I don’t have one.
I have a very simple process for dealing with all of this - I never check my framerate in the first place, so I never know what it is.
I just play games If there’s noticeable stuttering or lag then I maybe try to do something about it, and if there’s not, then I just play and don’t worry about it.
A loaf of Skyrim bread.
This isn’t even a political issue really.
Trump’s ENTIRE motivation is the prospect of his family making a fortune in Gaza waterfront real estate.
Pretend you know nothing at all about “AI”/LLMs, and someone comes to you and says, “I want to start a service that will scrape everything that anyone’s ever posted to the internet, let some corporate weasels decide which parts of it you’re allowed to see, then feed you bits and pieces of what’s left in some order or another.”
Does that sound appealing?
This is a coup.
This has apparently become a new vector for transferring bribes - Trump files a suit, and then the corporation that wants influence pays a “settlement.”
In a way, doesn’t that mean that it would be more accurate to say that the bot stopped being rogue and went legit?
I’ve never understood how or why this is an issue.
Shortly after Spez’s petulant AMA, I ran across a link for Lemmy. org. It looked interesting, so I followed it. I poked around a bit, and it still looked interesting, so I picked an instance and created an account. I played with it a bit, then I went back and found a different instance that looked interesting and created an account there too. And I just kept reading and posting, just like I’d done on Reddit (and half a dozen different sites before that). Some instances came and went and I lost some accounts and created others and eventually settled into a few that I like best, and just read and posted and didn’t leave. The end.
But it seems that every time I turn around, someone’s going on about the hardships of moving to a different site and all the difficulties to be overcome and yadda yadda yadda, and I just don’t get it. At all.
Read, play video games, watch movies and anime. Oh, and post on forums.
Actually, thinking about it, there’s one thing that’s sort of the backgound to all of those things, and could be said to actually be my main activity in the winter, and that’s providing a lap for my cat. The rest of those are things that I also do.
The psychopaths in power are afraid that Israelis might come to see Palestinians as actual human beings, which would complicate their genocidal goals.
“Don’t be impressed by the forced joy of our enemy. This is an animalistic society that sanctifies death. Very soon, we will erase their smile again and replace it with cries of grief and the wails of those who were left with nothing.”
Wow.
It’s astonishing sometimes how deep the delusional evil runs in the Israeli right.
He starts that statement off trying to claim that the Gazans are “an animalistic society,” and then without missing a beat shifts to doing nothing but vividly demonstrating that in fact he and his allies are the actual animals.
They truly are among the most foul and loathsome and vile abominations to have ever crawled across the face of the Earth.
If only it was a cult.
It’s actually something far more dangerous, and very simple really - Trump 2.0 is pay-to-win.
It’s not so much what Trump will let them get away with, but what Putin will let Trump let them get away with.
Just left to his own devices, Trump, strongman sycophant that he is, would let Netanyahu get away with anything. But there isn’t enough Israeli support for continuing to just grind away at murdering Gazans, which is why Netanyahu tried to expand it out to a regional war. And the problem with that is that any regional war is going to draw Iran in, and Iran is allied with Russia, so Putin isn’t going to stand for that. And Trump is Putin’s lapdog.
Well, so apparently the first possibility I noted is not the case, and the early reports weren’t just yet again blowing smoke.
So we’re down to two alternatives - it’s a legitimate deal that cedes at least some significant Palestinian autonomy, in which case Netanyahu will, as he already has in the past, sabotage it, or it’s just a long term con job that will leave enough of an Israeli presence that they can shift to West Bank style incremental conquest.
The draw is supposed to end up being that you can continue to access more or less all of the same content with all of the same functionality regardless of how badly someone might screw up one or another instance.
Back when the big Reddit exodus happened, after the whole API debacle, lemmy.world ended up being far and away the most popular instance, and that hasn’t really been good for it. It’s had a bit of a “Reddit with a different URL” reek to it ever since.
But certainly not coincidentally, its popularity has also waned since, and it already has less of a share of active lemmy users than it had before, which is exactly the way the fediverse is supposed to work. And I would assume that after this last announcement, its popularity is going to take a definite hit.
I recommend trying a bunch of instances. They’re all at least subtly different, and the best way to figure out which one(s) you prefer is to just spend some time with them. Over time, you’ll just come to use one or maybe a couple more than the rest.
And I don’t even bother with any of the apps - the basic mobile version of it is actually quite good.(on Firefox at least - I can’t vouch for any other browsers).
From the announcement in question:
Some communities will receive an immediate notice with a link to this new policy. The most egregious communities will comply, or their moderators will be removed from those communities.
Short version: yesterday, Lemmy.world announced essentially, though they buried it under lots of distracting verbiage, that they were going to follow in the footsteps of Vichy Twitter and Meta and allow hate speech and misinformation, and probably more to the point, they intend to force recalcitrant mods to allow it regardless of their own views on the matter.
And the head mod/creator/whatever they are of unpopular opinion took exception to that and locked the community in protest.
Are they good for anything at all?
No.
They’re a part of the system, so it seems like they need to be a part of the system, but actually it’s that the system has been warped to accommodate them.
Do they push innovation or productivity?
They specifically push it, but if and only if there’s an angle by which they can parasitize off of it. They don’t originate anything. Ever.
Like would a company without these people be crushed by companies with such people…?
Probably.
I figured out long ago that that’s the case on a personal level. The specific way it works:
People competing for a position in a hierarchy have to make decisions that will impact their chances.
People with integrity, morals, ethics, empathy, principles, etc. will have some number of potential options that they simply will not choose. People with none of those things are not so constrained - they’re able to do absolutely whatever it takes to get what they want, entirely regardless of any other condiderations. So all other things being more or less equal, amoral, unprincipled, dishonest, sociopathic pieces of shit actuyallt have a competitive advantage in hierarchies.
I hadn’t before considered whether that’s the case between businesses, but I would assume so.
I’d love to read more about this, but all I can find is always always tainted either by some status quo idea or basing everything on capitalism or dream thinking like communism or anarchism which just doesn’t work because of these kind if people.
I’m actually an anarchist in large part because of all of this, but my anarchism is very much an ideal. There’s absolutely no way that current humanity could manage it on any sort of scale, so when I advocate for it, I’m really just trying to promote the mindset that will make it possible sometime in the future.
I actually think that anarchism will not only one day be possible, but, if humanity survives, it will be inevitable. It’s vessentiallybthe adulthood of society - the point at which collectively - not just situationally and individually - we’ll be able to live without mommy and daddy state making sure we behave.
Can we detect non-empatic people and not allow them to manage people? Would that be a good first step?
I’ve actually said before that if I could leave a message for the people who will end up trying to rebuild civilization out of the rubble we leave behind, it would be, “Whatever you do, don’t let psychopaths gain power.”
I think there’s no single thing that anyone could do to improve literally everything that would be more effective than to somehow implement an international effort to identify and isolate sociopaths and psychopaths - that they do more harm to the planet and its people than anything else, and by a considerable margin.
But I don’t see any way it could happen, if for no other reason than that the psychopaths and sociopaths in the relevant positions would prevent it.
Which is exactly why I thought of leaving a message for our heirs, in the hope that they’ll do a better job of it from the start. Which I think is the only real chance humanity has.
As if the oligarchs give a shit about international law enforcement…
There are too many variables for there to be one answer.
For instance, are their intentions sincere or just claimed? If they fail to carry through, is it because of things outside of their control or just because they can’t be bothered to put out any real effort?
Or from the other end, if their actions are harmful, is that by design or inadvertent? If inadvertent, do they feel any regret or do they just treat it as too damned bad?
And so on.