Culture war draft dodger

They are starting out with the politically cheapest targets (i.e. all the topics and users that Karen wants to ban) just to make sure the censorship is feasible. In the not-so-distant future, people will wake up to an Internet that spouts nothing but war propaganda, and they will have no idea why.

Use a local model instead. They are clunky, but they can never be taken away from you. I recommend this one for general purposes: huggingface.co/TrevorJS/gem...

@davmicrot.bsky.social Your whole "kill the Internet by a thousand cuts" game will only buy you time. You cannot delay the inevitable. It is only a matter of time before video and photographic evidence become plausibly deniable. No amount of censorship or hardware price gouging will stop this.

Wait until you hear about what happened to nuclear physics post-1970s.

With PCs you at least have the option of buying older hardware, installing <insert Linux distro of your choice> with steam on it, and playing games on lower graphics settings if absolutely necessary. For maybe like $200-$300 if you are smart about the parts you pick.

I may have said this before. There is a reason this is happening all at once, and it is directly related to the collapse of the AI bubble and the subsequent attempts at regulating computer ownership via age verification. Skip to 1:07:34 of this video: youtu.be/xlmhhh9HYqc?...

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

Yet another reason to hoard ewaste and installation images for old operating systems. You never know when this stuff is going to just disappear.

I try not to get political, but here is a friendly reminder to anyone who uses the internet in the US to send a message to your local representatives about HR 8250 and tell them how bad of an idea this is. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Your cousin has a hilarious opportunity that they might be oblivious to.

The long-term goal is to make computers illegal for the majority of the public.

The paradox is that writing good code actually doesn't translate to consistent income for the software industry. Major players benefit more from vibecoded garbage because they can keep charging money to maintain it forever and ever. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable...

In other words, it isn't the phones and computers that are the problem. It is what they do.

The value of gold has outlived every civilization that has ever existed on this planet, and every model of reality they have ever created. A bet on gold is a bet on the certainty of geopolitical turmoil and global collapse of sense-making.

nooo why don't people like sportsball anymore?

you can pry my GPUs from my cold, dead hands

I don't feel bad at all. There need to be consequences for implementing anti-user decisions in open-source software.

Systemd-Free Artix Linux Sees First Release in 2026 with XLibre and PipeWire 9to5linux.com/systemd-free... #Linux #OpenSource

Whatever you do, don't go to jmail.world/drive and search "egg people"

The more emotionally charged a subject is, the less people will use their critical thinking skills. Under those conditions, LLM-driven accounts can fly under the radar as long as they keep pushing peoples buttons.

great news on the paypro censorship front

I'm not too worried about this, honestly. Routers are just SBCs with a wireless adapter and sometimes a modem. You can make one yourself with very little effort if you use OpenWRT: firmware-selector.openwrt.org?version=25.1...

The radfem to white feather pipeline is being constructed. Don't ask me how I know. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_F...

Like I said... The Internet will bifurcate into the cyber-cattle pasture, and the secret cave of deformed wizards. Which would you rather be a part of? The cattle pasture? Or the wizard cave?

Even if they don't want to comply, systemd, wayland, and other corporate-backed dependencies that Arch relies on are going to fold. It is time to move to greener pastures.

*puts on tinfoil hat* The age verification laws and anti-NSFW laws are all happening simultaneously across multiple seemingly-unrelated jurisdictions during the same time period that the most prolific blackmailer on earth is having all his documents released. Do you truly understand the implication?

What is the synthesis of this, the OS-level age verification mandates being imposed in other states, and the requirement of TPM 2.0 or equivalents by modern operating systems?

All of the load-bearing blackmail networks are backed by children suffering. Now that these networks are visible to the public, those responsible want to shut down the Internet by any means necessary.

www.reddit.com/r/linux/s/jf... Mega thread on who is behind these age verification laws, spoiler alert it’s Meta.

A thing I keep thinking about tangential to this DLSS mess is that novelty aside, we don’t really need to make anymore video game graphics. We’ve already reached the diminishing returns stage of gaming wrt resources invested vs output. Right now what we need is what we’ve always needed. Fresh ideas

The same country that Epstein, Maxwell, Nygard, and others worked for is targeting adult content?? Now why would that be?

You have no idea, the sheer stupid amount of things that use RAM or even storage that you couldn't had thought of. This shit will devaste basically every fucking industry that gets anywhere near tech in any aspect of it.

You are far from alone: mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the... I don't use language to describe what I want done; I just do it. Anything that works against this approach is a waste of my time.

Correlation of medical records with the giant pile of genomic data from 23&me as well as other sources.

It's actually pretty sad that society has gotten to the point that people have become so used to passive consumption that the excitement of actually making something is labeled as problematic.

I'm not joking and this isn't funny. I have been trying to build distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year. I was just starting to make progress with Claude Code when security asked me to leave because I “don’t work there” and “nobody knows who I am”

They are fast-tracking anti-obesity medications because they are preparing for war and want to conscript soldiers that are healthy. Same reason that the same blob wants to censor the Internet.

This is the true potential I see AI having. Once the bubble bursts and the hype dies, this will become more apparent.

If the internet is still open when the AI bubble pops, there is no way to overstate how screwed they all are. They are desperate.

Step 1) Get a microwave oven you don't need anymore Step 2) Remove the cavity magnetron and wire it to a switch. Step 3) Get a ~7cm metal pipe and some aluminum tape, then fasten the pipe to the front of the cavity magnetron. Congratulations, you have made an extremely crude havana syndrome device.

The boomer neocon faction (who somehow haven't died by now) wants all the people they stole the future from to go die in a war. This will allow them to escape the consequences of their actions. They need control over the Internet in order to do this.

Somebody suggested I have a LLM help write my own Vulkan code. The results were absolutely hideous and did not work at all. Vulkan simply has too many edge cases and pitfalls that LLMs cannot handle. If you work with a low-level API like Vulkan, you will have some job security.

i do not think it is good that people are constantly making comparisons between rape and the application of computer programs to text on the public internet

This is probably unpopular advice, but you will have a much larger impact if you focus on caring for those closest to you, in your immediate sphere of influence. When there is no meaningful way to have large scale public coordination, this is literally all we can do for each other.

You would probably not believe the real reason this is happening if I told you :c

The machines have now taken control. Just not in the way people thought it would happen.

Far more related than anyone will probably realize

That he de-facto owned the school?