I like em all but the Victorian English option will absolutely have their head spinning. 😁
#tRumpanzees
...and then if I don't make a point of going through it to edit out stuff not worth bothering with, it could periodically upload the whole thing to fedi or whatever, thereby embarrassing me into actually checking it.
(Well, yeah, ok, I'd probably have to write a special utility for that -- but it's within my realm of interest, so... It Could Happen.)
...or possibly into playing less, but this seems worth some Science™.
Is there a Linux app which will just sit listening to an audio channel and record any input on that channel that goes above a certain level?
That way I could automatically record all my keyboard noodling without having to consciously think "am I going to be playing anything worth recording this time"...
@Asuyuia I think it's important to note that humanity is really really divided -- or at least that's been my observation -- as far as how much they care about building a better future.
(I have a whole rant-lecture on ideas for overcoming this problem, but I'll spare you for now.)
...if only that would punish the ISPs who don't offer it, instead of the users who have no choice... :blobcatupsidedown:
(co-operatively owned ISPs when)
@scanlime You're definitely not the only one refusing to let things go on this way. It's absolutely not inevitable. (They just want us to think it is.)
@jonny I have a "well actually", but I know better than to add it without being invited. >.>
Carry on. We agree that the AI industry is evil, regardless.
@riley This lack of consistency is shocking and clearly must be remedied at once. EVERYONE MUST HAZ THE RIGHT TO OPERATE DANJERTOOLS THEY DONT UNDERSTAND WITHOUT RESTRAINT or else socialism communism unamerica, be afraid.
@socketwench I originally wrote this in 2021; it needs a little updating and shifting of emphasis towards "community-owned/governed", but it's basically trying to address the problem you describe.
@riley Wouldn't want to inconvenience the gun-needers. That would be as bad as inconveniencing large-motorized-vehicle-operators, which we also cannot do.
@bruces Hmm... this makes me wonder if a white-hat version of this could be used to get the mainstream news to talk about things they tend to avoid, and to shift the Overton Window away from fashy stuff being ok...
"There's a South Pole," said Christopher Robin, "and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them."
@artemis That aspect of Vulcan "rationality" was often explored, even in TOS.
#JennyHypertwin used to say "Love is complicated logic." and I kind of agree: feelings and intuition are heuristics we need to use because full logical analysis of real-world situations is often unfeasible. "Emotion" is evolution's way of hard-wiring some of those which turned out to be particularly important.
All that said, I'd say there's a huge gap between the amount of logic which should and could be brought to bear in many situations -- e.g. political choices -- and the amount which is, and powermongers loooove to take advantage of that (and promote it as Good).
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@Uair @rnd More people need to use Tribler, if you ask me. ...if only so there will be some momentum to improve the UI a bit... and the selection... but it's still my go-to when I need [puts on legal-compliance-face] a digital copy of something I currently only have in analog format.
@toddtyrtle And I did! ...like, I would sit down and read enough of the manual that I had a sense of the overall layout of things, then start playing with the software, and eventually just use the manual for reference.
(#whoRemembers looking up functions in printed indexes... I wouldn't go back, but it was fun.)
@toddtyrtle My positive associations are more with the thick paperbound sets of manuals that would come with compilers and such -- mainly Borland. I still have a bunch of those.
...and the three-ring tech manuals for DOS and BIOS interrupts, though they were less pleasant to work with...
...but you're definitely not wrong :blobcatthinksmart:
