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Damn, this looks really complete. I’ve tried a bunch of clients, my go-to being Amperfy, but I’m also quite fond of Cadence. Going to keep trying this for a bit.

My only question is like, why does it have Audible’s colour scheme? Particularly some of the icons make it really look like Audible.

This is also a very interesting spelling of ADO.

I’m also on the regex list, but oddly I don’t have the trailing $, so if I made an account like, oDojan, that’d not be caught. I’m not alone in not having a $, but a lot of people do.

Maybe something cute about how it’s nice that he died doing what he loved; public executions that children should be forced to watch.

Then again, it’s been so long since he kirked the bucket, it’s kind of nice to just let him remain an unimportant and forgotten thing of the past.

Isn’t that mostly in the line of intrusive thoughts, though? Like having a little voice in your head that goes “damn girl u hot today” sounds nice, but when you have impulses like, “aww look, my dog is sleeping, I SHOULD FUCKING CHOKE HIM OUT AND DUMP HIM OUT THE WINDOW” that’s… less welcome.

The voices depicted in stories are never pleasant and that’s why people get distressed over them.

I’ve a friend who lives with hallucinations. It’s not so much that they struggle telling what’s a hallucination and what’s reality apart, it’s more that they get in the way. They know that the forest that’s replaced their hallway and has panicked animals running through it isn’t real, but that doesn’t make it less stressful.

The software I had needs GPU acceleration and I couldn’t be arsed fixing that. At the time I had an NVidia GPU as well, and that makes things extra shit.

There are a few tools like that, including one by Microsoft themselves (winget), but nothing is centralised and not everything will be available via it.

I just want to get my work done. It’s bananas how much faff is in the way.

Had to boot my work Windows laptop a while ago, because the software I have to work on uses some stupid Windows sign in thing, and I wasn’t fast enough getting Kerberos working before everyone went on vacation.

I’d forgotten that every single piece of software handles its own updates, and to install anything you have to like, go around to different places and download it. It’s crazy.

Nevermind the file manager making a dozen HTTP requests every time you launch it.

You just reminded me.

At one point I had Windows take up two drives, one for boot and one for games. However, I only ever really used it for this one piece of software that I couldn’t get working on Linux, so I nuked it and reinstalled Windows on the smallest drive I have, just for that software.

Two weeks later I got the software working on Linux, and I completely forgot I even have a Windows partition up until now. It’s been months.

I’m so heartened by the comments here, because it’s such an obvious marketing ploy.

The market is speculative, a value isn’t in what a company produces, but in the investments people make in it because of the potential of future profits. It’s why a company can produce absolutely nothing of value at all and still be valued highly, see Theranos. This means that if you can sell an idea hard enough, you can get a lot of investors to give you money, which is fantastic for you up until the point the checks are due and you have nothing to show for it.

Scam Altman has come with so many lofty goals, general intelligences, 100 billion in profit by 2030, which is rich for a company that’s not pushing even a dollar in profit. Where are they going to scrounge up 100 billion in 3½ years?

So how convenient isn’t it then, if they had a secret model that they’re testing, suddenly go rogue in the exact kind of scenario that AI safety researchers have been talking about for well over a decade at this point? Truly, for AI to have advanced this much, and manage to circumvent even the safeguards that OpenAI, a company founded on the very tenet of AI safety and openness have placed on it? This model must be worth all that money! They’re getting somewhere!

Only, how would such a thing even happen? OpenAI is after all one of the global leaders of AI research. You’re saying that they, despite all of their knowledge in AI safety, test their models on hardware that isn’t airgapped? Or did the model somehow physically project into the real world and hook itself up to the internet? Or was it able to vibrate the atoms around it in a way to connect to WiFi despite the hardware it was running on not having a wireless card?

Surely a company of such renown wouldn’t be so stupid.

