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gettodachoppa··on 1/3 of women < 44 have no children and the trend is rising. What is causing it?
If it was done as a desired choice rather than it being driven by economic fears, you're right, we shouldn't care. But for most people, they aren't having kids because they don't have a house, they don't have a stable partner (tangentially tied to economic needs), they just don't have money to raise kids.

With supply and demand, you'd expect a decline in workers would mean higher wages down the line. But the ruling class will always make sure there is endless immigration and free trade agreements to keep the average citizen broke and miserable.

gettodachoppa··on Do not factory reset your Pixel until at least 15 minutes after a system update
I don't really get people's obsession with security updates for a smartphone. It's not a public webserver, bro. It's a phone. You're the one who decided it was etrash.

Not only is it not reachable by anyone except your mobile provider, but every app is sandboxed anyway. Unless you're downloading random apps every day, why would you care? What do you think is going to happen? Just stick to reputable apps.

You know what I do on my still-supported phone? Set it up, then disable automatic updates, for both Android and the Play store. I update the browser weekly, but that's it. I update the whole manually after a few months or year if I feel I have a good reason to.

gettodachoppa··on Structured logs are the way to start
It's trivial in C/C++ due to GCC being a first-class citizen in Linux, but idk how it's done for interpreted languages, Java, etc. If anyone can chime in I'm curious.

In C or C++, you just run 'ulimit -c unlimited' in your shell before running your program. When it crashes, a GDB-friendly core dump is generated. Then you can load it in gdb ('gdb myexecutable mycoredump'), and it takes you to the exact line where it crashed, including showing you the stack trace, letting you view local variables at every frame of the stack, etc. Every C++ IDE supports loading a core file, so it's literally an interactive debugger at the time you most need it. It's a life-saver.

Keep in mind you have to compile with debug symbols enabled to be able to make sense of the coredump. However, you can then strip your binary, as long as you keep an unstripped copy around to help you with debugging.

gettodachoppa··on Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse
>Why? How? Wuh?

Uh oh, someone's trying to think! You know why. We all know why. But stating it out loud makes you a bad man.

Better to just nod along and pretend it's all OK, especially at work, especially if you're not posting anonymously. And remember to be extra furious at Russia in your comments when someone reminds us that Russia spent 100k in "both sides" Facebook ads in 2015 (an act of foreign interference so ignominous, MSM ink will never stop spilling ink about it). It's what's expected of all of us.

gettodachoppa··on ChatGPT Is Bullshit
For a long time now I've been seeing this ugly trend in the titles of linked articles.

I wish every HN user would flag any article with these clickbait titles, instead they're always popular. You're encouraging this shameless virality tactic by engaging with content with titles like that. "$popularthing is just the worst" is crafted to engage you. By clicking, you reward the author's behavior.

Please just flag them without clicking the link, until blog authors take the hint and write sensible titles. That's what I'm going to do from now on. Flag on sight.

gettodachoppa··on Meta's Ad Algorithm Directs Black Users to For-Profit Colleges
Least scammy racebait NGO.
gettodachoppa··on VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use
Thanks, that link made me much more confident in using Docker.

I mean come on: "Attackers could try to exploit this issue by causing the user to build two malicious images at the same time, which can be done by poisoning the registry, typosquatting or other methods"

So basically ridiculous CVEs that will never affect people not in the habit of building random Dockerfiles off Github with 2 stars. Good to know. Only the 1st one isn't dismissable out of hand, I can't tell if it's bogus like the rest./

gettodachoppa··on VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use
Anyone reading this, don't expect a smooth experience for desktop Linux under Hyper-V.

Hyper-V's team only cares about supporting servers. You're not gonna run a full-screen Ubuntu VM without a lot of banging your head against the wall, unless you spend days trawling random Github comments and reddit posts and fixing it whenever it breaks.

gettodachoppa··on VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use
I'm the opposite, I need these desktop hypervisors because Hyper-V is trash for anything but a WSL shell or server VM.

I upgraded to Windows 11 for WSLg (figuring it would replace my Linux desktop), and it was buggy trash. You can't even get a high-resolution Ubuntu desktop (from Microsoft themselves, their own quickbox!) without jumping through hoops, searching all over reddit for knowledge obsoleted by the next update, tweaking arcane settings and running misc Powershell scripts. To say nothing of the occasional freezes.

