jsdz

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    jsdz,

    It was added to the “exclude” list in an apparently unrelated commit three days ago with absolutely no explanation. Glancing at its front page I see nothing objectionable, just a lot of anime stuff. When challenged u/dessalines had nothing to say other than “no, that is full of CSAM” and just closed the discussion without further comment.

    Unless some more info comes to light it does not look good. Probably as good a time as any to depart from lemmy.ml.

    jsdz, (edited )

    I wouldn’t need to be wholly convinced that there’s anything heinous going on over there, just that the person accusing them of it had good reason to think so. So pretty much anything more than no info at all would probably have done the trick. Anyway, thanks for putting up with me for a little while and good luck to everyone at lemmy.ml, but I’m outta here. I’ll probably go try kbin or something.

    jsdz,

    I used it once, as a last resort when I wanted to try some program that had a ridiculous set of build dependencies that was just too much. It was okay, I guess.

    jsdz,

    If everyone on the fediverse goes to google.com right now and searches for “best new iphone car insurance shopping aarp member bad credit” maybe we can save the economy.

    jsdz,

    Who are all these extremist wackos who don’t already want to abolish capitalism?

    Former UK prime minister Boris Johnson said Covid was "nature’s way of dealing with old people" and he agreed that "we should let the old people get it" (www.opendemocracy.net)

    Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s former chief scientific adviser, made the comments in his diary on 14 December 2020, amid a huge Covid wave that led to the third UK-wide lockdown and killed 1,000 people a day at its peak....

    jsdz,

    Amazing how Johnson’s government managed to combine this callous indifference to the fates of its people with one of the most cruel and restrictive “lockdown” regimes in the world, arresting people for going out to walk their dogs and so on. Boris really had a talent for ineptitude that was exceptional even among prime ministers.

    jsdz, (edited ) 
    
<span style="color:#323232;">int is_even(int n)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">{
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    int result = -1;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    char number[8]; //should be enough
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    sprintf(number, "%d", n);
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    // check the number
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    // TODO: handle negative numbers
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    for (char *p=number; *p; p++)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        if (*p=='0' || *p=='2' || *p=='4' || *p=='6' || *p=='8')
</span><span style="color:#323232;">            result = 1;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        else if (*p=='1' || *p=='3' || *p=='5' || *p=='7' || *p=='9')
</span><span style="color:#323232;">            result = 0;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        else {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">           fprintf(stderr, "Your number is wrong!n");
</span><span style="color:#323232;">           exit(1); 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        }
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    }
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    return result;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>

    "Why are we destroying the economy for people who will die anyway soon?" former UK prime minister Boris Johnson said to have asked at the start of the Covid pandemic (www.opendemocracy.net)

    The claim, branded “horrific” by bereaved families, emerged from notebooks kept by Imran Shafi, Johnson’s private secretary for public service, during the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, an investigation that has been set up to examine the UK’s response to and impact of the pandemic....

    jsdz,

    More evidence that all political leaders need someone whose job it is to sneak up on them and whisper “remember, you too will die” whenever they seem in danger of forgetting it.

    jsdz,

    When I played it the answer was to run “SwGame-Win64-Shipping.exe” instead of whatever stupid launcher it tries to load by default.

    jsdz,

    If you really want it right now, many guides for how to compile linux kernels are available. Here’s one.

    jsdz, (edited )

    AI that is used to monitor cameras and identify our faces to track everywhere everyone goes: Why would that concern you? Do you have something to hide, citizen?

    AI that might be used to generate agitprop, competing with conventional advertising: HOLY SHIT we need a new international treaty right away!

    jsdz,

    You might think that things have changed over the years, but I was around in 1995 and I can assure you this looked exactly as ridiculous then as it does now.

    jsdz,

    What’s the difference? They both speak Swahili, right?

    jsdz,

    I have two reactions: 1. The headline is rather silly. 2. There’s no way this little script, although it might conceivably be useful to someone, needs to be a youtube video.

    jsdz,

    XFCE works for me, but I’ve heard that LXDE is pretty good too.

    jsdz,

    Well okay, since it’s up to me: Let’s have free software. Fully free Linux on every phone, including all “firmware” which has gotten awfully soft lately. No more proprietary driver blobs for ethernet controllers or cellular modems. No more proprietary DRM modules. No more “smart” consumer goods that come without source code. The free software revolution has gone pretty well in some respects, but we need to finish the job and put an end to all that garbage.

    jsdz,

    It’s a bank! It’s a dating app! It’s a video hosting service, a town square, a shopping mall, a floor wax AND a dessert topping! Why go anywhere else? Just stare at the middle of the big shiny X until it makes sense!

    jsdz,

    I wonder how disastrously bad things will need to get before it finally breaks through into public consciousness that maybe putting surveillance cameras everywhere was a bad idea. I expect we’ll find out in a couple of decades.

    jsdz,

    It is often heard from non-native speakers and will probably be understood, but in the absence of other context it will be perceived as slightly odd. Perhaps it’s on the way to being widely recognized as fully “correct” but I don’t think it’s there yet.

    jsdz,

    “full-disk encryption” is the search keyword you’re looking for

    jsdz,

    “The point is simple. The CBC itself said that to call Hamas terrorists was to take sides. So if they’re not going to call Hamas a terrorist organization, are they not left taking a side still?”

    This point is remarkable, a truly astounding display of applied logic, but it if we consider it in the effulgent glory of its full implications it does raise one important question for the honourable member: I know you are, but what am I?

    jsdz,

    He’s wrong on both points.

    jsdz,

    gitlab.com/…/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean#instal…

    jsdz,

    It’s yet another scheme to gather data about Chrome users for the benefit of advertisers. Aside from the fundamental problems with that whole idea which people most often point to, it’s also underhanded in a way that cookies, tracking scripts, and browser fingerprinting aren’t: It’s code that’s built in to the web browser itself which exists for no purpose other than to act directly against the interests of its users. It may be the first time that’s happened in such an obvious and unambiguous way.

    jsdz, (edited )

    My time was wasted by LLM-generated nonsense just yesterday. I wanted to know when whistling tea kettles similar to the classic design we know today first became popular. The first search result I got was a 3000-word essay all about the history of kettles, so I started reading. You’ll know you’ve found the same one I did if at various points it claims that the kettle was invented “ca. 8000 BC”, “4000 years ago”, “around 3000 BC”, “15,000 years ago”, and “approximately 906-1127 AD”.

    There are various other inconsistencies and things that make no sense at all by human standards, but it’s written in an authoritative tone, looks pretty nice, and was the first result on my searx instance, appearing in the results from several well-known search engines. It wasn’t immediately obvious to me that it’s all bullshit, and there’s probably at least some truth mixed in there somewhere.

    It’s not exactly something to panic over I’d say, but it sure is annoying.

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