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casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer

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casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

With no offense intended, I feel this could be worded a little better. It could also just be my tired brain, though.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Except, as far as I can tell, the system is designed such that citizens can't make them change it-- what are you going to do, vote for nobody and force the government to fix it's shit before electing a new president? I mean, you could revolt but I think we all know how quickly the government would act to squash any meaningful attempt to. And if Project 2025 is allowed to play out, then military can be dispatched to handle simple protests instead of the police, so good luck pressuring the government to do anything at that point.

They already put snipers on rooftops at every University for the Palestine protests. Supposedly this was for public safety as there was intel that things would turn violent, but who really knows the truthfulness of such intel or where the order came down from? When the military becomes your police, this act would pale in comparison.

Remember this when you go to the polls, or when you are considering not to.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Hey man that's your choice, but please just keep in mind that when you vote for the third party, the other two parties gain more ground than they lose-- both lose your vote, but you're in no way impeding other party from winning. This is why people are saying it's a game of voting against least favored candidates, because your impedance is much more significant than your support.

It won't matter to Republicans what platform the constituents are showing them should be adopted once they institute Project 2025 into law.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Yes-- campaigns that involve influencing people's opinions with covert guerrilla campaigns across social media with no accountability. Among the other shady tactics in their playbooks.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

glad they posted it twice so we can all play both sides, upvote one in case it's sarcasm, downvote the other in case of troll.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

You can do it through the instance API.

Admins at lemmy.ml used vote tracking against me to retaliate by deciding what communities to ban me from after I spoke out against disinformation. They felt that censorship wasn't enough, they felt the need to be malicious in order to make a point. Sucks to be them though, they forgot the part about keeping your cards close to the chest.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Are homemade PCBs really that effective? I'd wanted to try my hand at them but never could settle whether it was worth attempting.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

which FCC regulations in particular?

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Right, I thought that might be what you were referring to. This is where we get into weeds technically:

Those regulations apply to active jamming, which is the use of an electronic device(s) to emit signals that interfere with lawfully approved channels. It is important to note that this holds no practical bearing upon structures as they by definition cannot engage in active jamming, only in passive blocking or coincidental interference.

What's being experienced with Walmart's lack of 5G is likely due to the fact that 5G does not penetrate walls very well. Combine this with the fact that you have hundreds of devices in the same enclosed space trying to talk to the same tower some miles away on the lower bandwidth 5G channel that can penetrate walls, and you can see how 5G access is effectively being "denied" simply by the nature of the business. Walmart could implement an on-premises 5G relay to solve the issue, but why would they want to take on that tech debt? All they are required to do by law is make sure E911 is not impeded by the building or operations of the business. They don't owe you access to other radio waves when on their premises.

If this regulation were to somehow be applied to passive blocking like what I've described, then Faraday cages would be illegal-- which aren't, again as long as E911 is not impeded. This would also make high security bamk vaults illegal due to the thick wall construction.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Personnel are evacuated from McGregor whenever a test is to be performed, just like they are with Starbase.

There is absolutely zero chance anyone got hurt. This isn't Boeing.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Elon founded SpaceX in 2002. He said he wanted to build reusable, cost effective space platform where rocket boosters could land themselves and be refurbished with low turn-around times to fly multiple missions.

People laughed at the idea of a rocket that could land itself upright. And after countless tests that resulted in magnificent fiery failures and flops, a private American company is now responsible for launching crew and cargo to the ISS so we don't have to rely on Russia or ELA alone, and has more recently gone on to develop the largest rocket ever made.

In the 22 years since it's inception, SpaceX has designed it's own:

  • Rockets
  • Engines
  • Rocket Propellant
  • Satellites and base stations
  • Bespoke robust communications network
  • Ground support structure (including a moving robotic tower named "Mechanical")
  • Crewed mission vehicle platform
  • The world's biggest fucking rocket

Say whatever you want about his beliefs, his opinions, his shit takes-- point me to another company that has done even half of that in that amount of time, or had nearly as monumental of an impact on the global space industry and America's access to space in the last two decades.

And if y'all haven't yet already, do yourselves a favor and look up NASASpaceflight on YouTube, watch their most viewed videos, which should be some of the SpaceX tests. You'll come to understand why shit blowing up is normal and a good thing with SpaceX: because they prototype and develop iteratively and rapidly, intentionally testing to failure so they know exactly how far from failure their nominal conditions would be. If they did not do this, the platform would not be safe and they would be getting fucked by a camel wearing another camel's skin for kicks.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

I'm confident enough in that to put my money where my mouth is.