By enabling WSL2/WSLg, your Windows host is now a privileged guest running under Hyper-V as a hypervisor. Which means lightweight desktop hypervisors like Virtualbox run like trash.

I ended up removing WSLg/turning Hyper-V off, using Virtualbox for desktop Linux, and using WSL1 (not 2) to have a quick Linux shell without enabling Hyper-V.

I'm now considering Workstation due to the superior graphics in the guest over Virtualbox.

gettodachoppa··on VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use
I'm a casual Docker user, ran maybe 30 images my whole life. I've never used any of these flags and didn't know most of them even existed.

Are these serious threats? I mean it seems like common sense that if you give a malicious container elevated privileges, it can do bad stuff.

Is a VM any different? If you create a VM and add your host's / directory as a share with write permissions (allowing the VM to modify your host filesystem/binaries) does that mean VMs are bad at isolation and shouldn't be used? Because that's what these "7 ways to escaper a container" ways look like to me.

gettodachoppa··on Google urges US to update immigration rules to attract more AI talent
Try reading the author list of AI papers. Even those from western universities and labs. If you can't spot a pattern, then there's Sum Tin Wong with you.
gettodachoppa··on [dead]
Prepare for the talking points, folks.

Within a day, you'll start seeing the same words used across "journalism" organizations, about how "Iran is a destabilizing force for the Middle East", "sudden, unprovoked attack". Some articles about how wonderful life is for LGBT people in Israel.

If we're lucky, maybe this time around no one will say that Iranians behead babies or stab them in their hospital beds in the maternity wards. It was laid on a bit too thick last time, I felt.

gettodachoppa··on Daily Driving Ubuntu on M1 Mac
Yep. I do this for Windows. I have a Surface laptop which requires tinkering to get Linux working on it (keyboard doesn't even work out of the box, you gotta use a USB keyboard until you install a custom kernel off Github).

I couldn't be bothered. I just keep Windows running and run Ubuntu in Virtualbox. With an SSD there's no noticeable performance penalty except in accelerated graphics (in which case you should be using VMware).

gettodachoppa··on Redis adopts dual source-available licensing
>We're all upset about this. Not because Redis deserves to get paid, it's that they acted like they were being good stewards of the open-source community and then they changed their mind.

I'm an open-source zealot and I have no beef with the SSPL.

Redis is still an open-source project for 99.99999999999% of entities on Earth. The only people crying foul about this are tech giants and the corporate drones at the OSI. Sorry if this sounds harsh, but normal people don't care about either of you.

I'm not going to shed a tear for your trillion $ market cap company being asked to contribute a little more in exchange for all the wealth they siphon from the rest of the world.

If the tech giant you're cheerleading for is such a fan of open-source, why don't they open-source the management layer like the SSPL asks? This would resolve this beef overnight, right?

gettodachoppa··on Ask HN: People who switched from GPT to their own models. How was it?
https://docs.sillytavern.app/usage/local-llm-guide/how-to-us...

Follow the guide all the way until you get to "Loading our model in Oobabooga". Then ignore the rest. You can do inference in Ooba under the Notebook tab.

(You can also ignore the "enabling HTTP API" parts, but it's quite handy, it's an OpenAI-compatible API which means you can use any OpenAI-compatible web UI)

gettodachoppa··on Alexei Navalny has died
This isn't Twitter or your polycule's Wednesday night political discussion, my friend. Being proud of rejecting historical facts doesn't give you as many virtue signalling points as you think.
gettodachoppa··on Alexei Navalny has died
>even an unhinged TV personality can not single-handedly destroy a country and what it has stood for for the last 70+ years.

A war-mongering, propaganda-spewing, dystopian corporate empire beheld entirely to the military-industrial complex and megacorps?

You're right, I don't think he can turn the ship around.

gettodachoppa··on Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show
IIRC, the AI "girl" becomes able to communicate with other people, and she instantly cheats on him like 2000 times in 1 day and then breaks up with him and leaves?

I think the movie tried to frame it as the right ending but to me it felt like the worst of MRA talking points about women's nature, validated on the screen.

gettodachoppa··on Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show
Nah, it's 100% true. solardev's wife is a real battleaxe. She once said "for our anniversary, I want to go somewhere I've never been!". solardev replied "Well how about the kitchen?"
gettodachoppa··on Popcorn Time 0.5.0
I think it's a joke, "Linux ISOs" is a known euphemism for movies/porn/etc on /r/datahoarders.
gettodachoppa··on Latest ChatGPT 4 System prompt (1,700 tokens)
>I don’t think Stable Diffusion has ever generated a person of color for me unless I specifically included it in the prompt, for instance.

