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mindbleach ,

How did Mint fuck up year-based version numbering? I did a fresh install on a laptop this year and briefly worried project had died.

mindbleach ,

She’s got a girlfriend who’s better than that.

Or else.

mindbleach ,

Bit weird doubling up on Trek instead of saying “Captain John Sheridan.” I guess it’s counting TNG and TOS separately?

mindbleach ,

You should fill your subscriptions with instances that aren’t lemmy.ml, or browse another instance in its entirety… however that works.

mindbleach ,

When a marginalised person gets upset at a dickhead for marginalising them and you then utilise “civility” rules against that marginalised person, you are directly taking part in performing an action that marginalises them. You are an oppressor, siding with other oppressors.

Tragedy: the worst person you know just made a great point.

mindbleach ,

Zhu Li, do the thing!

mindbleach ,

I’ve been online for twenty-five years. There has been one constant: writing bad German summons an actual German to helpfully correct you.

mindbleach ,

And adding “sorry for any imperfect grammar; English is not my native language.”

mindbleach ,

O’Neill’s solution to tiny robots is typically a little bit First Contact, and I don’t mean a bow and arrow.

You wanna see some real shit go down? Send Carter.

mindbleach ,

You blow up one sun…

mindbleach ,

Ah, blackout blinds.

mindbleach ,

There is nothing funny about FORTRAN.

mindbleach ,

Assembly is a revolver-style footgun with a speed loader. In just five cycles it blow your entire leg clean off.

mindbleach ,

Perl is a language for programmers. This turns out to be a terrible idea. Everything actually works the first time, so you move on, and you’re left with the sloppiest inscrutable stream-of-consciousness mess that someone banged out whilst working through the problem.

Perl is the only language where you can write more code than you read.

What did you do to survive the night of/after a breakup?

Boyfriend of 2 years (best friend of 6) just told me he’s started seeing someone else. No discussion. Just ghosted me for a week and hit me with this news. Thought he was my soulmate, lmao. I feel like someone just ripped out my insides. Just turned 31 this year, this shit is not any easier than when I was a teenager....

mindbleach ,

Run for president.

mindbleach ,

Petri Walli.

Really, it’s a friggin’ miracle that Jeff Mangum only quit and fucked off for a decade. What all musicians need to know is that success won’t fix depression.

mindbleach ,

I feel like it’s a point against him that his death was entirely avoidable and completely stupid.

Otherwise? Yeah.

mindbleach ,

Remember all caps when you spell the name.

mindbleach ,

Mid-century airplanes killed a bunch of famous young musicians.

Even now: the smaller the aircraft, the less you should want to be on it.

mindbleach ,

Man Always Gets Little Rush Out Of Telling People John Lennon Beat Wife

mindbleach ,

I would only suggest Ian Curtis if anti-epilepsy medication has advanced significantly since 1980. Dude had it rough.

mindbleach ,

You don’t give cats belly-rubs and you don’t pet the side toward enemy.

mindbleach ,

Don’t throw that stone too hard, after BoJo.

Nightshade - A new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI (lemmy.world)

The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. Is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission....

mindbleach ,

This fight is over.

mindbleach ,

More than that - there is no need for new inputs. Massive datasets exist independently. I’ve got one just from a long-term habit of saving images. And my big fat pile of JPGs doesn’t matter, because these models are already out there, in the wild, with communities built on screwing around with them.

The horse left the barn a year ago. It is already too late to stop this. We can bicker about moral and legal rights surrounding published content, but any suggestion of un-inventing this technology is a misguided fantasy.

There is no “if.” This fight is over.

mindbleach ,

Even once the kinks are worked out, the primary market for RISC-V will be low-end. It’s a FOSS (FOSH?) upgrade path from 8-bit and 16-bit ISAs.

There will be no reason for embedded systems to use ARM.

mindbleach ,

I would’ve had my doubts, until Apple somehow made ARM competitive with x86. A trick they couldn’t pull off with PowerPC.

I guess linear speed barely ought to matter, these days, since parallelism is an order-of-magnitude improvement, and scales.

mindbleach ,

With their license, they have a huge amount of flexibility and are able to significantly customize the designs from ARM, letting them optimize in ways that Intel and AMD just wouldn’t allow.

