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Like many abuse victims, they apologize and don’t even see how bad it is. I see… things are… bad on all fronts. We need right to repair, and abolish trademark and copyright, and idea patents. And friends near us.
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KDE@lemmy.kde.social•Let's make Windows 10 the last version ever used!
172·1 year agoLinux ain’t the problem there. Usability is more of that nonsense thought up by corporations to scare people. Computers are tricky, whether Windows or Linux, and the only reason Windows is more popular is they’ve been installing it on people’s computers without asking for decades. Honestly most people don’t even have computers these days. All they get to have is a phone.
CC: @be4foss@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social @NafiTheBear@bears.town
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General Discussion@lemmy.world•Can a sentence be both true and false in the same sense? - Dialetheism
7·2 years agoUnder classical logic, a paradox is a result of faulty premises, and proof that the premises cannot be true. It’s how you make any logical proof, by assuming the null hypothesis, and showing how it implies A and ¬A. It’s true for the liar’s paradox, and for Russell’s paradox (sorry Russell).
So my conclusion is “This sentence is false” is false. If it was true, then the sentence would be both true and not true. By the contrapositive, “This sentence is false” cannot be true, and cannot be a logical premise.
Never heard of dialetheism.
Theists roll their eyes at that, because nobody really thinks their god is omniscient or omnipotent. They may say so, either to deceive the nonbelievers, or out of ignorance of what omnimax really means, but every religion I can think of has had a fallible god, sometimes very fallible. There are the notoriously arrogant Greek gods, the stupidly belligerant Norse gods, the Jewish/Christian god foiled by iron chariots, and deceptive serpents, even Buddhists with their infallible smug asshole of a god have as a saying “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.”
Fact of the matter is no god is omni-anything, since that would prove they don’t exist, and cannot be believed. Gods don’t have to be omniscient. They only have to be way more knowledgable and aware than anyone else. They don’t have to be all powerful, only way more powerful than anything mere mortals could muster. So saying “Aha! But your god can’t possibly be all powerful, because then he could make a stone that he couldn’t lift! Checkmate, theists!” falls flat, in the face of (outside of boasting) doctrine basically saying that their god makes mistakes and can’t do everything.
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Is this true about Generation gap in Piracy?
5·2 years agoThat’s why they made streaming media. Worked good, didn’t it?
We have instancewide admin blocks, so the accounts that would be automatically reported can be blocked preemptively, no report needed. That can be both good and bad… but pick a sheltered instance and you shouldn’t get harassed. How would automatic reporting even work? I don’t recall, but doesn’t the admin interface let you specify keywords that alert the admins in a post? Is that what you mean?
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Right To Repair@midwest.social•Kamala Picking Governor Walz for VP Is a Win for the Right-to-Repair Movement
10·2 years agoSaints be praised for that…
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Project 2025 wants to send you to prison for watching porn. Laws requiring ID to access NSFW sites have already made porn hard to access in many states. Your browser is next 👀
73·2 years agoI like the “book 5 | pdf: 37” part it makes it look like you’re quoting the Bible.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Are MRNA vaccines any riskier than other vaccines?
11·2 years ago@bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works @stinerman@midwest.social Every time I hear someone saying people are afraid of change, I always suspect they’re just butthurt because they get inordinate benefit from that change. People actually love change, and enthusiastically embrace it, when it’s a change for the better. Nobody is afraid to unwrap their birthday presents! People aren’t afraid of change; they’re afraid of marketing bullshitting them, of charlatans with yet another form of exploitation who are all whining in chorus about how much people fear change.
So… don’t worry about being reluctant to take risks, I say. It might be irrational, but it also might not be wrong. Try to do what’s best for you. If vaccines are less risky than covid, then you’ll fear them less than covid, assuming these vaccines even prevent covid in the first place. If I want to convince you to take a vaccine, it’s on me to give you the power to determine for yourself whether I’m full of shit. Just demonizing you as a redneck luddite and blaming you for making people sick isn’t going to accomplish anything.




Wulfy… saying someone cannot be right because they haven’t agreed with you yet is an appeal to authority. People might be wrong, but they don’t have to adopt AI in order to have an informed opinion.
If you’re asking me how to design a prompt for a particular AI, then I don’t know a single thing about it. If you’re asking me whether AI is a good idea or not, I can be more sure of that answer. Feel free to prove me wrong, but don’t say my opinion doesn’t matter.
Have you seen the data centers being built just north of your house? No? Well it doesn’t matter you still might have a point!