thefloweracidic @ thefloweracidic @lemmy.world

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I fell off of Linus yeeeeeeeeears ago when him and Luke got to talking about harassment in League of Legends. Luke gave sensible advice, mute everyone, take breaks. Linus then rudely interjected "Or just get better".

Sure getting better at league will reduce some harassment, but not all, and the way Linus interrupted Luke with that line left me with a subtext of, "People only flame you if you are bad, if you are bad it is your responsibility to git gud, if you are getting upset that people are flaming you, you're a stupid ass bitch"

That made me feel like Linus wasn't this happy-go-lucky tech enthusiast, but just another overconfident ego-driven asshole. Recent events are giving me some nice confirmation bias. Linus is now a money enthusiast, not a tech enthusiast anymore.

My anecdote is totally silly, I know, but cracks in Linus' character can be seen outside of his reviews I suppose.

I'm not surprised, Arkansas is home to the most racist city in America, Harrison.

There are plenty of videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltmlvk9GAto

My best friend is a teacher and I'm genuinely worry that something like this will happen to her. I feel like more and more parents are failing their kids, only because the system is failing, lets go ahead and not commit the fundamental attribution error.

I browse on PC, so maybe this should only be a PC thing?

From the article:

The researchers gathered training data by pressing 36 keys on a modern MacBook Pro 25 times each and recording the sound produced by each press.

In their experiments, the researchers used the same laptop, whose keyboard has been used in all Apple laptops for the past two years, an iPhone 13 mini placed 17cm away from the target, and Zoom.

Now they should do this under real usage and see if they get anywhere close to 95% accuracy. Phones are usually in pockets, people listen to music, not everyone has a MacBook.

I think it will be difficult for the average person to use this attack effectively, but I think this will become some sort of government spy thing for sure.

:(

I was thinking in general for Lemmy, but this now seems more appropriate for an unpopular opinion community lol

Treating other humans as less-than will cause more problems than it solves. I'm no Daryl Davis, but I've changed the perspective of 3 racists in my lifetime, just by talking with them and proving that racist stereotypes are wrong through my actions.

If I had treated these people with disgust and hostility, there would be 3 more racists in the world.

Once I watched a season of alone I dropped all illusions about running into the woods to live the naturalist life.

If anyone is thinking "lol I could do that" just watch alone, it is HARD out there in the wilds.

Yes! Seriously, this is a great smoking gun, all I was able to find was a screenshot from the video, but nothing else.

Anyone know the source video? Or the account that tweeted this?

The claim that slaves benefited from slavery is like saying you benefited from getting your arm torn off because you are now ten pounds lighter.

I'm pretty sure any "skills" learned under slavery didn't create any amount of net good. When slavery ended the living conditions for former slaves plummeted. As a slave they were property, they had value, and their owners had good reason to keep them alive or maintain their selling value. As a free citizen they became a business cost, and held no value to their bosses. Therefore former slaves would get paid next to nothing to do the same brutal work they were doing as slaves, with a whole tsunami of apathetic racism to deal with too.

Yeah, a black man may have learned blacksmithing, but his life was still shit. The life of his children was still shit. Those "skills" didn't do jack shit, if they could even apply them? Like imagine being an uneducated recently freed slave in a society where an overwhelming amount of cunts hate you for no good reason, now imagine what a job search would be like under those conditions.

Nothing about slavery was fucking good.

Its not just pedantic semantic, word choice matters. Language is fluid and mutable, acting like the meaning and context behind one phrase is the same as the other is ignorant to the current state of the US and its history.

For example, each of these sentence read differently depending on each word you emphasize, but the all say "the same thing".

I have a cookie, not you.

I have a cookie, not you.

I have a cookie, not you.

I have a cookie, not you.

I have a cookie, not you.

I have a cookie, not you.

Back in the Jim Crow days there were plenty of "Colored People" signs, but no "People of Color Signs".

Word choice matters.

I'm not reading the responses. Sorry not sorry.

Personally I think that this is just user friendly theater. Reddit shit the bed, and is now engaging in tactics to remove the turd. But the stain is still there, as is the need to make money. They'll replace awards and coins with another revenue stream that I am 110% confident will not be user friendly, but instead a clever cash grab to tickle the testicles of their investors.

Reddit is dead, they're just trying to make its corpse dance.

Oh here is my strategy:

Friend: "I really like X, I hope they don't die"

Me: "Oh they go hard in the final episode its great!"

Friend: "WOOOOOOOOW SPOILERS!!!!"

Me: "I'M SO SORRY"

The character dies in episode 4

Friend: "YOU FUCKING LIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"