OctopusNemeses

False equivalencies are trite.

And yes, gun companies make weapons of destruction.

As if it wasn’t obvious enough that nazi posters have special protected status on social media platforms. The report buttons do nothing against them.

The world wide web has come back to an era where people and content are sparse.

“We” being the technologically inclined. The majority of the population see these headlines and think of it as something closer to a Gibson novel. These stunts work. It’s why people think Elon is Tony Stark.

You need to touch some grass for a while. Or don’t.

Your mental gymnasticing is not my problem. Just pointing it out.

There’s some kind of Jedi mindtrick with technology that causes people to hyper-fixate on the idea of futuristic miracle tools, and ignore the horrible real life results. If I sold hammers that magically transformed into an ineffective plastic toy hammer on 7 out of every 10 strikes, nobody would buy it. They probably would for the novelty, but not for practical use.

They killed off the old ones by timebombing the subs with strict requirements for activity. They started complying with takedowns, which nuked wide swaths of NSFW reddit. The death of gfycat was another sudden and massive removal of content.

The NSFW part of reddit didn’t go away though. It’s transformed into OnlyFan spam. So it’s not really porn. It’s redlight district ads. Hot local girls want to meet you!

If only people would be this militant about the sensor node they carry around all the time.

Facebook specifically trains off Qwen and Gemini. It’s not a big secret.

I remember the internet warning that Republicans would lead to the state of affairs today.

It’s pointless anymore to try infoposting on reddit.

Take for example the soldering subreddit. The info on that sub is that you must slather everything in flux in order to solder properly. A guy posted yesterday citing 40 years of experience, saying that’s not how he’s done it. The comments are a mess.

Another post today, someone asks about air filtering the solder smoke. The consensus in the comments is it’s not a big deal. You can literally measure the particulate matter yourself to see how bad it is. Basically an average residential room size, say 100-200 sq/ft. You’ll basically hotbox yourself with smoke.

Another one that’s seen less often but the false idea persists. It’s that capacitors never short and burn out. I don’t know how or why that false idea floats around, but I’ve seen it over the years. I’ve replaced tons of caps that spontaneously combusted. Both electrolytic and SMD caps. Sometimes they just fail and short. No other fault.

Reddit is full of bad info. It’s site that relies on word of mouth and popularity contest. You do not build a knoweldge base of technical information this way. You’re getting an entropic game of telephone. That’s all reddit ever was and ever will be. It’s flawed paradigm by default.

A paradigm that lemmy is built off. So don’t you all be getting the idea that good knowledge is going to be getting sourced from here either.

Tech devoured everything as it does. Put some funding back in shop class, arts, home ec., etc. That was the issue around here going back decades.

They defunded all those things here. Back then my high school got a ton of fancy Apple computers. Those went unused except for the IT guys fucking around with them and never actually deploying them for some reason. Only the aging Windows PCs were used by students. That was the only funding being spent anymore.

The world is more than just the big tech industry. It’s no wonder so many trades professions are aging out into oblivion. We listened to techbros who are converting the world into digital zombies.

Give the kids things to do again other than screen time. The rest of the entire curriculum has long ago been gutted down to pure theory. Of course they’re bored to death, and searching for stimulation on their screens.

Have you seen how it is lately? It’s a glorified tabloid. It’s largely used for pop culture gossip. People know it’s slop, and they don’t care. They use it anyways.

Reddit is far from the days of being a modernized tech BBS. At least 10 years removed from it. In it’s current incarnation it’s an interactive daily newspaper with Bat Boy stories on the front cover. That’s what they’re selling. And it does sell.