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  • but should we really be putting the individual in the cross hairs without knowing what their story is

    Hey so this serial killer who boiled his victims alive had a really sad upbringing. We should just call it a wash and let him back out on the streets right?

    Learning what their story is might be good to do for a common thief, and maybe you’ll choose to be sympathetic as opposed to angry at the loss of your material possessions, but at a certain level of depravity, I don’t care what their story is. The victims of their atrocities don’t care what their story is. They can tell their story to the devil before getting thrown in the lake of fire.


  • I think maybe countries with free healthcare and education dont have a lot of room to weigh in on this

    Why not?

    You were the only country to invoke NATO Article 5. Twice. Both times you were the invading aggressor fighting countries half a world away while spinning it as “defense”. Where you forced soldiers in countries with free healthcare and education (like Canada) to fight and die in wars you started. And then refused to pay us after the fact.

    And what does free healthcare and education have to do with anything? Are you going to claim that America “subsidises” us?




  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlI ***see*** you!
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    4 days ago

    This is why I love gender neutral bathrooms.

    All the stalls have actual walls and doors that actually give you privacy.

    Some even have sinks in each stall so you can go from wiping your ass straight to washing your hands without touching anything else. And if you have a bag with you, you don’t have to grab it with your grody poop fingers and walk to the sink.


  • Zoomer in computer science here: I’ve noticed that there are two types of people in my age range, you have the people who are really passionate about technology for the sake of being technology and want to know how things work under the hood (like me) and people who see technology only as a means to accomlish a goal like writing a document, maintaining a social media presence, playing a game, etc, and can’t care less about how it actually works.

    I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with the latter, but there can be conflict between the two groups because their priorities are completely different.

    This is not unique to technology and you see this in other fields too. For example, you have the car enthusiasts who do their own oil changes and are constantly tuning up their cars, installing aftermarket mods, etc, and then you have everyone else who see cars as just a way of getting to where they need to go, have never even opened the engine compartment, and bring it into the shop when the scary lights on the dashboard appear.


  • I agree with everything you said except for this:

    Plus, DotNet is almost trivially cross-platform these days and almost ridiculously easy to develop with… for something like an install script you really don’t have an excuse to not hit all three platforms anymore.

    But so is Java. Or Kotlin. Or Rust. Or Python. Hell, even JavaScript is acceptable for a simple GUI program that’s meant to be run once to install the real program.

    And those are open source and don’t have Microsoft telemetry in the build tools AND IN THE RUNTIME!!! So you now have to taint your Linux or Mac system by installing the JVM we have at home.




  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlOnce you realise
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    7 days ago

    Money is just paper, or worse, numbers on a computer. It requires a working civilisation and government system to have any value so it won’t matter if/when civilisation collapses. Being rich will allow you to prepare and stockpile as much resources as possible while civilisation is still in place, but once all hell actually breaks loose, money will become worthless.



  • LLM scraping is a parasite on the internet. In the actual ecological definition of parasite: they place a burden on other unwitting organisms computer systems, making it harder for the host to survive or carry out their own necessary processes, solely for the parasite’s own benefit while giving nothing to the host in return.

    I know there’s an ongoing debate (both in the courts and on social media) about whether AI should have to pay royalties to its training data under copyright law, but I think they should at the very least be paying to use infrastructure while collecting the data, even free data, given that it costs the organisation hosting said data real money and resources to be scraped, and it’s orders of magnitude more money and resources compared to serving that data to individual people.

    The case can certainly be made that copying is not theft, but copying is by no means free either, especially when done at the scales LLMs do.