I have struggled with feeling lonely during different times in my life. I found I was attached to preconceived outcomes and some unhappiness I was feeling stemmed from that. When I stopped searching, I learned to find. I stopped trying to plug that hole and I sat uncomfortably in my loneliness. I’m definitely still a work in progress, but now I try to enjoy my time with people, to be more in the moment and less “10 steps ahead”. Now, most of the time, my loneliness doesn’t live on the surface, just in that occasional existential dread of knowing that one day I will have to die. I hope someone I love will be there to hold my hand, and I’m scared to be alone. That’s a heavy weight and I sometimes wish I was too stupid to recognize our mortality so I didn’t have to wrestle with it.

When I was young, I had my parents, grandparents, even great grandparents, and thought I always would. I was friends with a bunch of kids in the neighborhood and at school. I’m down to one parent and a super young and hip grandparent in-law in their 90s. When everyone was sick with Covid and my partner was feeling the stress too, there were times I felt very alone and I really felt the weight of having nobody to lean on in those moments because everyone was just as overwhelmed as me. It’s an uncomfortable part of the human experience. I try not to put all my eggs in one basket, but as an introvert it can be hard to maintain a large circle of support. Hopefully some of that answers the question. I’m curious how others see it.

It would be pretty cool. I doubt EVs enjoy being ground up in a hardcore woodchipper.

…and one of those giant pneumatic crushers. I bet if you crushed enough cars they’d work a little harder to keep it from happening.

No real mention of the parents other than a line about how they’re lining up to sue too. When I was a kid, my parents made me log every moment I spent in front of the computer in a book along with what I was doing. I got into some stuff, but I also got sat down and talked to a few times. Many of my friends had to share phones with siblings. The computer was in a public space and we were all told to never use our real name online. Where did things go wrong and why?

I dislike Meta an FB a lot, but I think it’s ridiculous to make them responsible for every kid in America. Isn’t there a confirmation dialogue that says you’re not allowed to use it if you are under 13? The parents gave them a tool that can be used to look up >>>almost anything<<<. Thats like handing your kid a metaphorical RPG and sending them out the door to go play. Making sure kids have guidance and help in developing media literacy is at least partially the parents job.

Having said that, I do think there is a lot of other bad stuff META did that should have already put them out of business. In my opinion, they’re obviously a bad actor but blaming them infantalizes everyone else. Poor little Americans, powerless against the big bad Meta. Also, why is it okay to manipulate adults? If anything, these feeds should be boldly labeled as “does not reflect reality”, or “this content has been algorithmically selected to be addictive, take frequent breaks, touch grass”

I read that the one of the differences between Organic Maps and CoMaps is that the server side code for CoMaps is FOSS, while some of the server side code for Organic Maps is not. I hope I understood that correctly. I have Organic Maps installed because it was in the GrapheneOS app store.

If CoMaps has open server-side code, could I create my own map tiles with the best bike routes in my area and self-host them for myself and my friends? I find that google, bing, OpenStreetMap, etc all suck at recognizing good bike routes in my area and hand-curated routes are much better. I’d prefer to hand-curate the best routes color coded based on perceived safety and whether they are daytime only routes or acceptable for nighttime travel. Is something like this doable with CoMaps?

"You have selected ‘Caucasian Christian’. Permanent light mode has been activated and you can no longer look up porn on Sunday.

You have selected “Arabic Muslim”, sensor access has automatically been granted to determine when you are facing Mecca. If you have too many friendly fire incidents in CoD, the US will deploy reaper drones to your IRL GPS location.

On a more serious note:

There’s been a lot of talk about protecting kids, but none about protecting grandma from scams and AI misinformation if her systemd age field indicates she’s 65 or older. Why is that? Is it because kids don’t have rights, so who cares if by protecting them we prevent them from developing a shred of digital literacy? Or is it because the over 65’s can vote and kids can’t?

So in other words, “Sure we built the people-crushing machines, but we didn’t wire them up or turn them on.”

You got me interested now. 5-10 years ago I drove out to Seattle and set up camp outside of Bozeman, MT for the night to save on hotel costs. Slept on top of my car under the open star filled sky. I still think Montana is one of my top 5 most beautiful states. I’m curious to see it represented in a video game.

