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Imagine you’re a horrible misogynist who has the drive to have sex with a woman, but you don’t like the idea of actually having to touch one. If only there was something feminine but not a woman. Something that could understand a man in the way only a man can, but at the same time is not quite as strong and powerful as a man…

The Chinese AI paradox: Either it will be allowed to criticise the CCP and be ultimately shut down by the CCP because such criticism is not allowed, or it will not, hence being untrusted by anyone who is not a fan of the CCP.

You might be thinking of lzip rather than lz4. Both compress, but the former is meant for high compression whereas the latter is meant for speed. Neither are particularly good at dealing with highly redundant data though, if my testing is anything to go by.

Either way, none of those are installed as standard in my distro. xz (which is lzma based) is installed as standard but, like lzip, is slow, and zstd is still pretty new to some distros, so the recipient could conceivably not have that installed either.

bzip2 is ancient and almost always available at this point, which is why I figured it would be the best option to stand in for gzip.

As it turns out, the question was one of data streams not files, and as at least one other person pointed out, brotli is often available for streams where bzip2 isn’t. That’s also not installed by default as a command line tool, but it may well be that the recipient, while attempting to emulate a browser, might have actually installed it.

“Just the tip, I promise”

The article writer kind of complains that they’re having to serve a 10MB file, which is the result of the gzip compression. If that’s a problem, they could switch to bzip2. It’s available pretty much everywhere that gzip is available and it packs the 10GB down to 7506 bytes.

That’s not a typo. bzip2 is way better with highly redundant data.

It’s a bit vanilla but I like DejaVu Sans Mono 8pt in my terminal, which is where I edit scripts and things

Curiously, I don’t think that looks quite as good at larger sizes, so I’ve been using Liberation Mono 9pt or 10pt elsewhere.

Both of those have distinct glyphs for the usual easily confused candidates. Can’t be having my lowercase L’s and 1s looking similar.

Even the old monolithic sites started out with a lot of tech folks as the initial population. It’s tech. Such is the way of things.

Here maybe the effect is stronger because of the similar ethos between the Fediverse and free software like Linux.

Give it time.

Gotta wait for Nigel Farage and other gammons to not be quite so much of a threat before that decision can be addressed properly.

In the meantime, things like this are the probably the best way to go about it.

Yeah, I was about to go to bed when I was writing that. “Several” or “a few” would have been better.

It’s 1375 and I’m asphyxiating somewhere in the Milky Way about 600 light years from Earth.

But let’s assume that somehow my latitude, longitude and altitude relative to Earth somehow remain the same. Now I’m spawning several feet in the air probably in sight of several villagers. If I’m lucky, they’ll think I was sent by God. If not I’m gonna have a real bad time. There’s a good chance I’ll break a bone in the fall, and that’s not going to go well at all.

But let’s assume there are trees here. Lots of them. That’s actually pretty likely. They hide my sudden appearance and mitigate bone breakages.

Now I’m on the outskirts of a village, battered and bruised and very strangely dressed. I don’t speak any language they’ll understand despite technically being from that area. Middle English is the language of the day, and I speak something that won’t evolve for at least another 200-250 years. Shakespeare is technically modern English and is hard to comprehend sometimes. Here we’re talking Chaucer and that’s pretty much opaque.

I’m literate, but not in Latin, and that’s the language of the Church. I’m numerate, but they haven’t got beyond Roman numerals yet.

I’m not even sure where the church is. I know where it is in the modern day, but that building’s no more than 200 years old. Maybe it’s on the same site. I’d head there for shelter at least.

I know the Lord’s Prayer in modern English. Chanting that quietly might spark some recognition in anyone present but then it might count as blasphemy to say it in anything other than Catholic-Church-approved Latin.

Come to think of it, I could probably blow a couple of minds by writing the alphabet they know and then the same with the extra letters that have been added since.

And then I’d be burned as a witch.

You want a website and software that does Lemmy and Mastodon at the same time? That’d be kbin / mbin.

In part because of the kbin creator’s real world struggles, it hasn’t really taken off quite as well as Lemmy has, but its successor mbin is in use in a few places. I’m currently on fedia.io which is an mbin instance, for example.

Doesn’t look like it to me. https://www.dafontfree.io/impact-font/ shows lowercase that’s radically different to this. Look at the y for example.

That doesn’t rule out variant glyphs or another member of a hypothetical Impact family, but I’m leaning towards no.

For me it’s a vowel sound, sure, but the mouth is definitely in, or moves to, the position it would be if a pronounced R, and presumably a vowel, was about to follow.

Probably more so than in the pronunciation of name of the letter R itself, in fact, which is indistinguishable from “ah”.

But perhaps more importantly, no, we generally don’t say “brr” anyway, except in exaggeration or for effect. You’re more likely to hear something like “it’s bl–dy freezing” or “my hands/feet are like ice”.

Ehh. Old 8-bit machines had no trouble with the veritable Gordian knots written by kids in their bedrooms back in the day, so any chip’s gonna be fine.

That’s not to say this chip wouldn’t run it better…

“Mooom, he’s on my side of the car! He’s touching me! Make him stop!”

“I’m not touching you! You’re on my side of the car! You’re touching me! Mom, it’s all his fault.”

Try preceding the hash with a backslash. Not all of the Fediverse supports all of the same parts of Markdown when viewing posts between instances, but that one ought to be reasonably standard.

# If you see this line preceded by a hash, that’s because it actually starts with \#.

Based on the positions of the "bonk"s and "ow"s, I posit that the target is a sentient floating torus.

Paired with the recent change that Oscar award judges are no longer allowed to skip parts of the media they’re reviewing (because apparently that was a thing), the number of AI slop movies is going to be absolutely gruelling for them to wade through.

One possible outcome is that this means AI kills the Oscars… but it’s more likely to get that watch-all rule rolled back.

And either way, it would probably mean that we’ll never see another 2001: A Space Odyssey again because a bunch of that movie looks like AI slop.

… I just realised this means that AI-generated movies could well end up being trained - accidentally or on purpose - to determine what would generate the most Oscars by exploiting underlying psychology that exists only in the sort of people who are employed as Oscar judges, but which somehow manages to mostly exclude everyone else.

That said, many people disagree with the Oscar nominations and awards anyway, so whether that makes any real difference is probably moot.

Yeaaah, you’re gonna need to re-evaluate that cis-het label, friend. I like and respect the guy too, but if some miracle turn of events ended with he and I in the same time and place and he asked me for that, I’d politely but firmly decline. And then maybe enquire if his wife knew about this.

I’d probably be more comfortable if she put him up to it, but it’d still be a no.

Henrietta Lacks hasn’t managed it yet. Look her up. It’s at least as bad as this if not more so.

“Yet” being the operative word here. There’s a disease in dogs that started in some very similar circumstances (although happening in nature rather than from a science accident). One slip-up from an immunocompromised tech with just the right genetic make-up and it begins.