Notices by m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net), page 14
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m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 11:06:50 JST 
m0xEE
@charlie_root @dcc
Wow, there is a Bloat fork in which someone has already added support for emoji reactions and I didn't have to do this shit myself? Just wow! 🤯 -
m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 10:43:39 JST
m0xEE
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ggozng/in_the_sitcom_married_with_children_protagonist/
This kinda makes me "get it" why Americans are very disappointed with their current state of economy. Working a blue collar job, but still being able to afford a house, having a stay-at-home-mom wife and raising two childres to me, a Russian, doesn't look like something at all realistic 😅 -
m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 20:16:19 JST
m0xEE
@meso
Absolutely cursed! :marseyaleistercrowley: -
m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 13:52:50 JST
m0xEE
@p
> The popular conception of the 1950s version of the US didn't exist in the US, either, if it makes you feel any better. People here are trying to return to a time that we never had.
Ha-ha-ha, right! But at least younger Americans can talk to their elders — those whom they can trust and have it from the mouth of actual eyewitnesses, the ones who Russian youth can talk to are American young adults, who, like you said, might have very wrong idea of it themselves — and of course they would listen only to those whose words align with their own ideas well.
It isn't different about young Russians and USSR. I did see USSR and although I was still a kid, it still helps me tell if what I'm told is complete bullshit or not. But there are Russians born in 1991 and younger who can tell you a lot of amazing things about USSR because… Why listen to stupid boomers when they can listen to this socialist professor — yeah, he's never been to USSR, so what? He tells cool things! Their idea of their own country's past comes from what gets regurgitated in the West and fed back to them. It's funny and troubling at the same time. I've seen a girl telling with a straight face that Soviet people were washing plastic bags because they've been ecology-conscious, but I know for sure that it wasn't the case — even Soviet state-level experiments aside with nuclear explosions and changing the flow of rivers, on pedestrian level — there were runny taps in every home, no one cared about this shit! And plastic bags — they were rare, but looked cool and everyone was poor so if you wanted you plastic bag to last longer you had to wash it. But I would never be able to prove it to this girl — she just won't believe me as sustainability aligns with modern progressive agenda so well :marseyemojismilemouthtighteyes:
> The best way to look at this is to ask "Why wouldn't they?"
Well, certainly, there is always a possibility — I never rule that out. If other proof, direct and in certain cases indirect, comes up — I would accept that. Until that, Occam's razor applies: just because they could have, doesn't mean that they did.
Some people — not you, you're reasonable, want me to take US' involvement in some coups and revolutions for granted, but they never cite Iran's case as an example. I think there is a reason for that: these ops are extremely hard to carry out and coordinate, human error is not a made up thing — people fuck up all the time, but in these cases you can't really afford it, especially if it's a covert op. TP AJAX isn't a secret anymore — and it's a perfect example how things can go wrong. This operation had its reasons, it was planned — but eventually it span out of control and turned into a complete clusterfuck. I have very low regard of CIA (or any "special" service really) but even they aren't that reckless. I mean destabilizing the region isn't exactly rocket science, but keeping it under your control — that's easier said than done.
It's always easy for me to believe in Russia's involvement, but it doesn't mean that I should always do that. The most recent example: Russia's involvement in BLM protests. There is obvious intent — weakening US is in Russia's interests. And there is even proof — the investigators have found papers in Africa indicating that they've been planning to erect training camps, in Cameroon I think, to train black people to incite violent protests to send them to the US. So there were preparations even — but was it carried out? Or, what's more important, was it as efficient as they have planned it to be? I don't think so.
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m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 13:52:34 JST
m0xEE
@PurpCat
What's wrong with signs in English in foreign protests? Creating a poor image of your government for the Western public is the only reasonable goal you can achieve by protesting in non-free countries.
I live in Russia and I can totally understand why protesters in e.g. Hong Kong have signs in English — because what else you can do? Vote for the opposition in the next election? :marseylaugh:
Whom are you addressing with signs in your native language, your compatriots? They are usually well informed about the issues and are either protesting with you or are afraid to do so and stay at home.
