Biden had pea soup for brains and still the executive branch was more functional than this.

You know back in the day they were like easily half a dozen custom Android ROMs for any given phone. I’m pretty sure that there’s still a diversity of ROMs available.

Why is this not the case with televisions?

How did you root it? All methods I’ve seen appear to require you to get it online first, usually to visit a website that does it for you (seems sketchy).

Now that it interferes with me I’m against it. As soon as it’s absence causes me any grief I’ll be for it again.

Agree that BlueSky is trash, but it’s more of a shitlib echo chamber. I agree though that the problem is largely intrinsic to the structure. Public microblogging and its consequences have been a disaster for humanity etc.

On the one hand, absolutely, human idiocy.

On the other hand, as a society it behooves us to think about how to stop idiots from hurting themselves and others. With IT, and in the context of corpo marketing hype, I am deeply concerned about politicians using AI or allowing AI to be used to do things poorly and thus hurt people simply because they have too much faith in the tool or its salesmen. Like, for example, rewriting the Social Security database.

Kinda sorta.

AI, or rather LLMs, can barf out a lot of passable text quickly. That can be useful as a starting point for something useful, if a human mind is willing and able to review and repair it. It’s like having an idiot intern whom you can never really trust.

But the number of people who use LLMs in a way that reflects and understanding of their limitations is diminishingly small. Most people just don’t assume that something that looks valid needs to be fully and critically reviewed. That’s why we’ve had multiple cases of lawyers having ChatGPT write theis legal briefs based on hallucinated legal precedent.

Serious Sam 3 is an FPS distilled into its most essential parts, imo.

Minecraft. Still on 1.21.4. Need to build a storage building/system, but feeling a little blocked.

See this is that shit.

This is that shit.

Stop doing this.

There are plenty of things wrong with Elon Musk that are well documented in the public record by diverse and reputable sources that can easily be cited.

Do that, not this.

This is part of the reason why casual accusations of pedophilia have always disturbed me. Because it can lead even people who in most other circumstances would be considered pro-justice and pro-human rights into mini-Mengeles.

And I’ve seen people just throw out the accusation without even prompt or justification, just because they hate somebody (maybe for other good reasons) and want to see if it sticks. It’s fucked up.

Then there’s other cases like that one where that 18-year-old got jumped for being baited into going on a date with another 18-year-old, while under the impression that she was… at least 18. A couple of people posted about that already.

It’d probably be easier if there wasn’t a radical right wing government there.

Come on in, the water is fine. The latest version of Ubuntu is like 24, so things have changed a lot, and for the better.

Get yourself a Kubuntu image, and give it a try.

Mostly true, but…

Replacing clip art, generic filler from Getty images, and other hand-crafted slop with machine-made slop for things like slideshows, YouTube thumbnails, and other applications where the image isn’t meant to convey something actually existing from the primary content, that I think is fine.

Of course it should be based on free software (such as AGPL) and use only freely provided or public domain inputs.

Of course it shouldn’t be used to misrepresent its outputs as produced by, authorized, or of people that it is not.

But what we have right now is an another sort of enclosure of the cultural commons, blended with plagerism-by-another-name. If there are already terms for this sort of misappropriation, I can’t think of them right now.

See this is the (well, one major) problem with copyright.

Imaginary property for me (“AI” goons), not for thee (actual artists).

Well I’m sure they’ll get another one.

You know I never thought of it like that…

Shit.

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I appreciate your perspective, and I agree that we should probably be more concerned with how the company functions than the personal character of the CEO .

Sam Walton was a hardworking, amiable, humble man by all accounts. And even when he was alive Walmart the company was cutting throats.

At the same time, if a CEO deeply ingrains himself in the political process, I can probably take a pass on his products even if they are marginally better. So these days Musk is doing so much damage to the functioning of the US government that even if Teslas were good I wouldn’t buy one.

The Chikfila guy on the other hand was just donating to a few discriminatory “Christian” charities last I checked but stopped trying to change policy, so…as fast food shops go it’s actually not too bad even if I don’t prefer to eat there.

Starbucks…evil CEO, but preemptively boycotting before the organized shops strike doesn’t help the workers.

Brave…has had too many fuckups for my taste. On the rare occasion that I need a privacy focused Chromium-based browser I just use Chromium with uBlock Origin for the one website I need to visit.

I don’t like the either/or, but I think Elon is an easier target in the Anglosphere. But the US government, of which Elon is a part, has been enabling authoritarian douchebags, and even if this act is consistent with the company’s pragmatic compliance choices, it also aligns with the US administration’s general tendency. And Elon has in other cases shown that his commitment to free speech is pretty weak if it’s speech that he doesn’t like.