Fascinating. Where are the Epstein files?

This is fucked up. I don’t usually jump too hard on the anti-Trump bandwagon (I don’t like the guy but I’m not usually rabid about it) but this really takes the fucking cake.

When CA had wildfires, Canada sent us a ton of help-- a bunch of firefighting aircraft, complete with air crews and ground support. It made a big difference.

We have firefighting aircraft. And my understanding is they are parked on the fucking ground while our friends and neighbors to the north are burning. Meanwhile our so-called leader is hurling insults and threats at our friends, while they are literally on fire.

I love my country, but today I’m ashamed. We are supposed to be better than this. Better neighbors, better humans. It’s pathetic. It’s not us. It shouldn’t be us. We should be better than this, as a nation.

This whole situation is hilarious.
Giving a weapon as a gift to a head of state is an old tradition that goes back to presenting a sword in medieval times. Now Turkiye does it and the first comment half of them have is to promise they are having it neutered.

What has gone so wrong with our society that the idea that a head of state, a person who could kill thousands or millions with policy or with a pen, must promise he isn’t keeping a 6 shot revolver?

Just thank them for the gift and put it on display somewhere. Jeez.

And that is exactly my point.

You think The Expanse would be better if Avasarala was a strong woman leader fighting to make her mark in a male-dominated world? I think not. The whole thing that makes her so great is that she can be herself, by not needing to prove herself worthy she proves herself worthy. Or Bobbie Draper- if she was the GI Jane, struggling to be taken seriously in a male-dominated MMC? No, then the story stops being about a badass woman being badass, and starts being about the men who don’t recognize that badassery. And that’s a MUCH less interesting story. Or Drummer- I’ve not yet read the books but I understand TV-Drummer was a combination of two characters-- after the mutiny on Tycho she’s wounded, someone tries to help her up but she pushes them away, grabs the guys sidearm, blasts the two mutineers, and hobbles off to the infirmary on her own… would that scene be better if someone was saying ‘I guess women can have balls after all’?

No, the way you fight patriarchy, or racism, or homophobia, isn’t to fight patriarchy or racism or homophobia. It’s to show people what happens after patriarchy, racism, and homophobia are defeated, and let people decide that’s the world they want.

The Expanse took great strides to fight a number of prejudices. But never once was it ‘woke’.

due to the complex storytelling of earlier series, there’s a large contingent of the fanbase that didn’t realise their progressive nature, and are objecting to how it’s woke now.

Hard disagree.

People are criticizing 'woke’ness- you’re assuming that’s idiots who don’t want to see progressive storylines but somehow didn’t notice that Uhura was a black officer when it was assumed black people couldn’t do much more than cook and clean.

I think the reality is that people are happy to take progressive storylines, but people strongly resent the specific combination of progressive storylines delivered ham-fisted which one might call ‘wokeness’.

I’m saying that for myself too. I am STRONGLY in favor of inclusion. I have NO problem seeing any race, gender, sexual orientation, etc of character on screen, and I want to see all groups represented fairly.

A great example of that was The Expanse. It’s part of the overall series plot that since humans went to space, former national borders no longer applied much so cultures mixed together. So you get this major disconnection between name ethnicity and physical appearance ethnicity (IE, Japanese guy with a French name, Black character with a Japanese name, etc) and nobody bats an eye. One of the first plots revolves around a man and his husband who are going to retire together and nobody gives a shit they’re gay. Like it’s not even brought up, it’s just ‘me and my husband are going to retire on Mars’ and this is treated as a perfectly normal thing that a man of advanced years would say.

Like myself, I bet you’d find a lot of the same people unhappy at ‘wokeness’ in Trek have NO problem with The Expanse- because it’s not woke, it’s inclusive.

Now full disclosure- I’ve not actually seen any of the new Trek- didn’t have Paramount+ until my partner wanted to watch Landman and nothing I heard about any of the new stuff made it sound like a must-watch. So I’m speaking conceptually on wokeness.

But in my experience, wokeness is pretty much the same no matter who’s writing it or in what venue. It’s NOT the same as inclusion.

BTW- if you haven’t watched The Expanse I highly encourage you to do so…

But that’s just it. Pushing progressive ideas through ham-fisted storytelling is the wokeness people complain about.
It is also when these things are blatant. Original Star Trek was progressive not because it showed a black person’s struggle for equality, it was progressive because it showed black people as equal.
A perfect example is DS9’s lesbian kiss. The short version, Trill are a joined species consisting of a humanoid host with a standard lifespan, combined with a very long-lived symbiote that can live for many host lifetimes. The resulting personality is thus a blend of the host and the symbiote.
In this specific episode, there is a rule in Trill society that if two Trill are romantically involved, that relationship has to end when either of the symbiotes move to a new host. The explanation is otherwise two symbiotes would just stay together forever through multiple hosts and never grow or learn. Anyway, one of the show’s main characters is a Trill female and in this episode encounters another female carrying the symbiote her symbiote was once married to. So this is a forbidden romance they are both tempted to. It’s explained that the previous relationship one of them was in a male host and the other one a female host. Now they are both in female hosts, and this is not brought up even once. The fact that they are both women is not even mentioned. It is completely and totally ignored.

