This is a great compromise honestly. More OSS devs need to be paid for their work and if an anime character helps do that, I’m all for it.

For the lazy: https://hiddenpalace.org/Animaniacs:_Hollywood_Hypnotics_(Prototype)

I can’t remember the court case per se but it involved a self driving car hitting a pedestrian I think.

My cursory search on Google seems to now show companies being held liable for AI hallucinations, with one court case currently pending where an AI chat bot encouraged a teen to commit suicide.

Given our current administration and make up of SCOTUS I’m not holding my breath.

Courts have ruled that using AI allows companies to avoid liability.

Schrödinger’s corporations: corporations are people and and not people, depending on how much money they stand to gain or lose.

I’ve actually done this as what looks like a horizontal line.

It doesn’t seem to help though.

I’m not in the autistic spectrum. They aren’t equals and they are barely tools.

One of the last posts I read on Reddit was a student in a CompSci class where the professor put a pair of googly eyes on a pencil and said, “I’m Petie the Pencil! I’m not sentient but you think I am because I can say full sentences.” The professor then snapped the pencil in half that made the students gasp.

The point was that humans anamorphize things that seem human, assigning them characteristics that make us bond to things that aren’t real.

Honestly this is the best suggestion especially if you can mount your windows partition read only. You get the benefits of Linux while still having access to your files.

For most folks, the biggest hurdle is getting compatible apps. Once you find the apps you need, moving over is just a backup and restore away.

DNSSEC always causes errors on my pihole set up and end up disabling it. The upstream is DoH though (via dnscrypt) so it’s technically DNSSEC but without the clients seeing the authentication. That’s enough for me.

At some point, I fully expect apps and websites to begin resolving DNS directly instead of relying on the OS to provide resolution services. At that point our options will be to wholesale block IP addresses at the router.

A better illustration:

There is a point of diminishing returns. Like most things, you have to evaluate what you are willing to live with and let go.

I know someone who only browses incognito because they don’t want cookies tracking them. They log into everything every day. Which, imo, is worse because those cookies are still tracking you but you now have to log in everyday.

But for them they like the control.

I’ve moved most of my incidental link on my phone clicking to Firefox Focus (thanks to URL Checker) which has upped my privacy. I wouldn’t have made that change without the prompt that URL Checker provides though.

I use a VPN outside of my house and I use pihole at home. I am tempted to switch my DNS to unbound but the juice doesn’t seem to be worth the squeeze. We’ll see the next time I need to rebuild my pi.

I agree. This thread is for actual advice. rm -rf / belongs in a joke thread.

Yippie kayak other buckets!

I’m a chezmoi user and I’ll be honest: as powerful as it is, it’s way too clunky to get right. I spend too much time configuring and then am too worried I’ll mess it up if I need to add or remove anything.

I’m going to give stow a try to see if it fits my workflow better.

Similar story for me. I quit though because management was getting so toxic we couldn’t get anything done.

Learned through the grapevine that the company went bankrupt within a year.

I’ll do you one better: we should have return free filing: the government sends you a bill saying what they think you owe. If you agree, you send them a check. If you don’t agree, you send in your paperwork.

Most countries have figured this out.

In either case it’s supportive.

Entire family is goth except him: be yourself, even if it “ruins” the picture.

Entire family pretends to be goth except him: this will be so funny to everyone who knows us!

Signal is a messenger service. You can expire messages after a certain amount of time.

They ask for a phone number to limit bots. I used my Google voice number and it worked fine. I like Telegram which banned me after a day of use for using Google Voice.

Messages are e2e encrypted. Metadata is not encrypted.

Edit: I feel the need to qualify this statement. Metadata about your connection may be encrypted at rest but is decryptable given that signal is released metadata to authorities with a warrant/subpoena.

I usually open vim.