noduerme (u/noduerme)

noduerme commented on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking? torrentfreak.com/uk-govt-... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza

mschuster91 · 7 hours ago

> Children viewing porn is a legitimate problem

Is it? Children viewing porn has been a thing ever since the invention of the printing press, or at the very least, ever since the first Playboy got printed.

noduerme · 6 hours ago

Were those videos? No. Did they depict sex acts? No. It's qualitatively different. I was raised in an extremely liberal household full of Playboy mags, looking at photos of naked women since I was 5 years old. The violence of what is today mainstram porn would have been extremely fringe, and probably impossible to find outside an underground video group for sadists. I have no real problem with kids looking at nudes. That is not this. Porn has pushed itself into dementia chasing shock value. Seeing a blowjob photo was something a child could encounter in the early 90s, maybe a very sophisticated child with very early access to all the dark shit on the early internet. If you spent hours figuring out how to find one. But maybe you'd see one or two. Seeing a woman being gang raped, choked and beaten, "consentually"? That's a new problem. It is a real problem, and it doesn't matter whether it's shown to a child on a website or on a home VCR, it's enormously corrupting and there absolutely is a societal harm in allowing it to happen. The question is how to prevent that harm without depriving adults of their rights and liberties, not whether such a thing is harmful to a child's future ability to form healthy relationships.

noduerme commented on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking? torrentfreak.com/uk-govt-... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza

phatfish · 7 hours ago

Remember, allowing children unlimited access to hardcore porn (something that was not possible before this age of tyranny) is key to our "freedom". At least that is what the HN demographic will loudly tell you.

noduerme · 7 hours ago

I don't think your comment should be downvoted. Children viewing porn is a legitimate problem. The other problem is that adults should not be forced to share their identity to view content - particularly that which might be used to blackmail them. I don't have children. And I don't think your children outweigh my right to privacy.

noduerme commented on German contest to live in depopulated Soviet-era city proves global hit theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/c420

mlinhares · 9 hours ago

Being anti immigrant isn’t about being sensible, it’s about having a bogeyman to blame for all problems people face. It’s much easier to say “brown people took your life away” than to face reality many small and large decisions made by the government and the people have led to the current outcome.

For instance:

> A palpable sense of decline has spurred support for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party, which won nearly 40% of local votes in the February general election.

People that don’t look “right” should seriously consider if this is the right place to live given the circumstances, which is going to make those with many options to never consider a place like this. What will be left? Not much, the rust belt in the US is a good example of towns dying because the population can’t accept outsiders. A friend, that’s a neurologist, moved to a small town in the Midwest, him and another dude were the two only neurologists in many and many miles, the supermarket cashier asked for his ID and if he was in the country legally and isn’t even brown, just cos of his accent.

Couple of months later he moved to a large city that had no shortage of neurologists and will never come back to the countryside. These people will destroy whatever is left before they accept others, so that’s what what will be.

noduerme · 7 hours ago

There are several very different types of anti-immigrant sentiment in the US. They differ by region and they also differ from the feelings in Europe.

1. Basic, racist, "this person is a different skin color".

2. "We're not racist, but they're willing to work cheaper and take our jobs".

3. "They want to keep their own culture and not integrate with ours."

The third one is far less prevalent in the US than it is in Europe. I think this is for several reasons, but chief among them is that immigrants to the US do actually want to integrate into their new society, whereas immigrants to Europe generally do not. Unlike Europe, the US offers the possibility for immigrants to become as "American" as anyone else, regardless of their race or religion. Whereas immigrants to France, for example, can never become "French". This is mutually reinforcing - the French won't let them become "French", and the immigrants naturally react by not wanting to. Even if they do support liberal French cultural values without excessive judgment, which many do not, that is rarely their main reason to move there except in some political cases. The aim of immigrants to the US is not just economic prosperity, but to join the society and to be American (speaking for my own mixed Latin, Arabic and Jewish immigrant family).

This leaves a situation in the US where only (1) and (2) are arguments that have any traction, and those only have traction with a backwards and racist part of the population, aka MAGA. (3) is a much more difficult question, and it would have more traction here if it were true that immigrants to the US were similar to immigrants to Europe, in only seeking economic gains and choosing to remain separate from the societal mainstream.

You seem to be conflating (3) with the previous two. And maybe for some right-wing European nationalists it is. But I'm not a European white man, and myself and my Filipina partner have heard from some of those right-wing Europeans that as long as we want to learn their culture, they have no problem with us.

When JD Vance goes to Europe and scorns their immigration policy, he is using #3 to their faces, but he is appealing to racist voters who claim #1 and #2 at home. Conversely, when a European tells Americans that all anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe falls into the 1 and 2 categories, you are not honestly telling them about #3.

