fact check: they actually don't always do that, it's just sometimes

icymi, JD Vance is a vassal of Peter Thiel.

you could use the clipboard to copy the link and open it in another browser

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Deletionpedia_(4th_nomination) 😭

big oof.

We can conclude: that photo isn’t AI-generated. You can’t get an AI system to generate photos of an existing location; it’s just not possible given the current state of the art.

the author of this substack is woefully misinformed about the state of technology 🤦

it has, in fact, been possible for several years already for anyone to quickly generate convincing images (not to mention videos) of fictional scenes in real locations with very little effort.

The photograph—which appeared on the Associated Press feed, I think—was simply taken from a higher vantage point.

Wow, it keeps getting worse. They're going full CSI on this photo, drawing a circle around a building on google street view where they think the photographer might have been, but they aren't even going to bother to try to confirm their vague memory of having seen AP publishing it? wtf?

Fwiw, I also thought the image looked a little neural network-y (something about the slightly less-straight-than-they-used-to-be lines of some of the vehicles) so i spent a few seconds doing a reverse image search and found this snopes page from which i am convinced that that particular pileup of cars really did happen as it was also photographed by multiple other people.

🥛🤝🦆

(it's odd that PBS is promoting this, as it is actually a terf movement)

RedHat was a major military contractor with job postings like this current one [archive] long before they were bought by another older and larger military contractor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_World_War_II

https://web.archive.org/web/20240530005438/https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/israeli-defense-forces-case-study (original is 404 for some reason)

them: fedora is the lesser evil

me: but why do they have job listings like this [archive] with requirements like "This position requires daily on-site work at Fort Meade and an active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph" ? 🤔

they aren't the only animal that does it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoplasty#Animals

Lets Enhance is a pretty great supercut, but nothing beats the original Blade Runner scene.

enhance 224 to 176

enhance, stop

move in, stop

pull out, track right, stop

center and pull back, stop

track 45 right, stop

center and stop

enhance 34 to 36

pan right and pull back, stop

enhance 34 to 46

pull back, wait a minute, go right, stop

enhance 57 to 19

track 45 left, stop

enhance 15 to 23

give me a hardcopy right there

only hobbyists and artisans still use the standalone carrot.py that depends on peeler.

in enterprise environments everyone uses the pymixedveggies package (created using pip freeze of course) which helpfully vendors the latest peeled carrot along with many other things. just unpack it into a clean container and go on your way.

If they had just repeated what I had on my image, I wouldn’t have complained at all.

They posted my address. Stop blaming me for shit other people dead.

My assumption that whatever they posted came solely from your image was because they said:

That barcode above is your full address btw

to which you replied:

But the post didn’t until you posted it.

Do you see how someone looking at that exchange would read it as you acknowledging (via the word "But") that whatever they posted did in fact come from the barcode, and you are complaining about them decoding it?

If they in fact obtained and posted your full address via some other means, I'm sorry for misunderstanding - and curious how they learned it!

I'm still also confused by the fact that the barcode does not (as far as I can tell) contain a full address but rather just a zip+4 - which you also (still) have visible in text form in the image.

I'm really curious - was it actually your full address, or just your neighborhood? If the former, do you know how they learned it?!

From reading the thread (only after they had already edited their comment) my impression is that whatever they posted came solely from the image you posted. Was that not the case?

Apologies if I've misunderstood.

I didn’t. You posted my personal information on the Internet.

They did, but so did you. They could not have posted it in text form if you hadn't first posted it as a barcode which anyone (still) can decode.

i fully agree that they should have told you privately instead of posting it in text form, and i personally would have deleted their comment if it was on the instance where i could (and if they hadn't edited it already to remove your address).

however, i must say: you appear to be confused. it has been six hours since their initial comment pointing out that you are doxing yourself via that barcode, and it is clear from your replies that you desire not to have your address published here... yet somehow you have still not replaced the image with a version that censors your zip+4 code.

lemmy has an "edit post" function. if you don't want your address your approximate address to be public, you should edit the post to replace the image with one that censors that information. HTH!

(edit: at first i mistakenly thought the barcode contained your whole address but now i see it actually just has the zip+4 - which you also have left in text form, so, decoding the barcode isn't even necessary 🤡 )

The canonical documentation is https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst (ctrl-f oom) but if you search a bit you'll find various guides that might be easier to digest.

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/memory-overcommitment-oom-killer looks like an informative recent article on the subject, and reminds me that my knowledge is a bit outdated. (TIL about the choom(1) command which was added to util-linux in 2018 as an alternative to manipulating things in /proc directly...)

https://dev.to/rrampage/surviving-the-linux-oom-killer-2ki9 from 2018 might also be worth reading.

How to make your adjustments persist for a given desktop application is left as an exercise to the reader :)

I'm not sure what this comic is trying to say but in my recent experience a single misbehaving website can still consume all available swap at which point Linux will sometimes completely lock up for many minutes before the out-of-memory killer decides what to kill - and then sometimes it still kills the desktop environment instead of the browser.

(I do know how to use oom_adj; I'm talking about the default configuration on popular desktop distros.)

Eternal reminder that KillEmAll Harris was part of the Jerry Brown administration immortalized in California Uber Alles.

Almost. Same Jerry Brown, but a different administration and different century.

Harris was only 14 years old when California Uber Alles was released.

does your resume include a sokoban clone?

presumably they started with a base fine of $20 and simply multiplied it by 1000 for each of their time zones