Cis people on social media say the stupidest shit about “sex and gender”.
My god, you’d think that people with opinions that poorly developed would have the sense to keep quiet about them, rather than show the world how little they’ve actually considered them while being confidently incorrect, but apparently not.
Dear god. After multiple posts with paragraph after paragraph of cherry picked bullshit about how I’m “really male”, random internet TERF who I will never meet says, “sex isn’t relevant to how I address people”.
The simple fact is this: if your classification system of sex results in you deciding that some women are not women, then the problem is your classification system, not reality.
SNP leadership manoeuvres serving as a wake up call to the “flee to Scotland to escape the anti LGBT atmosphere in England and Wales” strategy. The bigotry in high places is lurking, crocodile like, just below the surface throughout the whole wretched island.
Yeah. A lot of people have been saying that about the UK in general. It's frustrating that they continue to say it regardless of how many objectively bad things keep happening. :|
Looking for technical stuff about DHCP. Google was returning lots of junk and so, wary that ChatGPT is a bullshit fountain, I asked it anyway.
It gave me several concise and to the point answers addressing exactly what I asked.
They were all completely wrong. It just confidently spouted bullshit the same way a narcissist bluffing about a subject they know almost nothing about will.
However, the bullshit it gave me allowed me to frame some pertinent google searches to actually get the information I wanted.
So I guess that’s a usage model for it: to guide your google searches.
The issue is that Google will slowly fill up with the output of the bullshit fountains, at which point we won’t be able to check their answers anymore, because they’ll effectively be marking their own homework.
Weirdly it's possible to imagine a world where Wolfram Alpha is the sole survivor of the second search engine war because it's the only one that makes any attempt to trace the provenance of the elements of its inferences.
@esther it's very dated but this covers a lot of ground to help you get started to ask the right questions. Shame you need to know half the answer before you can do that. redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/gg2…
To be fair, this is a tried and true method of getting quick answers on Stack Overflow: stating a clearly wrong answer gets the right answer much more quickly than asking an honest question!
I wonder if the model behind ChatGPT could be adapted to make this feature more explicit. Let's say for a given query it can produce some amount of suggested topics and/or terms that might be relevant for you. Basically strip the "generate bullshit" step and directly expose the "this information is adjacent to what you asked" knowledge encoded in it.
I think that maybe Google delivered too well to start with. It never promised to give the best answer (truest?) simply the most relevant for the question (most popular?)
Maybe we are seeing things hitting their 'eternal September' much more quickly?
After all, "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea. Massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
I am not a coffee drinker. Being cursed with supertaste, I have spent my life finding the stuff utterly undrinkable.
But now I'm nearly 50, many of my taste buds have died off and I have been slowly managing to acquire the taste.
The flat in Portugal came with an expensive coffee machine, which @Zoe O'Connell uses but I don't (it'll do hot water, but not hot enough for decent tea, so I reverted to the kettle very quickly).
But today I asked it to make me something called a "Latte Macchiato", which the picture shows in a glass.
And now I know why. The preparation is quite a show! The machine adds hot milk, then milk froth, then coffee. The coffee drops straight through the froth layer to form a new layer in the middle which then artfully diffuses into the milk below.
Tasted not offensive too. Actually almost pleasant.
But as a tea drinker, I have a very very low tolerance for caffeine and OH MY GOD ALL THE THINGS SOMEONE TURN THE WORLD DOWN!!!!!!!Eleven!!!!
What fresh hell is this? AI search engine, you.com allows you to search social media handles. Here's what it says about me, most of which (in fact, nearly all of it), is bullshit.
When I tell it it's almost completely wrong, it castigates me for giving it "incorrect information"!
Unconditional surrender to the mind means to let go of the ego and open one's mind to the possibilities and potential of what can be done. It means to surrender to the higher power of the subconscious, to surrender all preconceived notions, and to accept the potential of what can be accomplished. It is a surrendering of the sense of control and an allowing of the natural flow of life to take its course. It is a letting go of the need to be in control and a trusting of the process.
Adelle: Everybody tells me it's 'bout time that I moved on And I need to learn to lighten up and learn how to be young But my heart is a valley, it's so shallow and man made I'm scared to death if I let you in that you'll see I'm just a fake Sometimes I feel lonely in the arms of your touch But I know that's just me, 'cause nothing ever is enough When I was a child I grew up by the River Lea There was something in the water, now that something's in me
Me: Probably leptospirosis. If it doesn't clear up go see your GP.
They play this song a lot at Lee Valley Whitewater Centre, but that water’s chlorinated, albeit not enough to stop the occasional goose or seagull having a paddle in it without paying the entry fee.
