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Yeah that was originally the joke, but then halfway through writing it I just got depressed.
They're never going to financially recover from this.
Oh wait actually nevermind, it turns out they actually made more money while I was writing that sentence than I've made in my entire life. I guess they'll be okay.
You're talking to a guy who has a Gopher page. He may say it's "the webstore for his personal business" but he's clearly living the hobby project life. And to be clear, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, we should all aspire to be able to find success like this.
They generally don't get to take it with them unless they are carrying it at the time, and other people will definitely step in to take their stuff eventually. Maybe the government, maybe the family, maybe opportunists. But this doesn't usually happen right away.
Some stuff is explicitly seized at the time of arrest, there is a complex and opaque system of laws built around this. Some of it is seized as evidence. Some of that may be returned eventually, but usually not for a very long time, and much of it won't be. Other procedures are used to seize things that seem valuable, originally intended to seize things that were actually criminal in nature or the product of crime. All of the details vary in different jurisdictions. Look up "Civil asset forfeiture" for more information. But not everything is seized. Lots of stuff is simply not interesting or valuable or there's no legal justification to take it, so it's just left behind. Often, the stuff just sits there, unused, empty, untouched. Technically it is still "theirs" even though "they" are gone. After all, they could yet be found innocent.
But possession, as always, is 9/10ths of the law. If the person's family is still living there and takes it, nobody's policing that or even disputing it. If someone else takes it, there's probably nobody to complain.
Meanwhile, any fees or debts that are due are still due, even if nobody's around to pay them. Nobody's going to give the guy a break from his financial obligations just because he got arrested or deported. Your accounts were frozen? Oh that's too bad, you're still obligated to find a way to pay. Then we start seeing the people this money is "owed" to start to repossess things. It often only takes a missed payment or two and bam, it's gone. Mortgage? House belongs to the bank now. Unpaid taxes or registration fees? Government will helpfully sell it for you to pay any fees, all sorted out now you're welcome.
Like @Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world says, the cruelty is the point. Your losses of possessions are an unofficial part of your punishment, and the great part is many of them still happen whether you're found innocent or guilty. It's a convenient way of punishing people who are completely innocent along with those who aren't quite guilty enough to be found guilty.
There is no other authority I would trust on the matter.
That's called offline mode. It's a setting you can choose in the server configuration. The drawback is that there is no official account validation (because of course there can't be, since it's not reaching out to the authentication servers), meaning you have to basically "bring your own security", installing a client whitelist or some other authentication method otherwise it's open season to trolls, and that's why it's not as common as you might imagine it would be.
That's fair, I hate it too. Java is way better, mine is so heavily modded I can barely stand vanilla Minecraft anymore. The only reason I know what a shitshow Bedrock on Linux is, is because my niece was at first only allowed to play on Switch and that's only properly compatible with Bedrock, and she likes to show me around her worlds that she works on. I eventually convinced her parents to give her access to something that would let her play Java instead and since then we've only looked back at Bedrock once, and she was disappointed too haha.
They're talking about Bedrock edition, unless there's some new method of running it that I'm not aware of. Minecraft Bedrock is available as a UWP app through Microsoft Store, which is only available on Windows, phones and consoles. It is not compatible with Steam, Wine, Proton or Linux in any way, The only known way to run Minecraft Bedrock on Linux is to install the Android App for Minecraft Bedrock in an Android emulator, there is a wrapper called MCPLauncher for this purpose.
Alternatively, you can use a translation layer like GeyserMC to use Java edition in a way that's interoperable with Bedrock, but the Bedrock edition itself is not currently available on Linux.
Not really at this scale. According to history, I'd say that even victims of false allegations to the Gestapo during the war years got more diligent investigation, due process, rule of law, and a genuine attempt to find the truth than the people ICE accuses of being illegal immigrants today. Under the Nazis, some crimes like "listening to foreign radio" were notoriously difficult to determine the truth of and of course miscarriages of justice certainly happened regularly, but depending on what you were accused of as long as you were a loyal Nazi and weren't actually guilty of serious crimes like "friendship to the jews" (/s) you had little to fear from the Gestapo in Nazi Germany. And this is why people were so keen to regularly and performatively prove they were in fact "loyal Nazis", they felt it would protect them from retribution.
However we also have to remember that the laws they were following were so deliberately unjust it also has to be understood in that context. The Gestapo and the people didn't HAVE to do anything other than rigorously and consistently following the laws to be unjust, because the laws themselves were so unjust. The regime had already created the fascist state they wanted, with little resistance from most and thunderous applause by many. They were actually much further along the path of fascism and racism and Naziism by then than the USA is now. It is fascinating to see the parallels with modern day, but also important to see the differences.
