Monstrosity @ Monstrosity @lemm.ee

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Install tldr if you haven't already

Holy shit

It has gotten more & more tame & lame over there as the bots take over.

These squatters have got to go.

Hey everyone, just a friendly reminder that self propelled compost sludge, Pete Hagseth, who was approved by the Republican Congress to serve as head of the DOJ, has multiple white Supremacists tattoos.

I have no idea what the hell a bash snippet extension is, but I do know what a local llama.cpp instance running a small model to tell me bash commands on the fly is.

I use it to make .desktop files, too. Isn't that so lazy?

I wanted to edit my Ghostty themes but found out a lot of the colors are in #hexadecimal notation. I like #rrggbb percentage style colors (b/c they are easy to tweak by hand) and I couldn't find an online color picker that would output that format, so I used deepseek (free) & now have a scrappy ass one w Python & Tkinter completely via "vibe" coding (I call it Clyde Color Picker. It's adorable).

Pretty awesome when you're just some dumbass who needs a very specific tool and not trying to fleece people.

Memes are art.

What you're talking about is if AI is actually inventing new work (imo, yes it is), but that's not the issue.

The issue is these models were trained on our collective knowledge & culture without permission, then sold back to us.

Unless they use only proprietary & public training data, every single one of these models should be open sourced/weighted & free for anyone to use, like libraries.

Thx, that's exactly my concern as I remember it being an issue when I was flashing ROMs in the past.

I wonder if Square would still work, for example? I haven't flashed open source ROMs on my phone since like 2012.

Honestly though, I just consider the phone a lost cause when it comes to privacy & use it accordingly. Uncle Googs is always watching, even when the damn thing is turned off.

Yeah I pretty much agree with all of this.

We're in this situation where a lot of kids don't want to be there because they're not learning what they want to learn (only what brings in the funding), but they can't leave, but they also can't fail. So, like, what are we even doing?

It's a mess but unfortunately I don't see the current clown show of a Federal Admin making any positive adjustments in the future.

EDIT: Oh, 1/2 1/3 of the staff of the Dept of Education just got Doged, so, guess I'm a motherfucking psychic!

Mullvad is really for anonymous sessions. It's meant to blend in with every other Mullvad instance on the Net so it helps make users harder to identify. It's not geared towards daily use.

On desktop, I switched to Librewolf and installed the Dark Reader add-on.

I will continue using Firefox on Android because I have absolutely no illusions about my privacy on this fucking thing.

Didn't they also elude to collecting telemetry recently? I know it's up for some debate but, if true, I'm not sure that's a thing we can turn off.

Imo there are plenty of good teachers but, a lot of times, public schools don't want good teachers, they want good test results.

I have a theory that this is intentional design.

When products perform smoothly, you don't interact with them, they become invisible, & Uncle Googs needs you interacting with their products as much as possible.

Thanks to telemetry, Good Ol' Uncle Googs has millions of hours of behavioral patterns to sift through, provided by all those free Chromebooks for school districts across the US.

So Google know exactly what gets folks engaging with their phones &, I believe, intentionally cause frustration over seemingly simple tasks b/c many many people will forget what they were doing, fix the issue, then get distracted by entertainment apps, doom scrolling, etc.

Dark patterns & behavioral manipulation.

I think we can all agree, Nutsack is being falsely maligned.

I'm glad you called me out on that. It's easy to misremember when we are just constantly bombarded w information.

Anyways, it would be a good compromise, imo.

Curious what Gog's actual hang up is, since the Steamdeck's picking up so much momentum.

I read it somewhere awhile ago. You're killing me asking for a source, goddamn.

EDIT: somewhat ironically, here's a Reddit thread where a developer says they are a part of the affiliate program, so, I don't know much funding that brings in. It sounds like a less formal arrangement than I was imagining:

Well, '.ml' doesn't exactly stand for "Mildly Liberal."

But unlike Reddit, you can block the entire .ml instance if you'd like.

In fact, if you don't get along with .ml, do yourself a favor & block the Hexbear instance if your home instance hasn't already.