I didn’t say there are never any issues I said it’s fine. The idea that “success stories” are only amd is silly. 90/100 times unless you’re using bleeding edge hardware or pathologically fussy you just hit play and stuff works. 9 out of the remaining 10 times you tweak a proton version or wine setting, the other time it’s a driver bug.

What? I have a 2060 and shit runs fine. Nvidia’s drivers have improved a lot since the 2010s.

Tigers also lick their own bums clean, is that a good thing to do? Tigers don’t have dentists, so humans have no right to dentistry.

Or maybe you mean to say that hurting other people for your own pleasure is only ok if you do it close enough to see the whites of their eyes? Does a single tear need to roll down your cheek.

You are so stupid it actually hurts me. If you want to argue about the morality of killing you could at least pretend you have read a book.

I tried to use it to write software to rotate my screen in a way that would please me and if I wasn’t an experienced sysadmin the code it produced would have destroyed the computer’s battery in a year or so.

That was this year.

Everything it makes is bad, the prose is awful, the orthography bland, the code mediocre. Any factual query I have made has had at least one critical error a non expert would miss. They are machines for giving idiots false confidence, atrophying your own skills, and producing the sort of aggressively mediocre writing one finds on reddit.

I think it is fucking hilarious to be proud about making yourself dependent on an industry that literally 450 billion dollars in the hole and 2 companies. I am sure that’ll work out well for you.

historical materialism

There’s actually a really good method of analysis that is highly predictive about the actions of classes of people politically.

Personally I prefer clankerwankers but whatever works.

I also think slopmachine is a good slur for llms, given it highlights the gambling aspect and addictive potential.

There are many requirements in the police training manual. For instance anyone being searched at all is meant to be taken somewhere private and their dignity preserved. I assume most people have seen this not happen.

Same gender is one such requirement.

If you want me to say that highly centralised surveillance states can easily fall to fascism then sure.

I think nation states are a terrible thing, china just isn’t a fascist one.

Australia, or at least NSW, is a police state. You are getting filmed, tracked, your browsing history saved, your financial purchases archived, you need government ID regularly updated which requires entering your biometrics into a database.

You need to apply for permits to protest and they are routinely denied. Move along and non association orders are routinely employed to silence dissent, police extort cultural events for ludicrous fees, use dogs which have been demonstrated to not work as justification for routine searching of the public. We are already here.

This /is/ what living in a police state is. No it’s not as bad as it could get but we are already there.

To call China fascist is definitely an… adventurous take. There are lots of criticism you can make of their government but fascism? It’s not just a word for when the government does oppressive stuff. Their military spend is small, they don’t have ambitions of military expansion and government control only really of Taiwan. While Han culture is promoted China is very clearly a multiethnic state and there are active efforts to preserve some diverse cultural heritage, they definitely don’t promote violent political struggle and stratification of the strong over the weak - really I would levy criticism towards the intense pursuit of order.

They are culturally very conservative, a massive surveillance state, censorious on some things, and harsh towards certain kinds of political dissidents but this doesn’t make a government fascist.

Words do mean things.

My first job was extracting text from pdfs, in the end OCR was the most reasonable way. This was back in like 2010 when it was waaaaay harder.

Everyone who enjoys cosmic horror should read the PDF spec. https://pdfa.org/resource/pdf-specification-archive/

You can embed 3d models in PDF.

You shouldn’t but you can!

Very hinged lemmy comment.

guarantee you know some blokes that treat women like shit at least sometimes if you’re at all social.

approx 15% of Aussie men admit they would rape a kid, most often married wealthy men with kids. https://www.humanrights.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/Identifying and understanding child sexual offending behaviour and attitudes among Australian men.pdf

That’s probably the most heinous sexual offense there is. I’ve been at a work function where a guy pinned me against a wall and insisted I come home with him, everyone just looked on with a couple of awkward laughs. I’m not saying your friends are all bastards, but you’ve gotta have a pretty narrow or pretty small social circle to avoid running into predatory men.

My wife has done courses on warning signs for abusive relationships as part of some mental health first aid certification stuff.

2 biiiiiig red flags are insisting on surveillance and not letting people have separate finances. We have a combined account sure, and also pocket money accounts and whatever else. For all I know she’s set up a trust. I mean I don’t think she has because she’d probably tell me but she has the freedom to do so.

Obviously we have wills lmao

Yes we’re teenagers. We’ve been married 15 years, ceremony was when we were three.

Privacy is important, have you never kept a diary? Do you film therapy sessions lest your partner not know what you discussed? Shit with the door open? You don’t need justification for wanting privacy, you need privacy so when you have a good reason for it nothing looks different.

What if there’s an emergency?

What if there is? Get help, that’s an insane fear to live with. If I am unconscious there’s nothing to do anyway, the hospital or whatever will find her details in my purse and call. What the fuck am I going to do, sit there watching the dot on the map and calling 000 if it stops moving? You are a lunatic, we have society to take care of us while we’re out and about and emergency beacons if you’re like camping beyond the black stump or sailing the Pacific.

You are obviously not a woman.