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- Comment on Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die? 1 week ago:
So you get a notification, spacelord suggested Hereditas: github.com/ItalyPaleAle/hereditas
Not sure if it’s the same one OP is thinking of, though.
- Comment on Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days 2 weeks ago:
Hahahahaha okay, buddy. Spoken like someone who’s never been held to account for the actions of others over whom you have no actual authority or power. When I was in the military, I was put in charge of the supply closet and I had to keep it in order to the Staff Sergeant’s specifications. However, my entire Flight had access to that supply closet, and they fucked it up relentlessly. Whose ass, at the end of the day? Mine. How was I supposed to stop it? Fuck you, that’s how.
If I am willingly commissioning crimes through my business, lock me the fuck up. If someone does it in my name and I had no idea, is what the law is there to protect me from. What am I supposed to do if someone does crimes in my business in my name? Fire them, right? So what, you think that being fired is a deterrent from anyone doing crimes? No, of course not. So I ask you again, what actual consequences could I bring to bear on someone who did that?
Let me ask you this. If the rule was that you are responsible for the crimes of your subordinates, no matter what, would you ever risk starting a business or hiring anyone? Most people wouldn’t. How is an economy supposed to flourish under those conditions?
Yours is actually one of the dumbest takes I’ve read on the internet. You sure as shit won the Dumbass Take Of The Day award, and the competition wasn’t even close.
- Comment on Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days 2 weeks ago:
Yes, that is indeed the fact I was downplaying as “minor”. I have an even bigger target on my back, and I’m a lot less mobile with all my answers tied up like this.
- Comment on Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days 2 weeks ago:
The law is a funny creature. I own a business myself (just started, actually!) and it would suck to be brought up on charges I have no idea about but I’m being held personally liable for. I’m grateful for the LLC protection in that case. Of course, I’m also not planning on committing any crimes, nor having my business commit crimes, so it’s a minor worry. Really only important in the event the law gets weaponised against the people, say for example by a foreign asset in high office… 😬
- Comment on Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days 2 weeks ago:
Limited liability companies are “limited” in the sense that there are limited on the responsibilities of the members of the corporation. The CEO can’t be held personality liable for the actions of the company, for example; their underlings could have been responsible and kept the leader in the dark.
However, there’s this interesting legal standard wherein it is possible to “pierce the corporate veil” and hold corporate leadership accountable for illegal actions their company took, if you can show that by all reasonable standards they must or should have known about the illegal activity.
Anyway Elon has been elbow-deep in the inner workings of Xitter for years now, but his own annotation, right? Really getting in there to tinker and build new stuff, like Grok and its image generation tools. Seems like he knows an awful lot about how that works. An awful lot.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s a very nice concept to be able to dump a shitload of knowledge into a folder, look at “processing…” for a few seconds, then ask questions to get exactly what you’re looking for out of it rather than having to go digging through the mound of information and without having to worry that the computer just threw in a few made up facts for giggles. The idea is that the dumping happens over time mostly, allowing you to quickly find buried information from years ago with a few relevant queries.
One thing I’d do with this is dump all my emails into it, from across all my accounts. That might save me having to search keywords in 8+ accounts over 4-5 different platforms every so often…
It also might have been useful in a lawsuit I prosecuted a few years ago. Instead of going through two years of encrypted messages by hand to pull out relevant excerpts with context, I could have exported the lot and just asked for the information. If it worked it could have saved me months (I spent a few hours after work every night screenshotting, dating the screenshots in chronological order, then I’ve that was done I kept a spreadsheet that I filled with relevant excerpts and links to the screenshots, by reading every single screenshot… it was a lot).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Exactly what it says, what’s confusing about it? The problem with LLMs is that they bullshit; the problem with LLMs bullshitting is that you have to check everything they say, they are not trustworthy - severely limiting the utility. So, don’t trust LLMs. God meanwhile is assumed to be the paragon of honesty, and thus completely trustworthy, so would be the only entity to be trusted implicitly.
This works even if you don’t believe in god, like me: trust nobody, everyone must bring data if they want me to trust what they say.
- Comment on Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult" 4 weeks ago:
Maybe a better analogy would be the Ship of Theseus - how much of an AI-generated picture has to be replaced by human work for it to not be considered slop anymore?
