Schadrach

It’s the political ratchet. The GOP drives things to the right and the Dems obstruct movement in reverse. Because of the realities of how elections in the US work, you’re going to get one or the other, so the choice is between “make things actively worse” or “stall.”

The only real way to effect change while operating within the electoral system is to remake the parties from within, which the right is much better at than the left, see the Tea Party and MAGA. For some reason, anyone in the US even a hair left of center is terrible at messaging.

I froze. I simultaneously was totally uninterested and also had no mental scripts for turning down attention from a girl when I was 19 and just sort of…mentally stalled out, like my brain just stalled out.

You can be certain about each other’s age.

…unless they have a fake ID. Which in turn is not in any way a defense should you perform certain acts with them that are illegal due to age. You’re just supposed to be able to sense the difference between someone slightly above and slightly below the line in your jurisdiction.

This really wouldn’t be that hard to do, CNC machines are essentially step motors on rails holding a tool head. Old (pre-them just being big inkjets) plotters were basically a 2 axis CNC with a tool head that would retrieve, move, lower, raise and replace specially designed pens. My high school had one, a pretty large format one. So you could already pretty trivially have AI gen sketches drawn with actual pens on actual paper if you go find an old plotter, and a CNC painting machine would be about 80% the same thing.

The harder part by far would be building software to convert a JPEG into instructions to paint with and have it look good.

I’ve dropped most formatting, now I have to drop spellcheck to not be routinely accused of being a bot?

Presumably the reason criminals would want to use Linux is that privacy focused distros exist that would make them harder to identify, as well as Linux just generally not broadcasting telemetry to corps that can give it to authorities at the drop of a hat.

Remember, the smallpox vaccine will make you part cow, because it’s made from cow pox…

That one was closer to two hundred years ago. People just stay dumb.

how people are twisting his words / that’s not what he said / etc.

Someone should send him footage of exactly what he said, or links to X posts or w/e form he said it in.

Wakefield, father of the anti-vax movement, actually did have his words twisted though - it was never “vaccines are bad”, it was specifically the combined MMR being administered to young children that he opposed (claiming they should instead be spread out), in no small part because he owned separate vaccines for each.

The main reason I keep subs for any of it is because we have a Roku TV in the living room and anything more complicated than just pushing the Netflix button is more than my wife is willing to deal with. She already doesn’t like the Google TV box with the same apps on the other TV because she thinks it’s too complicated, but she puts up with it “because you like it”. If I had a way to install Stremio on the Roku, I could probably slowly convince her over to it, but that depends on how often her occasionally obscure TV preferences are already cached by RD.

What I’m hearing is NY Democrats are working to pass a bill that will increase prices at businesses using self-checkout by 10 percent. They aren’t going to cut into their own profits.

No, pizza is a pie. Hot dogs and tacos are sandwiches, though.

The weird right-wing conspiracy nutters feel the same way about Fauci. It’s wild how obsessed they are with Fauci needing to be punished for a mix of unspecified and entirely invented crimes. Second only to Obama in that department.

paying money to AI companies to make ads like PETA is presumably doing/supporting

That ad isn’t anything you couldn’t do using open models and tools on your own GPU. Not saying that they did but it’s not anything you’d necessarily need to pay those companies for.

And the owner(s) compiled a huge block list by usernames.

Usernames, communities and some keywords.

Currently this command will pull the list down for you, presuming you are on a platform where curl, base64 and gunzip are all installed (which is basically anything that isn’t windows, but you can also get what you need for windows too you just might not already have it):

curl -s https://tesseract.dubvee.org/tesseract/api/system/policy \ | base64 -d | gunzip > policy.json

Basically, the tesseract frontend downloads https://tesseract.dubvee.org/tesseract/api/system/policy which is JSON that’s been gzipped and base64 encoded. That command downloads it using curl, then passes it to the base64 decoder then passes that to gunzip to decompress it.

What’s special about Tesseract is that it was a pretty common alternative frontend for Lemmy. It’d be like finding out your phone app for Lemmy intentionally internally blacklisted certain instances, communities, people or phrases like several Mastodon clients used to do.

So much so that the latter sued her over it (that author lost, because it wasn’t a word-for-word lift).

As much as some people (and a lot of giant corps) hate it, you can’t copyright a general concept.

I mean basically the same thing happened from the opposite side with Mastodon clients. Go on one of the phone app stores, find a mastodon client and look at older negative reviews to see if there are any about “blocking the largest mastodon instance” or something worded similarly. Several clients did it.

The reason? Gab at one point changed their backend so they were just a Mastodon instance, which made them technically the largest Mastodon instance. Several Mastodon client devs explicitly blacklisted Gab from their clients because of their far right nonsense in response.

I’m certainly not going to use Tesseract over them having a blocklist like that, but then I specifically picked the Lemmy instance I did because they only block instances in extreme cases. One instance on the blocklist, and that one only because it was entirely unmonitored and unmoderated and was being used to distribute actual CSAM (as in not drawings) as a consequence of being totally unmoderated and unmonitored.

It’s actually kind of sad, because some of the features like the MBFC integration sound genuinely useful, maybe someone else will add them to a different client.

Flops are just comfortable, it doesn’t necessarily need to be that hot out, so long as it isn’t actively cold or wet.

It’s really not. I wear flipflops with jeans with some frequency but still manage to believe in real medicine, and especially don’t believe that pairing two antiparasitics (one not approved for human use) is a cure-all or even a vaguely rational treatment for anything other than being riddled with parasites.

Blame Canada! Blame Canada!

It seems that everything’s gone wrong Since Canada came along

Blame Canada! Blame Canada!

They’re not even a real country, anyway

An awful lot of early CD games would let you do that. Track 1 was the data and tracks 2-whatever were individual songs from the ST, because that’s how the game played the soundtrack audio, by treating it like an audio CD. That really only changed once audio compression got better and other assets got larger so there was a better way to use the space.

But when CDs first landed your storage media moved from 1.44MB disks (PC) or <= 6MB cartridges (SNES) to 640-700 MB it took a while before code and graphical assets started using a lot of that and well, you are paying for the whole CD either way, may as well use all the space.