The murder of 8-year-old Gretchen Harrington shook Marple Township, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia. Authorities say the man recently confessed.
On the one hand I'm glad his conscience finally got the best of him.
On the other hand he walked as a free man for 48 years after committing a heinous murder. There's not really a commensurate punishment for that level of depravity.
I have a difficult time believing this. While I agree that Windows has definitely shit the bed and has been on a consistent downward spiral ever since they moved past Windows 7, I am also aware of the fact that organizations have a I can't think of the specific word for it they just have this organizational slothiness, an inability to innovate or change that is deeply ingrained into their structure.
Organizations treat software like concrete. You set it in place and then you never ever change it again until it completely crumbles and has to be drilled out with a jackhammer.
Even if every single person in the organization can you use Apple products or Linux products with perfect alacrity and competence, there are people who will not change unless they are forced to change and the force needed to make that change is just as large as the force needed for them to quit their current positions and go and work for someone else that is not changing.
The only way for this level of change to happen will be for an entirely new system to come into place that is easier to implement than maintaining the current system, and being as that many large industries still use 50 year old software I don't see that happening.
Also, since back when I last looked for youtube alternatives, many that seemed good turned out to use things like NFT and the sort, I feel compelled to ask:...
I have tried using peertube a couple of times, there are some good videos there but it's also a place where, and this is my personal opinion, the wackadoos gather, because there's less quality content shouting them out.
It could be a viable YouTube replacement but it needs a lot of independent server hosts federating the content so that you get quality of speed and playback and it needs more people posting content to that.
In other words it's halfway there, but it needs participation, money and development to get the rest of the way.
I’m in the post-ban blackpilled mode right no so please forgive me. I know reddit is falling apart but it isn’t happening fast enough. Is there any hope that the whole site will be destroyed? I really just want the whole site / app completely destroyed and thew Vichyite mods unable to have their power trips anymore.
I left the site when they announced the API changes and honestly it's kind of like coming down off of a drug. I was so used to filling my free time by just Doom scrolling through Reddit and without rif to make it easy for me it just isn't worth the effort. I'm not going to use their shitty app, I'm not going to browse their mobile site, and I'm not going to support a company that doesn't listen to its users.
I don't use Facebook or any meta products for that reason.
I don't shop at Walmart for similar reasons. I don't shop at Amazon for similar reasons. I don't shop at home Depot for similar reasons. Vote with your wallet, vote with your time, and that's not just at the polls but in your daily life.
You may be a drop in the bucket but don't be a drop in a bucket of gasoline when the world is already on fire.
I've used shotcut quite a bit. It's pretty decent, my only gripe with it is that it's ability to handle captions is fairly terrible but if you have an alternate method for captioning then it's everything most people would need.
That was a hell of a ride. I probably should have been high or something watching it but it was interesting.
Apparently the town that was that this movie was filmed in had a massive explosion of new births 9 months after this film was filmed, apparently everybody and their brother were all getting high and humping like bunnies throughout the entire filming and it makes me wonder how many bastard children of Sean Connery are currently living in Ireland
After the ban of the c/christians community for having a rule against LGBTQ+ content. I wonder where is the actual line of what is allowed and what is not on this instance. (lemmy.world/post/1762563)...
Precisely. They are banned for being intolerant, and any tolerant community must not tolerate the intolerant.
This is called the paradox of tolerance. If the tolerant people do not eliminate or rid themselves of the intolerant people then eventually the intolerant people will rise up and destroy the tolerant people. The only way to prevent either of those two extremes from happening is to not tolerate the intolerant.
If you fail to do that you cannot have a lasting tolerant community.
Plus I honestly want to know what the fuck these dumbass Christians think they're doing by ostracizing and excluding people from their community when by Christ's own teachings you're not supposed to do that.
He hung out with the tax collectors and the prostitutes and showed them love and acceptance and mercy and compassion and as Christians you are supposed to act like Christ so how about you stop finding reasons to hate and to wage non-violent culture wars or violent wars against people who you think are going to hell.
