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  • only thing that makes this dumpster fire usable

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  • Oof, yeah, those vibes are rancid. The website is covered in shady looking links and they want you to download an exe, which you don't need for a simple registry edit which can be done with a text file.

    This link shows you how to make the .reg file: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-take-ownership-files-using-right-click-context-menu-windows-10

    For my money that's way easier than doing it manually through the registry editor yourself, and you can inspect the code to see what it's doing.

    If you want to see the manual steps to take ownership without the registry entry, it looks like this: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-take-ownership-files-and-folders-windows-10

    If that isn't a dark pattern then I don't know what is. They do not want you to have control over your machine, at all.

  • only thing that makes this dumpster fire usable

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  • The way I do it is I have a script that adds an entry in file explorer called "Take Ownership". I don't have to use it often but when I do it's a life saver, and it doesn't blanket take ownership of the whole disk.

    Obviously an elevated super user like linux has would be much more secure, but it's windows, they're not interested in security if it isn't about their share price.

  • When is your amish v2 date?

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  • I'm not sure exactly why but I can't think of anything after then that properly enriches my life.

    Was that around the time you moved out of home?

  • Are there any examples of a religion giving scientific knowledge that could not have been known to people at the time?

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  • There are examples yes, Dr Fatima on youtube talks a lot about the philosophy of science and how it's not such a rigid, prescriptive process as a lot of people - including scientists - seem to think.

    When Pseudoscience Beat Science: Three Stories About Knowing Things

    That video has three stories of phenomena that were unknown to western science until ancestral knowledge revealed them. The first two you could argue are just traditionally acquired knowledge that has gained a veneer of supernatural language, but "voodoo death" is literally named after the fact that a voodoo curse can kill someone.

    I'd reccommend her whole channel if this stuff interests you. Particularly Gravity is a Social Construct, and How Galileo Broke the Scientific Method.

    Edit: the downvotes on this with absolutely no explanation of what's wrong are a perfect example of why science struggles with these concepts. Anything that doesn't immediately fit the schema of what western respectable rational people expect gets dismissed out of hand.

    I know by making this edit I'm inviting the most incurious assholes to mansplain to me why I'm wrong, but maybe someone will actually engage with the points.

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  • Asking for a historical example is not inciting violence, telling people to start shooting and put their money where their mouth is, is inciting violence, even if you're being sarcastic.

    I wonder what you would consider as not "all talk"? Someone posting evidence? Gee, I wonder why people don't do that. I wonder if that's exactly what people engaging in direct action should never do.

    I wonder how I can tell the difference between what you're doing now and how a fed would talk.

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  • You want receipts?

    And please, keep giving me your one downvote, it's not a sad & pathetic attempt to assert yourself that's transparent to anyone who happens to read this, not at all.

  • Asking the real questions

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  • I'm just perusing my old comments and came across this, 7 months later. This is an amazing article, thank you.

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  • And it's you, not the person you're accusing.

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  • There's only one person here who's actually telling other people to get violent.

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  • This is an online forum. It's words. Your idea that the people you're talking to are all talk is unfalsifiable. If anyone did post on here about pulling a trigger you could attack them for being all talk for exactly that same reason.

    On this forum, you are also all talk. There is literally nothing else you can do on here.

    But go off, everybody around you is all talk, all the time. That certainly isn't a feature of the place you chose to express your vapid rants.

    People who are organising on the ground are under no obligation to keep you in the loop by posting about it publicly, especially given you clearly aren't interested in helping anyway.

    My guess is your accusations are all a projection of your own feelings of powerlessness. I mean there's not going to be another election for about 4 more years, and your only method of change is useless until then.

    Gee, I wonder if that's by design?

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  • I agree broadly with the idea that the state's legitimacy relies on the appearance that they wield their violence justly, but I think you're giving the state too much credit when you frame it as a fair and considered exchange of power.

    The state has had all of us under its purview since birth, it has pumped us full of pro-hierarchy, anti-autonomy, anti-social propaganda and it wields its violence more to prevent insurgency than it does to protect us.

    There is no "social contract", nothing that I ever signed anyway, and even if there were, contract law invalidates any contract signed under duress. The concept of the social contract is just yet more hierarchical propaganda. It's a vague, handwavey vibe to obscure the fact that we really aren't given a meaningful option to leave.