- Comment on Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult" 4 weeks ago:
I’ve seen the argument that if you’re generating an image and making some edits, you’re robbing yourself of original concepts
This argument can also be deployed against Fair Use artworks, though, or tracing.
- Comment on Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult" 4 weeks ago:
As with much discussion of generative AI, the difficulty of Hooded Horse’s position is pinning down what they’re trying to ban. Does an artwork count as generated if somebody used the tech to make a base image of some kind, then fleshed it out and finished it off at length by hand?
A very salient question. Is someone generates a rough outline and then redraws it, fixing errors and making modifications with their human artist eye, is the thing they draw a problem? It will involve a human artist, and human artistic skill.
Tracing is one way to teach children how to draw. If someone generates am image to trace for practice, is all their art problematic because they were trained with AI?
This seems kind of like asking a vegan if they’d eat lab-grown meat… I think the answer depends heavily on why the person believes what they do in the first place.
- Comment on Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something! 1 month ago:
SovietWomble has some great let’s plays!
- Untitled Goose Game: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di7pxNivACE
- Prey: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZyXFo-K3c4
- Dredge: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nSbcKtwpq8
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 2 months ago:
Oh, absolutely. It’s very cool technology! Molten salt is corrosive as fuck, but that just kinda makes molten salt solar towers even more awesome.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 2 months ago:
And some of it is boiling salt!
Which then boils water, of course.
But some of it is electrons from photonic impact, no water involved! In the process of energy generation anyway. Statistically and perhaps somewhat ironically, the electrons from that photonic impact may well be used to boil water regardless… Humans just fucking love boiling water.
- Comment on Far-right Australian politician dons burqa in parliament 2 months ago:
Australian politician does some stupid shit
Yep, it’s Pauline fucking Hanson
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 2 months ago:
- I’m Gerald of Nivea. Up for a game of Pwent?
- Comment on Windows 11 Finally Fixes "Update and Shut Down" Functionality After a Decade 2 months ago:
- Comment on Remedy CEO Tero Virtala steps down after nine years 3 months ago:
I got Control: Ultimate Edition for $4 on sale recently and was really surprised by how good it is. One of the few games I’ve stuck with right through to beating it, and the DLC too. I’ve been considering Firebreak but the backlog is long and money is a little tight for frivolous promises right now. Sounds like I should play Alan Wake, though!
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 3 months ago:
- Comment on ‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus 4 months ago:
What about people who buy the cards to play the game?
- Comment on ‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus 4 months ago:
So then all books are now mystery boxes, and so are movies, tv shows, music, etc? Unless you’ve memorized every word? That’s not ridiculous at all lol.
I think you might have missed this from my reply:
That said, I’ll concede the point that they’re not really equivalent despite the fact that they’re both games played with printed pieces of paper, because that mystery aspect to a pack of Magic cards makes them different
But yes it does kind of seem like you’re putting down those who collect “useless” things and your distinction of collecting to display vs collecting to play a game is tenuous at best.
Listen pal, I already told you that wasn’t my intention, and clarified again that the existence of the game is the thing I hold as the differentiator between Magic and quite literally everything else on that list. You can do me the courtesy of believing me, or you can fuck off. You don’t get to dictate my intentions or meaning.
- Comment on ‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus 4 months ago:
Apparently a lot of people are reading my comment as defensive which wasn’t intended at all, so don’t worry, I wasn’t taking it badly 😊 Like I said, I strongly agree with you generally!
- Comment on ‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus 4 months ago:
Who said anything about being “better” than anyone else? Jesus Christ, is that what people took from “this one is not like the others”? I see the mystery box nature of the packs, of course, but the existence of the game around Magic means there’s a literal difference between that and all the other examples, for fuck’s sake.
To the point about D&D rulebooks, do you not know you’re buying a pack of Magic cards? No, you just don’t know what’s in the pack. If you already knew exactly what was in the D&D rulebook, why would you need to buy the book? That said, I’ll concede the point that they’re not really equivalent despite the fact that they’re both games played with printed pieces of paper, because that mystery aspect to a pack of Magic cards makes them different. Just like the presence of a game makes Magic different than the other examples.
It doesn’t make people who collect Magic cards any better. It just means their collection has a practical use in addition to display.
