They get trained. Think about humans for example. There’s lots of stuff we don’t think twice about doing that aren’t necessarily things we would naturally do; they’re taught to us socially and we get used to them as part of life. Horses were domesticated, firstly selectively bred to be friendlier to humans and faster, but secondly they still get trained to form a bond with humans and to do what humans want them to do. They get used to being ridden.

Wow, that surprises me. I did LFS with Sys-V (didn’t continue to use it after I set up X11 as I couldn’t be bothered with package maintenance/mostly did it as an exercise rather than for the sake of the finished system) and found it a fun project.

I wonder how many LFS users use GNOME or something that depends on systemd…

It might not be autism, it might be just lacking context as to what they mean. The kid is likely very young so they might not know what alphabetical order means. It’s a reasonable guess given the lack of explanation in the worksheet.

I don’t think the book and program examples are equivalent. You can edit a manuscript easily but it’d be a big headache to edit a binary program either through a hex editor or decompiling it and figuring out what it all does. I think an equivalent would be receiving the finished source code, as though someone else coded it for you.

Anyway, if it’s a personal project I want to do for the sake of it, then no, I like the process and the amount of control. If it’s something I’m only doing because I want the end product then maybe, but would have to decide on a case by case basis.

I don’t think any of those types of guns count as “non-violent”. None of the movements that have been the most effective have been strictly non-violent. You don’t have to be killing people at every action you do, but all the most effective movements have been willing to strategically use violence whenever the situation calls for it. Every strictly non-violent movement I’ve seen has simply been shooting themselves in the foot. When you’re shot at, shoot back, or you’re a coward obsessed with losing.

Shooting cops with guns.

On duckduckgo.com it’s unfortunately enabled by default though. You have to go out of your way to set your search browser to noai.duckduckgo.com if you want default AI disabled (which you’ll want on e.g. private browsing windows/any browser that autodeletes cookies when you close it). It’s extra hassle because most privacy web browsers use DDG by default, not the noai subdomain.

Wtf is wrong with being a former heroin addict? I know plenty of drug users and former drug users who aren’t fascist shitstains and are actually pleasant people. Also like, you’re going after him for being a former addict? God forbid someone be in a bad place in life and luckily manage to recover from it… Addiction, a health condition, just morally scars you for life then? Would you say that about someone who recovered from cancer? Fuck off.

The terminal lets you delete the system with the same checks as GUIs, i.e. you’d be prompted for a privilege escalation password… If you delete random user files in the terminal then you can do that in a graphical file browser too. Just don’t run random commands without knowing what they do.

I really do think that’s their problem, and software shouldn’t cater to people who are afraid of checks notes typing. There can be real accessibility reasons why some users may require graphical tools due to various disabilities, but I don’t think it’s reasonable to feed into irrational fears of terminals when they can just copy paste in commands. It’s not programming, it’s very simple to understand the syntax of any command the average user might have to use (ie they’re not doing scripting or anything like that).

Auto upload to a remote location (e.g. VPS), ideally somewhere out of the country to really minimise chances of deletion. Could also have it auto upload to several places. You’ll need good enough internet connection to upload it though, so if they’re using signal jammers at a protest that could be a problem.

In terms of preventing deletion on the phone itself, you can’t really stop them from “losing” your phone, even if they can’t get into it.

Eat someone out while being eaten out. Same effect.

Have you ever tried to run an LLM locally? It makes CPU usage go way up, uses a lot of RAM, etc. It would tank game performance and/or require beefier PCs.

Games already have had AI for a long time, but the kind of AI you’re talking about would be far more computationally expensive than what they currently use.

For Android? K-Mail. I think they renamed it to Thunderbird now.

“yall keep promising me the roman empire is gonna collapse but it never does”

No state lasts forever, least of all an apartheid state with such a resilient resistance movement against it. Israel’s only 78 years old—there’s plenty of living people older than that. It will fall, because Palestinians aren’t going away, and they will continue to want to return.

Again, their treatment in prison is far better than the treatment of Palestinians in prison. We don’t need to bend over backwards to praise these people. Frankly if the threat of prison stops you from doing the right thing, I think you’re a coward. People give more attention to Israelis who got free room and board for a couple months than they do to the people actually killing Israeli soldiers.

I’m not criticising; I’m saying that not actively committing genocide is not worth praise. Fighting genocide is. I get that joining the resistance is harder when you’re a kid, but if you’re an “Israeli” adult, you have no excuse.

I’m sorry but can we stop praising Israelis for doing the bare fucking minimum and refusing service in order to get held in a cushy prison where they’re treated far better than Palestinian prisoners? They live in an apartheid state with active armed struggle against the occupation. If they’ve got a spine they’ll defect and fight for the resistance. Plenty of refuseniks are liberal Zionists or otherwise don’t meaningfully oppose the occupation, they only want to wash their hands of the bloodiest parts of the occupation.

And before anyone comes at me like “well you do it if it’s so easy”, I’ve spent time in prison for my political organising, I get raided by cops and all my shit taken every now and again, I’ve been held and interrogated by counter-terror cops, I am not speaking from a place of privilege when I say these Israelis are treated relatively well in prison. Obviously if I were in an armed group I would not say so on public social media but I can state the obvious about these Israelis, which is that there are brilliant armed resistance groups local to them which they can join. It’s not like random acts of terrorism where you could blow something up and nothing changes, it’s a real movement against the occupation, and I have no respect for any Israeli who does not join the Palestinian resistance. If you truly want to wash your hands of your role as a coloniser then pick up a gun and point it at IOF soldiers.

I’m not saying astroturfing doesn’t happen, but I don’t think it’d be worth investing into a bot farm just to leave low-quality social media comments for a political agenda. I’d be surprised if the practice is widespread. There are plenty of things intelligence services do that are more effective at achieving their goals.

There are bots that openly advertise themselves as such. Less common on Lemmy than Reddit but I’ve seen a few.

undercover bots pushing agendas

Do we have any real evidence these exist? I only see very spurious accusations of being a bot directed towards communists and other left-wingers, particularly towards racialised people and colonised people. I’d be both sceptical of their widespread existence and of their efficacy at effecting any kind of political change even if they did exist.