@NOS journaal brengt het bericht dat we vorig jaar officieel door de 1,5 graad opwarming zijn gegaan. Het was een record-warm jaar. Er worden een paar redenen gegeven, el nino kan invloed gehad hebben, maar toen kwam er een gekmakend zinnetje:
"Er werd nog nooit zoveel co2 uitgestoten als vorig jaar."
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Hoe de fuck kun je dat zo neutraal en mat zeggen?! Hoe kun je niet die camera grijpen, eraan schudden en met bloeddoorlopen ogen brullen als je die zin op de autocue ziet?!
We weten al bekant een halve eeuw dat schijt de ventilator gaat raken, als we niet snel minderen met de mest hoger en hoger smijten. Jaar na jaar gaat de hele teringwereld door met smerigere en smerigere drollen in steeds ingenieuzere katapulten proppen. En nou flapt de bruine drek tegen de eerste wieken aan, waardoor iedereen en diens ouder/verzorger aan ziet komen dat de stront over ons allemaal heen gaat spetteren.
Het wordt godverdomme tijd dat we kappen met doen alsof groeiende co2-uitstoot een natuurwet is. Het is een keuze die gemaakt wordt door kapitalistische machthebbers, een misdadige keuze die alleen geld verdienen als drijfveer heeft. Geld waar je geen fuck aan hebt als je villawijk in de fik staat (kijkt sarcastisch smalend naar LA). Blijkt je strontparaplu toch lek te wezen.
Ik heb een tijdje niet lopen fulmineren hier op de socials. En het zal nou ook wel weer geen zin hebben. Maar van dit bericht werd ik wel zo godentyfus cynisch. Kan ik vegan zijn en leuke circulaire huizen bouwen wat ik wil, als de rest door blijft gaan met diarree richting draaiende objecten spuiten dan kan ik niet anders dan wanhopig loeien hoe uitgesproken dom het allemaal is.
As if scraping free content to train #AI models wasn’t enough (and #Meta already has plenty of free content created by billions of users on its platforms), as if refusing to pay a fair share to those content creators wasn’t enough, imagine working in a place where AI engineers send emails asking for clearance to use LibGen or BitTorrent in the office, in order to download GBs of pirated copyright work that can be fed to those models, and getting thumbs up from the CEO himself.
The next judge who harshly punishes a teenager for downloading his favorite movie or TV series deserves to be hit with a rubber hose under his feet. No single user of pirated content ought to be punished until the tech giants that in the past couple of years have played all kinds of dirty games with user content in order to get the best AI model are punished.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/10/meta_libgen_allegation/
So far the majority of the submissions for #FluConf2025 have come from demographics that are over-represented in tech and especially open-source.
While that doesn't necessarily have any bearing on the quality of the sessions, and there are some great ideas being proposed, we are painfully aware of the disparities that are common at tech conferences (gender, race, and many more).
We encourage all those who are typically underrepresented at such events to consider applying. FluConf is largely about challenging the status quo and imagining a future that includes more voices.
Before applying please consider checking if any of your underrepresented colleagues would like to present or co-present your team's work.
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@hazelnot @puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social That's probably a good idea. The focus on 'discipline' makes me question their competence as an ADHD/disability therapist, to be completely honest.
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@hazelnot @puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social If it's on NixOS, maybe patch the Lutris package so that it wraps it in a shell script that immediately exits when run under your main user?
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@hazelnot "though it does usually only end up working for a few days and then I fall more and more behind cause I can't consistently remind me"
That is a typical feature of ADHD and a whole lot of other disabilities, and it is pretty much the reason I don't like the 'discipline' framing, because all too often that really just boils down to 'neurotypical expectations in a trenchcoat'.
If you're disabled - which, if you have ADHD, you are - then the reality is that some things in your brain are just not going to work right, and there's no amount of 'practice' that can fix that; you can only understand what those things are, and find accommodations in your life to make them not get in the way. "Just trying harder" is almost never the answer there.
It may be worth looking at the 'alternate account' thing suggested by @puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social because that doesn't require a whole second OS?
What I've found to work pretty well for me is to do it in 'spurts'; I'm focused on projects for a while, then I need to loosen the pressure and dive into video games for a few hours to days, then once that starts feeling like a drag or dissociative experience, that's my cue to go back to projects again. Part of making this work is just accepting that I am not going to be doing project stuff 100% of the time.
@octopus I do, but crucially only with a subset of things. I think what constitutes 'self-care' is highly variable and dependent on personal circumstances
i really think we need to acknowledge the existance of „network pain“. the pain of leaving connections behind. social networks are not just tools or apps, but means of connecting to other people, thoughts, information we care about. it actually hurts to lose that. https://mas.to/@meganL/113794498411810949
this also introduces the same issue as intel's recent rebrand: the bottom tier is just "Dell", in the same way intel's bottom tier is just "Intel Processor". just as "if you're getting an intel, avoid pentiums and go for at least an i5" has become "if you're getting an intel, avoid Intel Processors and go for at least a Core Ultra", we now have "if you're getting a dell, avoid inspirons and go for at least a latitude" being replaced by "if you're getting a dell, avoid Dells and go for at least a Dell Pro". the cheapest and least capable dell laptops are now the ones called "Dell". incredible.
apple used to do something similar: the worst macbook was the one labelled "macbook". but there are two key differences: it was not called an "apple", and the base macbook was a pretty decent machine.
imagine if the cheapest macbook you could buy was a 4c4t 36Whr 1366x768 piece of garbage called "Apple". now imagine the cheapest intel processor you can buy is a dual core chip with a 46W TDP called "Intel Processor". the second one is true.
note that the intel processor 300 (god i hate this naming scheme) is not a bad chip if you use it for the right things (e.g. home server). but i feel like having Company XYZ naming their lowest spec product The XYZ is a bad idea all around.
imagine if honda's budget range was called Honda. if a small fries, small coke, and hamburger with no cheese was called The McDonald's. etc etc etc
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@hazelnot I'm not sure 'discipline' is the right mental model there, that'll likely just end with chastising yourself over 'failing at it' and that causing a depression loop (which would make things worse). Probably the first step would be to figure out *why* games tend to suck you in, in detail, and then find a way to deal with that.
For example, is it because there's a low barrier to starting with them, and the barrier to doing art is high? You could improve on that by either a) finding a way to make art easier to get started on, or b) increasing the barrier to video games (eg. by having a dual-boot setup and isolating games to one OS).
Ask people for the calendar date they think the pandemic ended and show them the wastewater charts spanning 2020–present challenge
Hearing about a young hacker whose being extorted by the University of Washington, not cool UW.
The student claims they built an app to help kids get the course schedules they want, a hack as old as time, and the university decided to expel him until he ports his app to the university's internal systems.
This would be unpaid labor.
Until then his class registration is on hold and he can't register or attend his last few classes. 🥴
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@rune Why do these people have such difficulty understanding that "playing the middle" is a losing proposition long-term
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