SpaceX has been very transparent about their testing procedures and it is established that testing locations are always evacuated for any kind of test, as is required by the FAA. If you really wanna cast doubt on this, then why don't we put some money on it?

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

oh aren't you a treat. For a second I almost had you mistaken for one the few Moskal typewriter monkeys who remembered to bring a joke book, but now I'm beginning to worry that you're own of my those fellow constituents of ours who's succumbed to the brain rot.

At least we won't have to worry about you voting for a few more years, judging by the way you act kiddo. Or perhaps you are old enough, but the polling place is too sus for your precious intellect.

Word of advice though, if you'd want any hopes of being employable or perhaps even making IRL friends, ditch whatever this is you think you're doing with your attitude, it just ain't working in your favor. While you're at it, might also help to learn the definition of the word "untenable"-- if you need a visual example, any mirror should do the trick.

Anyway, maybe put down the smartphone and walk a natural trail or visit the library bud. Based on your comments, you owe it to yourself badly. I mean, if you fancy yourself a socialist then why aren't you taking advantage of the freely available public recreational services that our tax dollars fund to live a better life? Everyone else is, and it makes dealing with this late stage capitalist hellscape just a bit more tolerable.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

You really think it took any time at all to write that? I was on Reddit for more than a decade, writing diatribes is second nature to me.

Besides, at least I put some thought behind my comments which is obviously more than can be said about some particular individuals.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Do people consider shuttles and buses the same thing? Because this sounds like a shuttle, which as far as I'm aware is completely different from a bus. I take a shuttle to the airport, which requires a reservation and ~$50 whereas I take a bus to get around town and it's typically free.

Essentially it sounds like they are trying to dip into the shuttle market, not the inner-city bus market. Though maybe both?

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

..... the reading comprehension level of the average Lemmy user scares me

I literally said that I take the bus. And the shuttle.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Works fine for me on first glance, with ETP set to strict. Perhaps due to the recent domain cut-over in the web stack?

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer , (edited )

If it wasn't obvious that the Debian box is a parody, here's what the Japanese Chinese text along the top reads on each box:

Please read the instructions carefully and use it under the guidance of a physician. It is strictly prohibited to be used in food and feed processing.

Please read the installation instructions carefully and use it under the guidance of the administrator. It is strictly prohibited to use for server installation.

so yes, the title is correct-- this is not a coincidence, the Debian box was made explicitly for this joke

edit: thanks for the correction folks, honestly thought it looked more like Japanese than Chinese at first glance and I am obviously not an expert in either. Appreciate the call-out, very deserved.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Yeah that one's on me. I did Google lens it, but I realized I had no hope of knowing what glyphs those were, I just assumed Japanese cause idk. But good call.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Yeah I got it completely wrong.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Translation: "HELP I JUST BOUGHT THIS THING OFF AMAZON THAT'S SUPPOSED TO GIVE ME FREE TV TO DISTRACT MY KIDS BUT NOW ITS SAYING THINGS I DONT UNDERSTAND AND IM SCARED"

Also, please someone send her a L1ZY

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Someone never cruised before social media was invented and now suffers brain rot. A lot of people actually.

Stare out at a vast expanse of water and think about life, children.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

They're actually not that unaffordable, I was surprised. Starts at like $600 for single person 3-day, which isn't amazing but is pretty fair as vacation budgets go.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Magic

In all reality, it is a ChatGPTitty "fine"tune on some datasets they hobbled together for VQA and Android app UI driving. They did the initial test finetune, then apparently the CEO or whatever was drooling over it and said "lEt'S mAkE aN iOt DeViCe GuYs!!1!" after their paltry attempt to racketeer an NFT metaverse game.

Neither this nor Humane do any AI computation on device. It would be a stretch to say there's even a possibility that the speech recognition could be client-side, as they are always-connected devices that are even more useless without Internet than they already are with.

Make no mistake: these money-hungry fucks are only selling you food cans labelled as magic beans. You have been warned and if you expect anything less from them then you only have your own dumbass to blame for trusting Silicon Valley.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Sadly for me it looks like I'll need to go the DIY route with an esp32 board and an e-ink display, and drop any kind of stt + tts plans

Latte Panda 2 or just wait a couple years. It'll happen eventually because it's so obvious it's literally unpatentable.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Red Hat

No, you're angry at IBM. When news of the IBM acquisition broke, sector veteran colleagues I'm close with moaned and groaned that IBM was sure to do something to piss everyone off again, which was apparently their habit a couple decades back. Sure enough, they could not have been more accurate in their assessment.

