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The hard to swallow answer here is this:

Dating apps, like all apps, are majorly funded by giant companies, because there's no realistic path to scaling up from 100 users to millions of users without a bunch of investment money.

Say I want to create a new, decent app that takes us back to the days of stuff like early OkCupid which was smartly done and actually worked okay.

Well, if it gets any amount of quick adoption, I'll be going from really low costs to astronomical hosting costs almost overnight. Often, the "checks haven't cleared" as they say and while you've technically been paid, it's all waiting in escrow or bank transfers or what fucking have you and you have giant bills falling due and no way to pay them

That's why this happens to every single app under the sun. They're left making tough decisions and selling out to unscrupulous people.

Because what no one wants to admit is that the funding model to how to make almost anything function on the internet at-scale where millions of people use it is fundamentally broken.

I mean fuck, isn't that why we're on the federated splinter-net where people can justify the costs of their small corner of federation, easing the overall load of financial demand?

Corporate internet is broken and they're chasing ridiculously thin numbers to constantly be making more.

So, you'd probably need some kind of federated solution to not have it be destroyed by corporatized enshittification.

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Don't deny me a GIF of my man Rodney!

https://i.giphy.com/ki1FvyBIf9JqECgLQr.gif

Is my girlfriend gaslighting me? (Edit: No, she is not gaslighting me, but may have some other issues.)

Today, before taking an Uber home, she sent me a text wanting me to be downstairs on the street to greet her as the Uber arrives. I read it and told her that yes, I'll be there. I didn't notice any further text because I was in the middle of something....

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Yeah, this is seriously manipulative. I actually wouldn't consider it gaslighting per se, which is a much more specific thing where a person is trying to make you think you're losing your mind. This is just bog-standard manipulative behavior.

As someone who is in a long-term relationship with a partner who struggled with these kind of issues when we met...

She has to be willing to understand this is a problem, and even if her fears are justified, she needs help, because berating you and being manipulative by asking super loaded questions (especially in the middle of the night, wtf. she needs some work on boundaries, too) is in no way shape or form a normal or healthy aspect of any functioning relationship.

Be ready to accept that sometimes things like manipulative behavior come from things like fears of abandonment. It doesn't make them okay, but it should give us pause and consider that people aren't doing it because they want to hurt us. It took me a while to understand my partner was doing things that pushed me away because she was scared of losing me, because it's totally backwards in my mind. It just means you have to consider the possibility that this isn't because she's selfish, but actually potentially dealing with other kinds of mental health issues. She still needs to work on it, and she still needs help for it, but please have a little compassion.

Be willing to go to counseling with her if you want to try to make it work, but she has to be able to see what she has done, show sincere regret, and want to change. It can take time, and everyone deserves that chance, but only if they're willing to put in the work.

If she's unable or unwilling to accept how hurtful and manipulative what she did was, and that she at the very least needs counseling, then you need to consider ending it.

EDIT: I should be clear that "putting in the work" means up to and including: getting a mental health diagnosis, getting medication, getting a psychiatrist, getting a counselor whose field is focused on helping people with specifically this diagnosis, and then working through their problems.

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    Step 1. Get a desktop instead.

    Step 2. ?????

    Step 3. Profit

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    Gender and sexual identity are way more fluid than people want to give credit for.

    So looking for a "final answer" at any point in your life might be biting off more than you can chew.

    I'm a cis-man, but I'm personally with the Gender Anarchy folks. We're stuck in weird gender roles that literally don't matter anymore and maybe androgyny or things like it truly are the way forward.

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    And sadly clearly does not think voice actors deserve the same protections as film actors.

    Their union deals were a win for everyone but voice actors it seems.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2024/01/10/video-game-voice-actors-criticize-sag-aftra-over-agreement-with-ai-company/

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    Oh no, just like if you were actually hired to do a red team simulation for a business! They would have strict rules of engagement and certain systems would potentially be defined as off-limits.

    How terrible of Hackthebox to *checks notes... promote industry standard Red Team practices.

