@apophis @operationpuppet also it’s easier to complain louder when you know what’s happened

I know learning & switching to #Linux seems intimidating but imagine not being in a war of attrition with your own computer. #microslop

@apophis

@scarlet i think it’s been toxic since gamergate tbh

I just received a spam email from a hosting company that's rolling out an "AI" powered system administrator tool.

It "connects to your server via SSH and acts as an intelligent operator".

Um. Wow. This is really something.

Yeah, sure, let's all plug non-deterministic algorithms with high error rates into our servers with root access and let them run wild.

After all - what could go wrong? You know, besides literally everything.

@fluttergirly hey do you have any suggestions for games that are like ridge racer 3d but are on systems that are a little easier to emulate than the 3ds? also, know that a game’s style isn’t super important to me, so while you might like trackmania turbo more than the others, i’m probably gonna choose the others over turbo because it is “better” in the pc side of things

@the what happened?

whatever happened to tjhexf?

how it started: "Damned AGM scientists."
https://github.com/freedoom/freedoom/blob/a6d59821c1de1cb00a99cc6901000b8bfeaed73c/lumps/dehacked.lmp#L355

how it's going: "It's all just a cult. No other research remains. Horizon's centuries of science archives destroyed, thanks to the delusions of a few powerful men."
https://codeberg.org/mc776/LotansTomb/src/commit/b2871d14084fc466e060685ca866ef1bfb3e0dd7/lumps/dehacked/dehacked.txt#L595

@fluttergirly i think it’s because you have two youtube channels but specifically that the second channel is for racing games

going to the beach that makes you old but only long enough to become a hot 40-60 year old woman

originally, generative AI was approached as like. a shitpost machine, essentially, and that's what it still is, but people eventually started trying to pretend it's not just that. but to me its like. you want me to use the shitpost machine to do real work? no thanks lol

@apophis janitor/jannie is such a wonderful alternative name for “moderator” tbh. like it’s so cute

@apophis it took a moment for the image to load and i was genuinely disappointed it was a machine rather than a real arthropod or an illustration of an (optionally anthropomorphized) arthropod

@detondev i’m partial to 9 myself

@apophis i mean i’ve always thought it was a cute little play on the term “high tail”

https://www.reddit.com...
> My uncle worked for ICE for about 15 years before he retired last year. Family dinners got... complicated.

> Here's the thing nobody really talks about: the job attracts two very different types of people. There are folks who genuinely believe they're protecting communities and following the law as written, and then there are people who were probably looking for any job where they could exercise authority over vulnerable populations. My uncle was the former, but he'd come home with stories about the latter that made his stomach turn.

> He told me once about a case where they picked up a guy who'd been in the country for 20 years, owned a small restaurant, employed like a dozen people, had kids in college. No criminal record beyond the immigration violation. The guy's daughter showed up at the detention center and my uncle said watching her beg to see her dad through the glass was one of the worst moments of his career. He processed the paperwork because that was his job, but he stopped sleeping well after that.

> The cognitive dissonance was real. He'd justify it by saying "I don't make the laws, I just enforce them," but you could see it eating at him. He'd talk about actual dangerous people they'd caught—gang members, people with violent records—and feel good about that work. Then in the next breath he'd mention a grandmother getting picked up at a routine check-in after 30 years here, and he'd just... go quiet.

> What really got to me was how the job changed him. He used to be this warm, joking guy who'd give anyone the shirt off his back. By year 12 or 13, he'd become harder. More suspicious. Started talking about people as "illegals" instead of using their names. My aunt said he'd have nightmares and wouldn't talk about them.

> He retired early. Didn't even make it to his full pension. Last Thanksgiving he'd had a few drinks and admitted he wasn't sure anymore if he'd done more harm than good. Said the hardest part wasn't the job itself—it was realizing that following orders doesn't absolve you of responsibility for the outcomes.

> I don't have a clean answer here. I love my uncle. I also think the system he was part of is fundamentally broken and causes immense suffering. Both things are true, and I've had to learn to hold that tension without resolving it neatly.