Like shouldn’t they just be suing the customers directly for a bazillion dollars at this point?

So you’re saying you have a choice in ISPs? Sounds pretty cool.

My eternal quest to get a working desktop environment running in WSL 😭

Not to beat a dead horse since I’m sure it always comes up, but Linux Mint does literally everything I want to do on my computer, and maybe a little bit more than my work computer that runs Windows.

Which games are concerns for you? Genuinely asking.

My advice is to move your computing to an environment that opens options for you and responds to your wants and needs rather than an environment that treats you like a guinea pig to experiment on, or an actual pig to force-fed slop to.

You will never convince Microsoft that you’re tired of their slop if you keep eating it.

Not saying changing OSes is easy, but it is easier than it’s ever been, and the dividends have been worth it for me.

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.

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.

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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