left taking up the chains of the religious right on "What you're allowed to say", and there's been pushback against that since it started. Further like many of these things, it resonates heavily with the college crowd, and poorly with the average blue collar worker. In my experience there's plenty of people there who will drop whatever language they damn well like when talking to each other, but also know the difference between giving shit to their co-worker and behaving that way in front of a client.
My greater point being that PC culture adoption was heavily slanted to media circles, and specific ones at that. As being hyper PC is falling out of vogue (and I think a mostly doomed goal from the start), you're going to see the return of such language, especially in comedy where the whole point is pushing boundaries and using language. Hell carlin's original 7 words you can't say routine even waves in your face that some of it is just how the word sounds that makes it attractive for shock/humor/insults.
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Comment on Pornhub to block access in thirteen states as age-verification laws expand across US in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentSomewhere around where it always has? There's a variation on what's considered acceptable for children by culture, but at the end of the day porn has, usually, been restricted to adults or at...Where does it end?
Somewhere around where it always has? There's a variation on what's considered acceptable for children by culture, but at the end of the day porn has, usually, been restricted to adults or at least teens.
Yes these laws are used to control expression, speech, and anonymity, but so are many others. The same kind people who seem to be against these laws appear to all be in favor of them when it's for controlling other forms of speech/expression they don't like, say in the name of diversity or safety.
Personally I'm against basically all of this, but I do recognize that there exists a reasonable desire to limit what children are exposed to, and possibly some even decent research to back that up.
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Comment on Microsoft bundling practices focus of US federal antitrust probe in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentBut that's kinda the point. Your average small buisness office worker who's in a non tech department is probably not going to be comfortable with jira/confluence/whatever. Hell many aren't...But that's kinda the point.
Your average small buisness office worker who's in a non tech department is probably not going to be comfortable with jira/confluence/whatever. Hell many aren't comfortable with different folders let alone programs.
For a much smaller environment with lower pay it's very easy to say "everything you will ever need is here, and everything links through there" You still get ephemeral messaging/meetings, but if you want something to stick it winds up in one drive/planner/wiki/sharepoint/whatever.
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Comment on Microsoft bundling practices focus of US federal antitrust probe in ~tech
Eji1700 Link ParentTeams as a centralized application launcher is quite nice. Being able to tell your entire org that whatever report/chat/project/file/meeting/etc is "in teams" is something I'm not aware of any...Teams as a centralized application launcher is quite nice. Being able to tell your entire org that whatever report/chat/project/file/meeting/etc is "in teams" is something I'm not aware of any other software handling.
We do however use O365 and powerbi (which does seem quite a bit better than tableau for smaller business needs). The few cases where we go outside the MS suite it's been decently simple to still tie the functionality into teams.
Ah I hadn't heard when I posted this. Yeah that means it's quite odd. Thank god it wasn't worse.