archomrade [he/him]

@ archomrade @midwest.social

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3 yr. ago

If only that actually mattered.

7mo ago

Banned for being a "known tankie"

I was addressing someone saying that 'rapes of jewish women were widespread', which to my ears is an unfounded characterization of a report which went to great lengths not to say anything half as definitive. If anyone in that thread was guilty of apologia or revisionism, it sure as fuck wasn't me.

But you're right, this isn't the place to argue about it. Do what you want.

7mo ago

Banned for being a "known tankie"

Yea, seems likely

That bucket guy said 'rape of Jews on October 7th was widespread', and the 'widespread' part fucking got to me.

Not that it's a huge difference but I couldn't stand that guy running around citing that UN report that said it found 'reasonable grounds to believe sexual violence occurred', which is a fucking far cry from 'rape was widespread'

But, if I were to be charitable, i could see a mod coming in cold to that conversation just assuming the worst. But im pretty sure it was pug, if the 'sort by mod' function is accurate.

7mo ago

Banned for being a "known tankie"

Wasn't gonna bother until after I saw this, but looks like PJ gave me a ban for clarifying UN reporting on sexual assault.

Didn't think I was posting anything spicy but you never know the crowd.

7mo ago

New Comm for Lord Of The Rings Memes at !Lotrmemes@Piefed.social

Yea, this seems pretty dumb as far as disagreements go. The article that felix linked has this to say about the Israeli report:

Prosecutors, the report argues, should not have to rely on the kind of evidence typically associated with prosecutions—witness or victim testimony, forensic reports and the like—but instead should be able to rely on “circumstantial evidence” and general deductions. And in order to find a pattern of systemic sexual violence, it should be sufficient to identify individual cases of such violence and read into them a systemic nature. Completing the circle, those individual cases need not hold up to the standards of typical prosecutions.

Even the link felix posted was acknowledging the credible reports of individual cases of sexual violence - I have to assume that the 'lies' they were referring to were specific to the allegations of 'systemic' sexual violence. Seems like pug was reading something else into the comment entirely and got upset by their own projection.

9mo ago

US ambassador to Israel says US no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state

archomrade [he/him] @midwest.social 9mo ago

Fuck that, Israel should be carved out of Texas, not Palestine.

It will be much more cost effective to deliver our lethal aid within our own borders rather than across the Atlantic.

10mo ago

Hacking your robot vacuum

archomrade [he/him] @midwest.social 10mo ago

yup. I haven't done it yet, but apparently ceiling fan controllers are a pretty standard thing, so usually all you really have to do is replace the whole controller box (they're like $30 apiece from what I remember), or replace the controller board itself like you mentioned.

I've stopped buying appliances from places like Home Depot for this reason, seems like they simply do not stock items that aren't their brand-name cloud-hosted services, or larger brands like hue.

12mo ago

Canada to cut off electricity to US states: "Need to feel the pain"

archomrade [he/him] @midwest.social 12mo ago

I'm pretty sure Minnesota imports something like 60% of our energy - i'm at least glad we're past the worst of the winter weather but holy fuck is it going to suck

12mo ago

Banned and comment removed for being anti-tankie on a 196 clone

archomrade [he/him] @midwest.social 12mo ago

Yea, but the problem is that there is no different literal meaning from the dog whistle. What would 'cultural Marxism' even mean to a Marxist?

Nobody is questioning your anti-tankie bona-fides here. We're pointing to the irony of someone trying hard to otherize tankies from other leftists accidentally appropriating a term that's pretty much exclusively used to malign both for the acceptance of LGBTQ expression.

1y ago

Jellyfin is not just good... but better than Plex now?!

Huh, it works great on my android os Nvidia shield

1y ago

Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

As a rule I don't announce my trackers publicly so they can continue existing as my trackers, but the one I use mostly is small-rodent themed.

I'll DM you

1y ago

Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

I get my linux distros via torrent networks, mostly

1y ago

Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

As someone who likes to have a fallback way of purchasing digital content that I can remove DRM from, this annoys me.

I can still purchase mp3 and flac files from various online retailers, and I can rip bluray for my movies and tv shows, but now I need a new place to purchase ebooks that are downloadable. Anyone have any recommendations? The first few independent retailers i've found seem to require their own apps.

1y ago

Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

It's been a while since I've heard about libgen and aa - and actually i'm not sure how they operate with direct downloads of copyrighted material? I find my ebooks through more conventional p2p means, but i've always just assumed that was necessary to avoid sudden takedowns

1y ago

Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip

Lmao, yea I think they're kind of playing a game with language here.

After doing some reading of various explanations, what they mean when they say they aren't using electrons for computation is basically that the 'thing' they're measuring that dictates the 'state' of the transistor is a quasi-particle..... but that particle is only observed through the altered behavior of electrons (i guess in the case of the majorana particle, it appears as two electrons gathered together in synchrony?)

So the chip is still using electrons in its computation in the same say as a traditional transistor - you are still sending electrons into a circuit, and the 'state' of the bit is determined by the output signal. It's just that, in this case, they're looking for specific behavior of the electrons that indicate the presence and state of this 'qbit'

That is just my layman's understanding of it

1y ago

Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip

Microsoft isn’t using electrons for the compute in this new chip; it’s using the Majorana particle that theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana described in 1937.

Ok now i'm gonna need an explain-like-i'm-not-a-quantum-scientist on what a 'topological transistor' is, and what it uses instead of electrons for its compute (and, like, what is the significance?)

1y ago

Prescient post from a decade ago

Fair, but Marx wasn't a technocrat. He was primarily concerned with how the working class could overthrow capital, and the working class was primarily illiterate - transatlantic telegraphs wouldn't have been a relevant tool to them in their ceasing of capital from the bourgeoisie.

Marx specifically wrote the Communist Manifesto in easily-understood language so that the few literate members of the working class could organize and recruit those who wouldn't have been able to read it themselves. Even if he understood the telegraph to be a revolutionary technological innovation, it wouldn't have been relevant to an impoverished working class that did not have the luxury of basic education.

Not that it would have been impossible for anyone to see the potential significance of the telegraph back then, but that was never going to be a Karl Marx who optimistically thought the revolution could happen within his lifetime (and here we are almost 160 years later not even a step closer to that reality)

1y ago

Prescient post from a decade ago

If Marx had predicted our current internet communication hellscape all the way back in 1870, he would be more than just an anti-capitalist boogeyman but a bonafide prophet

20% of Americans were illiterate in 1870

1y ago

Teenagers turning to AI companions are redefining love as easy, unconditional and always there.