bionicjoey

@bionicjoey@lemmy.ca

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

What are the best steps to reduce the wealth of billionaires?

There are a myriad of news articles here on Lemmy that display the abhorrent influence billionaires have on our society (especially the US, where I reside). I consistently read comments where the posters appear hopeless and despondent of the situation, while others jokingly refer to the guillotine....

bionicjoey,

That’s why the French revolution was so… Thorough

bionicjoey,

My dick still out and it’s been almost a decade.

bionicjoey,

Depending on what country you’re in, it’s either a resumé, or a supplement to a resumé that summarizes academic achievements for an applicant with a graduate degree.

bionicjoey,

For the unaware, “Shave and a haircut (two bits)” is this classic melody: youtu.be/zWbjP_ahuB4

bionicjoey,

If there was such a thing, a “Chinese learners” community for anglophones would be very welcome. I am trying to learn Chinese currently and it would be neat to have an online forum to bounce questions off of.

bionicjoey,

Finally we’ve found a solution to the paradox of tolerance!

bionicjoey,

You need to be behind 7 proxies to evade him

bionicjoey,

How exactly does a jury trial work in a case like this? Aren’t juries supposed to be “peers” of the accused? How can a corporation be tried by a jury of its peers?

bionicjoey,

Well, and also because journal publication incentivizes using FOSS for reproducibility

bionicjoey,

There’s a running joke in DS9 about Dax having a thing for a man with a transparent head (so you can see his brain stuff). But of course we never meet this guy because they didn’t have the CGI to actually make that.

bionicjoey,

This would be hilarious as a bumper sticker even to this day

Louis Rossman/FUTO's YouTube app, GrayJay, now supports Sponsorblock... and shames you if you use it

Seriously this was very surprising. I’ve been experimenting with GrayJay since it was announced and I largely think it’s a pretty sweet app. I know there are concerns over how it isn’t “true open source” but it’s a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced. Plus, I like the general design and philosophy of the app....

bionicjoey,

Precisely. Basically every company that markets themselves using YouTube sponsorships is a scam anyway.

bionicjoey,

With ReVanced there is a core underlying app being patched which is not OSS. With GrayJay, the source of the whole thing is source-available

bionicjoey,

I always wonder why sci-fi gets mixed in with fantasy so much? It’s always a pain to find decent movie/show or a book because these categories are treated as the same thing.

As Arthur C. Clarke famously said: “You have reached the end of your free trial subscription to ArthurCClarkeQuotes.com” “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”

A lot of Sci-Fi stuff is just fantasy with a different coat of paint. Any universe where the technology is just acting as a stand-in for magic qualifies. There are even many settings that blur the line between the two, like Warhammer 40K.

“Hard” Sci Fi is another beast entirely. That would be more like OG Star Trek or even something like The Twilight Zone. Something where the “magic” exists to explore thoughtful/philosophical “What if?” questions rather than simply as a system of magic to serve the fantasy.

bionicjoey,

I hadn’t heard of Microsoft Pluton, so I looked it up. It sounds like it’s some kind of CPU hardware module that implements security policies directly into the system. Pretty gross, but should be easy enough to avoid by just not buying computers with that processor.

IMO this post is a bit misleading because the image without context makes it seem as though the Windows OS is the thing intervening here, when that doesn’t appear to be the case.

bionicjoey,

Watching ads

“Wait, they just straight up lie to you?”

bionicjoey,

I really hope they add sponsorblock and dearrow support in the future because this is a truly awesome app.

bionicjoey,

Hooray! Two of my favourite web comics!

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • localhost
  • All magazines
  • Loading…
    Loading the web debug toolbar…
    Attempt #