Signal is fine for almost everyone unless you're truly doing dangerous work in a truly oppressive state.

I'm so tired of everyone telling others not to use signal because it uses phone numbers. Everyone in here acting like they're mr. Robot or something.

Anonymity is not the same as privacy. Privacy is good enough for me

New text to speech models are incredible these days...

Again, we shouldnt replace actual voice actors for main dialog. But for generating thousands of lines of background chatter (which nobody would have time or resources to make anyway) LLM writing paired with text to speech could really help flesh out a living game world

I dont think LLMs will or should replace properly written dialogue.

Where they would shine is just generating inane background chatter. So instead of hearing an NPC say "i took an arrow to the knee", or "jesus christ be praised! Henry's come to see us!" 300 times, an LLM could generate some short one liners that are a bit more dynamic. It would go a long way to making the world feel more alive.

Newer versions of apt now have coloured text showing what will be installed (green) and what will be REMOVED (red)

Handy feature for someone like me who also makes mistakes

Not excusing the behaviour but I'd bet it's the amount of traffic people ~~often sit through~~ directly contribute to

You're not stuck in traffic... You are the traffic

Where's dave chappelle in all of this? Isnt this in his backyard? Isnt he a trump supporter now?

AI is fine if you know what you're doing and can correct the mistakes it makes (i.e. use it as fancy code completion)

I'm not a developer and i havent touched code for over 10 yrs, but when i heard about my company pushing AI tools on the devs, i thought exactly what you said. It should be a tool for experienced devs who already know what they're doing....

Lo and behold they did the opposite... They fired all the senior people and pushed AI on the interns and new grads.... and then expected AI to suddenly make the jr devs work like the expensive Sr devs they just fired...

Wtf

If buying isnt owning then piracy isnt stealing

Libraries would need more funding to operate extended hours...

Then people would complain about gov't spending and taxes. Then we would privatize the libraries

This is why we cant have nice things

Thats ok... Idiotic hiring practices will filter out the worst companies

I'm not a dog breed expert, but...

The other day an agressive dog that looked like a pitbull, suddenly lunged at me barking loudly... It was about 10ft away from me but still scared the shit out of me

The owner yanked the dog back on its leash and i thought, "FML, the only thing that saved me from a deadly mauling was a 3/4 inch wide piece of nylon with a metal clip the guy bought off amazon for $5"

The worst question from newbies is: "whats the best debian-based distro?"

DEBIAN IS THE BEST DEBIAN-BASED DISTRO. JUST USE DEBIAN