This is neither a defense or apologism for ICE, any more than it is for the Nazis; they have both committed horrible violations of fundamental human rights and have done and wish to do great evil, but it is important to understand the different situations and the different stages they are at. Trump and his regime may be acting dictatorial but they are not yet actually dictators. They are misusing and abusing laws and justifications and courts to perform fascist actions but they have not yet created an actually fascist police state they can exist comfortably in. Yet. They are working their way there, but they are weaker than they appear, that's why they have to keep hiding the resistance and making demonstrations of how strong they want you to believe they are. They are more scared of you than they are letting on. And they should be.
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That's almost certainly not even AI, just some shitty lazy auto-replace editorial standards/political correctness filter where they decided that to keep terminology consistent across all their articles they would always replace, among other things, the technically inaccurate colloquial usage of "Holland" with "The Netherlands". And complete lack any sort of proof-reading.
That said, it is a good reminder that "slop" content does technically predate LLM-based AI. The big difference is now is the quantity of it that's absolutely exploded. It used to be you'd run into it from some lazy blog or low-effort corner-cutting corpomedia from time to time but it was still just a growing minority of content. But it's now turned into an overwhelmingly prolific firehose of slop that is in danger of washing away all legitimate content and lowering the signal to noise ratio down to statistical impossibility levels.
I remember like a decade ago when Nvidia made the most power efficient cards. It was a glorious time. Those generations were so good there was barely even any power differential between desktop and laptop, even phones and consoles were riding high, you could get cards that were affordable, quiet, powerful, pick any three. Maxwell-2 in particular and other similar generation cards around that early-to-mid 2010s era felt like really elegant and finely-tailored designs while AMD was desperately throwing more power at their problems and creating blast furnaces that doubled as graphics processors just so they could say on paper that they were competitive.
Then it all changed. Bitcoin exploded, AMD's cards were so aggressively mediocre at mining that they weren't even in the competition, so Nvidia got handed the whole market on a silver platter. And then they realized if they could get the hash rate high enough they could charge whatever they wanted and power consumption just ceased to matter since the cards were literally printing money. And that was the end of that. They found it was so profitable to chase those industrial-scale customers that they've never really looked back and now they're riding the AI bubble into the stratosphere. It's going to be a long fucking fall, that's all I can say. And most gamers will be pointing and laughing all the way. Fuck Nvidia. I don't even care who has faster performance or better value anymore, I'm using Linux and supporting AMD on principle.
Just think of it this way, if a guy who doesn't know and can't figure out what a "DL" is can get a job, you'll be fine.
Technically yes, but the community on Lemmy is very small and pretty widely globally distributed, which are suboptimal characteristics when you're presumably not going to have an easy time just dropping everything and moving to somewhere random in the world at a moment's notice because you met a person there and they think they might have something for you, even if that's something you might like to do it doesn't mean it's practical. That said, it is possible, but you're going to have to put in a lot more effort that way.
You'll have a lot better luck (and honestly, it IS about luck, so repeating the same patterns over and over again until you get a different result IS a viable strategy) finding some local connections within your community. Sure, virtual/remote work is a thing in some fields, but even for that there are still obstacles based on national borders and languages that are going to further limit your choices even beyond the very significant limitation of only being able to apply for virtual/remote positions in those specific fields that are suited to it.
The biggest thing you can do though is to have or start to learn some kind of skill or competence at something, and be able to demonstrate that in front of others. If you have nothing else to work on, develop those social skills; those will get you further than any piece of paper will without them. If family and friends aren't helping, find communities or organizations or even neighbors that need something, anything, and offer to help, volunteer. Never pass up an opportunity to work with someone if you can find it, the things you'll learn from them while doing that work are more valuable than any paycheck if it's something new to you. And once you've at least made some progress in either learning or demonstrating some level of skill or competence, start dropping the hint and mention that you're looking for a job. May go nowhere, may not get any reaction at all, but every time you get any reaction, that's a potential door opening. You likely will not get an immediate job on the spot, it may be that you're just planting seeds that need some time to grow, but just keep on planting until something happens. Do everything you can think of to be memorable, connectable, approachable and accessible, try to make sure people remember you or at least your skill when they come across a role that needs filling, and make sure they will know how to get in touch with you if they do.
