TheTechnician27

@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wiki Wars: Editors and propagandists are fighting for influence over the online encyclopedia’s most controversial entries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This user’s entire history (username included) is spent signal-boosting demonstrably false, bad-faith attacks against Wikipedia. I have no idea how this post has a ratio of 28–0 when the article’s premise is that the ADL of all organizations is a good arbiter of what is antisemitic when it comes to coverage of Israel’s genocide in Palestine. The article starts with “This past March, researchers from the Anti-Defamation League accused Wikipedia of biased coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

  Newsflash: it isn’t. The ADL consistently treats anyone who dares to challenge Israel’s genocide as antisemitic. This user is a ridiculous troll and should be banned from communities for their transparent, bad-faith agenda. I’m sure if there’s a story worth posting, somebody other than “wikipediasuckscoop” can post it. It’s so transparent that in an age where the Internet is blanketed with far-right disinformation, one of the last remaining bastions of truth that refuses to compromise and bend to said disinformation will come under attack by bad-faith, far-right actors desperately flailing to discredit it.

  I’d like to point out that when the article says “propagandists” (i.e. people opposed to Israel’s genocide) and arbitrarily delineates them from “editors”, what it’s failing to point out (likely because a) its author doesn’t understand shit about fuck or b) its author doesn’t care) is that any article related to a conflict between Israel and Arab countries is extended protected by default (on top of other heavy editing restrictions). This means that it can only be edited 1) on a registered account 2) which is at least 30 days old and 3) which has made at least 500 edits. This isn’t 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334 typing “Izreel sux lololol” or even just some random sockpuppet account trying to insert anti-Israel bias. You have to be an experienced editor to make changes to these articles. Every single one of these even remotely controversial public changes is put under a microscope and discussed ad nauseum by other experienced editors on the corresponding talk page – not just to make sure that it’s covered without bias per NPOV but that its claims are suitably backed by reliable, independent sources.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And other reasons why “security through obscurity” is bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Two totally different things, but okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS2 Emulator emulator PCSX2 should get Wayland support "in the coming months"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, so basically, as the Mastodon post says, we’ve done some testing on it and haven’t found anything broken so far. Wayland pre-6.9 breaks the shit out of the tile-based menus. We’ll be happy to be rid of the I_WANT_A_BROKEN_WAYLAND_UI flag if it continues to work without issue, probably (hopefully) within a couple months of Qt 6.9’s release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “A solarpunk polity would replace centralised forms of state government with decentralised confederations of self-governing communities […]”

  Stalin notoriously loved checks notes heavily decentralizing government power akin to anarcho-communism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s good to see a politician who actually stays informed about these kinds of issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus christ, chill the hell out. 💀

  1. Who still writes letters anymore? Uh… A lot of people? Especially sitting senators to massive, multi-billion-dollar corporations? Would you have preferred they go on some shitty social media platform to “ayo get your shit together fr fr”? Fellas, is it gay pretentious to use your position in government to bring attention to an issue? Have you never written a letter?

  2. One of the reasons a neo-Nazi fuck just won the election is because these online spaces allow fascist rhetoric to run rampant. You’re bringing up a borderline nonsensical edge case to justify why action shouldn’t be taken in 99.999% of cases.

  3. Writing coherently about an actual issue facing a platform like Steam actually shows that he’s more in-touch than most politicians. You sound deeply insecure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you can block yourself. Maybe ask the Lemmy devs to implement it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A US senator can absolutely, unambiguously write to a private corporation in an unofficial capacity asking them to more strictly moderate their platform. You’re just parroting “muh freeze peach” having zero idea where that starts and ends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix used to not have ads, now it’s ‘celebrating’ two years with them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A vastly better experience for less money? Never! /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ASKfm to shut down December 1, 2024.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  >Owned by an asset management company that also owns e.g. online gambling sites.

  >No indication of authorship

  >Almost immediate, jarring, and lengthy tangent into “applicable regulations” and privacy policies/data handling

  >When we established the Company [emphasis on the capital ‘C’

  Yup, this was written by a legal team masquerading as someone who actually cares about the platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia skirts sanctions, acquires Nvidia and AMD chips through Dell servers from India⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still worth noting that this objectively drives up the cost for Russia compared to simply purchasing these directly. These servers went from Dell, through Malaysia, to an Indian pharmaceutical company, and then onto Russia. This accomplishes a few things:

  • It drives up the actual monetary cost through logistics.
  • It limits the amount of material Russia can reasonably get their hands on in a given time period by effectively “narrowing the pipe”. So even if they can get their hands on some of it, it’s almost assuredly reduced from what they otherwise could.
  • It means that loopholes are fewer and more far between and can therefore actually hurt Russia if they’re identified and closed. This closure can add additional latency too while Russia searches out a new bypass.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Latest Windows 11 preview update is causing widespread system crashes and failures⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Weird, I haven’t been experiencing any of this. Am I still at risk of running into this issue if I haven’t seen it so far? I don’t use this shit-ass OS, if that helps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity cancels the stupid Runtime Fee⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  !godot@programming.dev