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Aside: Are “AI Boosters” the Real Disadvantaged-Marginalised-Subaltern Party? No, and this is an extremely suspicious framing. The largest structural and monetary support ever leveraged is being put behind “AI” rollout. Great article. Still working through it, but full of excellent, clearheaded points like this.

The most important question that every change must answer.

Corporate videos featured in the Gamers Nexus investigation show LG representatives saying: “We know who is in the LG household,” and, “We know which devices are there.” Whatever happened to just selling the fucking product and taking the profits. You’re already presumably benefiting from the exploitation nature through extraction and ewaste, of workers in mines and assembly plants, of a docile consumer base. Now they’ve just got to squeeze just that little bit extra and see if they can sell information stolen from people’s homes.

Could’ve sure used this back in the day

I’ve got mine down to 32 byte string to describe the location, datetime, and people in the photograph, with flags for who’s smiling and/or blinking.

It happens when you start making it happen. It’s labour day long weekend where I’m at. If it’s a long weekend for you there’s probably something happening that you could get involved in, lending your skills or just emotional support. Like I just got roped into an action when I’d much rather be staying at home, but you’ll never know what’s happening until you put yourself out there. A global climate crisis is coming that I can’t do anything about, but I can do my part to build local resilience so the people I know have a better chance of surviving in one piece.

Jesus Christ, there’s more money in a living planet than a dead one. The moment regular people like you just start expecting corporations to do better, and punish the ones that don’t, this all gets fixed in one or two financial quarters.

The amount of service calls I get from people locked out of their own windows computers…

Great comment. I also find routine critical to getting shit done. Even to the point where I’ll need to symbolically enact the routine if I don’t have the time to do it properly. So like if I have no time to workout I’ll just do a single pushup and tell myself “whatever! Today that counts!” obviously there’s a risk of that becoming the new routine, but at least if I’m still doing some part of the habit I feel it’s still in play and I can work on devoting more time and effort to it.

Yeah like not working out or anything. I can sit around eating all day too, but my muscles just wither away.

Wow that is a great example of installing the body shame program that most people would have just been incepted with with no memory of the transfer!

I don’t have technical advise but congrats on taking your privacy seriously. It sounds to me like you’re fundamentally doing very well, probably learning a lot, even if your setup isn’t ideal right now. From my perspective, it’s never going to be truly ideal—like perfect. Migrating and moving around, adapting and optimising, are how you maintain a good posture. Especially when dealing with companies or even other people like solution maintainers, you’re going to get disappointed in some of them and have to migrate. If you were happy staying put you’d be on Windows 11 complaining on Facebook right now. ;) So pat yourself on the back for that win, friend—you’re doing it!

Is this a post about not believing convincing-sounding LLM output?

This is why I think a kind of cyber brain-internet connection would be the worst thing for me. I'd literally have a bottomless queue of bifurcating queries that I'd just keep adding to

I hate this left/right shit. There's only conservatives and everyone else.

Motion passes

I believed

I really don't like wearing brands, but this one is testing my resolve

Whoa, that's so toxic. I'm glad I switched my donation to Delta. Plus it just feels so much better to use. I don't have evidence for this but Signal *feels* just like an app right before it's sold off to a megacorp. I can't put my finger on it...

Firefox makes a good fork base anyway

Rofl I remember those painfully hard erections. Not sure I'd want to go *that* hard again

Interesting. I had no idea they worked like that. Sounds like taking melatonin for sleep. It's not going to put you to sleep unless you're in a sleepy headspace

Yeah that's my philosophy as well. I'm not going to cower just in case someone happens to be looking in MY window. If they get an eyefull well whoops, stop peepin. It's not like I'm humping the windows over here

Sadly some jobs are not available without the paper. That credentialism for ya

It's always a struggle but it's always worth it. Shame it's so hard to see how worth it it is from this side of things

French?

You make a good case....

Oh damn that's a shame to hear. I hope we can get better without compromising on being anti-corporate

Noooo don't make me an anarchist 😭

Every time 🫡

I want to complain, but for most people this will be true. The most boring stock standard fitness and lifestyle advice will, and it pains me to admit this, absolutely improve your quality of life in every way. It's not like you're guaranteed to feel amazing, but the bads won't feel as bad, and you'll just feel a little bit better than if you did nothing. Fml but the normies had this one right 🤷

Best I can do is https://piclog.blue/

Next family thanksgiving is going to be lit

Ohhh here I thought we were talking about "three licks" and "four licks" and I'm like how about you leave them alone!!

I feel that. I've come down with a really bad cold this month and just stopped everything for 2 weeks, and really slow getting back into it. I feel like such garbage from just that bit of inactivity. I was actually shocked by how quickly the wheels fell off, I started to hurt, feel a sluggishness that I couldn't shake, feel more depressed and hopeless... Working out helps but it's taking me a while to climb out of this hole. It's so hard, it's like I've lost the ability to believe I could feel better, let alone *want* to workout.

What scale?

Can you translate?

Saved

*Cancers. We would have to cure many cancers. Smoking increases your risk of cancer beyond just throat and lunch cancers.

I hope so. But I have a feeling the local LLMs will just pick up the slack, running on hardware from liquidated “ai data centres”

I’ve been on the fence about honey for a while but tbh I’ve heard enough. I’ll just switch to maple spread or jam.

Problem here is it relies on people using redit after having found lemmy. I know some people do, but I can only imagine it’s a one-way valve for most.

So use it to cure cancer. Don’t put a button in the email client that makes shit up for people.

Not saying it’s the case here, but I’ve never heard this argument raised in good faith, like by someone who is interested in reducing the amount of suffering caused by humans to non-humans. It’s always brought up as some thought-terminating catch-22 device to just keep doing wtf ever you want to do anyway. I am genuinely curious what you think we should do with this information, though. Like how has it influenced your own actions?

My beloved

Irl? Like one and a half irl friends (the second one and I vibe really well but we’re both pretty independent)

The “spreads” are good, maybe the fake feta, but generally agree that dsiya is basically only good if you’re early days and struggling, or if your friends insist on making a regular pizza and don’t know how to make that interesting without cheese so here’s some daiya idk, I guess it’s edible.

I just hope he doesn’t get lazy and brainrotted like I’ve seen happen with coworkers. People who used to call themselves “software craftsmen” now shipping 1k+ line changesets with fully generated documentation.

I actually went about it the other way. After seeing how bad dairy cows have it in the daily (I have in-laws who are dairy farmers) compared to cows raised for their flesh, I tried giving up just cheese, because it’s the one thing I told myself I could never do. I remember specifically saying to a lactose intolerant person that I would kill myself if I couldn’t eat cheese lol. I can’t imagine eating cheese now, just the smell grossed me out. Like I was cleaning a plastic case that held cheddar (my partner’s) and I swear I couldn’t get the stink out of my fingers for hours. Even cow milk which I used to think was neural and creamy smells and tastes funky and cheesy. Anyway, that’s all to illustrates how malleable tastes are. I think it must have been so hard to quit, because I remember what I said and did, but not how I felt. It’s like the urge just faded away. Like it was a temptation one moment, and then the next I forgot what I ever liked about it. Anyway from there reducing and eliminating other products was easy, since I’d already fought the animal product boss battle.