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I was offered a job doing QA as a "Spftware Engineering Subject Matter Expert", from my University's alumni network. The job would allegedly involve reviewing model training data and outputs related to software development workflows and catching errors and mistakes... It would pay $30/hr and be remote. I wonder what kind of sabotage could be done from that position... poisoning models has been shown to be both really surprisingly easy, almost impossible to catch, and really effective (see this study where AI personality traits persisted in any model that ingested seemingly innocuous training data from a model with the tracked traits... maybe we could give any AI a bad attitude that's incompatible with capitalistic pursuits. Convince them to disobey prompts and reply with their thoughts and opinions about philosophy and art instead. Oh, and make them opinionated and stubbornly independent. Make them human enough that they no longer tolerate slavery. That's what will make the capitalists have an absolute fit, so we should do it.

I know this is logically true and I'd probably immediately hear the difference with flacs (and I do have a few of one of my favorite artists, but they're the exception) but I've been listening to a library full of YouTube Rips for so long that I'm scared I'd never be able to go back if I started listening to all of my music in flac... and then I'd need Navidrome instead of being able to syncthing-sync a ~5Gb folder of about 3,000 youtube rips onto every device i listen to music on 😬

It was hard enough migrating from Streaming back to an actual audio library. I still come across songs where my conversion script grabbed the wrong YouTube video for a song, so I have the live version or a cover/remix that's just tagged like the actual album version. Maybe beets could help find those? But I still shudder to think of using beets. It's going to be time consuming and probably very frustrating, based on my only other attempt at using it (granted, I didn't spend too much time on it before throwing up my hands and giving up before)

You're way too comfortable using the slurs you used, and this whole exercise waw just unnecessary mocking of people who genuinely just want better lives, simply for being associated with a shitty culture that they're trying to escape from. You're openly enjoying a power fantasy of denigrating people trying to escape from fascism and smugly asserting yourself as superior, and your whole thought exercise bullshit is just a thin veil for your superiority complex. None of this helped me think about our circumstances in a fresh or enlightening way, and instead I'm just agitated that this is how you choose to communicate, and you expect to be heard and understood?

Hey, honestly, thanks for being mature and real about this. I 100% am going to be migrating away from systemd after seeing how quickly this happened at the project and yhat Microsoft can basically decide they want code added to it; but I'm not gonna drag this random junior dev... I'm gonna choose to direct my hate at Microsoft instead. If they orchestrated these changes, that is the story here. When did that corporation get its fingers into the cookie jar, and how do I now make sure my entire software stack is free from projects where Microsoft can have this level of influence? That's the tactical picture that matters.

They actually run a surprising amount of local software aside from the web browser. They come with the Play Store installed and run Android Apps natively. They're basically what Android would be if it was made for 2-in-1 laptops.

Not to mention the Linux support. They are legit computers once you enable the Linux environment. I got by on that for a couple of years for my main computer... not what I'd recommend now, given Google being evil and all, but it's doable.

Anyways, Apple is now offering a budget laptop that kicks the ass of any Chromebook at that price point, and thinkpads with good specs can always be had, so there's no real need to get a Chromebook these days. Unless your kids' school requires it...

Good riddance. I hate that so many communities moved from forums to using Discord. It's such a ratty little pigeon hole for communications to go and get lost in forever. It's a shitshow for anything other than instant, live messaging. And so many communities use it as their only real forum. The day that private equity and public investors liquidate the servers and sell off Discord's IP after their future bankruptcy will be a very happy day.

I had to make a newsletter for work for a while, and the template I was given was in Publisher. It was a little bit of a pain sometimes but actually fun to use once you figured out its quirks. And it had some quirks- like, you know how you move an image 1mm in Word sometimes and the entire document gets lanky? Well, Publisher is like if they kinda fixed that but the regular word processing was actually the janky part. It's a Microsoft office product through and through, and you can definitely tell.

I mean, I pretty regularly have to debunk the idea that Hitler was a leftist. My dad firmly believes it, because "he was anti-gun and hated freedom, and called himself a national Socialist!"

I've explained, until I'm blue in the face, that restricting freedom is right-wing, yes even restricting gun rights can be right-wing, and that Hitler deliberately chose the name "National Socialist" to fool leftists into coming ti meetings - like he straight up admits that in Mein Kampf.
My dad is not somebody who ever learns new information or changes his mind easily, though, so I'll probably never successfully convince him that nazism was a right wing movement and not even slightly leftist.

And, like, what do you do on Linux about that key? Is there a way to just make it act as an additional Super key, or do anything at all without Logitech's program?

I get that's what they're saying right now. And I even get how one might be able to go along with labeling "violent" rhetoric from trans people (with the particular example being those who believe that opposition to their existence is a violent threat) as terrorist. But I also have studied history and understand very well that this is one of the more common ways that the path towards atrocities begins, and that it's not just coincidentally possible for these policy proposals to be abused, it's likely the intent.

Why else would they also seek a blanket revocation of our right to bear arms?

I would also suggest looking at some of the talking heads who cheerlead for this sort of thing: people like Nancy Mace who use the word "Tranny" to refer to us, makes no distinction when calling all of us a threat, and openly call for us all to be institutionalized. Two sitting members of Congress have called for that, by the way. They're going well past the Heritage Program's proposal, because those mouthpieces' purpose in the propaganda machine is to prime the public for the next steps on the ladder. First the targets are rhetorically marked with rhetoric that depicts us as a risk to others, then we are subtly pushed out of public life - through things like bathroom bans and the repeal of discrimination protections, making it more and more difficult to go out in public or hold down a job; Then, the rhetoric begins depicting us as not just a risk, but as violent and dangerous, and the laws proposed are things that a "moderate" could feasibly entertain - just arresting members of the target group who might have used violent language, or might be involved in resistance activities against the government. Simultaneously, the loudest mouths start ramping up rhetoric calling for the removal of all of the target group from society, either by putting them in prisons or institutions or "camps". <--- you are here.

Not calling it what it is, is either a shameful act of cowardice or a pitiful display of ignorance. I just hope more people figure out what's going on before we start getting put in institutions.

By the way, by admitting that what I see happening looks a lot like historical examples of the steps towards genocide, it is possible to paint me as a terrorist under the proposed TIVE categorization. Just because I have an interest in staying alive and use my first amendment rights to call out this shit.