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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I don't know where else to put this. I'm sorry if it's in the wrong place and will move it if it's not appropriate here.

Every time I read anything from so-called solarpunks, it reads like slightly left of centre ravings of doomsday preppers. They seem to love many of the same fascist talking points. For example, individualism self-sufficiency , which sounds a lot like the frontier cowboy fantasies of right-wing nutters. They promote what essentially is subsistence farming, which is a terrible way to live. There's a reason this kind of shit leads to famine in developing countries. An almost enthusiastic fantasy surrounding primitism and the loss of technology. There are so many issues, I could go on. Unless I'm missing something (possible) I don't see much appealing about solarpunk because it seems to have a delusional nostalgia for the "good old days", much in the way conservativism does.

Is it really as crackpot as it sounds? If not, what am I missing?

[-] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 42 points 5 months ago

We went through all this shit with Microsoft and Internet Explorer. It’s time to break up Google’s monopoly.

[-] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 75 points 5 months ago

I despise ads. I can't even bring myself to watch Netflix or Amazon Prime. If there is advertising, it ain't worth it, no matter how cheap.

[-] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 40 points 6 months ago

They are discussing a very specific approach and a paper that lays out the issues with pursuing this one specific type of generative AI. It's not about AI in general. The headline is a bit click-baity.

[-] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 44 points 6 months ago

I think people would have less issues with AI training if it was non-profit and for the common good. And there are open source AI projects, many in fact. But yeah, these deals by companies like this are sleazy.

[-] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 44 points 6 months ago

People always underestimate the high level NASA works at. Everyone bitches and moans, especially Musk simps, about how long SLS took to make and its expense, but it worked right the first time. In the case of the Voyager spacecraft, they are working with tech so old, all the original engineers are retired or dead. NASA rocks.

[-] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 34 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No matter how stupid the management is, I'll still use FF over Chrome. Even so, Mozilla is lost in their own bullshit. That "workshop" is like some crap from kindergarten. Just make a good browser ffs. They can't get it through their thick skulls that the browser isn't the destination, it’s the means to getting there.

[-] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 52 points 7 months ago

Amazon used the high tech process of having low paid cashiers that are hidden in another country. Amazon sucks so much.

[-] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 43 points 7 months ago

I remember when Google was the cool new kid on the block. How far they've fallen. But that's what unrestrained, unregulated capitalism gets you. It's all a race to the bottom.

[-] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 37 points 7 months ago

Having played Kerbal Space Program, orbital mechanics and ballistics make that diameter a lot smaller than one might anticipate. It's pretty easy to fuck up.

[-] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 62 points 9 months ago

"Sign up for free access to this post"

No.

[-] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 62 points 9 months ago

Whenever a company addresses a something like this, like insisting a thing that is rumoured to be happening isn't happening, it is almost certainly happening.

[-] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 60 points 10 months ago

I created an account just to answer this. They can short. We had a string of these, and it shorted and nearly caught the tinsel on fire. They weren't man-handled, in fact we were extra-careful with them, because they were so thin and fragile-looking. These are dangerous. Do not use them.

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