Not many in Russia understood the importance of having slogans in English so people in the US and Europe could understand what the protests are about, that's in part why Russia is an utter failure it is today. The only goal you can achieve by having your signs in Russian is going to jail :marseyshrug:
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m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 13:52:29 JST
m0xEE
@p
> but the likelihood of astroturfing given that the signs are in English
Might be, might be not — there is no rule of thumb here, my point is that there are good reasons to have (among other things) slogans in English even for a grassroots protest. I'm not a Pole, but I don't think there's a conspiracy around LGBT protests in Poland, or protests against banning abortions — there are minorities there too, there are women, there are feminists, their protests might be quite genuine, they don't look like something unnatural to me. And I think they did succeed with that actually, PiS does have poor image among western progressives.
You might say, that the US are in part responsible for that — because people are often looking up to the West and often ape the agenda even when it's not the most glaring problem for their own country, but that's exactly how it works, it's not a direct involvement, I don't think that there is some entity in the US organizing these protests. People copying US agenda blindly is a double-edged sword by the way — because they are now copying the conservative agenda too, and you can't even imagine how alien and out of place it looks. There are people who have a worldview of US conservatives in Russia too, but as they've never been in the US, they have their own interpretation of it that has nothing to do with reality. What exactly they are attempting to conserve, what good old days are they attempting to go back to? Probably to the 50-ies era US, but they have their own idea of what it was, their ancestors weren't living in the US in the fifties, they are former Soviet people, it was USSR just a few decades ago.
I mean "progressives" — let's just call them that, say a lot of stupid shit too, copying the US blindly, but Russian "conservatives" raised on GOP propaganda are really something :marseylaughwith:
> Well, what's the US going to do about Hong Kong, really?
Not immediately. And I can only guess, but I think that it's a long game strategy for them. I mean you can see China being popular among people even here on Fedi — China knows their PR game well and people in Hong Kong — whose who would like to keep their westen-like freedoms are attempting to counter that.
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m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Nov-2023 09:03:14 JST
m0xEE
@sysrq @theorytoe @ovivu
But isn't it a good design for a *secure* messenger when you can't read the conversation you don't have the keys for? :marseyhmm:
I mean for those still using IRC it probably isn't — as we all know, everything should be readable by everyone and remain that way forever… :marseyglowaward:
But for a *secure* messenger it probably is. Good news though, you can make an unencrypted room in Matrix and use it the exact same way as you would with IRC or XMPP. -
m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 00:42:15 JST
m0xEE
@EricZhang456
Probably omitted on purpose, the article mentions this: https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2023/11/23/if-you-cant-block-em-block-em-harder-feditext-and-hard-coded-client-blocklists/
@voltrina @PurpCat @husky -
m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 18:27:20 JST
m0xEE
@adiz
Why don't we just execute them? Always the half-measures :marseysigh:
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m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 22:26:21 JST
m0xEE
@Veles
Ahahahaha, for some really obscure reason I've been strongly convinced she's using a Warwick bass, I even remember being very surprised with the choice, considering they are playing psychedelic rock…
But you're right of course, she uses a Yamaha bass, must be my mind playing really weird tricks on me :marseydizzy:
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m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 09:38:13 JST
m0xEE
@PurpCat @dragonarchitect
> I have multiple friends who've already said hell no to this place after taking one look at it. THEY DID NOT HAVE TO LOOK VERY HARD TO FIND IT AND PEACE OUT
"Oh my god, this social network with hundreds of thousands users has people whom I don't like, I'm leaving"
Are these people even serious?! 🤯
Damn of course people whom you don't like exist and it's not social network's job to pretend they don't. I have a lot of fun here, but even for me there a those here communicating with which I find very tiresome and unpleasant… And I just don't! What's so hard about that? And even if you simply can't stand certain things on your timeline, you can just block people posting them, even block entire instances. It's that simple!
