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ininewcrow , 10 days ago

It's all based on geography.

If the school is located in a mineral rich area or underground oil field, then that wasn't a school, it was a military base and those weren't students they were terrorists.

If the school is located in aa area that lacks any natural wealth, then the robots have become autonomous and acted without control by anyone. It was an accident.

ininewcrow , 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago)

A great example that we ALL follow the one true religion
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Money! ... All hail the Almighty infinite dollar! (or whatever local currency you have)

ininewcrow , 21 days ago

That's MAD

ininewcrow , 22 days ago

Lol ..... If I was hired by Trump ... I'd pass all the documents I had to fill out though AI like this guy did and collect my half a million dollar payment.

ininewcrow , 1 month ago

Lol .... you can bypass the Windows restriction by deleting the System32 folder

ininewcrow , 2 months ago

I've been working at organizing a bunch of stuff I've been collecting over the years .... data, writing, lists, ideas, whatever ..... I kept using all sorts of services, apps, websites, cloud services and all sorts of crap to maintain them all but eventually it all becomes too complicated and breaks down.

I've since discovered just using simple text files and services that just use simple text mark down ... no special service, nothing proprietary, easily transferable and interoperable.

I started looking at websites the same way ..... I don't care what it looks like, I just want to read the information ..... you made it too hard for me to read your simple text info? You're asking me to turn off my ad blockers and turn on Java script? All to read 200 words on your site? I'll skip it and move on to the next site that will allow me.

ininewcrow , 2 months ago

Exactly .... If all you're going to do is go online and maybe write a document once in a while ... a simple distro like Mint or PopOS will just work without issue.

ininewcrow , 2 months ago

We definitely aren't ready because we're actively raising a Degenerate AI

ininewcrow , 2 months ago

For 90% of the public that is not attached to a major business, corporation or institution .... Libreoffice is more than enough.

And even for small offices and small groups or companies, LibreOffice is more than enough.

The only difference comes when you have to set up a mass system with hundreds or thousands or systems and people to interconnect an office system do the big companies opt for Microsoft office.

ininewcrow , 2 months ago

"We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because it is hard"

The previous social model of monetizing everything is also not working and terribly complicated and sends the majority of the profit to those who contributed nothing but their claims to ownership and entitlement. I'd rather live a world where we were constantly debating and discussing while sending the majority of wealth to those people who actually created something.

Human cooperation will never be easy so we have to learn to live with that reality.

ininewcrow , 3 months ago

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/a8ef6ead-a752-4316-ad59-e69360801d74.jpeg

ininewcrow , 3 months ago

McConnell's brain waves endanger other systems with runaway random viruses

ininewcrow , 3 months ago

This is what I enjoy most about the Linux experience, like you say it is a very human experience that everyone likes to share.

When is the last time you had a noob online or anywhere tell you they booted up their system with a fresh new install of a new to them OS that they found called Microsoft Windows or Mac OS

To me, and I'm just a novice that is capable of knowing enough to destroy my system, any time I hear or read someone new who ditched a commercial OS to become a Linux user is an amazing accomplishment. It means the person who did so went out of their way to use something they had to work for, not with money but with knowledge, experience and trial and error.

Every time I hear that story, it makes me feel good and hopeful for humanity because it's one more person who broke away from an all powerful corporate master.

I'll never get tired of hearing these stories or seeing these posts.

ininewcrow , 4 months ago

Same here … there is more than enough content on the internet as a whole … if I run into a site that gives me a hard time to see or read any of their content, I just turn it off, close the tab and restart my search or go somewhere else. I’m not wasting my time to accommodate a dumb website that doesn’t want to easily show me something I can see elsewhere … and if I can’t see it elsewhere, then more than likely, it wasn’t worth seeing anyway.

ininewcrow , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

India is the eye opener … an enormous market of 1.5 billion people and the majority of them are too poor to pay for any specialty OS … it’s going to turn into a futuristic dystopia down there … people living in slums but scrounging up old neglected and forgotten hardware to bring them back online with Open Source Software.

Edit: I don’t normally make big corrections or changes to my comments but after rereading this, I think I went a bit too far with my assumptions about another country and culture … thanks @embed_me for putting it to my attention

ininewcrow , 4 months ago

I was probably too hasty in my assumptions … simplistic, stereotypical maybe even a bit racist

I just thought it made economic sense … why build an entire economy or business using foreign owned software and basing it all on a foreign company, especially one with unknown loopholes that would put the company’s and country at risk by a foreign power.

Thanks for the correction and insight … I’ll be more careful about my assumptions in the future.

ininewcrow , 4 months ago

This one’s for Gnu!

ininewcrow , 5 months ago

… and an echo

ininewcrow , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Anyone who doesn’t understand that connecting in any way to Facebook is not a good thing … is either very naive, or complicit to wanting to take down the fediverse.

Facebook already has enough content and enough of a platform on their own – they literally control half of the worldwide social media network. Why do they want to spread into this new space?

