In my opinion, Abby from TLOU 2. During the first part of the game, she is portrayed as the bad girl, but when she become the playable character, you understand that she isn't:...
Some sellers say they were going from strength to strength, but now they have been left unable to pay their bills, with their only source of income coming from Etsy sales.
I'm not really upset over that. If the major platforms become more polarized, I expect that things will get more decentralized over time, which isn't a bad thing. If conservatives are more able and willing to spend money on online communication, then let them. Everyone has a right to spend their money as they see most fit.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990): When Splinter and Danny are talking, and Splinter asks about his parents. And gives a line that's become even more powerful since I lost my dad last year - "All fathers care for their sons."
Waking Life: Really this whole movie, because it's just scene after scene of interesting ideas and great dialogue, which, thanks to the way the movie is built, doesn't need to be super-connected. But I guess the scene i keep coming back to is when Wiley is with an old man in what looks like a bar. It ends with a powerful line: "Which is the most dominant human trait - fear? Or laziness?"
Johnny Mnemonic: "I! WANT! ROOM SERVICE!" Just a great delivery and a real show of how he's gotten to the end of his rope.
Midnight in Paris: Hemingway's introductory scene.
Casablanca: The ending especially, but also La Marseillaise vs. the Nazi anthem.
The Third Man: The Merry-Go-Round scene. It's a chilling look into villainy, and the obvious fact that Harry Lime was not always the monster he is in the film - because he can't look at his victims as people. It's why The Lives of Harry Lime worked as a radio show.
Maybe someone smarter than me can explain things, but It's been about a month since I've started the process of creating a magazine to support the reddit/discord community I've helped mod for the past 4 years... but I've noticed that zero posts show up in google search....
On one hand, I support a strong robots.txt being in place. It keeps data from being used by honest engines (though what constitutes "honesty" varies). But at the same time, indexing and caching is how we can grow. If you want the site to grow, you want to get it to 1st position on first SERP.
One of the LPers I watch has been playing Final Liberation, which reminded me how much I enjoy that game. It's also reminded me how much I liked Epic....
And this is why software should always be offline and installed from media. My copy of Photoshop 6(CS1) doesn't care what I do with it, it's software that does a job. I've tried updated CS versions of Photoshop thanks to friends and other means, and frankly? CS1 does all of what I need or want, and very little of what I don't.
Working with software not installed and accessible on an airgapped offline machine is a bad idea.
I would never say forced - it's just normal practice, but abstention happened. Shared experience is a powerful uniting factor. Reinforced daily, even moreso. Every student remembered the Pledge itself and remembers seeing every other student doing it - regardless of race, creed, or color. We were all Americans. I remember the first times I saw someone not taking part, the first, it was for religious reasons; his parents were part of a religious group that wouldn't let them swear oaths or something like that. The second was much later, and it was how I found out that someone in my class was a resident alien.
It's obviously a stand-in for a religious prayer; I don't think anyone past 4th grade had any misconception about that. It's also a prayer of nationalism and loyalty to the country. If we could bring people back together like that still, it would help.
I've noticed (with the help of family members and my SO) that I've become very negative, cynical and drained lately. Reading about burnout, I find all of the symptoms to be true for myself....
What's a "sabbatical"? I don't get paid unless I'm doing work. The way I resolve my burnout is by looking at my bank balance, average rents (and the increase of rent over the last 10 years), and my life expectancy. Until there's enough money in there that I can live on that, I have to work. And I have to assume that I'm less than 8 hours from being fired and going from my salary to minimum wage; so I'd damn well better exceed any expectations. My feelings, my ennui, and my burnout do not matter. My survival is reliant on providing greater value to my employer than I cost to keep around. My value to anyone is limited what I can provide them in the immediate past and foreseeable future - myself included.
Burnout and not being at 100% of expectations is the same as suicide. Every day I wake up and ask if today's the day. Every day so far, I've decided there's a reason to keep going. Look at it like that. If you like living, keep working.
Figure out where your inadequacy is and what is expected that's making you feel that way. Align yourself with the people who sign your paycheck - what they want should be what you want. If being around someone is making you act in a negative way, don't be around that person unless it's essential.
If it can't be done for free, but already existing services like Reddit & Threads are free to use, then the barrier to entry is insurmountable to roughly 90% of users.
I agree with most of your point, but I will say this - after Giuliani, I could walk on 8th or 9th and feel safe. Port Authority wasn't a hooker's den anymore. It might not be something you like, but in that case, the City needed to be cleaned up.
Neither really. But I guess it's between the OS that supports NewPipe, Tachiyomi, and EDOPro; against the easiest one to watch YouTube on its own platform & play Carcassonne on.
