bitofhope

joined 2 years ago
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Still frustrated over the fact that search engines just don't work anymore. I sometimes come up with puns involving a malapropism of some phrase and I try and see if anyone's done anything with that joke, but the engines insist on "correcting" my search into the statistically more likely version of the phrase, even if I put it in quotes.

Also all the top results for most searches are blatant autoplag slop with no informational value now.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A whole generation is leaning more socialist because homeownership is unattainable and student debt is crushing. The solution is whatever is the latest big tech fad.

Just like all of gen X's problems would have been solved with more .com, right?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

I'm not polite to chatbots because I don't use them in the first place.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 17 points 1 month ago

Hell yeah rule by dickgirls

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

Why do people think this appplies only to Firefox? Is it because it's checking for "Mozilla" in the UA string? Might wanna check what their own browser uses (I don't care what browser you have, it probably has "Mozilla" in the user agent string)

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Really manning that steel bro. It must have taken a lot of effort not to put the echo symbols on (((DEI shibboleths))). Out of spite, I'll now proceed to somehow incorporate the idea that white people cause earthquakes into my worldview.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I dunno, how's the "I'm not Donald Trump" platform been working out so far?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

the hawk tuah teapot is actually hysterical which is how I knew the poster was taking the piss

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh, but you see the axis powers only ever wanted to conquer most of Europe, North Africa, a bunch of islands in the Pacific, most of Southeast Asia, Korea and large parts of mainland China, which the allies would have been completely fine with. Nothing suggests they would actually go for full conquest victory. What is a "Lebensraum"? Is it a type of cheese?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

Unusually shit take on WW2 but not an unusually shit take from Moldbug. Just the usual level of shit.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What kind of a cost is low enough that eight billion people can pay it for their legitimate communications without burning the planet too much, but also high enough that a spammer with a botnet won't bother to let other people's machines pay the cost?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't think that simile quite lands. Hindenburg worked as expected until its sudden catastrophic demise and hydrogen caused both the function and the failure. Zero knowledge proofs neither make cryptocoins work nor are they the reason why they don't work.

A more apt comparison is something like saying levers are the technology behind this perpetual motion machine.

The design incorporates levers that fail to make the device function, but it's not like levers are useless because of that.

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