ennemi

joined 2 years ago
[–] ennemi@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

the Torment Nexus is just a regular old torture chamber. it's not really infinite. the tech has existed since the middle ages. don't buy the VC hype.

[–] ennemi@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

I'm thinking of ditching it. It's been pretty awful lately. A lot of the official extensions I relied on have regressed to the point of being useless.

Also, releasing a FLOSS editor and then forcing you to use a proprietary build with telemetry if you want to debug .NET code is the most Microsoft thing ever.

[–] ennemi@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The backing comes at a crucial time as Lindner's Canadian counterpart, Chrystia Freeland, announced in June that all ties with the bank were to be frozen pending a government review over claims made by a former Canadian top executive at the bank, who reported widespread "communist dominance" within the institution since its foundation in 2016 — allegations that the AIIB denies.

You mean the investment fund that was literally founded by the Chinese government because China had less voting rights in the existing "Asian Development Bank" than the fucking United States of America? The one they have minority voting rights in?

The full depth of this reasoning is just "China bad", that's it. That's the quality of our public officials. This country is a fucking joke.

[–] ennemi@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've been using this adapter for both BT and WiFi and it's honestly pretty good. Works out of the box and I've experienced zero hiccups in the past 6 months. So long as you don't mind the big ass antenna that is

[–] ennemi@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'd still recommend getting an AMD graphics card and generally prioritizing hardware with upstream drivers. As in, drivers that are included with the kernel itself. The experience is always better. Overall it's still a good habit to look up how any hardware runs on Linux before buying it.

Gaming in a Windows VM is possible but it was a big ordeal when I did it. You have to make sure your CPU and motherboard support IOMMU for PCI passthrough. It's less of a problem nowadays but there are still some pitfalls with PCIe lanes and whatnot. You need two video adapters, one for the host and one for the guest (because the host has no access to the passed-through GPU) and if you want to game on both Windows and Linux that can be a pain in the ass. It goes on. I personally don't recommend it. If you have to play trashy eSports that ship with built-in anti-cheat malware then just Windows for that.

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In defense of libs (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ennemi@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net
 

Liberal ideology is the free square at the center of the bingo card. It's the world view almost all of us inherit from the various authority figures that we grow up around. Reflection, of any sort, can only take you away from it.

Starting from there, it takes years of difficult reflection before you can even contemplate the idea that universal housing, food security and education should be human rights, and that upsetting the status quo to achieve that is a worthwhile goal, and that subsequently using authority to defend those rights against fascists and bourgeois revanchists is morally justifiable.

I also understand that being ideologically liberal means living with extreme cognitive dissonance. They are raised to believe that racism is bad, and are given zero of the intellectual tools necessary to understand why majority-white-european states tend to be astronomically richer than the rest of the world, or why the situation is not improving, and therefore have nothing but racism and associated notions (corruption, evil china influence, etc) to explain it. Similarly they are raised to believe in merit, insisting that hard work and ingenuity are necessarily rewarded by capitalism, and yet have to live with endless examples of the exact contrary in every single sphere of life, up to and including a god damn cheeto beating the most credentialed game-player politician in history and becoming president of the United States of America. It goes on and on, and it cannot be good for the human brain.

When these people retreat into their mind palaces, plug their ears and yell CIA talking points at us, it's hard for me to get mad or think less of them. I just feel sad. I just wish we could trephinate Marxism into these people's head and skip past all of the hyper-conditioned defense mechanisms that USA regime propaganda has hammered into their heads.

That is all

[–] ennemi@hexbear.net 61 points 2 years ago

Terminal Marvelbrain

[–] ennemi@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

DRY means Do Repeat Yourself, when the alternative is cooking up some awful OOP abstraction

[–] ennemi@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago

Give zoomers a break. Most people have terminal baby duck syndrome and will sacrifice anything for convenience, regardless of age.

[–] ennemi@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

Digital sanity. I do not want any of my tools to constantly beg to be updated.

[–] ennemi@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

some context: "pogo" is a brand of frozen corn dogs which is for some reason also a cultural staple

[–] ennemi@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

that person is an embarrassment. thinks it's OK to be a reactionary so long as you pick safe targets. block and move on. or if you absolutely have to punch up or sideways, try to be funny jfc

and hexbear mods this means you too. do better

 

Why do Italians insist on betraying the trust we put in them

 

Search engines are basically 90% blogspam promotion machines at this point, and the blogspam churning engine is going to become completely autonomous. The tools we're relied on for nearly three decades now are going to become a big virtual tug of war between machine-learning-guided SEO systems and machine-learning-guided ad revenue systems.

Every single anonymous interaction is going to be suspect. The next dogwhistling fucking cryptonazi groyper you run into is probably not even going to be a human being. Machine learning is probably going to elect the next US president. Eventually the medium will become so polluted that we will have to go back to doing everything in person.

Thank you for reading my doompost

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