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[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Jesus, this goes beyond AI I think. There's a whole thing about AI for sure that needs to be talked about, this is beyond that. This is setting the whole AI thing aside for this case.

That man is mentally unsound, that is some unhealthy shit right there. That is stalker behavior.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Agree, what a weird take that says more about this creator. If positive reviews make you angry, well that's says a lot about you more than a game. Out of all the things to be angry about...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I'm glad they're calling out Microsoft's bullshit with contractors. Most people don't know a massive chunk, I think even a majority of Microsoft employees are "v-", contractors. They pay them less, they get no benefits, no PTO, no health insurance, and then after 18 months they're out. Contractors usually rotate around between the big firms but Microsoft is notoriously bad.

I say good on them for calling it out. Microsoft just wants cheap labor with no benefits. Fuck that, give contractors benefits, or stop using contractors and just hire them

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

They're phasing it out, manifest v2. Blue green testing, at some point you will be forced out as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

He's the assman!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Spot on. We all have our own demons. It's up to us to overcome them and make a life for ourselves. Life is not fair, some get it better, so e have it worse, but it's for each of us to conquer ourselves

Life is learning that no one looks out for you, no one is going to swoop in and make it easy. Nobody wants to go to work, but we all do anyway. I'd love to take a year off, but then I'd probably go homeless, so I don't. I can wish it all I want, but it isn't going to happen.

So, I could be resentful that others may have it easier, or I can enjoy my days off how I want and put in my time as I go. C'est la vie.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Wow what an original title.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah strong disagree with this meme. 15 years into my career and everything gets a data type.

The only engineers I know who still don't like strong types are engineers who haven't lost a weekend due to a stupid type issue. Once you have one or a few of those, you start to like types again.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

I am the exact same way. Good on you for acknowledging it and recognizing it. I love romcoms, Jane Austen movies are some of my favorites, and ffs I literally made and mod the Taylor Swift community here. I'm very straight, but also in touch with my own emotions. All of masculinity says that I would never find a woman and that I'm doing everything wrong.

Except I've been married and ina committed relationship for well over a decade now. My wife loves that I'm open with who I am. (I took her to the Eras tour!).

Toxic males are sexist in many ways, but one is that they think of women as single thinking people. That women want hot guys with fast cars, and that you'll never get one without. That's like saying that all men like playing dnd, or all men want to drive a big truck. It's asinine. There are over 4 billion women on this planet, and a good many of them do not care what kind of truck you have. In fact, most of them would think you wasted your money on it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Fully agree. It's just not sanitary either, and I know everyone will assume I mean their dog is dirty. I mean that any animal brings unknown elements into a place that makes food. One good shake of a wet dog and you have dirt and debris flying around people eating, and you're exactly right things like that may affect others way more even if it doesn't affect you.

I'm okay with dogs in places like breweries, it's still a risk but as long as there is plenty of space it's probably fine. Food though adds a whole other element that I don't think they belong in.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Bigots definitely didn't help, but I know far more people who didn't go simply because "why would I want to see that?" Vs bigots

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

For those who remember, it was bad enough where it was memeable. Once your factory got to a certain size we would have to turn autosaves down to every half an hour because they would take over 3 minutes - or longer. It became a mandatory break time, to stand up and get a drink.

 

Title question mostly. I've played with XTTS-v2 and it worked pretty well, but I'm wondering if folks are using anything else special. I'd like to train my own voice finetune which is what I did with XTTS-v2, and then use it with home assistant's voice feature. Welcome all opinions on it!

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Doordash deserves it's fate (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

2 pizzas, a small order of breadsticks, and wanted to splurge and get cinnamon sticks.

Pizzas are a "Buy one get one deal!" at 13 bucks a pizza. Figured what the hell, I'll splurge on desert then with the deal. Get to checkout... hold on a minute.... 50 dollars for pizza?! Wait a minute 80 dollars after fees and taxes?!

Usually I only use Doordash for finding something, then I order direct from the store. I just saw the sweet "buy one get one" deal and thought eh, fine I'm here. Right, that's why I stopped using door dash. I'm not spending 80 dollars on freaking pizza. I'll just go pick it up and spend a quarter of that price.

At least I would have saved the $3 dollar delivery fee. Phew. Thanks DoorDash.

 

cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/1939350

Hey all, I just wanted to give my personal view, now is the time to start talking about the Fediverse seriously with friends and family. I always have casually, but I'm starting serious talks with them now that the political climate has... shifted.

