Russ @ russjr08 @bitforged.space

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I'd give it a -5. I have a chronic autoimmune condition that started very early in my life, and caused me problem after problem.

Trying to tell all the adults around me that something is wrong, and then being yelled at, being told "it's all in your head" "you're just looking for attention", etc... not great.

Not saying that this next part would "excuse" it, but it'd be one thing if it stopped after I was officially diagnosed. It did not. Instead, I was told by my father "You're using your disease as a crutch, stop"... My mom started to turn around for the most part (there were still exceptions, but other than those cases it got better).

After I moved out, I cut off contact with my father because of the hate I'd get from him. I was hoping that perhaps one day we'd be able to finally turn things around... Last year he died in a very tragic accident. So I guess I'll never know if amends could have been made or not.

To this day I still claim that I was robbed at the chance of a normal childhood, although what "normal" looks like... I don't know. I'd rate it lower, but I didn't get the physical abuse, just the emotional part of it. My brother on the other hand was the exact opposite. Us combined, definitely makes a -10. There were positives and good moments of course, but the bad really outweighs the good when looking back.

This is pretty much how I am, too. I've purchased SDV three times but could never get into it because I have no idea what I need to do.

Big fan of the dev though and how much he does for the game, even if I don't personally play.

That would have the same effect as just taking the site offline...

No one is giving a random site their photo ID.

Oh man, this was my history teacher's favorite song back in middle school. Used to play it in class every. day. I thought I got away from that song... And I did for 17 years...

Now it's stuck in my head again!

If I had to take a guess (which is exactly what this is, a guess) it is because Android doesn't "know" where the app is from. I assume the Play Store has specific (system-level) APIs that it uses to "tell" Android how it can be restored (or rather, Android can signal to the Play Store to do a reinstall) when you go to unarchive the app.

It's been a while since I kept up with the latest in Android's APIs, I'd heard there were some APIs that third party stores could use to be recognized as a store, but I'm not sure what the requirements are for that (such as being a system app rather than a user app, or signed by the ROM's keys) and if so, whether archiving even supports third party stores.

I can't think of any other workarounds unfortunately, especially if you want to persist app data. Perhaps there's an app that can make custom widgets that look like an app entry on the home screen (and allows setting an icon/text) but I'm not aware of any, and that definitely wouldn't save the app data.

Yes you are, they are advertising their platforms like you are free to comment anything and most people beleave that.

I hate to break it to you, that's your fault for making an assumption (and a bold one at that) or you're just quite naive. Most places that you sign up for will either have you agree to a Terms of Service, or they'll make you agree to the rules. I have even more bad news for you: Advertisements usually try their best to show only the "good" of what is being advertised (such as how an advertisement for a toy doesn't usually make it very clear that batteries are required to use it).

Ask anyone if they think youtube will delete their commen even if they didnt offend anyone and they will tell you no way!

No, they might be angry that their comment was removed, but it's a pretty common understanding that moderators will remove content at their discretion, even if people don't necessarily agree with the decision.

I'm not sure why I'm even engaging in this, usually it's pretty clear when someone gets upset that their "free speech" (that they were never entitled to) is being violated that their intent is to spread hateful content.

Perhaps that isn't you, but nonetheless that is the group you're putting yourself in (even if unintentionally) whenever you ride under that banner.

It would also be worthwhile double checking what actual "Freedom of Speech" is and what it covers. Assuming you are referring to the US' first amendment, it has absolutely nothing to do with anyone other than you and the government (and even then it has its bounds).

As an example, let's say you're a writer for a newspaper. The government cannot take down an article that you write in which you criticize them (because that would fall under protected speech, unless you are making direct threats towards someone), but your boss could absolutely say "No way, we're not publishing that" as they are not a government official.

This doesn't even just include "Freedom of Speech", as another example, with the right to assembly you can publicly assemble and protest the government - but it wouldn't allow you to start a protest on someone's private property.

Okay, who is promising you free speech then?

