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That's honestly good to know that you as a Spanaird (and your fellows) don't identify as Hispanic.

Because I have had to work with data sets, in the US, with 'race' data, that has to be in compliance with US govt standards, and... yeah 'Hispanic' just doesn't make any sense, even when you go into the 'logic' of it.

In defense of those southern Spaniards, the US govt. can eat my white dick.

Oh I fully agree.

I've got a bit of Italian heritage, and... oh dear lord, you'll get a similar kind of nonsense happening with southern Italians / Sicillians... Italians in general weren't even considered 'white' untill... the 70s?

You answered the question by saying 'because it is'.

No, its not.

Yes, 'cool' is subjective.

Popular and cool are not the same thing.

Many of the movies with a cult following now were basically commercial disappointments or even failures.

Art doesn't exist purely to make money.

That's 'content' you're thinking of.

Same kinda AI that determines whether or not you're a terrorist, by the way.

Making money != being cool.

If your sense of style is dictated by what is profitable, your style is mindless consumerism.

Which is immensely uncool, cringe even.

Beyond LLMs being essentially a massive cybersec attack surface area, vulnerable to many kinds of exploits...

Data Integrity.

A sandboxed LLM that is only on one person's computer, that has to be engaged with in its own environment, output and input are deliberately moved from other systems or programs manually, by a user... that's one thing.

Hook that LLM into an API?

More than one API?

Make it a foundational pivot point or decision/processing bus for an entire system?

The more and more integrated an LLM is into a complex system, the greater potential for it to do something unexpected, unintended, with effects that can range from minor to catastrophic.

A full stack based around an LLM should be thought of as comparable to running your entire business off of the Test enviornment, or just auto-pushing all experimental updates and patches and changes live into Production.

Everything that an LLM touches is something that it can break, is something that there must exist a back up plan to handle, a mitigation strategy for recovering from, a plan to disconnect/disengage/disable things and then failover to a more robust system if the LLM is actively doing some kind of unwanted thing.

Selected excerpts from:

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF
OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM
by
Emmanuel Goldstein

Chapter III
War is Peace

The splitting up of the world into three great super-states was an event which could be and indeed was foreseen before the middle of the twentieth century.
[...]
The frontiers between the three super-states are in some places arbitrary, and in others they fluctuate according to the fortunes of war, but in general they follow geographical lines.
[...]
In one combination or another, these three super-states are permanently at war, and have been so for the past twenty-five years. War, however, is no longer the desperate, annihilating struggle that it was in the early decades of the twentieth century. It is a warfare of limited aims between combatants who are unable to destroy one another, have no material cause for fighting and are not divided by any genuine ideological difference. This is not to say that either the conduct of war, or the prevailing attitude towards it, has become less bloodthirsty or more chivalrous.
On the contrary, war hysteria is continuous and universal in all countries, and such acts as raping, looting, the slaughter of children, the reduction of whole populations to slavery, and reprisals against prisoners which extend even to boiling and burying alive, are looked upon as normal, and, when they are committed by one's own side and not by the enemy, meritorious. But in a physical sense war involves very small numbers of people, mostly highly-trained specialists, and causes comparatively few casualties. The fighting, when there is any, takes place on the vague frontiers whose whereabouts the average man can only guess at, or round the Floating Fortresses which guard strategic spots on the sea lanes.
In the centres of civilization war means no more than a continuous shortage of consumption goods, and the occasional crash of a rocket bomb which may cause a few scores of deaths. War has in fact changed its character. More exactly, the reasons for which war is waged have changed in their order of importance. Motives which were already present to some small extent in the great wars of the early twentieth century have now become dominant and are consciously recognized and acted upon.

