Notices by FoolishOwl (foolishowl@social.coop)

@cwebber The backsliding on IPv6, and treating NAT as a security feature, have been irritants for some time.

@dalias @gwynnion There have been several incidents where police cooperated with ICE despite city laws specifically prohibiting them from doing so. The Worcester incident is an especially prominent example.

Police don't respect civilian governments.

@susankayequinn I feel that the dangers of generative "AI" are the threat of obliterating culture by flooding it with slop, and an assault on human dignity. That assault denies the value, sometimes even the existence, of consciousness, which precedes language.

I was disappointed that the author referred disparagingly to the Luddites, who did not fear technology, but rather used aggressive labor actions to defend their communities from its coercive use. Luddism is exactly what we need.

When I've considered ideas for #TTRPG campaigns, I've thought, my political beliefs and values will inevitably influence the themes in worldbuilding and scenario design, but I should be careful to not be too heavy-handed and didactic.

But I get the impression that people I know pretty much go straight for, "Let's have a role-playing game about leading a social revolution".

I wonder if it's the era I grew up in, where we'd call each other up because a TV show just hinted at leftist critique.

I'm trying out the helix text editor. It feels very new, but clearly reflects the heritage of vim. Has anyone else here tried it?

https://helix-editor.com/

@josephcox There's a fundamental threat here to the trust that is necessary for human community to exist at all.

@mattotcha https://theconversation.com/a-weird-phrase-is-plaguing-scientific-papers-and-we-traced-it-back-to-a-glitch-in-ai-training-data-254463

"$23 a day, it's almost worth it."

That's less than half my rent.

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople

So this is basically a story of a doomed relationship with a partner who won't tolerate a special interest?

#Monsterdon #TheBatPeople

@tante The thread for the article had several people arguing that all software will soon include AI and people are foolishly rejecting the hardware to support it.

That utterly misses the point that most people dislike generative AI.

Personally I feel that the use of generative AI is an atrocity and a deliberate assault on culture and human dignity, and I refuse to use it. I'd quit working in IT if I have to, to get away from it.

@maggiejk @toddtyrtle @edgeofeurope @nazokiyoubinbou @skinnylatte It sounds like there's a lot of regional variation, which explains some things.

@cwebber I've only ever seen it suggested as an alternative to overriding browser settings to allow self-signed certificates. The override seems like a lot less work.

@silverwizard I've written zone files from scratch for fun. How are other people going to figure any of this out?

@silverwizard I was just finding out that Waterfox inherits from Firefox the settings that redirect all DNS queries for web browsing -- i.e., nearly all of them, and nearly all where privacy matters -- to Cloudflare DNS. At least on Android, the instructions I've found for overriding that setting don't work.

I fucking hate it.

@silverwizard I'm not entirely sure whether using custom DNS would actually be better but it annoys me that Xfinity tries to preempt my decision.

There are other minor tweaks I've wanted to make that the equipment I have doesn't allow, as well.

I saw a thread recommending using a custom DNS instead of the ISP's DNS. I'm using a cable modem / router rented from Xfinity, which doesn't allow changing that setting.

That reminds me that I've wanted to purchase a cable modem and wifi router that allows me more control over the settings.

Any recommendations?

@cstross I miss Iain Banks and very much wish a mysterious stranger accompanied by a sarcastic floating suitcase would show up. We could use the help.

@SallyStrange One thing that bugged me about that episode is that you'd think if the Federation was good for anything, it would be protecting labor organizing rights.

@SallyStrange OTOH, it's a Star Trek episode where they quote the Communist Manifesto approvingly, and O'Brien talks about historic labor struggles.

IIRC, it aired like a week after a Babylon 5 episode about dockworkers going on strike. It was a good month for leftists watching TV about space stations.

My understanding is that the classic definition of a political party is an organized social force attempting to take state power in order to use the state to suppress opposing forces.

My theory for some time has been that in the US, the Republican and Democratic Parties converged into a single party after the US Civil War. I think this is a general pattern in liberal states; what are now called parties show the vestigial features of their historic origins but have fundamentally changed.