t3rmit3

@ t3rmit3 @beehaw.org

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3 yr. ago

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15h ago

China’s ‘Rat People’: When Education Can’t Deliver on Its Promises
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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 15h ago
if people can be happy and fulfilled
Except a lot of them aren't happy and fulfilled, they're opting out for the same reasons young people in the US are:
they can’t afford homes, can’t find decent jobs, and don’t see a future worth bringing children into.
That's not "happy and fulfilled outside the rat race", especially since they're solution is closer to hikikomoris. They're not out there building self-sufficient communes.

4d ago

Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background

just say 'doggo' and 'w00t' and 'roflmao' a couple times and the AI will peg you as an elder millennial and leave you alone

4d ago

Smart Homes Are Terrible

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 4d ago

I'd settle for any home, smart or dumb.

4d ago

Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 4d ago

I'm so mad they've switched from their "protect the children" line for Boomers, to "protect the pets" for us Millennials.

5d ago

Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 5d ago

IRC is still alive and well, team speak for voice chats. Hell, Nextcloud even has these, as well as video calls.

7d ago

Counting the waves of tech industry BS from blockchain to AI

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 7d ago

Everyone forgets that "Information Technology" was just a rebrand from the more accurate "Information Systems", which was itself the less accurate rebranding of "Data Processing", which is what computers actually do. There was also the failed push by IBM for Information Communication Technology (ICT).

It's been hype cycles since the beginning.

4w ago

NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 4w ago

we’d better be careful to make sure that we aren’t simply giving the federal government (and the shitheads who run it) even more power and control over everything

You do realize that copyright is solely a function of the federal government, right? There is no state or municipal copyright, it's already the federal government who decides whether your copyright as a creator is valid or enforceable, or whether to just hand it over to another company/ billionaire.

4w ago

‘Climate change is here’: Experts warn environmental crisis is decades ahead of forecasts

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 4w ago

No no, they've now moved on to, "well fine, it's real, but it's too late and/or too expensive to do anything now".

4w ago

World’s oldest monastic brewery to be sold as German beer sales slide

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 4w ago

Never been to Weltenburger, but I used to go to Kloster Andechs with my dad and grandmother to get their pork knuckles. Something about going to a kloster (abbey) and seeing the monks living there like it's still the 1500s is very cool. Kloster Andechs was founded in 1458 with an official writ for operating as a tavern, and has been brewing since then. Imagine living in a place that's been around and doing the same thing for 560+ years.

4w ago

After 20 Years, This Scientist Proved Birds Can Talk and Use Grammar

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 4w ago

Sadly, all the people who like and actually engage with animals (including wild ones) regularly already know this, and all the people who dislike animals or think humans are special will just discount this.

4w ago

Precisely

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 4w ago

Mozrella, my favorite cheese

1mo ago

Be Wary of Digital Deskilling

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 1mo ago

The real means to prevent this is unionizing, which is really the answer to most other techbro-hellscape problems too. Just like Hollywood is putting anti-ai clauses in their contracts, so too will tech workers need to. Unfortunately, given that the end goal is to remove the IT workers entirely, this is still only a delay if companies push ahead, since just like scabs, there will always be people willing to sell their fellow workers down the river for their own enrichment.

But we're not even close to that point; most tech workers think unionizing is a 4-letter word. There's always a private chat room where folks are lamenting the absolute class-ignorance of their coworkers who are all convinced they're going to stumble into unicorn stock options soon, despite multiple rounds of layoffs each year now being standard in tech.

The real question is what has to happen to end this horrible capitalist nightmare in general.

1mo ago

I hate to jinx things, but having the head of marketing for a solar company provide his personal contact info seems useful

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 1mo ago

Hey, finger crossed! Hope this turns into something. :)

1mo ago

'Help is on its way,' Trump tells Iranians as he urges them to keep protesting

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 1mo ago

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SF5MiM-P2p4

1mo ago

Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 1mo ago

This is great to see, and as long as it's up to companies whether to do this we need to encourage that behavior... but it also shouldn't be up to companies' whims whether to do this or not. It should be legally required for end-of-support devices and software to release whatever source code or changes are necessary to either operate the device/software independent of a server, or run the server ourselves.

1mo ago

How ATSC 3.0 aims to win over cord-cutters in 2026

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 1mo ago

Honestly, operating a private streaming site is much safer than pirate VHF/ UHF broadcasts, both in terms of what you'll get charged with, and how long you'll remain undetected. VHF and UHF broadcasts are literal homing beacons (and without something to bounce the signal off, very limited in what you'd reach).

Jellyfin on an offshore VPS, with invite-only accounts otoh...

1mo ago

The way of the pirate

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 1mo ago

If being depressed made people stop needing food

Show me where you think I said this.

1mo ago

The way of the pirate

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 1mo ago

I'll assume you have no actual rebuttal than, shall I?

1mo ago

The way of the pirate

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 1mo ago

Art doesn’t help much if you’re starving to death.

And being well-fed doesn't help much if you're contemplating suicide because your life has no joy in it. And art is not the only source of joy, but it is one of them (and one of the most common).

1mo ago

The way of the pirate

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t3rmit3 @beehaw.org 1mo ago

You keep using the word "useful" in a way that suggests you've narrowly defined it in your head to exclude art. Life without art quickly results in a whole lot of death. Even the poorest humans throughout history have created music and art, because it's a fundamental part of human life. Just because art is less critical to immediate survival in most cases than eating doesn't make it any less necessary than it; shelter being more or less critical than food in a given situation (deadly sub-zero blizzard, more critical. Temperate area with no dangerous weather or predators, less critical) also doesn't make it more or less necessary, it's just a varying order of necessity. Being anti-Capitalist is important, but I feel like you've written off "professional" art as the domain of Capitalism rather than another victim of it (which food is as well, for that matter).