request for financial help, please boost
One of my better friends is being evicted from their place in Orlando. They have a place to live, they just need some help getting there.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/cross-country-move-to-keokuk-iowa
I just discovered a block of IPs that has been purchased by a white supremacist and all-round fascist from NZ, under the name of a fake Australian chemical precessing company, which he uses to sell VPS hosting services to far-right groups all across the world.
The worst thing is that there is nothing I can do about it that isn't illegal.
Controversial opinion: Journalism should always represent an opinion; If you have an idea about the what is or should be that you believe is true, it would be immoral not to try and convince others. I don't mean that the news should be biased and not present the whole truth, but that it should go further than just collating facts and actually interpret them.
Friendly reminder: "X as a service" is just a misleading corporate euphemism for "pay forever for not owning it".
"Software as a service" actually means "pay forever for not owning the software".
"Games as a service" actually means "pay forever for not owning games".
"Infrastructure as a service" actually means "pay forever for not owning the hardware".
And so on.
There is no "cloud", it's just other people's computers
There is a real problem in the free software community and tech in general about homophobia, racism and sexism. The same thing happened in a popular Arch Linux Telegram channel, then they changed the channel logo but in a lot more violent. This is not OK.
Stimulus checks seem like an odd course of action in a world where a significant amount of shopping is done through international corporations like Amazon, rather than local businesses. When it was proposed that the NZ government could give all under 20's $500 ($300 USD), I started looking on Amazon for microscopes, not considering what local cafe to spend it at.
I realise I've never stated this clearly, so I will now. Please call me out/let me know, if I've said or inferred anything that is racist, ableist, anti-trans etc. I'm trying really hard to unlearn white supremacy, stop using ableist language etc, but I'm going to make mistakes. I'd rather know, so I can change that language/behaviour.
Deep Mind's new machine learning chatbot scores 91% as 'sensible' in conversation as the average human.
I wonder if there is a limit to how human a chatbot can seem without expressing other human-like characteristics. For example, does a chatbot need complex and genuine opinions about a film before it can have a 100% 'human' conversation about it? I'd guess yes because if it was simply generating typical responses then its opinion would break down at some point (eg. begin contradicting itself).
Amateur astronomy. Nim.