    The state relies on not just the appearance of legitimacy, but the appearance of absolute power. Both are illusions, and can be opposed by organised people directly building mutual aid on the ground. The more we meet one another's needs for security the less we need the state and the more people can see it for the charade that it is.

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  • “Piracy is piracy”: Disney and Universal sue AI image generator Midjourney in a Hollywood first

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  • The argument could be made that because the image generator is essentially a regurgitator with no artistic interpretation, there is no transformative artistic value in it. It's like applying a filter with extra steps.

    Also the generators charge for access, so they are profiting off of the IP. That's quite different to making something for personal use or releasing it for free.

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    YSK - a very comprehensive guide on how to avoid "very"

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  • That's all you need, that's what they used to make the up goer five.

  • I had a truly inspired "showerthought"

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  • It's just an eggcorn.

    They make the point in that video that it can't be considered a real mistake since it makes its own kind of sense.

  • The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind.

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  • He proposed a moon cannon. The moon cannon was wrong, as wrong as thinking an LLM can have any fidelity whatsoever. That's all that's needed for my analogy to make the point I want to make. Whether rockets count as artillery or not really doesn't change that.

    Cannons are not rockets. LLMs are not thinking machines.

    Being occasionally right like a stopped clock is not what "fidelity" means in this context. Fidelity implies some level of adherence to a model of the world, but the LLM simply has no model, so it has zero fidelity.

  • The future of web development is AI. Get on or get left behind.

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  • Interesting article, but you have to be aware of the flipside: "people said flight was impossible", "people said the earth didn't revolve around the sun", "people said the internet was a fad, and now people think AI is a fad".

    It's cherry-picking. They're taking the relatively rare examples of transformative technology and projecting that level of impact and prestige onto their new favoured fad.

    And here's the thing, the "information superhighway" was a fad that also happened to be an important technology.

    Also the rock argument vanishes the moment anyone arrives with actual reasoning that goes beyond the heuristic. So here's some actual reasoning:

    GenAI is interesting, but it has zero fidelity. Information without fidelity is just noise, so a system that can't solve the fidelity problem can't do information work. Information work requires fidelity.

    And "fidelity" is just a fancy way of saying "truth", or maybe "meaning". Even as conscious beings we haven't really cracked that issue, and I don't think you can make a machine that understands meaning without creating AGI.

    Saying we can solve the fidelity problem is like Jules Verne in 1867 saying we could get to the moon with a cannon because of "what progress artillery science has made during the last few years". We're just not there yet, and until we are, the cannon might have some uses, but it's not space technology.

    Interestingly, artillery science had its role in getting us to the moon, but that was because it gave us the rotating workpiece lathe for making smooth bore holes, which gave us efficient steam engines, which gave us the industrial revolution. Verne didn't know it, but that critical development had already happened nearly a century prior. ~Cannons weren't really a factor in space beyond that.~

    Edit: actually metallurgy and solid fuel propellants were crucial for space too, and cannons had a lot to do with that as well. This is all beside the point.

  • im going to recovery tomorrow

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  • You do what you think you need to do, and if you think this will help you, then it's a brave step to take.

    Just one thing to think about though: I don't think the term "deserve" means anything whatsoever. I think it's a concept that was made up to justify wealth inequality and nothing more. It is an entirely useless category that cannot be falsified and has never helped anybody except those who abuse it to keep others down. Life is what it is, and what we make of it. No amount of talk about what anyone "deserves" ever changes that.

    I used to believe in "deserve", and it did nothing but harm. If you have everything and believe you deserve it, you're entitled. If you have nothing and believe you deserve it, you're miserable. If you have everything and think you don't deserve it, you're a fraud. If you have nothing and think you don't deserve it, you're bitter. Since I realised "deserve" was bullshit, I haven't missed it for a single day. I still put food on the table, nothing changed, I just stopped keeping score.

    You do what you need to to get by, and don't let anyone tell you you shouldn't. It's all anyone can ever do.

  • Half-Life 3 is reportedly playable in its entirety and could be announced this year

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    Advice on best way to replace personal Atlassian Jira subscription

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    TFW the universe rips you from your everyday existence in an instant to remind you that you are tiny, it is immense and everything is subject to change (edit: rule i guess)

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    There is No Rule Regarding This

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    schruledinger

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    PSYCHOPRULECEPTRULE HAZRULE

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Is anyone else like 10 times more likely to play a game they pirated versus one they bought?