interolivary

@ interolivary @beehaw.org

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Currently between olives

2y ago

Tough break, kid...
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interolivary @beehaw.org 2y ago
Every deluded twat thinks they're the realist

2y ago

Joe Biden just did the rarest thing in US politics: he stood up to the oil industry; The Biden administration suspended new permits for natural gas terminals. Can we see more of this kind of backbone?

The idea that all politicians are corrupt and conniving bastards is mainly a right-wing fiction. They assume everybody acts exactly like they themselves do

2y ago

"Open Source Windows" ReactOS just got better GUI install setup, no GPT yet

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interolivary @beehaw.org 2y ago

Even though I occasionally toy with the idea of learning eg. COBOL so I could rake in the $$$ from consulting jobs to add features to some 60 year old codebase for a bank or something like that, I'm not sure that amount of stress would ever be worth it

2y ago

"Open Source Windows" ReactOS just got better GUI install setup, no GPT yet

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interolivary @beehaw.org 2y ago

But don't you see, everybody needs to know exactly their opinion

2y ago

Relativistic Spaceship Simulator

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interolivary @beehaw.org 2y ago

Hard to replicate on your phone ;)

Yeah thankfully sRGB doesn't extend into gamma rays

2y ago

My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.

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interolivary @beehaw.org 2y ago

is not a reasonable prospect.

Not that that's stopped 4chan before

2y ago

Does anyone understand the point of advertising a game doing something that, after downloading, it does not do?

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interolivary @beehaw.org 2y ago

Ah yes, the 'ol fractal of horror

2y ago

Sunak to drop heat pump targets in fresh retreat from Net Zero

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interolivary @beehaw.org 2y ago

Wonder if using first-past-the-post has something to do with that. Seems like a pretty terrible system

2y ago

Reddit chooses New York Stock Exchange for long-stalled IPO

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interolivary @beehaw.org 2y ago

Reddit surfed through the years of cheap vc money but going public could kill it.

Wonder which fascist tech billionaire will buy it when it finally implodes

2y ago

IAMA AMA Tech AMA

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interolivary @beehaw.org 2y ago

In space, nobody can hear your explosive diarrhea?

2y ago

IAMA AMA Tech AMA

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interolivary @beehaw.org 2y ago

I see a flaw in this design…

You don't say?

2y ago

IAMA AMA Tech AMA

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2y ago

EU threatens to hit Hungary's economy if Orban vetoes Ukraine aid

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interolivary @beehaw.org 2y ago

I figure you're right, it really doesn't seem all that likely but it was just a thought that popped into my head.

But yeah, it's interesting to see what this current "turbulence" will lead to. Requiring consensus only has a chance to work if everyone is acting in good faith, so when a member state is well on its way to becoming essentially a dictatorship with aims that are directly at odds with the EU's goals, there's simply no way consensus will work.

It's interesting that the EU really doesn't have too many good mechanisms to do anything about bad-faith actors in the first place. Eg. using Hungary's funding as a lever has been tried, but because of the consensus requirement, Orbán can essentially hold decisions hostage until he gets what he wants.

Too many systems have been built with the implicit assumption that all participating actors are acting in good faith, and a single bad-faith actor can actually cause remarkable amounts of trouble because there's no mechanisms for stopping them

2y ago

EU threatens to hit Hungary's economy if Orban vetoes Ukraine aid

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interolivary @beehaw.org 2y ago

I wonder if he's being treated with kid gloves because he gives an excuse for not aiding Ukraine. "We wanted to, but it's that damn Orbán"

2y ago

An unlikely challenger to Putin brings a rare show of defiance, creating a dilemma for the Kremlin

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interolivary @beehaw.org 2y ago

He'll be dealt with before he becomes an actual threat

2y ago

No doubt. Wanna fight me?

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interolivary @beehaw.org 2y ago

Have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water or rainwater? And only pure grain alcohol? Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation – fluoridation of water? Do you realise that fluoridation is the most monstrously-conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

2y ago

German court rules Forbes allegations against Russian billionaire Usmanov used to justify EU sanctions are false

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interolivary @beehaw.org 2y ago

Oh absolutely, but it doesn't have to be nefarious; I meant that they can afford to have good lawyers, accountants etc with questionable ethics on their payroll and first of all try to make sure you're not easily caught doing whatever it was he is accused of (don't remember anymore), and who will represent him in courts etc. You know, regular super-rich people shit 😁

Generally even if someone wasn't found guilty of something in a court, you can't necessarily assume that they didn't do whatever they were charged with – all that tells by itself is that guilt couldn't be proven to a level the court was happy with. You'd have to know more details to be able to judge (har har) whether it's likely they really are innocent or not.

I don't remember what it was he supposedly did to get sanctioned, nor if the article has any details about the proceedings, so his "innocence" could well be a more or less proven deal, so I mean the above more in a general sense than specifically related to this particular case

2y ago

German court rules Forbes allegations against Russian billionaire Usmanov used to justify EU sanctions are false

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interolivary @beehaw.org 2y ago

And I mean, using that information is fine as a basis for investigation would have been fine, it's just that they should have checked it's true before imposing sanctions.

Whether he's actually "innocent" is one thing, but apparently it at least couldn't be proven to a such degree that a court would be satisfied. It's good to keep in mind that he's still an oligarch, though; he has a lot of money and power to throw around

2y ago

Just sayin

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interolivary @beehaw.org 2y ago

Up until very recently most housing in Finland was co-ops, and it's still extremely common although many new developments are built and owned by corporations which then rent them out.

I live and own shares in a new housing co-op (proportional to the size of my apartment), and all of us together own and run the building and we're renting the property from the city (although you can buy your share of that property off from the city if you don't want to pay that rent.) It's not a perfect system by any means but it's better than corporations owning everything; ideally the people who live in a building are the ones who decide how it's run, but of course that's sort of gone out the window too with rich people just buying properties speculatively and to rent them out. If enough of the shareholders in a building are rent-seekers, upkeep of the building is going to go way down because they don't live there themselves and don't give a shit about whether it's a nice place to live in, they care about making a profit.

2y ago

What are some good games that have a bad reputation due to unreasonable expectations?

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interolivary @beehaw.org 2y ago

The v2.0 changes were actually pretty good, made me want to start another playthrough. I really like the new metro system even though it's such a small thing considering everything else they changed, but it's fun to be able to hop onto a metro to get somewhere. The game is already pretty immersive and that small detail just adds to it