TheFriendlyArtificer @ TheFriendlyArtificer @beehaw.org

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Some of us do care.

A product directly bankrolled by Peter Thiel? A project, not concerned about blocking ads but rather making sure that it's their ads that you see?

If you're on iOS. Maybe the EU will bail you out and force Apple to allow other web engines.

If you're on Android, Firefox works perfectly well and Fennec is a fine fork.

If you're on anything else, Librewolf is fork of Firefox without all of the Pocket and other privacy hostile default settings.

Unless those working people happen to be LGBTQ. Then red and blue does matter.

Same goes for: The educated. Brown folks. Black folks. Women. Post-birth children.

Huh... Turns out that both sides are not the same after all.

Trip: There's a book What's a book?

My favorite character in ENT. But holy shit do they make him seem like a complete moron for the first three seasons.

Plus, if you're planning on using Wayland with any wlroots compositor, Nvidia is essentially a non-starter.

I think Combs deserves his own spin-off series where he leaps™ into the bodies of various franchise characters that he has played in order to right some previous wrong.

Co-starring Captain Archer as his invisible assistant.

Biden and the Dems are right-leaning centrists.

Actual progressives caucus with them because what choice do we have? Refusing to do so effectively gives control of the most powerful nation in the history of the world to a psychotic doomsday cult who never met a minority that they didn't hate with all of their Christian hearts™.

Kinda makes me wonder if we'll ever have a proper left-wing party in this country since, at this point, saying that poor people should be given a 30 second head start before being hunted by their social betters is considered by Conservatives to be radical Marxism.

We did the same in 2016. I forget what happened as I lapsed into a 4 year alcohol fueled amnesia. But I can't imagine that it was too bad. /s

Same reason I dropped Firefox for Librewolf. I just want a browser! I don't want an integrated shopping cart. I don't want bespoke tracking. I don't want to be bombarded by trashy celebrity listicles.

My key caps have been falling off my work provided M1 Air. Thankfully, the keyboard is so crap I can barely tell the difference.

Ended up repurposing an old XPS 13 that I found in a supply closet as my dev box.

Wayland+Sway == Infinitely better experience

And owned by Lenovo. Who in the past loaded unremovable bloatware reinstallers into their BIOS so that fresh installs always reloaded their shit.

If you want a Linux laptop, System76 is your best bet.

I have to disagree (but won't downvote!)

AI porn is creepy. In multiple ways!

But it's also a natural evolution of what we've been doing as a species since before we were a species.

Does imagining a different partner while having sex or masturbating count? I would imagine most people would say, "no".

How about if somebody draws a crude stick figure of somebody they met on the street? Unless you're Randall Munroe, this is probably harmless too.

Now a highly skilled portrait artist paints a near replica of somebody he knows, but has never seen in the nude. They never mention their friend by name, but the output is lifelike and unmistakably them.

Maybe a digital artist finds a few social media pictures of a person and decided to test drive Krita and manipulates them into appearing nude.

Or, and this happened to me quite recently, you find your porn doppelganger. My spouse found mine and it ruined her alone time. And they really did look just like me! Taking that a step further, is it illegal to find somebody's doppelganger and to dress them up so that they look more like their double?

Like you, I don't want people like this in my life. But it feels like this is one of those slippery slopes that turns out to be an actual slippery slope.

You can't make it illegal without some serious downstream effects.

If you did, the servers will just get hosted in an Eastern European country that is happy to lulwat at American warrants.

I don't have any answers, just more Devil's advocate-esque questions. If there was a way to make it illegal without any collateral damage, I'd be proudly behind you leading the charge. I just can't imagine a situation where it wouldn't get abused, a'la the DMCA.

Shall we talk about their continual shortage of deuterium? Possibly the second most common substance in the universe!

Just imagine what the crew had to go through... Kinda surprising that Tuvix didn't have any support since splitting him up would mean that Neelix is back.

I'll be sure to take a picture of the moment with some Kodachrome film!

I would trade every half-assed Google feature update for a hosts based adblock capability.

That's the sole reason that I root every device that I own.

And NO. A PiHole is not, repeat NOT a silver bullet. Nor is a local VPN with custom DNS.

My own head cannon is that she never actually loved him but was convinced by Obi Wan to play the role to perhaps act as a stabilizing influence.

But soon she discovers that her erstwhile side piece is a psychotic man-child with the powers of a minor god. Now things have spiraled out of her control. There's a legitimate fear that, it rejected, Anakin could become unhinged and lose control.

After a few years in a loveless marriage she found herself pregnant and, like in a lot of actual abusive marriages, latches onto that as a means of preserving a relationship that should have been allowed to mercifully die.

This is the only way I can reconcile the terrible performance from an otherwise exemplary actress. She was playing the part of a woman playing a part.

ChatGPT: How can I help?

Marketing: Imagine Ned Flanders dipping a piece of white bread into water. Now write an equivalent piece of meaningless corporate drivel.

I dunno. The Jewish people are part of a global cabal with access to space lasers and they still fell victim to mass extermination. I imagine that the queer community is playing a similar long con.

/s

Hardcore History (I know, Dan Carlin is looked down upon by proper historians, but I still think he has value as a storyteller and he does cite his sources) and Our Fake History both had multipart episodes on him too.

Spoiler. He ends up committing some light genocide.

There has to be something similar to Rule 34 that deals with this. Rule 35: Given a long enough span of time, every form of online interaction will be infiltrated by Nazis. Like a corollary to Godwin's law.