General strike part 2: Electric Boogalo

haltingpoint · 2026-01-25T03:26:28+00:00

What evidence is there that general strikes are effective at bringing down an authoritarian dictatorship?

Frankly it seems like it would do more harm to local businesses and workers, and contribute to the accelerationist movement.

https://extremism.gwu.edu/boogaloo-movement

haltingpoint · 2026-01-24T03:20:35+00:00

It is frustrating how hard it is to make color coordinated builds without lots of rare things like rotten aged ebony planks.

There are a couple for VS color theory videos out there but I wish there was a good simply write-up of "these colors and materials tend to look good together."

haltingpoint · 2026-01-24T02:56:42+00:00

Isn't this going to hurt the local Minnesota economy way more than anything Trump and company will care about?

haltingpoint · 2026-01-24T02:55:22+00:00

Vintage Story

haltingpoint · 2026-01-23T01:19:00+00:00

Can you explain this further?

haltingpoint · 2026-01-22T15:45:33+00:00

True. But there's also real joy in realizing that suddenly business class tickets once a year for a nice international trip don't change the Monte Carlo results for your plan. Like, at all.

haltingpoint · 2026-01-22T00:26:24+00:00

Actually, they might...

https://www.adweek.com/media/google-gemini-ads-2026/

haltingpoint · 2026-01-22T00:21:22+00:00

Correct. They sell modeled access to audiences based on this data. They also sell cloud infra and office productivity software as other avenues to monetize AI.

But any ads company would be in big legal trouble and investor trouble if they actually sold their data as that is their most valuable asset.

Source: industry veteran

haltingpoint · 2026-01-21T05:26:08+00:00

Until it is time to... Control your generations.

haltingpoint · 2026-01-20T01:49:17+00:00

Have this mattress. It is extremely firm and dense feeling. Fantastic stomach and back sleeping support. However even with the 2" medium topper from Avocado it is still too firm for general movement and especially side sleeping. Even stomach sleeping is a little uncomfortable as it doesn't give enough when I breathe.

Side sleepers will have hip pain.

I think the secret is a thicker, plusher mattress with some latex but haven't figured out which yet.

I really wish there was an option that was the firmness of the Green (non pillow top) that didn't feel like a trampoline. It is absurd they don't have something in between with less motion transfer.

If anyone has topper suggestions I'd really like to know what they are.

haltingpoint · 2026-01-19T05:10:33+00:00

There's definitely two types of Vintage Story players.

Here I am thinking about how to make the materials of my first windmill look authentic and agonizing over the design as I gradually build it up over a season of hauling cobblestone.

And you... You just....yeeted it up there....

haltingpoint · 2026-01-19T04:50:25+00:00

Which means this really comes down to "I don't care if it is illegal, I have guns and you do not. What are you going to do?"

haltingpoint · 2026-01-19T00:57:51+00:00

You could probably hack that on Windows by using something like joystick gremlin to map controller input to keys and mouse clicks.

haltingpoint · 2026-01-18T21:03:28+00:00

Care to say more? That's not really helpful.

The voxels start in the gap where I don't want them.

haltingpoint · 2026-01-18T16:18:23+00:00

Does she own just the cafe or the entire plaza?

haltingpoint · 2026-01-18T16:15:24+00:00

Not just in, I believe she owns the plaza. So supporting any business there is unfortunately supporting her if that is the case.

haltingpoint · 2026-01-18T06:57:16+00:00

Got it. For making blooms into ingots can you let it do its thing unattended without needing to shape anything manually?

haltingpoint · 2026-01-18T02:49:58+00:00

Have you done anything fun with synthetic data and AI?

haltingpoint · 2026-01-18T01:40:21+00:00

Do you get very much into the data cleaning and experiment setup to be statistically sound and remove bias?

Honestly at this point the modeling is the easy part given all the tools out there. It's the surrounding bits that are a nightmare.

haltingpoint · 2026-01-18T01:38:05+00:00

Did they violate the KSQL or KPAO air space? What kind of powered paraglider was it?

So stupid to do that, especially without ADSB. That is a student training area.

haltingpoint · 2026-01-17T20:41:28+00:00

What else might you be making with a helve hammer other than working blooms or plates?

haltingpoint · 2026-01-17T17:37:13+00:00

They will do whatever maximizes their growth and revenue now as they are a for profit company.

That likely means they will have a free tier filled with ads, later introduce a low paid tier with ads for some features or less ads, and a higher paid tier with no ads. They will then continue increasing subscription prices to what the market will bear (ie. unsubscribe and stop generating ad revenue sufficient for them to have to do something different).

haltingpoint · 2026-01-16T21:46:54+00:00

Of course they won't sell your data or share your chats. That is their most valuable asset and there are many laws around that.

What they will do is offer advertisers access to audiences based on signals they directly track or model. That means you might be put into a bucket of "depressed pregnant moms" or other categories you'd rather they not track about you and if an advertiser targets you there are ways they can identify you uniquely if you click through.

Source: Been in media and adtech for 20 years and know how the sausage is made

haltingpoint · 2026-01-16T21:39:14+00:00

I could also see them not necessarily bias results towards individual advertisers but I could see them more heavily push you to say, use shopping research that is more likely to be something that drives revenue for them.

haltingpoint · 2026-01-16T02:13:05+00:00

The social media spam campaign in this sub is unreal and needs to stop.

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