“There was not yet been an element for me to cherry-pick that would fit my distorted and heinous world view.”

They are so fucking predictable, it’s actually infuriating. We are losing to this FFS.

Now watch as the narrative becomes that he turned into a hateful and dangerous leftist by being indoctrinated at university, even though he comes from a good, god loving family.

Just want to say, with more than just an upvote, that I agree with you. My shit-eating grin at the news did fade when learning that his children were in the crowd. They did not ask to be born with that dickhead as a father, and now have to live with one of the most traumatic thing a child can go through.

I think one can be happy that there is one less fascist spewing hate in the world, but still feel sympathy for a couple of innocent children. There is no contradiction here.

They saw their father shot and killed in front of their eyes, and the video will probably forever be online. The only support they’ll get is from that dead piece of shit group of fascist friends. They will most definitely not be fine.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. If you do, it’s a fantastic ride.

A fascist, killed from a bullet in the neck, shot from a great distance, and not a real suspect in sight?

Yeah, I know who did it:

Yup, migrating the docs from on-prem confluence to the cloud one has just been an utter disaster in my company.

I don’t even want to know how much we pay for this shit.

Not stupid necessarily, but profoundly misanthropic.

I have never talked to or read from an AI shill who did not have a severely depressing view on humanity, with arguments being a variation of “oh yeah, LLMs are just parrots but so are we/so are most people”, and “comprehension is just pattern matching anyways”.

Which is really darkly hilarious in a way, because if you think of older, now clichéed, sci fi stories, then treating a machine capable of feelings and comprehension as a human rather than a tool is the human thing to do. But these people are so backwards that

1. They rob us of humanity to put us on the same level as AI.
2. They still treat the LLMs (which should now be human) as tools and therefore deny them of humanity too.

Yeah, I would not give this buffoon too much credit. I am not sure he would have ever known what an anagram is. And if he did, he’d probably think of it as some literary nerd shit that’s beneath him.

That being said, I did pick that line up too, but only because it instantly made me sick to my stomach, seeing that a possible interpretation of it is much, much darker than “only” sexual abuse.

Evidently, I don’t necessarily believe that that’s what the orange illiterate shit-bag meant. In all likelihood, this probably alludes to raping underage girls of about the same age. But I wouldn’t be surprised either if we are, somehow, underestimating the horrors that took place between him and Epstein (or any other high profile nonce that we don’t know about).

Thanks for this answer, really.

You saying about this film having a lot of documentation around the lost 43 minutes made me look into it. I did not know the story behind it, i.e. it being already cut by Welles, then the 43 minutes being cut out by studios, plus a lot of research and reconstruction already being made around it. Adding to that the fact this is not (thus far) a commercial endeavour, it does paint it in a different light. Finally, from what I can gather, it seems the “AI” being used here is more deepfake stuff on live scenes and less full image generation (which is the image that the text conjured for me, this is the problem with catchall marketing terms…)

All that to say, while I personally am not into these kinds of efforts (AI or not, but I appreciate the subjectivity of that sentiment), and have my reservations about using these techs to reanimate long dead artists who don’t have a say in the matter, your comment did show that the process, in this particular instance, seems to be very different from what I had initially imagined, so thank you.

Sorry about the downvotes and potentially angry responses you are/will be getting, I did not mean to lay down a trap for you.

Ok, maybe I am too comfortably nested in my confirmation bubble, but I can’t imagine the intersection of people being (still) interested in Orson Welles and those not offended by such a use of AI is very large.

Health and safety gone mad

You weren’t wrong across the board though. I know it’s hard to focus on the positives these days, and we are constantly bombarded with depressing and inane content, but we can’t lose sight of them.

It’s hard to overstate how much the internet has made scientific research and collaboration easier for instance. The sheer amount of research being done has exploded, and it’s far from being all slop. Publishers try their best to paywall the articles but they’re still available nonetheless.

And what about all the art that is shared online by people who would never, in a million years, have been able to show their creations to the world before the internet. Not to mention the people who don’t share it but can make it because of freely available information.

I know it’s not as idyllic as you probably foresaw it (yeah, understatement of the century, I know), but it did happen, even though unfortunately it also led to a gigantic pile of shit. Both can be true simultaneously.

Yes, some sort of commune is definitely not out of the question, on a personal level. That does not help the vast majority of people who stand to benefit from it (more so than me) though.

Congratulations on making and shipping a game on your own. That’s really fucking impressive.

The game looks very cool, I’ll definitely try the demo later!

I so want a UBI. Time to help my community, make open source contributions in ways I deem meaningful and beneficial to society rather than driven by corporate profit, make art, and have as much time as I want with my family? Sign me up.

But we wouldn’t want to prove that people don’t need the fear of homelessness and starvation to be productive now would we?

No problem, I wasn’t sure how I came off either, knowing how some of the community can sometimes respond to posts criticising Linux/ranting about real issues, I just thought I’d make sure and clarify my intent.

FWIW, I also hate the flatpak/snap trend btw…

Yes I do on my laptop (have not tried on my desktop which is connected to a standard monitor) + using an Xbox and an 8bitdo controller through Bluetooth.

Never had issues with hdmi audio passthrough, (but did use to have weird resolution issues, circa Ubuntu 10.04, on a particular TV that I never could solve).

I am not trying to negate your experience, or trying to assess sample size btw. I am just genuinely just as baffled as you seem to be, from the other end, and would like to know of potential issues I am not even aware of.

So you’re the person who got all my bugs so I could have none.

Jokes aside, the pipewire stuff in particular sounds painful, this is a rat’s nest I am very glad I have not had to touch.