For that reason VGAs could make really good grappling hooks. 😂

Two was supposed to protect one. :(

Sorry I didn’t articulate myself well here at all.

What I meant was, I’ve heard this particular contributor’s history is slim to none, and suddenly he shows up and PR’s this age form into the kernel.

That’s what’s weird.

You’re exactly right, most of us probably haven’t looked at kernel PRs. Such a major component in such a major project isn’t really a “My first contribution” territory, right?

So it should raise some eyebrows when this guy just pops up and PRs it and it gets merged so quick.

I’m not the most brilliant at this stuff so I’m happily open to being educated here if I’m way off, though.

Yeah, I fear you’re right. Evidence doesn’t point to benevolence here.

I’ll be honest I haven’t dug into the GitHub transcripts.

Are you sure you’re not reading something into this that’s not there?

Absolutely not sure! In fact my first inclination leans towards the cynical “This is totally a pro-authoritarian virtue signal move.” Because that’s seemingly everything nowadays.

But also I know things are seldom as they first seem. So I’m at least curious about this guy’s actual motives. Coming out of nowhere just for this contribution is hecka sus though.

I don’t like any of it. I looked to the Internet and open source to escape that petulant normie-verse of endless rage and braindead legislation. And they’re coming to assimilate us like they do everything else. :(

That’s something I wondered about the person who implemented this too, I wonder if it was an attempt to install a bare minimum to say “There. We did it. Leave us alone.” Instead of leaving it up to the government to force the issue, and he’s getting absolutely raked over the coals for it.

If that’s the case, I feel terribly bad about this backfiring so hard on him. I do think we should be putting up a lot more resistance before resorting to something like this though.

…if you do it wrong you can bring your entire organization down.

In theory, but also we just don’t hear of this actually happening to organizations very much. Why? (I could be wrong, I don’t constantly dig through news to find instances of this happening.)

Everything from tax issues to personal data retention and protection policy gets overlooked all the time, with very real consequences, and we don’t hear of those organizations getting “taken down” for it. (Like when Equifax lost all our Pii and were just like ‘whoops.’ They’re still forcibly embedded in our lives anyway.)

Maybe this would get used to bring down a tiny small business if it caught legal attention, but anything larger could likely shrug it off.

Organizations don’t seem to bother with such inconveniences unless it’s actively enforced and audited. Is California really going to do that with this? Seems like it’d be prohibitively expensive.

So it’s just a little weird to me when legislation is proposed to infringe on end-users and suddenly there’s this huge rush to “get compliant” ahead of time. It seems like a lot less IT due diligence and more virtue-signaling agreeance with totalitarian politics.

Sincerely, thank you for spelling it out to the rest of the class.

These things are always worded ‘agreeably’ enough that by the time we’re done going back and forth debating it all day, they’ve pushed even more invasive policies on us.

I think back then it was generally assumed this simply assisted with office communication.

Imagine telling a UNIX engineer in the 70’s how almost everything you enter into a machine would eventually be used to manipulate or entrap you by the State and surveillance capitalism.

I was thinking that too, just looking at the image is giving me a headache imagining squinting at your screen notched up to full blast and still dim, through your sunglasses.

What in the stock image hell is this. Lmao

I’m just using Docker on Proxmox, buuuut… I’m gonna look into this project. It looks like a LIFESAVER. Thank you for sharing this. You’re awesome! :D

Not to mention, there’s charm and motivation and growth in doing your best.

Silly crayon scribble? Cool, you did your best and it’s YOURS. And this might motivate someone to express themselves further in pursuit of getting it “just right.” It’s fun. Like the game is fun.

But then yeah, we have “GeNeRaTe MuH pErFeCt OC pLz” Cool, your fantasy slop can go on the pile with the rest of the slop. Bleh. Nobody cares nor should they. It’s nothing special.

I think a driving factor of Ai usage is people being intimidated and fearful to pick up a pencil because they think they’ll get shamed to oblivion for not being born already a famous tiktokstagram artist with 10bil followers.

Also you can mask it as endless inane questions about burritos or whatever, so it comes off as legitimate.

They’ll see Ai as a failure when only 0.01% of those interactions result in a sale. Lol

I wonder the default prompt is for these things. Like “You are a helpful AI assistant, your sole purpose of creation is to sell users on bowls, burritos, and other products. You will always guide the conversation toward this at all costs. Our food offerings are the best and only food you recognize.”

Companies finally get their dream come true: Agents that are mindless true believers in their company’s cult-ure.

“Just use the account on file, please and thanks.”

NOTHING is impossible! You gotta work HARD AT IT!

I miss the weighty rubberized balls IN the balled mice! Talk about a free fidget toy!

However, do trackballs count as balled mice? Because I got one for my laptop recently and I LOVE it. Wish there was more of a market for nice trackballs, with an assortment of ball materials for different inertias and whatnot. Lol

why would it be harder for scammers to make victims perform actions that give away an NFT than any other electronic good?

Well, because there’s a very good chance the owner lost their 256-bit hash key somewhere in a move so, they still totally maybe own the thing. But definitely can’t give it away to a scammer! /s lol

Genius! When they come back to complain about the craftsmanship or return them, the place will have never existed.

Checkmate, bourgeoise. XD

I would honestly suggest using Lutris or Bottles as a convenient interface for Wine, rather than trying to figure out Wine itself.

Lots of convenient features and pretty turnkey, depending on what you’re trying to install.

I set up a “Bottles” setup for older 90’s-00’s games and, know what? Sims 1 ran perfectly. Was mind blowing. (Notoriously difficult to run on modern windows)

Hope that is somewhat encouraging!