I get the Tories deciding to make trans people A Thing because they have nothing left and this, they hope, will save a few of them at the next general election.
The utter indifference and cowardice in opposing the terrorising of thousands of people because it might lose them 12 votes in an election they’re going to fucking walk anyway from Labour, and the silent complicity from the Lib Dems is fucking unforgivable though. People are fucking terrified and they don’t give the first fucking shit.
I remember the SSM debate in the Lords. Exclamations and lamentations over how politicians had treated LGB people dreadfully over the years.
And they’re fucking doing it again, the Tories because it’s convenient, and the others because they simply do not give enough of a shit to do the right thing.
Dunno how much longer I will have a vote in UK elections, but I am fucking DONE with both Labour and the Lib Dems over this. What's the fucking point of either of them?
You're right of course. It is a vile mixture off cowardice and indifference. If the Greens don't get shot of Sharar Ali I won't be voting for them either.
File it under “arcane knowledge” along with not only knowing that control-a control-k clears any text dialogue in Mac OS, but also knowing WHY it does.
had a lovely conversation on the unix historical society list about terminal influences, like ADM-3a leading to vi’s hjkl movement. You all are my people.
I knew that, but had forgotten until your string reminded me. I don't think I've ever had to use it though, the VT220s I used had keyboard with Esc key.
You know what really pisses me off about sexual reassignment surgery?
It's that my surgeon (may he rest in peace: he died of Covid 😞) didn't come in afterwards and say, "congratulations, Mrs Brown, they weren't cancerous".
Fellow #Friendica instance admins. Is there any downside to turning off the Auto Discovered Contact Directory? I only ask because it's literally cooking my poor server once a week.
Best thing about driving an EV (Nissan Leaf): coming up to the autoestrada, single lane sliproad, 270º bend, some guy behind tailgating me because I refused to speed round the bend. A lot of people do this. I guess they see a family hatchback EV and decide it must be a "little old lady"-mobile, and they have a desperate need to show me how I'm holding their impressive petrol burner up.
Bend straightens out to join the main carriageway, and I just press the "tailgater begone" switch (the accelerator, all the way to the floor).
And then suddenly an obscenity of kilowatts is delivered to my wheels, and I'm just ... gone.
About a minute later, he does a spite overtake when he's finally got up to >120kph and caught me up.
But I know I'm living rent-free in his head for that 😊
@Bethan M. Jenkins Yeah. The torque is exactly it. Electric motors excel at it. No waiting for an engine to spin up, no having to drop a gear. Just raw power on tap, immediately.
That it's quite a lot of power is also nice 😉
Also the "whirrrrrrrr" noise of the electric motor when you do that is really satisfying.
there was once a time that I had seen a Leaf when they were showcasing them at a automobile fair, and no lies, it was the nicest car that I could see myself driving one day. Hybrids should be already the norm, no more petrol/gas only cars should be still manufactured 😬
I was leaving Linacre Water near Chesterfield, scenic dog-walker spot which has a narrow single-track lane back to the main road, and stopped at the end of the lane because I spotted a car coming the other way.
A dude in an Audi S4 Avant decided to overtake me in my PHEV Golf, and make a dash for the lane. He got alongside me before the oncoming car came around the corner, and had to reverse back behind me.
I enjoyed the next five minutes of 30 MPH driving through the next village. He didn’t get another opportunity to overtake me before I turned off for Sheffield.
I do get the same satisfaction from driving the Golf GTE. The GTE mode that runs the petrol engine and the electric motor at the same time for ridiculous throttle response is brilliant to catch show-offs out, but I’ve knocked it off lately because men do scarily dangerous things when they’ve been shown up.
We live in a world beset by people who live a sufficiently charmed life that they are able to spend their entire time “fucking around” without ever encountering the “and find out” stage.
Studies show that gen X, my generation, is the most rabidly right wing generation. The millennials are bucking the trend of turning conservative as they get older.
Many people attribute this to economic prospects.
But hear me out here, because there’s an alternate theory.
The romans used lead in plumbing. It was used continuously from then on until the 20th century in plumbing, building, paint, even makeup.
In the mid 20th century they added it to petrol, to improve car performance, filling the air with lead.
Until the advent of the Boomers, it was in paint and water. Slowly it was replaced, but added to the air we breathe. As traffic increased, lead poisoning in the developed world got worse and worse and worse. We know lead poisoning turns humans, well, nasty and unpleasant.
The concentrations peaked in the late 70s to early 80s when traffic levels got huge.
And then it was replaced. The plumbing became copper and plastic. We didn’t use it in paint. It was phased out and banned in petrol.
