The barista and the barmaid don’t love you man. They don’t love you. I don’t care if you flirt and they smile. They are doing a job. It’s a transaction. Don’t get in your feelings and do something you’ll regret just because she makes a nice latte.

I do want a Batrick plushie though. . .

In practice the justice system actually is reactionary. Either the actuality of a crime or the suspicion of a crime being possible allows for laws to be created prohibiting that crime, marking it as criminal, and then law enforcement and the justice system as a whole investigate instances where that crime is suspected to be committed and litigation ensues.

Prevention may be the intent, but the actuality is that we know this doesn’t prevent crime. Outside the jurisdiction of any justice system that puts such “safeguards” in place is a place where people will abuse that lack of jurisdiction. And people inside it with enough money or status or both will continue to abuse it for their personal gain. Which is pretty much what’s happening now, with the exception that they have realized they can try to preempt litigation against them by buying the litigants or part of the regulatory/judicial system.

Word roots say they have a point though. Artifice, Artificial etc. I think the main problem with the way both of the people above you are using this terminology is that they’re focusing on the wrong word and how that word is being conflated with something it’s not.

LLM’s are artificial. They are a man made thing that is intended to fool man into believing they are something they aren’t. What we’re meant to be convinced they are is sapiently intelligent.

Mimicry is not sapience and that’s where the argument for LLM’s being real honest to God AI falls apart.

Sapience is missing from Generative LLM’s. They don’t actually think. They don’t actually have motivation. What we’re doing when we anthropomorphize them is we are fooling ourselves into thinking they are a man-made reproduction of us without the meat flavored skin suit. That’s not what’s happening. But some of us are convinced that it is, or that it’s near enough that it doesn’t matter.

This has “people don’t understand that you don’t fall in love in the strip club” vibes. Like. The stripper does not love you. It’s a transactional exchange. When you lose sight of that, and start anthropomorphizing LLM’s (or romanticizing a strip tease), you are falling into a trap that will allow chinks in your psychological armor to line up in just the right way to act on compulsions or ideas that you wouldn’t normally.

I like the em dash and am very upset that AI has stolen it.

The database is the backbone of them being able to hurt or harm so I’d say it’s pretty important. Here’s the other problem though. The federal government under Trump is having a really difficult time protecting the personal identifiable information of the citizens. Not only have they allowed private companies to access that data (palantir etc), but they are also having a lot of difficulties with cyber attacks. Part of the reason those cyber attacks haven’t been as effective as they could be is because the data isn’t localized in one place. Now that’s exactly what they’re trying to do with this.

I mean. Apex Launcher does all this stuff (except I don’t know what organize app icons in bulk means in this context). If it means apply an icon pack? Then it does that.

I guess you could say it’s ironic that some LGBTQ people are artists and creators and yet a magazine purporting to support and represent them used AI instead of drawing on the community for cover art.

Hey. Just because you are different doesn’t mean you’re a burden. You don’t deserve to feel like that. Nobody should make you feel like that.

Even if these feelings aren’t coming from external factors I want you to know you’re not a burden and asking for help and advice is hard and I’m proud of you that you did so. Nobody has all the answers. Even the most put together people have struggles. They have things they aren’t good at.

Part of human nature is needing other people sometimes. Part of human nature is not being a good fit for every situation. You’re enough. You’re good enough. I know sometimes there’s a little voice that says terrible things about you in your head. That voice is wrong.

That being said, take time for yourself to figure things out. You’ve got time. You have a lot to process. Hug.

It sounds like perhaps you only agreed to children because you love this person and want them to be happy. When you discovered.that perhaps they could be happy without the kids you were relieved. But the other person in this relationship should also be willing to do things to make you happy. And it doesn’t seem like this is what’s happening. To me it seems like she has decided that having children would make her happy and is ignoring the fact that it wouldn’t make you happy to serve her own happiness.

I think it is unreasonable to manipulate you with what might be when there are no guarantees that you will be “better enough” in a years time or five years time or whenever. Sounds to me like you’ve done some introspection and figured out that you would prefer not to and you have valid reasons which include that you just don’t want them. That’s fine.

