A large part of art - and I would argue, the majority of it - is the sapient being behind the art who understands the art they are creating.
Doesn’t matter if it is a painting, a novel, or a sculpture, the art is a product of the artist.
And when a non-sapient and even non-sentient machine makes said “art”, it isn’t art any more than if a salamander accidentally dropped from a tree onto the freshly-loaded palette, and then crawled over the canvas.
BRAIN BLEACH
WHERE IS MY FUCKING BRAIN BLEACH
GODDAMMIT WHERE DID I PUT MY BRAIN BLEACH
Now that ASP.net is multi-platform as DotNet, it should really be rotated through that list a second time, preferably around 2024.
Seriously, DotNet makes Java look like nothing has happened with it since 2008.
And even in terms of web work, Blazor WebAssembly is neck-and-neck with Rust, and is even beating it in speed for some specific configs.
Economics is not a science any more than acupuncture, chiropractic, crystal healing, or aromatherapy.
Economics is trying to force ideology by finding favourable patterns that match the symptom and then ignoring the rest. Like trickle-down economics or shareholder primacy. It’s a lot of bullshit with some truth sprinkled throughout.
Source: BBA in Accounting.
I have always wondered if some griefer could find an exploit that leveraged the ban hammer… and used a script that just banned everyone.
Like, literally everyone. All at once. Bots. Humans. Mods. Admins. No distinction. If you log in using the front door, the account is banned.
I’m not much for chaos, but abrupt chaos at a deserving target would be enjoyable to rubberneck at.
Conservatism is corruption. Conservatism is poison. Conservatism is evil.
Yes, but if Dems remain in the minority, it’ll still be a Republican majority, giving them more time to dismantle democracy even further.
It’s the bigger picture which is most important. You cannot create lasting local change without removing the autocratic boot from above.
I mean, yes, let’s make these transphobe Dems as uncomfortable as possible. But America needs to roll back the fascism and authoritarianism, first. Without that first step, every other positive action is a house built on sand - it can be blown away from the top with infinite ease. And then it’s 1939 Germany all over again with pink triangles and pogroms aplenty.
And honestly, I see that outcome as the much, much worse one.
The one on the right can still have the boot’s tab slip under the plug’s tab, preventing the plug’s tab from being physically depressed far enough to release the plug from the socket.
Choosing between the party where every elected official wants to unalive you, vs the party where only a handful want to do the same…
Yeah, that is a tough one. Really difficult decision, there.
The more Conservative, the more Corrupt.
Get an extra roller kit and fuser kit, and you should be golden for the next two decades. The cartridges aren’t going away any time soon.
Yes but JetDirect is still cheaper and better integrated. There is the issue with outdated certificates and max. TLS 1.2 with the print server, but in a home/SOHO environment this should not be a critical security shortfall.
You know, vintage printers offer much the same.
I have an HP 4050DTN from a good quarter century ago that has no DRM of any kind, no tracking dots, no reporting home to the mothership, is eminently repairable, and can accept overstuffed toner cartridges that are advertised to do 20,000 sheets at 5% coverage.
And the toner claim largely bears out. Two degrees later and I’m only on my third cartridge in the machine’s entire life. Last I ran a duty report the sheet count was getting close to 50k. Low 40s, at the very least. So it’s tracking decently close.
Sure, it now needs some parts refreshed. Rollers, fuser, and so forth. After a quarter century of use I would be surprised if something wasn’t starting to go. But parts are still readily available and surprisingly cheap. I mean, I have the parts in, I just haven’t had the time yet to swap them in.
The only downside of kit this old is that networking was an afterthought. Most units will come with USB, DIN-8, serial, and parallel ports, but finding a good JetDirect Ethernet network card - ideally 635n or newer - is difficult and expensive (the 615n bricked itself with distressing regularity, avoid at all costs).
I also have an HP 5000DTN that is of the identical build quality and can do oversized sheets up to 11×17. Beautiful machine in its early-2000s brutalist beigeness.
So if you want HP at their peak of printer glory, long before enshittification set in, hop on over to Wikipedia and consider any LaserJet model first released before 2006-2012.
My horizontal screens have this exact resolution.
My natively-vertical screens (EIZO RadiForce RX320) fuck things up even more with a 1536×2048 resolution. And yes, natively vertical, so sub-pixel rendering works exactly as intended.
Electron was a colossal mistake.
Anyone using Electron to build any greenfield app is a fucking moron, full stop.
When you have to consume 300+Mb of memory just to display 15Kb of text, when the exact same thing can be done in native code for less than 2Mb of memory, “moron” is the kind and gentle word to use.
It’s always someone saying, “AI is fine to use if you use it for [skill that is outside my wheelhouse], but you shouldn’t use it for [skills I depend on to make a wage].”
Like, even as a software dev I acknowledge there are places where it should be readily used in directly making software, and places where it should never touch the actual code.
How TF does this happen to a book sitting in your hands? I have never had this happen to any of my books, hardcover or paperback.
Provisionally agree.
Advanced degrees are for focused expertise far beyond the norm.
Liberal arts education is for that cognitive foundation that massively increases intellectual effectiveness across the entire spectrum.
IME this caused all clients to disconnect and cease being able to auth. I just don’t run mixed auth for that reason.
2.4Ghz/W.G has WPA2 and 5Ghz/W.N/W.AC has WPA3. That’s what works for me on my LinkSys WRT 3200AC.