Why am I not surprised that the one guy the cops actually arrest for this is “Fernando Diaz”.

Can’t arrest all the “Thomas Smiths” since ICE is already “deputizing” anyone that wants to participate in their human trafficking of brown people.

Personal local NAS (Network attached storage).

Or install Tailscale on your home computer if it’s always on.

I’m a Linux nerd but I use Tailscale just because of how incredibly easy, secure, and reliable it is. And it’s free obviously.

Can access your files anywhere from basically any device. It essentially just lets you have access securely to any of your devices as if they were sitting on the same home network.

I got rid of cloud storage and just run a NAS with unRAID (paid but not a subscription. But worth every penny imo) There are alternatives that are free though.

Well. Do they? Maybe write a base class you can extend to cock, balls, breast, dildo that can work with objects mouth, asshole, and pussy.

Get to work OP. The world needs this.

A true person of fine culture and excellence 👌🍷

And the first task on that to-do list: make a to-do list.

Need one with Cenk from TYTs face too. Damn how that channel has fallen off. Amazing what a few corporate sponsors will do to someone’s brain. Dude is still in denial as we drop bombs on Iran.

God damn America. We’re such fucking scumbags dude. Look forward to further fascist policies domestically now. Anyone against Trump now is going to get labeled an enemy of the state during war time.

We are so fucking dumb and bloodthirsty. This is just 2003 but somehow with an even dumber president and far far less allies.

I think you’re wrong. But not because you’re illogical. On the contrary I think you’re thinking rationally if you assume businesses are running to make better products. If you do. You’re right.

These companies are not running to make better products than their competitors. They are running to monopolize their industry to a degree that gives them enough power to sell absolute garbage.

Look no further than the gaming industry. This is the exact type of garbage we are seeing from other industries now.

They are not interested in making better products. They are interested in making profits. And if the entire market is held together by 2-3 major players all replacing workers with AI slop they will have no reason to change. They will all do it together.

No amount of “indie” projects will ever threaten their market domination.

This is then future that will happen. Don’t expect “markets” to save us from this. The myth of “free markets” is how we got here in the first place.

Its why I love “getting organized” and making a well structured plan of what I will do the next day. It makes me feel so accomplished that I wake up the next morning and realize I already got all the dopamine I could get from making the plan. It’s basically like I already did all those things. So there is no reason to rush and do them now.

Holy shit. Shut the fuck up. We don’t live in China during the 2010s. People can care about an active genocide supported by their tax dollars and elected politicians and not be hypocrites for not mentioning “China bad” before every post.

The point here is supporting genocide or not. You can have this discussion about other things. But you could probably have left this comment unposted in this context.

This. I hate it. It feels like a modern day factory worker job.

When I first graduated I was all caring about design, mainability, etc.

Nope. All that shit is pointless in a large company. Took me too long to notice that Cisco was essentially just throwing as many code monkeys at the problems until things work.

“Fix” a bug in a hacky way that creates 10 more bugs that won’t be found for weeks and be another teams problem because they can’t directly point to your hacky code anyway? That engineer is getting promoted. They fix so many bugs. So many commits!

Take the time to understand the bug and do a rewrite to ensure other platforms are not effected and setup the design so it’s easier to debug in the future? Well, you spent all week on one bug you lazy engineer!

It took me too long to realize that I was the bad programmer. That this is actually what companies want and reward their employees for.

Sorry. Didn’t mean to rant. But your short comment triggered it I guess.

I fucking hate this field. I still love programming though.

The power to remember to do your habits you already started.

I can’t live without VIM keybinds. Maybe I’m a boomer. I do use it as a note taking or “collect my thoughts” app. Or just a place to paste shit when I’m working. Very useful for that. Though only when I’m forced to be on Windows.

I’m convinced a lot of the “AI tools” in general are just the same old tool with data collection tacked onto it. I really hope some of the things I see labeled as “AI” in tech these days are not actually running some model on a GPU somewhere. I pray they aren’t at least.

If the file is just a class I usually put example usage with some default arguments in that block by itself. There is no reason for a “main” function. It’s a nice obvious block that doesn’t run when someone imports the class but if they’re looking at the class there is a really obvious place to see the class usage. No confusion about what “main()” is meant to do.

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # MyClass example Usage
    my_object = MyClass()
    my_object.my_method()

This sadly excludes the majority of bad UX decisions that are done entirely to maximize users time inside of the app as well as display advertising.

So many functional apps are destroyed by these incentives. There is literally a “skill issue” but in the opposite direction. The design is either purposely malicious in a subtle way with “dark patterns” (something Amazon is insanely guilty of. Literally just go try and return and item.) or is purposely annoying trying to ensure the user purchases the “free trial” to actually make the app functional. Knowing a lot of users will be charged at least once for the free trial.

I guess my point is that there is so so so so much wrong with UX design today. But for the majority of people that’s not because of a bad programmer with no design knowledge. It’s on purpose in most cases.

If we had one public social media platform that would be the best way. It would force people to filter and learn how to interact with technology. But in our world people are lazy and a platform that picks the best value of X automatically for the most people will win. Even if it’s not actually how people want to see things.

What causes that? Is it the coffee cup that actually makes the coffee taste slightly cooler than room temp water in a glass? I’m guessing. I don’t know if it’s actually colder. But probably more due to the heat transfer you’re feeling from your lips to the mug?

Either way, I’m going to go put this in the microwave so I can find it there again at around 10PM when I finally remember I didn’t eat anything besides snacks and need to heat up a burrito.

You are getting at a core of the issue I have with people who are against AI art and AI in general. The issue needs to based on who benefits materially from the use of AI and not on these abstract ideas of “it looks bad” or “it’s stolen”.

The fundamental problem with this is “it looks bad” is subjective and not unique to AI produced art. And “it’s stolen” is also a bit silly because I’m sure everyone has heard “all art is derivative”. Artist inspire other artists and work from that inspiration.

So, while I don’t really disagree with these arguments in theory. They get you nowhere.

The discussion needs to be focused on what a complete flaw it is in our society that only a small number of billionaires and capitalist are the ones actually gaining material benefits from the use of AI. Not to improve workers conditions, not to make our lives easier, not to give artist more tools for inspiration. But to increase profits by removing the cost of our labor all together.

Fundamentally, no one would be upset with AI art if it was used by existing artist and non artists to make cool looking shit. We are only upset that artist are being exploited and having their livelihood threatened. AI and AI art especially are just exposing that already existing structure of labor exploitation to a massive degree.

I really hope people can see past the existing structures to a better way. These technologies that SHOULD just be a tool to use, or not use, are instead controlled for the interest of capitalists profit. In the short term this means fighting for unions and worker protections. But we need to understand that in the long term you can’t overcome the invention of the latest “Loom” of the industry. We need to fight this concentration of ownership and interest and move past these outdated forms of labor relationships that only benefit the rich.