Hey it’s okay, some of us get our masochism kick from butt-stuff. Some of us get it from using tools from the 70s.

I do hope GPT and DeepSeek don’t mind all the stupid roleplays I had them do with me when I was bored and my RP friends weren’t available.

cfdisk is fine

Masochists use regular fdisk. No curses tui, just a command line designed in the seventies with engineers in mind.

Assuming you’re not lying – That just makes you the artist equivalent of a scab.

Ok AIbro.

Since it seems language AIs are going to become inescapable (not a fan, but if you can’t beat 'em…), make it a toggle so that users who want to can have error messages with different “personalities”, and those who don’t can just have the machinelike codes.

Insert that intentionally unhinged thing I like to post here, about how we should bring back victorian servant-to-master etiquette but only and exclusively for computers trying to communicate with humans.

I prefer to man touch 🏳️‍🌈

I just want to point out that the insane “several steel foundries” worth of energy waste are used in training the bots, and individual requests are, by comparison, much cheaper.

Mind you AI “art” is bullshit and AI “artists” are proof that more people need to be shoved into lockers, but we don’t need misinformation to hate AI and AI bros. It’s plenty hatable with just the truth.

I’ve seen the videos about historical fashion

I know for a fact that this is all fabric padding. u-u

You WILL look like you have an impossibly thicc butt and an impossibly slim waist if you’ve basically strapped a Blahaj to your ass and another to your boobs.

I am all of these depending on how depression/anxiety has been treating me lately

Linux in the modern day is a much comfier experience for an uninitiated user. But the real nightmare is using Linux WITHOUT AN INTERNET CONNECTION (it STILL super sucks nowadays), which depending on how you were connecting your old machine to the internet, the only solution was “… Buy a different network card/Switch ISPs entirely”

Linux has gotten a lot better about just. Supporting hardware in general. And once you GET a Linux distro (any) on the internet, your life gets much easier.

In conclusion, your experience here can be what you make of it; don’t be afraid to just block the parts that stress you out. You’re not “creating an echo chamber” as everyone likes to say (often in bad faith) – you’re just taking care of yourself.

We really, REALLY need to de-stigmatize blocking people. Bad-faith concern trolls have successfully convinced people that “choosing not to interact with someone” is akin to censorship and also bad for us because what do you MEAN you don’t want to be disrespected by a complete stranger? Are you creating an echo chamber by preferring to be with people who are nice to you?!?!?!?

Like. No. Fuck off. That’s not how it works in real life. We’re not friends. We’re not even co-workers for me to be stuck having to be polite to you even if you’re an asshole.

You’re a complete stranger and you’re saying rude shit at me (or even at other people with me bearing witness), at best I’ll walk away because I don’t need that shit, at worst I’ll call you a wanker and hit you in the face.

The Parahumans: Worm (2011)

Why though?

Two things, really. First, I’m not a tech guy. I’m a writer with mild interest in technology and science. The whole thing is drowned in jargon and it honestly feels to me like a lot of it is intentional. If something a. Is very complicated; b. Doesn’t hook me; and c. It is not my job to know it… I can’t be arsed to research it.

Second, and more relevant if less respectable – Negative emotional vibes. Too many bad experiences with The Worst People On The Internet ™ being all over crypto.

🤔

WELL. I will concede on the thing about american dollar hegemony. Even I, a crypto hater, would be stupid to pretend cryptocurrency didn’t at all move the needle on that. I’ve seen it benefit third world people with my eyes (I live in the third world, hi)

Other than that I’ll just nod and say ‘yes’ because I really don’t care enough to research into crypto (imma h8r), so I’ll assume you’re right. [nods] “yes”

That said. MAN, you must hate the kind of company you end up stuck with. Crypto as far as I know is MOSTLY very weird AnCap types

A Marxist Cryptobro

Can I put you in a glass display case? You are an incredibly rare and incredibly strange specimen.

Muh prompts tho /s

Yes I most definitely mean the recent hype train from the likes of chatGPT which kickstarted a market bubble.

… Because if I were to include all Machine Learning, that’d be silly. We’ve been using things with machine learning in it for decades now and – No one cares. It’s the best kind of technology in that it is invisible.