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Bahnd Rollard

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  • Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

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  • I was in the trenches for that nonsense fixing stuff daily because of them. Oracles wacky tacky shit that kept their users locked to Java 7.21 for a decade past the support date. Bloated language packs and not being able to keep up with basic HTML tags... You dont know how good yall have it today.

    I dont care how much MS dresses up Edge, we know its just Chrome in a poorly fitted suit. The old addage still holds true, Microsofts default browser (formerly IE, currently Edge) is the best browser to use to go download another browser.

    [This concludes grumpy old tech speech]

  • Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

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  • Given what Microsoft is smoking these days, no AI would be a selling point, and Mozilla does not seem to realize they are playing with fire. Their userbase chose their product instead of using the system defaults of Chrome, Safari, and Internet Exploder. Their users, just like Lemmy, are tech-litrrate and more socially concious than the masses. If an alternative or fork appears, with sufficent support, and Mozilla does not put the breaks on their AI train, were all just going to jump ship. We do it every time a new OS is installed, there is no Firefox loyalty, only lesser evils.

  • A cool guide to Dante's Divine Comedy

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  • Oh 100%

    The history and context of its writing is half the fun. Its a spite filled romp through a roman flavored cross-polinated afterlife. There are tons of things that modern bible folk would whinge at if you point out the hipocracy. Like how they discount all previous pantheons, yet characters from greek and roman myth canonically are present in Inferno, Chiron is not only alive in ring 7, he is also gainfully employed peppering arrows at one souls attempting to leave one of hells many boiling water features. Its all one grand myth, polytheism, monotheism, its all connected through stories humans tell themselves.

    If you beleive its sources are real, you do you, I dont judge. If you dont, thats good too, but remember a majority of the people on this planet do and are less likely to act with logic and reason as a primary prerogative. Its handy to know their lore so you know what to say to get them to leave you alone.

  • Trump brands fentanyl a ‘weapon of mass destruction’ in drug war escalation

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  • Aww shit... Here we go again.

  • Is entertainment getting worse or am I getting old?

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  • I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was, and now what I am isnt it, and what is it is weird and scary to me.

    And it will happen to you.

  • A cool guide to Dante's Divine Comedy

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  • Correct, but through cultural osmosis, a lot of The Divine Comedy has become indistinguishable from their actual beliefs or is just head-canon for people. (Its not like most of em read or understand their books anyway)

    Plus, Dante was a mad lad and wrote a bunch of people he did not like (including 2 popes) into his funny hell fanfic.

  • Shafer Canyon Overlook, Canyonlands National Park-Island in the Sky, Utah

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  • When I was at the park we saw a huge SUV navigate that road in the first photo. This Uber Black motherfucker spent 30 min trying to climb that cliff and we just watched and cheered them on. I do not know how they made it... Canyonlands is not a park to mess around in.

  • Actual theft

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  • What decade is it?

  • Actual theft

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  • Best buy has been on my "one-bad-black-friday bankrupsy" bet for years, yet they seemed to have survived the death of Sears, Radioshack, Circuit City, and Frys Electronics...

    For me, as a customer, they are the shop of last resort. I will go literally anywhere else because they will likely have the thing, but no specific models. If you need an SSD, RAM (lol no in todays market) or a cable they will likely have it, but its going to be a smaller range than Microcenter, if time is no object, just order exactly what you need.

    The thing I will give them credit for is keeping the home theatre market, I feel that only a fool will buy a TV without physically looking at it first (they turn the blue up, just an FYI).

  • Do you have strong opinions about universal basic income?

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  • There have been UBI trial runs in the EU, they usually dont. Once peoples needs are met, they tend to want to want to continue doing things as they are. If they wern't buying fancy cars, UBI isnt going to change that, and if a car is a need for that individual, then the system is working as intended.

    Plus, the thing every counter argument to UBI seems to forget is that not everyone will be responsible with the funds or onboard with the program. The system will need to have to buffer for abuse and poor habbits, but unlike now, an unwillingnes/inability to participate in the workforce does not mean poverty. Plus a well designed system will help people use it effectivly and get them the help they need (see the current failures of the US mental health system).

