I finally escaped a rabbit hole 🕳 after a ~week-long struggle due to bug 385 and several python packaging bugs. Bug 385 broke the offline capability of Argos Translate sometime before Jan.2024. The OP’s advice worked incidentally at that time but no longer works. Apparently the release version that was in PyPi around ...
#Showerthoughts time. People misunderstand selfishness and egotism. They can be tools for good. When I dress in a way I think I look good, it's huge motivation to maintain a healthy weight.
Helping others is a massive dopamine hit. It feels great. I want to be good so I do things to make good happen. Empthy is a gateway drug to an awesome high.
Don't banish your demons. Put the fuckers to work.
A friend said I should play "Postal" and since I've never even seen screenshots and knew absolutely nothing about it, I opted to go ahead and do that.
Jesus fuck! This is proto-Hatred. I was really expecting there to be more of like... a story, or objectives, not Murder Simulator.
So... my current approach is I'm just some dude who stepped out of his house and the cops started shooting at him, so he shoots back while trying to check his fire as to not harm innocents. Makes things a whole lot trickier, and I don't feel like a complete asshole.
Y'know... I'm kinda glad I started playing Postal. I believe that we project ourselves on everything we come into contact with in the world. Art, media, religion, our spaces, anything that presents us with a choice; we try to reflect ourselves wherever we go. Sometimes it's interesting to try a different mirror and see what gets reflected back.
How many times have I seen an empty village in a later Elder Scrolls game? In Fallout? Name an RPG or a shooter with innocents? None of them get regarded as murder simulators. Now, I'm not an idiot. I understand why, but it's interesting to consider that those games give you the same freedom to kill and the player still makes a choice.
Postal (at least as far as I've gotten) doesn't ask you to kill innocents. The objective for each level is to kill a certain number of "hostiles". So, I've made the game harder on myself by trying to deliberately avoid civilian deaths. I'm not trying to paint myself like a saint or some shit. I'm saying the window for morality is shifted to the other side, but there's an overlap with the freedom of many other games.
How we choose to behave given the context of our situations, the pressures and what we "need" to do, is where we get that mirror effect. Where we get to learn a little something about ourselves.
While playing Postal, I'm in an ugly space. It's a grim mirror. The context is bad... but I still have room to choose, and that same logic can be expanded to life. Sometimes we're just in a shitty situation. We have a narrow range where we can act, and maybe it's not entirely comfortable, but we shouldn't judge ourselves too hard if the boundaries prevent us from acting in a way we truly want to. It doesn't say everything about us. We need multiple mirrors to get that three dimensional look at ourselves.
It's so transparent how much of a hard-on you're getting with your justice rage. "I'm just presenting the facts", yes, just like the unjust legal system we are all living under, you have confidently defined the "reasoning" behind the conviction. The debate and conversation around it, is for the citizens to discuss the absurd practices of the justice system, which you are just being a speakerbox for with no personal context. That's already been done by the justice system so why regurgitate and post multiple links to your enlightenment.
After the first comment I just scrolled by after reading, then you've plastered your masterlink of pleasure confirming the pleasure and how much you want others to view it. What's your personal opinion on a 15 year old being charged in this manner? Does this 15 year old have the full faculty of an adult? Do you believe a 15 year old is an adult or just for this case? How do you feel about the murder charge? Yeah, you can hide behind the law, but I would rather hear what your actual opinion is especially after seeing a post you've done like "The less racist a country is, the harder it is to detect enemy spies. #showerthoughts"
Today's shower-thoughts project: just re-implement Python in Rust and do away with the GIL.
People smarter than me have been pondering the GIL for years, so clearly I'll just whip off something and be an open source hero forever.
I'm not even going to create a repo and then abandon it forever, this is clearly not a "spare time" project. And re-implenting cat is probably my current Rust skill level.
#showerthoughts The problem is in upstream and has only entered Debian Sid/unstable. Does this mean that for example bleeding edge Arch (btw) sshd users are compromised already ?
🗣🗩↔🗨🔌 Argos Translate bug that breaks offline AI language translations still persists after ~2+ years. Not good for privacy or autonomy.
I finally escaped a rabbit hole 🕳 after a ~week-long struggle due to bug 385 and several python packaging bugs. Bug 385 broke the offline capability of Argos Translate sometime before Jan.2024. The OP’s advice worked incidentally at that time but no longer works. Apparently the release version that was in PyPi around ...
Multiple Life Sentences for Minor in Police Shooting He did not Participate in. ( lemmy.world )
Source: https://www.tumblr.com/iguanodonwildman/661968148678017024/please-sign-the-petition-so-i-checked-up-on~~___~~
backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise ( www.openwall.com )