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Yes, it’s not the technology I hate, it’s the people pushing it, demanding it, saying it will replace humans. Those people can fuck right off. Technology exists to serve humans, not the other way around. We are being sold a lie. The technology has some interesting aspects, but the pushers are pushing bullshit.

The revolution will not be televised, but the state propaganda definitely will be.

That's not athleticism, that's a different sport. I can beat marathon runners too when I use a bicycle.

Well we live in a world literally run by pedophiles now, so sadly probably yes. I doubt that's what the cameras are for though.

It's supposed to be progressive in the sense that it (sort of) supports people better than is typical, but it's also a nanny state where the supports and protections they offer are more about taking your freedom away than actual support and genuine progress. And vice versa, the conservative libertarian ideologies that are available on the other side of the ballot, emphasize personal freedoms but they are actually more about the rich getting richer while using personal freedoms as window dressing to distract you from the fact that they are making everyone else so much poorer that you won't have the money to access those freedoms anyway. Neither side is genuinely progressive. They just wear their freedom and generosity like superhero capes and then use them like a matador does to distract the charging bull of public opinion and make you blame the cape for it while they poke even more sharp things into your sides. Meanwhile we are bleeding to death.

Dating apps are what broke dating. If you are using dating apps, you're doing it wrong.

Even if you were somehow able to overcome the "can" question, the far more meaningful question is "will it do so fairly", and it's absolutely certain it will not. If you agree the problem of the justice system is that rich people own it, this is not the solution to that problem. This *literally is* that problem.

All this bullshit about phones with folding screens nowadays when what I really want is a phone with a folding mechanical 104-key :P

Lots of enabling in your comment. >People like you, with no control over the big decisions. Just like Palestinians can’t control Hamas, Russians can’t control Putin, US citizens can’t control Trump, and so on. If people can't control their own governments, who can? Who should? Other people's governments? Is that how you think it's supposed to work? That's why Israel is obliterating Gaza? Because Gaza can't get rid of Hamas themselves so Israel is going to do it for them? Do you think that is justified and the right way to do things? Is it Canada's job to rescue the US? Is it Europe's responsibility to stop Russia? Are Iranians responsible for the Iranian regime? Yes, they are, that's why they're fucking protesting and dying in the streets right now. Resist, fight back, don't comply, undermine your illegitimate government until they can be toppled. Take responsibility. I am responsible for the actions of my government and my country. And so are you. You will be held responsible. And you should be. Other countries are not responsible for fixing your shit. You are. Fix it. Figure out how. Stop acting like it's somebody else's problem and you are just a humble peasant. Humble peasants can start revolutions. Lazy citizens who are happy with the status quo while pretending they don't agree with it do not start revolutions. Which one are you?

I can see the appeal of eschewing society as a whole in favor of a bot that I know won’t ask me my political or religious leanings and then tailor their behavior around my answer.

... tailoring their behavior around your answer is literally how LLMs work. That's why they're so sycophantic. Also unless you're running it locally on a machine you control, it doesn't need to ask you about your political or religious leanings anyway because it already knows. That's exactly the sort of context that data brokers have already long-since developed around your identity, and a commercial AI model is absolutely going to be looking at that kind of context to know exactly how to talk to you.

You are going the wrong direction if you think AI is the solution to any of these things at least in the way it is currently being used.

Casual smalltalk with randos is probably the cure. "Much less appealing" is the environment that's been intentionally created to prevent you from doing that. We're all in the same boat.

Systemd killed my father, but it's okay because he was Darth Vader anyway.

What you're describing sounds more like communitarianism than communism. Despite the confusingly similar name they are actually very different ideologies. (though they also have some similar precepts at the same time)

I believe you, and I feel for you. The saddest part about AI is how it has tainted all high-effort, carefully organized work to the point that it makes it hard to distinguish between the most trustworthy content and the least trustworthy. We need better tools for information provenance. Like I said, the first thing I did was look into your backgrounds to try to understand "is this some AI slop bot or a real person with a real brain" and everything I looked at suggested it being legit and that's why I decided to give you the benefit of the doubt. But that doubt is everywhere nowadays. It's rough out there.

The formatting, style, cadence and tone feel very AI to me. The authors seem like real people with real history and I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, the topic and status summarization is genuinely interesting whether it's AI or not, but it's hard not to feel a bit sus reading it.

If the polls are rigged, does that imply that most Israelis don't support the genocide? So ... you think you've got a majority of people who don't support the genocide and with that majority you plan to do ... nothing? Just gonna ... let the minority do what they want? There's a word for that, the word is "support". You might not think you're supporting it, but if you're not doing something to fight it, then yes, you are supporting it. Get to work. Nobody ever promised that doing the right thing has to be easy.

