Franconian_Nomad

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett:

right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY

[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 days ago

This is fun to read, but never happened.

LMMs have no problem indexing writing, no matter how it is written. Even if this was the case, Techbros don’t care about your blog. ChatGPT has indexed every book that has been published, your blog hardly matters to them. And it is not harder to index than the library of congress.

LMM suck, but posts like this are useless circlejerks about the supremacy over machines, when in fact the machines are already better in this area.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Where is this pic from?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I assume with a name like Rob Zombie it’s intentional…

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I‘m sure there is a „Metric“ song about this…

Found it. Handshakes by Metric:

Buy this car to drive to work Drive to work to pay for this car Bah bah bah-da la

Say you wanna get in And you're gonna get out But you won't 'Cause it's a trap

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

I think the first two books are rather weak, I recommend to skip them. After them it gets really, really good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Was listening to some computer podcast a while ago and the co-host and ex- hacker was saying that more and more VPNs are getting targeted and it’s just a matter of time we see quite a bit of them owned. (I think he was talking about implementation of VPNs for remote workers, rather than actual VPN providers. Sorry, it was some time ago)

Anyway, the host asked „What about wireguard?“

And the co-host: „Oh yeah, wireguard is solid! But all the services building up on wireguard? … They’ll get popped.“

Doesn’t have to be true, but something to keep in mind.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There’s a ballad about this, by the german poet Theodor Fontane. It’s called „Die Brück am Tay“.

Tand, Tand ist das Gebilde von Menschenhand…

It’s about that human engineering in the end is powerless against the forces Nature.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Br%C3%BCck%E2%80%99_am_Tay?wprov=sfti1#Inhalt

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Very well written! Makes me curious about the game, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

FUCK! I believed it.

 

Some time back my fat ass created a haircrack on the toilet seat when I was leaning over and concentrated my weight to much on one point. A few days ago a buddy visited and cracked it entirely.

So I went to the store, bought a new (sturdier) one and installed it. Wasn’t to difficult, only the old screws were bit tight.

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