There is a quote by Arthur Ashe that I refer to often because in the face of overwhelming personal adversity it keeps my head on the right track, and I think it may help you as well:

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

I don’t reply to your content often, but every time I see your handle pop up I wish you well, just because I am unfortunately so personally familiar with the trauma-creating circumstances you’re dealing with. I wish you could see you as I see you: someone with something so completely different from their banal, cruel family of origin that they have no knowledge of what a truly gifted person they are just to be able to survive and even see past that shit. Good luck to you, and I mean that.

Maybe, but speaking for myself, my revulsion to the way they are currently trying to use AI is nothing short of visceral. No headline has a chance. It is such an intrusion to personal privacy, and toward incredibly bad ends all around, that I don’t give a shit what they say at all.

To get past that, they’d have to stop trying to data farm everything that crosses someone’s monitor, stop using AI to support and further large-scale national operations like genocide, and not use every word that anyone’s ever written that they can get their hands on to train their LLMs. Oh, and something more than a “You’re overreacting!” when it is pointed out that AI output is not at all neutral, but shaped to deliver their own chosen narratives, which its devotees tend to accept without question. They could even – and I know this is a novel concept – pay authors and artists for all the work they used without consent and without compensation.

It’ll never happen. And I will never not hate AI, for all of these reasons and more (like how they took my fucking em-dash and made it unnatural, so now I’m taking it back).

TL;DR: I hate AI so much and so deeply it’s automatic, there’s literally nothing they can say I would care about, and the more they try the more repulsed I am. Fuck 'em all.

What is this “we all” and “we’ve” shit? Your tapeworms have become sentient.

In the meantime, ICE is insecurity and frailty wreathed in weapons. They need to know just how very fucking much we hate them, not just corporately but individually. Each one of them.

Our guy here (“our” being American, as opposed to the “we” of you + your tapeworms) is doing his share. He saw something he could do, and he’s doing it. He’s showing up.

By way of contrast, you’re just mocking his effort because that’s all you have, and you have made it clear in other posts as well as your instance you’re not even doing it from the same hemisphere.

That, and our guy with the flag isn’t wrong. Inequality is exactly where all this began.

But back to you, your own favorite subject. You have such a problem with this one person doing his part that you actually have to mock it twice, but as far as I can see he’s doing far more for the common good than you.

Turns out that a lot of little efforts are adding up to great things, like getting the National guard kicked out of LA and Chicago and Portland, but you’re not interested in that.

Going by your other posts you just want to see other people fight, like all the Trump voters I know. They love that shit. I’m certain they’d love that for you too if they only knew.

So off to some other safe space with you, like Truth Social, lest another guy showing up for his community and country in his own individual way offend your politically delicate tapeworms to the point of mockery again.

No, you’re right. It’s a problem. Someone in another thread said, “Hey, I’m considering moving to Linux from Windows, what do you think of these distros?” and got downvoted to hell just for asking, because apparently one of the distros they mentioned is disliked by others.

It’s a problem, generated by some of the exact same people who loudly wonder why more people aren’t on Linux without ever considering how having their own noob question thrown back in their own face by someone who has made their OS their identity would turn them wayyyyy the fuck off Linux as well.

For myself I will always be grateful for the many others who have generously and graciously answered my stupid Linux noob questions.

Yep, same here. Mojave on an old MacBook with a complete CS5 suite lets me continue to use what I paid for.

I didn’t have a still-running copy like you did, so instead I disabled all network access and used my existing install media/licensing to activate offline, then before restoring network I went through and blocked every single executable at the firewall, esp anything having to do with updates or the licensing module. Now it doesn’t matter whether there is internet access or not, everything is stable and it doesn’t phone home.

The blocking was a pain in the ass, no lie, but I can restore the firewall settings from time machine if ever needed, and meanwhile I have a working, unshittified CS5 that is not constantly trying to move my data up to the cloud or give itself legal rights to my IP. It’s lacking some newer features probably, but it does what I need.

I’m going to pass your instructions along to a friend still using CS5 on the same Mac he installed it on, though. It’s a great strategy.

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You can use the yt-dlp executable in the Youtube-DLG GUI interface. The interface is fine, the only thing wrong with it was that the executable behind it couldn’t keep up with YT fuckery. They may have fixed it since then, but once I started manually updating it with yt-dlp I never stopped, so I don’t even know anymore. And I’m sure there are better alternatives, I just got used to using this one.

So if you want the GUI front end, it’s profoundly easy. Download Youtube-DLG, rename yt-dlp.exe to youtube-dl.exe, and then put it into the appropriate folder (%appdata%/youtube-dl/ on Windows). Overwrite or just delete the existing youtube-dl.exe because it doesn’t work anyway.

If you are installing Youtube-DLG for the first time you may have to manually install ffmpeg as well, if memory serves.

The sole drawback is that, for obvious reasons, updates are now manual. Every so often YT breaks it again and I just go download yt-dlp again, rename it, and put the new one in the Youtube-DLG folder. Job done.

I don’t doubt you, but where are you getting that figure?

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I’d give to find an instance where votes are already public.

EDITED TO ADD: I mean, not hidden by the interface. I am already aware that federated votes are accessible via lemvotes.org.

Trust Lemmy to answer the question I very specifically did not ask and to provide an answer that is essentially a regurge of the OP, lol.

EDITED TO ADD: but I found the answer I was looking for anyway, so there is that.

Are there any instances where votes are public? In other words, where it shows on the post or comment who up/down voted? I know there are some, or were, but I don’t know the current status.

This isn’t great, but it has more information than the above, with links to other sources:
https://old.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1pwvji3/did_wired_have_a_breach_on_122325/

Alternate link:
https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1pwvji3/did_wired_have_a_breach_on_122325/

Fucknugget

That’s more of a technical label, no? Like this is what their list looked like:

Spawn
ProcessedBabyBatter
RipenedOvum
FailedCondom
Sprog
Fucknugget

“Oh, I like that one! Let’s go with that!”

I remember a rich kid named Choate (like the school) and laughing every time I saw it because that shit’s just way too close to chode.

Short for Thaddeus, but you’re right, the “Tad” spelling is apparently for the over-forty crowd. I don’t personally remember seeing “Thad” before the 90s, and then it left me wondering how to pronounce it when I did.

Really appreciate this, thank you for posting it.

🤣

Where’d she get her medical degree, Temu?