swlabr

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 15 points 4 months ago (6 children)

It’s my strong belief that rats only like analytic philosophy because of the word “analytic” in the title. If there were some other broad category of philosophy with a name more synonymous with “rational” they’d be all over it.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Windows has had some major security flaws over the years but ever since Vista, (and before that XPSP2), they have made a concerted effort to fix them.

I don’t think we need to characterise famously monopolistic/anticompetitive Microsoft as an UwU “trying my best!~” anime character (it’s been done) that needs to be left alone to do their thing while we cheer it on, dawg. There are many issues with how this all went down, and Microsoft is just opportunistically taking shots at their arch-nemesis, legislation specifically targeted at their core business strategy of anti-competition.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago

Yeah also people that like AI are already willing to overlook its ethical issues, which parlays into obliviousness about why it’s all so fucking creepy. Again, musk.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

One answer perhaps would be that anyone who thinks AI art is good probably lacks the taste to appreciate anything beyond the generic, and the discernment to tell that it is submerged in the depths of uncanny valley. So you have a bunch of AI chuds sharing this creep shit without realising it’s creepy and that it looks terrible.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

One, this looks like absolute dogshit. Two, this looks like an ad campaign for a celebrity cloning service for spare organs. Three, with the music it sounds like a drug ad in the US. It just needs a voiceover telling you the monkey paw side effect you’ll inflict upon yourself in return for eternal youth.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I started a job in the last year that really forced me to play around with different distros and sometimes building them. Pretty much my entire experience is “abandon ubuntu, just use debian” and wishing other people would do the same

(Pretty much my entire reasoning is that snap fucked up my dev environment so bad I rage installed debian)

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago

Wow, amazing story. Same thing actually happened to a friend of mine

(But srsly, I enjoyed that.)

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I guarantee that if there is a libertarian space colony, all of their life support systems will be contaminated by mutant tardigrades (aka water bears). The libertarians yearn for destruction by bears.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

See what’s really fun here is that once again the libertarians are blissfully unaware of their natural predator: bears.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So that’s what our kids will look like once society rebuilds after global thermonuclear war!!!

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

for me it’s a real bill murray doing garfield 2 situation with the college AU followup. Why, dammit.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

Not surprised that a guy who thinks about poisoning cats is a creep!

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