She got blue, I’d let her smash

Huh. I always thought the big trucks would do better in the wind, and I’ve never questioned that assumption. TIL

> be me. Business trip to Texas fml

> get some shitty subcompact rental car

> try to drive to some state park on weekend

> the location? About 3 hours driving away

> the cell tower reception? KEKW

> the road? On a 20 foot raised ridge for some texan fucking reason

> the wind? 42069 mph, perpendicular to the road

> literally turning the steering wheel against the wind to maintain driving straight

> literally feel like I’m going to get blown off the road and die

> in Texas so actually do want to die

> wish I was in a big truck for the first time in my life

> after hours of white knuckle driving finally get there

> Amarillo texas, the biggest pile of shit I’ve ever seen in my life

> literally. Active mountain of cow shit being farmed and sold as fertilizer right next to the town

Texas. Not even once.

I feel like I’m being admonished by a schoolteacher and honestly I probably deserve it. You’re probably right but I’m grumpy about it and need to re-read this later when I’m less grumpy about it

Nobody is happy when you call them out for marginalizing people they view as inferior. I get the same reaction when call out family members being blatantly racist at family gatherings. I don’t care about the reactions of people who choose to engage only with my tone, they’re not here to interact with me or my opinions in a meaningful way. Last, I don’t believe I overreacted at all. I called out shitty alienating behaviour in response to a meme that implies an outgroup community is disgusting or inferior based on their operating system choice. As I see it the tone of the meme was significantly more insulting than the tone of my response.

Sure, that’s a valid position to have. Your position only relates to the OP meme in the loosest possible sense; the meme presents WSL users as inferior objects of disgust, which is clearly distinct from a claim that WSL is not the right starter distro for most people. As I see it you’re effectively whitewashing an elitist talking point by pretending it’s about helping new users, or you just didn’t notice the elitism because you are not part of the targeted out-group.

I made a comment about the gatekeeping attitude of the community and you responded to me with a critique of WSL. The point I made sailed entirely over your head, hence the whoosh.

I’m glad you found a laugh and a moment of lightness while you’re struggling, and I hope the world becomes a kinder place for you as soon as possible. This is still a joke where the punchline is “windows user (ie, outgroup) disgusting”, and I hope you can understand why it’s bad to put that kind of energy out in the world then pretend it’s a joke.

It’s not funny, it’s gatekeeping.

Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooosh

Linux community: why don’t more people use Linux? Also Linux community: LOL LOOK AT THESE STUPID FUCKERS TRYING LINUX WRONG, LETS ALL GO SHIT ON THEM

goddamn do yall deserve eachother and your 0.01% OS share or whatever meaningless percentage of the OS market you represent.

Not familiar with the hellraiser IP, I totally thought you were making the joke about frank’s red hot

I usually get to the point of opening my flashlight app so I can search for my phone in dark places before I realize

It gives people context for what kind of ai math I’m familiar with/formed my opinions about ai on (ie, generally lightweight transformer models rather than LLMs), as well as a small logos appeal of “hey I spent years of my life researching that shit, I at least kinda know what I’m talking about”

Kilroy was here

Not OP that you asked, but I’ve used ai before to examine netflow data at the head of a medium sized network and identify malicious traffic via netflow anomaly, rather than the signature based methods that are used by current network intrusion detection systems. It’s effectiveness is contingent on having good data that contains labeled malicious packets to train on, but it was pretty dope in lab conditions to watch a graduate ethical hacking class try to compromise my testbed network and my best performing ai powered intrusion detection algorithms were able to accurately flag something like 90% of the malicious traffic.

If we had an organization dedicated to creating like a modern version of the NSL-KDD dataset every 6 months or so I think this type of network intrusion detection system would be extremely effective.

This. I was a phd seeking cybersecurity researcher leaning heavily into AI up until last year, and it bothered me to no end that some of the most promising technology I have ever seen was being primarily used to enhance the police state or increase BP profits by a few %. AI is literally a step towards a utopian post scarcity future, but instead of being used that way it was immediately weaponized against the working class for the benefit of the parasite class.

I feel this. My beard and hair have about half as much grey as the meme and I’m still a few years from 35. I want off Mr Bones’ Wild Ride

Ouch. I’m used to “do you feel old” posts being relatable, but the black theme on the computer tower and the 700mb disc hurt me. I remember feeling sci-fi as fuck when I finally got rid of my old off-white/beige tower for a black tower, and scoffing at the idea of removable media holding more than a few mb of data.