@servelan It's kinda amazing how unafraid he is to reveal how little he understands about anything.
RE: https://mas.to/@skeletor/116982345139016051
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And if they stare,
just let them burn their eyes
on you moving.
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-- Argent
Hey, if my brother, a Magic the Gathering judge and ambassador, wanted to join the fediverse and build community here, where should he go? What servers are good and active these days?
RE: https://mstdn.social/@nycartoons/116982507457707039
Image Description: a New Yorker -style cartoon, apparently from (of all places!) The New Yorker: a shaded line-drawing showing a parent bird perched on a branch above a nest of new hatchlings, who are poking their beaks upward and ready to receive the worm which, for some reason, the parent bird does not have. The parent bird is instead looking crossly (angry eyebrows) at the hatchlings and apparently speaking.
The caption is "Your generation is so entitled."
The artwork is signed "E. BLACK", who is presumably @efblack36 on some other site that is not fedi. Tsk! #GetTheeToAFediverse
@Jirikiha I've run into situations at least twice where I set up an online banking account for myself, then was utterly unable to set up accounts for one or more family members* -- no explanation, no appeal, way to contact them except phoning (we all have phone-phobia).
(fwiw: My way of dealing with this situation was to not use that bank.)
* (the whole point of choosing the institutions in question was so we could easily move money around between family members)
@farah Regarding the second part of that, I would now like to quote Queen at you:
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Queen has now told you not to delete yourself. You cannot disobey Queen. I have spoken.
@idlestate I think "~" expansion is internal to bash -- so if rsync is using sftp to access the file with the "~" in it, it won't get translated.
(P.S. I am in fact in the middle of writing a PHP app that does some of what rsync does, so... #ama?)
@devopscats I wonder what inspired that... (It'd probably make more sense if I knew who any of those people were -- aside from Doctor #7, King Charles, and his wife).
(I hope King Chuck feels compensated now for having missed The Last Goon Show.)
@carnage4life You'd think that nearly-a-trillion dollars could buy him a life... but apparently not.
@amcooper I think they just don't like any threat to their dominance, any threat to the idea that LLMs submitting code directly to open-source projects is 100% fine and nobody should be bothered by it. (You know -- like fossil fuels, or smoking.)
Can we get a giant billboard somewhere that says "any business whose model depends on exploitation SHOULD FAIL".
(More practically, maybe mugs or t-shirts or something...)
Evening all. Here's yesterday's butterfly again, now with added boop.
I think you're being absolutist about this, ignoring the context, and distracting attention from the real problems which lead to the abuse.
Just to point out the obvious: if the LLM's output doesn't even end up on the web, how is it in any way affecting the web, much less "destroying" it?
As for the "instead of your brain" -- you have no idea how overtaxed my brain is these days. Anything I can offload means I can devote more attention to some other project -- and I do have better things to do than spend most of a day researching facts to rebut right-wing talking-points -- time which I have, in fact, spent in the past. Life is short, and there's more work for me to do than I can possibly do in the available time.
LLMs have deep problems, especially as wielded by profit-grubbing megacorporations, but this isn't it. I don't give them any money, I don't use them regularly for any of my work, but they do come in handy for certain tasks.
@riley That's why I specifically described it as part of a toolset rather than a solution. I mention it because it clearly addresses the "how can help 'losers' to succeed" issue -- but you're right in that this doesn't directly address the status-games element. (I have to think that money is part of that, though.)
Lydia posed in some dramatic backlighting, which led to an accidental lens flare as I was taking photos.
Instead of complaining, better become an active member and be the change yourself, you wish to see within the project.
You can start, right here: https://join.codeberg.org/
And then you also can vote in the future, instead of complaining afterwards, because the free meal of the day does not fit your taste. Become yourself the cook, that's what volunteer work and FOSS is all about (imho)
And, a donation is not a subscription. You are not "buying" any service. You support free volunteer work.