What do you achieve?
Do you think God's going to give you an extra shiny Gold pip star on your lapel because you bullied a trans person into committing suicide?
You think he's going to give you a pat on the back when you kick your child out of the house and disown them for being gay?
Any Christian that really thinks about it, just really takes just one good solid day to think about it would realize they're not being very Christian when they choose to hate.
You could have a divorce before Jesus died for your sins too. It's just you're no longer going to go to hell for it.
But in one of the books I want to say Paul maybe Ephesians talks about this specific issue and he says that by that measure shouldn't we sin all the more so that Grace can abound all the more, and of course the answer is no.
And if you put bacon on top of it, cook it yourself on a Friday night while wearing cotton underwear and polyester shorts, you can easily commit four sins before dinner
Especially if they are in competing sects of the Almighty Pinhead and one side says that it's obviously 69 angels that can fit on the head of a pin and the other side says it's 420 angels that can fit on the head of a pin, and then just around the corner there's another one who says that the first two people are stupid because Angels wouldn't hang out on the head of a pin because their wings would get in the way
I've thought for a while that one of the main things that AI, at least current generation AI lack is what I call statefulness.
And what I mean by that is every human being has a set of information that they believe to be true and ideas and ideals that they try to uphold even if there is a negative cost attached to that.
For instance many guys will stand up to someone being loud and abusive in a bar even though they know that they could ultimately end up getting their ass kicked or get into a fight or get kicked out of the bar for doing so, and the likelihood of receiving any kind of reward from any external source is slim to none.
Current generation AI has none of that. Its only incentive is to arrange the words that it can arrange into a pattern that pleases the script it was given.
Every AI of the current generation needs another AI attached to it that reminds it of what it knows to be true it the state of its current beliefs, and the internal societal rules that it follows.
Rules such as, "don't make up information, verify the facts that you share with other people before sharing them, and keep these important parts of the current prompt in mind as you are generating your answer, don't go off script".
This secondary like morality AI or conscience AI is something that the current generation lacks and I hope the next generation begins to develop such a thing because otherwise AI is only a very fancy toy.
As an aside from that, those are the two things that I feel that trying to create a digital clone of myself would require.
I could quite easily you know start working on a list of movies I've watched and shows I've watched in music I've listened to and stories I've written and posts I've made online and books that I've read and get a general idea of the range and width and breadth of my knowledge bases. I could tell it what I think about the people I know and tell it the stories of my life and my childhood as I remember them, and even though that would be rather time-consuming it would be plausible.
The tough part of generating a digital me would be ensuring that the digital version of myself has the same mors that I have because often I do not know what more as I have until I'm in a situation where I need to exercise them and conjuring that information up on the fly would be very difficult to say the least.
Google abandoned the principles that made them a linchpin of mid early 2000s internet. They have betrayed the people that use their services to worship mammon in the search of the almighty dollar.
It is just and fair that scammers have utilized their own search engine optimization dark patterns to completely destroy their utility, and Google has been implicitly accepting and promoting their practices in order to sell more AdWords.
This is not a case of some high empire being besieged by barbarians at the gate. This is the consequences of the people voting for The leopards eating faces party being really upset when their faces are getting eaten by leopards.
Google needs to die so that a new search engine can arise from its ashes. AdWords needs to die so that a new consumer focused ad management system can arise from its ashes.
And honestly the current incarnation of the internet has gone through its awkward teenage phase and is now a young adult that thinks it knows what's best for itself and everyone else and still has a lot of growing to do even though it is not aware of that.
AI is not going to save the internet. Corporations are not going to save the internet. And if the internet does not learn how to save itself it's going to be relegated to obscurity, and instead of being a nigh-infinite collection of interesting web pages to browse through it will become merely the backbone of apps on people's phones.