Not only people nowadays expect to interact only with people they like online, they expect it to be someone else's job to grant it — this is not normal on so many levels! -
m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 00:47:27 JST
m0xEE
@Veles
Didn't she use a Warwick bass or something? :marseythinkorino:
Warwick Dolphin basses were made in Japan though and are relatively inexpensive, compared to what Warwick basses usually cost. I did own one actually — not a bad bass for this kind of money, not bad at all!
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m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 15:36:52 JST
m0xEE
@coolboymew
Her bass is probably expensive though 😄 -
m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 15:36:13 JST
m0xEE
@burner @kirby @coolboymew
But can it generate ugly anime gals? 🤔 -
m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:42:34 JST
m0xEE
@coolboymew @PurpCat
Well, to some point it is justified for companies — not only because everyone's lazy and loves the latest-greatest. Three years is usually when the warranty runs out, this often means that the replacement parts might not be immediately available so repairs might take time, it also costs money as computer is no longer under warranty. What's the employee using this computer is doing while the service centre is waiting for the parts to arrive — he/she wastes time and that is also money.
All in all, it's cost effective to only use equipment that is under warranty — why not just let the customers pay for extended warranty beyond three years is a different matter — I think this can be improved and I think we will eventually come to this.
Planned obsolescence is still a thing, but I don't think it's as bad as it used to be with corporate shit moving to the cloud (this way they can have your money without selling new things to you). All of the computers I use are a decade old or even older and… they are perfectly usable. Hell, I'm even fine using my T43 from mid 2000s for the most part, or even its older brother — the T40. Sure, I can't run FF with only 512 Mbs RAM, but lightweight things work fine in surf. -
m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 05:42:32 JST
m0xEE
@PurpCat @coolboymew
A lot of the computers I have come from the companies I used to work for — written off equipment that still works fine. I remember it being problematic to auction them outside of company — they have also have to make sure it's impossible to extract any company data off those computers, most companies don't bother and just destroy old equipment (and pay for it!), selling to company's own employees for pennies always was a great option.
This lease thing sounds amazing — basically it outsources the auctioning and solves the data retention issue, with less moving parts more companies are likely to adopt this. -
m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 06:00:48 JST
m0xEE
@adiz @gsuberland
I have a Samsung "smart" TV, but I've never agreed to the terms of service and I can't use the "smart" part of it, meaning I can't install apps — it's built-in DLNA client works just fine and allows me playing movies directly from my seedbox, I can also play media off external drives, it works as Bluetooth and Miracast sinks, picture in picture kinda works too — no ads involved.
Well, I can't watch YouTube directly from the TV — but I seldomly do that anyway and if I want to, I can use a laptop that is plugged into it anyway.
Capitalism works just fine :cirno_shrug: -
m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 19:05:35 JST
m0xEE
@getimiskon @iska
What is even the point of pirating a game. When you buy it and never play it, you're at least wasting money. What is the point of downloading and never playing it, wasting disk space? :marseysmug2: -
m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 08:56:19 JST
m0xEE
@PurpCat @Zerglingman @hellhammer666
> everyone is burnt out on capeshit
This!
It's not about new or well known, black or female superheroes, this shit just got old in general. For me it was around Infinity War — it was so boring that when it ended with a cliffhanger I've been like: "Are you fucking kidding me?! I'm not watching the second part of this shit!" Doctor Strange was pretty boring already, but still watchable. So for me it was "phase three" when I waved hand and never looked back to be honest.
I think it lasted longer than it could even by the most daring estimates, even this one, according to Wikipedia:
> As of November 12, 2023, The Marvels has grossed $47 million in the United States and Canada, and $63.3 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $110.3 million.
Yeah, it's an utter commercial failure, but does $47 mil look like "empty theaters" — to me it doesn't :marseyshrug: -
m0xEE (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 00:36:21 JST
m0xEE
@iska
Isn't this how actual science works: you make a model, come up with hypothesis and see if it checks out?
— The hypothesis: what is one of these numbers is the correct answer?
— Aren't you just bruteforcing the math problem?
— Shut up, bitches, I'm doing science! :marseysmug3:
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