bitofhope

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

"I want to speak to the manager" energy.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

I don't want nazis there either. At least on fedi you can defederate from them.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 14 points 1 month ago

Assigned Baikal Electronics employee at birth

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

How dare you spread misinformation on the Internet? True believers know TempleOS comes packaged with a number of Fun and Unfun games.

After Egypt is a certified parish classic. Child commits adultery to child? Really punish.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

[Comment removed by moderator pushcx: Don't pour gas on the fire by adding even more geopolitics.]

What does it take to cross the line of incendiary geopolitics in this thread?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Jesus christ. Not surprised to see yet another dowsing wand being sold for cops, but what kind of a court admits this shit as evidence?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 26 points 1 month ago

Turns out chuds suddenly love DEI when it's about making the Russian Military Industrial Complex feel safe and included in major open source projects. My heart goes out to the victims of discrimination willingly working for military contractors who now have to submit their Linux kernel patches for review like most people.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They prefer to live in a world where publicly reported facts are owned by corporations, and no one can do anything with those publicly reported facts without paying a toll.

Yea, down with corporate IP trolls, information gatekeepers and idea landlords! Anyway, what was Perplexity's business model again?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago

Wow, it took until 2024 but politics have finally arrived into software. Having politics is not at all in the spirit of the GPL. Not giving these people a privileged access to the codebase is discrimination obviously. What do you have against apolitical entities like Baikal Electronics?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As in a member of a race of edgelords allergic to sunlight? Very progressive of your mistress to let you post on the internet on your own. Is "Nock" the Undercommon word for mom's basement?

Grinning spider goddes LOLth

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

And what does "just over the horizon" mean? According to Radio Yerevan, the horizon is an imaginary line that moves further as you approach it.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 34 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I was reminded of a particular anecdote I need to get out of my system.

There was a time on a particular fiction series' fan forum's IRC channel when I had to convince a very enthusiastic teenage fan that the instructions they found on 4chan to open a portal to a parallel world of that particular work of fantasy fiction was actually a method for synthesizing and inhaling poison gas.

The weird part was that they admitted they knew it was probably just a cruel prank, but were still willing to try just in case it was real. We had to actually find and link articles where the same reaction was exhibited as an actual documented suicide method, if an unreliable one at that, to convince them not to go for it.

By my estimate that person was about high school age, almost certainly over 13 and probably over 15. Mostly their behavior seemed normal for the age, certainly overenthusiastic about the fandom and with obvious signs of teenage ennui, but both of those are typical for someone in their mid-teens. It was just this strange incident of extreme gullibility and self-destructive devotion to a fandom that really stuck with me.

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