An opportunity RISC-V will offer to anyone with a billion dollars lying around.

ARM, being a mature, and customizable RISC arch really should be able to chomp into x86 market share.

x86 market share is 99.999% driven by published software. Microsoft already tried expanding Windows, and being Microsoft, made half a dozen of the worst decisions simultaneously. Linux dorks (hi) have the freedom to shift over to whatever, give or take some Wine holdovers. Apple just dictated what would change, because you can do that when you’re a petit monopoly.

What’s really going to threaten x86 are user-mode emulators like box86, fex-emu, and qemu-user. That witchcraft turns Windows/x86 binaries into something like Java: it will run poorly, but it will run. Right now those projects mostly target ARM, obviously. But there’s no reason they have to. Just melting things down to LLVM or Mono would let any native back-end run up-to-date software on esoteric hardware.

mindbleach ,

IIRC Apple’s ARM implementation has a lot of extensions that coincidentally work just like x86.

Frankly I’m gobsmacked at how many “universal binary” formats are just two native executables in a trenchcoat. Especially after MS and Apple both got deep into intermediate representation formats. Even a static machine-code-only segment would simplify the hell out of emulation.

mindbleach ,

Was.

mindbleach ,

the stone-age of the internet

Oh honey, no. Even stuff like All Your Base and Mike Tyson Ate My Balls were at least the iron age. The stone age was Usenet lore like the SPISPOPD FAQ.

How to deal with Ancient aliens in the workplace?

Two of my coworkers frequently mention shows like “Encounters” or “Ancient apocalypse” or whatever. I’m not the best at debating or forming arguments against these though I do feel strongly that bold claims require better evidence than a blurry photo and an eyewitness account. How do you all go about this?...

mindbleach ,

You can’t reason people out of a belief they didn’t reason themselves into.

Just say you’re not interested in their weird hobby.

mindbleach ,

Djerman engineering.

mindbleach ,

JS instills distrust. Rely on built-in sort? It’s alphanumeric. Rely on built-in reverse? It modifies your array. Copy an array? No you didn’t.

Yeah no kidding we bang out a kata in a dozen characters. I don’t even believe in order of operations at this point. I’ve been routinely betrayed.

mindbleach ,

Literally none of this was there. I’m annoyed at all of you - but not the guy I was talking to, in the first place. You are inferring something that was not there.

From a bare explanation of agreement.

Being concise didn’t help. Being verbose didn’t help. Being conversational didn’t help. Being literal didn’t help. I tried everything and all of it is still being misinterpreted as the polar fucking opposite of what I actually fucking wrote.

mindbleach ,

How could I be any more direct and polite with someone that confused about what I said? I’m not sneering at their idiocy and making remarks about their parentage. I walk them through a rhetorical device they demonstrably did not understand, and apparently that was the wrong thing.

What the fuck was the right thing?

What sequence of words do you want, instead? At this point I’m not convinced there is a right answer.

mindbleach ,

Hey look, a worse take than ‘how dare you say yes.’

mindbleach ,

No you are not.

mindbleach ,

‘Here’s what you said wrong!’

‘What should I say instead?’

‘Here’s what you said wrong!’

Over and over and over. None of you are listening.

And it’s NOT condescension, it’s building a fucking comparison! It’s a sixth-grade-reading-comprehension rhetorical device. It’s getting ahead of an obvious yeah-but someone might make… and then someone made that yeah-but anyway. And then got mad that I told them: I agree, thank you.

The fuck was I supposed to tell them? If there was no right answer - none of this criticism means anything.

mindbleach ,

I don’t expend effort trying to be rude, but I rarely bend over backwards to reign in my default blunt tone. Not that gentle honesty seems to matter. I will argue the ethics and efficacy of well-meaning censorship with randos and moderators alike. Some of them are definitely Nazis in disguise. Some of them are not in disguise.

But most simply do not know what trolling is.

