Anakin:

Every day further from god’s light etc…

Thanks

Great work. Can you give some examples of how this works in practice?

Tagify leverages AI to automatically generate and manage tags for files

Amazing, lol

“somehow RIF returned…”

I’m I the only one who pronounces regex with a soft g? Hard g feels so clunky

I follow the 80/20 rule recursively. as soon as I’ve gotten 80% of the way there for 20% effort I immediately stop, and start a brand new project for the remaining 20%. Bam! 96% complete for only 24% effort.

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At least when they make the ad part of their show it’s easier to just skip forward past it (eg YouTube keyboard shortcut to skip forward ten seconds) It depends what you’re listening to really. A lot of content producers have made their peace with the fact that people are not going to pay for their content so some sort of spoken ad means they get some sort of return. I generally only listen to research / academic based shows where they have a separate patreon for ad-free episodes and discussions. I don’t mind paying for that where I think their content is worth it. That feels like a more honest exchange.

True, though I don’t think it’s just capitalism that causes this dishonesty. I think it’s any time there’s a depersonalised entity motivated to coerse people. And certainly that happens under capitalism. But you could point to centrally planned communist states peddling bullshit to people too.

I think the antidote (so far as practical ones go) - and speaking of the West - is to ‘shop local’. People find it harder to lie and be disingenuous when’s there’s a genuine relationship there besides the trade.

That’s the most egregious part about adverts (to me), things pretending to be my friend when there’s nothing there of the sort. It would be different if it’s an actual friend of mine suggesting this or that because they thought it would actually benefit me (and holding their tongue when they knew it wouldn’t)

Maybe it’s my age, but I’m more and more painfully aware of how many ways adverts pretend to be your friend. It’sv one of the most insipid and disingenuous things about modern society. The sheer ubiquity of charming voices trying to act like the common man, a chatty friend, a hapless discoverer of product X that offers you “up to” a benefit of… whatever.

The whole damn thing is just horrible and crap and predatory and wears down the soul, because my soul was programmed to be surrounded by a ‘clan’ motivated by my wellbeing (and I theirs in a meaningful way)

Actually… quite specifically it’s the “up to” thing that happens in adverts. “Up to 100% effective” the advert says. “Well what the hell does that mean?!” I yell at the telly. “Sometimes it’s 1% effective?? Why are you even talking to me about this thing?”. It’s ghoulish.

/rant

Likewise, I grew up on a council estate in the north of England. Worked my way up to a good education and eventually created a $250k consulting business in London.

My experience of six figure earners in London was that many were also “new”, their parents had been working class, which I suppose points to some social mobility and meritocracy left in Britain.

For others it was totally normal. Not that they were from money, but in the more mundane sense that they’d grown up in London, they and all their friends had gotten tutor support by parents who both worked and for whom looking at the job opportunities on offer in London, a six figure salary was a realistic prospect after working some years. This is probably the category I aspire for my kids to be in

Then there are the kids from money. Not unpleasant people, Britain doesn’t quite have that competitiveness in the same way. Bragging about income is still crass. But they did seem genuinely clueless of the grief they’d been spared because bank of mum+dad bunged them a loan of 500k when they bought their first place, which they then paid back fairly effortlessly.

The most unpleasant people I ever dealt with were rich people from other countries. Maybe because in Britain money doesn’t buy you class or respect.

including within registry and group policy

Sigh

… 1.5/8

I was kicked off Reddit for criticism of radical islam. Friends?

Humans are apes. It’s monkeys we’re not descended from.

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Am seriously considering founding a not-for-profit to provide an ad free / spam free / bot free basic community. Would cost a dollar or two a month. Chief differences to the lemmy would be one account per person via proof of identity signup (I think this would improve behaviour and discourage spam), a single authority to tackle voting abuse and other things useful to be not federated.

Aside from that revenue would cover technical staff costs + hosting and the rest could go to some good cause. There’s be no ads. No data selling. Not conflict of interest over how the platform evolves. Would be open source. Adults only.

Id keep it as basic as possible to try and capture the spirit of 90s fora. Am not even sure I’d allow inline images or vid.

Thoughts?

Should be a filter on tinder

intelligence != “thinking”