I do computer programming, mostly on stuff the ai coding tools totally fail at; when I saw how much these same tools are pushed by large companies, I felt contempt .

That, and I studied neural networks in grad school, quite a few years ago. The current AI stuff do not awe me

I shall prove my humanity by mildly insulting anyone who reads this.

Basically this. Most people are decent enough, that is they are not trying to burn down the world. Many, including me, have unclear ideas about what is happening. Often, people use opposing words and history to really mean the same goals.

But it’s exhausting figuring it out for more than friends and people in my echo groups. So I don’t usually try. They have to be worth it to me.

That said, this is for the mental stuff. When it comes to political actions that need to be done now, and cannot wait, things are different. There is a time crunch then. And it’s not about tolerance , but results.

TIL Nintendo will perhaps give money, to the American administration, for unknown reasons

I’ve been watching this clock for 40 years, also watched it get enshitified the last 20 years.

It has always been a symbol of empire, run by many the same fools who enabled the madness. But the revolving door and who contributes got worse since the 1990s. And it’s just some thing now.

They may be wrong or correct, who am I to know. But not to be relied on, I think

Thanks a lot! It looks great and I am planning to try it out this week

That sounds good. I’ll like to try it, would you share the recipe?

Most of the sites you are talking about use mail services run by oligarchs and large corporations. I’m pretty sure 95% any mail you receive is stored and scanned by multiple governments.

And unless the mail is double encrypted on both sides it’s going to also be read.

Republican efforts to suppress voting and the democrat “get out the vote” initiatives have much in common.

In some states voting matters, in most it does not. And federally it does not.

Seen in this context both efforts are a type of grifting and scam. No different than other political rabble rousing.

Pretensions USA is a democracy makes reform that much harder. And both parties do this well

This assumes the USA is a democracy at the federal level. Where votes by people matter.

Many states use election machines, owned by oligarchs, whose operations are a closed book and are not regulated. Coincidentally those states, both red and blue, fail tests approved by the United Nations to detect tampering of votes.

Those states make the other states, that actually pass the tests, irrelevant.

What makes democracy, in the USA, unable to curb the even the very gross problems today is not the people doing the cheating.

But it is the people who refuse to call the cheating out (by addressing the real issues), and more important the majority of citizens who absolutely do not see this as a problem. It’s only when this is addressed can the actual issues of a real democracy be looked at.

Even then, real reform is hard to do in a democracy. Especially one so large and out of control as the nation we see now. So any reform has to be not using the ballot box.

A boycott actually could help.

I think It is hard for elections to push any reform. And that is for countries with actual democracy.

Socialism can only be achieved by non democratic methods

If you use tor, the browser will suggest the site when you get on a Reddit page, at least using old Reddit, if you don’t have the suggestions turned off in settings ( by default they are on)

I have not used Reddit it in two years , but it used to work ok in tor onion URL

I think Reddit’s onion site still works.

I just want to also say thank you for using the þorn. It’s a lovely letter that had an unjust fate, and it’s nice to see it in the wild

It’s a personal project I’ve been working on.

Basically the data is moved around by things very slowly. It’s easy to integrate them into different systems. It’s like a very slow communication layer on top of everything else.

A new data structure in computer programming. I got the idea from cell chemistry, and figured computers today can handle slow and inefficient, instead of fast and clever. Turns out it’s also great for networking.

What kind of farm owner would I be if not? I’m not exactly swimming in money around here.

Maybe this is something rich and mean folks do? Sure, it’s a pain dealing with it at times, but just killing one like that?

It’s possible to make it, I’ve made ff extensions before.

Just listen to the upvote button click, resolve the redirected url of the post, or copy the post text and submit the new post to a mapped community. Need to be logged in to lemmy .

Edit: use regex to get a valid CSRF token before posting