There also seems to be something about the echo chamber that has a weird reinforcing effect. It can become really pathological. People talk about the “reddit hivemind”, but it doesn’t really strike you until see people acting crazy.

One incident that really stuck out for me was a post with a woman holding a sign. I forget what the entire sign said, but the phrase had the word “stupider” in it. I went into the comments, and a ton of people were making fun of her for using that word. Why? Because they thought that it was grammatically incorrect. You’re supposed to say “more stupid”, they said. Well, that’s wrong, and I pointed out to them that it was a word according to any dictionary. I had people arguing with me that the dictionaries were incorrect.

Then there are the AI detectives. These people are fucking insane. It doesn’t matter if you have a statement saying that you don’t use AI. They don’t believe you! They can tell. If they were doing this to my artwork, I would be livid.

Why can’t you comment while on a VPN? I’m on a VPN right now and I’m commenting.

Also, I hate to tell you this, but reddit is the way it is because it’s so popular. If we had the amount of people necessary to make niche communities thrive, it would be just like reddit. Well, at least as far as the people posting and so on. There wouldn’t be any of the weird administrative stuff because it’s run much differently. But the fact that the system is just like reddit’s means that it attracts the same kinds of people and encourages the same kind of behavior.

A what now?

I’m using the fish shell. I checked, and there are no aliases for ls or less. \ls --help | less gives me the same result as ls --help | less.

That doesn’t make any difference.

It’s the same argument for anything AI: “It’s inevitable!”

That seems to be the standard for everything else. Anything generated by AI should have a disclaimer.

A symlink that has been blessed by Richard Stallman.

I did a few tutorials years ago. I realized that the way it did things was different from Photoshop and, in some ways, better. I could appreciate some of the design choices.

The problem is that most people learn PS first and then don’t learn Gimp at all, and then when they find out Gimp doesn’t work like Photoshop, they decide that it sucks.

That’s weird. On F-Droid, it says that it was made for an older version of Android, so it can’t be updated, but the version listed is 4.3+.

Those might be terrorist buttholes.

Eminent* domain

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They know what they have to do. Bring Ballmer out of retirement!

Those are no longer being developed. OpenBSD is.

If you try to kill somebody and fail, that’s still a crime.

For a second I thought that “eleven a frog” was a time of day.

I’m so sick of everybody and their dog trying to strongarm me into using their app.

If you fork it, the fork doesn’t belong to them. You can do what you want with it.

Besides, if they don’t want to maintain it, why don’t they stop maintaining it right now? What does Lemmy 1.0 have to do with it?

Why are they dropping support for Tesseract after Lemmy 1.0?