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getting high and eatin’ cyber-chicken.

Situationists never die, they’re just remixed.

Have you heard of Monsieur Guy Debord?

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Asceticism has never been much of a thing in Christianity.

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Yes, waiter, I’ll have an order of “Deez Nuts” with a glass of your finest merlot.

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My leg! I can’t feel my third leg!

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I can’t disappoint anyone

I mean, I disappoint myself regularly.

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So shouldnt your username be Xebeche?

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Using imfglip and linking to it instead of hosting the image somewhere (Lemmy? Imgbb?) definitely makes you one of the baddies.

https://media.tenor.com/Rac0Uf_ziDwAAAAC/evil-are-we-the-baddies.gif

Also there’s several variations of this meme that you could have used that don’t use a violent abusers image. Like a similar one with Geordi LaForge from Star Trek.

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I honestly haven’t had this much fun online since AOL charged by the hour.

It really feels like Lemmy is just a small slice of the internet made for millennials and maybe some younger generation X.

EDIT: lmao I can’t believe someone was so butthurt that this whole ass post got removed.

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Oh I’m sure there’s plenty of Gen Zers here, it just the humor for memes seems to mainly fall squarely in the millennial style of humor. Also, when I reference media from my youth, I get lots of upvotes from people who obviously grew up with the same stuff.

I’ve seen a handful of gen z “deep fried” type memes where the memes get really weird and deeply self referential, but I see far more of the snarky millennial style humor than the obscure meta gen z humor.

EDIT: Also, when I post music videos. I tend to get a lot more love for mildly accessible late 90’s/early 2000’s music than I do for any music that was released in say, the last ten years. A lot of people my age have been reticent to experience new music, but that happens in every generation, as well.

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I think what’s probably filtering it is that it’s designed like the internet of yesteryear. It mimics early reddit and the forums which came before. It speaks to millennials in what we’re looking for in social media (the stuff that feels comfortable and familiar, the stuff we grew up with).

I think gen z in many ways is just as tech savvy, but more for understanding the nuances of modern applications. The user interface for things like Snapchat or Tiktok take me a while to get used to, and I was never a fan of endlessly scrolling video (or vertically filmed video, dear GOD), and yet to young people, those things are a snap and more easy to navigate than what we find easy to navigate. I learned to edit media in Final Cut Pro and Photoshop and there’s gen z kids blowing me out of the water in over-the-top production-value by using off-the-shelf apps and just their phone. It’s kind of wild how accessible media creation has gotten. I learned mine literally working at a television station, streaming kids learn it from studying online.

I think gen z is probably mostly just young and hasn’t become as jaded and cynical as we have yet about things like advertising or algorithmically manicured social feeds. They don’t see a problem with them yet because they haven’t been alive long enough to have enough bad experiences to turn them away from such systems. Even for our generation, we’re in the minority: most people our age bracket still use Facebook. We’re like the weird kids, we never stopped being weird.

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Fuck, no wonder we all just… understand each other. It’s just one big table now.

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Oh no! The audacity to show your real emotions (or lack of them) among your coworkers!

Can’t you just fake having a happy little life like all the other worker drones? We’re a family here, and that means suffering for our sake.

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As an American. I’m so, so sorry. It’s a plague over here. It’s definitely a cultural thing. The ways the US functions at it’s core demands it, in its hyper-competitive work landscape. Thankfully, a lot of Americans understand how fake it is and hate it, too. It tends to mostly present itself in more “successful” individuals in the States.

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They did, but Lemmy said “That image is too large!”

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Why does Shawn Fain look so much like Joel Hodgson?

I keep half expecting Crow and Tom Servo to show up.

'Game of Thrones' creator and other authors sue ChatGPT-maker OpenAI for copyright infringement (apnews.com)

NEW YORK (AP) — John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R.R. Martin are among 17 authors suing OpenAI for “systematic theft on a mass scale,” the latest in a wave of legal action by writers concerned that artificial intelligence programs are using their copyrighted works without permission.

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He’s just angry ChatGPT could write a better ending to Game of Thrones than he did.

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I think it is probably more about how Books3 is and was always the full content of a torrent site for books.

Fair Use is all fine and good but its very telling that these companies are happy to justify piracy when its convenient for them and then oppose it when it is not.

It is rather hypocritical and there is also questions whether Fair Use can apply to a non-human. People generating art and text with it are in a weird grey area, because on one hand it can be argued they are using a tool, but on the other, the results are so random: how much influence does the user actually have over what they create? If the answer is “not much influence” then the tool is creating the art, not the person. At that point, is it really reasonable to argue “fair use?”

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Bibliotik, the site Books3 is from, regularly updates and has torrents to software specifically for removing the copy protection from ebooks.

I wonder if part of the lawsuit is about the fact that most of the books on Bibliotik had their copy protection removed before being uploaded.

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Jesus just go back to calling it Riot.IM the name keeps getting stupider and more corporate.

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I mean, they haven’t had that much trouble. Last I checked they had portions of the French and German governments using Matrix as a secure messenger. (To be fair, those both came after the rename.)

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Google is sitting on the “but they’re contractors!” angle because it makes it easier for them.

Why?

Because once the union does collective bargaining with their actual employer, Cognizant, the company will have almost no recourse but to increase fees to Google for the contract work.

Once this happens, Google just says “Oops, you’re shit out of luck” and then hires a whole new company of contracted workers for the same work, for cheaper.