Can confirm the same thing, there have been times where I've gone in, checked in, and speaking to the doctor within 20 minutes of stepping in the door - whereas other times I've waited 5+ hours to even be given a room to sit in (and then wait another couple of hours for a doctor to see me).

On most platforms, you were never promised "free speech" or entitled to it.

Oh interesting, it's been a while since I have tried to use Apple TV (roughly 7 years or so - I don't use any Apple devices anymore), this wasn't available at the time so I'm glad to see there's finally some native support.

I always assumed it was more or less targeting the federation of issues/MRs.

The git side of things is already distributed as you said, but if you decide to host your random project on your own GitLab instance you'll miss out on people submitting issues/MRs because they won't want to sign up for an account on your random instance (or sign in with another IdP).

This is where a lot of the reliance of GitHub comes from, in my opinion.

I think they meant Apple's "tvOS" - which powers the Apple TV set top box.

There's no client for it, if I had to take a guess it's likely due to the costs of doing so.

Edit: Whoops, it appears I'm a bit out of date on this.

Your son and daughter will continue to learn new things as they grow up, a LLM cannot learn new things on its own. Sure, they can repeat things back to you that are within the context window (and even then, a context window isn't really inherent to a LLM - its just a window of prior information being fed back to them with each request/response, or "turn" as I believe is the term) and what is in the context window can even influence their responses. But in order for a LLM to "learn" something, it needs to be retrained with that information included in the dataset.

Whereas if your kids were to say, touch a sharp object that caused them even slight discomfort, they would eventually learn to stop doing that because they'll know what the outcome is after repetition. You could argue that this looks similar to the training process of a LLM, but the difference is that a LLM cannot do this on its own (and I would not consider wiring up a LLM via an MCP to a script that can trigger a re-train + reload to be it doing it on its own volition). At least, not in our current day. If anything, I think this is more of a "smoking gun" than the argument of "LLMs are just guessing the next best letter/word in a given sequence".

Don't get me wrong, I'm not someone who completely hates LLMs / "modern day AI" (though I do hate a lot of the ways it is used, and agree with a lot of the moral problems behind it), I find the tech to be intriguing but it's a ("very fancy") simulation. It is designed to imitate sentience and other human-like behavior. That, along with human nature's tendency to anthropomorphize things around us (which is really the biggest part of this IMO), is why it tends to be very convincing at times.

That is my take on it, at least. I'm not a psychologist/psychiatrist or philosopher.

It’s not like they built a new kernel specifically for the steam deck.

I agree that the majority of the impact being seen is from various components that aren't SteamOS specific, however Valve does actually have a custom kernel for the Steam Deck "linux-neptune" (there are quite a few mirrors for browsing, but this is the official source).

I believe most of their changes are just to drive the deck's hardware. Every now and then there are some changes that Valve contributes that lands there first before it gets upstreamed, for example the Arch Wiki calls out the Steam Deck's kernel as a way to fix issues between HDR & VRR (shouldn't be needed anymore on modern mainline kernels).

IIRC on Bazzite neofetch is just a symlink/alias to fastfetch due to muscle memory and the overall prevalence of neofetch.

No thanks, I think I'll pass on sending out messages that look like spam.

That would be a reason for the feature not being available.

The feature is there, it just apparently doesn't always work reliably.

I mean, sure - but if you really don't trust Apple to keep their word, then it wouldn't matter if their Health app was FOSS or not. iOS itself is still (and probably forever will be) a closed source operating system. That gives them the power to do anything, including hijack the data from FOSS apps.

I have zero interest in Recall, but I thought it was already done on-device? IIRC it always was that way, which is why it's only available on new computers containing dedicated "neural coprocessors" I believe was the term.

Now given that it's closed source, you have to trust that they aren't silently sending data back to themselves - which is where my problem lies, I don't trust them in the slightest.

Kind of. You could only open the menus IIRC when you were not in a game, can't recall the exact key bind though. At least, this was the case when I tried replicating the gaming mode session on my PC (I haven't actually used a keyboard on my deck either). It was quite strange.