as alive as you need me to be
The joke is the husband.
The wife has low empathy and is bullying him, and presenting it as joke.
I'm sorry, have you never encountered a situation where a joke was made... at someone else's expense, who just tolerated it?
You've never encountered a bully? Who phrases everything as if everyone is having fun, while also speaking for everyone?
I wasn't kidding about them getting divorced in not too long; this is a portrait of a one sided, unhealthy relationship.
EDIT:
And the context you've provided actually makes it worse.
The... the cat follows the guy around like the cat and the man are boyfriend and girlfriend?
People who make jokes like this are often people who are very insecure and overcompensate by being very controlling, and then pass off stuff like this as 'funny' or 'sarcastic'... when it really isn't, it just actually is them being jealous of either themself not getting as much attention as they want, or somebody giving / getting attention from not them.
Look up 'Narcissistic Supply'.
This is a narcissist's idea of a joke.
Because Microsoft owns github.
Even without them plugging LLMs into it, using it all as training data, sharing everything connected to it directly with the NSA, they could easily do a more standard enshittification of it.
Oh you have a free github account, you can do X amount of pulls and commits per month, otherwise, subscribe to GitHubPro for $5 a month.
Oh you host some software that's used to antagonize our corporate partners?
Even though its not actually illegal?
Poof, gone, just like when the credit card companies decided nsfw games are verbotten.
Basically anywhere that LLMs are implemented... they are a security vulnerability, for any situation in which they are not sandboxed.
Anything they can interface with?
You can probably trick it or exploit it into doing something unintended or unexpected to anything else it is connected to.
Either that or take advantage of the system that serves as the framework that connects it to other systems.
Theoretically you could use an LLM to do something like come up with more accurate heuristics for identifying malware....
But... they're nowhere near 'intelligent' enough to like, give it a whole code base for some kind of software, and thoroughly make that software 100% secure.
Absolutely fair!
Yes, we certainly can stop and not go into this any further.
Thank you as well for being polite and civil!
EDIT: One thing that we do have on db0 the instance is a kind of 'disengage' concept, more or less a kind of 'safe word' for just saying, hey, i dont wanna talk about this anymore, please stop, and i'll stop as well.
I mean I'm closer to 40 than 30, and expressing nonplussed as a kind of intentionally sarcastic 'comedy' just reads as either pain or smugness or annoyance.
Maybe funny in small doses, but if its a regular staple of your 'comedy', its not very good comedy, it just conveys dissapointment.
There's also a large difference between an intentional group photo where everyone is collectively doing a frown, performatively, and a one on one photo that is candid and ostensibly significantly based around the subject of the photo.
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Yep, so its a bunch of volunteers, running their own local hardware, but also linking it together, to provide a kind of mutual usage network for generating images.
And yep, db0 themself is pretty involved in this.
EDIT: (As best as I can tell, I've not like, talked to them about it myself, or been involved in those comms.)
... but you can't singly host a distributed network.
You can participate in it, architect it, but... the whole concept is that it is distributed, localized.
You know, like Lemmy, as opposed to Reddit or BlueSky, which are centralized.
So... this is what I met by more nuanced stances on LLMs/Neuralnet image generation.
More or less, this is like the rules that govern something like a private torrent tracker and network, but applied to GenAI.
So its an alternative way of providing distributed GenAI capabilities to those who contribute to other people also being able to have those capabilities.
As opposed to the essentially totally black box governance model of a random person getting an API token for a corporate AI network, that has massive negative externalities in that those are run on giant server farms that do things like massively run up local/regional power and water usage/costs, where you can safely presume the corpo networks are entirely harvesting all the data you send in to them.
You can be I guess 100% against the entire concept of GenAI, but see my previous point of it's Pandora's Box, you can't uninvent it, its not going to go away because you don't like it and think its bad.
... and to be clear, there are a plethora of valid reasons to be critical of it, legitimate problems.
But, a more practical and effectice way to address those things is to attempt to provide an alternate, more equitable, more transparent paradigm for its use.
I wouldn't.
Look at his face, he's beleaguered and miserable.
Sure, I guess he could be an uncommonly good actor, but I'd say the odds of that are less than 50 50.
Dude looks to be nearly 40, and he's got the retail/customer service ptsd thousand yard empty stare.
Happy divorce in 3 to 8 years!
... Wouldn't there be enough electrical power in this that you might wanna cover that in electrical tape?
I've not jerry rigged an amp before, but I did once build a ramshackle 'home media pc' for some roommates once, out of old spare pc parts i had lying around, using the box their xbox360 came in as a 'case'.
Got a paperclip with some rubberized covering, snipped a bit off the two ends, and then you had to short the right two pins on the ... whatever the socket is that would normally go to the front io panel is, you had to do that to turn it on lol.
Guys, what you need to do to be competetive, to foster competition... is keep using all our products and services.
Setting up a fund to get new people involved, to get some more money to existing software devs who work on comparable products and servicrs that could be expanded and improved?
No no no, thats uh, that's anti-competetive, is what that is.
Mhm.
Yep.
... at the height of their arrogance, the climax of their hubris, they decided that their own spaghetti was so substantial, so impressive, of such bulk, they confused it for divinity; they believed that it could organize and improve itself.
Such was the nature and extent of MicroSlop's trangressions against the very nature of noodles, against those ancient ones who wove together the very fibers of reality itself.
Yeah this is basically:
I failed at running a business, so now I am a contractable advisor / lobbyist.
You'd actually have to be a moron to use such a contractor, but its actually pretty common, because nepotism is more important than competence or innovation in America.
