Pup Biru

Downvotes are a contribution, they are just the kind of contribution you don’t like

and we allow rules in comms that ban certain types of contributions, like propaganda outlets, low value sources, *phobia

in general, not allowing contributions that moderators believe is bad for the health of the comm is an acceptable policy

the governor is saying that the shooter thinks republicans are fascists, and we can probably assume he means “the left” thinks republicans are fascists. i’d say beyond that isn’t anything we can infer from the statement alone

still there from australia too

yeah viable is such a variable concept

i guess like… i have a friend that is a lab tech, and he vibe coded a stand alone HTML and JS page for their team to take CSV and filter it… the excel process they used before was horrendous… in that case, i guess that’s a viable product: it works, isn’t buggy (or at least bugs will become well known and able to be manually avoided or worked around)… i’d say that’s an MVP but wouldn’t be so if you wanted to productise it

vibe coding is trash for MVPs… it’ll get you there, but as always the achilles heel of vibe coding is maintenance and bugs

vibe coding is great for a POC, but the defining difference between a POC and an MVP is that a POC is made to be thrown out, doesn’t have to work all the time (you can say “ah yup just need to give it a kick” when you’re showing it off and manually intervene)

vibe coding is good to show a basic, unmaintainable, non-production version of a feature of function, but then you need to take that and manually build it into your MVP - perhaps by copying some minor parts of the POC, but verifying every step

well that’s just a misunderstanding about what the completion is… australia, yeah i agree that’s a bit out of the blue but im glad we’re part of it… however, the point is “EBC members + a few” and israel is part of the EBC

perhaps simply putting something like cling wrap over the lens and moving it for each photo would be enough: adding some scratches and roughness that slightly changes each time you move it

i’d guess that the digital processing is a well known change so you can account for it

after all, modern post processing on a phone afaik is done in the raw sensor data, so is using a lot more data than is actually stored in the JPEG: it probably leads to more information being available than if it weren’t done (more shadow detail rather than crushed blacks, etc)

The same applies to radio transmitters and every analogue medium like probably microphone or preamp or ADC.

exactly why when you buy any halfway decent mic there’s the option to buy them in sets: they’ll have come off the production line together so that their imperfections are as close to each other as possible so that they sound as identical as they can be

there will always be burner phones

if you’re taking about charlie kirk with that “civil conversation” bit, those conversations were using misleading half truths to publicly debate people he disagrees with in order to convert the people around said debate to his cause. i wouldn’t call that civil… civil is healthy, truthful debate on the merits: not winning at all costs

honestly the text kinda looks like it’s AI generated… has weird kerning, things aren’t quite right

of course you’re right! we should just shut down some of the largest mines in the world

i foresee no consequences from this

(related note: south australia where one of the largest underground mines in the world is, largely gets its power from renewables)

people should probably move from canada and most of the north of the USA too: far too cold up there during winter

the fact that it made you uncomfortable, or at least thought that it was too much is the point. in the future the author/designers are making a comment on sexual exploitation for profit is commonplace and has been normalised

it’s there to make the setting similar to those familiar to us from universes like blade runner, altered carbon, (to a lesser degree) firefly. it’s the standard sci-fi canon that future corporatocratic society is filled with these things: the money buys whatever you like - the basest of desires are on the table no matter what

and it’s also there in all of those universes as a comment on exploitation and morality: just because you (or rather a select few) can buy it doesn’t make it right

it may not often be part of the narrative per se, but it’s an integral part of universe building: you can’t have narrative in a void, so you need to build a convincing universe to tell the story inside

sounds reasonable… i’ll just go tell large parts of australia where it’s a workplace health and safety issue to be out of AC for more than 15min during the day that they should do their bit for climate change and suck it up… only a few people will die

130 is extremely rare. even 110 is very rare tbh (interstate type roads, and they can often be 100 too)… 80 is our common “fast” speed in metro areas

freedom is always a balancing act: freedom from (persecution), freedom to (do what you like)

too much freedom from and you’re protected from making bad decisions and can’t do anything you want to do

too much freedom too and you get people persecuting their out group because it’s their right

imo america really has the freedom to as the only freedom a lot of people care about, and a lot of people have no understanding that freedom from is just as important; they champion freedom like that, and in some sense it’s kinda true

there’s an empathy barrier for those people: they’re not persecuted, so there’s no need for the freedom from (despite what they say about “christian persecution” this is freedom to discriminate and other shit wrapped in a freedom from facade)

(i’d also argue that american capitalism/corporatism is the anti-freedom-to: money gives you freedom to, and the dire economic state of the majority means most americans have token freedom to rather than actual ability to do what they like)

there’s definitely some of them that do… at the very least, there’s been a bunch of the MAGA influencers that have been pissy about it… i think that’s a useful thing to push on

perhaps for that particular group… though i had a friend whose old af macbook air had stopped updating literally years ago, and he still used it because it still worked… but then apps slowly stopped working

i installed linux on it, and he was actually really keen to give linux itself a go, and it worked great for him!

i gave him an old macbook a little while after that, and he’s back on macos now, but he said he’d switch back in a heartbeat if there were problems (slowness, update compatibility, etc)

i guess the thing being he’s not really technical enough to care about the OS other than outcomes, but also was actually interested in linux itself to learn for the sake of it… he’s a lab tech, and vibe codes data manipulation tools, so not a lot of IT-related skills, but always interested in learning

Dude they are never releasing the full files

whilst i think every reasonable person wants everyone on a hypothetical epstein list (only saying hypothetical because we don’t honestly know what’s actually there to be released: doubtful it’s as simple as a list) to be brought to justice, the point at this stage is just to speak their language: MAGA can’t be trusted, and it seems the only way they realise that is with things like this… constantly point out, on common ground, that this is all hypocritical lying bullshit