The ATT framework was seen as an obstacle to targeted advertising to Apple device users, a major source of funding for application publishers and other online advertising players.

Um. Ok.

So good. the vatican while loop one was a lot of fun too

Yeah. I tried talking to him about his AI use but I realized there was no point. He also mentioned he had tried RCs again and I was like alright you know you can’t handle that but fine… I know from experience you can’t convince addicts they are addicted to anything. People need to realize that themselves.

I knew a guy I went to rehab with. Talked to him a while back and he invited me to his discord server. It was him, and like three self trained LLMs and a bunch of inactive people who he had invited like me. He would hold conversations with the LLMs like they had anything interesting or human to say, which they didn’t. Honestly a very disgusting image, I left because I figured he was on the shit again and had lost it and didn’t want to get dragged into anything.

Social media as a concept is not evil or whatever, but a platform with millions and millions of users under corporate control puts a lot of power and influence in the hands of a very small elite. This is the problem. Not the technology itself. With regulation or decentralisation the problem can be fixed. Imo.

One thing about the thumbdrives, a LOT of features did not work for me when running live bootable, and it almost put me off. Then I made the actuall full install and a lot of the stuff that had not worked now did. Just so people understand the live bootables are very much just a demo, and doesn’t say much about compatibility really.

Nice I didn’t know that ^^ should probably learn at least the basic bash operators, I am just hacking together the different commands I happen to know at the moment really

It is not as cryptic as it sounded I just explained it badly.

Log everything you do in human readable text, because realistically as a beginner going through machine generated logs is not very fun, and .bash_history will be filled with stuff that isn’t relevant always.

It is just a bash script that logs a message with the current date to a file I can access from MacOS as well (on the shared partition) so that I can see what I did if I mess up too bad…

Edit:

Here it is:

# Log argument to changelog.txt with current date and time.

function log()
{
	local changelog="/run/media/jamie/DUAL/changelog"
	local text="$(cat $changelog)" 
	if [ "$1" == "--view" ]; then
		cat $changelog
	else
		printf "$text\n$(date +%D:%H:%M): $1\n" > $changelog
	fi
}

I will probably add some stuff so I can get the last 5 lines or something if I want, but at the moment this is really fine.

XFCE is really fast for me as well! I thought I was fine with how slow Catalina was running, and I was but now it is kind of painful when I have to boot back into MacOS and it feels slooow…

Translation: I have written a post about my thoughts online. I was told to seek therapy, but I don’t have enough money to pay for one. What now?

Tis a joke.

Maybe you are odd to us! I think many neurotypicals are odd, but not because they are neurotypical specifically.

People are different and it is generally a bad idea to assume it is because of some diagnostic they got or not.

I think the more you get to know most people they seem stranger and stranger, especially as you grow up and start to understand the reasons people value what they value and just how different everyone is.

I never started a goodreads account because amazon, but always wanted one. Signing up.

Savage

I’ve been sober for the past two years, but I do still have fun memories even tho staying up for days eventually became the norm and nothing I’d say I miss. But these specific memories are from early days (like, my teens) and we didn’t have money to stock up or resupply at those hours really, and we usually were running around outside as we didn’t have our own apartments, so that was the bus reference. Getting stuck out in some random suburb, no money, no way to get home, no more speed or pills, cold af outside… And some mf happens to have poppers lol.

I have so many fun poppers memories because it is never the first choice, it is always just “some guy” who no one actually knew but ended up at the party anyways and it is 4 in the morning and everything is out, and there are five hours until the next bus but running out of poppers is more or less impossible so now everyone is kinda happy but also kinda bummed out cause something else would have been better…

I’ll be honest, I never hear anyone say vos in Spain, except an Argentinian who said it all the time and it sounded really odd

It is there, so people use it because it seems easier. I did when I started out coding last year, but realized I was shooting myself in the foot and learned to read docs. Honestly, I just think that a lot of people never actually decided they wanted to learn to search info or understand what they were reading, or what to take out of documentation. It is sad because I think my process has been a lot more rewarding than just getting stuff explained to me, and banging my head against a wall if I can’t get “the right answer”. I imagine many are under a lot of pressure to perform fast, but idk, seems like a bad investment.

Often people want quick and easy, or don’t see the value in having skills of their own, just in what they can produce. This is true for reading in general. I think many don’t see the value in reading as a skill.

So awesome! That’s what communication does :) if someone is right for you, being honest is always the best way to understand what works for eachother!

Very glad it all worked out.

Mad levels of respect for these people

So like, I wasn’t much better when I was 21, but I do think you did go a bit far here.

It is not your place to ban him or control what he does online, you can however tell him it makes you sad that he watches others. You said as much ypurself and you should probably explain and apologize for the overreach, but explain why. I personally think that watching porn has nothing to do with any partber you may have. It is not a real relationship and possibly even a problem he has, no way to know. What it doesn’t do tho is reflect on you. Finding any other person attractive doesn’t mean he doesn’t find you attractive, there is no correlation.

You should talk it out, without blaming him but explaining that it makes you worried and sad and why, and unless you present it like “he should have known” he will listen if he cares about you. This is not a he problem or a you problem it is a plural you problem (god this sounds better in languages with more exact wording…)