jstarfish

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by jstarfish 3y ago
> And an aside, but as a result of my experience running that site I personally look sideways at anyone I see being obsessive about local LLMs for roleplay. It seems like the people who would rail the most about privacy on the site (dril
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Buy "work" clothes. Dickies, Carhartt, etc. for socks and jackets. Pants too if you like the fit. Doc Martens for footwear if you like boots; they're mendable. Tilly's shirts have held up surprisingly well for me but I t
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Sorry to hear it buddy. Not the first time I've seen that. I'd say it gets better but it is genuinely traumatic to be attacked out of nowhere for no apparent reason. There's literally nothing you can do to avoid random acts o
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by jstarfish 3y ago
I kinda have to leave it open. I can't rightfully say for certain it's Mossad. It looks like it's related to Israel's offensive, but even that is subject to interpretation. It remains an open question to me too. The mo
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by jstarfish 3y ago
You give me too much credit. It's not bad luck, it's straight-up negligence. I used to stick my nose in a lot of dirty places without PPE; the week before that I had blown out a garage full of rat shit and cleaned out a backyard f
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by jstarfish 3y ago
It's not evidence at all, just data (intelligence) that makes me reconsider what I thought I knew about the situation and what else might be related that I didn't consider before. We have a "special" relationship with Is
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Interesting. We don't run public SSH so it wasn't a consideration.
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by jstarfish 3y ago
> If you fear getting “bogged down” with words maybe you shouldn’t be engaging in a discussion board. This very sentiment highlights the problem. If you aren't a master of crybullying and couching your own hate speech in impenetrabl
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Swartz didn't die in vain; this stinks of grift. Why prisoners, in particular? As you say, they don't exactly have easy access to online resources to begin with. They might as well offer free pap smears to incarcerated men. They
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by jstarfish 3y ago
I'm convinced it's a psyop, since they can't get away with dosing the municipal water supply with LSD. Chaos sells ad impressions. I've had an acute toxoplasmosis infection. It was not empowering; it was fucking terrifyi
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by jstarfish 3y ago
That particular definition of "harmful material" mirrors the definition of obscenity, which is not protected speech.
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Most people assume the threat is the FBI or the Chinese or something; it's not that MUDs are some high-value intelligence asset, but consider what anyone could glean by deploying a packet sniffer on your LAN and reading your traffic to
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Roblox and Minecraft are what the kids who can't afford a VR setup are using.
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by jstarfish 3y ago
> not a programmer, just a humanities nerd Inform 7 was written for people like yourself. Check it out. The syntax is prosaic enough for a humanities nerd to write and structured enough for ChatGPT4 to generate. Contrived example: > T
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Telnet's a shit option these days. No encryption. Webclients can be protected by HTTPS, and Evennia (for one) offers SSH.
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by jstarfish 3y ago
LLMs leave a lot to be desired when it comes to boundary enforcement. Your entire party of little African boys could fall into a mile-deep hole and nothing stops all of them from escaping using the power of their flighty farts. Then we get
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by jstarfish 3y ago
> Of all non-generic definitions in the list, the "a man's penis" definition scores by far the highest in terms of cumulative probability[2], with "a woman's vagina", "a woman's breasts" and &
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by jstarfish 3y ago
I don't put much stock in attribution, but keeping an eye on what attacks stop when an adversary ends up refocusing their attention due to scandal and/or war is a pretty reliable indicator in my experience (and very difficult to f
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by jstarfish 3y ago
> How are cults allowed to do the same without any repercussions? I am not a friend of the JW, but as an adult, you're expected to be your own advocate. You opted in to a system of faith, not science. Regarding child molesters, an
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by jstarfish 3y ago
'Nothing signed "THE MGT." would ever be challenged; the Midget could always pass himself off as the Management.'
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Play to your leadership. Exceptions apply, but female bosses tend to appreciate averted crises more than male ones. If your boss is male, let shit fail. You'll get hero points for responding to incidents. A female boss will quickly sus
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by jstarfish 3y ago
You don't need a whole fucking model for this, you just need to invoke the right arcana. Try: > Act as a professional skeptic. Assess the passage for any deceptive, manipulative, or dishonest elements, including instances of doubles
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Those splines don't reticulate themselves, you know.
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by jstarfish 3y ago
> In case you weren't aware (or "woke") enough to know the truth, there are already some extremely heavy fingers on the other side of the scale when it comes to training AI. So why shouldn't they have their finger on
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by jstarfish 3y ago
> First, women can be subject to serious sexual harassment. This has to be taken seriously and acted upon. Second, a woman can falsely acuse someone at work of this and absolutely ruin their lives. Video surveillance, if thorough enough,
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Yes. Wear a mask next time you buy shovels and duct tape. But why stop there? They could watch you walk to your car and do ALPR there too.
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by jstarfish 3y ago
It's still outrage porn. "Cameras in the breakroom that record indiscriminately? Clearly, it's us they're targeting!"
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by jstarfish 3y ago
Ostensibly: > [...] East African workers, who comprise a sizable amount of Amazon’s Minnesota workforce. Local East African Muslim workers have a history of protesting the company’s wages and workplace conditions, including its handling
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by jstarfish 3y ago
The easiest way to do it is from the lock screen, if/when it's enabled. My own gallery is full of black pictures taken of the inside of my pocket.
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by jstarfish 3y ago
It does matter. Video must respect reasonable degree of privacy. So no bathrooms or bedrooms. Anywhere else, fair game.

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