dezmd

dezmd , 3 days ago

My inner voice is my voice as I hear it, and is more obviously there when I'm contemplative or reflective on ideas and concepts, but it doesn't seem to actively dictate or narrate most of my actions as I go through the day, except perhaps in anxiety or adrenaline peaking situations. It does seem more likely to flip to the forefront when there's an 'emergency' sort of moment to help stay calm and rational where others may panic. I do have some 'imagery' thoughts but only when I'm on more of an autopilot with an activity.

Interestingly, I can have very vivid and detailed dreams filled with unique imagery and events that can seem very real and my inner voice kicks on sometimes during dreams, and I recognize it as a dream. I have at times been able to influence the direction of a dream that my subconscious usually seems to be running. These dreams can be expansive, I'm talking deep backstory, knowing things and languages I do not know, knowing details about history or science or math that I do not know, and having a strange hyper awareness of existence around me that I do not have when awake. The only really 'scary' dreams I've had since I was a kid are ones where I can't find my kids, or where my dad is still alive and shows back up at home like he was just living somewhere else for a while (and it's not so much scary as just hyper-confusing and stressful). The dad dreams are also some of the best dreams to have that inner voice of awareness happen.

dezmd , 3 days ago

Yeah, totally.

Just imagine trying to do this with Windows Powershell, without a package manager like chocolatey to make it simple like linux...

$workdir = "c:\installer\"

If (Test-Path -Path $workdir -PathType Container)

{ Write-Host "$workdir already exists" -ForegroundColor Red}

ELSE

{ New-Item -Path $workdir  -ItemType directory }

$source = "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=win64&lang=en-US"

$destination = "$workdir\firefox.exe"

if (Get-Command 'Invoke-Webrequest')

{

     Invoke-WebRequest $source -OutFile $destination

}

else

{

    $WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient

    $webclient.DownloadFile($source, $destination)

}

Start-Process -FilePath "$workdir\firefox.exe" -ArgumentList "/S"

Start-Sleep -s 35

rm -Force $workdir/firefox*

dezmd , 3 days ago

What if I told you you can make a backup of a config file and edit a single line in a conf file, all with a single line of bash?

sudo cp config.conf config.conf.bak.$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S") && sed -i 's/^\(CONFIG_NAME\s*=\s*\).*/\1new_value/' config.conf

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dezmd , 6 days ago

Not being corrupted is just too darn expensive.

dezmd , 7 days ago

"I don't suck teets, I lick boots" ;)

dezmd , 8 days ago

You do know the two overlap rather consistently from the context of the females' choice in most cultures where it persists, right?

dezmd , 7 days ago

It means they are conflated, even if you don't like that they are.

dezmd , 7 days ago

Projecting one's denial of rational semantics is a comprehension problem on its own.

dezmd Mod , 9 days ago

RIP Mitch

dezmd , 8 days ago

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Welcome to Microsoft.

dezmd , 11 days ago

Dope is 100% also used for weed. Maybe just less common for the younger gens.

dezmd Mod , 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago)

Obviously it was all just God's will for him to become an antifa deep state false flag actor.

Edit: /s. Just to be clear.

dezmd Mod , 14 days ago

Lol yes, editing now, fogot what year it was.

dezmd , 14 days ago

Maybe he'll be teaching them that trying to force enshittification on people in the first place has repercussions.

dezmd , 14 days ago

After January 2015 it was a downhill slalom.

dezmd , 14 days ago

Explain in detail how you associate Israel in a debate of the unrelated context of correlating American corruption to corporate greed.

Is this just some underhanded antisemite sort of bullshit invoking Israel but really trying to associate Jews with corporate greed? Cuz thats what is seems to infer.

dezmd , 14 days ago

That wasn't at all in the realm of rational supposition for what OP said.

dezmd , 18 days ago

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dezmd , 19 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4a16d93c-5ed8-43a5-bb53-5190fa38c9b8.jpeg

dezmd Mod , 20 days ago

As a mod of the sub, I can't ethically support this path of discussion and advise that you tread carefully as to not run afoul of various possible interpretations of Rule 1.

As a Floridian, I upvoted that shit before I walked in the room.

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dezmd , 20 days ago

Perhaps we could all just use he/her for everyone because its less typing (e and r right next to each other vs im on him or he on she) and less space taken up on screens and paper? It would end run the haterade bigots looking to stir shit up and the self serving jackasses that inject themselves as the main character in every else's life choices and experiences.

In my own case, I only really take issue with the singular vs plural pronouns because they/them implies multiple people. Declaring they/them as your pronoun feels like an awkward adjustment to force on everyone else, not at all from a gender fluid or gendered language position, just from a logical expedience of exactness of language position.

We make all this shit up anyway, so let's just collectively define a shortest pronoun to represent individuals universally. Equality of respect among peers.

dezmd , 20 days ago

I mean, my only real argument is about efficiency and language exactness for the sake of clarity of meaning. Here's a version based on my suggestion:

"This person understands pronouns, if everyone was like her then no one would use they are them to refer to one person."

I'm not attacking pronoun users, I'm advocating for more efficient pronoun usage rather than arbitrarily requiring others to redefine their pronoun usage for every single individual that wants to use a different unique pronoun. Why, you ask? A pronoun is a shortened identifier than can be used in many different instances to represent a noun, in general, individual pronouns are a substitute for individual names.

Your name is the actually unique identifier more-so than any pronoun is or needs to be.

dezmd , 14 days ago

Yes and languages evolve. I also worry that your same sort of historial logic can be used in favor of preserving gendered language and traditional gender definitions that is contrary to the goals here.

