StarDreamer

After all, most other countries refer to it as big-metre instead.

Damn, now I have to throw out my Namiki Yukari Maki-e - Apricot Tree and Warbler Urushi fountain pen…

1. The whole thing as far as I understand it was “vibe coded” it doesn’t take much to spin up a new startup without a patent blocking it.

2. There’s no users/infrastructure to retain. The whole thing is just smokes and mirrors all the way down. I’m actually impressed and jealous someone will be making bank from this.

What profit? Are they gonna show ads to AI? Sell the data of AI for marketing research?

I honestly don’t see a problem. Nobody ever promised that it would act as a tugboat. In this particular case, it’s doing perfectly fine as a tuggedboat.

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

– Terry Pratchett, Mort

Yes. But the chances of harassment went from accidentally provoking someone on 4ch (approximately the probability of getting hit by a flying brick while walking down the street) to looking at your classmate a bit funny. There’s too much personal information out there. You no longer need a shovel to dig up dirt.

Who’s forcing this kids to exist on their devices all the time?

Schools making social media part of the curriculum, where homework involves designing social media content for learning purposes.

And the fact that being the “odd one out” means social death. There are no more teen friendly skate parks to go to or malls to hang out at. Whatever public spaces remain are unsafe due to people driving 60 down a public road with minimum sidewalks. You’re either online with your friends or you’re alone.

Who’s giving them access to cyber bullying?

It’s the three body problem: putting three stellar objects in close proximity to each other will always result in a unstable system.

Also like how do you stop bullying in an era where the public elects bully’s to run the world; and the corporations make money promoting your kids being bullied.

No idea. I’m no expert here. But the first step is to recognize there’s an issue and talk about it. And not just here on lemmy, but everywhere.

I mean. That’s why I’m not interested in kids or parenting at all.

I think there are a lot of gremlins out there with zero compassion and consideration for others. If parents were more vigilant about what was happening (and less dismissive of what other kids are saying) a lot of people would not have been hurt. Including myself.

I think the bare minimum is parents need to know (1) what your children’s hobbies are (2) where your children are when leaving the house (3) what social media platforms/games does your child access. And I’m not saying this in a technical “surveillance” way, I mean the kids should be made to feel comfortable enough to provide this information to said adults. If kids are unwilling to provide this information, or even deliberately provide fake or masking information then you have a problem.

It’s not involved.

But the personal data involved for most individuals has increased dramatically, which increases the risks of harm dramatically. Most people’s online identities are now intricately tied to their daily lives for better or worse.

It requires the same basic knowledge and precautions.

Which some of us learn the hard way. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone value privacy prior to being burned themselves first. But at that point, the damage is already done.

It’s also unreasonable to expect everyone to know everything. For example, I don’t drive. I wouldn’t know how to stop a car from the backseat if the driver were to have a medical emergency.

it involves vigilant parents and an involved school system.

Parents couldn’t track where their kids were doing 24/7 prior to the Internet. What makes you think they can do that now?

As a side note: do post-2020 work schedules allow parents to communicate with their children sufficiently?

We didn’t solve bullying we embraced it.

As someone who’s been hurt and hurt people back in the day this is NOT the way to do things. Whoever thinks it’s possible to “tough it out” has not been through systemic bullying for years, nor know of the physical and mental medical toll it has decades after the original incidents. I do not wish this upon anybody.

Quite frankly, I am sick of people downplaying these issues because the “bullying” issue no longer affects them while chat control and age verification does. There should be a platform to discuss both these problems without downplaying the consequences of ignoring either.

They don’t. Undeniably the social media landscape has changed, especially for younger folks. It’s no longer people spamming chatrooms, starting flamewars, or calling random names in a CoD/PlayOnline lobby. Things are more targeted now. You can easily look up information (especially someone who is ill prepared to protect it) and make much more personal attacks. The old mudslinging used to slide right off since it was just generic provocative comments. Besides, the worst thing that could happen is you have to change your irc nick. But what happens when your school Gmail gets leaked, that is also what you use to sign in to various services?

stares at 300 line shell script+ansible mess that updates/sets up Forgejo, Nextcloud, ghostcms

“Yes… It’s automated”

Exactly. Unless you are actively doing maintenance, there is no need to remember what DB you are using. It took me 3 minutes just to remember my nextcloud setup since it’s fully automated.

It’s the whole point of using tiered services. You look at stuff at the layer you are on. Do you also worry about your wifi link-level retransmissions when you are running curl?

Some people play games to turn their brains off. Other people play them to solve a different type of problem than they do at work. I personally love optimizing, automating, and min-maxing numbers while doing the least amount of work possible. It’s relatively low-complexity (compared to the bs I put up with daily), low-stakes, and much easier to show someone else.

Also shout-out to CDDA and FFT for having some of the worst learning curves out there along with DF. Paradox games get an honorable mention for their wiki.

Also if the router blocks icmp for some reason you can always manually send an ARP request and check the response latency.

Is there a specific reason you’re looking at shadowsocks? The original developer has been MIA for years. People who used it in the past largely consider it insecure for its original stated purpose

trojan-gfw is a better modern replacement. However that requires a certificate in order to work. You can easily get one via lets encrypt.

At this point, let Shadowsocks, obfs, and kcp die a graceful death like GoAgent before it did.

I don’t think either of us is the target audience here. I can see a “cheaper” (questionable) Pro laptop being useful for students going into college with a limited budget. An undergrad CS/graphic design degree shouldn’t tax an 8gb machine too much, assuming students shut down everything else when doing their once-a-semester major rendering/compiling/model training. If people just want Macbook pro software with more ports, a “cheaper” machine is better than none. Personally, I would still get a used/refurbished machine though.

That being said, my current laptop workload tends to be emacs, qpdfview, Firefox, and tmux on EL9. For the remaining stuff, I usually just spin up a VM then ssh/xrdp into it. As for slack, teams, jabber, etc, I’m happy to report I’ve been out of industry/IT for 1+ years and don’t plan on going back anytime soon. For all I care, Apple can call their models unicorn edition. As long as it sells it’s not stupid.

Another thing you can look into is apptainer/singularity. Basically portable container binaries. Executing the binary automatically runs a program/drops you into a shell inside the container with your $HOME mounted inside. Stuff like cuda also work as long as your host system has appropriate drivers.

You can also port docker containers to apptainer directly via cli.

Oh wow. It supports Kobos as well. Gonna have to check this out. Thanks.

8gb RAM and 256 gb storage is perfectly fine for a pro-ish machine in 2023. What’s not fine is the price point they are offering it (but if idiots still buy that, that’s on them and not apple). I’ve been using a 8gb ram 256 gb storage Thinkpad for lecturing, small code demos, and light video editing (e.g. zoom recordings) this past year, it works perfectly fine. But as soon as I have to run my own research code, back to the 2022 Xeon I go.

Is it Apple’s fault people treat browser tabs as a bookmarking mechanism? No. Is it unethical for Apple to say that their 8GB model fits this weirdly common use case? Definitely.