THAT is a non-woke progressive presentation of the idea.

It’s not trying to get the audience to empathize with the black person who can’t sit in front of the bus, it’s just showing the black person sitting in front of the bus and making it not a big deal.

OP is right on the money.

I had read plenty of stuff about bidets but it always seemed weird to have a machine shoot water up my ass. Then I bought a house that came with a nice one. I was converted almost instantly.

Now traveling sucks because no hotels or public bathrooms have them, and there’s nothing quite like the feeling of being actually clean.

Hmm Are you wedded to that particular Mac address? If not, shut down the VM, delete the virtual Network card, then make a new virtual Network card. Copy paste the Mac of that new card into pfsense with the static mapping, and fire up the VM. See what happens.

If that doesn’t work, I remember something it was possible for proxmox to do some kind of routed Network system. To investigate that, delete all static mappings, fire up the VM, and just look at what Mac address it shows getting the DHCP lease. Is it the one that shows as being assigned to the VM?

Yeah this still sounds very much like what I had happen. pfSense tries really hard to hang on to that old random dhcp lease sometimes.

Don’t worry about ARP- that just shows what currently exists.

You might try turn off the vm, delete the static mapping, then delete the DHCP lease in status - dhcp leases, then add the static mapping again and turn the vm back on.

Also on pfSense check /var/dhcpd/var/db/dhcpd.leases . Chances are your VM is in there. Turn off VM, stop DHCP service on pfSense, delete lease from that file, restart DHCP service, check static mapping, turn on VM.
Let me know if that works…

I think you have a PFsense problem not a proxmox problem.

I have encountered something similar to this in the past with PF sense. What fixed it for me is shut down the machine in question, let the DHCP lease show offline in PF sense, then use that very line on the status - DHCP leases page to assign the static IP address to it. Then when I booted it back up it worked.

Also copy and paste the MAC address right out of the DHCP leases table if you are adding it manually. I believe it may be case sensitive.

One note of caution- pyrethrin is good stuff and is generally relatively natural as it is derived from flowers. However it can be toxic to cats. So don’t douse your clothes in the stuff and then go cuddle with Mr Mittens.

I’d like to see the end of software patents, which IMHO are a much bigger problem than copyright.

You make a good point with the exact text bit though. It would certainly put the AI company on the defensive if the author of that original GPL snippet decided to go after openai etc for copyright infringement and license violation. I’d actually kinda like to see that happen.

This brings up an interesting question with AI

If I, as a human, read a piece of Open source code it solves a problem in a unique and new way, and then I myself write my own closed source code that solves the problem in the same way, I have not violated a license. The license is for the code itself, not a patent for the specific way the code solves the problem. And since the code in the closed source product is written by me and not copy pasted from the open source project, I have not violated the license per

So what about AI? If you train the AI on a piece of code, and it outputs the same or similar code, do we treat that as if the human copy pasted the code? Or do we treat it as if the human used what they learned from the first program and wrote something similar?

There is already an AI company taking advantage of this. They advertise that that if you want to use open source code in a closed source product, you hire them-- their AI will parse through the open source code and spit out a list of specifications that is specifically not code. Another AI on a completely different system that has never had access to the open source code will then take that specification and spit out program code that is functionally identical and does the exact same thing but is a completely new creation. The result is that you essentially rewrite the open source code but without the copyleft restrictions.

This is going to be an issue that laws and courts will have to address. Especially if, in your example, the code produced by the AI was actually identical to the GPL quake code. Because while a human copying the functionality is never going to write the exact same code line by line, the machine might be.

Here’s the thing- kids should ‘know their way around computers’. But an iPad DOESN’T do that.

I think you might appreciate this blog post: Kids can’t use computers… and this is why it should worry you IMHO this is worth the time to read it.

Consider the tech that was available in the 2000s and early 2010s. There was a lot of innovation, but if you wanted to make it work you had to figure it out. For example- okay you bought a computer, want Internet? You have to find and hire an ISP, make sure your computer has an Ethernet port (adding one if it doesn’t), and hook it up. Want to use two computers at once? You need a router, it’s on you to select, purchase, and configure this thing. Want to get email on your PalmPilot? You gotta figure out your POP3/IMAP and SMTP server settings. Computer not working? Better look up error codes or reinstall Windows.

The result was that ‘digital natives’ who truly understood general purpose computers not just on a superficial operator level but on a technician level.