I agree that quadlets are pretty ugly but I'm not sure that's the ini style's fault. In general I find yaml incredibly frustrating to understand, but toml/ini style is pretty fluent to me. Maybe just a preference, IDK.

Capitalism with wealth redistribution is considered to be a potential method of achieving socialism or at least a significant amount of it. When you really get into the weeds on a lot of these ideologies you'll find that the 40,000 foot overview of the single word that defines them is actually quite different from the actual process of getting there, and the people arguing for these ideologies actually understand that. They also understand that the means of getting to the goal, or even just closer to the goal, is sometimes the more important and worthy part than the actual end which may not even be realistically attainable nor permanent.

Wholeheartedly agreed.

Yes that's exactly what he said, all the worst of humanity. (partial sarcasm. maybe.)

It doesn't sound like you really have any understanding of, or concern for, what happened to the other 77 women, nor what happened to the other 79+ men your girlfriend "swiped left" on in your scenario. And you're accusing me of using boomer logic? That's some classic boomer logic if I've ever heard it: "I got mine, fuck the rest of you, it's obvious why you all failed, you just need to work harder or lower your standards, even though I didn't, because everything just worked out flawlessly for me and I don't want to be too introspective about why in case I accidentally develop some empathy about it" Yeah, dating apps are just fine the way they are. Nothing wrong with them at all.

My girlfriend had 80+ matches when I started talking to her. I had 3. And yet here we are.

That math ain't mathing, bud. You ever wonder what's going on with the 77 other women you didn't match with? Or are we supposed to believe they somehow never actually existed? Are hospitals lying about the number of girls born into the world? Are 90% of girls dying as children? Do women have lower standards for relationships? Is there one guy out there engaged in polygamy with all 77 women? Or are they all ugly and don't deserve love?

Conversely, why did your girlfriend have to go through 80+ guys to get to you?

Dating apps are incel factories. They have no incentive to actually match you with a mate at all, much less a soulmate. The fact that you did anyway is actually a failure-to-profit on their part, and you have successfully defied their business model and found love despite their efforts. Good for you.

Good for you doesn't imply good for everyone though, nor good for society. They are toxic hellholes, and I stand by my assertion that they are what broke dating (for almost everyone, genuinely glad they didn't get you, enjoy your life of never having to use a dating app again)

Road salt is a vile abomination that is a secret subsidy to the car industry. Learn to drive on snow and ice, require proper tires to drive on snow and ice, and most importantly give people reasons not to drive in snow and ice (oh look, back-to-office mandates!). Declare a fucking snow day sometimes. Adjust working hours to give plows time to work. There are places in this country where it is too cold for salt to even work. They still survive and function every winter, and so should we. Destroying the roads, the cars, the environment, and apparently lately even the electric grid, and spending millions to do it, is not an answer. It is madness.

It is equivalent until Flatpak adds a new (probably completely justified) limitation to its sandbox that breaks your (needs unrestricted system-wide permissions) application, sure. Nevermind if you decide to add more features that go beyond what the sandbox allows, and then you need to figure out why they’re broken in your flatpak and what new flags you need to unbreak them. The problem is you’re constantly swimming upstream against a very strong current. It’s not a very sustainable mode of development. Like OP said, flatpak is designed for sandboxed desktop GUIs. It may be convenient at first to shoehorn your TUI application into it, but you’re working against its design and intent, and that is a genuine problem, for many reasons. npm -g is another TUI install method I loathe. pipx/uv shares most of the same issues. Like the author, I’ve gone through almost all of the same options they have, and come to basically the same conclusions. There really is no good option for packaging and managing userspace TUI utilities. And it’s brutal. I hate that so many terminal utilities have standardized to use completely unrestricted, opaque and dangerous curl/sh copy-pastes, leaving anyone who’s not both fluent in shell script and willing to invest the time to inspect what the scripts are doing out in the cold, bravely running commands that are potentially malicious with no safety net. I understand it, it’s viable, it works, I do it myself for my own projects, but we have to acknowledge that it’s a symptom of the lack of any better solution for TUI packaging, and it’s okay to admit that it sucks, and we could do something so much better.

My solution to Adobe is: Gimp, Inkscape, Krita, Kdenlive, etc. Fuck Adobe malware forever. It’s a bait and switch, and I’m never going to be taking the bait.