Turns out IBM is three hot messes in a trenchcoat and always has been. Hence why they have already lost the Quantum wars and likely the GenAI wars as well. One AI vet I know says they're posed to even lose the AI war altogether, which is pathetic given the groundwork provided by Watson alone.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

I was pissed about the debt relief until my boss reminded me that school wouldn't have helped me much even had I gone the four-year route or more.

Still pissed I had to settle for a shitty degree at a shitty college, live with an abusive family member and work full-time while I attended in order to get a piece of fucking paper without worrying about debt, only for some politician do decide a couple years later than now is a good time to slap a band-aid on the failing system. But oh well, I've come to expect no less from the government that has told me on separate occasions "yes you are entitled to the program's assistance, but we're not dispensing it because of a technicality nobody told you exists till now". All I have to say to my government is: since you gave me nothing, I owe you nothing-- my skillset is entirely self-built and I have sole discretion over where and how I apply it.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer , (edited )

Btw, you're the person the comic is referencing.

I thought it was blatantly obvious that I am aware of that, and cool with it no less.

I'm not saying nobody should have their debt relieved. I'm saying I am more than comfortable holding my resentment towards the government for failing me and my fellow constituent. And that even if some other constituent is happy with this move, I see it as too little too late. I avoided higher education explicitly because I refused to submit to their bullshit system and shoulder inescapable debt without any guarantee of recuperability. In doing so, I passed up on coubtless opportunities. I am allowed to be angry that my wise decision now looks pointless in hindsight.

I did not put myself at the disadvantage-- my government did that for me. And I am mad about it. I will continue to be mad about it. I won't do anything about it. But there may come a day when the government compels me to do something. And I will have valid reason to tell them to kick rocks, if that is what I do choose to do. I owe them nothing.

edit: also, if anyone dislikes my attitude or approach-- that's too bad, because I'm long past the point of caring. When I was given a raw hand all the way from adolescence, I took it and used my spite about it as motivation to obsolete any disadvantage I had to come out on top and as close to unmovable as one could get. The spite kept me from killing myself and went on to mold me into a dangerous son of a bitch Silicone Valley would fight over and AI CEOs gripe that they can't replace. I have unspeakably cozy job security and don't ever have to worry about my future. And I have only my spite and tenacity to thank.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Linux is freedom, Windows is serfdom, Mac is just dumb.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

you have to flip the mouse on it's back to charg it how tf is that logical

nevermind the fact that you don't need to make legacy compatibility a hassle. The Darwin kernel should still maintain backwards compatibility and if it doesn't then LMAO

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

As long as you don't call it a path.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Idk about hierarchy but PATH is a thing and the proper terminology is filepath, so the word path becomes ambiguated as it could be used to refer to either. Hence why I say it is bad practice to use it as a primary reference in conversation. Otherwise you'll get interns and users modifying their PATH for no damn reason and wondering why nothing works.

I'd like to interject for a moment. (lemmy.ml)

What you’re refering to as Windows, is in fact, GNU/Windows, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another closed component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising...

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

This deserves a ban imo

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Mmmmmm some of the models on CivitAI, with the right workflows, could effectively create the most versatile "deep fakes" possible. You can put someone's face on a blank canvas and tell a model specifically trained for realistic pornography to paint a whole scene around the face. The only advantage here is that doing that is kinda pointless when you can just generate any random face to match your specifications. So ultimately much less harmful so long as the user isn't obsessing over representing a distinct living person.

Also, these are primarily still images. Some animation models exist, but that process is a lot more hit-and-miss. Overall though, I'd argue this whole use case is significantly less damaging than deep fakes due to principals.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

I hate these kinds of slides because I'll come across them somewhere and be like "WHAT THE FUCK IS THE CONTEXT FOR THESE NUMBERS??? WHAT DOES THIS HALF-ASS DIAGRAM REPRESENT?" and the information I extract becomes less usable as a result.

I often won't read PowerPoints in that style unless a recording of the presentation is available, otherwise I just pretend it doesn't exist and get my information elsewhere because certainty ain't optional mf.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

yeah I was about to point out that corpos certainly did not just invent the word "bedrot" for their own benefit. This has been a thing for a while. Nurses often have to walk patients who are admitted for several days to prevent "bed rot" symptoms.

