[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 19 points 3 weeks ago

“What was Windows even doing for us?”

Beautiful 🥲

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 12 points 1 month ago

So, a few things:

  • many of the men accused have stated that the husband pitched the idea as "this is a kink she really enjoys, being drugged and then having sex with strangers". (Of course they never pretend to have met her in person beforehand to get her consent for the whole thing in the first place)
  • there are some that have said "what's the big deal? It's his wife, he gets to decide to lend her out to his friends." (!)

I don't know how many of the first group are being honest, but the existence of both can give you an idea of how bad our culture used to be towards rape, and still is to a large extent.

There's a pretty striking moment of archival footage, from the 60s or 70s I think, of some french dude being asked in the street "and you, have you ever raped a woman?" And his response is a very matter-of-fact "well, of course!".

People don't want to believe that rapists are, in many ways, just ordinary people. So they both refuse to see it in others, and refuse to see themselves as capable of even contributing to the problem. Hopefully this can be the wakeup call many men here in France need to realize they must push back when their friends make rape jokes, for ex.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 16 points 2 months ago

the police say they are targeting the criminals responsible but cannot "arrest their way out of the problem". They also say manufacturers and tech firms have a bigger role to play.

Even though I fully expect the police here aren't doing as much as they could (I mean come on, are they expecting phones to come with wiimote hand straps?) , I'm at least glad their public rhetoric is that they can't "arrest their way out of the problem".

I imagine that's poor compensation when you've just had your phone snatched, however.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 15 points 2 months ago

Their starting aside is pretty great as well;

And I’m using that term throughout this post because it’s the commonly accepted descriptor, but we all know it’s not really artificial intelligence, right? I also want to distinguish it from actually-useful and ethically-produced technology like what gets used in the medical field to help humans examine and analyze impossibly huge datasets in the service of doing things like curing cancer. We’re talking here about the plagiarism machines like ChatGPT, everything it underpins, and all of its conceptual mirrors.

Leave no wiggle room for the AI sycophants.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 22 points 4 months ago

Bitcoin enables the fantasy of becoming a rent-seeking plutocrat that cannot have their wealth seized by a government nor a popular uprising.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 17 points 4 months ago

Part real Greens, part Greenpeace, part Green-washing.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 16 points 5 months ago

I just got back from a trip to a substantially less developed country, and really living in a country, even for a little bit, where I could see how many lives that money could improve, all being poured down the Microsoft Fabric drain, it just grinds my gears like you wouldn't believe. I swear to God, I am going to study, write, network, and otherwise apply force to the problem until those resources are going to a place where they'll accomplish something for society instead of some grinning clown's wallet.

Amen. We always need more insiders who are ready to take up the cause of not doing stupid shit with the ungodly accumulation of resources our society has permitted, especially when we are currently leaving so much of the world to play catch-up while we continue to leech them dry.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 22 points 5 months ago

Dude didn't even pick a quote from the 1 movie that attempts to cast the Joker as a sympathetic character. I swear...

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

@> By the end of the decade, American electricity production will have grown tens of percent

..... don't worry guys AI will totally save us from climate change! /s

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I align with that article 's conclusion; in fact such a "fediverse browser" is exactly what I think the fediverse needs to fully replace closed/proprietary/traditional social media.

However, some of their arguments seem off. For example, for the client to be able to choose/implement it's own sorting algorithm, it seems to me that it would need to have access to all posts. At that point, your client is just another server, with all the problems that we're originally trying to avoid.

I have the same problem with your proposal / nostr's approach: you may obtain a portable identity but all the "content" tied to that identity still has to live somewhere - someone else's server or your own.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 12 points 5 months ago

Penal battalions vs penal battalions is not a sign the war is going "well" for anyone (except maybe if you can short the prison industrial complex)...

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Jayjader@jlai.lu to c/learningrustandlemmy@lemmy.ml

Hi all! I had to cancel last week's session at the last minute, so this week we'll just be covering what we would have covered, then.

(recap of the session info for completeness' sake:)

What?

