archomrade [he/him] @ archomrade @midwest.social

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Fuck that, Israel should be carved out of Texas, not Palestine.

It will be much more cost effective to deliver our lethal aid within our own borders rather than across the Atlantic.

yup. I haven't done it yet, but apparently ceiling fan controllers are a pretty standard thing, so usually all you really have to do is replace the whole controller box (they're like $30 apiece from what I remember), or replace the controller board itself like you mentioned.

I've stopped buying appliances from places like Home Depot for this reason, seems like they simply do not stock items that aren't their brand-name cloud-hosted services, or larger brands like hue.

I'm pretty sure Minnesota imports something like 60% of our energy - i'm at least glad we're past the worst of the winter weather but holy fuck is it going to suck

Huh, it works great on my android os Nvidia shield

As a rule I don't announce my trackers publicly so they can continue existing as my trackers, but the one I use mostly is small-rodent themed.

I'll DM you

I get my linux distros via torrent networks, mostly

As someone who likes to have a fallback way of purchasing digital content that I can remove DRM from, this annoys me.

I can still purchase mp3 and flac files from various online retailers, and I can rip bluray for my movies and tv shows, but now I need a new place to purchase ebooks that are downloadable. Anyone have any recommendations? The first few independent retailers i've found seem to require their own apps.

It's been a while since I've heard about libgen and aa - and actually i'm not sure how they operate with direct downloads of copyrighted material? I find my ebooks through more conventional p2p means, but i've always just assumed that was necessary to avoid sudden takedowns

Lmao, yea I think they're kind of playing a game with language here.

After doing some reading of various explanations, what they mean when they say they aren't using electrons for computation is basically that the 'thing' they're measuring that dictates the 'state' of the transistor is a quasi-particle..... but that particle is only observed through the altered behavior of electrons (i guess in the case of the majorana particle, it appears as two electrons gathered together in synchrony?)

So the chip is still using electrons in its computation in the same say as a traditional transistor - you are still sending electrons into a circuit, and the 'state' of the bit is determined by the output signal. It's just that, in this case, they're looking for specific behavior of the electrons that indicate the presence and state of this 'qbit'

That is just my layman's understanding of it

Microsoft isn’t using electrons for the compute in this new chip; it’s using the Majorana particle that theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana described in 1937.

Ok now i'm gonna need an explain-like-i'm-not-a-quantum-scientist on what a 'topological transistor' is, and what it uses instead of electrons for its compute (and, like, what is the significance?)

My parents and school administrators' attempts at blocking unsanctioned activities is what taught me computer literacy

There was nothing quite as satisfying as getting caught opening addictinggames on a web browser through a proxy when the teacher was convinced they had blocked it completely.

Fair, but Marx wasn't a technocrat. He was primarily concerned with how the working class could overthrow capital, and the working class was primarily illiterate - transatlantic telegraphs wouldn't have been a relevant tool to them in their ceasing of capital from the bourgeoisie.

Marx specifically wrote the Communist Manifesto in easily-understood language so that the few literate members of the working class could organize and recruit those who wouldn't have been able to read it themselves. Even if he understood the telegraph to be a revolutionary technological innovation, it wouldn't have been relevant to an impoverished working class that did not have the luxury of basic education.

Not that it would have been impossible for anyone to see the potential significance of the telegraph back then, but that was never going to be a Karl Marx who optimistically thought the revolution could happen within his lifetime (and here we are almost 160 years later not even a step closer to that reality)

If Marx had predicted our current internet communication hellscape all the way back in 1870, he would be more than just an anti-capitalist boogeyman but a bonafide prophet

20% of Americans were illiterate in 1870

I honestly think social media and internet subculture would be fine if it weren't soured by moneyed interests

If work wasn't so alienating and all-encompassing and we weren't so stressed and insecure in our material conditions, then we wouldnt run to social media as an escape. If wasn't also so rife with consumerist culture and advertisements it wouldnt be so corrosive. Maybe then we could use it to create communities that mirror and bridge into irl spaces and create meaningful relationships.

Instead, the entire network has been constructed around a capitalist organization and it only serves to make us more miserable.

An excellent game that was undercut by their exclusivity deal with Epic

Why would he even say this? Usually there's a pretty clear motivation to his lies but this one just seems suicidal

In another universe, Meta is being sued for having leeched without seeding

The easy answer is to follow fashion topics on socials, since trends pretty predictably follow whatever the brands are selling

Kinda begs the question as to why you'd want to do this, but that's not really for me to ask

Because your links didn't support your claim, bud. This isn't high school, you can't just cite a bunch of bullshit and call it good.