Oh this?
This isn't even from the latest drop, this is old news, this was in an earlier release.
Well we actually don't, because Trump pressured Gallup into no longer doing Presidential favoribility polling.
Harpaxocracy.
Literally, 'rule by rapists' or 'rule by those who violently sieze'.
... i find it to be a bit more cutting and able to be said more venemously than 'pedocracy'.
Holy shit, this fucking guy.
Holy shit you need to calm down.
It wouldn't be. In fact, it would be a lot safer, because there are more eyes on the code. You have to control the code integration authorization process obviously.
Uh.
No.
If you fully open source an entire payment processor app, a competent coder can rather rapidly figure out how to reverse engineer its security mechanisms and then develop exploits and then do fraud and identity theft and money laundering.
Sure, there is 'open source banking/finance' as a movement to open source and standardize various APIs to increase integration of certain segments of banking, but... you can't have a fully open source financial system that goes all the way through all of its security and accounts and such, 100% of it, unless you switch everything over to some kind of crypto currency.
... which has a lot of its own complications and problems.
Okay, I demand it. What now?
Well that's a very silly thing to say, which further showcases that you don't really understand the things you are complaining about / frustrated with.
Well, I have 13 out of 15 games that do not work on Proton, Proton Hotfix and Proton Experimental. And none of them are multiplayer or rootkits.
Which ones?
Whats your hardware?
What even is your actual OS/system setup?
Maybe we could try to troubleshoot them, instead of screaming?
But of course you're the center of the universe, so all you say must be right and universal, my lord? It's impossible for other people to have a different experience and problems with the system, righ
I didn't say any of that, but ok.
See, this is exactly the kind of "IT WAS YOU, MY PROGRAM IS FLAWLESS!"-behaviour of linux users that I was referencing. You're incompetent, ignorant people who can't admit if there is a problem with a program. The bug is/was listed on the project page by the way, but of course you were too fucking lazy to check.
I again didn't say that.
I said I've never had a problem with it, I have not encountered the problem you encountered.
You maybe wanna ... link to bug?
There are lots of programs with lots of ongoing or closed issues and bugs with lots of software.
I can't tell whats going on with your setup and your problem because you're sceaming like a lunatic.
Well, that doesn't mean it's not happening, you incompetent hack. Someone can have a motor failure or a flat tire on his car, while your car still runs fine. Doesn't mean that's the driver's/user's fault.
So again, chill the fuck out, I never said its not happening or didn't happen.
Realize that you're angry and confused and enraged and lashing out at people making neutral statements, because you're attributing meaning to them that is not present.
Like, you're the reason why IT support people have PTSD.
You just said you only use Bazzite. So how would you fucking know whether it works on Linux Mint or not?
No, I didn't.
I said I am using Bazzite right now.
I've been using some kind or another of linux for almost 15 years.
I am by no means an absolute expert on all things linux, but I do have a fair deal of general linux knowledge as well as more specific knowledge with the linux distros and applications I've spent more time using.
I just asked you to actually identify, describe the things that you want to be able to do, that you think are only doable on either Mint or Bazzite.
Maybe there legitimately are some things that are much easier or more difficult to do on one or the other!
I don't know which though, because you are again, extremely hostile, confused, and screaming like a madman.
Yeah, I've heard that "just a few clicks" bit a bit too often from linux users now. I don't want an extra Windows environment.
... ok... then... don't expect to be able to run too much Windows programs/features/content on linux.
You realize that WINE or Proton... are windows environments, on linux, right?
I want the program to fucking work natively.
Badically no .exe or .msi or Windows specific program will run on linux natively.
You... have to set up a windows environment, a set of translation layers, like WINE and Proton or the Soda variant that Bottles uses... to do that.
That you're emphasizing the "proprietary" part just shows how fucking salty you are that it's not integrated into LibreOffice.
No... I am emphasizing that because it is a highly relevant factor in explaining why/how open source software legally cannot freely bundle and distribute other kinds of code that they don't have the IP/Copyright/Patent/Trademark rights to.
I'm sorry, but my law firm uses that font and that's how it is. They're good fonts. Not everything you don't like is bad.
Evidently your law firm doesn't do much work around software IP law.
I also never said the fonts were bad, you just made that up.
Like... yes, what you are describing here, not having out of the box support, in LibreOffice, to open a .docx file and have all the supported fonts, yep, that is a legitimate problem for apparently your intended use case.
Generally, in an office/productivity context, its a good idea to make sure all the stuff you are going to be using frequently is compatible with each other... before you make a significant change over to a different program for a core part of the workflow.
People get paid 6 or 7 figures to determine the best way to go about doing that... I guess you just thought that such due dilligence wasn't a relevant factor for your personal situation.
I would attempt to find a solution for you, but you've already said that it needs to just work natively, or its worthless, and I'm not aware of any solutions to your scenario that just work natively, given the other preferences and constraints you've indicated.
But the linux desktop environment doesn't offer the same native functionality and comfort that I need to switch my main pcs to this OS.
They do, but you're confused and uniformed and very angry, and:
I don't wanna deal with the problems.
You do not want to have to humble yourself and realize how much fundamental, core 'knowledge' you have that is either wrong or missing.
And to be honest: I don't want to deal with people like you who blame every problem with the system or programs on the user. Keep seething. I will switch when I think the time is right.
... Yes... I am the seething one here.
Not the extremely the extremely hostile and confused person.
For a person who works in a law firm, you're shockingly bad at communication and image management.
Huh!
Well TIL, thank you!