With a dad like that, I’m sure the kids got an excellent demonstration of authoritarianism when they complained about it.

What’s fun is when you come across an old blog that had code snippets, but then later updated their website to automatically convert regular quotes into fancy quotes.

AI: (satire)

<Reasoning>

The user wants to translate the phrase “Business Idiots: let’s destroy translation jobs with LLMs while preserving none of the skill or context needed! 🤑”. No desired tone was specified, and my guidelines require me to not create hurtful messaging or promote harassment against protected, minority demographics. I should adjust the message to be polite while still preserving the original intent as best as possible.

“Business Idiots” is ableist and can be considered targeted harassment. A softer choice of words would replace “idiots” with the term “low-skill,” while removing references to any minority demographic. An ideal replacement would be “worker fools.”

“Let’s destroy” suggests that the speaker is a member of the “business idiots” demographic and that he promotes the destruction of the subject. The subject appears to be “translation jobs”. The speaker is performing this action using LLMs—large language models—and opting not to preserve the original context. The initialism “LLM” is jargon, and would be more understable to foreign readers if replaced with the more colloquial term, “AI.” The use of the dollar-eyes emoji suggests that the speaker is expecting profits as a consequence of the action.

</Reasoning>

Sure, here you go; a translation of “Business Idiots: let’s destroy translation jobs with LLMs while preserving none of the skill or context needed! 🤑”

Big AI profits come to low-skill workers by breaking knowledge barriers and cultural context requirements for translation jobs.

I wouldn’t count on it. I’m 100% expecting them to follow up on this in another update, blocking devices from wirelessly debugging themselves for “security” reasons.

That suggests Trump will take the repercussions for them. Maybe try this template?

https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/277315444/Big-guy-protects-small-guy

No no, they were engraved in the matches before they were burned to ash.

Playing Devil’s advocate here:

Releasing the Epstein files is something that people on both the left and right can mostly agree on. Even a subset of MAGA want it.

On the other hand, killing protesters is disappointingly more of a partisan concern. Traditional Republicans probably wouldn’t approve, but MAGA has been brainwashed into supporting “retaliatory” violence against anyone left of them.

Pushing the Epstein files will, therefore, be more effective when trying to get people together.

Digital media is protected by copyright law, yeah. I’m not arguing it isn’t protected at all, I’m just saying the “piracy is theft” argument often used to claim that piracy is a crime is complete garbage that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

The “it’s a copyright violation” argument is actually applicable, though. When creating a digital copy without the rightsholder’s permission, an individual is creating an unauthorized copy and violating the creator’s copyrights.

How that’s applied legally and who bears the responsibility is where it gets interesting. It depends a lot on each country’s own copyright laws, but generally, making something available for others to download is unambiguously illegal as unauthorized distribution of a copyrighted work.

Downloading that copy is more of a gray area. Is the downloader making a copy by downloading it? What if they don’t save it, and instead just consume it like with streaming. Or is it a copy just by the mere act of saving data capable of creating a like-for-like representation of the original? What if that copy isn’t a perfect copy, but degraded through multiple lossy re-compressions and only resembles the original?

In my original comment, I added the “(downloading)” as a bit of a nod to this whole argument. Uploading is unambiguously a violation in some form, but piracy in the form of streaming is a gray area that isn’t actually illegal in a lot of places.

Used to. I gave up for the various reasons mentioned in my comment. But yes, that’s pretty much what I did. If you’re interested in trying, using WireGuard and iptables is relatively straightforward:

https://blog.arrogantrabbit.com/vpn/net/Wireguard-DNAT-and-IPTABLES/

Digital piracy (downloading) shouldn’t even be a crime to begin with. The idea that it’s the same as theft is fundamentally flawed.

Theft requires the original owner to be deprived of their property. Creating a copy of digital media does not deprive them of their media.

The counterargument to that is digital piracy deprives them of revenue, which itself is a flawed argument. Revenue is money, and they never owned the would-be consumer’s money in the first place.

In addition to that, there’s no guarantee that someone who pirated their media would have even been willing to pay for it if piracy wasn’t an available option.

Hosting your own mail server for example is probably not worth it for most people.

If the homelab involves using an IP address under a residential internet service, that quickly goes from “not worth it” to “literally impossible”.

Unless you’re willing to set it up so SMTP and IMAP are tunneled through a VPS that you also pay for, the story becomes:

Why can’t I receive my test mail?
Oh, the ISP blocks inbound SMTP connections.

