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ganymede

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  • The GrapheneOS developers are giving me concerns about the future of GrapheneOS

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  • some of it is kind of inevitable when you see how far ahead from everyone else they are technically and when people shitting on their work just aren't at their (technical) level it seems to be very draining. and eventually lead to dramas.

  • What's your most cynical opinion about the world?

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  • yeh but nah

    they infiltrate our environmental groups. legally and illegally coerce us & our our "leaders". have been systematically attacking, undermining & removing funding for renewables & climate research for decades. environmental protesters are "legally" assaulted, kidnapped, beaten & sometimes killed by their hired goons, meanwhile neo-nazis march with impunity.

    it's not simply a matter of them offering one alternative and just letting the market decide. they engage in unbelievable levels of corruption, coercion, deception, even genocide to steal natural resources from first nations people.

    meanwhile the public, barely keeping their heads above water, exploited, subjugated & worn to the bone, oftimes struggling to survive, make almost the only non-choice they can barely even choose from.

    yes the majority are to blame, for alot, but also recall we're talking about an average, likely poorly educated person going up against billion dollar brainwashing machinery (oftimes utilising research paid for with our tax dollars initially performed for therapeutic use, now weaponised in a twisted perversion of their original intent)

    like you aren't wrong. but there is alot more to the story.

    carlin is certainly on point in his quote you cited, and you are right this is perhaps the most difficult to reconcile aspect.

    let us weigh this alongside another poignant quote of his:

    The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you.

  • What are the silliest reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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  • for alot of people their relationship with windows is like that of an abusive partner. which is why you see alot of the same excuses pop up

  • Why is it called "male loneliness epidemic"? Dont women feel lonely too? Wtf?

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  • honestly surprised to see so many downvotes.

    I've been trying to compact my writing lately, and perhaps failed to communicate clearly. because i really felt like i'd already pre-agreed with everything you wrote when i said

    society currently seems to project an emotionally stunted image onto the male identity. but it’s important to note this is a sickness in current society rather than anything inherently “male”.

    obviously i didn't communicate properly, because imo that's in perfect agreement with what you said here

    how we’re socialised to handle our feelings also plays a big role

    this is what i meant about society projecting an 'incomplete' image onto the male identity. i want to stress here, this isn't a statement about any man, or even men as a group. imo it has nothing to do with "maleness" and everything to do with an impossibly hamstrung identity being thrust onto people. by impossible i mean it's literally impossible for any human to exist as an emotional shadow like that. no human can do it & we're expecting 50% of the population to magically achieve it. whatcouldgowrong.jpg

    i've spent quite some time trying to work out exactly where it comes from, i'm still not sure but i feel like a big dose of victorian era repression sure didn't help, plus perhaps alot of unprocessed trauma from the men who went to WW1 and experienced an entirely unprecedented form of PTSD en masse (what at the time was called shellshock) those men who came home brought it into their families and became our fathers fathers fathers etc etc. it's definitely intergenerational imo.

    i also think as society progresses technologically, there is less need for 'male brute force' to 'provide', so it will naturally create a bit of a vacuum in the perceived "male role". i can easily imagine an alternate history where something positive and strong had filled this vacuum instead of the poisoned version we got.

    i personally deeply do not believe it is something inherent in men, and i think this is supported by the stats you raise which shows a disparity in the distribution vs world average.

    rather i very much see this as a deep flaw in our current society, men are emotionally hamstrung and have dangerously impossible emotional expectations placed on them (again, this isn't the fault of any one gender or group, it is society at large to blame here). (and of course equally insane but different expectations are thrust onto all genders)

    a huge part of the problem imo is when boys are taught not to cry - actually wait, it's even worse, they're taught "boys don't cry", this is an unbelievable absurdity. crying is natural, normal & healthy. not only denying boys & men this natural emotional outlet, but tangling it up with the idea that "boys don't do it" therefore if one does, some part of their supposed identity is under threat. it's quite simply unbelievably toxic, it's literally poison. and. it. hurts. everyone.

    but that's fundamentally why i think calling it 'The male loneliness epidemic' is hurtful to everyone. alongside all the usual ragebait hooks, there's the sleight of hand of reducing a monumental issue to a fragment of the actual scale of the problem.

  • Why is it called "male loneliness epidemic"? Dont women feel lonely too? Wtf?

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  • Short Answer

    imo the rise of loneliness effects both women & men about equally in terms of scope.

    the push to strongly gender the 'epidemic' one way or the other is classic ragebait.

