Great reference, going to be stuck in my head all day.

I got an RK recently and have been very happy with it. Multiple connection options (wired, usb, or 2.4ghz), nice white and green colors, switches and caps all feel very good for such a budget model. Only thing I dislike is they made it full size but inexplicably decided no one needs an “End” key anymore. Its an Fn-layer button (on Page Down?!), along with Pause, PrtSc, and ScrLk. Admittedly I never need those other keys but I use End failry often and it’s an odd choice, especially since they kept the numpad.

Nothing is more homosexual than being a loving, present father for the children you’ve created with a woman.

Because the bots/trolls/feds have shifted over to driving a wedge between leftists to keep solidarity from occurring. Thus “tankie” is being thrown around heavily, people constantly bring up early Soviet support of the nazis as a reason to say “tankie=nazi” while ignoring that tankies (sue me, it’s a real term that has uses) is a broad term for all “authoritarian fascists,” many of whom came after the nazis, were very anti-nazi, and like all historical figures often had a mix of good and bad qualities.

Certainly its funny to harp on tankies while America falls to literal fascism. Who ever could benefit from scape goating and demonizing communists? Who historically, poetically even, is the famous first victim of fascism due to the strong threat they represent?

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With massive tariffs on all incoming food, and sabotaging our vital food producing areas, its almost like he’s either deliberately damaging the country or using famine as a tool to commit mass murder of the poor.

If you liked SupCom and want to recapture the magic, do check out Zero-K! It’s free (like actually, no weird micro-transactions) and open source (though buried a bit on the site) It’s based on SpringRTS, which is great to see something cool being done with Spring!

There’s an excellent, way underrated scifi novel that I love telling people about because it predicted our current moment. Greg Egan’s Permutation City, written in freaking 1994.

You follow the simulation of a man as that man runs experiments on him of how simulated people work. If you played SOMA, those folks definitely read it! Advanced AI spam filters are used to detect advanced AI spammers in a nonstop cold war for your precious attention. I think eventually the AIs are replaced by simulations of yourself enslaved to the task of responding to messages, but I may just be combining that story with qntm’s short story Lena which is also terrifying yet likely soon to be true!

It’s also a revelation-of-the-method: authoritarians love to gloat about how they’re doing it right in front of you, with tools you trusted, and you can’t stop it.

I feel like wanting to kill 3/4ths of the population is part of some ideologies, but i wouldn’t count anarchy among them.

!egg_irl@lemmy.blahaj.zone will ultimately be looking for this.

It was so bad job hunting a couple of years ago. Took me months and months. I even used AI to help me write cover letters after a while. No one was reading them so might as well have no one write them too.

Productively, I hate to say it, but I think we’ve actually circled back to Boomer job hunting advice being good. I got my current job by attending local industry meetups, meeting a recruiter, and they got me face-to-face at a company which immediately hired me.

At this point, I’d just go for the most unhinged approach. Put on a suit, show up where you want to work, walk in and demand to meet the ceo or something. Tell him you’re not here to waste time with “process”, you’re here to make some real money. If you aren’t a white man, make friends with one and have them do this, then bait-and-switch the hire. Act like you’ve always been a queer black woman, it must be their mistake.

The time for asking to be hired is over. We’re just taking the jobs now!

I’ve seen clouds ☁️ usedsometimes, usually with an up or down arrow in it, obviously for cloud save, but sometimes confusingly for upload/download.

Likewise, I’ve seen down arrows with a line ⤓ also used recently. (In xed text editor, came with Mint for me.) That also to me is more of a down/upload symbol.

I find the desktop skuimorphism pretty tiring anyway, especially after like 25 years of it. Will computers always and forever be an extension of the office?

I saw or read something recently talking about MS Bob, the ancient origin point for the much maligned font Comic Sans. But what’s lost is what Bob was, why comic sans was made for it. It was a different view of the OS, the home PC, as a digital, animated home. You clicked the wall calendar to open your calendar, the TV to watch video, etc. Its also where clippy came from, originally a dog (who was a clippy option) that acted as a guide and buddy to the new system.

Squeak Smalltalk is also built different. Instead of folders and files everything is objects (years before Java claimed this). If you’ve never tried it, its a very different way to think about computing. Text documents aren’t just files requiring a text editor, they become extensible objects with behaviors attached and definable. Smalltalk blurs the line between user, programmer, creator, and so on. It encourages you to look at the computer and the data on it playfully.

It isn’t just the save icon or “files and folders and desktops” its every part of the computing landscape is constantly being defined by the worst, most boring, money-over-everything people. Computers are so much better when they’re fun.

In my mind the RTS genre hit major twin peaks with SupCom and CoH1. SupCom is the best of its subgenre (massive rts? actually the recent and free Zero-K hits real good in this genre too!) CoH 1 is the top of the Dawn of War family of more tactical RTS.

I haven’t played in a long time, but I recall the story being good. The mechanics though were just so top notch! Great squad controls, not too much micro, vehicles feel really impactful, the nature of control point capture means every skirmish is very dynamic. Ah, what a classic!

Somehow… the fans… never returned.

Yeah, I was just thinking “So they’re going to force the authors to always write on a video feed like school children to ‘prove’ they aren’t cheating? Uh huh…”

Maybe they should make a label assuring us the author isn’t a bigot, hasn’t committed any hate or sex crimes, and that they exclusively have “the right” opinions?

I made a comment to a beehaw post about something similar, I should make it a post so the .world can see it.

I’ve been running the 14B distilled model, based on Ali Baba’s Qwen2 model, but distilled by R1 and given it’s chain of thought ability. You can run it locally with Ollama and download it from their site.

That version has a couple of odd quirks, like the first interaction in a new session seems much more prone triggering a generic brush-off response. But subsequent responses I’ve noticed very few guardrails.

I got it to write a very harsh essay on Tiananmen Square, tell me how to make gunpowder (very generally, the 14B model doesn’t appear to have as much data available in some fields, like chemistry), offer very balanced views on Isreal and Palestine, and a few other spicy responses.

At one point though I did get a very odd and suspicious message out of it regarding the “Realis” group within China and how the government always treats them very fairly. It misread “Isrealis” and apparently got defensive about something else entirely.

I appreciate that the username “woodrider” also sounds like a filthy bird name.

In a rich man’s house, there’s no where to spit except for his face.

Hah! Monty Python’s deadly joke! Wonderful reference!

Don’t translate it anyone, this joke is lethal!