We are not the only ones who are concerned about our online privacy. Even people I thought didn't really care are suddenly concerned (or realizing) that their private chats and DMs may not be as private as they thought. I've found that many more people are interested than were even just a few months ago.

Fediverse is a bit harder, I've found it's easier to convince family with "It's a more private space for us to share vacation photos like we used to". Even my aging relatives know that facebook isn't safe to upload intimate family photos to, and they're looking for a solution. Friendica works well for this (and it's relatively easy to host a family instance).

Matrix has honestly been easier. It works similar to Discord so those users have been easier to transition, and you may be surprised how many of your friends are only in Discord to chat in your small servers anyway. If the majority of the conversation moves, they probably will to.

The biggest takeaway is, although we are techies, don't talk about the tech. It turns people away. Let it come up naturally. Describe the places as private, away from prying eyes. When asked "Well can I talk to other people?" Say yes, you'll show them how when it comes time for it. Don't bother with saying it's like email, or this, or that. To them, it's just an app. Send them to the registration page you want them to join at, and let it flow from there.

Good luck!

 

Hey all, I just wanted to give my personal view, now is the time to start talking about the Fediverse seriously with friends and family. I always have casually, but I'm starting serious talks with them now that the political climate has... shifted.

We are not the only ones who are concerned about our online privacy. Even people I thought didn't really care are suddenly concerned (or realizing) that their private chats and DMs may not be as private as they thought. I've found that many more people are interested than were even just a few months ago.

Fediverse is a bit harder, I've found it's easier to convince family with "It's a more private space for us to share vacation photos like we used to". Even my aging relatives know that facebook isn't safe to upload intimate family photos to, and they're looking for a solution. Friendica works well for this (and it's relatively easy to host a family instance).

Matrix has honestly been easier. It works similar to Discord so those users have been easier to transition, and you may be surprised how many of your friends are only in Discord to chat in your small servers anyway. If the majority of the conversation moves, they probably will to.

The biggest takeaway is, although we are techies, don't talk about the tech. It turns people away. Let it come up naturally. Describe the places as private, away from prying eyes. When asked "Well can I talk to other people?" Say yes, you'll show them how when it comes time for it. Don't bother with saying it's like email, or this, or that. To them, it's just an app. Send them to the registration page you want them to join at, and let it flow from there.

Good luck!

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hey folks, most of you probably have seen me around, I'm coming up on 2 years here and big believer like most of you. With the downfall of FB and Meta I have a lot of family who are genuinely interested in what I described as "A private way for us to share photos and updates, like we used to before FB... you know", and there was genuine positive feedback.

Next I set up friendica, and so far I'm happy, I think it'll do. Solid local sharing and privacy for sharing family specific things - but that's the easy part. The hard part is now how do I convince people to join - and harder - stay.

A lot of my tech friends want to do something similar, I think small family oriented instances like this could be great! However, how do I explain what else there is to offer to family who, let's all be real, do not want to hear an explanation of the fediverse? How can I word it in the most basic of ways without also sounding boring? That's the real kicker. Interested in opinions

 

Supreme Commander has been a very fun RTS - that barely worked on Windows.

FAF, or Forged Alliance Forever brought it back to life with my friends, where it rebuilt lobbies, shored up a lot of the patchy netcode, and made it fun - but as we know modding and linux gaming can be tedious.

Until I found this repo, where FAF now fully "supports" Linux! It was such a breeze, it found my Steam install, my copy of Forged Alliance, and it set everything else up. Huge kudos to the maintainer!

 

I was skeptical at first, I've seen a lot of attempts over the years, but holy shit, it works (and on Linux I might add).

Links to download are in the article. It's not seemless, but the world is "alive". Drove around, got a 5 star wanted level, died and respawned, people out walking around, rode the subway, it was great.

Things noticably not there - spawn locations of your favorite cars/helicopters, and of course no story stuff - but I spent a few hours having a blast.

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I hit a milestone today (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
 

Bonus screenshot, our Hub from our new factory, 50 points to anyone who can guess the inspiration

Screenshot of Satisfactory, a large building full of conveyors

 

Lucky for me my parents were both "I didn't save anything for retirement, my kids will take care of me when I'm older", so I don't have to suffer through this.

 

See! You're not THAT poor. Just give it another few decades!

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