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  • Agreed, I've had two major surgeries and neither came anywhere close to that level of pain afterwards. At least they gave me so much pain medication I kinda lost two days in a haze. It just happened to be Christmas evening and day that I missed completely, lol.

  • He's not a giant asshole, he just doesn't sugar-coat everything he says.

    It's sort of a defining trait in people where he is from. If we say something we tend to say it straight. He might be a more extreme example than most, but I had a good friend from the same neighborhood and he was the same.

    We grew up a few years later when he had already moved to the US, but we used to sneak smokes in the park right outside where he first made Linux. My friend lived in the same building as he had done, but he was so computer illiterate that he had no idea who Linus was. I did, though, because Linus described that place pretty well in what I believe was his first book.

  • Fuck, didn't know Mitnick died. Just married and with a child on the way, too.

    He was arguably at his best at social engineering, too. Don't know if it's a real quote, but I remember reading about him saying it can bypass all your electronics, firewalls included.

  • Russia is bombing no less indiscriminately than Israel, it's just a much larger theater of war, their aiming capabilities suck and their shit gets shot down a lot before ever reaching anything.

    They do the exact same thing day in day out. Taking out a cluster of civilians is probably worth an extra ration of vodka or even worse, a promotion, at this point.

    Two wars of terror, if you want. Irony is stone cold dead at this point.

  • At least to me the exciting part is that we're getting to a point where this is a legitimate question - regarding both us and our emerging AI's.

    I wouldn't be surprised at all if an AI explained its own behaviour better before we can adequately understand our own minds well enough to match that logic - there's a lot we don't know about our own decision making processes.

  • I'd wager that's where he got the sentence from, or something similar, because he's never read mein kampf. It's not an easy book to read, and he certainly isn't a reader by any means.

    That said, someone could be spoonfeeding these little nuggets to the dumbass.

  • I've used Dropbox since literally their first year of creation and I've never experienced a single one of these issues. I use it mostly as a portable library and all I need is 2 mins of any internet connection to download any book(s) I want to read to a local device. Mind you this is on their free plan, so I've never paid a cent to them either. Requires me to periodically transfer older books to another long term solution, but that is just a few mouse clicks. I've read hundreds if not more ebooks this way. Since I prefer .mobi (which I can even read IN dropbox if I want) I can upload straight to dropbox after converting from .epub.

    I mean, it sounds frustrating, but your experience with them sounds extremely weird to me.

    At least to me they've been the best cloud provider by far, for what it's worth.

    With that said, I don't especially like that they're doing this even though my specific content is mostly available in any number of places anyway, given that it's literature.

  • Fair enough, I didn't know he was taken off suicide watch. Makes one wonder why, though. It's not like his circumstances changed.

    But we'll likely never know anyway, so I don't quite understand why you're getting so much flack for shit that is ultimately academic at this point. Don't get me wrong, as I think his victims deserve to know as much as possible, but at this point we're getting into Jimmy Hoffa territory with this shit.

  • I agree with you on the papers (been following that story since it broke), and I'll agree that I probably would've offed myself in his position as well, but there were some pretty unprobable shit happening around his death unless I've been misled hard. I mean the guy was on suicide watch, wasn't he? It's at the very least suspect as hell that it happened like it did.

  • They might, but from my point of view human rights are a given in every situation. I also feel strongly about every human being holding the same value regardless of their standing in society.

    I thought we were discussing what could be done to curb nazism, and again, I didn't mention any sort of violence anywhere. I thought it was clear that I meant that Nazis shouldn't have rights to do harm to others, or do other hateful things. I was in no way advocating removing their human rights.

  • I obviously meant they shouldn't have any rights to practice their nazism or do harmful things to whomever they dislike so much, not that they shouldn't have any human rights.

    I feel like this should've been fairly obvious given the context of the conversation. Human rights should always be the first concern no matter who it concerns. Do you think nazis feel the same way?

  • No, I was saying Nazis have a history of death and destruction, while people leaning towards democracy tend to be a little more gentle with their fellow man.

    Nobody deserves to be beaten or raped and I certainly didn't imply that.