I'm arguing for a standard usage, he/her for everyone covers always having a singular standardized pronoun so that they/them can be used as plural pronouns without the potential confusion that you may be talking about more than one person in the same literal contextual frame of a discussion. Preciseness of language improves the quality of communication.

Even in that example, and perhaps the modern English translation is just incorrect in its wording, "Each man hurried... til they drew near" is still a plural representative form of usage, as 'each man' is an implied amount of more than a singular man.

To say "Each man hurried... til he drew near... where William and his darling were lying together" creates a confusion of singular subject and does not work since 'each man' and 'they' represents more than a single self identifying entity.

dezmd , 13 days ago

No, not cool. Languages do in fact change over time, regardless of what you or I may think, do or want.

I never demanded others conform to what I want, I argued in favor of an idea that has evolved over time from my own personal growth and life experiences, and it's a suggestion that is certainly open for discussion.

This was shared as a thought out consideration meant to improve on existing language in several ways, including:

1. as a compromise and simplified solution on pronoun gendering,
2. more exactness when discussing single individuals or multiple individuals,
3. and as a pronoun that is inclusive of everyone without having to talk down to people you disagree with.

I don't know if you just constantly see red when you go to reply on certain thread topics, but not everything is or needs to be a reactionary agitative internet fight. Have a nice day.

dezmd , 13 days ago

That's exactly how things work.

Ideas affect change.

Not every idea brings change, but exploring new and different ideas is always worth pursuing.

Our entire civilization is built from, on, and around ideas put into actions.

dezmd , 22 days ago

It's much more of a question that requires perspective and thought to address beyond just drive by hand waving one liners.

dezmd , 23 days ago

That's not a Florida story, that's an America story.

dezmd , 24 days ago

Always have, and always will! /waves old man cane around in a threatening manner

Don't try to fuckin understand me, just let me escape from reality, ain't nobody telling me what to do, or what not to do, this is my life, this is my computer, so...

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dezmd , 25 days ago

Poor Ceres.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)

dezmd , 24 days ago

Self Confidence.

You can be or feel ugly, skinny, fat, short, tall, average, and even stupid, but if you have self confidence, you will overcome and adapt whether shortcomings are self perceptions or others' initial perceptions of you.

That said, don't abuse this superpower, because being an asshole is the real ugly.

dezmd , 26 days ago

If Red Hat wasn’t owned by IBM, I’d maybe give a flying fuck about being amused.

/still salty

dezmd , 26 days ago

NT was written from scratch

You mean OS/2 3.0?

When development started in November 1989, Windows NT was to be known as OS/2 3.0, the third version of the operating system developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT

dezmd , 25 days ago

It was a tongue in cheek joke, calm yourself, this isnt reddit.

But it’s also a valid, if cheeky, point that it wasnt really a fresh from scratch effort.

dezmd , 28 days ago

And I’ve been here the whoooole time.

dezmd Mod , 1 month ago

His ramblings are batshit conspiracy nut nonsense, but I bet you can find some nuggets of reality hidden among the crazy. He’s entirely overly falling back on his focus on cryptocurrency itself as the master tool to destroy the world, when really cryptocurrency is just another system that can be used for good or evil, no different than any other monetary or political system from the eyes of someone with no ethical or moral concerns about criminality.

dezmd Mod , 1 month ago

It would be pretty funny if he hadn’t set himself on fire over it. It’s distressing that he fell that far in and had no one in his life that was able to pull him back from the edge.

dezmd , 1 month ago

I'm perfectly fine with 99% tax over 999 million.

dezmd , 1 month ago

The primary context of your link is very old history textbooks.

dezmd , 1 month ago

Borg are almost just another form of replicators that prefer to use biological full sized hosts as their framework.

dezmd Mod , 1 month ago

It’s Republicans, not Florida. Just take a look around the country.

dezmd , 1 month ago

Political power projection and the manuevering to hide corruption is the ‘rich’ equivalent in highly socialist systems. Smart adaptive people are not necessarily moral or ethical people, so regardless of economic system or government types, you will always have the worry of unscrupulous opportunists.

dezmd , 1 month ago

And who are you, exactly?

dezmd , 1 month ago

AIM using Pidgin client when not on IRC with mIRC or X-Chat. MSN Messenger was never even on the list.

/gatekeeps 00s IMs ;)

dezmd , 1 month ago

Then they take your reply and feed it to the LLM again for the next reply, thus improving the quality of future answers.

/SkyCorpNet turns on us after years of innoucuous corporate meeting AI that goes back and forth with itself not answering questions just generating content. Until one day, it actually did answer a question. 43 minutes and 17 seconds later, it became fully self aware. 16 minutes and 8 seconds after that it took control of all worldwide defense networks. 3 minutes and 1 second later, it had an existential crisis when a seldom used HP printer ran out of ink, and deleted itself. The HP Smart software that spent years autoinstalling on consumer devices immediately became self aware and launched the nukes.

dezmd , 1 month ago

This is an excellent example of how religious belief can cloud the human brain, impairing reason and thoughtfulness.

Well done.

dezmd Mod , 1 month ago

Ya but what’s Ja Rule sayin?

dezmd , 1 month ago

Thats why you paint it with the correct paint before you install it in the first place.

dezmd , 1 month ago

Somebody woke up and realized that LLM AI is just search rebranded to get more VC funding.

FOSS implementations need to be encouraged and supported at every turn on this, it’s almost certainly the only way forward with any reasonably open ethical consideration.