It breaks my heart to see American conservative toxicity rubbing off on Canada more and more as I age.

It feels like all I can do is warn my kids against the propaganda they'll face growing up, and hope things reverse course as Canadians become increasingly disenfranchised with the government to the south.

Downvote and move on. I'm trying to figure out why so many people are actively campaigning against this artist.

Bit of a privileged take. Life is a lot shorter for all the people around the world getting the shit end of the current political climate.

A good decompiler and an auto-formatter might leave them with a nicer copy of their source code than they had in the first place.

For those who aren't quite ready to delete their accounts get, this link buried on their privacy page can let you opt out: https://www.plex.tv/vendors-us

Not sure why "us" is in the URL, I'm in Canada

This is the sort of thing that causes people to lose whatever faith they may have had in the justice system and start taking it into their own hands.

Some quotes that resonated with me:

In any previous era, the quality of a piece of work was a more or less reliable signal of the competence of the person who produced it. A novice essay read like a novice essay; novice code crashed in novice ways. AI has severed that relationship.

The skills of producing work and judging it were deliberately distinct, but accomplishing the work itself used to teach the judgment. The first skill now belongs, in large part, to the machines. The second still belongs to us, though fewer are bothering to acquire or utilize it.

The slowness was not a tax on the real work; the slowness was the real work. It was how the work got good, and how the people producing the work got good

The current generation of agentic systems is built around the premise that the human is the bottleneck — that the loop runs faster and cleaner without the awkward delay of someone reading what is about to happen and deciding whether it should. This is, in a great many cases, exactly backwards

The trick is not to read the usernames. I imagine myself surrounded by millions of mostly sensible people!

I appreciate you exploring your sense of humour, but let's stop using gay as an insult.

Plot twist: OP would not stop talking throughout the show and them ruining the finale was the last straw.

I get what you're saying. To me, this reads like someone who takes pride in forming assumptions (and biases) about a team before speaking to any of its members. A fun game for them, perhaps, but less fun for the folks they are trying to pigeonhole.

I guess there's a fine line between collecting information to have a productive, data-driven conversation, and doing it to avoid having a conversation entirely.

Also seems like they're more interested in connecting with the boss than the developers themselves, which is probably something you need to do as a contractor, but yeah, it does alienate other developers.

OP actually has hundreds (thousands?) of comments over the past few years, but all but the most recent are listed as deleted by creator. I won't speculate as to the reason for this, but just note that their current comment count doesn't reflect their historical contributions.

I'll also just leave this quote from one of the comment chains they've recently commented on:

@[email protected] I just want to say thanks for posting quality links so frequently. You're one of the few who isn't posting click bait junk like Raw Story and Daily Beast.

I don’t personally keep track, but it seems some others do feel they make valuable contributions. I for one don't want to see anyone too quick to torch the relative few individuals putting content on Lemmy.

"brown" has left the chat?

What the hell does this say

That dissonance has a name! Gell-Mann amnesia. You aren't alone.

Inside Number 9. I don't hear much talk about it, but for me, it's up there with Twilight Zone, Black Mirror, etc. for a series of short stories with twists.

It would be cool if this evolved into some sort of decentralized internet archive.

Some tricks I've used in the past when huge sets of episodes are scrambled or misnamed and you need to start from square one matching them:

• Check if the files have any embedded metadata with the episode name or number using a tool like MediaInfo
• If the episodes have different runtimes, you can try to match them to runtimes listed on a well-labeled list of episodes, like on Wikipedia or in a torrent.
• Download a tool to auto-generate subtitles from the audio track. Probably won't be accurate, but should give you enough of the dialogue to now search online and see what episode it is.
• If the show has a splash screen with the episode name at a fixed time, like many kids shows, you can auto-generate thumbnails at that time for all episodes
• Last resort: Manually watch enough of each episode to match it to the right episode synopsis on e.g. wikipedia and then label it appropriately
• Pirate option: Pretend you ripped it yourself and download a properly-curated set

Halifax is one of the cheapest places globally to rent office space and employ talented software developers with a CS degree. I am skeptical that it was on the chopping block before now.