It’s a marketing ploy. It’s an incredibly dumb marketing ploy, but they saw that it worked for Anthropic with their nothingburger “too dangerous to release” model, so they orchestrated something similar.

Yeah, they always have.

Like, he has his own bodyguards or security agency?

Very few politicians here have that. No idea if he does, but it doesn’t seem likely.

They are a local political party operating out of the town Örebro, they have some regional seats in the region that’s also called Örebro.

Local and regional politics is still important though. Having fascists diddle around with that is bad news.

Allard har sedan bildandet av partiet allt mer tagit avstånd från den svenska vänstern, då han menar att den avlägsnat sig från arbetarrörelsens ursprungliga ideal. Han har istället beskrivit sin ideologiska hemvist som populism och nationalism på marxistisk grund, vilket han menar inte går att placera in på den moderna vänster–höger-skalan.

Mellan 2022 och 2025 medverkade Allard på den av Sverigedemokraterna grundade mediekanalen Riks. Det första avsnittet av programmet med namnet “Allard” hade premiär 5 november 2022. Fokus var att diskutera dagsaktuella samhällsfrågor och intervjuer med andra samhällsdebattörer.

He himself claims that you can’t really place their politics on the scale, because he picks ideas from both sides. Yeah, their politics are messy, but they have very fascist and white-supremacist overtones, and they gladly work with nazis. So I don’t personally care for trivial bickering about definitions here.

Dude basically read Ayn Rand and thought “whoa yeah, that’s the shit”, when in actuality it’s just shit.

Honestly, it’s like when right-wingers want everything privatised and scream that taxation is theft, but they’re totally happy with having taxes pay for their stuff. Just because they like to benefit from socialist policies doesn’t mean that they’re socialists.

English isn’t my native tongue, and that’s not an insult, but that shouldn’t be very hard. The word is self-explanatory.

Scientists have encountered a species in the Amazon heretofore believed to be extinct.

I can relate to this so hard. I’ve no idea how many books I read as a kid, but often several per week. I still love reading, obviously, it’s just that I don’t dedicate as much time to do it anymore. Been trying to pick the habit back up though.

One of the quirks I developed as a result of my reading habits, is that I’d use very dated terms when speaking my native tongue. I have so many early-1900s insults in my head, it’s almost unfortunate I never get to use them.

I’d say probably best to not trust apps at all. You could roll your own Matrix instance for example, but then who’s to say that the client applications don’t comply?

Trust no one, I suppose.

I was thinking that this sounds good at face value, but it could easily just be a throwaway publicity stunt.

Let’s just make up a scenario, purely for illustrative purposes. Say our baseline is in 2022, customers paid ~100 a month in electricity. Then over the years, data centres came along, they struck deals, and individual consumers electricity bills went up to 200, which we are at today.

Then, NicePowerCompanyLLC decides to hike the prices for the datacentres by 30%, and reduce the prices by 1.3% for the residentials. That’s still 98.7% higher than the baseline before the datacentres. That’s to say, they data centres are still having their costs subsidized by regular people.

Ergo, if the prices already got hiked because of the datacentres, this tiny concession is a piss in the ocean. It’s just a publicity stunt to make themselves look better while people are still buckling under the exploitation of having to carry billion dollar industries on their backs, with no real benefit to themselves.

This is what smartphones should’ve been this entire time. I’m okay with it having a user friendly shell for the regular person, but we should have free access to the OS.

Now you just need to switch to a terminal based editor, maximise that screen real-estate.

They’re little computers with cameras that capture everything. I think some of these types of devices run Android. Many are very poorly secured, like the article suggests. A “license plate reader” sounds like it only reads license plates, these are surveillance platforms, with cameras and microphones. They can be accessed remotely to do more than just read a license plate.

I’m thinking the person says that couching it as a license plate reader is disingenuous, because it doesn’t really convey the gravity of what the devices are capable of.

Maybe they’re just anti-Rockstar, which everyone in their right mind should be.