It’s like the Twitter generation thinks it means harassment, or vulgarity, or just being mean to people. No: trolling is fucking with people to get an emotional reaction. Sometimes that emotional reaction is extremely justified. Think of any “just a prank, bro” bullshit. That is trolling. That is violating the social contract to laugh at people for having sane responses to your inexcusable behavior. It is being an asshole, as bait, so you can pretend to be shocked, shocked!, and then play the victim while continuing to be an infuriating asshole.

Any moderator who expects polite discourse, and does not create an environment where words matter, is actively making the internet worse. You want an easy time pruning a worthwhile forum? Aim for a cocktail-party atmosphere. Screaming rants no, casual banter yes, tell people to take five if they’re starting shit. But if someone lays out why another user is completely full of shit - you had damn well better come down against being full of shit.

mindbleach ,

Same here

Same where? You had one comment and it’s just the same tutting. That’s not comparable to the variety of ways I tried de-escalating with the initial guy.

Now you want to claim you agree with me - about the widespread misreading of anything I write in the worst possible way - and you’re threatening violence over that same misreading. What the fuck is this conversation?

‘You were very rude disagreeing with that guy.’ I said I agree with them and thanked them.

‘Well you were aggressive toward people critiquing your rude disagreement.’ I told them there was no such thing, because I said I agree with them and thanked them.

‘It’s plainly these specific turns of phrase.’ I have invited half a dozen people to suggest what I was supposed to do besides agree and thank them.

‘Hey buddy, I agree with you, but I wanna kick your head in for explaining how you’re unhappy with all this condemnation.’ This topic has been the most compelling argument I’ve ever experienced, against trying to be nice to people online.

mindbleach ,

My favorite part of this haranguing is how y’all don’t hesitate to declare I’m subhuman and due for getting bones broken, but I’m the rude and hostile one for saying please and thanks.

This is the rudest thing you could think to say to someone, and it’s over nothing.

I can’t demean your character worse than you’ve just done, yourself.

mindbleach ,

‘How am I suppose to make this comparison without an invitation being labeled as hostile?’

‘Don’t.’

Less helpful than you might think.

People: the comparison is the point of the comment. And even if that was somehow the worst possible way to make it, I’m still left wondering how the fuck to de-escalate confusion, if direct agreement is enough to launch monocles from faces. If “thanks” is hostile, what the hell are we doing.

mindbleach ,

‘You were very rude disagreeing with that person,’ said a whole bunch of people wrong about me disagreeing with that person.

So I ask how I’m supposed to de-escalate such confusion, and get shit like this.

Yeah can’t imagine why I’m not endlessly thankful for this feedback.

mindbleach ,

The thread is about criticism of Islam.

I would’ve linked more context if it worked properly on Lemmy.

mindbleach ,

‘How do I correct misunderstandings?’

‘Don’t.’

Further gold from the most unforgivably hostile participant in this nonsense.

mindbleach ,

Literally nobody has suggested any better way to say anything, despite direct questions throughout, asking exactly that.

The entire problem in the root thread was someone going ‘what did you want?!’ when I said: yes, thanks. And everyone saying that was terribly rude also thinks it was disagreement. So the question of ‘what else was I supposed to do’ goes unanswered, and everybody piling on to say ‘well not that’ is making the same error that is highlighted and corrects in the root thead.

And you in particular have nothing to add but increasingly shallow name-calling and ‘well, don’t.’ Don’t fucking talk down to me about reading my own words when you just got done declaring me unworthy of human interaction, after being shocked, shocked!, that someone would remain confused by a dozen people repeating the same mistake.

I am genuinely disappointed in this community’s moderators for not already showing you the door over the worst of your hypocritical abuse. Did you have anything more you wanted to spit before going on my blocklist and out of my sight?

mindbleach ,

Evil Dead’s a good series for what you’re doing. The first one is peak no-budget horror that hints at Sam Raimi’s style. The second is why everyone remembers the name. The third is good stupid fun.

The Ring is plain horror. Bleak visuals, intense tone, flawless audio, fucked up a microgeneration. A+, would recommend. Heavily localized from a Japanese original in a way that feels… domestic. It’s why movies like The Grudge got remade for Americans, but the only hint it’s foreign was that it’s not about real estate.

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