Now it’s time for her to decide if she can live with that. Because while everyone i currently know who didn’t want children but ended up with children (including myself) is having a reasonably okay go of things, that doesn’t mean that they wouldn’t be happer without children. It also doesn’t mean that their spouses could be happy without having children.

The talk you need to have, in my opinion, is one about how to compromise on those things.

I never birthed any kids. I never wanted kids. But I did end up married to someone who already had a kid and my kid is awesome. I had the benefit of getting to know him. I had the benefit of going into everything knowing that the kid was a deal breaker (he was part of the package, so if I didn’t want that I should walk away).

Loving someone doesn’t necessarily mean sacrificing your stability and the time you need to relearn who you are (because getting diagnosed and treated/ medicated is a process in recognizing behaviors you have inherently or have developed and coming to terms with the fact that a lot of the things you knew about yourself might have just been masking behaviors). Just because she sees improvements in your ability to manage tasks and regulate emotions etc doesn’t mean that you aren’t still struggling or that you’re in the right place to have kids. The truth of it is, even other neurodivergent people don’t necessarily know your individual struggle, even if we can better relate.

Her evaluation of your situation is one sided and colored by her own wants. She is not objective.

If you don’t want children, don’t make that decision just because she does.

I probably have pretty close to the top of the curve with 1140mbps up/down according to my plan. In actuality though my speed test reads at 864 up and 859 down.

Thank you. That’s what I wanted to know.

Depends. I often click on articles based on the summary because the article link is usually posted before the summary is. Sometimes the summary doesn’t really explain enough for me to understand. Other times I want to know more. But when you use chatgpt to answer a query usually you don’t leave that page in order to get more information and that’s the problem I’m pointing out. Usually you don’t even have a link to where the information in the summary came from either (my experience is limited to Google’s Gemini, which I don’t use, but which for a while was front and center on any query I typed in).

Not exactly. People don’t click on ads when ads are blocked. But ad aggregation companies get paid in a couple of different ways. Click through is a big one, but ad impressions (eyeballs that supposedly viewed an ad) are also a thing. And impressions pay, just not as well as clickthroughs. Ad companies haven’t stopped paying aggregates for ad space. That’s why ads on paid services have gotten more egregious. It’s not because they aren’t getting paid. It’s because they want both.

For what it’s worth, you can (and some do) pay for subscriptions to websites or services on the internet. But nobody is paying ad aggregation companies with the intent of seeing ads regardless of the reality.

Also, ad blocking as a whole is for security as much as it is for quality of life. Ad aggregation companies have a habit of taking the money and asking questions only when they get complaints (if then) and as a result, they don’t leave users who want to protect themselves another choice.

Of course, there’s also the fact that one way or another the web can’t just be free. Someone somewhere has to pay for the resources that make it run and the upkeep it requires.

The thing that’s mostly wrong with AI summaries is that people don’t click through to the page the summary summarizes. So those sites don’t get ad revenue. That’s ad revenue is the backbone of the internet for a lot of sites. If there’s no site posting the information then the AI has nothing to summarize and provide an overview of. The pivot to AI LLM’s is likely to kill the companies who aggregate links, and they’re pushing for it hoping to make it profitable in the long term because they’ve been actively enshittifying ad aggregation via search for the purposes of big number must go up (you know, for the shareholders). It’s defeatist to the current business model of most of the internet. And the shareholders do not care so long as they get their money.

Would implementing something like this prevent this problem?

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/securing-fedora-with-fido2-utrust-full-disk-luks-gui-login-and-sudo-authentication/154136

I need more information. How is the malware being distributed to these devices? How can we check if our credentials are in this dump? Shouldn’t the respective platforms be doing due diligence to notify those effected and asking them to change their passwords?

I feel it may be fairly likely that this inforstealer Malware is the type distributed by dubious apps the play store and similar have had to take down but aren’t actively notifying users who installed them. Is it predominantly phones that are effected or is this malware PC based? Changing your passwords is important but sounding the alarm with no actual information is just… Ill advised. It’s fear mongering.

With her very pretty eyes.

I believe this is what was referenced in the Night Watch books by Terry Prachet. I have found reading this article to be both horrifying and fascinating.