To understand the nature of the present war -- for in spite of the regrouping which occurs every few years, it is always the same war -- one must realize in the first place that it is impossible for it to be decisive.
[...]
In any case each of the three super-states is so vast that it can obtain almost all the materials that it needs within its own boundaries. In so far as the war has a direct economic purpose, it is a war for labour power. Between the frontiers of the super-states, and not permanently in the possession of any of them, there lies a rough quadrilateral with its corners at [...] containing within it about a fifth of the population of the earth. It is for the possession of these thickly-populated regions, and of the northern ice-cap, that the three powers are constantly struggling.
In practice no one power ever controls the whole of the disputed area. Portions of it are constantly changing hands, and it is the chance of seizing this or that fragment by a sudden stroke of treachery that dictates the endless changes of alignment.
All of the disputed territories contain valuable minerals [...]. But above all they contain a bottomless reserve of cheap labour.
Whichever power controls equatorial Africa, or the countries of the Middle East, or Southern India, or the Indonesian Archipelago, disposes also of the bodies of scores or hundreds of millions of ill-paid and hard-working coolies. The inhabitants of these areas, reduced more or less openly to the status of slaves, pass continually from conqueror to conqueror, and are expended like so much coal or oil in the race to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory, to control more labour power, to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory, and so on indefinitely.
It should be noted that the fighting never really moves beyond the edges of the disputed areas.
[...]

I broadly agree with what you are saying here, but, I think you are overlooking or perhaps unaware of something.

The Steam Frame.

It has its own internal ARM chip, is capable of running smaller games entirely self contained within itself.

And... as Proton is a translation layer that makes Windows games run on Linux... Valve has been massively either themselves aiding development of, or funding development of a similarish kind of translation layer (FeX) that converts x86 calls to ARM.

Which can also work in tandem with, layered with Proton.

So that means that a Steam Frame is technically capable of running many .APK (Android) games.

So... while things are tumultuous right now with the RAMpocalypse... Valve is laying the groundwork, in technical capacity, for mobile games to be broadly playable on its hardware, so its much less of a stretch to imagine that they could at some point open up an APK section on Steam's storefront.

I guess what I can be fairly confident of is that it will involve something being unsheathed.

internal 56k dial up modem noises

I'm a bit younger, but early Ventrilo had a TTS that basically was so bad, and so easy to spam and break with nonsense that servers would either have it totally turned off, or kick/ban you if you spammed soi soi soi or something.

... And then of course.... there was that one time John Madden made it to the Moon...

Or.... you can turn it into music:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=T9vXGlaNKg0

I... guess you could call that TTS acapella?

... I guess you've found a new folder after the horny posting spree, hahah!

I see you did not even mention Carthage, as is tradition.

It gets massively more complicated the more granular you get.

There are hundreds, if not thousands of distinct people groups in Latin and South America.

Many of them can directly tie their lineage back to the Maya, Aztecs, etc, and those societies themselves were amalgamations of many different people groups.

There are a ridiculous number of variations of Spanish that have different vocabulary, pronounciations rules, as a result of merging with local languages in different ways.

I would imagine the same is the case with Brazil and Portuguese. I don't know any Portuguese, but I do know that I've heard Brazillians say they often have trouble understanding Portugal-Portuguese and visa versa.... and Brazil is fucking huge.

... 'Hispanic' is roughly the American equivalent of 'European'.

Oh, he's European, he's from Europe.

Oh, he's Hispanic, he's from south of the US.

Are proper Spaniards, people actually from Spain ... Hispanic?

Uh well... according the the US government, basically, maybe. Are they brown? If yes, Hispanic.

That is pretty much how it works.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/12/who-is-hispanic/

As with most race-based terms... it doesn't actually make barely any sense.

You can do this with a good deal of TTS programs.

It can be very funny to give a paragraph in English to a Portuguese or Japanese or French TTS model.

Huh, guess I'm not the only person that 'bakes' to Led Zeppelin.

By brain segfaulted trying to pronounce that, I ended up with Vegonias, like, Begonias.

Seems like something Geralt would be dispatched to handle.

... and no, I have absolutely no idea how he would handle this.

Yep, this.

It varies from distro to distro, but its generally a good idea to do a full reboot after a major update.

I make it a part of my morning ritual:

Set up some tea and run a full update check, reboot, just cuz.

It makes more sense because I like tea, and I don't have it running anything that needs to be up 24/7.

I am a nerd of many realms lol, your pun actually made me go check, 'wait, is that a Sig?', haha!

92% sure thats a Beretta 92 FS, possibly the compact variant, but very good pun either way!

Maybe we can cause a causality loop if someone shops it into a Sig P226.