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@ChronicIllnessHumor that would definitely soothe a sore throat, though 🤔

@arestelle @skinnylatte that is how I read it too lol

The drawn-out saga with the nonbinary lesbian BPD person who assaulted me the kept harassing my friends after I left, is finally over. I had them email me at an alternate email, so they told me what they wanted ($400) and made false accusations. I rebutted, pointed out my medical costs incurred because of them, and asked for evidence of any agreement, and they apologized and dropped it. If this isn't the end of it, I guess there'll be another police report and finally a restraining order?

I suspect they dropped it because they got pregnant seven months ago and married the guy probably shortly thereafter, and don't want him to know how *nuts* they are. That's fine! As long as they aren't annoying my friends trying to find me, lying to them, libelling me, etc--then that's fine.

So, a quiet little party in my head right now. And soon, sleep and peace.

@WarnerCrocker paywalled

cooked rice and beans with andouille. yum!

@hellomiakoda rainbow flag vinyl wrap might not be so bad. Hmmmm

@hellomiakoda not at you! With you. It's an absurd situation. My apologies if i offended you.

@hellomiakoda 😱 haha

@prettygood this saddened me and made my stomach hurt a little bit. Well done. Quality shitpost.

@maplesyrup subscribe

@citizen428 accessibility means everyone. Heck yeah.

@sand hey, don't knock it. That'll get me out of two, maybe three days of work. More if I'm "lucky!"

@sand jokes on them, that bottle of ranch in the fridge is about to get useddddd

@bruno_j_navarro *since the first right-wing think-tanks in the 60s and 70s.

@aral having trouble with that last sentence in the face of :have to pay child support, see a doctor, and eat food: but sure.

The machines are "trained" by scraping other digital art works and attaching LLM strings to describe them. They literally steal the art of others, to make that content available for calling up during "generation."

It is useful as an accessibility tool, for things like identifying objects and describing images. As an art tool, it regurgitates what others have done in quasi-bespoke arrangements at the user's request. It does not produce art, it produces output that can be artful on account of its having been art before being regurgitated.

It can caption images for the vision or visual processing impaired. It can assist with tasks that otherwise require extensive scholarship. It can not replace that scholarship, and it cannot replace the talent of an artist, and it cannot produce something even relatively novel.

It has uses that can assist humans. It should not be used otherwise, and is actively assisting in the destruction of our planet by consuming vast amounts of energy and water while producing equally vast amounts of waste heat.

Your skill at putting together strings of words that convine the AI to give you output that is pleasing, may or may not be a skill in itself. It doesnt seem to be worth bragging about, in any case.

@thekitmalone simplex seems like the best free option, but signal is the best ux by a margin; matrix seems best for PC use, not phone use. Just from what I've seen.

@GossiTheDog dude, just do it today. Join the fedipact. The very folks who have been the canaries in the coal mine have been screaming about this since day one, and you're only just now wondering if it might be a good idea?

Hey chat.

So I've been out of the "free downloads of software and multimedia" game for a while. Yarr, but I pine for the open sea.

What are the current good sources for torrents, streams, and so forth?

What's the best VPN for the dollar spent?

How do I keep Windows from snitching, aka sending usage data back to MS? I don't mind giving this up and going straight to Mint on the new laptop, but everything works for now and I'd rather not bother with tinkering just yet. I know, blasphemous.

Help? Thanks in advance. #streaming #vpn #tpb

@elight @Willow @donaldegray
Correct. The moral of the tale "The boy who cried wolf" It's not that you should always only ever tell the truth, it's that you should always respond to pleas for help, even if you suspect it's fake, because it could save someone's life.