Unfortunately, yes it's Android Linux, since my Windows Phone device stopped working, I have been all but forced into using a linux device if I want to make phone calls. I've debated on going back to a "feature phone" to avoid it, but those are all Java based, so that's almost worse on its own. And since the easiest tablet to watch YouTube videos on is BSD iOS, I have one of them too. If the Surface was more suited to that purpose, I would switch immediately.
My primary daily computers are both Windows as a main OS. One of them multi-boots Windows 7 32-bit, DR-DOS 7, and ReactOS. On the other, it's Win10x64, but I usually jump straight into DOSBox-X or my Windows Me VM/emulator if I'm not doing anything important and modern.
That would be fine, except that every professional job I've had, the office uses Windows - specifically MS Office, sometimes with an additional program for the industry or Tableau or a CRM. Same goes for every industrial place I worked at as an admin - except in cases where the OS was still DOS on the floor, it was always Windows on the production equipment (usually 9x). This was in the 7/10 transition days too, so it's not eons ago.
The only place I ever saw Linux in use in an office was a "server" the owner's nephew set up for a LAN and left running. Whenever there was an actual problem, he came in and rebooted the machine into Windows Server to actually diagnose and fix it. He just didn't want anyone to know that the Linux side was there so that it had a command line with a bunch of data, so that the uncle didn't get any funny ideas about fixing it himself.
Tried Zorin on a Thinkpad, installed rather than live disc. It ran slower than Windows, had trouble with networking (Wi-Fi and Bluetooth), and Wine was unable to run just about anything well. I uninstalled it and fixed my Windows boot loader.
Some of us don't have the time or the energy to bother with "learning" basic operations that have been solved for four decades. I don't need to master the thing. I need it to be able to render more than a bare minimum VESA VGA desktop, read a USB HID, and connect to a network interface - without needing to leave the GUI. These things have been onerous tasks on Linux every time I've tried it. The only distro that's reliably done all three of those incredibly basic things without needing a command line is Kali/Backtrack. And I don't think I should run a pen test tool for day-to-day operations.
I put time into learning Haiku, because it worked. I've avoided FreeDOS because their tools are slower than those in MS-DOS or DR-DOS 1-7 (8.1, of course, used FreeDOS tools and caused a conflict).
And there's also the case of some people disliking Stallman's odious habits, and having a personal hatred (and the feeling being entirely mutual) for Linus Torvald. I'm in that category as well.
In addition to the possible business threat, forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it copyright protected. When companies disclose these data sources...
Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each in a US District Court over dual claims of copyright infringement.
It's very rare for me to want Facebook to win a lawsuit. It's just as rare for me to want to see Sarah Silverman not succeed. But in this case, I think the Internet needs to see Facebook win.
Honestly? A little bit, yeah. More automated tools with greater function will help as long as we can moderate their use.
My real concern is more related to the fact that this will probably lead to a massive crackdown on sources and shadow libraries that have been used as training data for AIs. If this goes through, I see a lot of ML/AI/bots being forced into an audit, and whenever "potentially infringing" content is found, they won't just remove it, there will be an aggressive push against the shadow library hosting it.
You seem to have missed the vast majority of my point, so I'll ask this directly - do you, or do you not, support the continued existence of shadow libraries?
As of July 1, in addition to Vermont, four other states’ IDs will face extra scrutiny from police, as they may provide forms of identification to applicants who do not give proof of citizenship or legal status:...
So what's happening is that drivers' licenses which clearly say they're not recognized as ID won't be recognized as an ID? I'm not seeing an issue, then.
A new law went into effect in New York City on Wednesday that requires any business using A.I. in its hiring to submit that software to an audit to prove that it does not result in racist or sexist…
I was a recruiter previously - I've since thankfully gotten out of the profession. But ATS systems, and any training data they throw off for an AI to model, are going to be built on job order and job description keywords, and how they match up to CV writing. That data will be biased, just as an ATS is biased, toward those people who write more keyword-dense documents with less outside content.
If one race or one sex is better at writing focused and keyword-dense content, that's not something that the software should be blamed for. If the AI is looking for something more advanced than keywords as compared to job-order-listed BFOQs, I take serious issue.
Seriously, their society sounds so overtly positive in the face of a preposterously hopeless and uncaring universe, there's no way even the codex is telling the truth....
I mean, it depends on which version of the lore you take. Their culture is repressive, with less social mobility than the Imperium or the Eldar, thanks to the caste system. The Ethereal Caste are doing something hinky and mind-controlling to everyone else. The one General who said "hey maybe we should learn how to fight up close occasionally" was banished. There's a lot of darkness there, and the disconnect between the Tau and the Warp makes those "little" things more notable.
Imagine if the Tau get eaten by the Tyranids or a Genestealer Cult. They might not cast the Shadow in the Warp, removing the one form of warning of their presence.
'Breakthrough' geothermal tech produces 3.5 megawatts of carbon-free power | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
An energy company called Fervo says it has achieved a breakthrough in geothermal technology.
