solomon42069

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[–] solomon42069 67 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

On Elon Musk's X, animal abuse is the safe content.

[–] solomon42069 8 points 3 weeks ago

In the United States, teenage kids were put on the sex offenders registry for sending each other nudes. Those laws are in place to protect minors from people who are not minors, but apparently the judges did not see it that way in sentencing. Gotta love the word of the law being worth more than its spirit!

[–] solomon42069 23 points 4 weeks ago

To be honest she's probably lucky this is week one and not a year in, when Trump would have her shot as an enemy of the president and criminal of the state.

[–] solomon42069 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Entirely possible, but I didn't want to assume! My dad didn't know the Village People were gay and he was a grown adult with kids when people broke the news to him...

[–] solomon42069 39 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Sorry bud, but I think you just used to be more innocent.

Just look at the celebrities and culture of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s... Even the whole outrage culture pushed by conservative media like Fox News also goes that far back!

The fashion of the day changes but humanity itself.. not so much!

[–] solomon42069 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There was a legitimate use case in art to draw on generative AI for concepts and a stopgap for smaller tasks that don't need to be perfect. While art is art, not every designer out there is putting work out for a gallery - sometimes it's just an ad for a burger.

However, as time has gone on for the industry to react I think that the business reality of generative AI currently puts it out of reach as a useful tool for artists. Profit hungry people in charge will always look to cut corners and will lack the nuance of context that a worker would have when deciding when or not to use AI in the work.

But you could provide this argument about any tool given how fucked up capitalism is. So I guess that my 2c - generative AI is a promising tool but capitalism prevents it from being truly useful anytime soon.

[–] solomon42069 18 points 1 month ago

nothing but a fascist propaganda outlet at this point

Hey that's not true! There's also a lot of scammers.

[–] solomon42069 14 points 1 month ago

Landlords should be taxed and vilified regardless of whether they reside in Oblivion or plain old Nirn.

[–] solomon42069 3 points 1 month ago

I'm hoping community efforts are able to fill the void. I fear having to do this all myself and becoming some kind of Mad Max style tinkerer after the fall...

Old phones daisy changed together to act as a server... The remnants of StarLink for internet, getting nazi/rape threats from the remaining social media AI that live in all the satellites...

It would be nice if government backed up Wikipedia and SO. But considering they don't give a shit about Linux which is arguably one of the most vital technical infrastructure projects of our lifetime...

[–] solomon42069 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I was referring to the file size being the barrier. The 2024 large database size of 202GB is prohibitive for the average person's resource capabilities. i.e. I have a home VPS host and I don't even have that much free space. Your cloud operating costs would also go up with the storage and bandwidth use.

There's also two separate issues I was kinda mixing up. I'm a developer who uses StackOverflow and would like to use a resource that is readily available. I think it'd take a few hours to setup even a smaller copy of SO, which isn't ideal for answering a quick question. I also don't want to setup a whole mirror site with custom work just for myself and because I'm paranoid Microsoft miight buy them and paywall SO overnight or something.

[–] solomon42069 11 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I've looked into this but they aren't exactly small, it's not a straightforward operation for even the average developer or systems engineer to restore these into a working format.

I was thinking we need something along the lines of a read only public mirror run by the proper open source community - e.g. SourceForge or a major Linux project.. ISP's and universities offer mirrors of Linux packages so this could be a resource offered in the same vein. That's my line of thinking as far as a StackOverflow mirror goes anyway!

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