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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 03:38:09 JST 
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well now that there's precedent for banning an app from app stores, we definitely won't see
1. more of that
2. more secret government collusion based on the threat of that
3. more of governments coming down against 'side-loading' trends which would defang that threat
4. more moves against 'side-loading' on desktop OSes as well
5. more moves to close the "browser loop-hole" to such bans. Can you believe that, even though Telegram blocks RT, that I can still go to rt.com???
6. more attacks on VPNs and 'dark nets'
7. more pushes for digital IDs -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 01:34:57 JST
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suddenly reminded of the time I almost rear-ended a police car in the drive-thru of a taco bell because the floor mat had slipped forward over the pedals -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:13:16 JST
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@mischievoustomato
>lusting over a redditor
>lusting over a reddit moderator
what are you going to lust after next? A sex trafficker? A Mossad agent? -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 02:28:02 JST
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@lain @sun it's like criticism of landlords. Yes, landlords exist who do good work. I've had extremely good managers that I had a lot of respect for, and I can at least imagine a pretty good landlord. But when people complain about administrative non-entities who get paid to impair function across an organization, it's not a defense of such people to say that good managers also exist.
There will be experiments as layoffs continue. The laid-off can try replacing the organization with an AI. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 02:20:58 JST
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@why @sun @lain SO replacement, documentation replacement, and (sadly) tech writer replacement. And a library replacement, when you consider how little value various 'frameworks' provide over the underlying API.
Eventually you'll get linked a git repo and there will be no documentation at all, not even a README.
Q: uh, how do I use this? What is this even for?
A: ask AI to read it and tell you, dummy -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 02:19:31 JST
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@sun @lain if you're consistently good at that then people will give you programming tasks, report bugs to you, complain when the UI isn't just so, complain about performance and scaling, and give you both trivial and completely infeasible feature requests without knowing the difference - and you'll just be a programmer, and very good programmers will still be valuable, and those people still won't be programmers even though they could talk to the same AI you're talking to.
If we're dooming I think managers might be a lot more easily replaced than programmers. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 02:10:26 JST
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@sun @lain I've gotten system administration commands from ChatGPT that would work *most* of the time - but eventually completely brick your system.
But even outside of dangerous code like this, non-prrogrammers struggle to solve problems even with an AI writing all the code. With the right questions the AI can even fix the code, but they don't know what questions to ask. This all reminds me a lot of xkcd hopium about how Google would mean that anyone could be an instant expert on any subject. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 01:57:56 JST
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@lain @sun a perennial problem for smart skeptical people is that snake oil salesmen and lying grifters are not exclusively features of fake innovation, but will also show up to exploit real innovation. I dismissed bitcoin for a long time because the community consisted entirely of deranged economically retarded speculators who would say things like "bitcoin's value is backed by the electricity consumed in mining it!" AI-assisted programming is being sold as a replacement for programmers in a beat-for-beat repeat of COBOL finally replacing programmers with secretaries because code could finally be in readable English instead of cryptic symbols. Of course it'll get dismissed when the hype's like that. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 00:48:45 JST
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@LukeAlmighty that high number is probably for pandas in the wild, though. Pandas only famously have trouble breeding in captivity.
Humans aren't in captivity, right? :) -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 13:37:28 JST
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@wan @SuperSnekFriend
>fetishize "consent"
>everything bad has to be bad due to a lack of consent
>everything consensual has to be good
>everything ends up becoming about consent
>an entire civilization's system of mores of standards has to be rediscovered through the lens of consent
you can look forward to the "number of children of consent" which is maximum 2, only more than that if a child dies early.
and the "heels of consent" which is no more than a 1-inch heel for men, and no more than a 2-inch heel for women.
and the "public voice of consent" which is softly-spoken except in an emergency or to briefly get someone's attention
and the "homes of consent" which is exactly one. You can time-share a vacation home, at best. Homeless people still exist so more houses is against consent in some incredibly convoluted rationale that only people with college degrees can explain.
and if you doubt those people you're violating the "information of consent" - misinformation is violence! -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 10:32:03 JST
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@djsumdog @koropokkur @KuteboiCoder @grey I just think that most of thinking that it's fake is cope - a refusal to accept how much the US has declined since then. Yes, dudes with slide rules could do it. No, current NASA can't do anything at all. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 04:06:12 JST
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@icedquinn nah, that's much more the Cato Institute. The Mises Institute's bread is buttered by private doctors and professionals. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 12:07:26 JST
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@icedquinn depicted externally, it's too hard to distinguish from malice.
depicted internally, it's too hard to depict realistically and sympathetically.
'Indecision' in the sense of a bureaucratic process soullessly destroying people, that you can see in comedies, particularly British comedies like the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, or Blackadder. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 11:29:08 JST
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@ZeroSum06 @eriner ties into the Obama era joke of calling it a "Debt Star" with the Obama logo over the beam outlet. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 09:54:15 JST
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@icedquinn Russians With Attitude has a fun theory that it's about access to the Arctic: Canada + Greenland would give the US control over the Arctic that's comparable to Russia's, who is currently the only power really situated to exploit it, its natural resources, and a trade route better than the one through the Suez canal that has pirates and fees and Yemeni blockades as concerns.
But, Norway and Canada are already firmly in the US sphere of influence. The suggestion that the US can't exploit their access without a US flag is really a confession of decline. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 09:38:40 JST
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@lina @Moto_Chagatai
>Plastic surgeon sparks outrage for giving 9-year-old C-cup breasts instead of the J-cup breasts that had been specifically asked for.
there's zero chance this isn't bait. The tattoo doesn't get instantly applied in a dark room. Everyone involved can see what he's doing. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:54:42 JST
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@BrodieOnLinux OK, but I wouldn't count the immutableness against it being Linux. There's stuff like Fedora CoreOS out there. Even Android giving every program its own uid and having a common messaging bus is something a distro could do. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:27:20 JST
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@BrodieOnLinux
>if you activate dev mode
you go to the power menu and one of the options is "desktop mode". It's not even a special dev mode, it's a very visible reboot option. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:05:35 JST
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@gentoobro @EdBoatConnoisseur @SnugSmug this condition already exists with the Rio Grande / Rio Bravo. Or Kiev / Kyiv. Or X / Twitter. Words are actually just for the purpose of communication and don't have magical reality-bending powers, so if people know what you mean, you succeeded, and communication friction between cultures or language groups is something that can't be avoided anyway.
We call China 'China'. Russians call it Китай. Chinese calls it "middle country" using different sounds depending on the dialect and foreigners could hardly replicate the correct pronunciation without long training anyway.
Obsessing about this or whining that foreigners don't use your PREFERRED NOUNS or make "Turkey? No thanks I'll have chicken." jokes, is just cancer. Near to transgenderism. -
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of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 03:35:53 JST
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@Shlomo @IAMAL_PHARIUS @givenup look, the US has gradually reduced the range of its military interventions. From the other side of the planet post-WWII, to only halfway around at the turn of the millennium, and now the US is considering regime change and humanitarian bombing on its 'home turf'.
The logical next step is civil war - interventions within the US itself.
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