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I’m not sure I’d put foot fetishisation in the same list as genocide, but I’m not really into either of these things so I’m perhaps not the best person to ask.

I only know this from clips of the film.

You named my daughter after the Loch Ness monster?!

I love this.

Honestly should be a EU level thing. A lot of products here in Sweden are labelled with country of origin but if it’s from multiple countries it might just say “from apples grown in the European Union” or something similar.

Gmail is simple (albeit not necessarily easy) to replace, it’s just an email service and there are tonnes out there. I’ve heard great things about Tuta, but I use Proton. With hindsight I would’ve chosen Tuta. Proton has put money into developing some BS cryptowallet and has LLM features I don’t care for.

Adobe is a bit trickier, I admit, at least if you need it in a professional capacity. Some would suggest Affinity, but I won’t. They were bought up by Canva, there’s a bunch of AI bullshit there now, and while it’s free, you should expect enshittification. I’m not putting time and effort into learning a tool that’s going to be yoinked away.

Adobe is also trickier in the sense that they have a fuckton of products. If you don’t need any of their products in a professional capacity there’s always that alternative.

For Notion there’s also a lot of alternatives. Logseq, Appflowy, Affine, Obsidian.

I think the important thing to remember is that when changing a tool you’ll also often need to change your workflow. Some tools have similar workflows, others work completely differently, and some might give you tools you didn’t know you needed. It’s always going to involve a bunch of work though.

I’m personally in the process of trying to get away from Adobe’s Substance Painter. I was never particularly fond of the application, it’s honestly quite shit, but it’s also decently unique in what it does. Yeah there are tools similar to it but none that match fully.

So far no minotaur fuckery, but there’s been baby murdering, using babies as fuel, mass genocide, filicide, slavery… It’s a lot!

Aah. I see. Didn’t Netflix get in hot water with them over that one Black Mirror thing?

That pillow is beautiful.

There are usually guidelines and maintainers that are in control of the project althat do control these things. That system has worked pretty alright traditionally, but it’s become more cumbersome now that anyone can generate garbage and basically automate “contributions.”

It means that real contributions get drowned out in the noise and the maintainers that have the final say in if a PR gets accepted or not get overworked.

It’s bad for everyone.

We should tax corporations and use that to fund FOSS. It’s ridiculous how much of modern tech is built on the work of FOSS maintainers without the corporations paying back to it.

Yeah, that’s exactly it

I think that concept is copyrighted.

Same but opposite. It’s nice how the world just kind of evens out. :)

I’m at the end of the third book now. Was a bit skeptical when I started on the series, but it does a good job mixing humour and very dark morbid fuckery in a way that doesn’t feel heavy handed yet is still engaging.

I like it.

What software are you using that forces AI?

Is your classmate an LLM?

It’s definitely the latter. These are writing contracts to buy hardware that has yet to be produced for data centres that haven’t been built. All so they can satisfy a demand that doesn’t yet exist for a product no one is going to be willing to pay for.

It will crash. This whole grift is too expensive to keep going. The naysayers keep forgetting that hardware gets old, it wears out and fails, and gets superseded by newer models. The chip makers are riding high now because the idiotic belief of the market is that this will keep growing as the data centres keep being built and the AI companies will keep buying new hardware.

It just can’t. This candle is burning fast at both ends.

This had me cackling like a forest hag. Thank you for helping me achieve my goals.

Navidrome.

Aww precious babies!