For group things I don’t think it’s bonkers. Mostly because that gives everyone time to make sure that specific time to work. Honestly to me that says they really want you to come, I’d be flattered.

For just my SO and me it’s different though. Usually rough idea forms about a year out, with us formalizing and time off about 6 months out, and booking about 3 months out

and that’s what I loathe about the idiots who are for this stuff. Yes, I want to curb this stuff - but for fuck’s sake there are ways to do it that aren’t “Give big government every scrap of data on you”.

There are ways to prove I’m over 18 without needing to register my ID with a porn company, or to regulate CSAM while not having to read private messages. Fuck, but we have the combination of circle of a venn diagram of idiot and control freak in congress, and they’ll happily remove all of our rights over some fear of the boogeyman

Congrats! Going from Texas to Portland, think about transit going into it. In the right mindset for less commute, but play your cards right and maybe you won’t even have to drive to work!

Exactly, and it begs the question too, where’s the line? If you draw a stick figure of your crush with boobs is that a crime? Is it when you put an arrow and write her name next to it? AI just makes that more realistic, but it’s the same basic premise.

Distributing it is where it crosses a hard line and becomes something that should not be encouraged.

all good points, and I’ll for sure say that I’m not qualified enough to be able to answer that. I also don’t think politicians or moms groups or anyone are.

All I’ll do is muddy the waters more. We as the vast majority of humanity think CSAM is sick, and those who consume it are not healthy. I’ve read that psychologists are split. Some think AI generated CSAM is bad, illegal, and only makes those who consume it worse. Others, however, suggest that it may actually curb urges, and ask why not let them generate it, it might actually reduce real children from being actually harmed.

I personally have no idea, and again am not qualified to answer those questions, but goddamn did AI really just barge in without us being ready for it. Fucking big tech again. “I’m sure society will figure it out”

Agreed. To me, making them is one thing, it’s like making a drawing at home. Is it moral? Not really. Should it be illegal? I don’t think so.

Now, what this kid did, distributing them? Absolutely not okay. At that point it’s not private, and you could hurt their own reputation.

This of course ignores the whole fact that she’s underage, which is on its own wrong. AI generated csam is still csam.

We don’t even know if this is for Firefox yet. As far as we know this is a completely separate entity selling adspace on other websites and places completely separate from Firefox. They have said literally nothing about doing anything like adding ads to Firefox.

Let’s cross that bridge if and when we get to it. Otherwise this is all just a slippery slope argument. Yes, they can add ads to Firefox, but they have not done that or even implied that they might do that. If they do that, we’ll deal with it then.

Way way way too early to say we need to ditch firefox.

What we know is that Mozilla, firefox’s parent, bought an ad company with the stated goal to make privacy friendly advertisements.

Also this week (I believe, maybe a bit earlier) Firefox announced that they are holding to manifest v2’s rules for adblocking, that they are encouraging ublock and other apps to still block ads.

Firefox needs money to continue development though to be competitive with Chrome. Ads are the only real way to make money on the internet. There is nothing that suggests that they are adding ads to firefox, to me it sounds more like they want sites to use their privacy focused ad service to fund their development of firefox because they weren’t receiving enough donations - which makes sense.

I’m not going to ditch my browser of 20 years over fear that something might happen. If something happens like that, then sure I’ll change to something else. Remember though, all of the alternatives are chromium based, which is mostly controlled by Google. By giving up Firefox you’re allowing Google to make their monopoly, because Firefox is the only other real browser engine out there.

So, rather than be reactionary, I’d say let’s give them the benefit of the doubt and see where it goes.

Someone gave you an honest, well thought out comment and you went to “there is no where left on the internet”.

The saying stands. You you smell shit while walking around, there was probably some shit around. If you smell it all day, check your shoe.

People who don’t like paying for labor declares new technology will finally let them automate people away. More at 11.

I remember decades ago when I was working at mcds as a greasy teenager when they told me that I only had a couple years left there, that our jobs would probably be automated soon. That stores without humans at all were just around the corner.

Any engineer who has worked with AI directly knows what it’s great at (a slim number of finite tasks), what it appears to be great at (many many tasks), and what it is not good at (everything else). Corporate America sees no distinction.

Unfortunately both 0.19.4 and 0.19.5 are hanging for me when spinning up my containers, getting some weird issue with inbox timeouts. Opened a bug here

Yeughh, I’m sorry, it’s the absolute worst. I begudgingly understand if you need to fly when you’re sick, after all - what if you get sick while on vacation? Most people can’t just not go to work for an additional 2 weeks while you recover, and buy a hotel room for that long. At the very least though get a mask and just keep it contained.

Sure I have an immune system, it doesn’t mean I want to use it when I’m going on vacation!

people so easily triggered that a person wearing a mask makes them have to yell at someone

I always wear them in airports. Airplanes I have stopped caring, but airports have so. many. people.

My story is I was in Denver, sitting in a chair. This was long before covid. The only chair left was one by those moving walkways in the middle of their concourses. I was sitting there reading and some guy literally turned to his right and just sneezed directly in my face. Wet drips literally down my cheek. He just casually rolled away on it, never said anything. I was sick the next day.

Fuck that guy, fuck gross people. Mask won’t protect me against that, but ffs if your sick just wear one.

Same here, and I get weird dirty looks. I’ve heard of people getting verbally assaulted wearing them, my go-to line ready is “I’m sick, I didn’t want to get people like you sick, but if you don’t care…” starts to pull down mask

It was just a thought, I don’t have all the details worked out. But essentially yes, just like a co-op except since in a co-op you own, these would be options, where they unlock every year on renewal, giving you the option to own. There would have to be a whole new concept for it, a normalized thing similar to a corporation but specific to land ownership, because yes pretty much any rental property would be one, every building

Thank you for what you do though, it’s not glamorous work I’m sure but average person like me appreciates what you do

My only point here would be I’d switch from actual ownership to more of an “option” ownership option. Similar to stock options, every time you pay rent you get more of the “options”. When a sale event happens, you can exercise your options and have a chance to buy the property there. Or, if they want to exercise now they can and they’d own shares of the building there. Once it tips to 50% then the shareholders own it.

Every year you receive more options, you are under no obligation to exercise them. However, every year you rent you receive more options. If you leave and you did exercise your options you get the value you put in back, but if you didn’t the options go back into the pool.

I think this is similar to co-ops in large cities, where there is a contract that the owners can start owning the building themselves over time.

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I would urge caution for using it. I already see too many of my juniors starting to rely on it.

The problem (when it works perfectly - and it doesn’t all the time), is that you don’t learn anything from using it. You aren’t learning why it’s picking the way to write a specific piece of code. You can ask it to explain it, but you have to go out of your way to do that in standard gpt, in vscode it won’t. This is incredibly important when trying to get code to fit within an organization or team’s code, where there are already standard patterns, worries about things like runtime, or scalability. You need to understand line by line what that code is doing.

So, I won’t say don’t use it, but don’t depend on it. Learn why it made the choice it did, and dig deeper into the ramifications. Ask it for alternatives and why it chose that one. Ask it for runtime information, how it performs at scale, if it’s concurrent and thread safe, anything you can. I use it to help me think outside the box, and it’s great at that, but I wouldn’t want an engineer working for me who didn’t understand what the code was doing.