As with any kind of success, it's 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, you just gotta pound pavement, force yourself to get out there even when you feel like you're failing, talk to people, learn everything you can, seize opportunities to learn or do any kind of work you think you can. And the more you show you're willing to work, people will find things for you to do, skills for you to learn, and ultimately places for you to work and the money will start flowing. Just start doing work, and chat to people either during the work, or about the work, or something. You can't escape the social aspect, even if you're an introvert or a wallflower, that's how we make connections and the connections are part of it. The details, the skills, the specifics all don't matter as much as you think, and the rest will figure itself out naturally as long as you keep showing up, making noise, and not hiding or being invisible.
Well this sounds like a wonderful step in the right direction. In theory. Maybe I shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, but this is Microsoft, and I feel like I really need to check the inside of this gift horse for a group of heavily armed Greek soldiers.
I don't trust them. What's the catch? What's their strategy here? Gifts from Microsoft are never free.
Have the community been asking for this? Is the existing de-obfuscation process onerous or problematic? Obviously it's ultimately unnecessary and less than ideal, but as a developer I often value consistency over correctness and this seems like it's potentially creating a large inconsistency for the sake of correctness and possibly little practical value and that raises a few red flags for me.
I'm wondering what the reaction to this news from modders is like. I'm not super into Minecraft modding personally, but won't this disrupt the modding scene at least temporarily and break backwards compatibility? Unless it's 1:1 perfectly aligned to the previous mappings they released, and even then, this feels like something that could sow a lot of chaos and confusion and create a lot of extra work at least until the dust settles.
I do try. Unfortunately, trying is the best I've got. I'm not pretending I have a magic wand. But I'll keep trying. It's better than not trying.
There are communities out there you can trust, that will both support you and find you very useful, you've just got to find them, which isn't necessarily easy. Like I said, the whole social system has been sabotaged and what we have access to is designed to keep people divided and disconnected from each other. There are a lot of obstacles. Physical proximity is definitely very helpful as a way of getting around many of those obstacles and systems, but it's not explicitly required. If you can find a community that would fit you and that you need, they may not be close to you. But if you make it a priority, you find a way to either bring yourself to the community or bring some of that community to yourself, whichever turns out to be the more practical option. Or do neither because physical proximity is still not strictly required, it just makes things a lot easier. If it's easier to stay where you are instead of making it easier to connect with some beneficial form of community then you can do that too (but it's probably not actually easier, we just become convinced we are stuck when we fail to see any way out).
I have a slightly different but similar take. The real human superpower is community, and we've lost so much of that through the Internet, or at least have lost our grasp on how to handle it. We are at our strongest, in fact pretty much unstoppable, when we come together as a group, when we help each other and support each other without being transactional. Our collective goals unite us but individual diversity is our strength.
It's not just about food, but food is a great example. If you've ever been part of a friendly community with a farmer or even a gardener, you'll know they frequently give away food to anyone who wants it, because they frequently end up with more than they need, and even you will end up with more than you need. They grow or harvest stuff you don't, and they do a great job at it, with a few different connections you'll have a supermarket worth of groceries knocking on your door. And in return, in the words of Letterkenny, "When a friend [or neighbor] asks for help, you help them." This is how communities work. We give when we can, share when we can, we ask for help when we can't, we work together as a group but remain individuals. Granted some people will only ever ask for help, won't share anything and will take and take and take and that can be draining, toxic, and truly ruinous if you can't figure out anything you appreciate about them. But they are the minority, and they don't find themselves welcome in most communities. Most people share and share-alike, most people provide something to the community in their own way, and if you find the right group of people and community and look at it with the right attitude that's all you'll find.
There's always going to be drama and conflict too, that's also very deeply human. But we need to stay connected to our friends and neighbors and communities anyway. We need to be strong enough to tolerate that, and endure it and live with it, in exchange for the many, many benefits we get from the community we gain as a result. We are social creatures, and our social drive has been stolen and sabotaged and twisted into some horrible network of global toxicity for profit. We need to reclaim it, take it back for ourselves and start reconnecting to other human beings on a human level again, start re-knitting the fabric of our communities. This is how we'll become resilient enough to survive the future. Our history is a history of struggle and endurance and community. And that's not going to change because of any amount of technology or natural disaster or self-inflicted disaster. We will still struggle and endure and build communities.
It's what we do.
We call those "transferable skills", it counts!
Forgejo also has significantly more active development. Feature-wise, I believe they're currently working on adding federation via ActivityPub as one of the main goals. I also think they have a much better designed and documented system for workers and actions at least at the time I went to spin one up. I switched to Forgejo and haven't really looked back.