I will be holding the fifth of the secondary slot/sessions for the Reading Club, also on "The Book" ("The Rust Programming Language"). We are using the Brown University online edition (that has some added quizzes & interactive elements). This week, we will be continuing chapter 4: "Understanding Ownership".

Previous session details and recording can be found in the following lemmy post: https://jlai.lu/post/5452538

Why?

This slot is primarily to offer an alternative to the main reading club's streams that caters to a different set of time zone preferences and/or availability.

(also, obviously, to follow up on the previous session)

When ?

Currently, I intend to start at 18:00 UTC+1 (aka 6pm Central European Time) on Monday (2023-04-08). If you were present for a previous session, then basically the same time as that one was.

Please comment if you are interested in joining because you can't make the main sessions but would prefer a different start time (and include a time that works best for you in your comment!). Caveat: I live in central/western Europe; I can't myself cater to absolutely any preference.

How ?

The basic format is: I will be sharing my computer screen and voice through an internet live stream (hosted at https://www.twitch.tv/jayjader for now). The stream will simultaneously be recorded locally and uploaded afterwards to youtube (also, for now). Edit: the recording is now uploaded on youtube: https://youtu.be/zueZGhlkiyE

I will have on-screen:

  • the BU online version of The Book
  • a terminal session with the necessary tooling installed (notably rustup and through it cargo & "friends")
  • some form of visual aid (currently a digital whiteboard using www.excalidraw.com)
  • the live stream's chat

I will steadily progress through the chapter, both reading aloud the literal chapter text and commenting occasionally on it. I will also perform any code writing and/or terminal commands as the text instructs us to.

People who either tune in to the live stream or watch/listen to the recording are encouraged to follow along with their own copy of the book.

I try to address any comments from live viewers in the twitch chat as soon as I am aware of them. If someone is having trouble understanding something, I will stop and try to help them get past it.

Who ?

You! (if you're interested). And, of course, me.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Jayjader@jlai.lu to c/learningrustandlemmy@lemmy.ml

Edit: I'm currently feeling too unwell to host the reading club this evening.

Hi all!

What?

I will be holding the fifth of the secondary slot/sessions for the Reading Club, also on "The Book" ("The Rust Programming Language"). We are using the Brown University online edition (that has some added quizzes & interactive elements). This week, we will be continuing chapter 4: "Understanding Ownership".

Previous session details and recording can be found in the following lemmy post: https://jlai.lu/post/5452538

Why?

This slot is primarily to offer an alternative to the main reading club's streams that caters to a different set of time zone preferences and/or availability.

(also, obviously, to follow up on the previous session)

When ?

Currently, I intend to start at 18:00 UTC+1 (aka 6pm Central European Time) on Monday (2023-04-01). If you were present for a previous session, then basically the same time as that one was.

Please comment if you are interested in joining because you can't make the main sessions but would prefer a different start time (and include a time that works best for you in your comment!). Caveat: I live in central/western Europe; I can't myself cater to absolutely any preference.

How ?

The basic format is: I will be sharing my computer screen and voice through an internet live stream (hosted at https://www.twitch.tv/jayjader for now). The stream will simultaneously be recorded locally and uploaded afterwards to youtube (also, for now).

I will have on-screen:

  • the BU online version of The Book
  • a terminal session with the necessary tooling installed (notably rustup and through it cargo & "friends")
  • some form of visual aid (currently a digital whiteboard using www.excalidraw.com)
  • the live stream's chat

I will steadily progress through the chapter, both reading aloud the literal chapter text and commenting occasionally on it. I will also perform any code writing and/or terminal commands as the text instructs us to.

People who either tune in to the live stream or watch/listen to the recording are encouraged to follow along with their own copy of the book.

I try to address any comments from live viewers in the twitch chat as soon as I am aware of them. If someone is having trouble understanding something, I will stop and try to help them get past it.

Who ?

You! (if you're interested). And, of course, me.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Jayjader@jlai.lu to c/learningrustandlemmy@lemmy.ml

Hi all!

What?

I will be holding the fourth of the secondary slot/sessions for the Reading Club, also on "The Book" ("The Rust Programming Language"). We are using the Brown University online edition (that has some added quizzes & interactive elements). This week, we will be starting chapter 4: "Understanding Ownership".

