punchmesan

What makes you think it's willful ignorance over garden-variety ignorance? Being incorrect and thinking you are correct is different from purposefully keeping yourself ignorant.

I have no horse in this race, and willfully being ignorant and spreading disinformation about trans topics willfully is indeed transphobic and warrants aggressive shutdowns, like the comment I'm replying to. But unless I'm missing something I don't see the evidence of bad intent here? It just seemed like a bit of a leap.

Holy shit I would take this over an open floor plan any day. I dream of having my own quasi-isolated space.

Love the idea! What if instead of stakeholders voting on everything you implemented a "steering committee" style model. Stakeholders meet/organize at some cadence to make larger decisions and decide the direction to "steer" the instance and the smaller decisions made in service of the direction decided by committee are left to the admins (decided/maintained by committee). The committee would have veto power over those decisions.

Just thinking of communication overhead and how the more is decided by committee upfront the less agile you can be.

They work just fine with real-debrid.

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check it out! And do you happen to remember the title of that how babies work book? A search got a me whole lot of something different. That sounds like a fun book!

Yeah, it's trivial work for a capable AI. It isn't farfetched to envision an AI tracking down your alt accounts by analyzing writing style, post/comment topics, and various other bits of commonality.

My knee-jerk reaction is that I'm generally against it. I'm all for AI in a variety of applications, but I don't participate in discussion in online places to give free training days to corporate LLM's. If somehow it could be guaranteed that it was only used in open models I suppose I would feel a little better, but the second issue in my mind is that even careful people leave a trail of identifying breadcrumbs sprinkled across their posting history. A human having to sift through thousands of posts and comments will have a much harder time putting pieces together than an AI will. So I see it as a privacy concern mostly.

I haven't gotten a book on baby sign yet, just some internet reading, such as the below links:

https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/baby_sign_language_a_helpful_communication_tool

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_sign_language

Some sites selling the learning materials suggest you can start as early as 6 months, other sites and studies suggest starting at 8 months and the baby will start signing at 9 months. Since you use verbal communication with the signs they get replaced in the two's when they start speaking.

I've been told by a friend that in the newborn phase the frustration can cause some brutal fantasies (that no sane person would act upon). I'm very much expecting our patience to be thoroughly tested :).

We're expecting in July! We're going to enjoy these 6 months as thoroughly as possible haha.

Thanks for the reply! A coworker recommended that one to me too, so I grabbed it off of audible. Not done with it yet but I still have some time. I'm also reading into baby sign language. I've heard that a lot of tantrums in the pre-verbal years are caused from frustration in being unable to communicate. They have the motor skills and mental capacity for basic signs but lack the motor function to be able to speak, so it bridges a communication gap. I won't have any children that didn't learn it to compare against but here's hoping it makes the terrible two's less terrible. :)

You got a lot of distro recommendations from across the spectrum and it's honestly hard to go wrong with any of them. It's mostly a matter of preference. As such I'll give you two pieces of advice:

1. Set up a multi-boot flash drive (assuming you're currently using Windows, YUMI is a great utility) so that your can try a bunch of them and see what jives with you most. A great feature of Linux installers is that you can actually run the entire OS, full-featured, from the ISO. So grab a whole slew of them, throw them on the flash drive, and spend some time taking them for a spin.
2. Do your research on compatibility. Laptop makers often don't make Linux drivers, so the latest hardware has compatibility problems until the community covers the gap. There are also some laptop manufacturers that have Linux in mind when they make their products, like System 76 and Framework.

Good luck! IMO getting into Linux for the first time is a fun journey. Enjoy it!

I'm in IT too. My experience is that if you use Linux at home and Windows at work you just end up skilled at both. At one point I was even using a Macbook at work (wouldn't have even been a consideration if WSL was just a little better), using a Windows jump server or a VM for my Windows-y ops, and I became skilled at all 3 OS's.

All of that is to say that your skill won't decrease if Windows is still being used, especially if you're using it in a professional context.

Well as far as I understand, this discussion is about voting and not prosecution. A prosecutor's job is to seek the greatest penalty they think they can feasibly get, so of course they're going to focus on charges that carry the greatest penalty. A voter's job, in the context of presidential elections, is to choose between a series of power-hungry hyenas to lead the Executive branch of the government. Not voting is counter-productive and under the current system voting third-party is also counter-productive, so a voter has an incentive to consider all of the "crimes", and even the good sprinkled amongst them, and not tunnel-vision on the worst.

So debating the "lesser charges" could not be more relevant, because who you vote for matters and the government does a heck of a lot more than support Israel. If I follow your line of false equivalence, I can only envision 2 conclusions:

1. Who you vote for does not matter at all, just flip a coin.
2. There's no point in voting at all, leave the decision to everyone else.

Yes, the current system is corrupt and is awful, and it needs to change, but in the meantime elections are still held and decisions are still made about things like education funding, women's bodily autonomy, trans rights, student debt, and so on and so on. Saying nothing else matters because the political parties that have a duopoly on power support Israel's genocide campaign is short-sighted at best. As far as I can tell what you're advocating for is voter apathy, and I fail to see how that's productive.