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- Comment on Libraries are cool 1 week ago:
I love this idea. Libraries should provide free hosting for people in the community.
Im all about democratizing the internet, and im all about self hosting. Libraries could be just what we need for that.
Brilliant idea my friend.
- Comment on True 1 week ago:
I have, but they wouldn’t take a fist born, nor magic beans…
- Comment on True 1 week ago:
I try to keep one or two near collections at all times. Makes me feel like someone cares…
This is a joke (although I am often behind on bills).
- Comment on The less complicated life of a male 1 week ago:
I use Dr. Bronners hemp peppermint for everything. Soap, shampoo, toothpaste, dish soap, dog shampoo, hell, I once washed my car with it.
Ok, so I only use it as toothpaste while camping, but still, I could.
- Comment on Ever go back to your old job just to visit friends and see THIS? 1 week ago:
It’s true. I have had a good number of jobs, I come, work on things, make improvements, then move on when I’ve grown or they are in a better spot. I honestly thought I was the guy coming in to help fix things and then move on once things are stable.
Instead, I have created a series of opportunities for them to blame the last guy to leave.
No matter how good of a job you do, unless you are there to remind folks, they will forget and use the easy scapegoat. I’m still very popular with the folks I worked with on the ground, but management types are primarily after someone else to blame…
- Comment on In reversal, Trump supports House vote to release Epstein files 2 weeks ago:
I think this is a desperate Hail Mary. That fucker has been banging the “democrat hoax” line and hopes this bolsters his case. Because the criminal occupying office is going to be all over the files and he’s desperately hoping he can convince his base the entire thing is made up by dems. It will absolutely work for the cult so it really just depends on how many true believers are left in positions of power.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 2 weeks ago:
Given the grindr stats that follow them wherever they go, this seems plausible.
- Comment on Truth is way more fucked up than fiction 3 weeks ago:
The irony is that THIS is the deep state the fuckers have been looking for. Just the the 2nd amendment folks though, their rhetoric is just that, rhetoric and was NEVER going to lead to the solutions they preached.
The only value that side shares is bootlicking authority.
- Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No? 3 weeks ago:
These is. I such thing as a good billionaire. There are billionaires who might be temporarily aligned with you but make no mistake none of them will love you back…
- Comment on I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog. 3 weeks ago:
Apparently in parallel, not series.
- Comment on one bright second 1 month ago:
Honestly, this factoid is the closest thing to a real Total Perspective Vortex in hat I’ve ever felt.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Something I couldn’t help but notice today. I work from home most days at my current job, but I’m in this week. I’m the sort of person who always looks strangers in the eye and says hello, or just a smile and nod… today as I walked through the buildings to get lunch, not one single person acknowledged me. I almost always get at least a few responses or at least a smile. Today, nothing, every single person stared at the floor, or intentionally looked away when made eye contact.
I get that there are folks uncomfortable with such interactions, and so I am not offended or upset if I don’t get a response, but despite being surrounded by people, I don’t remember feeling more alone.
Just wanted to share, seems relevant.
- Comment on Cloudflare Tunnel? 1 month ago:
I’m in the same boat. I love that it makes self hosting easier for me. It does what I need and even gives me a small extra measure of security. I admit, I use it because I’m lazy, I could do it without Cloudflare and do for some services. So, I figure if it truly becomes urgent or intolerable I can drop it from the stack.
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 2 months ago:
which is a nonconformist
Thank you for this, it puts it in terms that make a lot of sense. This really helps explain a phenomenon I see so often. I know a few folks who are certainly not pro-trump, but are very anti-political. I’ve been told that I need to shut up, and things would be fine once the next election rolls around.
These folks might not like what’s happening, but they are fine conforming to it.
Maybe it’s a me problem, but I think it’s going to take a little more work than the bare minimum.
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 2 months ago:
I wish more people would see it.
- Comment on How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell 2 months ago:
I like ‘sloppers’ as a term for the morons distrubing and consuming the shit that the clankers are excreting.
- Comment on bet you can think of more 2 months ago:
I took a leadership role in my kids scout troop. Can’t do shit about this situation, but hopefully I can help these 70 kids get a good start on life and prepare for what’s to come.
- Comment on YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators 3 months ago:
I have noticed that some of the regular creators I watch seem to look a little AI lately. I honestly have been questioning reality a bit; that’s probably the point.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 3 months ago:
Lol, I meant Reimann too since he’s German, but mostly because I’m an idiot.
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 3 months ago:
Fucking hilarious that this is party that starts seizing the means of production.
It was never, ever even once about states rights. It was never about fighting communism. It’s all racism, always has been.
- Comment on Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying. 3 months ago:
My relatives who’ve been screaming about mark of the beast and shit for years sure confuse the hell Out of me when they voice support for this while wearing their maga hats.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 3 months ago:
Xcellent choice, would be amazing, a perfect pick. I’d toss Riemann or Ramanujan into the mix if I could pick anyone and ignore the language barrier.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 3 months ago:
To be frank, if you put Angela on this list my answer would be her a thousand times over. Shes just so damn engaging, love her content.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 3 months ago:
Agreed, not the person I respect or believe is going to reveal the most truth. But he’s the best one on the list to keep you engaged and entertained for 3 hours.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 3 months ago:
I was really expecting them to lean into my stupid old joke. I’m a vegetarian once removed, I only eat animals that only eat plants.
Can’t even clear that low bar of creativity.
- Comment on OpenAI’s new model can't believe that Trump is back in office 3 months ago:
I can’t help but feel like this is the most important part of the article:
The model’s refusal to accept information to the contrary, meanwhile, is no doubt rooted in the safety mechanisms OpenAI was so keen to bake in, in order to protect against prompt engineering and injection attacks.
Don’t of you believe that these “safety mechanisms” are there just for safety? If they can control them he ai, they will. This is how we got mecha-hitler, same mucking about with weights and such, not just what it was trained on.
They WILL, they already are, trying to control how ai “thinks”. This is why it’s desperately important to whatever we can to democratize ai. People have already decided that ai has all the answers, and folks like peter thiel now have the single most potent propaganda machine in history.
- Comment on OpenAI stops ChatGPT from telling people to break up with partners 3 months ago:
I’ve been playing with ai, pushing the limits of it as a therapy tool (I’m being honest, but I’m using myself as a test case). I’m really trying to evaluate it in good faith, mostly to try to see what’s addicting folks to it these days.
I just cannot get it to pass my “Turing test”. It’s just so sycophantic. Every time I get close to feeling like there’s something there, it falls back into the “blow smoke up your ass mode.”
So far my hours of conversing has only convinced me that folks who follow chatbot advice for such important life decisions, probably deserve it. I’m happily married, but if a girl ever broke up with me because a LLM told her to, I’d probably login to thank it (joke).
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 months ago:
Hard agree.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 months ago:
Yes, there was a while running narrative about bill the cat having his brain replaced with trumps. my not completely crazy maga dad turned me on to bloom county as a kid so most of my politics likely took root with a large nosed penguin and his friends. Then when I hit high school, I found rage against the machine.
But yeah, I never watched any of his reality shows, this is the turnip I knew, until he became the actual president. My brain has not recovered.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 months ago:
I’m middle aged now, but I have to admit, while I’ve always known there was racism still around, and still part of the government. I’m blown away though at just how much more of it, and how deeply rooted it is. The kind of people in charge right now are literal cartoon villains when I was a kid.
I mean that literally.