Previous session details and recording can be found in the following lemmy post: https://jlai.lu/post/5278834

Why?

This slot is primarily to offer an alternative to the main reading club's streams that caters to a different set of time zone preferences and/or availability.

(also, obviously, to follow up on the previous session)

When ?

Currently, I intend to start at 18:00 UTC+1 (aka 6pm Central European Time) on Monday (2023-03-25). If you were present for a previous session, then basically the same time as that one was.

Please comment if you are interested in joining because you can't make the main sessions but would prefer a different start time (and include a time that works best for you in your comment!). Caveat: I live in central/western Europe; I can't myself cater to absolutely any preference.

How ?

The basic format is: I will be sharing my computer screen and voice through an internet live stream (hosted at https://www.twitch.tv/jayjader for now). The stream will simultaneously be recorded locally and uploaded afterwards to youtube (also, for now). Edit: the recording can be found at the following link: https://youtu.be/YmMreNK3fcw.

I will have on-screen:

  • the BU online version of The Book
  • a terminal session with the necessary tooling installed (notably rustup and through it cargo & "friends")
  • some form of visual aid (currently a digital whiteboard using www.excalidraw.com)
  • the live stream's chat

I will steadily progress through the chapter, both reading aloud the literal chapter text and commenting occasionally on it. I will also perform any code writing and/or terminal commands as the text instructs us to.

People who either tune in to the live stream or watch/listen to the recording are encouraged to follow along with their own copy of the book.

I try to address any comments from live viewers in the twitch chat as soon as I am aware of them. If someone is having trouble understanding something, I will stop and try to help them get past it.

The interactive quizzes have started getting more interesting! Unfortunately, we're still on a decent delay from when I'm speaking to when I see people's comments appear in chat, so we will most likely continue to work through them in a more disjointed manner than the rest of the material.

Who ?

You! (if you're interested). And, of course, me.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Jayjader@jlai.lu to c/learningrustandlemmy@lemmy.ml

Hi all!

What?

I will be holding the third of the secondary slot/sessions for the Reading Club, also on "The Book" ("The Rust Programming Language"). We are using the Brown University online edition (that has some added quizzes & interactive elements). This week, we will be continuing (and hopefully concluding) chapter 3: "Common Programming Concepts". Last session covered sections 3.1 and 3.2; this session will start at section 3.3 (Functions).

Previous session details and recording can be found in the following lemmy post: https://jlai.lu/post/5036425

Why?

This slot is primarily to offer an alternative to the main reading club's streams that caters to a different set of time zone preferences and/or availability.

(also, obviously, to follow up on the previous session)

When ?

Currently, I intend to start at 18:00 UTC+1 (aka 6pm Central European Time) on Monday (2023-03-18). If you were present for a previous session, then basically the same time as that one was.

Please comment if you are interested in joining because you can't make the main sessions but would prefer a different start time (and include a time that works best for you in your comment!). Caveat: I live in central/western Europe; I can't myself cater to absolutely any preference.

How ?

The basic format is: I will be sharing my computer screen and voice through an internet live stream (hosted at https://www.twitch.tv/jayjader for now). The stream will simultaneously be recorded locally and uploaded afterwards to youtube (also, for now).

Edit: the session recording is available at the following link: https://youtu.be/v5b6UIDZQ5A

I will have on-screen:

  • the BU online version of The Book
  • a terminal session with the necessary tooling installed (notably rustup and through it cargo & "friends")
  • some form of visual aid (currently a digital whiteboard using www.excalidraw.com)
  • the live stream's chat

I will steadily progress through the chapter, both reading aloud the literal chapter text and commenting occasionally on it. I will also perform any code writing and/or terminal commands as the text instructs us to.

People who either tune in to the live stream or watch/listen to the recording are encouraged to follow along with their own copy of the book.

I try to address any comments from live viewers in the twitch chat as soon as I am aware of them. If someone is having trouble understanding something, I will stop and try to help them get past it.

The interactive quizzes have started getting more interesting! Unfortunately, we're still on a decent delay from when I'm speaking to when I see people's comments appear in chat, so we will most likely continue to work through them in a more disjointed manner than the rest of the material.

