Atticus

i’ve been a linux guy for almost two decades and these days i do most computing on a mac precisely because linux never gets out of your way unless you move it out of your way. still do plenty of that but not for regular stuff, just servers, networking, etc

that CRT is a Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2070SB, one of the nicest PC monitors ever made. this room is a palace, hikikomori mess be damned

the hype has to die for the few real use cases to be realized

i do think the underlying tech will be useful for things where fast approximate analysis on huge datasets is valuable over much more time- and resource-intensive manual analysis, like in weather forecasting, but that sure isn’t how it’s being marketed or developed right now

yep. used it once, it spat out a lot of factual-looking information and i went “damn i don’t know enough on this topic to verify this, this is worse than the attribution problems with wikipedia” and never touched it again.

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a pi-hole doesn’t really work if your connection is mobile, you could try something like adguard’s public DNS servers

android, firefox mobile has ublock origin (you lose the app features, but hey no ads), or you can use an app like newpipe, revanced, or skytube

ios, most of the adblock extensions are pretty limited in scope, i’d recommend something like a pi-hole to block at a network level

iphone or android?

and survival mode is antithetical to everything you’re “supposed” to do to escape homelessness. you’re not ironing your clothes when food is scarce, you’re not putting in job applications when you can’t find a place to sleep, you’re not opening bank accounts when you’ve been harassed by cops

i should clarify that the global north accepting refugees has never been out of the “goodness of their hearts” because such a concept doesn’t exist for governments - it is, at best, a display of soft power, but most often it’s simply allegiance with one side of a conflict

and at that point the global economic fallout from the total collapse of the US could be so bad that nowhere could AFFORD to take us on for many years if we’re not going to be an immediate net benefit to them

almost nowhere, even in the global north, is gonna let someone in out of the goodness of their hearts. the US will need to be a blasted-out hellhole with no functioning infrastructure or government for other nations to take us on as a gesture of goodwill

China will want talent - engineers, scientists, doctors, architects - and people who will fit the cultural values of the Chinese government, which will be people who wouldn’t really need to flee the US in the first place.

compiling the beef history is the first symptom of poster’s madness

historically countries that have given asylum to americans have only done so to further political grievances, like Russia with Snowden. not countries who could actually stand to lose something beefing with the US! you’re gonna have to immigrate legally if you want out of the US!

we don’t, that’s how you get Encyclopedia Dramatica and we all know how that turned out

there was a car i’d see parked at the supermarket with several bad dragon stickers on the back window and one day i saw it and they had all been scraped off. who snitched? they were out there living their best life and someone had to go and ruin it

now he looks like matt smith

admittedly microsoft would have probably sued it into oblivion in the late 90’s/early 00’s for using “Live”

honestly writing the js for pghrt.diy in typescript and transpiling it just to have the js be trans too is a pretty good bit

one of Brendan Eich’s endless sins, interpreted languages don’t have to be dogshit but javascript was the wrong thing at the right time and now we’re all doomed to suffer because of it. i hear typescript is better but i don’t know if it conclusively solves this (it transpiles to js)

can’t believe we’ve reached a point where “woke A. Wyatt Mann” is something that occurred organically and isn’t a rightwing psyop

“person experiencing mass scrutiny”

oh god

call that a hank. hanking off. having a hank. hanking it like it owes me money.

i have long argued that a businessman in a sufficiently starched suit can be considered a burrito

this would have sounded a lot better without the typo. oh well!

the soil of literacy and critical thought is fallow, the last harvests left to rot in the granaries of academia

it’s the small things i’ve noticed accumulating, the plural apostrophe-S, the “breath” instead of “breathe”, the syntactical detritus edging its way into everyone’a writing regardless of their acumen or education