Fuckers can try. I wasn’t directly involved in this but I grew to know personally David Arthur Johnston over (?) a decade ago who spent years in Victoria viscerally protesting right-to-sleep laws/anti-laws and finally won. Due to his tireless efforts, hunger strikes in jail, and community support he helped pave the way for homless people to pitch and sleep in tents for the night on any public property.

Don’t like seeing poor people on public lands? Okay… be part of the solution.

That was his message. And here we are still working on the questions involved, and solutions. Good. As long as the convo is still active and we haven’t given up.

Thank you now I feel like we cancelled the whole viewing experience out for each other somehow.

I knew I shouldn’t watch it, and I did anyhow. And I wish I hadn’t.

Yeah I tried an @ and then some markdown and then just went hrrumphsend. Who’d have thought it’s a bang?

Anyway now I know.

I’m going to pop into Boost’s community and suggest they hardcode it in the edit-post modal or something for us lazy people. 🤣

Thanks. I tried to look up how to format it but failed. Will fix now.

Literally

I just read something the other day that a single query like this one burns enough electricity to charge an iPhone 100 times or whatever the hell. It sounds like hyperbole but I think that number is close.

This is how humankind ends. A guy asking a fucking computer to validate his insecurity infinite times. This is how ai ultimately destroys us.

jfc I just noticed the account name 🤦

!thepoliceproblem@lemmy.world

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Classy. It’s funny they’re trying to “reach AGI” with all this shit but they code the bots with the equivalent of Jordan Peterson’s take on how emotionality is a sickness. Well plaid (SIC).

Localsend has a config named ‘auto-accept’ or whatever it’s called, in advanced settings.

Jaimie Johnson who filmed the documentary Born Rich (and its sequel) pissed off enough of his family and peers that he was almost thrown out of high society for exposing its underbelly. He also lives a pretty normal life echewing his family fortune which is pretty dope. Might be along the lines of what you’re looking for. Good films either way.

ETA check out The One Percent as well, his follow-up from the first film.

100%. I worked with an old-timer Newfoundlander who delighted in telling me that in the ought-sorties when he was a teen he passed out in a dinghy on the dock after a night of drinking and woke up at sea as an accidental stow-away on some merchant ship. He hid as long as he could but eventually got caught and it was some ship/crew from the eastern hemisphere and (to hear him tell it) threatened him with going overboard unless he got to work in the galley so that’s what he did. He said he sailed with them all over the world for two or three years before landing in Canada again and decided to take a stroll around his former community to learn that his family had assumed him dead, had the whole funeral or whatever, case closed in their minds. I asked him if he looked up his people to let them know and he was like fuck that shit I hated all of them with a passion! so he went back out to sea and did that most of his life. He was hilarious.

It’s fucked that natpo takes an objectively good thing and tries to stoke fear with it. Oh no! Whatever will we do without cdn companies profiting off of slave labor!

Fuckin anyways.

Are you talking about America lol

I also use adblocking at multiple levels so it wasn’t a huge thing for me (been blocking Pocket and other bullshit for years at the dns and network levels) but I still feel like Mozilla witnessed Google going for broke with killing mv2 and inline ads on YouTube and decided wellll our existing users probably wouldn’t notice or care if we slipped in an opt-out fuckery… But we did. Immediately.

For any browser trying to sell itself as “the only privacy browser on the market” this was a dumb fucking move by any metric. Like why not just openly admit we’re going with the Brave browser model?

No it’s not. But if we’re hoping Firefox will be better in some way we’d expect more from them. Wouldn’t we?

Should probably add this info about Mozilla funding almost exclusively from Google but at least they haven’t disabled mv2 extensions yet. Even though they put in a fucking opt-out ad telemetry setting in recent releases.

Granted, you’re using a home setup. But you could still consider setting up the VPN on a central AP and repeating your hotspot through it to make everything going in and out of your network encrypted and more secure. None of your actual traffic (besides what your phone is emitting) will be in the clear, which is better than nothing.

Almost any router with VPN and repeater options will accomplish this if you don’t wanna root your phone. I’ve flashed OpenWRT on the equivalent of router potatoes over the years. It’s pretty straightforward.