Reminds me of a story I read about how if you had a can of food and bacteria got into it, and every day the bacteria doubled in size, and somehow this bacteria had conversations with itself with all of the other bacterias in the can about how long the food would last.
How long would it be before everything ran out?
At some point, the smart bacteria would stand up and say, "Hey, my fellow Amoebas, we've used 1/4 of all of the food in the can! If we're not careful and if we don't manage our resources we will run out of food!"
And the politician bacteria would say, "Don't worry, everyone, we have 3 times as much food as we've ever used in all the months of our existence still in the can!"
And the bacteria was fruitful, and multiplied.
And when they hit the halfway mark the next day, the smart bacteria would stand up and say, "Hey my fellow Amoebas, we've used half of all of the food in the can! If we're not careful and if we don't manage our resources we will run out of food!"
And the bacteria politicians would say, "Everyone! Don't worry! We still have as much food left as we have used in our entire existence to this point!"
And the bacteria was fruitful, and multiplied.
And then another day passed, and all of the bacteria died.
I’ve seen lists of songs with deep lyrics, songs that are upbeat but depressing at the same time, songs not on the radio, and other things like that… But I have never seen a list of songs that are just super fun to sing....
I pulled that off at an impromptu outdoor karaoke event and I had 55-year-old men running up to the screen to check and make sure I wasn't just making up the lyrics as I went.
I think there is a line, and it's different for every person, but on one side of the line to lift other people up you would have to sacrifice your own life velocity, and on the other side of the line you have the power to lift tens of hundreds or thousands of people out of poverty without impacting more than a fraction of your children's inheritance.
I understand that there are issues with unchecked charity, for instance, if Bill Gates suddenly decided to take I don't know 25 billion dollars and distribute it equally to everybody in the 50% or below category of America which is about 250 million people, then he would basically be giving these people a hundred bucks each and saying "there I've done my job I gave up 30% of my net worth to help the poor" and that really wouldn't accomplish anything.
But that same $25 billion targeted at the bottom 1% of America I could do quite a bit but then there's overhead. Buying houses and repairing them for people to solve the homelessness problem or purchasing all of the debt that you could possibly buy for $25 billion and then forgiving that debt for the poorest people, those things could be better and do more for people but then you have administrative overhead finding and communicating with the debtors and negotiating with them, and then at the end of it it's likely that you would get a massive tax right off cuz you wouldn't do this as an individual you do it as a nonprofit, and then bill would get back 8 billion of that in tax rebates or so.
Like there is obviously a line on both sides and while I don't think people making you know even 200 Grand a year should put themselves at risk for homelessness in order to justify their financial status I also don't think that any billionaire has any right to strive to continue being a billionaire for the rest of their lives. If you cannot live a happy life on a billion dollars then you cannot live a happy life.
Political affiliation is not a protected class in America.
If your religion says that supporting religions that do not support lgbtq people is a sin then that is also a protected action, and thanks to the Bill of Rights Congress cannot enact a law against the formation of a religion.
I am neither gay nor a pastafarian, but I can claim to be a gay pastafarian and discriminate against non-gay non-pastafarians in regards to whether or not I allow them to partake in my gay noodly business practices.
Civil rights groups and Democrats reacted angrily to the US supreme court decision in favor of the Colorado web designer Lorie Smith, who argued she had a first amendment right to refuse to provide services for same-sex marriages. Critics of the court’s decision say it ushers in a new era of prejudice in America....
Yep, this ruling allows everyone else to refuse service for MAGAts and Fundies and Tankies and anyone else whose stance we don't like.
I'll be hanging out a sign that says, "check one before shopping" with a check board that says, "Fuck All Republicans" next to one check and "I refuse to shop here" next to the other next time I'm at the swap meet.
And if they check "I refuse to shop here" then I will refuse to sell to them.
There is a reason why in courts of law, experts that are called on to testify over facts in front of people who are not experts on the fact have to bring their curriculum vitae and their resume and provide sources to prove how they are experts in this field.
