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  • Don't use drugs. It will destroy your life.

    By that, I mean the state and corporations will destroy your life for using drugs. How dare you buy illegal devil street heroin because your doctors stopped prescribing you totally reasonably priced and non-addictive Oxycodone® (which your insurance declined to even subsidize) for your spinal injury from when you got hit by an oversized gas guzzling pickup truck going 2mph

  • Work from home
  • My employer provides us with a "tech allowance" as a bonus every month

    It's not enough to buy a barely functional work laptop, but you can "buy a laptop" through them, and then forfeit the bonus until it's "paid off"

    I'm kinda awful with money, so I pretty much need every cent I can get. That bonus goes towards keeping my head above water in the debt trap I'm in.

    So my "work computer" which requires their spyware antivirus to be installed is a virtual machine. It's been two years and no complaints so far. Great antivirus.

  • Changing interests [Haus of Decline]
  • hey hey hi there mr tony

    Here are all the people who deployed me

    • The Botswana defense force
    • Michael Hunt
    • Eric
    • Anthony Fantano
    • Bladimir Butin
    • Bladimir Butin2
  • Play stupid games, win stupid prize
  • Is this like getting banned from an escape room because you brought (and used) a live grenade to solve the puzzle

    (I think they have a strict no-grenades-from-home policy, usually)

  • To all you outside of the US...
  • America sneezes, the world catches a drone strike or something

  • New German Citizenship Law Requires Applicants to Declare Israel's 'Right to Exist'
  • Sure whatever

    Will they stop dropping bombs on civilians in Gaza now?

  • Coomitter be like
  • "Hey Bob, you've worked on the Linux kernel before, can you handle this CPU scheduler problem we're having? Shouldn't take you too long. We need it done before lunch"

  • How long would it take to create a Pyramid today?
  • They really selling musical instruments out of there?

  • It's like a more challenging version of the trolley problem
  • sometimes meat companies do a pro gamer move and turn dead donkeys into extra profit

    rascals

  • JFK Airport. I'm not taking their advice.
  • Make sure you service pet dogs every 10k barks

  • My mom's doctor be like
  • give pregnant mums zyn

  • I fucking hate the job search
  • remember to be back by 12:30 for the standup at 12:45

    you should have finished eating by then

  • NSFW
    420
  • I assume it's a typo since it's not capitalized nor in the community name

    I'm not brave enough to verify. If it turns out to stand for ferret or something, I don't think I could survive seeing that.

  • NSFW
    it is kinda crazy "fuck this shit" hasn't become a common acronym yet
  • I feel like saying the full thing relieves some of the stress caused by said unfucked shit

  • I like to spread knowledge
  • they didn't have to do that but they did it anyway

    this is how history is made

    beautiful actually

  • Greek coastguard threw migrants overboard to their deaths, witnesses say
  • If hell is real it won't be adequate punishment for these assholes

  • Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay shaken after 'really bad' cycling accident in Connecticut
  • Feels weird calling that a bruise, even though that's what is

    Like, they should have a different name for it when it's that brutal holy shit

  • Researchers claim GPT-4 passed the Turing test
  • The participants judged GPT-4 to be human a shocking 54 percent of the time.

    ELIZA, which was pre-programmed with responses and didn’t have an LLM to power it, was judged to be human just 22 percent of the time

    Okay, 22% is ridiculously high for ELIZA. I feel like any half sober adult could clock it as a bot by the third response, if not immediately.

    Try talking to the thing: https://web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/eliza.html

    I refuse to believe that 22% didn't misunderstand the task or something.

  • STRANGE GIRLS

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13499393

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    Distro hoppers, what's always on your install list when you've finished setup and logged in for the first time?

    I wouldn't really call myself a distro hopper, but in the last few months I've had to do some fresh installs on a couple of machines and VMs for work

    If these aren't included by default, I'll make sure to get em:

    GUI:

    • Firefox & Chromium
    • Gimp & Krita
    • VSCode/VSCodium
    • Okular
    • Libre office

    CLI*:

    • git
    • wget&curl
    • neovim
    • zsh/ohmyzsh + plugins
    • glow
    • neofetch
    • figlet/toilet
    • zellij
    • python
    • nodejs/npm/nvm + nodemon globally
    • ranger/rifle

    Also, how do you go about migrating your old config and rc files? Start fresh or just copy em over and make adjustments where necessary?

    73
    Which terminal emulator do you use?

    I've always just used konsole or gnome terminal. Never really looked into what else is available. Tried cool-retro-term the other day, but the novelty wore off pretty fast for me.

    Curious to see if there's a terminal someone swears by and refuses to use anything else.

    181
    If you got COVID and lost the ability to taste things, did it ever come back? Otherwise, did you experience any other long term consequences from the pandemic in general?

    Never heard any follow ups on the taste thing, so I need answers

    4 years since 2020. Time really flies when a catastrophic global event hits you in the face

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    I fucking hate the modern web

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    Do you have a mantra that keeps you going through tough times?

    "it do be like that sometimes" is starting to lose it's magic a little

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    rule

    that guy's website is weird as shit

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    tourist tourist @lemmy.world

    i hate soup

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