@raven It's not the country; it's the self-absorbed nitwits* in charge of it...
...and the underinformed sadistic realityphobic jerks who voted for them, but they're a problem that all countries have to deal with at one time or another, at various levels of intensity. We're just the current winners of the nazi pageant (and yes, we do have some cleanup to do).
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*I'm being kind here, in conformance with Canadian civility codes.
@rnd Translating this into a minority group of which I am a member, I have to agree.
Criticism of Caitlyn Jenner is not transphobic.
...and yeah, the Right is all about making distinctions meaningless so everything becomes an us vs. them poo-throwing fight. (They've had a lot more practice at throwing poo than we'd ever choose to have.)
@rnd It seems to me that disallowing primarily-LLM projects should never be controversial in the first place, since there are so many good reasons to do it; it's more the opposite that should cause concern.
(...and I say this as a fan of LLM technology, if not at all a fan of how the megacorps are handling it.)
Omg everyone: treat the US like a pariah.
You know what we are, right now. We cannot be trusted while this family, these people, Vought and Miller, are in the White House and MAGA has compromised the judiciary and legislative.
I see all these countries pretending like the US is sane right now and having 'talks.'
WTF.
Whyyyy are you talking to an insane country run by a demented poopy diaper wearing nazi and his balding nazi sphincter mouthpiece, Stephen Miller?!?
Why?
Protect yourself and make alliances with other countries.
Sorry, global relationships.
Make us hurt.
Make the US feel the consequences.
Create pressure.
Sanction us FFS.
@gsuberland I had to write up a wiki page with some examples.
I think I still got it wrong the first time, but I'm pretty sure this version is correct. (Pardon the dilapidated state of the site; my life is overcomplicated, pls send help.)
We're probably about as far along as you are ;-)
We're in the final (I think) stages of getting our Zulip instance working so we have a good place for workshopping ideas. (Last I knew, we were having some kind of issue with the instance's email getting spammed/blocked by some providers due to not doing the SPF/whatever incantations quite right...)
@yeongno I think our group also has a project like this in our plans (and I'd be interested anyway) -- so: interested!
cc: @eryn
@sus This might be part of why I stopped working at a desk years ago, and now curl up on my giant couch with my laptop ^.^
@dredmorbius @CptSuperlative The next step, of course, would be the wristwatch you can't lose and don't ever need to take off, because it's a dynamic tattoo.
@JoBlakely I don't get why non-fashy world leaders are even pretending there's any point in negotiating with the current US regime.
If it were me, I'd make a point of saying "we'll negotiate with the US after the current bunch are out of office, because they can't be trusted and they clearly don't represent what US citizens actually want".
@dredmorbius @CptSuperlative Yeah, I knew about henna (somewhere in the back of my mind with the cheese & onions)... I was thinking more along the lines of something that stays permanently unless you intentionally modify it, but it's easy to modify with the right tool / password / incantations.
...kinda like color e-ink.
@devopscats I suspect they have a bot watching the auto-transcription, and if someone says "I will now perform $X" and $X is recognized as the name of a song in their database, then the bot will happily and enthusiastically (as LLMs do) report it as a performance of copyrighted material -- and this will never be checked by a human, because "we're the phone company, we' don't have to care" (2020s version).
"It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job wel done." -- The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
@jamey Probably! Will look at it when I have a spare braincell. @idlestate
@idlestate @jamey How... does one enable the magic SysRq?
(...and yeah, it's probably just KDE taking credit for the kernel's work.)
@CptSuperlative I might be interested once they figure out how to make them editable. Until then... noping out of that one. (...but yeah, I have no problem with people covering themselves with art if they want -- it definitely tells you something about them, though what it's telling you can be less definite.)
@idlestate If you just wanna shut it down and the battery isn't removable, press-and-hold the power-button should work.
If you're hoping to recover the session... good luck? Sometimes things eventually get sorted. If it's a Linuxy thing, sometimes ctrl-alt-del or alt-F7 will get past whatever else is going on. (I've noticed that KDE will eventually terminate something in order to free up RAM; not sure what other desktops do.)
@TimWardCam If you mean within the text of the terminal window rather than as part of the terminal app's GUI/menu stuff -- that's actually a thing; I think it's sometimes called TUI. It used to be very popular in DOS, but there are things like Midnight Commander which still use it.
It works best if you have memory-mapped access to the display, though... or at least it did on PCs running at <10MHz; maybe it doesn't matter now.
(Apologies if this isn't new information.)
