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@kirakira@furry.engineer @masklayer@slime.global This uh wouldn't be that hard to achieve with high heels

@catbrainz@retro.pizza @arisummerland@beige.party @senj@surf.cyberspace.club Piss ↔ gold is referencing cash-for-gold and gold-for-cash ads Demon Guard is about that time Alex Jones got really adamant that a former co-host was actually, literally possessed by demons. And he was hawking some bogus health supplement at the time

@juergen_hubert @gatesvp @ced Which has been done! You have to put up with the model's capabilities being a couple years behind the state of the art, but then, if the state of the art can only be achieved by labor theft, maybe it shouldn't be the state of the art. https://www.engadget.com/ai/it-turns-out-you-can-train-ai-models-without-copyrighted-material-174016619.html

@jonny I feel like this is too late to change much, but also, loooooool

@vantiss @soatok @risottobias Worse, I think; anyone who initiates a session with you could get your private key, and so, decrypt any messages encrypted with that same key, regardless of what server they're on

@sinvega @SarraceniaWilds if you want to get rid of VLC, the best alternative is SMPlayer https://www.smplayer.info/en/info

@shibacomputer I still feel like there was an obvious way Archive Team could've satisfied all parties in their tumblr scrape: they could have just not hosted the archive online. If someone wanted their blog, they'd have emailed Archive Team, who would have sent that blog, and only that blog, to that person. I think I even mentioned this to Jason at the time, but never got a reply on Twitter...

@kkarhan @evacide apocalypodes

@wizardneedsfood I think a good rule of thumb is that, when people are scared of communism, it's because their own fortunes are tied up in capitalism in ways that they aren't ready to reckon with It's different if they think revolution is impossible, or that it has to look like the ones that happened in Russia or China, or all the communists they've personally encountered have been unserious people

@shovemedia @futurebird The classic LOGO educational programming language was great for this Nowadays Python has the turtle module

@catbrainz@retro.pizza @arisummerland@beige.party @senj@surf.cyberspace.club Comparably bogus offers could be found on original InfoWars, yeah

@beemdvp it's more like, they wanted to go on a firing spree, and hyping the new autocomplete gave them a useful pretext

@petealexharris @jhooper @jonoleth @edgeofeurope @futurebird Why do you think you could choose to be like that? What would make you do such a thing? I remember times I've talked to police in response to actual crimes, which I thought at the time was a justified decision, if unfortunate. Now, seeing what ICE does, and where they get their staff, has me wondering if what I did was that much different from what that kindergarten teacher did, morally speaking. Being a good person requires continuous effort to improve yourself, to hold yourself to your own standards. Bad people get that way because it's so easy. I've taken the easy way out before, and I suspect you have, too. If you WANT to be nothing like them, good for you! If you think you ARE nothing like them, that's most likely wrong in a very simple sense, since you live in this terrible society; and believing means you're not going to wonder so much about what separates you from them, exactly.

@lechimp I realize I've come off rather irritable! Sorry, it's just that I'm American and have tried having this conversation with other Americans, who tend to react like I'm taking their toys away. You're doing fine.

@stevefenton@mastodon.social If you'd like to get back in the DMOZ game, they're over here now: https://curlie.org hi @Curlie@masto.nu

@rabbit5959@social.vivaldi.net @praxeology@post.lurk.org kind of, but really it's about "AI"

@tanavit @kagan @tj Sure is https://github.com/StonyBaboon/Force-Scrollbar

@jackdaw_ruiz Gender: suspicious

@futurebird "Yeah, you can make the computer solve it for you, but then your game will run really slow. If you learn to do it by eye, you'll make it faster without having to even recompile!" It would have worked on 9 year old me, for sure

@whitequark @letsbeworms @outfrost Yeah, around 1.5 million unoccupied homes https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/housing/bulletins/numberofvacantandsecondhomesenglandandwales/census2021

@Nine @kaiiak the university's own website refers to their paper on it, but doesn't link to it, for reasons? https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3305367.3327987

@lisagetspolitik@union.place @catbrainz@retro.pizza @arisummerland@beige.party @senj@surf.cyberspace.club If you really want to learn what InfoWars was all about, perhaps to get the jokes on the new one, this article is good https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/goodbye-infowars/

@Adam_Howard@planet.moe @corbin@toot.community It's already there. I just ran it on Mint 22.2. It's just a shell script.

