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Just curious, why are you resistant to turn off your VPN?

I keep mine off most of the time & only rev it up when I feel like I really want or need the anonymity.

I use Pop_OS & the other day I was browsing the Store & stumbled on this app called ‘youtubedl-gui’. Then I found out it’s also available via apt.

Really cool little piece of software. Maybe check it out

OP is asking about where to find cute, locally owned retailers & you are telling them they can find the same shit at the mall.

Needs moar webrings.

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Oh wait

Yours’s?

Wow, what a poet.

D:

That’s great! I don’t want to poo-poo success stories. That said, who knows if it’s really the same app you were using when you met your partner (at least two years ago). AI alone has exploded in that time.

It’s been working out fine for me. It takes longer is all.

This will turn the angry hobbits FURIOUS

Kidding aside, everyone should try dropping these kinds of apps anyways. They’re bad for you.

What a load of horseshit lol

EDIT: Sorry, I’ll expand. When AI researchers give talks about how AI works, they say things like, “on a fundamental level, we don’t actually know what’s going on.”

Also, even if there are books available about how to write an AI from scratch(?) somehow, the basic understanding of what happens deep within the neural networks is still a “magic black box”. They’ll crack it open eventually, but not yet.

The ideas that people have that AI is simple and stupid & a passing fad are naive.

This is not necessarily true. While it’s using pattern recognition on a surface level, we’re not entirely sure how AI comes up with it’s output.

But beyond that, a lot of talk has been centered around a threshold when AI begins training other AI & can improve through iterations. Once that happens, people believe AI will not only improve extremely rapidly, but we will understand even less of what is happening when an AI black boxes train other AI black boxes.

Tech people, especially AI researchers, refuse to leave.

When I was born, god gave me a choice.

I said, “I’ll take the Autism, please.”

I’m a Krita stan.

Then you shake yourself back into reality & remember, “…oh yeah, because I was hot & my dick worked.”

What!? I take that personally. I’m, like, super memorable!

That consistent light nausea is just how true love feels, bro!