deathbird @ deathbird @mander.xyz

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Ha, I forgot about Nostr. That might actually be a useful application for blockchain.

He's not a famous figure, he's a child being exploited by his dad, and even on the page itself there's nothing actually notable about the kid himself. It's mostly salacious "controversy" about his gross no-name dad.

And actually encyclopaedias generally and Wikipedia particularly engage in value judgement all the time. Who is or isn't a notable public figure, what is or isn't a reliable source, etc.

Nothing about this child merits a Wikipedia entry. Maybe Encyclopedia Dramatica or Kiwi Farms or something else for the bottom feeders, but not a site that's supposed to be for general human knowledge. GTFO with that.

I mean, the joke is that AI doesn't tell you things that are meaningfully true, but rather is a machine for guessing next words to a standard of utility. And yes, lying is a good way to arbitrarily persuade people, especially if you're unmoored to any social relation with them.

Personally I love how they found the AI could be very persuasive by lying.

If this isn't a sign of the decline in Wikipedia I don't know what is. Like it's not even his channel it's his dad's.

Right. They understand it puts them in a bad light, and people they hate in a sympathetic one, so they deny it happened.

"It never happened, but if it did it was a good thing and I hope we do it again!"

Diffusion and overall brightness do make a difference as well.

Shorter wavelengths hit different though. That's why we have blue light filtering glasses, Redshift, etc.

What was the appeal of Plex anyway?

Like shouldn't they just be suing the customers directly for a bazillion dollars at this point?

So you're saying you have a choice in ISPs? Sounds pretty cool.

My eternal quest to get a working desktop environment running in WSL 😭

Not to beat a dead horse since I'm sure it always comes up, but Linux Mint does literally everything I want to do on my computer, and maybe a little bit more than my work computer that runs Windows.

Which games are concerns for you? Genuinely asking.

My advice is to move your computing to an environment that opens options for you and responds to your wants and needs rather than an environment that treats you like a guinea pig to experiment on, or an actual pig to force-fed slop to.

You will never convince Microsoft that you're tired of their slop if you keep eating it.

Not saying changing OSes is easy, but it is easier than it's ever been, and the dividends have been worth it for me.

It depends a lot on the tattoos though. Some tattoos show forethought and patience. Other tattoos show poor decision making. It really just depends.

You know back in the day they were like easily half a dozen custom Android ROMs for any given phone. I'm pretty sure that there's still a diversity of ROMs available.

Why is this not the case with televisions?

How did you root it? All methods I've seen appear to require you to get it online first, usually to visit a website that does it for you (seems sketchy).

That isn't just an unpopular opinion, but a very interesting one. Bravo.

Eugenics is a system of controlling reproduction. Many eugenesists may have believed that being a member of a certain race or having certain congenital diseases made one inferior (and thus unworthy of the right to reproduce), but the basic principle some people should reproduce and some people shouldn't.

Like why do you think people are against eugenics? Because they're afraid we might accidentally bring an end to genetic diseases? That there might be too many blonde people? That they care deeply about people who don't exist yet's rights to be some particular way?

So yeah, when you propose a rule controlling reproduction...