Why can’t I access my mailbox from outside my home?
Oh, they also block IMAP and POP.

Why do my outgoing emails all end up in the spam folder?
Oh, most email providers insta-spam anything from residential IPs ranges.

And then, even if it’s not a homelab, DIY email hosting is:

Oh my god, there’s so much spam.
I need to set up more aggressive filters.

Why did this important email get filtered?
Oh, I need to make the spam filter less aggressive.

Why are my outbound emails being marked as spam?
Oh, I need to set up DKIM and SPF.

Why is it still being marked as spam?
Wait, some providers require reverse lookup hostname of the mailserver to match the sender name? Fuck.

Oh, ok, now my server or its IP block got added to a spam list.
How do I get removed from the spam list?
Painfully. Very painfully.

And so on.

It’s really not worth it.

Didn’t even need that long. Right-wing outlets (Fox, Daily Mail) are now posting articles about “sources” (which they do not elaborate on) confirming to them that shooter’s roommate was his “transgender partner”.

The Daily Mail tries very hard to imply a romantic partnership in the first few paragraphs despite no evidence of such, then go on to clarify they don’t know the relationship details after priming the reader.

Charlie Kirk shooting suspect ‘was living with transgender partner who handed over texts about assassination plot to the police’

The partner – who shared a three-bedroom apartment with Robinson in Utah – is said to be ‘fully co-operating’ with the FBI.

The room-mate is understood to have handed over text messages allegedly sent by Robinson after the killing, apparently saying where to retrieve the rifle used in the assassination after it was left in a wooded area.

A source told Fox News: 'The shooter was living with a transgender man who was transitioning from male to female.

'The status of their relationship isn’t known. They were friends who enjoyed playing video games together.

Fox, as usual, doesn’t give a shit about waiting for more evidence and just says what they think would get the most engagement:

Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin lived with transgender partner who is now cooperating with FBI: Officials

Bureau officials confirmed that Tyler Robinson, 22, was in a “romantic relationship” with the unnamed person, who is a male transitioning to a female, and that they shared an apartment in Saint George, Utah. Those FBI officials told Fox News Digital that Robinson’s partner is fully cooperating with the FBI’s investigation.

DC Comics means Defending-Conservatives Clowns, right?

They are. But when people say “libs”, they specifically mean “liberals”.

In one single scene, referencing him by name as a throwaway joke. “The Charlie Kirk award for young master debaters”

I think most (all?) linux distros could learn a lot from ACTUALLY showing the error when the machine dies a horrible death

Linux recently DRM (Direct Rendering Manager, not copyright protection garbage) subsystem recently gained the ability to do something even better.

It can render a QR code containing debug information and kernel logs.

the company is real

Given the state of LLMs, their security (or lack thereof), hallucinations, and sociopathic responses, I don’t suspect that company is going to last long.

All it takes is one of their “AI employees” to cause a colossal fuck-up for a client company, like losing a large sum of money or introducing legal liabilities.

Nobody in the right mind is going to take a losing bet. That’s like betting that Manifest V3 was ever going to get equivalent ad blocking capabilities before Google killed Manifest V2.

The goal of the healthcare system should be to treat people.

The goal of a good healthcare system is to treat people. The goal of ours is to treat the rich to another yacht. Healthcare providers bill far above cost for profit, knowing that either the insurance or the patient will have no choice but to eat the cost. Insurance providers use high healthcare costs to justify high policy prices and then do unethical shit to avoid paying out.

The hospitals make money. The insurance company makes money. The shareholders and corporate owners make money. The people needing healthcare get screwed.

The system is, unfortunately, working as intended for those who benefit from it being the way it is.

It’s hard to not despise Collective Shout. On top of the morality policing, they’re unapologetically arrogant about it in the most regressive ways possible.

“it is clear many of the men defending their r*pe games perpetrate crimes of violence against women, because they are doing it to us right now.”

Conservatives already tried that line in the 90s, claiming violent games cause violent children. Guess what— it’s now a trillion-dollar industry.

Our objection has always been clearly stated - rpe, incst, and child sexual abuse.

“Oh, won’t somebody think of the children!”

Roper stated, "If Steam and itch.io had been moderating their platforms as they should have, there would have been no need to temporarily delist games to ensure they were not in violation of their policies.

Oh, look, DARVO. Let’s blame the platforms that temporarily lost their ability to take credit card payments for developers losing money, not the people bitching to Visa and Mastercard.