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.

I didn’t say it categorically wouldn’t happen, just that if that was the person’s real intentions then they’ve been very stupid about it. If you’re going to commit a murder don’t create evidence pointing to you. Like the other commenter said, a gun and self defence skills will cover you in both cases.

I’m a she. But yes, I think arming yourself is a good idea regardless of the likelihood you’ll need it.

Get a gun and learn how to use it.

But as other commenters have said, if he was actually intending on killing you, it’d be real stupid to call you in advance to say so. Most likely just wants to scare you.

It depends. I have worked for nonprofits and know a lot of people who do. Word of mouth/connections with people already working there is a good way to find relatively decent NGO work. You would likely be paid near minimum wage though, it’s true, but a lot of NGOs do have well-meaning people who try to make a difference working at the lower levels; they normally have a bureaucratic layer that sucks but your actual coworkers are normally quite sound if you can find the right job. And some NGOs still do overall decent work even if the leadership sucks; they aren’t revolutionary organisations by any means, but when you’re looking at jobs, you’d be comparing them to some generic corporate job which sucks more.

Then you can still look elsewhere in the nonprofit sector. It doesn’t have to be a law firm.

If you can’t feasibly vet the code yourself (I think it is feasible for things like scripts and other small projects) and the star count is low/it’s not already well known and trusted, probably try running in a VM first and look out for signs of it doing things it shouldn’t, e.g. if it’s sending HTTP requests to the internet despite it being a program that should be completely offline. Using things like AppArmor and SELinux to prevent programs from doing things they shouldn’t need to do is also good practice.

Also, the tool itself may be low star count, but is the developer known at all? Someone with any kind of a reputation wouldn’t risk putting malware on their profile.

I suppose you could also look at the list of dependencies of the program. Is it using any libraries that don’t make sense? e.g. with the above, is there some kind of HTTP request library being used for a program that shouldn’t need to access the internet at all?

I think generally the risk is quite low as the author would be hiding their malware in plain sight if the source code is available. They’d have to bet on literally nobody checking. Which is fine for very obscure projects, but if you want your malware to spread, you want a good number of people to use it, at which point someone would presumably look at the code and notice it’s malware.

You could look for another job in the nonprofit sector. Your past experience will help you. You’ve not said what your specialisation is or what exactly you do—if you’re a lawyer and want to keep lawyer-ing, I suppose you could look for another nonprofit law firm, or something like a human rights law firm.

I use SpamAssassin. It’s fine, but definitely needs training. I might look into migrating to rspamd as it seems better, but I don’t have time atm.

For sure. I’m not financially responsible for anyone else, and it’s hard to understand how capitalists expect people to feed their kids with the kind of money they hand out with minimum wage or benefits.

I probably spend under 50 USD a month on food—not by choice, because I can’t afford to buy more. I’m not hungry but I do yearn for being able to eat with more variety and to eat more expensive foods as a treat from time to time. So yeah, I think this is just out of touch, although I’ve never been in the US and I understand the food is both more expensive there plus people have more money there, so maybe it’s less unreasonable in the US.

Commands are normally not considered “code” on their own. Someone who just runs commands on their computer to get a few operations done will normally not learn any programming constructs or concepts. If you’re doing shell scripting that usually crosses the line into code as you’d be using if statements, for loops, etc, which you normally don’t use if you’re just moving files around or whatever in the shell.

For the outside, I just use an antibac wipe. For the ports and grills, I bought a set of anti-static tweezers for this purpose.