Really? The right around here is burning books, claiming their religious beliefs should be enshrined in laws forced on others, and openly supporting a wannabe dictator while calling anyone in their party who doesn’t agree a ‘Rino’ (Republica in name only). To say nothing of the connection to churches and their ‘flocks’
That is a lot of trying to force viewpoints on others and create a uniform viewpoint
Young people of all generations do not have full brains developed yet, they are basic and self righteous until 27ish
CHOOSE:
freedom of thought, but you have to learn to work with people you disagree with slightly or find annoying: left
uniformity of thought, but you are surrounded by bleating sheep and must bleat along: right
Ah yes, the nuanced thinking of a 5 year old - everything is black and white and everyone who doesn’t agree w me 100% is evil
same I attribute some of my success to the fact that our computer lab teacher provided cracked versions of adobe and 3dsmax. Well over 10K in software and this is in the 90’s
Meh, how is surgery a thing? You let people just open you up and dig around your insides?
it’s a mix of need and belief in a proper vetting process. For computers there’s the additional layer that any one machine is probably low stakes. In early internet days most software was prohibitively expensive but gave you the equivalent of super powers - as a teenager / young adult with ability to take that risk you’re not going to do it?
What are the specific DVD discs you’re using?
If it’s got any type of rewriteable ability, it likely won’t play in a DVD player.
If I remember I had the best luck with DVD-R discs ( NOT DVD+R ) but it has to do with the dvd burner and the final dvd player they end up in. Might be worth trying both.
edit: just read your comment that it previously worked but stopped working? In that case Id agree that maybe your DVD burner needs a replace
very hit and miss. It’s okay if Im trying to learn something new, and once or twice it has found and suggested some fix that I probably wouldn’t have thought of otherwise - but it also makes up methods & syntax and then you’re playing ‘whack a mole’ to figure out where it hallucinated.
I think right now it’s not really boosting my productivity much, but I think in another 5ish years it could be better.
I’m curious what your area of expertise is? I’m interested in using ai for a programming assistant, but it seems an entirely different skillset than, say, a language model. I assume some models will be good in 1 area and some models in another
Seems like it was a mix between usenet being a magnet for piracy, which all the ISPs were getting pressure to combat, and demand for usenet cratering - as newer users came on the internet they went to other places (myspace had started which appealed more to young users)
I’m just curious if you’re a tech worker? (or a teenager interested in tech)
I ask because I feel like people who work in tech are basically exposed to the dangers of web privacy all the time. I remember having to implement a facebook pixel on a website, and realizing the network of surveillance that facebook have spread across the web at that time. So I have pretty decent privacy behaviors, still far from great but maybe slightly above average.
But when I go to the doctor and I mention how often I eat fast food and drink alcohol, or when I go to the dentist and admit I don’t floss everyday - I’m sure those people are thinking ‘most people seriously don’t care about their health’. They might stop short of ‘fucking idiot’, hopefully.
reddit was always heavily moderated for real piracy discussion, I believe
Meanwhile inside Microsoft: I’ll just copy this Xerox GUI aannndddd … Windows!
I’ve never really understood how this ideology can work. Who enforces NAP in an anarchist society? Or is it up to each individual to enforce it for themself? (i.e. defend themselves physically if needed)
Now I just need something like this for my favorite video streaming sites
Im more active when I’m here and I spend less time online overall. I spend less time angry.
Although probably here still a bit too much. I should go touch grass but to fair it’s over 110 F outside and I have to be near my laptop for work so, here I sit.
Probably that happy zing you got whenever anyone signed your guestbook on your homepage.
Its a bit of a paradox because having normal users there also legitimizes the platform.
No one worries about Truth social being run by the right wing, because everyone already views it as an echo chamber.
Reddits reputation with catch up to its content, just like Twitter’s
I use Firefox with ad blockers to watch YouTube. Chrome seems to be allowing them to block my ad blocker