I have a MAGA aunt that lived in Texas: the sort that unironically bitches about “welfare queens” and “socialism” while being entirely dependent on social security disability benefits and Medicaid.
When her health took a turn for the worse a few years ago my dad and cousin helped her move north – which is why she’s still alive considering the “healthcare” she had in Texas.
– and are being used by rich sociopaths to replace the very people that made that content.
“AI” has become synonymous with “Generative AI”
He’s not entirely wrong:
BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called " xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people’s computer systems to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people’s stereos to steal their music, using the “mp3” program. Torovoltos is a notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as “telnet”, which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet without using a telephone.
You can run Kodi on pretty diverse hardware: old PCs, 1st gen Apple TV, SMBCs like the Raspberry Pi, etc. OSMC is a good option for Kodi, and they even have their own dedicated hardware if you want to go that route. Install the youtube addon if you want Youtube.
I think the “Je ne sais quoa” is the human element: art is fundamentally about human communication and interaction.
We can (usually) infer the meaning and emotion an artist is trying to convey – particularly if given context. Even if we don’t “get” what the artist is trying to say, we can come up with something an equally valid. Real art only “works” because of empathy.
AI generated “art” fails for that reason: you can’t infer the thought process of a machine that doesn’t think, or emphasize with emotions it doesn’t have. As a tool it can assist with creating art, but the more heavily it’s involved in the creative process the less meaningful the resultant “art” becomes.
AI reviewing medical imaging/labs and flagging abnormal findings for review by a doctor is awesome.
AI spamming social media to push fascist propaganda is not.
It’s still kind of a thing in the USA, you just have to visit a Macy’s department store at the local dying mall. The Toys R Us is a small section in the back.
Which is far more depressing than if the brand was outright dead.
I had a math teacher in highschool that allowed us make a “cheat sheet” during tests – it had to be hand written on an index card. I discovered that if I actually made a “cheat sheet” I rarely needed to look at it. It’s the same for hand-written lists when I’m shopping.
For a lot of people there’s something about actually writing information down (by hand) the makes it “stick” better in memory.
I did something insane: I actually read the article.
The students interviewed used pen and paper because they lack the tempting distractions a laptop/tablet/phone has. One states they feel they “use their brain more” when using a pen and paper. They also mention using a computer to write the final version of an essay for submission, but do most of the work on pen and paper first for the aforementioned reasons.
anti-white racism
I’d call what you linked to “deranged, but fascinating.”
It’s charming mix of “freshman humanities student” and “2012 tumblr”.
-15°C
Sitting beside a wood stove with a hot drink and book, good food, and sauna.
Especially the later: 85+°C sauna in sub-zero weather is amazing.
I feed the bodies of dead raiders to my pigs and GITMO-ed a Space Racist into giving up his bigoted ways.
I’m not sure how I feel about calling the experience “fun”.
For what content?
Seriously though, quality 4k media is hard to find outside of … “finding it” on the internet.
Native Americans are still people, and it’s a universal truth that people (as a whole) suck. I’m not excusing the horrors that came with colonization: but wars, slavery, murder, etc were still common things in America prior to colonization – just at a much smaller scale.
All the horrible things people do to each other are just easier when you’re not stuck using stone-age technology.
It’s funny, because that’s exactly what I did around the age of 13 to bypass my school’s firewall. I had everything on a USB drive, including Ghostzilla and PuTTY so I could browse through an SSH SOCKS tunnel. Mind you, my home computer was the SSH server – but these days it wouldn’t be hard to get a VPS in a less restrictive country:
“Hey [parent], can I borrow your credit card to set up a server so my friends and I can play [game] together?”
It takes one kid in a group to set something like this up.
My daily driver laptop, home servers, media center, NAS, etc are all Linux.
My gaming computer isn’t – as much as I would like it to be. There are certain things (particularly VR) that don’t want to work well in Linux.
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