Google purposefully uses this type of structure to ensure they never have to pay more, even when collective bargaining with unions does happen. Because then they can just shitcan the whole company and claim costs were too high. They certainly won’t break their contract, but you can bet your ass when time comes to renew it, Google will have found someone new to take their place.

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No poop for you!

Man, what a poop nazi.

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What makes a man turn neutral? A lust for gold? Power?

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The jobs we tip and the jobs we don’t really don’t make a whole lot of sense, honestly.

Fifteen years ago, working master control at a small local television station, someone called in just furious that a baseball game their TV schedule said would be on was not on. It was a TV station, ads paid the bills, but the person felt really entitled to baseball over free over-the-air television. This wasn’t the only time this happened, but this has always been the one I’ve remembered most vividly, because the guy was just so angry, like he’d had his whole day planned around this.

I remember thinking about tipping jobs at the time, and how I was earning federal minimum wage to do this relatively skilled job (edit: not saying waiting/chefing are unskilled), and people were harassing me because the wrong thing was on the TV. With all due respect, I was master control, I literally had the finalized schedule in front of me. Nobody was tipping me when the thing they wanted on TV was on. I mean, I didn’t expect it since ads paid for everything, but the entitlement of some people for something they essentially didn’t pay for was so weird to me, and made me think of the disparity.

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Left side has an hourly rate that’s almost always less than minimum wage. This is allowed because of the assumed tip income.

This part depends on the state, thankfully. Seems phased out on most of the West coast, to my knowledge. I know it’s still pretty widespread in the south.

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I think it would be interesting to compare these reviews to the same publications reviews of Cyberpunk 2077 in it’s pre-release review period.

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Pretty sure that’s an April Fools thread.

EDIT: Looks like the original CP2077 review thread got nuked. There’s a follow-up from a few days after it released.

Original megathread: old.reddit.com/r/…/cyberpunk_2077_review_thread/

Post-release megathread: reddit.com/…/cyberpunk_2077_review_thread_2_postl…

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Yacht Rockerman, Shock Jockerman, and Trick Shotterman are pretty high up there, too.

Also, the one he never used because I made it up myself: Snot Flickerman.

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Are you ready to go through it again soon?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem

The year 2038 problem (also known as Y2038, Y2K38, Y2K38 superbug or the Epochalypse) is a time formatting bug in computer systems that represent times after the time 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038.

The problem exists in systems which measure Unix time – the number of seconds elapsed since the Unix epoch (00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970) – and store it in a signed 32-bit integer. The data type is only capable of representing integers between −(231) and 231 − 1, meaning the latest time that can be properly encoded is 231 − 1 seconds after epoch (03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038). Attempting to increment to the following second (03:14:08) will cause the integer to overflow, setting its value to −(231) which systems will interpret as 231 seconds before epoch (20:45:52 UTC on 13 December 1901). The problem is similar in nature to the year 2000 problem.

A lot of old PC hardware simply couldn’t scale to modern needs. On the plus side, things like virtualization and 64-bit architecture are helping solve issues like this.

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The system requirements have also been kicked through the roof for that update. Pffft, optimization, never heard of it!

Upgrading your system to play the update isn’t “free.”

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Got a copy of just the watermark?

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India Penis Ale

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IP-AI?

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I mean, I’m against pre-orders but why TotK specifically?

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Valid critique. I felt like it really built on the first game in positive ways in gameplay and story. They basically hid the existence of the Depths until the games release. I spent very little time building stuff, and a lot of time fucking around in the Depths.

For a game existing in the same world as the previous title, I think it worked well for what it was. Also, far fewer people complained about Far Cry 4/Far Cry Primal having the exact same map, slightly tweaked, so the complaints about it seemed a little confusing for me.

However, I would agree that while I think it’s bigger than a DLC, it really shouldn’t have been $70 brand new, especially when they had no plans to make DLC for it.

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Yeah pretty sure neither of those things is “new.”

Even during Americas best years, in the aftermath of the New Deal, it was nearly impossible to imprison rich people.

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Not even make fun of, it was meant to be an educational tool to show how monopolies function.

You know how by like 2/3rds the way through the game there is already a clear winner and the rest of the game is just them slowly accumulating wealth and fucking over everyone else? That’s just real life monopolization playing out in a board game example.

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How would this work.

It wouldn’t.

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None of the original creators are still involved.

It’s weird to celebrate 20 years when its been less time than that since the hand-off.

It was never really the same site afterwards.

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Short answer: No.

Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooo.

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me_irl

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Matrix is slowly growing to feature parity with Discord and looks and functions a lot like Discord, which may make the switch over to it easier for some people.

I understand why Signal dropped SMS support, but that’s literally the only reason I had it, and without the SMS support, I don’t actually have more than one other person that uses it so it became pointless to keep using.

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Actually, I don’t know why I had forgotten this already.

Link: DEF CON 31 - The Internals of Veilid, a New Decentralized Application Framework - DilDog, Medus4

Veilid. I watched this DEF CON presentation on it. I remember asking myself “How would this differ from Matrix and why do we need a competing standard?”

But actually, after watching, I do realize that in certain ways it seems more elegant and decentralized than even Matrix. It’s really more focused for general application development, but that means chat can be developed on the framework.

So maybe put this on your radar as well while it’s being developed. It certainly has jumped to my attention after watching this video.

veilid.com

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The power of Christ compels him!

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and he’s in for a paddlin.

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*throws walker into the crowd, can suddenly dance

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You mean the one from the original instruction manual? It was pretty tame, just confusing.

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I feel like “memes about things I don’t get” should be more prominent because I don’t understand memes because I’m old and my eyes are bad.

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