The only reason they want to be on this side is to conquer or destroy.

ininewcrow , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Normally and with very many other issues … I would agree with you … but on this issue I’m very adamant about what I see and believe.

Think about it … Facebook is a billion dollar corporation and they show interest in your little world and the little things you are doing and they want to join you. This is a company that already has billions invested in systems that already have billions of users and millions of dollars of man power and technological resources. Why do they want to step into what we are doing here? Why do they feel a need to step into our space? Do they need more users? Do they need help from us?

Big corporations are only interested in perpetual growth at all costs. They are also deathly afraid of competition or the potential of future competition. Look at the history of manufacturing, automotive corporations over the past hundred years … it’s a long history of the strong eating the weak.

I agree my argument may sound childish or extreme but in this instance it’s pretty clear … if you let them in, it’s basically the beginning of the end for the fediverse.

It’s the metaphorical Trojan Horse … once it’s inside and firmly established, everything will be lost.

ininewcrow , 5 months ago

It’s a type of squashing … they step in, take over, control it and the whole thing becomes something that is beyond our control and becomes another platform that is operated by a private corporation to manipulate and manage thought, content and private freedoms. Basically squashing the Fediverse that we originally wanted to exist.

Once a major powerful corporation steps in and is given access … it’s like allowing a local gang member in your town to use your living room to deal drugs … at first you get some benefits but eventually, they’ll take over your house, throw you out and tell you go somewhere else because you don’t own the house any more, no matter what anyone says.

ininewcrow , 5 months ago

yes not presently … but one an entity like Meta becomes the dominant system in this universe, eventually, they will build all the keys and controls to regulate it all … that’s the point when they will lock out whoever they want

this is like the debate with climate change … no one really understands what’s going to happen in a few decades so we don’t care … when in reality, the time to do something about some future catastrophe is now … it’s the same thing with the fediverse, don’t allow big corporations in now, because we won’t be able to do anything about it later when they’ve overwhelmed everything.

ininewcrow , 5 months ago

The fediverse is an obvious threat to Facebook and any other corporate social media company. If the fediverse wasn’t a threat or has the potential of ever one day becoming a threat … then companies like Facebook would not want anything to do with the fediverse.

The fact that a major social media company like Facebook even remotely wants anything to do with the fediverse means that this new start up is doing something and has the potential of becoming something some day. Otherwise, Facebook would not want anything to do with it.

Besides, Facebook already has a huge market share of the social media pie … they literally control over half the social media content on the internet right now. They already have more than enough of a platform to connect to their userbase … why should we allow them onto our space? We need the content … they don’t.

And like others have said, if you allow a big fish onto your small pond, the big fish will automatically control everything. The big fish will swim around your little pool for a while and kill everything and then leave, leaving an empty pool that nobody wants.

Admit it … Facebook just wants in to kill the fediverse. They don’t want to add it to their service, they don’t want to incorporate it … they want to swallow it whole, let it die and abandon it.

Defederate and don’t let them anywhere near our space. Otherwise, we’ll be signing our own death warrant.

ininewcrow , 5 months ago

Hannah Montana Linux?

ininewcrow , 5 months ago

I’m all for piracy but I still try to spend money where it morally makes sense to me.

I’ll buy, rent or subscribe to content from actual creators or artists or developers if I know I am supporting their livelihoods or careers.

I’ll pirate content if I decide for myself that the content has already paid for the livelihoods of the creators or workers who produced the material and now it’s only the title holders and corporate interests that are profiting from the ownership and entitlement of controlling the content for commercial reasons only. For me this is mostly just big budget movies, old films and commercially produced music.

To me, anything that’s already paid to help the original artist or creators should be made public. Locking it away and making people pay for the privilege of the content just to make more profit for someone else is piracy itself. This is especially true for films and music that are so old that the original artists and creators and owners are multi millionaires or just no longer exist.

I may be wrong but that is my own personal view of collecting digital content.

ininewcrow , 5 months ago

A dollar at a time … I’m willing to give or donate a dollar, two dollars or even five at a time … if we all did that with a popular creator, they’d easily be able to reach a lot of money in a short time.

I donate to wikipedia, Open Source Software projects I use, firefox, thunderbird, ubuntu (although I am getting skeptical about this one) and other linux projects … on top of that I send funds to creators, app developers and lemmy instances and other fediverse projects and those people who maintain the software, servers and communities in the fediverse

In all, I probably spend about three or four hundred dollars a year or more to these projects … but I know that for the majority of them, the money is going to people that need it … not to people who just want to add to their wealth after never contributing anything of value other than their ownership of someone else’s work.

And if we all did this as users across the board … these small content creators would have more than enough to sustain themselves and continue creating and maintaining these projects

ininewcrow , 5 months ago

It’s been so long that the two versions might as well be completely separate different programs at this point.

I’ll probably run both when the new version is available because I’ve become so normalized to GIMP 2.10

It will take me another decade to get used to GIMP 3.0

ininewcrow , 5 months ago

The inverse should also be true … if businesses want to know about their customers … customers should also know every detail about the business they are dealing with.