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    Like... which scene groups or individuals?

    Don't really have a particular favorite, although Subsplease is pretty snappy for anime if you want it as-it-releases.

    Otherwise, for groups focused on US/UK/European media, whatever's got the quality range I'm seeking and preferably a season pack all from the same group/same quality.

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    Everyone needs a Gary in their life.

    I'm happy to be the Gary for my less technically inclined friends. Their lack of knowledge would get me kicked off private trackers if I invited them so they could curate their own collections, so it's just easier to be the guy who makes it easy for them.

    Be like Gary, sharing is caring.

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    I guess hard drives and SSDs don't count as physical somehow?

    Even on a streaming service, the files are stored physically somewhere.

    All media is still, technically, physical media.

    Even when you stream it locally and don't have access to the file itself, it physically lives in your RAM for the duration of the stream.

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    Still there for the duration. Being encrypted just makes it akin to being inside a locked box. Being in RAM is like it being transferred in an escrow service.

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    Thanks, my point is simply just that data is still physical, no matter what.

    A document locked inside a box that I personally don't have a key to doesn't make the document inside of it non-existent, just inaccessible to me, personally.

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    Is it that or is it that the laws are selectively applied on little guys and ignored once you make enough money? It certainly looks that way. Once you've achieved a level of "fuck you money" it doesn't matter how unscrupulously you got there. I'm not sure letting the big guys get away with it while little guys still get fucked over is as big of a win as you think it is?

    Examples:

    The Pirate Bay: Only made enough money to run the site and keep the admins living a middle class lifestyle.

    VERDICT: Bad, wrong, and evil. Must be put in jail.

    OpenAI: Claims to be non-profit, then spins off for-profit wing. Makes a mint in a deal with Microsoft.

    VERDICT: Only the goodest of good people and we must allow them to continue doing so.

    The IP laws are stupid but letting fucking rich twats get away with it while regular people will still get fucked by the same rules is kind of a fucking stupid ass hill to die on.

    But sure, if we allow the giant companies to do it, SOMEHOW the same rules will "trickle down" to regular people. I think I've heard that story before... No, they only make exceptions for people who can basically print money. They'll still fuck you and me six ways to Sunday for the same.

    I mean, the guys who ran Jetflicks, a pirate streaming site, are being hit with potentially 48 year sentences. Longer than a lot of way more serious fucking crimes. I've literally seen murderers get half that.

    But yeah, somehow, the same rules will end up being applied to us? My ass. They're literally jailing people for it right now. If that wasn't the case, maybe this argument would have legs.

    But AI companies? Totes okay, bro.

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    We'll see how this fares in the face of Chevron being rescinded. Will they even recognize FCC authority to do this?

    Pretty sure all new rules like this must be made my congress now...

    Hoo boy we are fucked.

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    I don't know, crustpunks were a real thing.

    What's preventing you from exploring hypothetical options like Furrypunk, Meatpunk, Tallowpunk, PharmacyPunk, Leatherpunk, or Candlejackpu----

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    Brian Posehn: Dude you're both wrong, it's CORE.

    Mr. Show, almost always relevant.

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    Convenience and security is a balance.

    Everything that is convenient is not secure.

    Everything that is secure is not convenient.

    Crypto that is "easy" screams "these people will lose all their money because it isn't secure."

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    Oh agreed, wholeheartedly. I really just meant that if you're going to push crypto to consumers, giving them nonsecure options is pretty bad.

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    And this is literally why people like myself hide my cancer from my employer.

    US discrimination laws are a fucking joke.

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    but do you know about the 3 shells?

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    1. Install GFCI plugs. [^1]

    2. Buy a small, appropriately sized UPS.

    3. Profit?

    [^1]: GFCI plugs can be installed without a ground wire. https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/225370/i-live-in-an-older-home-without-ground-wiring-is-it-safe-to-install-3-prong-gfc

    Disclaimer: Am not actually electrician. Just know this about GFCI from electrician friends and pointing to a decent explainer.

