Umbrias

Umbrias , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Growth as an end

Not sure what this has to do with me pointing out your reference for earth effectively being a closed system is wrongly applied.

But also I agree, your memes analogy between capitalism and cancer doesn't actually make sense. It's just punchy but nonsensical.

Umbrias , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Growth as an end

I'm not, it's literally not a metric relevant to the Earth as a closed system, it's a measure of carbon capture and production.

Umbrias , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Growth as an end

This isn't actually a measure of resource usage in reference to a closed system tho.

Umbrias , 2 months ago to Memes in A strong hunch

Of course they do know there are professional agitators at the protests, they're them.

Umbrias , 2 months ago to Anarchism and Social Ecology in How Anarchy Works [Andrewism]

Hierarchies are opposed, not mediating third parties nor organization. Ask ten different anarchists and you'll get twenty methods to approach your thought experiments.

Umbrias , 2 months ago to Privacy in DuckDuckGo now has an AI prompt available in beta, and I can already see it on my devices. Does it affect privacy? If so, what alternatives do we have?

Important to differentiate in context learning and training.

Umbrias , 2 months ago to Technology in Breakthrough promises secure and private quantum computing at home

There are plenty of quantum resistant cryptography methods that already exist and have existed for a decade or more.

Umbrias , 2 months ago to Technology in Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100

That's not answering the question though.

"Pick a number between 1 and 100" doesn't mean "grab two d10" or write a script.

Umbrias , 2 months ago to Memes in I Think I Am Committing Voter Fraud

I'd more likely agree that it's a cold way to put it. Hardly flowery, and hardly is someone trying to convince you to vote a certain way voter suppression. That's just called politics. That's like, the core conceit of an election, no less.

If you're going to protest vote at least be honest about what it is, "it's not a spoiler vote, I'm just intentionally not voting for the candidate I [most likely] prefer on this candidate I know won't win."

Umbrias , 2 months ago to Memes in I Think I Am Committing Voter Fraud

Spoiler votes are hardly smoke or even a controversial concept. They are a natural consequence of first past the post elections.

Star voting would solve almost all of these issues.

Umbrias , 3 months ago to 196 in Rule

It's both, and comes with a lot of historical baggage with systems slow to change. These arguments about the role of education are neither new nor were they settled decisively one way or another historically.

Umbrias , 3 months ago to 196 in lemmy.rule

would you join an instance

If I could read those languages yes probably.

Umbrias , 3 months ago to Privacy in Thoughts on Cryptocurrency?

Being your own bank is 99% of the problems crypto runs into. It turns out being your own bank is hard and makes most people into marks. This is of course, by design, and most of the space, the vast majority of the space, is scams.

Also bitcoin has kept its promises just as much as USD has. That's not really a useful metric.

Umbrias , 3 months ago to Memes in How does anybody think this is a solid plan

The actual problem is that the language of the bill is looking to make it far easier for a president to ban any given potentially foreign influenced video platform. That's not fantastic and it's been masked under these compounding layers of absurdity.

Umbrias , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Announcing Ibis, the federated Wikipedia Alternative

Not only is the noise ratio low, this seems like a good lesson in "encyclopedias are not primary sources nor arbiters nor authorities on information." Yes, people use Wikipedia that way anyway. No, baking in an even lower trust system does not seem like it's actually a fix to any of Wikipedia's problems.