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  • “algotythm right right themself notoces thier” to you too. Not sure what language you’re using there, it’s reminiscent of Latin though.

    Also of course it’s not just about me, but it helps to put yourself in the shoes of those that will be impacted by this thoughtless censorship law, to try on their perspective for a change. I know that if this impacted me as a kid it would’ve been fucking awful for reasons I stated prior. You’ve given no rebuttal to this, so I won’t bother waiting for one, or for you to learn to type coherently for that matter.

    Also how fucking gross of you to even attempt to conflate something as inconsequential as cyberbullying with real life physical violence. Literally if you don’t like the internet just turn the screen off and go outside. I had no such option.

    And it’s not the youth that’s falling for right-wing propaganda, and never has been, look at the data and the polls - almost all right-wing voters are gen-x and boomers. The kids are fine, the call is coming from inside the house.




  • I was a kid in rural UK surrounded by bucktooth hillbillies and the only reason I found out about gender dysphoria and transitioning was 4chan, if I didn’t bypass the multiple blocks the school had to find like-minded people across the globe id have offed myself.

    For the non-typical individuals this could be a horrible thing and cut them off from the only people that might actually seem like people to them.

    That was the beauty of the internet, no matter where you are, you could find some people like you online, even if everyone else around you does not even understand what being gay is etc.

    This wasn’t the 90s either, this was like 2016.

    It doesn’t even have to be so dramatic, I have never met anyone IRL that didn’t seem like a complete alien roaming about untethered in society, no clue about the news, no clue about much of anything, they can’t name media they like, but I don’t, and they don’t have any hobbies, even my cat had stronger opinions on stuff.

    You’d be lucky if they like sports but they don’t even talk about it that much. It’s like an LLM struggling to keep up generating responses as I keep talking to it or something.

    Heck I’ve definitely had more interesting convos with a Mistral-7b I used to run locally trained off my own WhatsApp messages and there was literally nothing new to me that she could say, (and unlike corpo yesmen LLMs she even pushed back when I tried to make her agree with me that I’m a deep sea isopod, she will be missed RIP).

    Online people always seemed more real, actually aware of stuff, they had hobbies, opinions, dreams, thoughts about the world. This even extends to people I then went on to meet IRL after finding them online, whether it be dating apps or whatever.

    All I feel is sorry for those kids, they’ll be miserable, cut off from the world for no real reason other than that the boomers are a massive voter bloc and they should’ve never had the internet because it fried their brains to high heaven, but cutting off their internet access is political suicide, and the government doesn’t want to sit around doing nothing, so they do this, the exactly wrong thing possibly, all while young people have always seemed to suffer no ill effects from the internet.

    Idk what it’s like in Australia but in the UK basically everyone above the age of 50 in polls is some hard right racist, and everyone below is half-decent. Problem is there’s more of them than us, so we’re just doomed.


  • I’m always pro-information availability, so this sucks, I hope the repo was archived and returns and the FOSS paradigm proves resistant to harassment and the repo finds a new home.

    I think the title of this thread is a tad inflammatory though, as for the quality of AI code, I mean, tbqh it’s more an issue of maintainers and standards. I’ve seen plenty of code written by flesh and blood people they themselves couldn’t explain either. Like if there was LLM code in the Linux kernel, I’d trust it no less than any other code in the Linux kernel because I trust Linus and others working on it and their eagle eyes and high standards for spotting problems and bugs, having passed the same standard I’d have absolutely zero issues with the code regardless of where it came from.






  • People can’t and won’t use it because it sucks. Middle mouse click is for two things:

    1. open in a new tab
    2. scroll/pan

    See how they’re both navigation related? Because the mouse is a navigation tool, not a text tool.

    A keyboard is a text tool, all pasting should reside on the keyboard. Eagle-eyed readers may notice that there are actually letters on all the buttons they keep mashing at random, those letters are a hint that the keyboard may be used for text-related operations.

    Windows sucks now, but it won desktops for a very good reason initially and as Linux is making inroads into personal computing, there are no reasons it can’t learn lessons from why that was the case.

    Old Linux GUIs suck and the user experience in general absolutely sucks on anything before Debian 8. Gnome classic was nuked because it sucked, and new Gnome was an improvement in every way, and it was only very recently that KDE got to a similar level of polish.

    No one is saying the feature should be completely removed, just like KDE’s insane defaults of “Peek at desktop” in the bottom right instead of “minimize all windows”, it just needs to be hidden somewhere because 99% of users don’t expect a computer to work this way and with good reason.

    Leave the legacy toggle in for people who cut their teeth on OSes made by companies that went bankrupt shortly after making them and expect all computers to work like that until the end of time.

    Heck - just for them, create a separate clipboard that always holds the user’s nudes and dedicate left mouse click to a shortcut that emails them to their dad for all I care, because it’s how it worked on a random hack of AmigaOS they used in the 1800s, I don’t care, just leave us out of it.