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The only thing the current year internet climate of "if you use the wrong pronouns or disapprove of my internet identity I will throw a fit" has done is create a culture of fakeness, where disapproval is explicitly disallowed. As a result, the disapproval shifts underground, be it into the Kiwi Farms, the "alt-fedi"/"dark fedi" instances of the world, and to the private Discord and Telegram channels. Hell sometimes it even goes on in a hidden "mod channel" in the same Discord server you're on.

That's when you find out you're being ghosted, and as Chloe Sagal learned at the very end even being trans won't save you from this treatment. Why do you think a common accusation online is to yell at people and accuse them of being farmers?

The guy with the "progress" flag and he/him pronouns is really shitting on you in a private chat and calling you crazy. You don't know it until he goes from talking to you to holding a conversation on the level of a Postal 2 NPC while saying online, or double checking when you post.

Acceptance? Ha. As if. You won't get accepted in this internet and as Zamii070 learned, if you draw the wrong thing you are so canceled, but you can keep shit talking people as long as they don't find out (which they eventually will given how catty people are online, or how they can't hide behaviors well).
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New paper shows that LLMs trained on "A is B" can't infer that "B is A"... Which was a known failure mode of "neural networks" back in 1988.

garymarcus.substack.com/p/eleg

"In math, when one make a conjecture, a simple counterexample suffices. If I say all odd numbers are prime, 1, 3, 5, and 7 may count in my favor, but at 9 the game is over... In neural network discussion, people are often impressed by successes, and pay far too little regard to what failures are trying to tell them."

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You can now place brick tiles in the level editor, but that's basically it for now.

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In a lot of ways, the cell phone is truly a modern day slave collar. Not having to carry one around at all is a far bigger flex than having the latest flagship model.
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I hate fags who shill for looters so much. Yeah, a lot of the megacorps that get looted deserve no sympathy, but the more you let this shit go, the more lawlessness in general prevails, and the people who suffer most are small businesses and others who really can't replace the losses and are being wiped out. Law and order are the necessary prerequisites for civilization, and those who subvert it are wicked beasts.
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Banks are actively and explicitly censoring crypto-related transactions. You'd better have a plan other than "I'll just buy crypto until the banks collapse."

You need to earn and spend crypto without going through fiat. Today, because censorship is here!

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@realcaseyrollins @alex buy real milk produced by actual farmers, not corporations, less probability of you getting pussy milk
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@xianc78 It seems like the Retroid Pocket 2S has a lot of nice colors (especially the translucent ones), but the dealbreaker for me is that it runs on Android. I ended up ordering a Powkiddy RGB30 for its similar specs and the unique 720 x 720 square display (plus it's about $85 total). The one huge drawback for me so far is the fact that there's just three plain colors available: black, white, and navy (I chose the navy one). At least it runs on GNU+Linux (JELOS). I thought of getting the Analogue Pocket, but I'm avoiding it for the price and the software support. I'll write more when I eventually get it.
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Seriously, why hasn't anyone created an emulator for the click-wheel iPod games yet? There are finally efforts to preserve feature phone games and flash games, but it seems like iPod games have been forgotten. Even if most of them were crap, they are still worth preserving in my opinion.

It's already known that these game packages are just zip files with a different extension. We just need to reverse engineer the executable in the archives.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_gam

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I just learned that Apple killed off the entire iPod line last year.

apple.com/newsroom/2022/05/the

As much as I hate Apple products, RIP. One of these days, I should get a used click-wheel iPod just to try out iPod Linux, and maybe be the first person to create an emulator for all those click-wheel iPod games.

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