drascus

joined 2 years ago
[–] drascus 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I wish this were true but its already been debunked. It came from a satirical account. It was meant as a joke.

[–] drascus 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

at least in the USA based on my discussions with librarians ( yes I am that kind of nerd ) libraries are under attack by the federal government, they are losing their funding or having their funding severely limited where they won't be able to operate as effectively. What I think people don't realize is we are in a phase where knowledge is being centralized and put into control of a few powerful companies and the commons is under attack and being eroded.

[–] drascus 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

right but I am thinking of a future a few years down the road where people are doing less and less of that and wikipedia gets eroded or is also filled with generated articles. Wikipedia is already under attack by people like Elon Musk so if we are not careful resources like wikipedia won't exist.

 

We are already headed to this point but just imagine: In the future you get some answer from AI and you want to see if it's true. Where would you check? Ask another AI or the same AI if it's right? I can just see a potential future where AI could pretty much tell us anything and we would have way to know if it's right or not.

[–] drascus 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

God I hate that you are right. I only have like one male friend because I legit had to distance myself from ao many other male friends who were just horrible people and I couldn't stand to listen to them anymore.

[–] drascus 5 points 6 days ago

I thought this was going to be a 5 years later we are married and she thinks I like poop story

[–] drascus 21 points 1 week ago

They can read they only like when they agree with the constitution otherwise they ignore it.

[–] drascus 24 points 1 week ago

Sounds cool Paula... Please shut the fuck up then.

[–] drascus 5 points 1 week ago

So good. I hope investors keep buying and it just keeps failing and they all just lose a shit ton of money.

[–] drascus 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Absolutely there are plenty of good niche ones. I think zen is based on Firefox as well and lots of people like it.

[–] drascus 63 points 1 week ago (5 children)

start using firefox or firefox derivatives like librewolf. I know people will say "but they don't have x feature" or "chrome is faster" well until they have the market share they won't be able to put the development cycles in to fix that stuff. google owning chrome and everyone using chrome based browsers is lining up a huge issue for the future.

[–] drascus 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

maybe grow a set of morals and be like "I refuse to participate in this horrible organization, there is no fixing it I am out screw you"

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the pope was an asshole. (self.unpopularopinion)
 

After just seeing so many articles of people being sad I really just have to say the pope was an asshole. You don't even have to do good research to see that this guy and his administration was still hiding pedophiles, hating gay people, and generally being a jerk all while pretending he was better than everyone else. The only thing he did was say he loved everyone and be a nice guy on camera which literally anyone could pretend to do. Meanwhile his administration was just more of the same shit. Just creating some counterpoint to the nonsense narrative I keep seeing.

[–] drascus 2 points 2 weeks ago

LUGs were very important back then especially when you were new.

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Pinetab 2 for sale (www.ebay.com)
 

Hey all I listed my pinetab 2 for sale. I don't really have a use for it at the moment as I purchased a better linux tablet. So if anyone is interested for the sake of avoiding tariff imports or maybe just wants the second one.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by drascus to c/[email protected]
 

I have noticed that lemmy so far does not have a lot of fake accounts from bots and AI slop at least from what I can tell. I am wondering how the heck do we keep this community free of that kind of stuff as continuous waves of redditors land here and the platform grows.

EDIT a potential solution:

I have an idea where people can flag a post or a user as a bot and if it's found out to be a bot the moderators could have some tool where the bot is essentially shadow banned into an inbox that just gets dumped occasionally. I am thinking this because then people creating the bots might not realize their bot has been banned and try and create replacement bots. This could effectively reduce the amount of bots without bot creators realizing it or know if their bots have been blocked or not. The one thing that would also be needed is a way to request being un-bannned if they get hit as a false positive. these would have to be built into lemmy's moderation tools and I don't know if any of that exists currently.

 

gotta love "not everyone believes everyone is welcome" critical race theory now = welcoming everyone...

 

Not sure if anyone else noticed but reddit is now testing a beta of an answers feature that generates answers based on reddit posts. Maybe this explains the phenomena people noticed of deleting posts only to have their posts reappear? Just saying if reddit was already bad for privacy it just got worse in my opinion.

 

The way these tech companies are behaving makes me wonder what they know and what we don't they seem terrified.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by drascus to c/[email protected]
 

When I just see my TV taking Linux updates it makes me feel so cozy. For context sake I have a veroV running osmc.

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