My solution to Adobe is: Gimp, Inkscape, Krita, Kdenlive, etc. Fuck Adobe malware forever. It’s a bait and switch, and I’m never going to be taking the bait.

VMProtect is technically not a “virus” it is a heuristic detection saying that the program is implemented in a highly suspicious way that makes it impossible to confidently determine what it actually does, and thus it could contain a virus (and viruses often use exactly this technique to hide themselves) since there is no reason for a legitimate program to do it. That said, a crack is also not a legitimate program, and sometimes to avoid the defenses of the cracked program it has to do things to obscure what it’s doing too, and sometimes that results in a false positive heuristic detection like this. That said, we really have no way of knowing which of the two situations this is, and neither do you, and neither does AppDoze.com really. I would personally not be willing to trust it, and if I had to run it, would do so on a dedicated and isolated machine with limited access and nothing of value on it, permanently, even if it seemed fine. Any program which needs to be cracked in such a serious way is software that I am highly inclined to find an alternative for if possible. It’s not worth the potential risk and headache to me.

glorified autocomplete. profit-seeking trojan horse for propaganda purposes. self-inflicted workforce deskilling. unsustainability generator.

I understand that it is not as simple or practical as I would like it to be, but I am also saying we need to start making concrete steps towards making it more simple and practical by changing a lot of the really ignorant, short-sighted and stupid ways we do things because we seem to be convinced these are the only ways we can do things. We need to make policy and infrastructure decisions that actually support sensible, sustainable goals besides just maximizing efficiency and therefore profit for companies that insist they are “providing jobs and important services” as if nobody else could or would figure out their own ways to do that if they weren’t deliberately taking up all the oxygen in the room to starve out any competition or actual innovation. Not every solution to every problem needs to be the cheapest fucking solution that ultimately only benefits huge corporations that have governments tripping over each other to give so many tax breaks to, that they don’t pay taxes anyway, so that we can have an economy designed to concentrate as much of our wealth as possible into the largest number of billionaires we can possibly make. My point is we can choose to start doing things differently, start building an economy of sustainability and resilience, giving people back the local services and supplies that monopolistic “efficiency” has stolen from them so they don’t have to travel so far afield or rely on constant long-haul deliveries so much, pursuing different numbers that are more meaningful indicators of actual improvements to the lives of the people in this country.

I donated a server to my brother across the country to use as his media server, it also doubles as my own offsite backup. And vice versa for his, although he’s not really tech savvy enough to care.

It’s pretty relevant, actually. It’s nice when you have choice. Not every ISP in my country is a big-name corporate shitbag (despite the best efforts and constant lobbying of said big-name corporate shitbags), and they are allowed equal-ish access to the last mile communication networks at (arbitrarily inflated) wholesale prices. It’s still worth the price, though. We even have some internet co-ops running their own fiber. And if they don’t care about piracy, and you trust them to stay that way, then what’s the trouble? Yes it is hard to gauge who to trust, but that’s the game we have to play.

Their user profile explains they believe it’s poisoning AI. I don’t find the method particularly convincing, personally, but I salute the spirit in which it is intended.

That reminds me of the people who think 4WD/AWD makes them safe to drive in snow. No, that only helps you go in snow and ice, and to a lesser extent, maneuver, but it specifically does nothing to help you stop which is absolutely the most safety-critical part. It does not make you safer. Arguably it makes you more dangerous, because now you can go without being able to stop. You’d be safer if you couldn’t go in the first place, at least you’re not a projectile careening out of control on ice.

rsync, SyncThing, or Nextcloud. I use all three, often on the same machine at the same time, for various purposes. rsync is great for scheduled syncs (but intentionally not TOO frequent – where blowing away one copy would almost instantly blow away the other copy could be a concern.) and outstanding for one-off syncs. With the right command line options it can even create a rough approximation of snapshots with copy-on-write rolling incremental backups. I believe this is the original documentation for that particular trick although it has spawned many genuine backup tools which operate very similarly using rsync under the hood, like rsnapshot. SyncThing is great for large, intensive datasets that you want to keep perfectly synchronized across multiple computers at the same time. One example is my saved games, so without relying on Steam “cloud saves” or anything, I can just save my game and hop from gaming on one computer onto my laptop and pick up right where I left off. Nextcloud is what I use for keeping separate copies of all my documents, photos from my phone, etc. It’s easier than SyncThing to setup and manage in my opinion, it’s simple and reliable and reasonably user-friendly in most use-cases, and seems to be more compatible with a lot of software due to its similar design to something like Dropbox. It isn’t ideal for handling huge numbers of files or very large folders in my personal opinion, but it does work if you want to try it.