Then we decided to make it simple. Want a computer? Plug it in, it Just Works. Want to get online? Go down to the Apple store and plunk down $400 you’ve got an iPad and you’re online.
Result is the ‘digital natives’ are just skilled operators, and haven’t the slightest clue what’s going on.
Now for what they know, they ARE good with it. I was once in a car with such a kid, and there was some strange scene playing out on the sidewalk with an obviously drunk guy. Kid videoed this on the iphone. I joked that when we get home we should get some music and make a meme video. Kid goes head down, 45 seconds later comes up and shows me it’s been edited into a publish-ready video with a title and background music. But ask that kid where to find a filesystem and you’d probably get an answer like ‘in the drawer under my teacher’s desk’.

My point is- I don’t think a kid should have an ipad, I think they should have an experience like early 2000s-2010s kids had. No plug and play devices. Instead things that if they want to make it work they have to figure it out themself.
Maybe the answer is some kind of raspberry pi based system but give it to them as a bag of parts and they have to assemble it themself into some kind of cyberdeck type setup, load an OS onto it (for this they get a blank laptop with an OS install stick, they have to install it themself to make it work enough to flash the Pi SD card).

Maybe if Linux phones start to be a thing, the answer becomes give the kid the phone but with the memory wiped so they have to image it themself in order to make it work…

Or just give the kid a flip phone (feature phone, not foldable smartphone)- it can text and communicate and call 911 and that’s all you NEED.

MIL sounds insufferable and toxic AF-- even if you are a batshit crazy Luddite (although the Luddites may not have been so crazy, but I digress…) Even if you are a nut, it’s still your fucking kid, not hers. And that means she has no right to make parenting decisions.

You ever read Fahrenheit 451? This reminds me of the guy’s wife Mildred, who’s obsessing over the stupid brain dead TV drama and she wants to replace all 4 walls of a room with TVs to watch the show in surround. And the highlight of her character’s experience is when she goes interactive and they’re asking her if their party should be in the pink room or the blue room. Meanwhile she can’t possibly understand why her husband doesn’t care about any of this.
Your MIL sounds like Mildred.

TLDR: Kansas City has a weird setup where the police department is paid for by the city but reports to a committee that’s mostly appointed by the state governor. A statewide ballot initiative passed that requires Kansas City to spend a certain % of their yearly budget on police, even though both the city mayor and the residence don’t want to spend that.

Yeah the rote memorization and ‘teach the test’ has to go. Roll curriculum back to what it was pre No Child Left Behind. Especially the brain dead policy of never holding kids back a grade no matter what. It’s just rubber stamping the kid for next year and eventually they get so far behind they’ve got no chance.

I love mobile tech. I’ve been using it for years, I’ve advocated for its use, recommended it to others, helped many set it up. And as much as I really HATE to say it, I was wrong.

To be fair- the problem isn’t the tech, the problem is the applications- social media ‘scrolling’ apps and short form video to be specific. But these days those apps are basically impossible to separate from phones and iPads.

And when the asshole algorithm based attention seekers (Meta, TikTok, Google, etc) came around, I and those like me had given them all a direct mainline IV into peoples eyeballs. We had good intentions- we never wanted mobile tech to become this. We never saw it coming. But we should have.

Unfortunately @Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world, at this point I think your answer is the only one we’ve got left. I’ve seen what passes for ‘kid friendly’ on an iPad- bright colors, happy music, think CocoMelon in an app. It pushes every dopamine button in a young brain. Or worse, short form videos- we let our kids spend 6 hours a day watching 30 second videos, and then wonder why they can’t focus in class for more than 45 seconds. Yeah there’s no porn, but it might as well be digital crack cocaine for the brain.

So yeah, at this point I think for our own good we need to roll this back like a failed update. Go back to dead-tree books and textbooks, or at the very least, downgrade to E-Ink or monochrome LCD so the screen is less engaging than the real world, not more.

Finally, and most importantly, we need to re-evaluate our relationship with boredom. Boredom sucks, but it also leads to inspiration and creativity. Scrolling apps essentially eliminate boredom, because however much time you have to kill, there’s always more content to fill it. And I think that’s a bad thing- we need a little boredom.

This goes beyond buying a printer. Most people buy a printer and then use it for years. I believe it’s necessary to get away from Bambu entirely.

That means no maker world. That means aggressively discourage others from buying bambu or using maker world. That means calling out online creators who promote Bambu or any of their products. And yeah, it means call out designers who put their STLs on MakerWorld.

I believe it is necessary to send a very strong message that Bambu that does not and will not own the 3D printing community.

SirEDCaLot

This exactly.

I looked into setting Plex up a few years ago. It installed, and then starts talking about making a cloud account. I don’t want to talk to a cloud I just want to organize my own shit on my own network. Why does that need a cloud?

I uninstalled it. Everything I’ve seen since, and I mean EVERYthing, tells me I dodged a bullet. Not once have I read an article that makes me wish I’d continued the install.

Microsoft one would be:

Microsoft: Microsoft Copilot