ToucanLoucan

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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
Right?! Like there’s so much you can do. * Vote for fucks sake. Bare minimum and stop making fucking excuses both for yourself not doing it and for politicians you otherwise support burying their heads in the sand. * Stop buying stupid shit
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
Exactly. If you were on USENET way back, you were a fucking nerd (lovingly). People romanticize that because it was very likely with any given group of people, they could strike up some kind of conversation, and they likely shared at least
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
My actual question got a bit lost in my own reply. What I'm really driving at is: Why do people chafe against this?
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
I suspect one of the principle reasons for the blanket decline is specifically that AI generated PRs are already responsible for a substantial uptick in the amount of work required to be done by maintainers. Engaging in discussions about th
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
It's still obviously making them money. How much, who's to say, likely highly variable depending on the condition of the phone. But if it didn't make them money they wouldn't do it, they're not a charity. I'd i
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
Oooooo. Does it support HDR? Because that seemed to be entirely broken in KDE despite using Wayland.
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
I actually had to backpedal on my gaming PC from Kubuntu recently, I'm sad to say. The support for the RTX 5080 is just too rough. Every game install was chased by an hour of debugging with Claude to figure out which version of proton
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
And why not fire that exec who doubtlessly costs the company far more money while adding substantially less value than any of these employees? If a company is genuinely losing money and needs to boost it's profitability surely the ea
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
It says so much about how our society treats the neurodivergent that it's considered a non-extreme opinion that a dead child is preferable to an autistic one.
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
Oh I wouldn't say I go for VTubers specifically? It's more about the streamer, what they play and what their commentary is like. I honestly don't care much if they have webcam, vtuber avatar, or neither.
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
I enjoy a handful of streamers for a few reasons: * I get to experience games I wouldn't normally have time for: I work full time, and as much as I love games and always make time for them, I still have a finite amount of time to make
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
> "America is in decline relative to the world" might be true, but is it helping anyone to focus on that? Helping who? I don't know that it's a help or a not-help, but it is an incoming reality I believe, and the Unit
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
Oh there most certainly is a power struggle/corporate race, for sure. AND I don't think it's pure economics at all, when so much of the rhetoric around that struggle is framed so often with this "America has to defend
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
And 9 million starve to death annually because it isn't profitable to feed them, what's your point?
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
Oh I don't think it's either of those things, I think it's good old fashioned Racism/Xenophobia. We did the same shit to Japan and Korea when they were coming up out of their respective post-war periods, and we still do,
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
It will never stop being funny to me that China does the exact same shit American corps have been doing since the 70's but because it's scary China it's suddenly a problem. American startups flood markets with below-cost loss
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
I'll fully grant that the vast majority of the time when I use the word neoliberal, it is indeed derisively. Doesn't change that this is, again, simply an observation that names the thing. Markets, localized or world, free or not,
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
You should've kept reading: > During the past couple of decades, rampant neoliberalism and “globalism” allowed the U.S. tech industry to capture almost the entire European IT market, including all “social media.” This has recently p
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
It's perfectly valid in our increasingly enshittified world to be angry with all those responsible for it. As much as you're right to point the finger a the C-suites, ultimately ALL of these user-hostile features, every single o
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
My girlfriend has been using an AI music generator and like, her music is the best generative music I've listened to. Her prompts are crazy, lots of actual like, music theory and specific requests. That said, it still shares these qu
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
The US fails to learn the lessons of it's last... idk, every war since WWII. Leadership cites kill stats when it has nothing else to cite, but killing, while certainly an important part of war, is not the key to victory and that's
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
If you have evidence as to any of the wild conjecture you're posting, you're more than free to provide it instead of just lobbing out accusations as though they change anything substantive about the arguments being made.
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
> and it was discovered just now? May it be that he played exactly by the rules, the real rules, of the regime - corruption being among the foundational rules of it - and thus it was going for 30 years? And right now he just got his turn
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
But again you're flattening all browser compatibility into ancient browsers that 10 people use and saying closing the end of that gap is far too difficult to justify the time and expense required, but what exactly are we talking ab
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
Even calling it memes is overly charitable. It's deliberate stoking of rage at scale to accomplish political ends.
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
It's by design. The outrage merchants post day in and out to signal allegiance to this bizarre cult. People also don't respect how WILDLY influential GamerGate as been. There's good arguments to be made that Trump and his shi
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
We are incredibly market-brained at this point. A certain kind of person loves markets because they provide decisions on complex questions at scale. And like, that's not NEVER true, but it also takes for granted a lot of rational think
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
Yes but eliminating unnecessary e-waste is a good thing for everyone. This isn't about the government being your nanny, it's about the government, long term, building a better more sustainable society for everyone, as it should be
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
They stole the entire internet to create tools with the explicit goal of taking away people's ability to earn a living. The fact that they have goodwill to lose at all is a testament to our unbelievably short attention spans.
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by ToucanLoucan 3mo ago
The problem is that scammers juice engagement numbers and everything right now makes money via user engagement. The platforms are incentivized to not punish scammers, spammers, etc. one ounce more than they can manage without pissing off th

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