Monkey With A Shell

Maybe people will be satisfied when they can put their TV under a microscope to determine the actor’s sperm count…

It’s been observed that the porn industry is often one of the first adapters of new media tech before they become commonplace, but I’m not sure some things need to be shown in that high a resolution.

Maybe, but immortality also tends to come with things like extraordinary capabilities for self repair and by extension disease resistance, so maybe they get some sort of error correcting code in their DNA replication to go with it.

Bah, minor inconveniences, fix it next cycle.

Ok, so badly phrased, yes companies will do geo fencing principally for security threat containment. If a company has no means to serve customers in a region they may also block access to avoid people making orders that can’t be fulfilled.

Denying service that they functionally can perform because of the whims of politicians and politically minded actors is a foolish behavior though. Every place on earth has some wing of society that would prefer isolationist and ultra conservative practices, to self censor to the lowest common denominator is going to only push away those users who aren’t zealots.

GeoIP fencing is an eternal whack-a-mole, I’ve had to track down issues where a site owned by MS was blocked because they bought some public IP space previously owned by countries the client blocks.

In the end you have countries trying to get a piece of the pie from a company that they have no ties to but being unwilling to upset the people living there by taking an effort to block it. If they think the company is behaving incorrectly then it’s on them to deny access to their citizens that they have to answer to.

A company can’t reasonably decide which jurisdictions and IPs it should serve at any given time. If I don’t want a site in my house I don’t petition them to block my IP.

By that token, I could start my own private Island nation, make some batty rules, log into a site, and demand a bajillion dollars because my laws say so.

Internet doesn’t work that way, access is not presence of operations.

I’ve never knowingly engaged with a proper chat bot beyond the ‘virtual help desk’ things some sites use. By proper I mean some sizable system beyond what can be typically run at home.

Home ran ones are bizarre though, so far whatever I try they get stuck on go-to phrases and tend to return to specific formats of response over and over. Very much not passing the turing test.

You won’t believe what it is!

DVD? walks my pet dinosaur out of the room

Really though, Labyrinth is the one that comes to mind.

Despite being comprised of similar letters Lemmy and LLM are not interchangeable…

Neighbor here has one of those for her kids with an adapter to plug in batteries from Ryobi tools. Nice idea if you have a stack of batteries around already that can be swapped on the fly.

The fuck they do. I had to go hunt down some tool grooming and using my kid at that age. A lack of confidence and want of external validation are powerful drivers to do stupid things that can have massive life changing impacts.

Oh fuck off on both sides of that headline. Sure, we’ll let you create more monopolistic ISP lock in, just so long as you’re not making any effort at not being a biggot while you do it.

Yeah, it could be meterage I guess, not sure if the non murica-verse uses a similar expression.

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/acer-spin-1-sp111-32n-c2x3

Specifically it’s one of these, or at least in the nearby product line. A mere 32GB of storage and 4 GB RAM so you can get away with some pretty lean specs. Used the XFCE version if I recall. Basically just give it a try and there’s a good chance it works

I have Mint on an old Acer 2 in 1 that is barely capable or installing Windows just for the size, so it’s possible but of course YMMV.

Updated: 4/28/2025, 10:30 AM EDT: This article has been updated to reflect that 4chan appears to have come back online, according to a blog posted on the site on April 25.

Short lived but even if 4chan died the various spinoffs, some far worse, still exist. There will always be a place where the wild things are and they’ll continue screwing with society just for the lulz.

At what point has this admin given a damn about rules?

One of the interesting conundrums of Linux at large is there are so many flavors of it. If you generically search for ‘how to … In Linux’ you’ll probably get things for Ubuntu, maybe Mint or RedHat, but good luck with the 2000 other distros that you see on a list.

Conversely if you do the same for Windows or Mac it’s just a matter of a few recent versions, and half the time fixes would be applicable to any given one of them.

Compatability is less a problem than missing security patches. Nobody needs an army of infected bots attached to the net.