This happened around the point
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Studies show that gen X, my generation, is the most rabidly right wing generation. The millennials are bucking the trend of turning conservative as they get older.
Many people attribute this to economic prospects.
But hear me out here, because there’s an alternate theory.
The romans used lead in plumbing. It was used continuously from then on until the 20th century in plumbing, building, paint, even makeup.
In the mid 20th century they added it to petrol, to improve car performance, filling the air with lead.
Until the advent of the Boomers, it was in paint and water. Slowly it was replaced, but added to the air we breathe. As traffic increased, lead poisoning in the developed world got worse and worse and worse. We know lead poisoning turns humans, well, nasty and unpleasant.
The concentrations peaked in the late 70s to early 80s when traffic levels got huge.
And then it was replaced. The plumbing became copper and plastic. We didn’t use it in paint. It was phased out and banned in petrol.
This happened around the point the millennials were being born. They are the first generation in two thousand years without societal level lead poisoning.
What if humans are better than all this hateful right wing bollocks that is now peaking? What if it is not our natural state to be like this? What if we are just …broken by growing up in an environment in which this poison, which we know to cause violence, hatred, and all the worst qualities in humans, was utterly ubiquitous?
And what if, when my generation and those of us who came before die out in a few decades, and the damage from lead goes with us … what if things just get better?
@L dot Mastodon I didn’t avoid the worst of it. The reason I’m a left-liberal is because I know what I would do with absolute power, and it terrifies me.
Maybe I should start taking the lead hypothesis seriously. I first encountered it in the Freakonomics book, a book which I find dubious, but stopped clocks are a thing.
I was gonna go, because there was a recent big media push from the right to say that about Gen X in the US - as part of an attempt to woo GenX to the GOP - but it was bullshit, and based on bullshit.
But in the UK, I dunno.
(Basically they ripped the last six years of the Baby Boom - the rightest wing of the Boom - off and stuck them onto GenX in a way nobody does, _including them_. No American GenXer was born in the _1950s_, ffs. But people bleated it on anyway.)
Today the wind is blowing from the east. This generally creates very choppy waves and today is no exception. As a result, the port of Lagos is “closed to all traffic”, as the entrance is considered risky.
Portugal does this. It closes ports in conditions judged to be unsafe. This is a very different attitude to UK port authorities, which can generally be summed up as, “it’s your own stupid fault if you die”.
For all the people wondering about why there’s so much fuss over someone personally deciding whether or not to play Grand Theft TERF or not, consider that there is a campaign to drive trans people from society in much of the English speaking world right now.
Trans people need to know who has our backs. Anyone who won’t cross the “please chose literally one of a thousand alternate and equally creative ways to get your dopamine hit” picket line (and let’s be honest, it’s the easiest picket line to not cross ever) certainly, does not have our backs.
We are used to this, but some of us persist in being optimists and expecting better of people anyway.
Meanwhile, this is an utterly amazing dopamine hit. It’s basically Tetris meets 2048, and I guess no queer people were harmed in its production. I’ve been playing the same session for weeks on and off now and have a 2^25 cube.
Trans people are used to moderation screwing us over on social media for two decades or more if we we don’t tiptoe around the sensibilities of cisgender-centric moderation policies that routinely result in any expression of our frustration (and being trans in this society can get exceptionally frustrating).
I therefore offer my deepest sympathies to cis people in the fediverse suddenly experiencing being on the losing end of this. Not sarcasm. It sucks and I empathise with the frustration you feel.
“The way I’m being expected to moderate goes against my instincts but the wider network will sanction me heavily if I don’t”
Memories of admining trans groups on FB and, before that, LJ, where we had to censor stuff we agreed with to avoid getting shut down.
And then got attacked by our own community for trying to make the least bad choice.
So really, I sympathise, but there’s also a little bit of me, of which I am not proud, that feels a little bit of satisfaction at what could either be described as rebalancing, or less
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Trans people are used to moderation screwing us over on social media for two decades or more if we we don’t tiptoe around the sensibilities of cisgender-centric moderation policies that routinely result in any expression of our frustration (and being trans in this society can get exceptionally frustrating).
I therefore offer my deepest sympathies to cis people in the fediverse suddenly experiencing being on the losing end of this. Not sarcasm. It sucks and I empathise with the frustration you feel.
“The way I’m being expected to moderate goes against my instincts but the wider network will sanction me heavily if I don’t”
Memories of admining trans groups on FB and, before that, LJ, where we had to censor stuff we agreed with to avoid getting shut down.
And then got attacked by our own community for trying to make the least bad choice.
So really, I sympathise, but there’s also a little bit of me, of which I am not proud, that feels a little bit of satisfaction at what could either be described as rebalancing, or less charitably, karma.
