oh, got it! going to found a startup for AI slop cleanup. we could use LLM to automate…

i have a family. living with a small child in an american city without a car is entirely possible. you lose the ability to go out (either to city or to nature) but with a small child you don’t have time to do that anyway so you might as well pay more to live closer to your job. alternative is paying the difference in rent for a car loan and loosing the time you don’t have while sitting in traffic. big caveat: this works only if you earn enough to be able to afford living close to a city center in the first place. also, it is still way less comfortable than a life in a developed european city.

it’s activitypub thing so lemmy as well. you sign up on one server, subscribe to community on different server, mods of the different server will decide they don’t like your server for any reason (e.g. explicitly because mods of your server didn’t blacklist some other server) and you are out of that community. it sucks. imho something based on the old news system would be better (i.e. community exists independently and servers just subscribe to them or not).

bingo! it also explains why tech bros consider AI good for everything - they are not really good at or familiar with anything themselves.

on a serious note: to put this in a specific example i will use programing. management/PO/business will have a vague ideas about what needs to be done. they have to explain them to someone in plain human language and let them figure out details of how to turn it into an algorith that does that. that someone has to fill in all the blanks, make many decisisions about unspecified details and implement it. but, in addition to that, they also have to make sure the code is delivered on time, on budget, it will remain easy to maintain and doesn’t break anything important. those later details are not something the original stakeholders (business/management/POs) normally have to deal with. it’s someone’s else’s responsibility. it’s just annoying to them that they have to deal with another temperamental human and that human can take weeks to make even “simple changes” to their code (because they have to care about all those other things like maintainability)… so when a salesman comes over and offers them they can instead explain the problem to a chatbot and get the code in minutes the proposition sounds irresistible!

I’m not talking about people I block (I am not exposed enough and don’t suffer enough harassment so I don’t block almost anyone)… I’m talking about about mods of the instancr that hosts people I care about suddenly blocking instance that hosts my account - not because anything we did but because they didn’t like that mods of my instance didn’t block another instance that has some weird (e.g. transfobic) content. I follow a friend and suddenly we are out of contact because some entirely unrelated drama. And that’s how fediverse works by design.

it’s not just not caring. lemmy is currently not a viable alternative for e.g. reddit (there are no active conmunities for any of mine hobbies and posting to any of those that are here doesn’t make sense - there is nobody out here who could respond to a specific question about analog photography or something similar). fediverse as a whole will never reach the momentum of old centralized social media - by design. it turns out that having many small servers with different moderation policies is great for resilience but sucks for bringing people together. i found out recently that my mastodon server is blacklisted on many of mainstream ones not because there is some bad content there but because it federates with some servers that mods somewhere else consider harmful… and so i am missing large swats of content from those.

this is so underrated. even smart people can do stupid things. but that’s only half of the story… second half is culture (and here even european countries are not much better). in real life it is almost always worth more to look strong than to be smart. changing your opinion does not make you look strong - it makes the “other” person look like they’ve won an argument and that makes you look both weak (you didn’t stand your ground) and stupid (you didn’t know better). this is both entirely nonsense and perfectly understandable due to the culture (deeper level than propaganda). so nobody who makes it somewhere wants to do it. they will rather invent opposing false story and bend over backwards trying to defend it than concede a point to their percieved opponents… which brings us - here.

the only way you get money is by randomly scattered gigs in between… you got a tip on your uber eats delivery! treat yourself to a breakfast.

i was driven by an uber driver yesterday who seriously thought cycling should be illegal.

his rationale was that bicycles are “unregistered vehicles and so if they cause accident who is going to pay?!” when i pointed out that probably they should pay just as anyone else he just dismissed it like this: “that is not possible. if a cyclist crashes into me and kills me who is gonna pay me?!” i was speechless after that.

only one way to find out

nice metaphore to how people use the social media nowdays… they spill their mind into a public discussion forum and then they are pissed at the “reply guy problem” and try to come up with ways to stop people from talking instead of adjusting their expectations… i get it - everyone wants to be treated nicely but come on!

you are technically right… but, i mean… comments like this are the reason why this is not a place for any serious discussion. you just have to find any crack or disambiguity to attack and destroy anyone you disagree with, don’t you?

Do you think them having kids would change that perspective?

yes, i do. i don’t doubt there are some actual abusive parents out there but many more of the conflicts between kids and their parents is caused by the kids having their child perspective. and sadly, mentally developing to the point where the understand what their parents are going through typically takes longer than it takes for the relationship to be destroyed. therefore it is mostly up to the parents to keep it together but they are just people. and their kids talking shit with other kids about them surely does not help…

those people clearly don’t have kids of their own.

the mom is not “having beef” with you kid, she’s lost her life and her mind and cracked.

and the dad was on his third mental breakdown that day looking for anything to rationalize why he’s hyperventilating.

it was not the kids fault and any parent taking it out on their own kid is fucked, but they are not irrational monsters either.

i mean each of the individual programs that can load your keepass keyring is a password manager.

the keyring itself isn’t a password manager and the main reason why i use it is because each of the individual programs that i actually use to open it (keepassxc on windows, keepassdroid on my phone, keeweb hosted on my vps on other devices…) can use the same file with the same specification that is shared everywhere.

i’m not bound to any particular program with a particular set of features. just use anything that can open that file format from a place where i choose to host it.

keepass

it’s technically no password manager but an encrypted file format.

there are dozens of apps that will work on any platform, including soft keyboard with “password” button for smartphone that will just work everywhere and browser extensions, static website, apps that allow you to use your yubikey to unlock and anything else. you can host your vault anywhere including a google drive or your own webdav or ftp server and keep local copies on your devices synchronized…

opens a post with question in the title that is lamenting that news don’t give any real answers and focus just on “trump bad” story.

all top comments are just “trump bad” and “all bad government” and has to scroll deep down to find an actual answer to the question posted.

leaves understanding much better why news don’t focus on context and give just emotional side stories.

yeah, according to our mayan guide when i was there the human sacrifices never happened… but they were extremely inconsistent with their stories and also believed that the number of days in the solar year is connected with human body through the number of joints so i wouldn’t take their word for it.

when i was listening to what guides in other groups were telling about the same spots and traditions i noticed that each and every one of them had their own fantastic and completely different story and many of the things they were saying were clearly wrong (e.g. that the descent of kukulcan shadow play only happens on two particular days of the year).

oh shit… i was there on that day! and i missed it…

after living in the US for some time i think i’m starting to get it…

one thing about the life in the US that the hollywood movies don’t show you very well is that the country is extremely tribal. the stories of diversity or of outsiders building their american dream are almost pure fantasy - you don’t make it in america because of the environment but in spite of it.

the way things work here is that you have to be a part of a group and you habe to stick with that group no matter what. because otherwise you are done. that’s why it is so hard for either democrats or republicans to admit when their politicians do even the most insane shit. that’s why people would rarher risk their kids lives rather than go against their peer group and vaccinate them. and that’s also why it is so important that the couple is “white” and not black, latino or (god forbid) mixed…

racism, xenofobia, nationalism and mysoginy are just side effects of a society that is split into constantly competing groups that reserve all the benefits for their own members… constant positive and negative discrimination that forces everyone to fall in or be left behind and that is stoked by any entity interested in exploiting those fragmented groups more easily.