Because I know I can talk about just about any topic and sound like I know what I'm talking about when I really don't and if I can do it I'm willing to bet half the rest of the world could do it too.
I would love to actually see debates between experts in the field on topics that I know little about but I don't know a good place to find that kind of quality content.
Like here's a good one, how does magnetism work?
Like, I'm cut above some people in that I understand that it has to do with the field alignments of the electrons in ferromagnetic particles, and how when those particles are in the correct alignment the electromagnetic fields of each individual atom end up amplifying each other, standing on the shoulders of giants, one wave sitting on top of another wave sitting on top of another wave where their peaks keep adding up.
Great. I got that much.
But what is it about that that causes them to draw one another together? What is it about them that causes them to induce electron movement and electromagnetic braking force in semi-ferromagnetic materials? I don't know. I would love to hear experts tell me the things that I don't know about and to tell me where the current points of disagreement are based on the best measurements that we've been able to take so far but I do not know where to go to find that information.
Jury Decides Ammon Bundy Must Pay More Than $50M for Defaming Hospital (www.thedailybeast.com)
The anti-government leader waged a crusade over treatment of an ally’s grandson, known as Baby Cyrus.
Former pastor arrested in 1975 murder of young girl walking to his church (www.nbcnews.com)
The murder of 8-year-old Gretchen Harrington shook Marple Township, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia. Authorities say the man recently confessed.
Windows won't dominate enterprise in a decade, says outgoing Jamf CEO (appleinsider.com)
Is PeerTube a good Youtube alternative?
Also, since back when I last looked for youtube alternatives, many that seemed good turned out to use things like NFT and the sort, I feel compelled to ask:...
Reddit Refugee here venting
I’m in the post-ban blackpilled mode right no so please forgive me. I know reddit is falling apart but it isn’t happening fast enough. Is there any hope that the whole site will be destroyed? I really just want the whole site / app completely destroyed and thew Vichyite mods unable to have their power trips anymore.
Linux - video editing software?
Hello Kbin,...
What are some interesting mystery or scifi movies from 60s or 70s?
Here are some of mine ......
Is hate speech against religious people acceptable?
After the ban of the c/christians community for having a rule against LGBTQ+ content. I wonder where is the actual line of what is allowed and what is not on this instance. (lemmy.world/post/1762563)...
Sin rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Monks (lemmy.world)
You can't uninstall this software without being forced to participate in their survey (lemmy.world)
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newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request (newpipe.net)
For the fourth day in a row, Earth has broken or equalled its hottest average temperature record (www.abc.net.au)
The planet’s average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, surpassing the 17.18C record set on Tuesday and equalled on Wednesday.
What are some fun songs to sing karaoke to?
I’ve seen lists of songs with deep lyrics, songs that are upbeat but depressing at the same time, songs not on the radio, and other things like that… But I have never seen a list of songs that are just super fun to sing....
Introducing Crackpipe - your decentralized, self-hosted gaming solution! (crackpipe.de)
Hey folks,...
Can a rich person be a good person?
I don't mean doctor-making-150k-a-year rich, I mean properly rich with millions to billions of dollars....
Businesses can discriminate against their customers? Alright then... (lemmy.world)
Welp, I just deleted my 12 year old, 240k+ karma Reddit account
I was sort of holding on to hope, that something would change. Unfortunately, nothing did and so, here I am....
‘A dangerous step backwards’: outrage at supreme court’s LGBTQ+ rights ruling (www.theguardian.com)
Civil rights groups and Democrats reacted angrily to the US supreme court decision in favor of the Colorado web designer Lorie Smith, who argued she had a first amendment right to refuse to provide services for same-sex marriages. Critics of the court’s decision say it ushers in a new era of prejudice in America....
Joe Rogan wants a "debate" on vaccine science. Don’t give it to him. How to have better conversations about contentious scientific subjects. (www.vox.com)