AlexanderESmith
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I’ve actually been thinking about editing my LinkedIn to specificly call out my lack of desire to work with LLMs (which I refuse to call AI, ever). Honestly, I only want to entertain contact from employers who feel the same.
4·5 months agoNice try EA, but you’re not getting my golden ideas for free.
You can be single and still have lots of friends and socializing.
Don’t.
Okay, that could easily be misinterpreted. What I mean is don’t look for one. Live your life. Get to know yourself. Find some hobbies, start some projects, do some cool shit. Not as a resume for a relationship, just to do it and be fulfilled. You don’t need to find someone right this moment.
The worst relationship I ever had was because I was young and lonely and bored and I ended up dating someone who nearly destroyed my life and dominated everything about it. Took 5 years to get away from it. Subsequent relationships suffered, though not because my partners were awful, I just wasn’t worth dating.
At some point, I just got tired of it and “retired” from dating. I took care of myself, did things that interested me, and relaxed for a few years. Just me. I got really happy just being with myself. Then, my best friend of nearly 20 years and I ended up starting a thing nearly on accident, and now (a few years later) we’re very happily married. Absolutely would not have been possible unless I’d spent the time to figure myself out.
0·5 months agoThe authorities should be able to dig through the possessions of massive companies that are fucking up so bad that planes fall out of the sky.
Then it still doesn’t matter. If an identified source gives information that isn’t verifiable, it’s still not actionable.
I don’t care who it is, they give the information, then authorities verify it. If it comes up verified, there you go.
I mean, lack of consensus notwithstanding, the logic tree should be pretty simple;
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Employer demands secure device
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Employee has one personally and is willing to use it for work
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Employer allows use of personal device
- Problem solved
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Employer isn’t comfortable with BYOD, provides a device
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Employee accepts the new device
- Problem solved
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Employee doesn’t accept the device, can’t do their job, is fired
- Problem solved
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Employee either doesn’t have one, or refuses to use their own
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Employer provides one
- Problem solved
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Employer refuses to provide one
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Employee realizes the company sucks, quits
- Problem solved
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Employer gets shitty about it, fires the employee, employee sues and easily wins
- Problem solved
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updated for more scenarios
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Reasonable to allow only secure devices for work: Yes
Reasonable to expect the employee to provide such a device: No
Work should only be done on company hardware (including auth). Especially if they’re going to be that concerned about security.
93·6 months ago… vivaldi… affected [in] some way
Yes, but also; https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-webrequest-and-ad-blockers/
I mean…;
Benjamin Schreiber was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison in 1996, after clubbing a man to death with the handle of a pickaxe and leaving his body outside a trailer. Schreiber had conspired with the man’s girlfriend to murder him.
He took away someone else’s body and life first.
2·10 months agoA gun is not a shield. If you carry one to protect yourself, you have to remember that the only viable method is to shoot to stop someone before they kill you. There’s no good version of that.
They don’t “get” to terrorize you anymore than you “get” to shoot them. You make it sound like either of these are actively condoned (maybe within the group of assholes, but that can’t be 100% of your local population, even in Florida). Patronize business/locales that don’t take that shit laying down (and when they do, raise hell with management/corporate/whoever).
As for moving somewhere else? Don’t. Stick sound, find like minded people, form a large group, volunteer for the campaign of a better candidate, and help kick that shit stain out of office. He’s already fucking up six ways from Sunday, even another Republican (a real one) would be better.
In the meantime, hang out in large groups to out-populate the dickheads at the bar. Go out of your way to make it a place they don’t want to be, and let THEM find somewhere else to go. Fuck em.
@NoStressyJessie That sounds a whole lot like “I know what the rules are, but I’m ignoring them anyway, because I feel justified”. That’s not how laws work.
The best way to use a gun is to avoid using it. Don’t put yourself in a situation where you feel like you’re in danger. That means you probably shouldn’t get dinner at the shitty bar that over-serves armed racists. If it’s as bad as you’re indicating; get the fuck out of there (and report the incident to their management… on the phone, later).
@NoStressyJessie Did I miss something? What prompted you to start carrying a firearm? Some loudmouth asshole who didn’t do anything but talk? Was it in a previous post?
Also, don’t carry and drink. Never mind being a dumb idea in general, it can get you in a lot of trouble if you ever have to actually use it.
Oh hell yes they will!
Squirrels.
Grew up in Chicago, currently in Phoenix. I miss squirrels.
All the lizards are pretty cool though. They’re like desert squirrels.
4·11 months agoIt was a hypothetical, I was just using myself as an example. Here’s one that’s not hypothetical:
I’m already a practiced in 3D modelling, UV unwrapping, texturing, lightning, rendering, compositing, etc. I could recreate a painting, pixel for pixel, in 3D space.
If I just hit render, is that my art now? It took a lot of research to learn how to do this, I should be able to make money on that effort, right?
I can do that millions of times and get the same result. I can set it on a loop and get as many as I want. It’s the same as copying the first render’s file, it just takes longer.
Now I decide to change the camera angle. Almost the entire image is technically different now, but the composition is the same. The colors, the subjects, relative placement in the scene, all the same, but it’s not really the same image anymore. Is it mine yet?
I can set the camera to a random X,Y,Z position, and have it point at a random object in the scene (so it never points off into blank space). Are those images mine? It’s never the same twice, but it still has the original artist’s style of subjects and lighting. I can even randomize each subjects position, size, hue, direction, add a modifier that distorts them to be wobbly or cubic… I can start generating random objects and throwing them in too, let’s call those “hallucinations”, thats a fun word…
At what specific point in this madness does the imagery go from someone else’s work to mine?
I absolutely can generate millions of unique images all day. Without using machine learning, based on work I recreated with my own human hands, and code I write uniquely from my experience and abilities. None of the work - artistically - is mine. I made no decisions on composition, style, meaning, mood, color theory, etc.
You may want to try to write these questions off, but I can tell you with certainty that other artists won’t.
The point of my original post was that their update cadence is slower. The point of my followup reply is that they are not devoid of updates, either.
They have a release every 1-2 years, and it’s packed full for various tweeks, improvements, and new features. They fix broken shit, and enhance where it makes sense.
I don’t need my window manager to get fad features, and I don’t need constant updates. It does what I want it to do already.
xfce ftw.