    Longer Answer

    Yes society currently seems to project an emotionally stunted image onto the male identity. but it's important to note this is a sickness in current society rather than anything inherently "male".

    and it's causing alot more suffering for all genders than just 'loneliness'. calling it The male loneliness epidemic is just loaded with so many hooks, it's just classic bait.

    men vs women is "powerful" for ragebait because it's literally half the population vs the other half.

  • Cities Panic Over Having to Release Mass Surveillance Recordings

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  • I don't think they're disputing any of that if it's hosted locally (or safely remote accessed by you). i think they're talking about it being fed to the cloud & commoditised, which I think is a valid concern imo.

  • you should google that

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  • if they're talking about what i think they are, it isn't the (very good) point you've made about scripting viability, but instead a kind of recursive bluster, exactly like whats shown in the OP pic.

    an example would be you ask it to write a script to automate something, and it suggests asking an LLM to do it, instead of just fucking doing it like it used to for the same basic type of prompt, hence why it looks like enshitifcation rather than progress.

    purely my opinion here, but i suspect it's got nothing to do with model fidelity or the state of the art and everything to do with some bs profit-seeking human intervention or masking some other bs business decision.

  • you should google that

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  • yeh and then you have to explicitly instruct it.

    wonder if its some engagement hack bs to boost the number of interactions or something.

  • What's an artificial limitation you put on yourself that has improved your personal life?

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  • no problem solving in bed when you should be resting. if something pops up, identify it & make a note (mental or otherwise) to address it at a later time.

  • Verify physical copies with keys?

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  • without further explanations of OP's intent i'm inclined to think this is perhaps the best approach

  • What technologies were ubiquitous ten years ago and are much less common now?

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  • and it's much easier to DRM

  • Breakthrough Discovery Could Finally Be the Key to Male Birth Control

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  • as an unapologetic irrational linux zealot, i find your joke...

    fuckin hilarious 😂, well done

  • Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily

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  • exactly

    default: on

    user: explicitly turns off

    random "update": defaults back on

    Now wait 1 year

  • Made a script that pulls MP3s from YouTube podcasts, transcribes them with WhisperX, and then uses an LLM to generate a summary. It works surprisingly well.

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  • noice, TTS the summary and we've gone full circle :D

  • Is a "vibe code cleanup" career a thing?

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  • ever heard the phrase 'shoot the messenger' ?

  • Open journal questions?

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  • without further context, i'm not sure you could read much into a single act of downloading

    it could be as simple as it contained some keywords for a lit review someone was doing

    from there they might eliminate it from their review, choose to cite it favourably, or choose to criticise it.

    if the journal has a good reputation, being a comparatively frequently read (downloaded) paper from a periodical could be considered a positive reception.

  • do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last?

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  • i'm not an expert, but here's my take.

    personally i question when such movements take power that we should interpret it as consent by the public majority.

    part of the reason the public apparently bestow power to the machinery of government is because the machinery is supposed to protect them from this very thing happening.

    the fact that it is happening, means such a rise in fact did not occur within the correct functioning of that machine.

    therefore we should probably question whether we should interpret it as consent by the majority.

    and if its not consent by the majority, then in some ways the picture is both bleaker and brighter.

    brighter, because you're not surrounded by quite so many evil fucks as they wanted you to believe

    bleaker, well, probably don't need to explain that bit

  • What's the real danger of opening ports?

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  • ok fair enough, sorry i may have misinterpreted what you meant.

    it sounds like your argument is that if the attacker doesn't know the service is running then the assertion that this reduces the risk profile is classified as an obscurity control - this argument is correct under these conditions.

    however, certain knocking configurations are not obscurity, because their purpose & value does not depend on the hope that the attacker is unaware of the service's existence but rather to reduce the attacker's window of access to the service with a type of out of band whitelisting. by limiting the attacker's access to the service you are reducing the attack surface.

    you can imagine it like a stack call trace, the deeper into the trace you go, every single instruction represents the attack surface getting larger and larger. the earlier in the trace you limit access to the attacker, you are by definition reducing the attack surface.

    in case i've misinterpreted what you meant. susceptibility to a replay attack does not mean something isn't a security measure. it means it's a security measure with a vulnerability. ofc replay attacks in knocking is a well known problem addressed long ago.

    perhaps the other source of miscommunication is for us to remember that security is about layers, because no single layer is ever going to be perfect.

  • What's the real danger of opening ports?

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  • if you can't work out what knocking might have to do with whitelisting then i'm not sure what you hoped to contribute towards reducing misconceptions in the conversation