dismalnow

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[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

For the record, that's an incredibly shitty argument.

"LOL GIT GUDER PC"

There's a better solution for legacy hardware on windoze, and you don't know what it is.

Just admit it, or STFU.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This isn't a logo. It's a cry for help from a severely distressed mind.

W̸͖͆H̵̡̹̖͂̂̑̅Ǎ̷̲̩͔̿͜͠T̷̩̫͗'̶̺̩͖͚́̚Ś̴̭̺̼̳ ̶̼̱̗̓̄̾H̸̡̗̫̝͘A̵͍̥̔̾P̸͇͎̾́P̵̙̦̀́ͅE̸̢̧̹͐͝͠N̸̫̲͙̘͝I̵̳͍͇̼̾̋̀̕N̶͚͖̪̒̈́̈G̵͕̱̓̃

̷̛̰̣̠͛͊ ̸̳̼̹͂ ̸̳͕̳̔̈̉͝ ̸̛̲̋̄͘ ̴͎͐ ̸̝̃̽̚W̵͓̙̏̄̀̉Ḩ̶͚͍͗͠A̷̢̹̥͙͑͐͆T̷̫́̉̄̚'̸̧͍͌͆͜Ş̷̗͚̻̓̉͒͠ ̶̣̯̬͑̈́H̷̘͛̇̚A̷̭͗̓͘P̶̭̠̔͒͝P̵̱̯̲̓͌͘E̵̡̪̣͇̕͝N̵͓͊̇̿̋Ì̷̭̯̠͗̈́͠N̴̬̹̲͔͑̈͝G̵͎̖̥͇̀

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I got curious and did the math if $44B was denominated in $100 bills.

That's 496.85 cubic kilometers of cash. Or a pile of money that covers half of the continental US, stacked 1/4 of the height of Low Earth Orbit.

I honestly don't think one could physically burn that much cash since May 2022 in real life.

Edit: more mind bogglery!

The earth is ~40,000 km in circumference, so you could stack the bills almost 28m high around the equator (or circle the globe 256,482 times.)

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I love revisiting comments like these every 4 years.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago

Then why are they even still there?

Sunk cost fallacy or misplaced hope are other options outside of Napoleon complex.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Netflix is forgetting that a large part of their success was due to being more convenient than piracy.

Oddly, I have noticed that most people I know aren't interested in taking the minimal risk to sail the seas now that there's widespread cause.

Back when Netflix was awesome, I knew a LOT more people who were willing to dive in to the technical stuff, risk, and additional effort to strap on an eye patch.

Anyone's guess on the root cause, but I feel like the amount of people on the interwebs now have absolutely no idea (or interest) how anything works. "Push colorful button to do things" seems to be it.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We're in agreement, but I'm more militant for the specific example (amitheasshole).

It's right in the name. If there is no "I" directly involved, than the bot is an asshole. Sprinkle this philosophy liberally when expanding scope to almost all bot content, and it encompasses my opinion with scant few exceptions.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

What do you mean that Mastodon promotes the discussion of complete ideas with room for context and citations?

I'm just here to be force fed hyperbole at a rate slightly slower than would pop a blood vessel in my brain.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Submit your pulls now for a new name!

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I love the low-speed-chase aspect of your comment.

Harrumph.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It's mostly the folks in the middle who have (pseudo-secret) extremely partisan values which divest from those of the mission, but there are a few sprinkled in at the very top that are giving the orders.

The thin blue line needs to be crossed by the good ones- and it would only take a small percentage to break it forever. It's a cancer of justice, and is the root cause for myriad problems in the US.

I read Comey's book, and despite his attempt to look like a good guy, and self-aggrandizing he was definitely one of the bad ones.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by dismalnow@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social
 

#fediverse

We need to talk about content/user ranking standardization.

Upvotes/boosts/reduces need to do SOMETHING, and what they do should be unified across instances.

The best way to use these three scores seems obvious to me, and needs a standard to be established.

I posit a simple standard that can be built upon, and used by all:

  • Upvotes increase your "reliability" rating. (This can be used to establish trust as a person who commits bytes to a federated server.)
  • Downvotes decrease that reliability rating. (Admins should be able to use this score to exclude data they're not interested in wasting space for.)
  • Boosts are reposts to your federated identity (mastodon, kbin, lemmy, etc) for visibility to your subscribers. They are instance-agnostic, as they are more a user function than anything.
 

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