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    For sure, a fridge is a really bad one to be using on an actual ungrounded GFCI, exactly for the reason of risk of expired food.

    I like my homeserver but if something trips and its offline for a while it's not gonna ruin my day.

    The battery can be recharged eventually unless it's already be discharged many times or it's left alone and dead long enough to kill any ability to recharge it.

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    What's crazy is the cybersecurity teams at big corporations actually hate this because its putting half their security in Microsofts hands. (And their security has been abysmal for a hot minute or more)

    Corporations hate this shit too because they want to be using their internal, domain-controlled users, not Microsoft accounts that pass a ton of trade secrets to Microsoft. Is Microsoft training its AI on your trade secrets? Who knows!

    So Microsoft is literally killing core competencies not just for end-users, but for businesses, too.

    This will convince a lot of businesses the switch to an all Linux internal domain to be worth it, imho.

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    Yes, you have to unplug ethernet AND do the oobe/bypassnro command and reboot.

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    What chached login? This is talking about a fresh install on a clean (or wiped clean) drive.

    Where would this be cached on a brand new PC never connected to the internet?

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    Yeah that has been entirely removed in the Win 11 initial setup. It does not default to local account.

    You literally have to disconnect internet, open a console window, type in oobe/bypassnro and then reboot. Only then will it default to a local account.

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    How are you accomplishing this? Provisioning the PCs to be part of the domain with a Powershell install script during automated setup? Because I was under the impression that this also had become a difficult task with 11. Because a Windows 11 machine doesn't know it's going to be part of the domain until it has been added to the domain. So, the only way I can see that working is like Powershell combined with WDS or something.

    Source: Am small IT

    EDIT: Also, the LTSC version of Windows 11 isn't coming until later in 2024. So I'm very curious how this works with 11 specifically.

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    *smacks forehead

    Ah yes, I forgot about the existence of Entrprise edition. I've just never dealt with a business that paid for such a thing, I guess.

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    just gotta know how to grab it from MS.

    Be a kind soul and share, please and thank you.

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    Shit, I was just looking at massgrave the other day, didn't realize they had direct links. Thanks a bunch.

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    Literally nobody is pretending it wasn't a stunt. They discuss it in the article. It's been used several times.

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    Linux has a BSOD kernel panic screen now too sooooooooo

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    Just a mild burtation.

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    People forget the most important bit. The clapback to Semmelweiss from other doctors was "A doctor's hands are always clean!"

    Humans are irrational fucking idiots and we prove it daily. The number of us who are willing to protect our own in-group over things they don't deserve to be protected over is too damn high.

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    We aren’t even capable of caring for one another

    It's the part that drives me the most wild. We're all stuck on this shitty rock hurtling through space together, literally the bare minimum we could do to make it bearable is to be kind to one another and supportive of one another. We can't even be fucked with bare minimum.

    A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels ( www.npr.org )

    Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels. The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds....

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    You can just assume it is every US company because it is.

    This stuff doesn't happen in a vacuum.

    CEOs talk to each other about this kind of shit and plan together.

    Just like how "AI" has been shoved into fucking everything by everyone even though it is useless and makes a lot of people upset.

    Expect all of them to do it so you don't have a choice and they all did it to "stay competitive with each other."

    Making sure there isn't another option is one hundred percent part of industry plans.

    Just like how trying to replace fast food workers with automation and touch screens has been in the works since the 80's at least. The tech is just finally cheap enough is all.

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    They realize it's a service issue, they're trying to corner the market so that they don't have to care that it's a service issue.

    YouTube pretty much has that market cornered. It would take a lot of capital to start up a viable competitor, especially one that didn't resort to ads and had some other kind of monetization scheme to support the sites existence and pay for all the storage servers.

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    Tonight at 11, Japanese company centers japanese media in its media showcase.