  • Kristi Noem literally runs out of House hearing to avoid Dem questions

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  • Nuuuu!

  • JD Vance is sick of 67: ‘Ban these numbers forever’

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  • 68 missing out on all the fun by being a normal number and not subject to memes.

  • Whats the worst book anyone has ever recommended you?

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  • Hubbard trash is fun with friends. We used to do shitty movie night before the plague, and one of the last events before lockdown was "Drinking and Dianetics"... It was a choice, really eye opening and deeply stupid. Plus the story of how the nerd herd aquired the DVD was hillarious.

    It started off normal enough, a self-help video with a bunch of sunny California people and a higher than expected budget. Tons of power imagery and hints that you would get if you watched south parks "Scientologists believe this" bit.

    After that it starts getting weird, bad psychology, incorrect biology and theories that were clearly written by a sci-fi author. The worst was their search for "the original trauma" thing, absolute hog-wash.

    People were already out of it by the time we got to the DvD extras, but we all remember the skit with the panther and the actor putting up his dukes like Popeye the sailor man.

    The showing was all in good fun, but there was a thing in the back of peoples heads, this is a cult that ruins lives and people fall for this crap.

    If you see that book or film, help that person and be excellent to each other.

  • Demon light rule

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  • That is some vintage meme ya got there.

  • What's your plan for not dying?

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  • Thats the neat part, I dont. I simply continue the routine of putting food in my face and if anything bad happens... Try and deal with it.

    Due to my job, if about half of the fortold "end-timed" occure, its not an issUe not an issME. Ill probably be at ground-zero of what ever it is, or atleast down the block from it...

    Have fun in the appocalypse. If its zombies, I get to do that one.

  • Reddit is controlled by Bots - protect your opinions

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  • Unfortunatly its considered a primary source for Google, correct or not. Some parts of it still catalog relavent answers and help, but its more machine now than man, all twisted and evil.

  • Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

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  • Bet

    GANDALF THE GREY

    GANDALF THE WHITE

    MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAILS BLACK KNIGHT

    BENITO MUSSOLINI

    & THE BLUE MEANNIE

    COWBOY CURTIS

    JAMBI THE GENIE

    ROBOCOP

    TERMINATOR

    CAPTIAN KIRK

    DARTH VADER

    LO PANTS

    SUPERMAN

    EVERY SINGLE POWER RANGER

    BILL S. PRESTON

    THEODORE LOGAN

    SPOCK

    THE ROCK

    DOC OCK

    HULK HOGAN.

  • Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"

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  • Avoiding slopification seems to be the main priority, and you would have to have the AI be incorporated into a game it would have to do something that AI is already passable at, otherwise it wont pass that barrier and will get shunned like the rest of the slop.

    For example, you could have an LLM act as a character or have a neural net incorporated into the game-ai like how tool assisted DOTA2 competitions work.

    I see three main problems, first is that you would need the hardware to run it locally, which may be a hard sell to some people depending on what the game it is, only online expirenes should endebt themselves to AWS, if its single player, its going to lose a ton of sales there. Two, its really hard to convince audiences electrons have feelings, remember Final Fantasy (2001)? Thats what happened last time someone tried to personify a digital construct, and well... It went swimmingly (Microsofts Tay, does not count). Lastly, impact, would a narrative focused title have the same impact of an AI wrote the script? How would you feel after playing through a title like "Papers, please" and when the credits roll it says "script generated by CoPilot"? I feel like it would ring hollow, the feelings would be cheapened by it...

    I would be interested to see how this plays out, but im content to support the titles and studios that do things the traditional way.

  • Tis the Season To Get Trampled

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  • Im very thankful that it appears this chapter of consumerist history is over. Last entry on Black Friday Death Count was from 2021 and I was going past my big local mall and I saw tons of parking. In past years that place was a zoo, but today, slightly more crowded than normal, but nothing dangerous.

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    Revenant Major Update | EVE Online

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    Question: self-hosted instant messanger.

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    Fanfest Program Revealed

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