What is this shady, unsubstantiated, posted yesterday ass random github repo trying to encourage people to compromise their email security and why is it worth posting?

GIMP is honestly fantastic. My workflow goes draw in GIMP, import to Inkscape to convert pieces to vector, then bring them into Godot where shaders get applied. I would rather draw in GIMP than any other program. I find drawing in Inkscape super awkward in comparison. GIMP is pretty no-frills, but it does the job. I prefer it over Photoshop. With Darktsble I’ve found it useful for importing high res raw images for textures too.

I don’t know why people hate on it so much. It’s all about using the tools you’re comfortable with.

Too low. I should not be able to personally afford a whole ass ton of excess greenhouse gasses for the same price as my car insurance.

I’m sorry, but who the hell quotes stuttering verbatim?

That’s what I was thinking. Maybe they’re just Community fans.

… Should we be pinching our nipples at their AI?

That’s quite possible. This administration has shown that it doesn’t care about the rule of law. However, that’s a far sight from the justice system bending over and letting them.

It’s important to be precise about what’s happening right now and not to give up and admit defeat. There’s a world of difference between “this is bad, we have work to do” and “we’re absolutely cooked and have zero hope”. Trump’s administration wants you to give up. They want you to decide the fight is over before it’s even properly begun. Don’t do them the favor of making it easy.

I’m not sure that checks out. I mean, fair, I do think that someone being habitually cruel toward AI might not be the greatest indicator of their disposition in general, though I’d hesitate to make a hasty judgement on that. But if we take AI’s presentation as a person as fictional, does that extend to other fictional contexts? Would you consider an evil play-through in a video game to indicate an issue? Playing a hostile character in a roleplay setting? Writing horror fiction?

It seems to me that there are many contexts where exhibiting or creating simulated behavior in a fictional environment isn’t really equivalent to doing so with genuine individuals in non-imaginary circumstances. AI isn’t quite the same as a fictional setting, but it’s potentially closer to that than it is to dealing with a real person.

By the same token, if not being polite to an AI is problematic, is it equally problematic to repeatedly say things like “human” and “operator” to an automated phone system until you get a response? Both mimic human speech, while neither ostensibly have a legitimate understanding of what’s being said by either party.

Where does the line get drawn? Is it wrong to curse at fully inanimate objects that don’t even pretend to be people? Is verbally condemning a malfunctioning phone, refrigerator, or toaster equivalent to berating a hallucinating AI?

That is also bad, but it’s a ruling on another aspect of the issue. They ruled that the Alien Enemies Act can be used against supposed Venezuelan gang members, but they also ruled that anyone being accused of this has to be informed ahead of time and have an opportunity to contest it. It does not say that those deported in a so-called administrative error can just be left in a foreign prison because oopsies.

The ACLU even referred to the ruling as a victory.

“We are disappointed that we will need to start the court process over again in a different venue, but the critical point is that the Court rejected the government’s remarkable position that it does not even have to give individuals meaningful advance notice to challenge their removal under the Alien Enemies Act. That is a big victory,” the ACLU’s Lee Gelernt said in a texted statement.

So again, it’s not really what you’re construing it as. It would be better if they’d decided that the deportations were entirely illegal, but this also definitely isn’t permission for the administration to deport anyone they want with no due process.

Do you have a source for this claim? Because that’s not what your link says at all.

I know that when I’m playing cards in a dress that’s melted into my skin, with my favorite half-bracelet draped over my wrist, I love to intimidate my opponent by flashing them two face cards. Who wouldn’t be shaken by the Kinmb of Back of Card and the Quing of 21s? Especially when I’ve already played my oversized red card.

This is what happened with plastic bags in some stores in the US. We passed plastic bag bans and while in a lot of cases the result was a combination of low-quality paper bags and legitimately reusable plastic totes, in the past couple of years some places have started giving out plastic bags that are way thicker than the ones we used to have and just calling them reusable. Like, yeah, they’re strong enough to be reused, but that definitely doesn’t seem to be the norm. We just ended up with single-use plastic bags that literally use more plastic.

I picked up a projector on sale for $50 on Newegg, usually I think they’re like $80 or something. Only problem is, I don’t know how to get the dust out of the inside of the projector lens. I’ve tried spraying canned air into the cracks around it, but it didn’t work. I even took the thing apart intending to wipe it down myself, but I couldn’t figure out how to get to the back of the lens.

Still, for $50 it’s not too bad. The little bits of dust are kind of annoying, but they’re not in focus and it’s pretty alright for watching movies.

He saw Civil War and thought it looked cool.

Considering that it also extends to charging stations, that some of the Teslas are privately owned, and that people have been doing things like shooting at dealerships? I’m thinking not.

Quite the pattern. Notice how once something happens a few times, it becomes a normalized course of action. In a month or two we went from not hearing about this at all to seemingly many people across the world jumping in specifically on lighting things on fire. There have been some other approaches too, but burning things down seems to be an increasingly common response.

It’s interesting to see how specific kinds of resistance become sort of a behavioral trend. A few people lead by example and suddenly it starts to snowball. I wonder what other kinds of similar situations we’ll see play out over the next few months.

Mozilla seems to be doing fine to me. Most of the people complaining about them don’t give any indication that they themselves are doing anything particularly helpful either.

One thing I notice about my childhood memories is that the context is very different. There are things that I obviously didn’t understand in the way I would as an adult, which I think is part of why we end up unpacking and recontextualizing childhood experiences as we grow older. But our earliest memories are obviously going to be formed with far less context and understanding of circumstances than even those formed just a few years later.

It makes me wonder if the issue isn’t the storing of memory, but the lack of meaningful context to fit them into the way we process things as adults. Like, say I had memories of someone speaking a language I didn’t speak at the time, but later learned. What are the chances I’m going to catch onto their individual words well enough to parse them years later once they have context to give them meaning? I’m guessing pretty low.

I would frankly be shocked to discover that instances like lemmy.ml aren’t either mostly populated by bot-farm workers and state actors or by people who’ve been taken in by their rhetoric. They don’t seem very representative of real people who aren’t terminally online with an extremely niche perspective.

Many people don’t like trans and won’t support it, left or right.

This is such a strange way to refer to this. Do you mean trans rights? Trans people? “Trans” as a collective “it” doesn’t make sense.

Frankly, you stating that you’re “not saying it’s right or wrong” seems to me to reveal your personal bias, especially when combined with this extremely bizarre wording. I don’t think it’s reflective of how most people see us. Generalized transphobia is a minority opinion. Solidarity in the face of oppression isn’t.

Dividing us isn’t going to work.

In my experience discord literally feels like I’m in the room with someone. I use it constantly and it’s been great for me. Phones on the other hand are kinda garbage. The signal is consistently unreliable. Sometimes I literally get calls where one of us can’t hear the other. Sometimes several calls in a row. Occasionally calls just don’t even go through.