When we pirate its called breaking the law

When they pirate, it’s just another normal business day

And in case you don’t know what they pirate … they pirate profits, raid workers unions, scavenge privacy rights and invade your personal space

ininewcrow , 6 months ago

That really grinds my gears

I remember a few years ago going on an international flight. I had Spotify premium and I spent a few hours sorting and downloading playlists and podcasts that I wanted to listen to on an eight hour flight. Tested, retested and everything worked fine.

Got on the plane, fifteen minutes in turn on my device to play some music … NOTHING WORKED … all the downloaded files I had set for offline were unusable. I couldn’t believe it.

My next flights were like yours … just downloada bunch of stuff and play them freely without headaches.

ininewcrow , 6 months ago

What kind of distro is that?

ininewcrow , 7 months ago

Imagine if the horse head Nebula looked like that.

Someone would have based a religion around it…

ininewcrow , 7 months ago

I also have friends in Amish and Mennonite communities in southern and northern Ontario.

Each community and group is unique to every other. Some are strict Orthodox and some relax the rules … and some are so normal looking and acting that you wouldn’t know they were Amish or Mennonite unless they told you.

My favorite are the thuggy Mennonites in southern Ontario. They drive around in brand new all black decked out SUVs (minus the chrome because you to show some humility), wear super clean black brimmed hats, sharp clothes and beautiful black leather jackets. Famously a few of them were caught smuggling coke and other drugs from Mexico.

They may have the fear of God in their hearts … but they’re just as greedy and worldly as any of us.

ininewcrow , 7 months ago

That looks like a baby Demogorgon

ininewcrow , 7 months ago

Pincushion

ininewcrow , 7 months ago

Beautiful

ininewcrow , 8 months ago

I’m no expert … I just enjoy reading about all this stuff.

But isn’t the entire internet built, maintained and made possible by the free software movement. Isn’t Linux systems basically the entire backbone of the internet?

ininewcrow , 8 months ago

US military loses a jet fighter: … ah … oh well … waddaya gonna do … we’ll just buy another one, or two or thirty.

ininewcrow , 8 months ago

Technology throttled by human greed

We probably have the tech, know-how and capability to build a permanent massive orbiting space station with a highly efficient way to get there and back.

But we’re too busy fighting wars and trying to figure out how to screw each other out of another dollar. Most of our human energy and efforts are spent either trying to swindle money out of others or trying to protect ourselves from being swindled or just being swindled.

ininewcrow , 9 months ago

How about we just forget about trying to beat anyone and just get on to using the platform.

Reddit won’t die anytime soon.

Lemmy won’t become popular anytime soon.

It took Reddit years before it became a major platform known by millions. It will take Lemmy years to gain notoriety among millions. Give it time, enjoy what it so now because in a year, two years or three or four years from now, we’ll all be wishing for the good old days when Lemmy just started and we were able to enjoy the simple system it is now.

ininewcrow , 9 months ago

Or they just make up shit as an excuse to do whatever they please for their own personal benefit while easing their conscious.

ininewcrow , 9 months ago

“Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”

ininewcrow , 9 months ago

Give the rat a big huge cute tail and now it’s a squirrel … everybody likes squirrels

ininewcrow , 10 months ago

I think Reddit will just slowly bleed out from now on. Nothing big or not big movement will ever happen … the beast is hurt and it has festering wounds that won’t heal. It will just grow older weaker and less stronger from now on. In two, three, four years time they’ll be pushed aside by the next big thing … whatever it will be, threads, Twitter, Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, fediverse, or something completely new … and we also don’t know if it will be corporately controlled or openly shared.

All I know is that as humans … we tend to do things in the least best way to benefit our collective whole.

ininewcrow , 10 months ago

Krusty? … Is that you Herschel?

ininewcrow , 10 months ago

This is the best thing I’ve read in days … I’ve been giggling for half an hour now

ininewcrow , 10 months ago

Am I the only one that thought that lemmy logo looked like a seal staring at you?

Also thanks for keeping up this great work, looking forward to having Sync again.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/249a7c4b-23e2-4639-b299-c276e3976032.jpeg

ininewcrow , 10 months ago

Or your vehicle has a few tiny rust spots on the inside behind the exterior paint … you can’t see the rust but its affecting the metal and growing in size every day. You won’t notice for months or even years but eventually, paint will start to bubble up and you’ll ignore that too hoping that it won’t get any bigger. Then a large flake of paint will fall off and reveal a big patch of rust eating away at your car and you’ll realize it’s days are numbered. You keep driving but its only a matter of time before a critical part will break down from rust and either slow you down or stop your vehicle from moving.

ininewcrow , 10 months ago

Your comment made me rethink about what to do with me Reddit accounts … I’ve taken the past two days to auto delete all my comments, posts and submissions, deactivate all my mod accounts, unsubscribe from all the subs I followed … and in a day or two, I’ll complete delete the accounts.

I know Reddit will still hold onto pieces of my account everywhere … but at least they’ll have a harder time justifying it all.