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  • Social platforms are under the same effect as voting. Over half population either supports it or is too ill informed. They just want to scroll their feed without thinking too much. Same way voters just vote for the one that sounds alright on the surface. Combined with the fervent supporters makes a majority. It’s the minority of voters/users who are opinionated against it.



  • The goal has always been engagement prisons. Where people never leave the platform. With generated content this must seem like a final step. They don’t need to make people to interact with each other in ways that keeps both of them engaged. They don’t need to leech content from other sites while preventing people from going to the site. With generated content people will interact with themselves while engaged in completely fabricated content. It’s even more dystopian than ever.


  • This is a common tactic. I’ve seen people describe the same process many times before.

    1. Nazi says literal Nazi shit.
    2. Person gets baited into responding.
    3. Person gets ban hammer. Nazi does not.
    4. Nazi moves on to next target. Repeat from step 1.

    They usually trot this out when they see a comment or account they want to silence. That’s how the fascists do censorship on reddit.

    It’s happened to me too. Since then I’ve seen people saying the same general thing has happened to them. They must know that reddits content moderators, the “Anti-evil Operations” or whatever bullshit, is on their side. It’s the only explanation. Probably the nazis went and got jobs there. Or maybe it’s just that spez is a nazi himself. Reddit beneath the thin veneer of default subreddits has always been a very right leaning platform.








  • spector@lemmy.catoMemes@lemmy.ml"Weak men create hard times"
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    It’s predicated on baby boomers not having hard times. There’s no basis in reality. Not unless one were to believe baby boomers are all predominantly white upper middle class. Not to mention one must believe history was all sunshine and rainbows until their generation (millennial/zoomer/whatever) came into existence.

    Do they really think people just walked right out of high school into wealth from the career factory? This is basically the privileged upper class. Which is the top percentage of their generation. Guess what? Everyone else had it hard!

    So much of current day pop culture “boomer bad” stuff is based on these stupid notions. I wonder how people are going to rationalize when baby boomers are all dead and the class war still exists. I think some younger people are in for some serious cognitive dissonance ahead.

    Apart from people parroting these things. Those who actually have those well off parents are admitting their own privilege. The parrots are too entranced to realize they’re worshiping their own oppressors. The upper class. They don’t know they are the cannon fodder in the cycle of hard times, revolution, and renewal.


  • spector@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.worldWhy are so many leaders in tech evil?
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    Nothing happened. It was always like this. Geeks got unduly put on a pedestal. They got a reputation that was never earned. They’re not any different than your typical psychopath executive.

    I grew up in a town where a lot of these types of guys have become multimillionaires since 2010s tech boom. One person manages some hundreds of millions of dollars AI investment portfolio. That was before the GPT explosion. I have no idea how big they are now but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s billions.

    Growing up they were almost all psychopathic. Lying, cheating, backstabbing type of people. Nothing like the timid altruistic geek that pop culture proliferates. The more normal people did not go into tech. The actual timid types have had modest middle class careers in tech.


  • The config file in ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc.

    Search for the widget name. I will use org.kde.plasma.analogclock.

    On my system this widget has a config section.

    [Containments][53][Applets][186]
    immutability=1
    plugin=org.kde.plasma.analogclock
    

    It is applet 186. Search the string Applet-186 for a section that has entries containing ItemGeometries.

    [Containments][53]
    ItemGeometries-0x0=Applet-112:1712,48,144,256,0;
    ItemGeometries-1280x720=
    ItemGeometries-1920x1080=Applet-186:1504,96,304,304,231;
    ItemGeometries-1920x1200=
    ItemGeometries-3840x2160=
    ItemGeometriesHorizontal=Applet-186:1504,96,304,304,231;
    

    The ItemGeometries are the layout of the widget on the desktop. I believe the last five semicolon separated numbers are:

    • x position
    • y position
    • width
    • height
    • rotation in degrees