- Comment on ‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus 4 months ago:
While most of your post is spot-on, I don’t think Magic: The Gathering belongs here. Magic is a (fun, to us) game that I’ve played with my friends for decades. The cards also have nice art on them most of the time. People can and do totally spend as much on Magic as the other fandoms listed, but what game are Labubus for, or baseball cards? Thus, I feel M:TG is the odd one out in this list.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 4 months ago:
This is how society corrects behavior
Followed by
Your office comparisons are insignificant here
Really? School is where we learn how to treat other people, and we learn it by example as much as being told (more than, I’d contend).
Claiming this will immediately lead to bullying or just the threat that it might do is to an extent quixotic to me
First off, quote where I claimed it would immediately lead to bullying (good luck). Secondly, yes, whether believe it or not a teacher engaging in this behaviour signals to the other children that it’s okay, there’s an extremely elevated chance that they will take that and run with it.
If a teacher telling a kid to get their feet off the table, to stop shooting spit wads at the row in front of them, to stop rocking back their chair because they might tip over and fall - if all these situations are okay for a teacher to say out loud in front of the class: “Kevin, stop it!” - and I think they are - then telling the kid not to chew on communally shared erasers is no different.
Telling, yes. They’ve already told them to stop it. Your suggestion, however, was
I would go for gentle peer pressure. Point it out in class, do a friendly dressing down how none of the other students want to use the chewed on eraser. If he won’t stop if you say so, maybe you can get other kids to do the trick. The unwanted public attention from his peers might be enough.
“peer pressure”, “dressing-down”, “maybe you can get other kids to do the trick”. That last one in particular. How exactly do you think the other kids would do the trick? Harass the child into stopping, yeah? Or are you gonna come out now claiming that kids are masters of nuance and they’ll be able to get him to stop without resorting to bullying? Your initial suggestion was bad, but at this point you are being absolutely ridiculous. OP “weighed in against the suggestion” with the words
Kids at that age are ruthless, I absolutely can’t do that
And yet you still want to act like I’m in the wrong for saying that it would open the child up to bullying. An absolutely mind-blowingly dumb argument. I sure hope you’re not responsible for children with this kind of thinking; I had a few teachers like you and I hated them for it.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 4 months ago:
I’d be curious for a follow-up post of you find a way to help him with this! I was this kid when I was little, and needed help and kindness, but there was no understanding for autistic behaviours back then so what I got instead was bullied. I appreciate that you went looking for help instead of just throwing up your hands.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 4 months ago:
I read your checklist, and I think you missed the bus where I said “when it seems like all other options have been exhausted”. There’s absolutely no need for the “peer pressure” component, it’s unnecessary to call out a kid on front of a class like that when you could just add easily have a private conversation with the kid about it, and I suggest you think about what it means to enable bullying without actively participating in it.
I don’t think they will go full Lord of the Flies on him
You have no way of accurately predicting this, because it’s children we’re talking about, and they are famously agents of chaos.
I can’t think of a single office I’ve worked where it would be considered professional to call someone out for minority problematic behaviour in front of all their colleagues, and I don’t see any reason it would be considered acceptable with children either.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 4 months ago:
I don’t think it would be a good idea, that seems like it would only open up opportunities for bullying, without doing anything to address the source of the issue.
- Comment on How do I keep a 9 year old from constantly licking erasers and putting them in his mouth 4 months ago:
Sounds like it could be a stim thing - impulsive, you say? Any chance there’s (undiagnosed?) ASD there? The mentions of bitter spray reminded me of when my mother tried that to get me to stop biting my nails. I just stopped using my lips and tongue, and only used my teeth…
Anyway, if it’s a stimulation thing, maybe finding an alternative would be easier than getting him to stop entirely.
- Comment on Hit-run driver Jake Danby spared jail time by NT Supreme Court after describing victim as an 'oxygen thief' 4 months ago:
Hey, I didn’t violate any rules. I just suggested an apparently-legal path to national heroism 🤷
- Comment on Hit-run driver Jake Danby spared jail time by NT Supreme Court after describing victim as an 'oxygen thief' 4 months ago:
Time to go racist-hunting. If it’s legal to mow down “oxygen thieves” then whoever does this fuckhead in will be a national hero.