5 years ago or so I also stayed in Montrose, CO where much of Homefront takes place. They captured the vibe fairly well.

Damn, people are coming out of the woodwork to +1 this one. Guess it’s gonna be a “must play”!

Just overheard the bad guy who killed me say “Ich pisse auf deine Leiche.” (I piss on your corpse) 🤣

Agreed. To elaborate:

Sure, the developer is a bit of a Judas for complying in advance, but our anger should be aimed at the people with power and reach promoting these laws in the political sphere (the metaphorical Pharisees).

To those saying “it’s just a field”, please consider that the timing is a more significant statement than the addition of the field itself. Why now? If you don’t support fascism, don’t build the frameworks that support it and don’t let fascists use YOUR platforms or software to make THEIR point, make them fork it and let them fail. I don’t think many members of the senate or house would be capable of adding this themselves. I’d be surprised if they could code hello world in TI-83 BASIC. If they ask you to do it, stub your toe and call in sick. Make it really shitty. Leave in a bunch of bugs that crash the program then blame the age attestation feature to turn users against it. Use copywrited code that they’ll have to remove later due to license incompatibilities. Report your boss to HR for every indiscretion that you might have normally overlooked. Or do nothing; that’s still better than complying in advance.

We have to break the narrative that this is inevitable. There’s enough of us, with concentrated enough knowledge and influence (aka, you folks are a bunch if nerds and I love it!), that if we collectively stop, the whole train stops or derails.

I hear you 100%. This sort of shit comes back with a different name each year. I am SOOOO sick of voting down abortion bans every election cycle.

26 US states, including mine, have initiative or referendum processes allowing citizens to place an issue on the ballot. In some states, that’s how the anti-abortion laws are ending up on the ballot, but we an use their own tools against them. In many states, these initiatives failed so we know we have a minimum of 51% support if it’s a law, and at least 33% support if it’s an amendment (depending on that state and their rules). Polling shows, an even larger percentage, most Americans, do not support these laws. The numbers are on our side.

https://ballotpedia.org/States_with_initiative_or_referendum

If we can collect enough signatures, the voters can put an end to this. If we add it to the state constitution, where the process allows this, we can completely prevent laws doing this from being considered because the only thing that can overrule a constitutional amendment is another constitutional amendment.

I’m gauging interest to do this in Colorado to foil age attestation laws, but we could potentially end the back and forth bullshit in multiple states.

I’m sure the trees appreciate the AI sicofancy. /s

Protip, you can use your hostsfile or your router to block google so you don’t get tempted. If you may have to bypass, you can use some blocking extensions to allow an override after a nag screen chastising yourself for being weak willed. I rarely reach for the goog nowadays because I have a whole workflow I go through before giving in.

This looks really cool. Can’t believe I haven’t heard of it before. I’m a bit of a casual and I play mostly sandbox games like Minecraft and Cities Skylines. Thanks for helping me scratch my once or twice a year FPS itch.

That’s what AI told me, but I trust it more coming from a real player. Thanks for the tip on the order as storyline is important to me. I speak fluent German, so I might find some of the obscure jokes and references others miss. Looking forward to playing it through.

I forgot about Farcry! I loved the original and replayed it many times, but Farcry 2 wasn’t my jam. Maybe 3 could make me love the franchise again.

No issues running with max graphics on a laptop with a 20xx series card, though it started as such a tiny window I could barely read the menu to make it full screen.

It definitely had that early 2000s vibe, but I actually prefer the controls over many modern games. Nowadays games are like “press E to sneak”, “press E to kill the guard”, “press E to climb to safety”, “press E really quick to overpower the attacker”.

My favorite part is “Do you want to exit to Windows?” Windows. Yes, that’s definitely what I’m playing this on. :-P /s

There are worse hobbies. There’s also no shortage of items to try.

Ideas:

• eyeglasses
• braces
• bra underwire
• Freddy’s hand
• Edward Scissorhand’s hand
• fake flowers with a wire core
• bread bag ties
• beer cans
• tire tread reinforcement
• a knight in chainmail
• Christmas tree tinsel
• photoframe
• tie clip
• tooth fillings
• a bicycle
• a tricycle
• chain link fence
• chastity belt
• hammer
• aluminum wrapped baked potato

I wonder how far one of these would fly if it wandered onto a road and got hammered by a semi doing 55mph.