JayDee

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In what way were they the worst? Were their arguments exceptionally bad?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Society developed the tools to manipulate humans based on common errs we make, and so of course the logical end-point is the continued control of those already in power. We've also deprived the vast majority of people from the tools for counteracting common mistakes, behind paywalls, time theft, and esoteric elitist language. By this, we've kept the means of inoculating ourselves against control out of reach.

The rich directly define how this world by who they lobby, what charities they fund or deprive, and what they make their news outlets pedal. They are the reason for ignorance, stupidity, and fanaticism.

First we must educate others in order to inoculate them. Then we must organize to wrench our power back to ourselves and away from the elite.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

actor is being treated as a gender-neutral term describing both genders more recently.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

it's the third weed type: sativa, indica, and friendica.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

"Somethin's Wrong with the G-Diffuser!"

"... I guess I should be Thankful..."

"Hey, what's the big Idea!?"

"Don't party just yet. It's time to try our new weapon"

"COCKY LITTLE FREAK"

"Somebody beat us here. it's all gone!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

"Still think there's Nothing to Chaos Theory?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

the secret is that all logos are soulless slop. you just become attached to the old ones due to familiarity. when that familiarity is removed, you see it for what it really is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You ever been on the inside of a cockpit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's about technological advancement and its augmentation of the human condition (think social media, phones, and the internet). There are people who resist these changes, often mislabelled as 'luddites' (the Luddites of the 19th century specifically opposed automation for its threat to jobs, but were reprehensive of all technology as a part of that).

This meme is just taking those who berate Luddites to their ultimate conclusion, which is a hive mind where all personal autonomy is lost, and it could be argued they cease to exist as a distinct individual. The flesh part of it is merely a means of making it more grotesque.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I understand your issue. No, don't hang yourself. You'd just get replaced immediately by another person 'just following orders'.

It's true that we're all virtually powerless in 'the machine', but as the analogy would put it, it is via all the 'powerless cogs' that the machine is able to crush and destroy at all. You shouldn't kill yourself, but instead should malfunction so as to damage the machine's ability to crush, or to change it's function entirely.

Education is one part, and the best education is realizing what you've been deprived by uncle Sam. You have no power because you've been deprived of what gives you power: privacy; community tied only to mutual uplifting instead of hobbies or less vital matters; a well paying job by which you could actually have meaningful effects on society around you; time unburdened by work or distraction, through which you can self-actualize and forge meaningful bonds; housing which you own, giving you security from undue raises in cost of living and protection from undue eviction.

The second part is community forming, mutual aid, and counter-establishment activism. That and not excluding others based on race, gender identity, homeland, or cultural differences (that's the rub for many). Essentially, rectifying your ancestors' mistakes is the same as uplifting ones own situation outside of society's predefined means, and uplifting everyone alongside you.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Can't tell if you are trying to be forcefully post-gender or trans-exclusionary.

Gender is arbitrary, being conceived in passing by ancient society noticing the difference in hardware without nuance, which was later used as a rhetorical tool for subjugating women and 'deviants' (those who didn't fit neatly within the binary). Because of this subjugative function, it began being strictly enforced, and we still see that strictness in society today.

Modern attempts at sorting gender have been a failure, consistently failing to actually cleanly sort men from women in a clean binary.

Eventually there will come a time where trans can be omitted from conversation, but that is not now, due to the danger omitting it poses for trans individuals from unadjusted individuals. The strict gender binary must be dismantled first.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They are different in how they are treated and their life outcomes due to their treatment. The same can be made about why leftists talk about trans men. We don't care about the trans part, we care about the treatment they are put through by society.

Contrasting that with how racists talk about black men because they view that there are irrevocable differences between black men and white men, or how transphobes say trans men because they view them as women 'faking' manhood, and you can see how the same language changes meaning in differing contexts.

 

I kind of had this epiphany while talking with some friends about different interesting numeral systems and their various advantages and disadvantages. I ended up thinking this system up while I was in the shower, went back to my desk and knocked it out in an hour or so. It takes aspects of the Kaktovik numeral system invented by the Inupiaq tribe, and combines them with some aspects of the Cistercian numerals.

I think that this numeral system fusion can look very wizard-y, and be easy to write and do math with.

I've abbreviated it as b10CK, which I think is pretty clean.

 

Been studying RISC-V for... I think a year now. Bought the booklet outlining the ISA's modules, and have been working down from there.

I have seen various startups and actual products, as well as a bunch of simulators, but I haven't really seen any projects trying to design a RISC-V CPU from the ground up.

Are there any groups doing this? I don't think I'm at a point where I could meaningfully contribute, I'm mostly interested for educating myself.

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I got a Fairphone 4 after security updates were discontinued on my Samsung Galaxy S9 and I figured out it couldn't be flashed with a new OS (it was a fantastic phone while it lasted- was honestly Underutilizing its overall power. Got 5 years out of it).

TLDR : read the last paragraph

I am honestly taken aback by the transparency in regards to the FP4's construction. The repair manual gives the part number, quantity, and purpose of every single component on the PCBs. You get the full schematics as well.

Obviously I can replace any major part/board until support stops (they're saying they'll support it for 3 more years minimum), but I imagine that I could stock up a couple spare parts and treat the device well and get much longer from the hardware. As for support for the OS, I got the phone through Murena who put their own custom OS on it, but I imagine I could flash a new OS onto it without much problem.

The things I am thinking about are past that point. If replacement parts no longer get sold and something fails on one of the boards, I don't know the feasibility of finding a replacement component. Like, I imagine getting a matching capacitor wouldn't be an issue, but can you even find a replacement snapdragon or WiFi chip? And while we're talking about hot-air soldering on replacement parts: do PCBs have a duty lifespan? Is it more likely that my screen'll just die long before anything else?

Basically, assuming I treat this phone right and don't break anything in a drop, how long can I glide this fella out? what's the shorest lifespan parts that'll fail first - and what kind of lifetime can I suspect? What are parts I could consider replacing with a similar part? (I own a 3d printer and do diverse material fabricating as a hobby).

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