[-] arsCynic@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago

“Ambition is overrated. Whether a janitor or surgeon, being virtuous is what matters [1]. Avoid contempt and envy because we each have our part to play [2], powerless to choose our upbringing. Often there's more than meets the eye so hold off on passing judgement. Everything is borrowed [3], so avoid craving credit too. The meaning of life is sharing (and) laughter [4], helping each other through peaks and throughs. Bref, GLHF.

  1. Dr. Michael Sugrue: Marcus Aurelius' Meditations: The Stoic Ideal.
  2. Nicky Case: Fireflies.
  3. The Streets: Everything Is Borrowed.
  4. YouTube: The Meaning of Life.”

[Quoting my own website arscyni.cc because POSSE: "Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere."]

[-] arsCynic@beehaw.org 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Brave's a bunch of marketing/advertising driven crypto"currency" i.e., pyramid scheme peddlers desperate for greater fools.
↳ “Kill yourself.” —Bill Hicks.

On a computer either use uBlock Origin-included LibreWolf for stability and privacy, Zen browser for power users, and on Android one can use Fennec; all of them Firefox derivatives.

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[-] arsCynic@beehaw.org 20 points 2 months ago

He literally supports terrorism on stream - no wonder he got in trouble

Defamatory accusations like this literally need a video source.
Hitchen's razor: “What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”

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submitted 2 months ago by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

Video description:

"44,794 views May 7, 2025
VALVE cancelled the Counter-Strike fan mod Classic Offensive. After eight years of development and after being approved by Steam Greenlight in 2017, VALVE has ordered the developers of Classic Offensive to halt development and not release the mod.
The full story on: https://classic-offensive.net
#counterstrike #cs2 #csgo

[-] arsCynic@beehaw.org 24 points 2 months ago

I believe Gates and Buffet are sincere.

One cannot be sincere / ethical and be a billionaire simultaneously. If Gates were sincere Microsoft wouldn't be the monopoly it is now.

[-] arsCynic@beehaw.org 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Bollocks. If these rich assholes felt guilty and inclined towards altruism they'd have spent it already instead of "pledging".

"[…] Furthermore, their supposed philanthropy isn't just them giving money away no-questions-asked. More often than not they aim to benefit their coffers and/or virtue signal their “conscience”:

  • “They are moving away from unfettered, no-strings-attached giving and toward increased donor control over organizations, and are blurring the lines between private investment and public benefit.” —Gilded Giving 2020, by Chuck Collins and Helen Flannery [17].

  • “Your "Giving Pledge" has a loophole that renders it practically worthless, namely permitting pledgees to simply name charities in their wills. I have found that most billionaires or near billionaires hate giving large sums of money away while alive and instead set up family-controlled foundations to do it for them after death. And these foundations become, more often than not, bureaucracy-ridden sluggards. These rich are delighted to toss off a few million a year in order to remain socially acceptable. But that's it.” —Robert Wilson to Bill Gates, 2010 [18] […]" —What if I paid for all my free software? | arscyni.cc

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submitted 2 months ago by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

For me AutoKey is absolutely essential to my workflow. I have tons of text expansions and shortcuts to "remap" keys. E.g., respectively, typing dAt expands into 2025-05-08, 13:47:40 CEST, and pressing alt + k simulates the arrow down key.

Secondly there's XScreenSaver which has so many wonderful (mathematical) visualizations that it would be a damn shame if these eventually get lost as Wayland gets more adoption.

None of these have Wayland alternatives as far as I know. For text expansion there's Espanso, but it doesn't support keyboard shortcuts yet.

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submitted 2 months ago by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

Popularity ≠ superiority. Proprietary text document formats is yet another proof of Microsoft's crookedness—their subpar products only able to stay afloat by unethical anti-competitive behaviour.

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submitted 2 months ago by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/19629409

Pump-and-dump schemes, fraud, ransomware, multi-level marketing, spam, incentivizing selfishness, greed, and general unethical behaviour, buying elections, quasi Nazis creating their own coins, et cetera. In my opinion, over the years the evidence has piled up tall enough to show that crypto"currencies" are an overal detriment to society.

It therefore surprised me to discover that behind the ♡ donation button on top of most Lemmy instances except for Beehaw, there is an option to donate "crypto". This sets a bad example. Thoughts?

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submitted 2 months ago by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Pump-and-dump schemes, fraud, ransomware, multi-level marketing, spam, incentivizing selfishness, greed, and general unethical behaviour, buying elections, quasi Nazis creating their own coins, et cetera. In my opinion, over the years the evidence has piled up tall enough to show that crypto"currencies" are an overal detriment to society.

It therefore surprised me to discover that behind the ♡ donation button on top of most Lemmy instances except for Beehaw, there is an option to donate "crypto". This sets a bad example. Thoughts?

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

Your games on Linux might unknowingly run slower than they need to. My games had inconsistent FPS between different sessions—smooth 144 FPS between stuttering ± 120 FPS—and I couldn't figure out why because all the logs indicated it was running on my dedicated GPU.

First I assumed it was a caching problem due to running distributed computing projects 24/7 [finding primes, not crypto"currencies", don't worry], but it turns out it was in fact arbitrarily using the desktop CPU's integrated graphics instead of the GPU.

Via the Steam game launch options command below one can force the use of one's dedicated GPU—0 or 1 depending on one's PC.

__NV_PRIME_RENDER_OFFLOAD=0 __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME=nvidia %command%

[-] arsCynic@beehaw.org 55 points 3 months ago

They should've picked LibreWolf which ships with uBlock Origin. Brave is a disappointing choice because it supports multi-level marketing pyramid schemes which says enough about their moral compass.

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submitted 5 months ago by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

I'm looking for a song video clip which features a very close up shot of female lips. At a certain point it becomes sexual without being explicit, and it is suggested that the woman bit off a mans penis.

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What is love? (beehaw.org)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org

No seriously, what does love mean to you? The love of your child, the love of your partner(s), monogamy, polyamory, (non) consensual non-monogamy, infatuation, limerence, heartbreak. The love of one's hobby, the love for an object, the love of an idea, et cetera. Whatever it is that comes to mind goes.

Photo credits: Gaelle Marcel on Unsplash.

[-] arsCynic@beehaw.org 19 points 6 months ago

Wouldn't be surprised if a chubby man with a beard made this.

[-] arsCynic@beehaw.org 16 points 6 months ago

"Is email still relevant in the modern era?"

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[-] arsCynic@beehaw.org 14 points 6 months ago

Not gonna happen. The majority of the USA has succumbed to greed, I don't expect congress to be different. Society will collapse before the road to a more equitable future will be trodden.

[-] arsCynic@beehaw.org 15 points 7 months ago

Meanwhile Mangione is in jail sentenced with terrorism. Even GTA is less surreal.

[-] arsCynic@beehaw.org 14 points 7 months ago

Nothing, so I got more time. 🏆

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Crypto Cult Science (www.arscyni.cc)
submitted 7 months ago by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely. Disregarding all of bitcoin's shortcomings, a financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won't change the world for the better.

[-] arsCynic@beehaw.org 28 points 7 months ago

Finally going after vermin instead of schoolchildren. Good. Slow progress is still progress. Hopefully, consequently, toppling the toxic system that produces these vermin in the first place.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/piracy@lemmy.ml

Free dissemination of knowledge that benefits the advancement of mankind should never be illegal.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by arsCynic@beehaw.org to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Free dissemination of knowledge that benefits the advancement of mankind should never be illegal.

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