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ook_the_librarian

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My namesake is a human librarian that was turned into an orangutan. All he says is “Ook” and can traverse the library stacks with great ease. He is happy.

I have a pretty strange knowledge set. I’m not super friendly, but I like to get high and link people to stuff. Just pretend I said only “ook”

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If.

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Who says the kid didn't scavenge for it?

I bet he gets fed frozen pizza. Lazy-ass guardians. You need to cook that shit.

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It's what percentage of countries have one that would matter.

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Little .debbies

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Buying cat litter when you also need diapers and have to shop with a baby in tow? I'll be anti-consumer next year.

ook_the_librarian ,
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That's easier to boycott than diapers, my friend.

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Maybe I've always just felt a Roblox-shaped hole in my heart.

Taylor Swift is living every woman’s AI porn nightmare — Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming. (www.vice.com)

Taylor Swift is living every woman’s AI porn nightmare — Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.::Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.

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Humans are horrible, but a main-stream social media platform should not be a celebration of it. People need to demand change and then leave if ignored. I seem to hear people demanding change. The next step has more impetus.

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Whichever one is fake could be real tomorrow.

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Honestly, just because one is nonsense, it wouldn't mean it's fake. I've read help forums.

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That's true, but it would be nice to have codified way of applying a watermark denoting AI. I'm not say the government of CA is the best consortium, but laws are one way to get a standard.

If a compliant watermarker is then baked into the programs designed for good actors, that's a start.

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I wasn't thinking of like a watermark that is like anyone's signature. More of a crypto signature most users couldn't detect. Not a watermark that could be removed with visual effects. Something most people don't know is there, like a printer's signature for anti-counterfeiting.

I don't want to use the word blockchain, but some kind of way that if you want to take a fake video created by someone else, you are going to have a serious math problem on your hands to take away the fingerprints of AI. That way any viral video of unknown origin can easily be determined to be AI without any "look at the hands arguments".

I'm just saying, a solution only for good guys isn't always worthless. I don't actually think what I'm saying is too feasible. (Especially as written.) Sometimes rules for good guys only isn't always about taking away freedom, but to normalize discourse. Although, my argument is not particularly good here, as this is a CA law, not a standard. I would like the issue at least discussed at a joint AI consortium.

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It's certainly not a hot take. Every "which distro should I try thread" is just a discussion of the different DEs out there. I would like to hear about different package managers. I always seem happiest with apt, and I don't know why.

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They are idealizing a pay-the-creator system. They are arguing for a system that is kinda coming together with patreon-like stuff.

You seem to be arguing that people will just buy the cheapest identical copy. Which is hard to argue against, but there are people out there that pay creators that give their work for free. Copyright law certainly protects creators. But it's cool to see some creators monetizing on open-licensed work.

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Yeah, kinda. I forgot which side of the argument the reply I replied to was on. I guess you can just flip the "you"s and "they"s. Or am I still off-base?

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Dual boot would only protect you if have your other side encrypted or are monitoing it to make sure the other partition is never mounted.

What you need to play games like this is a side-piece computer on its own LAN.

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Agreed. But I was more highlighting what lengths you need to go to protect yourself from a rootkit. I thought the parent mentioned dual booting as a sandboxing measure. I could have been mistaken.

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I dunno. Who's your rock guy?

ook_the_librarian ,
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Do you honestly think they're "completely missing the point"? Read the meme. There's no mention of gitea. Self-hosting git is nothing to wiggle your tie over. Maybe setting up the things you are talking about are, but git?

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I said "read the meme" because that is all I was addressing. The title is just engagement-bait as far as I'm concerned. It's either a meme or question. I'm sure others are here for the question but not the meme. And therefore, I'm being engagement-baited. Who knows, but I was clear about what I was talking about.

I just think saying "you're completely missing the point" to a comment that is perfectly on topic is completely uncalled for.

I reason I think git is dead-simple to "self-host" is because I do it. I'm not a computer guy. I just used svn to version control some papers with fellow grad students. (it didn't last, i was the only one that liked it.) so now i use git for some notes i archive. I'm not saying there aren't tools to considerably upgrade the easy-of-use factor that would require some tech skills I don't possess, but I stand by point.

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"help is an invalid command. Use --help for help."

I always feel like an idiot when a read an error message like that.

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I disagree that there are much better ways. When I have a question while I'm working in the terminal, it's nice to have a searchable manual that's in the terminal.

But I can certainly understand why modern manpages aren't well-developed. That info is already somewhere else. And it's good enough. It's not like I'm paying people to write manpages.

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Ctrl + R, what a wonderful phrase.

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man is self-paging and searchable. It uses some old-school emacs bindings like Ctrl + V from before PgDn was a standard key. So I'm not claiming it's intuitive.

If cmd --help spews a bunch of info to the screen, you basically have to handle it with grep or less or go modern.

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The acceptable signal to replace the razor is when the pain from the dull blade pulling your hairs makes your eye watery

Sounds like a blade a day to me.

Ook

ook_the_librarian ,
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He did call it the highlight of his day.

ook_the_librarian ,
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Goddammit. Quit leaving the croutons off my salad. I want to see some floating blue specks in there.

ook_the_librarian ,
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Yo! It's Run DMHolySee and A Tribe Called Quirinal!

Cable firms to FTC: We shouldn’t have to let users cancel service with a click — Customers may “misunderstand the consequences of canceling,” say lobbyists (arstechnica.com)

Cable firms to FTC: We shouldn’t have to let users cancel service with a click — Customers may “misunderstand the consequences of canceling,” say lobbyists::Customers may "misunderstand the consequences of canceling," cable lobby says.

ook_the_librarian ,
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Maybe the "rhetorical question" article link would article would be a better reply. I bet you weren't expecting an analysis of why the half-price button idea was a nonstarter.

ook_the_librarian ,
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Good luck putting that genie in a bottle.

ook_the_librarian ,
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The people clowning on him were posting "I have a bad idea I'm willing to defend."

This became indistinguishable from Chowder fans posting "I have a bad idea I'm willing to defend" but their shenanigans are cruel and tragic.

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It's very difficult to quote Douglas Adams without sounding like you're pandering to nerd culture. I don't think AI could pull it off.

I don't know what to think of someone who could blast off accusations like this, either.

Edit: Oh. The accusation is even dumber. It's just the header OP wrote. That was just direct to the point writing. AI or no, who cares about two tiny paragraphs.

Edit: Filled in the words my brain thought were there for everybody.

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When I went to college, I was given a reverse Polish notation calculator. I think there is some (albeit small) advantage of becoming fluent in both PEMDAS and RPN to see the arbitrariness. This kind of arguement is like trying to argue linguistics in a single language.

Btw, I'm not claiming that RPN has any bearing on the meme at hand. Just that there are different standards.

This comment is left by the HP50g crew.

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Ambiguity is fine. It would tedious to the point of distraction to enforce writing math without ambiguity. You make note of conventions and you are meant to realize that is just a convention. I'm amazed at the people who are planting their feet to fight for something that what they were taught in third grade as if the world stopped there.

You're right though. We should definitely teach different conventions. But then what would facebook do for engagement?

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