There's a tech podcast I listen to, where one of the hosts can't resist injecting LLM comments into the conversation no matter how relevant it is to the conversation.
At first I could easily ignore it, as it was novel, but now it feels so forced that I'm tempted to skip every episode where they are one of the hosts.
@exa No, I think flattening our political discourse to a single axis has done a lot of damage. There is much more to ones political view than just left/right. There's progressive vs conservative, authoritarian vs libertarian (not the right wing weirdos that want to remove the age of consent) and more.
But no, we can't have nuance, so just left vs right it is.
@ainmosni yeah. Interesting concept though, the axes are a useful generalization scheme for ideas but we've got these camps fighting then... Maybe overgeneralization is driving the issue.
( btw sorry I was switching my orig reply to quiet mode and it somehow broke the post linking :( )
Even ignoring the super scary impact #ChatControl, and other attempts at destroying our digital privacy, will have, it also won't stop what they claim that they want to stop.
The people that this will mainly affect are normal innocent people, and a few of the dumber criminals.
People who care about their privacy will find ways around it, and some of those will sell these workarounds to criminals and probably get rich from it.
But they don't really want this to stop crime, do they?
I just searched #DuckDuckGo for "Awesome Selfhosted", and noticed that the image result section was all blurred out. Turns out all the non-safe image results for that term are all porn. wtf?
So, the #Netherlands now has selected a prime minister for its new fashy govt. The new PM is not part of any party, and headed up the intelligence agency and the anti-terrorist agency. That doesn't sound foreboding at all...
@Raffo NL is pretty efficient, but let's just say trying to get citizenship there is going to get a lot less fun there soon, especially if you aren't white.
If you're interested in trying #Linux, feel free to ask me any questions about it. I've been on it since the late 90s, so there's a decent chance I can answer your questions.
These days, most distributions are pretty easy. I personally prefer Fedora for having a nice release cadence while not doing whatever Ubuntu is doing lately, but I wouldn't recommend it for someones first just because it leaves off some proprietary things out of legal caution.
Sure, it's not hard to add, but it's an annoyance I wouldn't like to bother new users with.
The Dutch VVD being kicked out of the EU liberals for joining a coalition with the Dutch fash, and the German fash AfD being kicked out of the EU far-right for being too much even for LePen are things that slightly cheer me up.
@adnan There's a reason I said "slightly". We're not out of the woods by a long shot, but seeing some in-fighting amongst the right is not a bad thing.
Agreed, and author is a much nicer term. Content and content creator puts the agency and importance on the place that holds the content more than on the actual creator of said content.
@ainmosni
probably the only thing people call themselves that's more cynical late-stage capitalism than "content creator" is "influencer".
OTOH, probably many influencers really are not much more than content creators, because they produce nothing of value, only covert advertising and bullshit
On Saturday, I was invited by a #German friend to come over for an asparagus dinner.
For those who don't know, Germans go absolutely WILD for asparagus around this time of year.
I was a bit nervous. as I never liked asparagus, so in the 8 years of living here, I just never joined in #spargelzeit. So this would be the first time I tried them here.
Well, I've been missing out, it was super delicious, and I wonder what was wrong with all the other asparagus meals I had before.