@Ardubal@mastodon.xyz @praxeology@post.lurk.org I don't think it's correct to say that making the open source version is the only thing most engineers could do about it? If you can do that, you can also use some source-available but not open-source license, and deny the license to clients that are doing evil stuff

@dandylyons@iosdev.space here u go, pal https://curlie.org

@hopeless @Firesphere "White knight" is incel terminology, you should unlearn it. My true motivations are pretty simple. I agree with you about the importance of people taking control over their digital services. I want you to be less of an asshole about it, so that people will actually listen.

@hopeless @Firesphere "Sell people on" is a fairly common English-language idiom meaning you're trying to convince them of something, and "buying" or especially "buying into" the sale means they've changed their mind, to match your way of thinking. You very clearly are trying to convince people to self-host, and you're very bad at it.

@hopeless @Firesphere Well, if you rent the server, those problems with AWS being down become problems with some other server provider being down. This is not the greatest response if you're trying to sell people on self-hosting.

@whitequark @letsbeworms @outfrost Well, yeah, if the resources in question really can't support that many people But that's not where we're at; food and housing and stuff are in surplus. The people in charge mostly don't give them away because, if they were the type of person who did that, they'd not have gotten the power to begin with

@tael@yiff.life MEGA: the founder tweets excerpts from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion no seriously

@drwho@masto.hackers.town @argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org @lina@vt.social @dramforever@mastodon.social Some people do not own the computer they're registering the account with. Might be a library computer, or they're a minor and it's a family computer they haven't been given permissions to install anything on. If it's a phone, same, but in any case, trusting whatever password generator you find on the app store isn't necessarily more secure than trusting a sketchy website.

@hakfoo@mstdn.party @robertcarlson@mastodon.gamedev.place Version 1 of DLSS didn't have this problem, because it was trained on the same game it was upscaling. Any artifacts would be of a similar kind to what the game would draw itself, running at high res.

@hynek Third-Person Thinking. I think I heard this on bsky, where it was attributed to some middle schoolers a teacher knew

@HolgerSchurig@social.tchncs.de I don't know, I didn't change much of anything from Cinnamon standard This old StackExchange post sounds like my issue https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/71588/z-order-of-emacs-client-not-layered-top-most

@lechimp @hynek Eh, if anything I think people who have cognitive issues would be less susceptible to this, just because they're not getting gassed up about their ~leadership~ all the time

@whitequark @letsbeworms @outfrost If the UK really wanted to feed and house its people, Brexit wouldn't have happened!

@lechimp @hynek Well, that would be interesting if you were proposing a new term that used the same root, but I don't think anyone hearing "idiot" today is going to think of any meaning from prior to its use as a diagnostic term

@kitkat_blue @joelle Drone warfare has been the status quo for twenty-odd years already, though. They didn't need this latest wave of generative AI for that; the machine learning models they needed are in a package called Maven, which Palantir sells https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

@lechimp And that usage has held on for a long time; here's the commercial for the original Dumb & Dumber, where the narrator reads the eugenic definition of "idiot" to you Nobody seemed to notice the eugenics connection, or care https://youtu.be/gqHe6UcaCXI?t=24

@xyhhx@438punk.house @tael@yiff.life he's just asking questions https://web.archive.org/web/20240825014439/https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/kim-dotcom-teases-a-return-to-politics-promising-to-bring-direct-democracy/KRAX2H5P2NGSVJYANTBTZCVGPY/

@glyph The established term for losing skills to disuse is "rust," right? So when that happens because you're vibecoding instead, it's vibe rust

@jimgar @hynek First person thinking is whenever "I think" something. When you want to have thought something, but you don't want to think it, you might ask an AI what it "thinks". Of course, you're the one reading any meaning into the text, but you're pretending it's somebody else -- the grammatical "third person". You could generalize this to the type of person who leans on "common knowledge" all the time, which, come to think of it, is something awful project managers do, too

@ced @juergen_hubert @gatesvp New material enters the public domain every year. And if the LLM companies were merely lobbying to reduce copyright terms, I'd be fine with it