Rentlar

joined 3 years ago
[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Okay. Clearly OpenAI is hella desparate to make next month's rent on their trillion dollar house of promissory note cards.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 14 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

To find the antifa in CAF, Genuis just needs to open a history book:

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/liberation-of-holland

The MP should be aware of the 'fa' problem in our military as well.

https://theconversation.com/not-just-a-few-bad-apples-the-canadian-armed-forces-has-a-nagging-far-right-problem-260896

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

On the bright side, I can't get How is the DOW out of my head now.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Looking super!

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

"Production-ready"

I totally believe it's ready for production at Microslop Corporation. They need a larger % of code written by AI, of course.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

This worries me a lot. My privacy threat model since a long time has been to at least be anonymous enough that someone would have to be specifically assigned to digging through my file for days to discover my identity. With AI and surveillance by default becoming the norm, I can imagine it would be trivial to defeat my tricks and safeguards with a thorough enough dataset.

Semantic analysis of online profiles kind of feels to me like the digital version of "gait analysis" in the real-world. A thing that could be anywhere, that I don't know how I could reliably defeat, without developing foot problems from having a pebble in my shoe all the time.

So if you see me throw out a braindead one-liner or a confident take on something completely outside my expertise, you can consider it just me throwing some "silly walks" in there to disrupt analysis of the system.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This feels like a spiritual successor to Everyone's Upstairs Neighbours.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago

We need to give Mr. Talarico a helmet to prevent concussions, TBIs, or IDK brainworms or something.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I do think we need to make concerted efforts to address both types of gender-coded stigma that prevent men, women and nonbinary folks from seeking help with mental health. Phrases like "man up" or "you should just tough it out" for men, versus "don't make a fuss" or "you're being hysterical" for women are similarly harmful, but each deserve individual intervention, attention and care.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

Basically if you win too much money or too consistently on a particular topic, you probably get flagged or locked out.

 

It's action packed and fast paced, intuitive to pick up for my novice friends and family, replayable with several kinds of optional mechanics. Initially, I picked it up because someone mentioned it in a Flamme Rouge review as being better than it, and I enjoy both games to pieces as the mechanics are immersive.

The new tracks and stuff seem interesting so I'd like to pick up an expansion, but not multiple at once. So help me pick:

  • Heavy Rain, Japan + Mexico, puddles and consecutive curves, bumch of new cards
  • Tunnel Vision, Netherlands and Spain, tunnels, bunch of new cards
  • Rocky Road (upcoming in 2026), South Africa and Germany, gravel roads and stuff
 

Crossposting another user's post from !mentalhealth@lemmy.world since that thread is likely to disappear.

 

Likely valid until Thu Nov 27, 2025, available in Calgary only. Posting just for fun and in case 1TB becomes this price next year due to AI datacentres devouring the supply, lol.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.ca
 

YEA/POUR: 169 LPC, 1 GPC

NAY/CONTRE: 141 CPC, BQ 22, NDP 5

ABSTAINED/ABSTENU: 2 CPC, 2 NDP, 1 LPC (Speaker of the House/Président de la Chambre)

 

The theme seems to be "reduce operating spending, increase capital spending". We'll see how that will blow over with the opposition.

 

Online left-wing infighting seems to me to be about applying labels to people because they argue or have argued one thing on a particular topic, and then use it to discredit an unrelated argument topic or paint their overall character. I know there are pot-stirring trolls and compulsive contrarians, but I do witness users I personally judge to have genuine convictions do this amongst each other.

Within US politics, CA Gov. Newsom is an illustrative example (plenty of examples exist too for other countries and around Lemmy/Fedi). I don't particularly like him, he has done things I think are good, some things I think are funny, something things I think are bad and some things I think are downright horrible. Yet I have encountered some users online who will say they can't ever applaud a move of his if one specific other policy or set of other unrelated policies crossed a line for them. I'm not asking people to change their mind on what they think of a person because of an isolated good thing they do, but to at least acknowledge it as a good thing or add nuance describing what about it you like or don't. I can accept saying "I don't think this is a good thing in this circumstance", "this person will not follow through with this thing I think is good thing because ___", or "they are doing a good thing for wrong and selfish reasons" too. But to outright deny any support for an action because of a wildly extrapolated character judgement of the person doing it, when that user would support it otherwise, vexes me greatly.

I know this is not every or most interactions on Lemmy, but these are just some thoughts I have to get out of my head. You don't have to agree with me. I'm using 'left-wing' because the definition of 'leftist' or 'liberal' is wide-ranging depending on who you talk to. And on the side of the spectrum I'm calling left to left-centre, we seem to let the fewer things we disagree with get in the way of the many more things we would agree with each other. That's all, thanks for reading.

 

I'd like to hear people's journeys and motivations from people who switched over the last few months, and if there were particular challenges that were faced.

 

A self-hosting primer by Steve Burke of GamersNexus and Wendell of Level1Techs.

Wendell helps to detail some beginner basics on making your own storage server, router, gaming server, your own VPN, family media servers, and more.

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