Welcome! Glad you made it.

Just so ya know, unpopular opinions can still get you downvoted heavily, and some mods that don’t like what you say can remove comments or ban you from their communities. However, no single person can ban you from Lemmy or the Fediverse so you’ve got to go out of your way to piss off a lot of people to become persona non grata here.

That said, we rely on each other to keep comment quality high, so that’s what I hope you’re here for. Have a nice time.

Congress was concerned he would have to work remotely via Ouija board.

I keep a live usb in my bag just in case as well. Glad to hear it saved the day for you.

I get the sense that Tucker Carlson holds a significant influence over your opinions of other people.

Even though I take an electric bike or electric buses and metros to get to work so I don’t need to burn it to go anywhere myself, but I know that lots of fuel is burned to get stuff to me, from farms and source industries, to processors, to the store.

I do like to travel internationally a few times a year so that really ups my personal carbon footprint and I do expect to get more expensive year-over-year and I may end up going less in the future.

In BC, flexible plastics are recyclable, and I’d even had my prior assumptions challenged by people on Lemmy that virgin plastics formed with by-products of petroleum fuel production (esters) would be too cheap and abundant for recycled plastics to be economical; the oil shock highlights how that may not always be the case.

We’ll need a bit of petroleum for lubrication (machine oil), cooling, jet fuel, a bit gor plastic etc., but we can, even today, replace a good chunk of it relatively quickly and reduce methane and CO2 emissions enough to make a difference and to ride out a shock like this. Synthetic glue took over the need to use animal products for all but the smallest niche of artisans. If electric vehicles, better mass transport, SAF, grid batteries are pushed for mass implementation, our dependence on oil can be massively reduced. Ironically, the biggest oil shills of the world have done more than any environmental activist could hope to accomplish, to show people why complete dependence on oil and fossil fuel is bad.

Has Trump cleverly extracted a concession from Russia? No? Okay, let the destruction of oil infrastructure continue.

For impeachment proceedings yes, but there are already impending issues, like the ballroom construction project or some immigration cases that the Supreme Court can say can keep going because the Trump administration has repeatedly argued that the existing claimants don’t have standing and only Congress can have a say. My thought is the House Majority Leader should be able to take a lot of the existing evidence to get injunctions to halt the most immediate harms while they collect more.

Personally, the local model seems to be the future for AI within FOSS, and I think it may be refined to have lower usage requirements for a specific capability to run on smaller machines, not sure how much better general purpose models will get but after trying them, I expect modest progress over the next few years.

I don’t trust the large frontier models and the push to build data centers, that’s a grift at the expense of spending that could be useful elsewhere.

I’m lucky enough to have bought a 3090 2nd hand when they weren’t insanely expensive in 2023. I’m trying “vibecoding” on my personal half-finished coding projects. My coding style is poor by most professional standards, but the edits I have had my local model (Qwen 3.8 27B UD Q4) and harness (llama.cpp and Opencode) spit out are reviewable to me, make logical sense, follows my existing conventions and does run correctly. I think it is by default on highest quality, which means writing one function takes 15m to an hour, but I’d rather it be slow and hallucinate in my code less. There are other optimizations I could make to have it run faster, but it’s not a big deal to me. I can code the functions myself in less time, but what I think it is best at is catching bugs and my mistakes.

Don’t worry Nate I’ll help you out: If Dario Amodei puts the Claude chatbot in a Bluetooth vibrator, we’re all doomed! Magnus Carlsen won’t know what’s coming.

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Thanks for the correction. Is this right now? I want to represent it as faithfully as possible.

His organization FULU is funded by an organization called FUTO led by someone who is a loose acquaintance of a fascist supporter

Yeah I can agree he has transphobic opinions, but they seem to come from a place of ignorance rather than hate because it’s not worth spending his time over.

Precisely. Showing a basic level of respect to work together doesn’t require agreeing on anything.

No, he’s not one to pretend, he’s saying that what he or anyone else thinks about trans people just not relevant to him in virtually everything he does, fixing devices or supporting or rallying against a trans politicians’ position on other issues like technology.

To give a separate example, does Alice Weidel’s sexual orientation have any relevance to your opinion of the German right-wing fascist party leader? No, it’s similarly irrelevant, and I can make assumptions, but you don’t have to tell me you support or oppose gay marriage to know that.

Read the comment cited against Rossman and judge for yourself:

Right in the paraphrased quote declaring Rossman a transphobe he doesn’t care enough to be trans-exclusive, in fact I’d argue the main point is that the culture war is stupid and unproductive, he’d prefer to be inclusive because it’s irrelevant, that seems like clarification to me and it’s the author muddying the waters up with the bad paraphrasing. His organization FULU is funded by an organization called FUTO led by someone who is a loose acquaintance of a fascist supporter (fixed). I know almost exactly how Rossman picked up some chud-like opinions, it’s because he got bullied and screwed over so hard in New York, not from any other relationship. No evidence has been presented that he has anything to do with Omarchy, MAGA, or right-wing fascist movement, including that comment.

I want people not to confuse some latent opinions with a lack of integrity.

Yeah, don’t use Omarchy, not sure why anyone would need to since there are versions with more stable support and a myriad of other free options for every niche. The site lists many great reasons not to use it, that is appreciated.

I don’t use Cloudflare but I’ll say that’s probably the hardest service for people to leave because it’s been the easiest to set up and forget.

Now my one gripe. The People to Avoid category is a weird omelette that put together multiple lists of people and brands them all as fascists to avoid. It’s a set of massive purity test retcons that are not productive because it mixes overt bigots (Yarvin) and Silicon Valley grifters (Dorsey) with people that are living foundations of open source who are accused of odd behaviour.

Is rms going around harassing women? Cuz the last talk I watched of him he was battling cancer. (I have read the Stallman Report, but as far as I interpret it he is just trying to make sense of normally taboo topics by writing it out, even if the way he writes it out people feel harmed or creeped out about it because it doesn’t match today’s accepted norms.) I wouldn’t ask him for dating advice but I wouldn’t hesitate to ask him for computer advice. Louis Rossman has an opinion that I believe is wrong, but not one he holds strongly enough that he would discriminate or disrespect a customer over it or let it interfere with the goals of owning goods you buy.

Yes, question the questionable parts, but to avoid them altogether is excessive IMHO, each should be taken case-by-case.

Everyone, without exception, is flawed in certain ways. While there are people that make their flaws their whole identity, which you should avoid, for those who don’t, you have accept to a certain degree to achieve solidarity and accomplish things bigger than themselves. That degree doesn’t have to be charitable as me, but my opinion is that lists that make it seem all equally bad is disingenuous.

I agree. It’s also important to remember that that is not the destination, but the first milepost on the way to course correcting the entire system, even when following the incrementalist way to change one piece at a time.

The thing is that it was totally novel and in Japanese news on international affairs especially unprecedented, virtually everything was sanewashed in the past, so it’s not surprising that media and diplomatic officials in Japan were shocked and taken aback in the first couple years.

Since 2015 Japanese translators have had so much trouble figuring out what he’s saying. In the first presidency, his boisterous rhetoric filled with exaggerations was hard to put in words that would sound befitting to a leader, and not be mistaken as the translators making fun of him. In more recent years, it’s his frequent repetition, primitive words and even more frequent derailing into word salad tangents that he can barely finish a coherent thought that is the challenge for translators.

For years they’ve pretty much given up and cut it to a 2 sentence summary each time at best. Recent example article in Japanese Recent example video

Multi-millionaires, billionaires and corporations got their many $5k cheques in the mail already through tax breaks. You missed out, average American? How come you aren’t richer?