If you were staying in bed all day, every day, yeah you're gonna get some severe health issues pretty damn quick. But if you're getting up and moving around regularly, you shouldn't worry.... but in that case, it would make more sense to idk buy a desk, sit at a table, or on the couch. A laptop in bed is not practical and certainly not comfortable with the heat it generates. Quite frankly I don't understand why anyone would ever choose to use a laptop in bed if they have other options available.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

arch
security

the decades long joke still keeps paying dividends. well done to trolls that kick-started the whole thing.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

What a good family man, supporting both his wife's and his daughter's sex work careers while being wholly unafraid to expose the six younger groin gremlins to the family trade. Grandma must be so proud of the Proud Boy she raised, surely.

All joking aside, his stripper daughter (brunette) has an ass so flat that the only thing proving she's not MTF is how lame her posture is. Ain't gonna make no good money with that half-ass attitude, sweetie.

Meanwhile little Arthur Ryan down in front getting giddy thinking about how he gonna be the coolest 20-something in his cell block when he grows up.

Just love how while we're all doing our own thing, here these two shitasses are printing out seven more useful idiots for the Trumplicans to add to their collection. Fan-fucking-tastic.

Go-ooood bless A-mer-ic-aaaaaa

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Honestly I would be completely fine with this as canon. I'd actually prefer it, because honestly it just fits better than the Tails I remember from Sonic Adventure 2 growing into a man-- something about that just wouldn't sit right.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

But "it" is for inanimate objects

Not quite. "It" is a general reference pronoun with a function akin to "the". It can be used to refer to anything that is a thing, even if said thing is animate and/or living.

When referring indiscriminately to a specimen of fauna, "it" is a linguistically appropriate identifier whereas "they" would only really be entirely appropriate when referring to an individual or subset of individuals, regardless of species or animacy.

Since this fish has no distinguishable identity apart from the cultural impact it may spawn, I reckon it's more appropriate to use "it" but "they" could also work.

I am not a linguist. But if you are, feel free to correct me. If you feel like pretending to be a linguist, go talk to an LLM cause IDC.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Ok but you're second paragraph raises a new issue, or moreso an angle to what I was originally being pessimistic of: is that really adequate linguistic knowledge to impart on the future generation?

I wasn't taught they for animate, it for inanimate, or at least not that I recall. Maybe for a young child it could serve as a good rule of thumb to be reshaped in school. But besides that, I feel like it would cause more confusion for a non-native English speaker trying to learn the language if you shared that knowledge with them and then they in turn sublimate it into their personal linguist theory for some indeterminate amount of time. Then it could cause language barriers and potentially lead native English speakers to think less of them for their lack of grasp on what we call our stupid language where the rules are made up and the points don't matter.

Then again, I can't immediately conjure any examples of where this linguistic confusion may occur in this hypothetical English learner's day-to-day life. But I personally wouldn't be comfortable dispensing to a learner some less-than-entirely accurate disambiguation about our language, especially if I had reason to believe they could end up blindly parroting it.

This kinda worries me because I don't want to imagine immigrants and future generations alike being conditioned to ignore nuances in dialogue due to ambiguity introduced by some quixotic lesson they received under the notion it was "good enough".

Also, I hope you don't mistake me for trying to argue, I simply enjoy the banter as that concern I shared is a very intriguing thought to me, and I appreciate your willingness to "debate"/discuss it. Otherwise: so true, the Internet was of course originally made so assholes could argue semantics, among optionally more productive things.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

yeah no I'm not taking that bait, bud.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

Yes but consider that not everyone is fortunate enough to grow up in diverse environments with exposure to other cultures. If everyone you've ever met from 0-18 is a redneck, how ya think they'll react to x accent. That's unfortunately your floor for expectable initial reactions from mutually non-impressed peoples. I'm not psychologist, figure you aren't either, but there is some principle that elaborates on this, keywords probably akin to cultural exposure in child development, environmental conditioning, and ventures out into other related principles. But idfk what I'm talking about, take this as the ramblings of a madman or whatever.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

This exactly. I'd had a long day and never before had the opportunity to be first in a thread to reply with "Wine Is Not an Emulator", so I got over-excited and typed that all out so I could get that sweet dopamine rush.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

I'm lost, how is this even remotely relevant?

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

How so exactly? What exactly here would they be amused by? How do you anticipate they would react? Genuinely lost.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

I didn't even know it was a subreddit until reading that post, despite having previously been a disgracefully active redditor for more than a decade.

casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer ,

When you say "their picture", you mean to say they just don't like how they are represented on the platform, right? Or do you mean an actual picture of their face? If the latter is the case, then it sounds objectively like y'all were the ones that set the precedent for doxxing. And you should have known they'd be stupid enough to stoop to any challenger's given level and then some. Just saying.

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