A good example of this scam that sticks out to me is plastics recycling. The marketed goal is a circular, sustainableTM plastic economy. The real goals are uninterrupted plastics manufacturing and the maintenance of tax receipts from plastic goods consumption. Industry and government simply do not want less plastic in the world.
Cloudflared. Hmm.
It's not discussion moderation though, it's LLM input QC. It's fundamentally dishonest.
I'm convinced the primary moderation goal is expunging any comment that could remotely contribute to LLM 'racial bias' - and given the mods are humans, they want to expend the least effort possible in the performance of their roles, so practically any statement along the lines of '$nouns are $adjective' gets hammered without a thought.
Ask yourself: 'Was Starfleet ever not woke?' If the answer is no, congratulations – you’re ready for the truth.
No amount of memeaganda will get me to believe this. The answer is an emphatic yes.
NSFW is a term of indoctrination. It suggests my life revolves around what is acceptable in a workplace, and that all aspects of life should be held to workplace standards. You have only to give it a moment's thought and it becomes nonsense; I don't fap to NSFW """content""" I fap to adult material. I fap to pornography.
I haven't logged in for nearly three years. Has TI been overhauled again?
Characters like him are targeted because they are both successful and anti establishment
I watched this episode recently. The scene's a Worf classic
This is the cringest thing I've seen all month outside Hexbear.
What's your superpower, my child? I develop a migraine and take sick leave when something's wrong, Professor
Not silly at all. It's a ship of Theseus situation, and the ship has helmsmen with bad attitudes. Bad attitudes engender bad decisionmaking.
2035 2028: Browser content is piped to a local AI that filters junk and noise then feeds the result back into the browser for screen display
Parallelism 1, iterations 15, memory 512mb
New status unlocked! LUNATIC
Articles like this come off as glib. Aviation is a dreadful industry for all involved.
I don't understand when these companies are going to learn that sharing their IP is going to get them more money than being so fractured.
The risk equation makes sense. The potential gain from outlasting your competition and absorbing their subscriber bases to become a near-monopoly is higher than participating in a royalty scheme, and the downside is borne by shareholders and to a lesser extent creditors (the Other People's Money principle).
When government/corporate services are involved, I suggest doing as much as you can via the web browser as opposed to app, in the interests of privacy and civil liberty.
So long as it's going through the browser we have a degree of control over functionality and connectivity. Apps strip that away. Apps are you doing everything on their terms, while suffering an ad (their logo) on your home screen rent-free. You can pin browser bookmarks to home as well in Android.
Since about Plasma 6 onward I've been getting system restarts when attempting to play back video files and/or seek through them.
<System info>
Kernel 6.5.0-41
KDE neon 6
Plasma 6.1.2
Qt 6.7.0
Ryzen 7 3700x CPU
AMD R9 390 GPU
16GB DDR4 RAM
The system will crash and reboot when:
- Attempting to play any video with an mp4 container (mpv and vlc tested)
- Attempting to seek with the mouse while playing most videos (mp4 and matroska)
- Scrolling too fast in a file manager
- Clicking and dragging to resize various windows (terminal, browsers, etc)
The system performs fine when:
- Playing videos in a webm container
- Playing videos in software like avidemux, kdenlive, gwenview, etc.
- Streaming video in a web browser
The issue has persisted through these toubleshooting measures:
- Update to latest BIOS firmware
- Switching between Wayland and X11
- Substitution of the PSU to a brand new unit
My assumption so far is that it's not hardware related. Currently I suspect it's Plasma. Below is the journal output of records around one such crash time of 5.19-5.20pm:
<journalctl /usr/bin/plasmashell>
Jul 13 17:19:21 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kde.plasmashell: Aborting shell load: The activity manager daemon (kactivitymanagerd) is not running.
Jul 13 17:19:21 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kde.plasmashell: If this Plasma has been installed into a custom prefix, verify that its D-Bus services dir is known to the system for the daemon to be activatable.
Jul 13 17:19:21 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kde.plasmashell: Aborting shell load: The activity manager daemon (kactivitymanagerd) is not running.
Jul 13 17:19:21 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kde.plasmashell: If this Plasma has been installed into a custom prefix, verify that its D-Bus services dir is known to the system for the daemon to be activatable.
Jul 13 17:19:22 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kf.plasma.quick: Applet preload policy set to 1
Jul 13 17:19:22 pcname plasmashell[1680]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.desktopcontainment/contents/ui/main.qml:195:25: QML FolderViewDropArea (parent or ancestor of QQuickLayoutAttached): Binding loop detected for property "minimumWidth"
Jul 13 17:19:22 pcname plasmashell[1680]: Toolbox not loading, toolbox package is either invalid or disabled.
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.private.systemtray/contents/ui/main.qml:162:21: QML KSortFilterProxyModel: Binding loop detected for property "sourceModel"
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.private.systemtray/contents/ui/main.qml:162:21: QML KSortFilterProxyModel: Binding loop detected for property "sourceModel"
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.cups.cupsd.Notifier" to PrinterFinishingsChanged(QString, QString, QString, uint, QString, bool) :
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: qt.core.qobject.connect: QObject::connect: No such signal Solid::Backends::Fstab::FstabStorageAccess::repairRequested(QString) in ./src/solid/devices/frontend/storageaccess.cpp:23
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: qt.core.qobject.connect: QObject::connect: No such signal Solid::Backends::Fstab::FstabStorageAccess::repairDone(Solid::ErrorType, QVariant, QString) in ./src/solid/devices/frontend/storageaccess.cpp:24
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kameleon supported false
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kameleon enabled true
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: qml: SystemTray ItemLoader: Invalid state, cannot determine source!
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (0.000000), must be greater than 0
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: error getting max screen brightness via dbus: QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject", "No such object path '/org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/BrightnessControl'")
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: error getting max keyboard brightness via dbus QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject", "No such object path '/org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/KeyboardBrightnessControl'")
Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: org.kde.klipper: Invalid or non-local url for preview: QUrl("mtp:/Pixel 5/Internal shared storage/Tempfold/archive.zip")
Jul 13 17:19:25 pcname plasmashell[1680]: org.kde.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.usb-VIA_Technologies_Inc._Audinst_HUD-mx2-00.analog-stereo.monitor"
Jul 13 17:19:27 pcname plasmashell[1680]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.keyboardindicator/contents/ui/main.qml:61:13: Unable to assign [undefined] to bool
Jul 13 17:22:17 pcname plasmashell[1653]: kde.plasmashell: Aborting shell load: The activity manager daemon (kactivitymanagerd) is not running.
Jul 13 17:22:17 pcname plasmashell[1653]: kde.plasmashell: If this Plasma has been installed into a custom prefix, verify that its D-Bus services dir is known to the system for the daemon to be activatable.
Suggestions for next steps would be welcome. Is it worth considering a rollback to the previous/older Plasma versions? Assuming Plasma doesn't like my DAC or keyboard or whatever, is it worth substituting or removing USB devices?