Who ?

You! (if you're interested). And, of course, me.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Jayjader@jlai.lu to c/learningrustandlemmy@lemmy.ml

Hi all!

What?

I will be holding the second of the secondary slot/sessions for the Reading Club, also on "The Book" ("The Rust Programming Language"). We are using the Brown University online edition (that has some added quizzes & interactive elements). This week, we will be starting chapter 3: "Common Programming Concepts".

Previous session details and recording can be found in the following lemmy post: https://jlai.lu/post/4802347

Why?

This slot is primarily to offer an alternative to the main reading club's streams that caters to a different set of time zone preferences and/or availability.

(also, obviously, to follow up on the first/previous session)

When ?

Currently, I intend to start at 18:00 UTC+1 (aka 6pm Central European Time) on Monday (2023-03-11). If you were present for the first session, then basically the same time as that one was.

Please comment if you are interested in joining because you can't make the main sessions but would prefer a different start time (and include a time that works best for you in your comment!). Caveat: I live in central/western Europe; I can't myself cater to absolutely any preference.

How ?

The basic format is: I will be sharing my computer screen and voice through an internet live stream (hosted at https://www.twitch.tv/jayjader for now). The stream will simultaneously be recorded locally and uploaded afterwards to youtube (also, for now). EDIT: link to recording: https://youtu.be/TnGMnlsT23o

I will have on-screen:

  • the BU online version of The Book
  • a terminal session with the necessary tooling installed (notably rustup and through it cargo & "friends")
  • some form of visual aid (currently a digital whiteboard using www.excalidraw.com)
  • the live stream's chat (probably)

I will steadily progress through the chapter, both reading aloud the literal chapter text and commenting occasionally on it. I will also perform any code writing and/or terminal commands as the text instructs us to.

People who either tune in to the live stream or watch/listen to the recording are encouraged to follow along with their own copy of the book.

I try to address any comments from live viewers in the twitch chat as soon as I am aware of them. If someone is having trouble understanding something, I will stop and try to help them get past it.

The interactive quizzes have so far been too trivial to warrant working on the answers collectively. This week might prove different; we can see how we prefer to work through them as we encounter them.

Who ?

You! (if you're interested). And, of course, me.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Jayjader@jlai.lu to c/learningrustandlemmy@lemmy.ml

Hi all!

What?

I will be starting a secondary slot/sessions for the Reading Club, also on "The Book" ("The Rust Programming Language"). We will, also, very likely use the Brown University online edition (that has some added quizzes & interactive elements).

Why?

This slot is primarily to offer an alternative to the main reading club's streams that caters to a different set of time zone preferences and/or availability.

When ?

Currently, I intend to start at 18:00 UTC+1 (aka 6pm Central European Time). Effectively, this is 6 hours "earlier in the day" than when the main sessions start, as of writing this post.

The first stream will happen on the coming Monday (2023-03-04).

Please comment if you are interested in joining because you can't make the main sessions but would prefer a different start time (and include a time that works best for you in your comment!). Caveat: I live in central/western Europe; I can't myself cater to absolutely any preference.

How ?

We will start from the beginning of "The Book".

There are 2 options:

  1. mirror the main sessions' pace (once every week), remaining ~4 sessions "behind" them in terms of progression through "The Book"
  2. attempt to catch up to the main sessions' progression

I am personally interested in trying out 2 sessions each week, until we are caught up. This should effectively result in 2-3 weeks of biweekly sessions before we slow back down. I'm not doing this just for me, however, so if most people joining these sessions prefer the first option I'm happy to oblige.

I will be hosting the session from my own twitch channel, https://www.twitch.tv/jayjader . I'll be recording the session as well;~~this post should be edited to contain the url for the recording, once I have uploaded it~~ here's a youtube link to the recording of the session: https://youtu.be/gQDO_UtXKBg

Who ?

You! (if you're interested). And, of course, me.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 13 points 9 months ago

Wow, I think that's the first fedi instance I've ever seen that's more or less dedicated to a single video game. Very cool.

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