You’re in our house now. Put the fucking toilet seat down, please.
@AnCuRuadh (0 of 1) well, I’m human, I’ve had a nervous breakdown myself because of transphobic harassment in the past, and I guess I empathise a little bit because I remember how utterly grindingly shit it was.
My hope would be that cis people generally take this as a learning experience and have a sudden realisation that this is how they have been treating us for all this time.
But, of course, they won’t. Meanwhile, a lot of trans people will also get turfed off (no pun intended) that instance.
I've often heard the phrase "separate the art from the artist". Makes sense that I can hear a song about drugs and not be inclined to snort a ton of cocaine, and I may know an actor has a faith which doesn't align with mine. The phrase can apply to such things. I also don't care what goes on in anyone else's bedroom. But that cannot and should not apply when the "artist" uses their platform to spread hate targeted at a group of people who are just trying to be themselves.
and tbh I think that is where the whole mess started - not being aware they needed to draw the line and so not specifying it in the rules of posting on that instance.
Your regular reminder that John Money lied about the results of what he did to the Reimer twins, covered up the fact that David appeared to express an innate gender identity of male, and that both twins died by suicide, likely as a result of what Money did to them.
Furthermore, through his covering up the damage his wholly unethical experiment did, he gave legitimacy to subsequent decades of mistreatment of trans and intersex people by quacks.
It’s a shame hell isn’t a real thing, because by god, he deserves to rot there.
Even before clicking through to this, it was obvious to me what the victim’s skin colour is. American police murder a man for … crossing the road while black.
right?? So much power- the ability to use state sanction lethal violence but with no accountability, transparency, reporting, or standards is just so mind blowing and appalling.
I saw a tiktok from someone that kept getting kicked out of police academy for asking too many questions and having the sense that the training went against "the ethics of policing" (which, uh... that's a whole thing they need to unpack). They said they were told to should things like "drop the weapon" and "stop resisting" after firing their gun because people's memory will rearrange the events to make them make sense. It's so horribly fucked.
My dockerised homebridge was logging using the American date format, and I found this incredibly annoying. Worked out how to fix it: you add this to the docker-compose file...
Shoutout to Nginx Proxy Manager, which if you host some websites on your home internet connection, is a really nice bit of software that installs in Docker in about 30 seconds, has a nice GUI, handles SSL for you, and requires no Nginx knowledge. Even @Zoe O'Connell was impressed and that takes some doing!
oh, joy! Looks like something I will block on principle.
"Likecoin is a digital currency that the authors of content are rewarded for each YouTube like.
Likecoin is based on Blockchain technology using the mechanism called “Proof of Popularity”: the higher the popularity of the video and the more likes it gets, the bigger is the amount of cryptocurrency rewarded to the author.
This technology makes it possible to monetize video content easily and to get a decent reward without adding any advertising or attracting advertising agencies."
I am, unusually, awake for the sunrise. This means I just got to see a bird fly straight into my window with a loud THUMP!, turn round, and fly away again.
I guess this is the bird equivalent of me randomly walking into things. Hope it’s ok.
The mission architecture for the ESA/NASA Mars sample return mission is becoming clear. As the spacecraft approaches Mars, it will break into an entry vehicle and an orbiter (from ESA). The entry vehicle will land and the samples will be loaded onto it by rover or helicopter.
It will then launch into Mars orbit to rendezvous with the ESA orbiter and deliver the samples. The ESA orbiter will then burn for Trans Earth Injection and coast to Earth.
Once it hits the atmosphere, it will decelerate rapidly in a blaze of fire before slowing to subsonic speed and deploying its parachutes.
At this point, the United States Air Force will scramble an elite F22 Raptor squadron and shoot it down for being a Martian Spy Capsule.
I now understand why you can’t share photos from a Mastodon client when using it with #Friendica:
In Friendica, photos have permissions. Mastodon doesn’t understand this, so when it uploads the photo it doesn’t set any. The Friendica server seems to see this and decide it needs to default to the most restrictive set, i.e. private.
So the created post does not contain a shareable photo.
If you then go into your gallery and edit the photo permissions to be public, then make a bullshit edit to the post, so that it refederates, it’ll suddenly appear.
I have the exact opposite problem (and have already pulled all my hairs out trying to solve it), the Friendica instance I incompetently installed sees pictures but not text from the non-Friendica parts of the Fediverse.
You guys! I think this fediverse thing might have legs! These are the stats from my micro instance, and I guess there are loads more corners that it doesn't know about!
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However, we do not have gas.
(Well, technically there is gas in the pipe behind the valve, but it's mostly nitrogen)