    Top 10 Generative AI Models Mimic Russian Disinformation Claims A Third of the Time, Citing Moscow-Created Fake Local News Sites as Authoritative Sources ( www.newsguardtech.com )

    NewsGuard audit finds that 32% of the time, leading AI chatbots spread Russian disinformation narratives created by John Mark Dougan, an American fugitive now operating from Moscow, citing his fake local news sites and fabricated claims on YouTube as reliable sources....

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    I don't know how many times we have to keep saying this:

    BECAUSE LLMS HAVE NO INTENTION OR ABILITY TO TELL TRUTH FROM FICTION SO WHEN THEY APPEAR CONFIDENT, THEY ARE BULLSHITTING EVEN WHEN THEY ARE CORRECT.

    Even a bullshitter can be correct sometimes, it doesn't make it suddenly not bullshit. Even when LLMs get it right, they're still bullshitting.

    This isn't complicated. They don't think. They have no concept of truth. They just fabricate sentences from previously copied sentences, there is no intention, no thought, no planning, no reflection.

    The groups producing these LLMs are just sourcing the entire internet, they don't care how much of it is lies. There seems to be very little curation going on.

    Anyone who expected anything other than this outcome is an idiot who isn't paying attention.

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    If we survived Tipper Gore's "Explicit Lyrics" warnings on CDs, I think we can survive this.

    Everyone wanted the explicit copy, it made it more desirable.

    But, as a counterpoint, traditional media is just as bad, if not worse, because it is desperately trying to stay relevant by selling fear.

    "If it bleeds it leads" isn't exactly new. Maybe all media needs these warnings.

    WARNING: This media conglomerate is owned by people who have vested interest in profit over truth.

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    If you want a super secure platform for private communication use Matrix for fucks sake, this is a media aggregator and social network.

    Use the appropriate tools for the appropriate use-cases.

    Everything on Mastodon gets publicly posted. Like, what even is this?

    Security and accessibility are always at odds with each other.

    You don't increase security and safety and also increase accessibility. No, by increasing security, you have decreased accessibility.

    Security and accessibility are a balance. If it's easily accessible, it's not secure, if it's secure, it's not easily accessible.

    Never buy .xyz

    I just wanted to post this here because I want to help you all and hurt gen.xyz as much as possible. I had a .xyz domain through njal.la which I used to host jellyfin, homeassistant, and other basic things for friends and family. My domain recently became inaccessible without any notice. After a while of troubleshooting, I found...

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    Cloudflare can still go bad, but its usually for high-capacity users who are using way more than the average. I haven't seen any homeserver users get hit with any trouble, but I've seen a couple small businesses have bad situations with Cloudflare, although it honestly seems like the minority.

    Cloudflare has issues but for most its probably fine.

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    i always have good success with libgen.is

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    People like this are jerks who only share their library with people who already have ultra rare shit. They want to trade rare for rare.

    They think they are special for their collections and their actions are anti-thetical to the entire piracy ethos.

    I would ignore them and keep searching for another source because its unlikely you have anything they will willingly trade for.

    It's dumb and I can't stand those people.

    But it makes me laugh when they have their collections locked up but other people are freely sharing what they have locked up.

    The stuff I don't want to share... I just don't share at all. No reason to make it frustrating.

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    Musk is only second to Trump in never having learned to shut his stupid fucking mouth.

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    No, everything goes in the square hole.

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    Ima be real with you.

    Arguing all masturbation is inherently good isn't any better or morally superior than arguing all masturbation is inherently bad. Extremism is extremism and literally all I was talking about was moderation. If you can't handle someone arguing moderation, it sounds like maybe you really do have a problem.

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    Anyone trying to sell you a cure for something mainstream society tells you is shameful, doubly so.

    Trumpers really took this one and ran with it during COVID with not masking and spitting in people's faces.

    They literally want to hang the people who tried to sell them a cure for something mainstream society told them was shameful, a disease they decided was a "librul hoax."

    ...because guess the fuck what? They were actually, genuinely, acting shamefully. Too bad they had no shame.

    I don't think this as strong of an argument than you think it is. Sometimes mainstream society can be right about an act being shameful.

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