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Comment Re: potentially criminal act (Score 1) 57

Ad Hominem does exist, but suggesting or outright saying that someone is too stupid to understand an argument is not ad hominem.

Ad hominem means "from a person" and it is specifically making the argument that some person's argument is incorrect because of something unrelated about them.

This is the opposite! This is saying that something is true because someone's argument is allegedly bad. It is just an insult.

If the statement is "you're wrong because you're stupid" then it's Ad Hominem.

If it's "you're stupid because you're wrong" then it's just an insult.

It's still shitty as insults are for responding to insults, not arguments. When someone has resorted to them for any other purpose then they are generally conceding the point, as it's an announcing that they have no further argument.

When Diogenes said that in a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face, it was an insult, but it was apt enough. Insults have their place. But it wasn't a substitute for an argument :)

Comment Re: Enforceable for ordinary users? (Score 1) 109

I think it's super weird that you think in a country "by the people and for the people", Reddit should be able to write the rules and tell the people where to head in.

Most people are prosperity worshippers. They think anyone successful deserves to be successful. Therefore they think corporations are great and we should listen to what they tell us. They've also never known anything else.

Comment Guards have three possible purposes (Score 1) 21

There are three possible purposes for guards aside from alerting someone with more authority. Sometimes a guard will have 1, 2, or 3 of these duties.

A few guards actually prevent access to things.

Most guards are there to be a visible deterrent.

All guards are there to be a witness. For some, this is almost the only thing they're there for, aside from maybe calling the cops if something happens.

A robot should be able to handle the latter two of those jobs, even if it's not very good. Preventing access is a job with a lot of scope and which requires discretion and robots aren't good at that. Neither are lots of humans, of course, but all LLMs are problematic in this regard. They have no consistency, they're guessing every time. And nothing less complex can even pretend to handle all of the complexities of that job.

Comment Re:Relavant XKCD comic (Score 1) 79

Compiz was GREAT even if you ignored literally all of the visual effect "slop" as you call it. It's got a great set of tools for controlling windows, including window rules which are very powerful. If you don't know about those other tools then you should perhaps have spent more time in ccsm back when it was relevant.

Unfortunately, as you say it is for X11 only (although for me that is not a drawback because Wayland is still bad, especially if you have Nvidia and I do) and more importantly it is not well-maintained software and it's therefore flaky AF, so it's not relevant now.

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