An invasive fish with teeth, that can breathe air, live up to three days outside of water, move short distances on land, and grow three feet long has been found in Louisiana (www.axios.com)
via: https://tildes.net/~science/18ay/an_invasive_fish_with_teeth_that_can_breathe_air_live_up_to_three_days_outside_of_water_move_short
When you post content on the Fediverse, it feels like you are contributing to something good (kbin.social)
Basically instead of posting on the closed off counterparts, it definitely feels good to post something to a free, open and decentralized platform.
Two sets of Five Below keycaps later... Handwired, 3D printed Macropad for my 9yo daughter. Running KMK on a Pi Pico. (media.kbin.social)
GOP lawmakers predict ‘fistfight’ between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert (www.independent.co.uk)
Tension between the two congresswomen has been rising in recent weeks
Wich fictional character is unfairly hated by the public ? (kbin.social) French
In my opinion, Abby from TLOU 2. During the first part of the game, she is portrayed as the bad girl, but when she become the playable character, you understand that she isn't:...
Can We Please Make Presidential Elections Shorter and Less Stupid? (www.thedailybeast.com)
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'I can't afford food': Etsy sellers' income wiped out as it holds thousands in sales reserves (news.sky.com)
Some sellers say they were going from strength to strength, but now they have been left unable to pay their bills, with their only source of income coming from Etsy sales.
Twitter changed DM settings so users who don't pay for Twitter Blue can't message you (mashable.com)
Elon Musk just turned your DMs into an ad for Twitter Blue. But you can change it back. Here's how.
Do you have a favorite film scene that you come back to again and again? (kbin.social)
For me, it has to be this, the final scene from Stanley Kubrick's "Paths Of Glory".
How come there is very little Kbin SEO for individual posts? Also, what are tags/badges? (kbin.social)
Maybe someone smarter than me can explain things, but It's been about a month since I've started the process of creating a magazine to support the reddit/discord community I've helped mod for the past 4 years... but I've noticed that zero posts show up in google search....
Are there resources or retroclones for Epic v1? (kbin.social)
One of the LPers I watch has been playing Final Liberation, which reminded me how much I enjoy that game. It's also reminded me how much I liked Epic....
Rip Teddit (kbin.social)
Today I just noticed, after trying to convert a reddit link (from this sub!), that teddit is no longer working....
Adobe Forbids Using Photoshop’s New AI Features for Nudity (futurism.com)
Adobe's new generative AI tools are here — and they really, really, pretty please doesn't want you to use them to make porn, okay?
Google’s head of AR software quits, citing “unstable commitment and vision” (arstechnica.com)
Departure follows layoffs, project cancellations, and other chaos.
Marjorie Taylor Greene officially 'kicked out' of Freedom Caucus, Rep. Ken Buck says (www.nbcnews.com)
Full article text:...
did anyone else from the USA grow up being forced to say the pledge to the flag in school? (kbin.social)
im 20 for reference. ever since i was a kid, up until hs, we were forced every morning to stand, look at the flag and hold our hearts and say:...
Has anyone managed to recover from а serious burnout without taking a sabbatical? How? (kbin.social)
I've noticed (with the help of family members and my SO) that I've become very negative, cynical and drained lately. Reading about burnout, I find all of the symptoms to be true for myself....
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It has been a month since the Reddit blackout began... (kbin.social)
Happy Blackout Anniversary!
Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site (www.pcgamer.com)
Citing "lack of transparency from Fandom [...] loss of features [...] and toxic company culture."
Tumblr says it’s going to “fix” its “core experience” to appeal to new users (www.theverge.com)
“The underlying problem is that Tumblr is not easy to use.”
Do you prefer Android or iOS, and why? (kbin.social)
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People will put more effort in installing Windows on the Steam Deck than learning how to use Linux (kbin.social)
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OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation (www.theverge.com) Japanese
In addition to the possible business threat, forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it copyright protected. When companies disclose these data sources...
Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement (www.theverge.com)
Comedian and author Sarah Silverman, as well as authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey — are suing OpenAI and Meta each in a US District Court over dual claims of copyright infringement.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced the passing of a law that could render driver’s licenses and other forms of identification from several states invalid, including Vermont. (www.mychamplainvalley.com)
As of July 1, in addition to Vermont, four other states’ IDs will face extra scrutiny from police, as they may provide forms of identification to applicants who do not give proof of citizenship or legal status:...
NYC will require businesses to prove A.I. employment software isn't racist or sexist | Boing Boing (boingboing.net)
A new law went into effect in New York City on Wednesday that requires any business using A.I. in its hiring to submit that software to an audit to prove that it does not result in racist or sexist…
Tau don't belong here. (kbin.social)
Seriously, their society sounds so overtly positive in the face of a preposterously hopeless and uncaring universe, there's no way even the codex is telling the truth....