CylustheVirus @ CylustheVirus @beehaw.org

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Raft is really fun but explains very little about how things work.

A trap for the unwary.

They really have signs for American politics? Ugh, I'm sorry. Not what I'd choose for us to export.

There's ample historical precedent. I say let them fight.

Hey, I have a mostly white kitchen and I like it. I built the thing from Ikea parts and it was a ton of work and it took me like a couple months.

So maybe we decouple our criticism of wealth inequality from our hot takes on interior design, hmmm?

I have a black and white laser but am considering color for crafting purposes. But the B/W laser has done well for years and rarely needs toner.

And the German language! Mark Twain has a whole essay about it.

“Every noun has a gender, and there is no sense or system in the distribution; so the gender of each must be learned separately and by heart. There is no other way. To do this one has to have a memory like a memorandum-book. In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has. Think what overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip, and what callous disrespect for the girl. See how it looks in print -- I translate this from a conversation in one of the best of the German Sunday-school books:

Gretchen: "Wilhelm, where is the turnip?"

Wilhelm: "She has gone to the kitchen."

Gretchen: "Where is the accomplished and beautiful English maiden?"

Wilhelm. "It has gone to the opera.”

I don't know what "morally lazy" means as the author never defines the construct. Discord has an uncertain monetization model, sure. It's not great for privacy. It will, no doubt, follow Doctorow's "enshittification" model.

And then I'll just spin up a Mumble server or something. So what? Should I feel bad for using a service while I can? Should I feel bad for having fun conversations with my friends? Maybe not everything has to be a fraught struggle of good vs evil.

I found a job that doesn't ask me for 50 hours a week and they go to bed at a reasonable hour. But don't ask me what I'm not spending enough time doing, like working out. Or how much we spend on takeout (way, WAY too much). And on top of that I have pretty great family support.

Basically, it's hard even under ideal conditions with some less than great compromises.

Large Language Models and other affiliated algorithms are not AI and no amount of marketing will convince me otherwise. As a result I refuse to call them AI when talking to people about them.

How dare you call me out like this.

I think your next task is to start modding Skyrim so you can have the ultimate experience of spending more time setting something up only to spend a fraction of that time actually using it. XD