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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • Why is this or should be a crime? You wouldn’t call an Elvis impersonator a criminal, why is it different when it comes from a piece of technology?
    I get why his daughter finds it creepy, but I just listened to it and I liked it, they don’t seem to be trying to fool anyone and make very clear it’s an ai impersonation. I see it more like a kind of homage or something, it’s not like they’re putting his face on an ad. I don’t think you should need permission from the dead person’s family for this kind of things.










  • I just wanted to add that you can run gui applications through ssh with x11 forwarding, options -X or -Y (untrusted/trusted but at least in Debian back in the day they behaved the same). So if you wanted a gui file manager you run it in the ssh session on the remote server, sudo if you need but NEVER logged as root, and the window will pop on your local DE instead of having to run an entire desktop on each server



  • Many of us don’t celebrate Jeez’s birthday, we just get together, eat, drink, sing… if we couldn’t enjoy the little things in life because some horrible war is going on in some part of the globe thousands of miles away there wouldn’t be any merriment EVER.
    I’m also a bit confused by your choice of words, who are you talking about when you say ‘his people’? His homeland (Judea, under Roman occupation at the time, and arguably occupied by others ever since), is occupied by whom right now?


  • For me the difference between a cli and a gui is like asking someone to do something speaking in a language they can understand and doing it just by pointing at things and doing gestures. It’s enough for ordering at a restaurant, but for more complex tasks it gets ridiculous, even at a restaurant you’ll get better results if you can ask for some information and understand what the server says



  • I was trying to not give out many details but I think I’ve already commented about Madrid in another post so here you go: https://www.capitalradio.es/amp/programas/movilidad-sobre-ruedas/cuanto-tiempo-pierden-madrilenos-buscando-aparcamiento_94445259.html (in Spanish sorry, but you should be able to make out the numbers, maybe some aid with automatic translation).

    You are right that my case is a bit above the average, but it’s not that uncommon as you could think, it’s almost the same for all my tradesman friends, I drive more distance but having to go from inside the city to one of the surrounding towns or the other way around is super common.

    From and to populated areas, or even some less populated areas really you can get everywhere by bus, when it’s a couple connections most people choose public transports (as I said they all get saturated at rush hours, and I mean packed full. I don’t know how you could push the system much further), but when it’s a few of them, specially changing from one type to another (bus-train, or even bus-other kind of bus), it adds up. If you happen to work in an industrial area on the outskirts of another town the times can go crazy high, twice or thrice more than by car even with jams and parking.

    As you said you don’t understand the pain, but you sure understand that really most people just choose the less hellish option. For many of us that means a car, even with top notch alternatives, most of us hate it but the alternative is even worse.

    I don’t know if I’m sounding like a car lover or something, I’m not. I firmly believe if we put all the money we collectively put towards cars into good use we’d have futurama pipes or some shit by now, but we have to work with incremental improvements as you said.

    Planed parking could improve the situation. For example here they’ve put lots by some metro stations at the limits of the city so people can park there and take the metro and not drive into the city. I must say I was thinking in ‘regulated’ as in the local government somehow controls and manages it, mandate business to build the lots/spots seems like a very American thing and I see now how it contributes to this necessity for cars over there. But having into account where the people are going to drive and park when approving any development like a residential building/area, or a mall, or anything seems like a good idea, people driving around without going anywhere is the absolute opposite of taking cars out of the roads.

    About leaving it to the free market, I don’t know some things that are inherently collective and limited like space and its use within a city/town should be administered more democratically by the people that live there through some rules. The market has shown it doesn’t have any problem to fuck a lot of (poor always the poor) people in this regard if it’s profitable when left alone.

    I don’t think your situation is much greener, but the costs of emissions are all but hidden over here we have a perpetual ‘pollution bonnet’ and all the children have lots of respiratory illnesses almost unheard of thirty years ago. Everywhere’s grey and dangerous here too but not flat, you have to lean backwards to see a small portion of the sky most of the time, and everything’s always full. This isn’t quite optimal either.