[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 10 points 1 month ago

Smart of Mata to tell them that. I like that they fight the hackers on their own "turf", so to speak, in the propaganda war. Makes their power and hegemony that much more believable.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 12 points 1 month ago

So, a few things:

  • many of the men accused have stated that the husband pitched the idea as "this is a kink she really enjoys, being drugged and then having sex with strangers". (Of course they never pretend to have met her in person beforehand to get her consent for the whole thing in the first place)
  • there are some that have said "what's the big deal? It's his wife, he gets to decide to lend her out to his friends." (!)

I don't know how many of the first group are being honest, but the existence of both can give you an idea of how bad our culture used to be towards rape, and still is to a large extent.

There's a pretty striking moment of archival footage, from the 60s or 70s I think, of some french dude being asked in the street "and you, have you ever raped a woman?" And his response is a very matter-of-fact "well, of course!".

People don't want to believe that rapists are, in many ways, just ordinary people. So they both refuse to see it in others, and refuse to see themselves as capable of even contributing to the problem. Hopefully this can be the wakeup call many men here in France need to realize they must push back when their friends make rape jokes, for ex.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 10 points 1 month ago

To be fair, weren't Valve the first company to do that? People were really annoyed at having to install steam just to play some Half-Life.

Of course, that was only 1 launcher, no launcher-in-launcher shenanigans back then.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 11 points 1 month ago

First there was no difference between gaza/the Palestinians and Hamas, now there's no difference between Hezbollah and Lebanon...

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 10 points 2 months ago

"I need some more [input] sanitizer for my eczema script, the console is red and inflamed whenever I check it."

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 10 points 2 months ago

Having just watched the lecture, the only classified info I can recognize is the capabilities of 80s era satellites.

Given that, I think it's quite a shame that the whole thing is only now available. Rear Admiral Hopper seems to have been someone who deeply understood both computers and people. The prescriptions she gives regarding "systems of computers" and "management" vs "leadership", to name just two, are spot-on. Her lecture is quite grounded in what I'd call "military thinking", but that's just because she's in a room filled with people who are of that life. In my opinion, everything she talks about is applicable to communities and businesses.

The general gist of the entire ~90mins reminds me of Project Cybersyn in its perspective on how computers could serve society.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 12 points 4 months ago

En tant que "militant" pour le logiciel libre : CHEH

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 11 points 4 months ago

In my experience which instance you're on (and, as a result, which instances populate your feed) heavily influences how much transmedicalism (and other bigotries) you encounter.

From what I see on your profile page, you mostly interact with lemmy.world communities. That's the biggest instance, that received the largest influx of reddit-quitters, notably.

In case you haven't encountered them, you might want to take a look at some of the communities hosted on lemmy.blahaj.zone.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Je crois que tu penses à "the narcissist's prayer" (dont l'Internet me dit que c'est Dayna Craig l'auteur) :

That didn't happen.

And if it did, it wasn't that bad.

And if it was, that's not a big deal.

And if it is, that's not my fault.

And if it was, I didn't mean it.

And if I did, you deserved it.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 11 points 5 months ago

This cannot be tolerated, even under Eisenhower.

I suddenly want to insert this into my everyday life

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I already use pass ("the unix password manager") and there's a pretty decent extension that lets it handle 2fa: https://github.com/tadfisher/pass-otp

Worth noting that this somewhat defeats the purpose of 2fa if you put your GitHub password in the same store as the one used for otp. Nevertheless, this let's me sign on to 2fa services from the command line without purchasing a USB dongle or needing a smartphone on-hand.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 10 points 5 months ago

It's such a destructive mindset, and it seems to me like indie games are hopefully on the cusp of re-demonstrating to the rest of the industry why it is so.

Art/luxury products depend on catering to subjective tastes to turn a profit. You need to speak to someone's perspective or interests, and are competing for their disposable income against all other forms of entertainment. Thus the wider the targeted audience, the harder it is to outcompete the rest of the market on "consumer interest" (no idea if that's the proper use of the term but it sounds correct for the context), the harder it is to even turn a profit.

Simultaneously, these corporations want an ever-greater magnitude of profit (aka growth). So they decide to target the widest audience possible, while investing as much capital as they can.

That's already an unstable balance of priorities. As soon as you start conceiving yourself as competing with almost every single other market on the basis of shareholder speculation, in terms of ROI, it's doomed.

You're not just shooting yourself in the foot, you're trying to do a Paul Muad'hib Atreides except because this is reality, not sci-fi, instead of drinking the Water of Life you mixed 10 grams of ketamine, 5 tabs of acid, and a fistful of meth into a blue Gatorade and chugged it in one go. All you end up doing is vibrating in place so hard you begin to slough off flesh and erratically disintegrate, like some sort of sad eldritch horror.

God do I hate corpos sick with capitalism.

To continue the Dune analogy, they really could use some ecology-derived thinking: specialize and find your niche (or help it emerge), and give back to the rest of the ecosystem so that it continues to flourish with you. Monoculture has a negative correlation between scale and sustainability, let alone ROI.

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