This is O’Rly, not O’Reilly. Somebody posted them here a while ago, had me laugh-scrolling for a long while.

Yeah, both the proposal and the tech firms “worry” seem to be double-edged swords.

Just in case it slipped your eyes when you saw “Torvalds”: this is not about the Linux kernel.

Yet they are abundant, esp. with Linux GUIs. Every clock applet has a binary option: digital, analog, binary. And fuzzy, which is what the yellow-haired guy is doing.

As I said in private elsewhere, I do not want any kernel development documentation to be some AI statement. We have enough people on both sides of the “sky is falling” and “it’s going to revolutionize software engineering”, I don’t want some kernel development docs to take either stance.

It’s why I strongly want this to be that “just a tool” statement.

And the AI slop issue is NOT going to be solved with documentation, and anybody who thinks it is either just naive, or wants to “make a statement”.

Neither of which is a good reason for documentation.

As I said in private elsewhere, I do not want any kernel development documentation to be some AI statement. We have enough people on both sides of the “sky is falling” and “it’s going to revolutionize software engineering”, I don’t want some kernel development docs to take either stance.

It’s why I strongly want this to be that “just a tool” statement.

And the AI slop issue is NOT going to be solved with documentation, and anybody who thinks it is either just naive, or wants to “make a statement”.

Neither of which is a good reason for documentation.

🤔 KPop Demon Hunters keep popping up in my social media feeds.

If I, a discerning adult, wanted to get a good impression of the franchise/trend/whatever, and be entertained, what should I watch first?

edit: Oh, I didn’t know that. I thought it was originally a comic or an animated series that had grown into a frachise. Alright, just one movie. Easy.

They cannot hunt moose that don’t go foraging in the sea.

You might be surprised at how many Flock cameras there are in your community. Many large and small municipalities around the country have signed deals with Flock for license plate readers to track the movement of all cars in their city. Even though these deals are signed by local police departments, oftentimes ICE also gains access.

This is so dystopian, even before ICE comes into play.

Because of their ubiquity, people are interested in finding out where and how many Flock cameras are in their community. One project that can help with this is the OUI-SPY, a small piece of open source hardware. The OUI-SPY runs on a cheap Arduino compatible chip called an ESP-32. There are multiple programs available for loading on the chip, such as “Flock You,” which allows people to detect Flock cameras and “Sky-Spy” to detect overhead drones. There’s also “BLE Detect,” which detects various Bluetooth signals including ones from Axon, Meta’s Ray-Bans that secretly record you, and more. (…)

There are several more examples of apps, sites, inventions and FOSS community efforts to deal with surveillance, just read the article. As bad as the circumstances leading to it are, it’s good that such projects get more public attention.

too soon

sorry, I meant ‘AI feature that “undressed” people on command’ (from the article). No idea if it’s an actual button, I don’t use Xhitter. But I edited my comment now.

Cynical take: They only did it openly to draw attention to it & pull in more subscribers. Because you can be sure Xhitter’s clientele loves that feature.

“image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers,” a change from the previous setup in which anyone could summon the system by tagging it in a post and asking for a picture.

But it will certainly drive up subscriptions 😉 … 🤮

Sheesh. So far I thought it’s just one of those things Xhitter’s AI image generator can be told to do. But to have a specific <undress> button feature … 🤮 Was it point-and click even?

Nothing says “we’re for male sexists only, and we know it” like adding a specific <undress> button feature.

I’m the patient in this picture, but it made me laugh hard.

One reason why they were called grotesque in their early days.

In 1984 they had to do it by hand. Now current events are rectified in real time.

It’s Schrödinger’s satire.

Lunduke is mentioned 10s into the video and Linux Sucks is his series of videos.

… “The end of Linux has already happened”, and he’s serious about it, complaining about pretty much everything.

He’s definitely anti-woke in all its colorful facets, self-confesssed “conservative” and hides behind constant “I’m not political” statements to continue pushing clearly political opinion.

He is the Alex Jones of the Linux community.

All this becomes very clear in the first 10 min of the video.

Everybody must jump onto the AI train no matter how often it derails!

So who profits?

The unholy alliance of tech giants and government.

Who loses?

Everybody else. This is US tax money being thrown into a money burning machine.