I find Praying by Kesha to be very uplifting and empowering.

How much would it suck to wake up one day to find you’ve gone viral for words you never posted?

Guess it wouldn’t matter if you only went viral with AI. Until the AI death threats start.

I think the thought is, it’s not a bad thing if you get annoyed after scrolling through 100 of something and having to click next. It’s like that lady that comes up on TikTok and says why the fuck are you still scrolling? Touch grass, maybe.

I basically agree with you. You can’t really ban dark patterns even though we all agree they suck. Legislature is the worst group of people to design UX.

Here’s a thought: just roll all that shit back and partly unfuck the economy.

Also blocked them. There is a fine line between preserving useful historical artifacts and using an extension to be an annoying attention whore.

Practically speaking, that means that people and organisations running a Matrix server with open registration must verify the ages of users in countries which require it.

So if I just host my account on a home server on my raspberry pi, then I don’t have to age verify? I see. And I can still invite friends and family, I just can’t open up registration to the general public? I see.

They are all over the place with their communication. I checked specifically when they first announced this partnership. And it turned out that when you share your videos with public safety, it was also being shared to Flock. And only the specific videos you choose to share. So I thought it was a big nothing before all this — just don’t share videos with public safety. I never have and never will.

But to walk their cooperation back must mean they got significant complaints and need to do some PR. Or they tried some shit that wasn’t spelled out in their privacy statement.

I think on balance, the internet was a bad idea. AI is just exemplifying why. Humans are simply not meant to be globally connected. Fucking town crazies are supposed to be isolated, mocked, and shunned, not create global delusions about contrails or Jewish space lasers or flat Earth theory. Or like… white supremacy.

They want knowledge to be illegal. They want facts to be subject to litigation.

What they are going to create is a world where women refuse to take their husband’s name. I’m certain the right will be up in arms over that as well. Par for the course for the poster children of unintended consequences.

If their goals were ever what they say they are, there is almost always a better policy that could drive that out come, but every time the right’s solution is “just make them.” And then big fucking Pikachu surprise when that doesn’t work out like they plan.

I generally start small and personal. Let the characters explore one tiny corner of the world, get to know the NPCs and get a feel for the setting. I normally have some idea about the larger world and how this corner fits, but until something is canonized through play, nothing is set in stone. It’s both a world tutorial and gives me a chance to adjust things in response to how the characters interact, their backgrounds, how engaged they are, etc.

How and what to tune is a whole other question, but it’s a shared story and being open to ways to help players feel more invested means it’s a huge waste of time to plan out a lot of things that players never care about or see.

On the other hand, I’ve started in campaigns where a DM spends months planning out a world in great depth and 30 minutes into play I know that it’s all going to fall apart within 3 sessions. I’ve seen other DMs who literally just run group after group through the same world or even story every time, even when it’s the same players, because that’s what they spent months or even years building. It’s dull as fuck and makes me feel like I’m just there to witness the greatness of the DM’s world-building or unwritten novel. That being said, it’s perfectly fine if you view it as a purely social event and don’t get invested in having agency.

Agreed. The goal is to design a system where you must prove your right to vote rather than be allowed to cast a vote with passive validation after the fact. Folks who can’t prove their right to vote are primarily low-income voters who are presumed to vote Dem.

As this is not the least restrictive means to accomplish the legitimacy of the election, it does not pass constitutional muster (good luck with the current Supreme Court though). I also wonder how this might infringe on the rights of First Nations (literally completely ignorant here) and states right to administer their own elections.

If his grammar killed him, he probably should’ve listened to her before she got out the wooden spoon.

I could waste the shit out of a good chunk of $200M and have plenty to live a good life for the rest of my days.

It’s not buy a yacht and spend the rest of your life banging bikini models money, but it is own three very nice homes on different continents as a hedge against climate change and civil war and still vacation 3 months out of the year money.

I hate chrome and refuse to use it as a browser, but I won’t deny their dev tools are pretty good. I can get the job done in Safari and Firefox, but chrome set the standard that they are aspiring to (and maybe have caught, idk, I refuse to use it). I wouldn’t dock anyone interview points for using it — as long as their attitude toward other browsers isn’t “fuck people who use those, they are 6% of the market” (or whatever the right number is, I made that shit up).

They don’t actually care. It was about bullying and inconveniencing foes. It cost the administration nothing. It cost taxpayers a little something, and it cost the targets relatively more.

This is about sending a message that if you don’t accept shit being thrown in your general direction, then they will pin you down and dump it on your head. They don’t care if you die suffocated by shit or just stand up and take a shower. They literally don’t care whether you live or die, just that they can hurt you.

You can also use the OpenAPI generator to turn a well-formed Swagger document into code. I’ve used it before. I didn’t hate it.

The generated controllers have a lot of boilerplate (I want to say 5 classes per controller), but it does guarantee the code is in sync with the documentation.

That being said, fuck manually maintaining swagger documents. It’s the worst of all possible works.

I tuned my usage up once I realized it is universal punctuation. I used to be unfamiliar with it and agonize over which punctuation was best for a given sentence. Can’t decide between a comma, semi-colon, comma clause, parenthetical, or what-not — just use an emdash and don’t fucking worry about it.

I’m pretty sure I haven’t been accused of being an LLM. Despite my lazy command of the emdash and comfortability with multisyllabic and archaic words, I think LLMs come across as insufferable bores and I don’t think I do that — not to that degree, anyway.

Haven’t done it in at least a month or two.

/s

“It still is, but it used to, too.”

It’s arguably worse now that it’s been bought but it was never a bastion of privacy or uncensored speech. If people take it seriously now when they didn’t before, that’s an improvement, at least.