By person of color do you just mean black people?

Because the top SD models (and I don't mean the anime ones) are notorious for generating asian people by default, to the point that people often put 'asian' in the negative prompt when they want to generate generate non-asians.

gettodachoppa··on You Don't Hate Polyamory, You Hate People Who Write Books
Have you seen what the average poly person looks like? Caroline Ellison and Sam Bankman-Fried are the most famous poly people I can think of, and this is despite an obscene amount of wealth to make them look good.

So no, they're not taking partners from anybody. I don't see how society is harmed if the absolute bottom dregs shack up together instead of staying alone forever.

Whenever I've seen been subjected to photos of a group of polys, the men seem to have a similar look to the one the protagonist had in the closing shot of Old Boy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0nn-WgLOTY). Certainly their parents do.

gettodachoppa··on Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine
>The misinformation in context (Russian propaganda, probably on rt.com or something) is designed to mislead. Not inform; mislead.

As a 3rd party, I can assure you I feel the same way towards the American propaganda that dominates search results, social media, and more. No, this isn't whataboutism. No, you can't point at minute differences and use them to pretend there's a huge difference between you and Russia. No, you can't tell me America is better because you don't go to jail when you impotently complain about your government. You are, and always have been, a bigger threat to the world than Russia ever was, a bigger hypocrite, a more violent monster, and a far more effective propagandist.

It's some real 1984 shit and it's sad citizens of America and its vassal states (all of Europe, Canada, Australia) don't see it.

gettodachoppa··on Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine
Fantastic!

This is what I've been waiting for for 10 years, since Google removed the feature: a search engine which realizes 99% of the time, I want to search Discussions, and gives me the option to only show those. (reddit, forums, mastodon etc). This cuts down the SEO crap by 99.99%.

That said, the results aren't great, hopefully it's something that improves as they index more pages. For example reddit doesn't seem to be indexed, why not? It's a goldmine of user content (even if the frontpage is 99% astroturfed US neolib propaganda).

gettodachoppa··on Japan to introduce six-month residency visa for 'digital nomads'
>“Normal” meals in Thailand are food stalls, $2 per meal if not less.

I gotta disagree here, that's what low-skilled staff eat on their lunch break. It's usually not very tasty or hygienic (depending on what you order), so westerners only eat this once or twice to try it out before learning their lesson. Then they stick to restaurants which cost $5-12 per meal.

Your average western expat spends 30 euros per day on food in Thailand, if they eat out. I know this because a friend did a survey.

gettodachoppa··on Farscape and Henson’s Lasting Legacy (2011)
If that iTunes license goes away that's a morally green signal to get a non-revocable license from The Pirate Bay.
gettodachoppa··on U.S. army drops requirement for high school diploma (2022)
1. It's not happening, that's just a far-right conspiracy theory

2. It happened, but it was just an isolated incident

3. It's happening, and that's a good thing

4. It's always been happening, so what? No one ever claimed it never happened, that's just a far-right conspiracy theory.

gettodachoppa··on Norwegian youth win climate court case against the Norwegian State
Smug westerners love to say that stuff, and yet people in Saudi Arabia are much happier than Norwegians. The rate of suicide is double in Norway what it is in Saudi Arabia. I guess there's more to a country and people's worth than their willingness to fly LGBT flags?
gettodachoppa··on The Mating Psychology of Incels – The Journal of Sex Research
There's no such thing as "involuntarily celibate", it's just another BS term in the fanfiction-as-science narrative of the typical hacks. I've seen men on Twitter who are literally married with children get called incels, just for having the wrong political opinions or even criticizing a crappy Marvel movie!

Anyone can get a girlfriend if they lower their standards enough, so in the end it's their choice, so it cannot be involuntary. The only way someone could be an incel is if they got thrown in prison and have no way to actually meet women, or other examples like this

gettodachoppa··on Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content
The people with power over the journalists' career and reputation are in this case the party they'd piss off by doing proper journalism. They're not gonna do it. It's indirectly the main reason why no one trusts journalists in general anymore. Nearly everything is consolidated under the same people and whatever isn't gets smeared and blacklisted.
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