Tomatoes are biologically fruit, but culinarily they are a vegetable.

You wouldn’t expect them to put an orange slice on your burger because you asked for some veg, would you? But you’d expect tomatoes, tomatoes are veg outside of any scientific context. Language is fickle. Life is complicated. Reality defies categorization.

I’ve no idea, sorry, it was long ago.

I can’t believe this PoS is being used still and has these problems still. I left high school like 10 years ago and it’s what we used there.

I remember one dumbass teacher issued a template for a coursework assignment then tried to fail everyone because it flagged high similarity scores because of his own template. Keyword tried because everybody threw enough of a fit to make it stop.

Even as I started uni, it was a different software with a far better algo, that didn’t flag like lecturer/professor provided code we were working with for a given assignment and such.

Using this for academic papers for PhDs or something would be another level of absurd. Imagine doing a lit review lol.

It’s funny that people claim ownership of companies by individuals (capitalism) is so efficient when there are extreme and obvious problems when the distant private equity board needs an entire department to tell them what the company does and how well every few months, compared to y’know, ownership by people who work there and would know how well the company (and their part of it) is doing just by actually being remotely involved.

The tool that doesn’t exist anywhere else is so true. I had a boss that insinuated I was inexperienced because I didn’t know his specific internal process (which was complete nonsense because he is literally illiterate and cannot read or write).

When I politely corrected him that this was my second job in this specific industry he paused before continuing to ramble as if I’m some intern when I was with the company for 3 years in a midlevel role.

Same guy who once gave me a 30 mins lecture about how much he wants women like me and his daughter to succeed and “have a voice”, literally without letting me insert more than 1 word the entire time.

Yeah it does, I didn’t say it doesn’t, just like it makes sense for other bourgeoisie like the tech billionaires to defend low taxes and low regulations, it’s class war where classes act in their material self-interest, as they should.

I agree.

Even more broadly, politically - copyleft in general is very unpopular with people, even amongst leftists and self-identified communists who you’d think would be all about that since y’know, good of the commons and the fact that communist states literally didn’t give a fuck about copyright and the literature seeing it transparently as another government method of enforcing corporate power, especially apparent today when it comes to pharmaceuticals snd the fact that capitalism needs this intellectual property monopoly as an added incentive for R&D is an issue with capitalism’s broken incentive structures, not cost of it.

Few people seem to understand the power of intellectual property, and various critics of corporate technology either omit mentioning or openly defend intellectual property, despite corporations having monopolies being the reason enshittification is such a phenomenon in the first place.

It seems like a lot of arguments about the role of technology in society instead boil down to more-stuffism vs. less-stuffism, usually based on emotionally charged preference for modern aesthetics or how much they believe the noble savage/appeal to nature fallacies.

When it comes to AI for instance, anyone reasonable can see that if it’s open sourced for everyone to use then it’s just a simple common good like a public library, use it (responsibly) and there’s no issue.

Closed source private models in use by corporations suck up the environment (which belongs to everyone) and use the capital they steal from wage workers who actually produce the things they sell to give themselves leverage over said consumers/workers and other corporations, and this is not fair to the 99%.

Picture a world where AI is good enough to where it actually provides value to use it in a good chunk of jobs, and the best AI is corporate and closed source, and they just enshittified it and jacked up the prices, but if you want to get a job, you better know how to use it well. It would mean that corpo has an enormous power over your life now and you got little choice but to pony up, and they can raise prices whenever they want and snowball that capital into more and more.

I think the reason in this instance is that a lot of artists are bourgeoisie themselves and they understand that. They may be progressive as a personality strait/gimmick/style and talk about “empathy” but they understand the material reality of things.

They had the opportunities and the room for failure necessary to go into such a high risk field, and their ultimate form of commercial success is essentially using that privilege to create intellectual property they could make money from, hence the “concerns” over “style theft” and moralist fearmongering over vaguely defined concepts like “soulless”, which is usually as arbitrary as “white” for racists (not implying equivalence here).

I find generally that a lot of the anti-AI viewpoints are simple self-serving veils of bourgeoisie who’s capital is threatened, no different from the culture war fearmongering about vaping, a dying grasp of the tobacco companies of old threatened by shenzen gadget slop factories.

The material reality is that digital goods are effectively infinite, copying an image isn’t a crime nevermind copying a style or some such, it is transparently absurd to imply otherwise.

DbPowerAmp has a bulk converter tool. It’s proprietary payware but cracked versions are available.

You’ve given it a lot more thought than the average person pointing this out, so thanks, but ultimately the same stuff that makes Linux and Fediverse good is what prevents most people from adopting them, you can’t really have it both ways, and when you try you just end up with the worst of all worlds like Canonical with Ubuntu and it’s enshittification, GNOME with their extreme vision causing mass user flight to KDE, or .world having what seems to be a printer of dumb motherfuckers in any comment section.

I tried to use Bitwig but I just couldn’t in the end. No single click note delete that I could find out how to do in a reasonable amount of time and the workflow is just different enough to FL to me to irritate, it seemed like really nice software for Ableton-minded folks though.

I caved in and dual booted Windows 10 with all the shite modded out/crippled, for music and for VR gaming.

I don’t have any issues with Xorg honestly, it just works and always has for me. I tried Wayland as a default in plasma and I couldn’t get gaming to work at all, and I had weird issues watching video in the browser. Really odd that it’s a default in kde imho when even the steamdeck is all Xorg (or gamescope. in gamemode.)

Yay! Maybe I’ll give Wayland a chance again when all these issues are ironed out.

I think the author identifies the correct issues but this isn’t an argument against passkeys as a security measure rather their inevitable use by corpos for data harvesting. I hate it too tbqh I’d rather get hacked on some disposable email account with a random username than have to hand over my PII, money and mortal soul to Google for extra sec. At work it’s a different level of shit entirely. We have SSO behind SSO behind SSO, the inept overseas coworkers don’t understand arch of the company they got merged with nor the concept of legal compliance or ISO, they’re running the entire sec programme into the ground to bring it under AD in a way that directly compromises their AD when nothing in any of our orgs even uses windows in any way except theirs where they drink M$ coolaid. If this job wasn’t so comfortable I’d be depressed just thinking about it.

KDE is getting better and better. I was a die hard gnome but I’m rooting for y’all now. Using KDE daily on every Linux system I own.

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He clearly means the opposite

Go lick the boot more. There’s more to the world than some fucking computers. Go download yourself some grass and touch it.

I will in fact, fuck the GPL, I will make sweet passionate love to GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. https://fsf.org/.

Another way to do this is sudo su -c 'this is my command’

E.g. change a fan setting on a ThinkPad with:

sudo su -c 'echo "level full-speed" > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan'

So to run a shell you could do all sorts of tricks like:

sudo su -c '/bin/bash -i' and such.

Never know when it comes in handy.

EDIT: Damn, downvoted, any reason why? It works on my machine with a locked root user or one without a PW and I made sure to test it before posting, but I’d love an explanation of why it wouldn’t work if that’s the reason for the downvote. Was just hoping it would be useful to somebody :/

Pretty fun (and funny) sci-fi story, the open source katana bit gave me unix surrealism vibes but then again what doesn’t these days.