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Christopher Snowhill
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kode54 / kuroshi, primary maintainer of Cog for macOS.

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Why is it that my broken head sees the solution to child support related jail time is to abstain from sex so you don't produce any children? Maybe we can get the global fertility rate closer to zero if we try hard enough. It feels so selfish that we desire to refresh the work force so we have a younger generation to take care of us when we're old.

Maybe that's just my mental health drugs that I am ever thankful for that almost completely murdered my entire sex drive, the very thing that was probably responsible for me going off the deep end in the first place. Hmm, I guess since it's well after 9:30pm and I'm thinking like this, it's time to take my meds again, and go to bed. Night, y'all.

So. My dad has been living in an assisted care facility for months now, and can barely take care of himself. He needs constant care for things like changing his catheter and flushing it out regularly. When he was home before this, he would call an ambulance to take him to the hospital almost weekly for catheter issues.

Welp, his Medicare coverage for life is running out in 3 days. They want to either dump him on us to take care of, or eat up his entire income and put a lien on our house, because this place he's in costs $10k per month.

We already depend on this income to live in our house.

I guess it's time to look into moving out of the country to some place that will just give guaranteed care for life? #medicalbills #americasucks

Subtoot: I hear people wringing their hands about heat pumps and induction ranges again. Sure, subsidize our entire install procedure. Also replace all our cookware with induction cookware. And we'll give you some newly useless cast iron cookware.

subtoot, politics
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I am officially sticking my head in the sand. It's better for my outlook on reality this way. Seeing posts of doom and gloom just increases my desire to burn it all to the ground. But this is a post-9pm opinion, so feel free to discount it.

Jesus, Google is absolutely useless. I can't find any pages whatsoever on the sudo config option, passwd_timeout. You know, the one that configures how long it will sit there with a password prompt on the screen before deciding, "timeout" and self terminating in failure. I had to find the post outlining its use on the Arch wiki for sudo, because of course, every post on Google about sudo timeout deals with the timestamp_timeout, or period before it will require a password again on invocation.

Setting the former to 0 in sudoers or a sudoers.d file will prevent it from self terminating if you, say, leave a terminal based update process running for hours and forget about it, only to notice it again later.

#sudo #linux #archlinux

What could possibly go wrong with unfettered access to whatever drugs you could possibly desire, with no money changing hands, and no prescriptions required? I'm willing to live with the consequences of anarcho space communism.

Fuck you, r/duolingo. I shouldn’t have to provide context to use you as an unremitting shitposting platform whenever something makes me mad. I shouldn’t have used the “language question” flair, but I could no longer find the “user error” tag that I always understood to mean “generic shitposts”.

I don’t want a serious conversation, I just want to scream into the void and feel like at least one person will be subjected to my screaming.

subtoot, massive brain dump on "AI" tools
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I definitely can understand an artist's desire to not have their work used for AI model training. But at the same time, can any artists understand the idea of someone who has severely impaired visualizing ability, and possibly impaired drawing ability, using an AI model to prototype ideas to then use as references for an artist to draw an idea in their style? Possibly to ask them to give it their own inspired poses instead of whatever the AI came up with, but either way, asking an artist to render it for money?

I really only consider AI use for inspiration, I think it's really rude to actually sell AI output. Well, maybe other than paying for the compute cycles to run the model. The cost of training a model should also include the cost of the material that was used to train the model, but we all know that big businesses will never go for that, and small timers who can afford compute cycles to train models probably already can barely afford the compute time needed for the training, much less paying every artist to use their work. And then, those personal models are probably not being widely used like big business models are.

Sorry for the dump, I just think these mathematical models can be interesting toys, I just think it's unfair when they're being used to replace already underpaid artists. I would hope that artists don't mind if the people using them are just using them for toys, or inspiration for paid work.

When it comes to gatekeeping things, even gatekeeping support behind a lengthy explanation and hard to spot confirmation check, I would rather tell someone directly how to do exactly what they want, even if it means they learn nothing in the process. Sometimes I even just do the thing for the person instead of trying to show them how to do it themselves.

I just prefer the least painful solution in the short term. It's not like I'll remember tomorrow anyway.

#clothes #womensclothing looking for dress suggestions for my mom. She has to buy dresses with a large waist, but short torso and short legs. She ends up buying 3X large dresses from catalogues, and they are barely large enough around the waist, but then end up being a length designed for a 6ft+ tall woman, and she has to pull up the hem to wear them. She needs that waist, but for a 5ft 2in woman. Does anyone know keywords or places to buy such clothing?

I will make this a blog post, but my attempt to use Windows a primary OS was put on hold by numerous nitpicks with the experience of running various software I use, which outweighed the problems I was having with Linux immediately prior to the switch.