Notices by Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)

@libewa I didn't delete anything related to this thread. If you're seeing a gap in the thread, somebody else in it has probably blocked or been blocked by you.

@datarama The more I think about it the more I love this analogy. "Cloning" was indeed a much earlier instance of copying the AI playbook of coining a misleading word to get press and funding for your research.

(Yes, copying *from* AI - the AI scam does back over half a century!)

Using a word, "cloning", which should mean doing something like a Star Trek transporter accident to a living being, making two full copies of the same being. Not "something like a twin, but with less in common".

@rl_dane It's not the bundled browser. It's the bundled spyware.

@datarama And like AI, the scifi bullshit around cloning was all taking advantage of the audience not understanding any of it and muddling a very boring thing (artificially producing something close to a twin, artificially producing something superficially resembling human language) with something that bamboozles them ("copying a person", "machine is thinking").

@masek Yeah I'm guessing you have regular silica which is a lot easier not to mess up with. The MS is specialty stuff that reaches much lower RH.

@masek You can transfer it to a metal container with lots of surface area to cool down. I'm not sure what type of desiccant you're using but I'd also consider pausing multiple timed to stir it. I turned molecular sieves into a ball of orange lava doing that without stirring and shattered the borosilicate container they were in. Doing 90s at a time for 500 ml container seems yo

@ryanc I think the hilarious part is how accurate it is - and that so many ppl somehow treat a wired network as trusted.

@Bahay @libewa @peppermintos A project maintained by nazis is incompetently maintained and thereby lacks technical merit. You can see this in any technical discussion or work by them. The only way one doesn't see this is if they don't want to see.

@jonny In the case of AI, I would characterize that as putting someone other than the AI user in more danger than the existence of the AI thing already puts them in. Like if it's an AI product being used to handle other ppl's personal info. But if it's just whoever is willfully using that stuff, screw them.

@jonny Unless it's software used in roles where it puts innocent victims at risk, x=0.

@ireneista @astraleureka Stuff like this is why I'm adamant about no updates, ever.

@kirakira Now I want to know what synth this is and if it's actually foss.

@dnsprincess Like, sailing the high seas is going to give better - and likely safer - results. But it's also going to instill a sense of gratitude towards the people making cracks and undermining capitalist software, rather than towards vibeslop bros.

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116177151961748562

Hey remember when I made this post?

With all these vibewashing projects, looks like we're gonna find out what happens!

@dnsprincess I'm not upset, but if someone I know wanted to use it, I think I'd suggest we go look up where to get cracks for the originals instead. 🏴☠️

@paninid I wonder if there are better metaphors for the healthy concept you have in mind that aren't so easily appropriated by capitalists justifying their behavior and ideology.

@paninid I'm sure some people *mean well* with the concept of "growth mindset", but the idea that you need to be constantly growing and cannot accept limits is the mindset of a cancer cell not of a living being in equilibrium with their fellow beings and environment. It's the mindset of billionaires who are never satisfied with what they have no matter how many orders of magnitude above us that might be.

And when I hear it from business-minded folks, they definitely mean it in this way, not in any sort of healthy or well-meaning way.

@paninid Or between the life mindset and the cancer mindset?

@Gargron @FallsMom He's badly AI-pilled.

@AnarchoNinaWrites No kidding, it's easy as fuck to say "I'm not gonna take part in your petty attempt to control what issues are at stake" and shows absolute weakness/patheticness if you don't at least do that.