It's the same in Saudi Arabia, isn't it? You can't go get a job in an oil field and go around waving a bible and drinking bourbon. The fact that the West tolerates a lot of different beliefs and ways of life is a good thing, it adds to our diversity and that is our strength. But that tolerance for others has to also be a foundational understanding for newer arrivals who come here. And if it's not, and if they enter into open hostilities with the country that received them, then I don't think all of that can be laid at the feet of ignorant skin-color-based racism.

noduerme commented on German contest to live in depopulated Soviet-era city proves global hit theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/c420

noduerme · 8 hours ago

Turns out they didn't need all that lebensraum after all?

noduerme commented on Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012) cdn.akamai.steamstatic.co... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11

LauraMedia · a day ago

Chet Faliszek, writer for games like Half-Life and the lead writer for Portal/Portal 2 has since confirmed that this handbook was never given to employees. It was created and released as part of advertising them as an employer.

noduerme · a day ago

It's a great pitch. Sounds like a utopia.

noduerme commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros

anonzzzies · a day ago

You really should not check that... I saw some dude on reddit saying that you can build your own saas in 20 days and launch and sell it. I checked out some of his; Claude Code can do that in a few hours. So can I without AI as I have a batteries included framework ready that has all the plumbing done. But Claude can do those from scratch in hours. So 1 day with me doing some testing and fixing. That is not a product or a startup: it's a grift. But glory to him for getting it done anyway. Not many people launch and then actually make a few bucks.

noduerme · a day ago

>> launch and sell it

What AI can definitely not do is launch or sell anything.

I can write some arbitrary SaaS in a few hours with my own framework, too - and know it's much more secure than anything written by AI. I also know how to launch it. (I'm not so good at the "selling" part).

But if anyone can do all of this - including the launching the selling - then they would not be selling themselves on Reddit or Youtube. Once you see someone explaining to you how to get rich quickly, you must assume that they have failed or else they would not be wasting their time trying to sell you something. And from that you should deduce that it's not wise to take their advice.

noduerme commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros

noduerme · a day ago

Claude Code has definitely attracted me as in, I would like to try it on a new project. But just speaking as a lone coder, it absolutely terrifies me to give something access to my whole system and CLI. I have one main laptop and everything is on it. All my repos and API keys and SSH keys, my carefully tuned dev environment...I have no idea what it might read or upload, let alone what it might try to execute. I'm tempted enough to try it that I might set up a completely walled-off virtual machine for the purpose, but then I don't know how much benefit I'd get from it.

Do you just let it run rampant on your system and do whatever it thinks it should, installing whatever it wants and sucking all your config files into the cloud or what?

noduerme commented on Mail Carriers Pause US Deliveries as Tariff Shift Sows Confusion bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/voxadam

mindslight · 2 days ago

"Conversation" ? Do you really feel there is any kind of conversation happening?

I don't think it's possible for the MSM to lose any more credibility at this point. The only credibility left is people giving a pass to their flavor of MSM for articles that confirm their biases - same dynamic as social media posts.

For the timeline, Trump has been rambling word salad well before it was an issue for Biden. The difference is that for republicans/fascists, mental incompetence is an endearing feature ("he sounds like the kind of person I could have a beer with"), and the democrats/conservatives application of used-to-be-societal-values is seen as a weakness whereby they're getting "triggered".

I don't think the whole story arc needed to be planned ahead of time strategically. Rather I think it comes from flooding the zone with shit that might stick, and then the chaos creates opportunities.

noduerme · a day ago

I think there's been an ongoing conversation about Trump's sanity. Look at Gavin Newsom's Twitter feed, for instance. It's taking some time for the antibodies to adapt, but they're adapting. The argument around Biden's mental acuity surely opened the door to a lot more skepticism about the gerontocracy in general, which is easily reframed to Trump in particular now that he's President. So if the question of Biden's sanity was a decoy created by the right wing, put out just to cover their future tracks in electing another mentally ill person, it has clearly backfired. I think if the MSM had been transparent earlier in that debate, not only could we have gotten most of America to see the problem with Trump more clearly (by framing our governance problem around old men with mental issues, rather than defending one against the other), we also could've had an open Democratic primary and probably avoided this entire situation.

noduerme commented on Mail Carriers Pause US Deliveries as Tariff Shift Sows Confusion bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/voxadam

mindslight · 3 days ago

There's definitely a problem with gerontocracy, but the reason you heard about it so much last year is because the fascists use the technique of projection to preempt criticisms of themselves. Biden was passive demented, which probably didn't really matter all that much (group project). But this was used as cover for Trump's active combative micromanaging dementia that we're now all suffering.

noduerme · 3 days ago

Couldn't this backfire pretty badly, though? Raising a national conversation about the dementia of the last President makes it easier to have a conversation about the current one, right? I think the fact that the MSM outright lied to cover up Biden's mental decline is actually the root of the problem, because now they've lost credibility and appear hypocritical if they try to point out Trump's glaring mental deficits. If you're contending that the fascists pushed the issue of Biden's decline because they knew the MSM would cover it up and therefore lose credibility, I think you're giving them too much credit.

noduerme commented on Is air travel getting worse? maximum-progress.com/p/is... · Posted by u/mhb

RestlessMind · 9 days ago

Sometimes you simply cannot control a screaming child easily and the only way is to let them be for a while. If you don't understand it, you are really immature and need to learn some basics about human society.

noduerme · 7 days ago

Let's push it a little farther than a screaming child. Something the parent can control is their child hitting the back of my seat. The only time I've ever said something to a parent on a flight was when that was happening, and after several warning looks over my shoulder that the mother ignored. And what I did wasn't shout. I basically turned around and hissed at them to control their child. That stopped it without drawing any excessive attention.