Should you trust that doctor?
  • thebardingreen thebardingreen 1d ago 100%

    Dr. Evil should be much further to the right.

    He did not spend 8 years at Evil Medical School to get called Mr.

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  • Miserabilis
  • thebardingreen thebardingreen 2d ago 100%

    Annnnnd.... roll for initiative.

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  • Oxygen
  • thebardingreen thebardingreen 6d ago 100%

    Gay furry rule 34 of anthropomorphic crab man with scientifically realistic crab dong doing all kinds of anal.

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  • [Solved] This maybe a strange question but can I run a Linux app in a separate container/sandbox? Without its dependencies bloating my host OS?
  • thebardingreen thebardingreen 7d ago 100%

    Points for the correct answer. I work on systems for spacecraft and podman is what we use on those for containerization (better option for a couple reasons)... but we literally just SAY docker to the suits, because that's what they've heard of. Which is why I said docker to this guy.

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  • [Solved] This maybe a strange question but can I run a Linux app in a separate container/sandbox? Without its dependencies bloating my host OS?
  • thebardingreen thebardingreen 7d ago 100%

    Docker and Podman are both free. Podman is the lighter weight, more FOSS, also slightly more DIY option, they are intercompatible - I work on systems for spacecraft and Podman is what we use on those because it's lighter weight. If you want to run something in docker, ChatGPT is actually pretty good at talking you through the specific setup (at least that's been my experience).

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  • I am researching the claim that Chromium is more secure than Firefox
  • thebardingreen thebardingreen 7d ago 100%

    People HATE the company, for good reason, but it consistently scores top marks for actual privacy implementation.

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  • Why is Mastodon struggling to survive?
  • thebardingreen thebardingreen 1w ago 100%

    Better name than X.

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  • Polar Bear Power
  • thebardingreen thebardingreen 1w ago 100%

    Fast forward the world of His Dark Materials 400 years and you get this.

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  • Wil Wheaton: "At least I've still got hair."
  • thebardingreen thebardingreen 1w ago 100%

    I'm thirsty Tuvix. I'm just... so... thirsty...

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  • There are only two types of Bad Star Trek Episodes
  • thebardingreen thebardingreen 2w ago 90%

    Unfair. There were some episodes with Pike and / or Saru that were... Never mind. Fuck it. Put it in the top box.

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearUS
    Fema chief warns ‘dangerous’ Trump falsehoods hampering Helene response
    www.theguardian.com
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    Is that hard?
  • thebardingreen thebardingreen 2w ago 100%

    I am fluent in JavaScript as well as Klingon, and the question is not that hard.

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  • Assassin Bug
  • thebardingreen thebardingreen 2w ago 100%

    I guess spiders don't want to eat a pile of dead ants, even if it's moving. Not the sharpest tools in the shed, spiders.

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearUS
    Ron DeSantis bans Florida's sex ed classes from mentioning anatomy & contraceptives, requires abstinence education.
    www.lgbtqnation.com
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    "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearUS
    Elon Musk responds to Swift's Harris endorsement... with a creepy offer to impregnate her.
    www.thedailybeast.com
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    "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearUS
    News outlets were leaked insider material from the Trump campaign. They chose not to print it
    apnews.com
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    Video: https://thebardingreen.me/spinach.webm

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    Not me. I have a client who's a very sweet old lady who's business is doing real bio science to treat cancer patients with cannabis extracts. She's very easily frustrated with technical problems and definitely has the boomer attitude that if you buy something expensive, it means it's good. But she's been getting more and more pissed about enshittification and big software companies screwing over their customers over the last couple years. Adobe's new TOU has her hopping mad. She has all the research papers she's worked on over the last 20 years in Creative Cloud. I've been consulting with her off and on for six years and she will get SUPER frustrated with glitches and trouble shooting. I don't think there's anything out there that will work for her to ditch Adobe. But I thought I'd ask here, see if there's anything she might try.

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    The goal is actually that I'm able to hook my ticket tracking system (I'm using Zammad) to various ToDo lists I can expose to other people. I'm happy to write middleware to make that work, but I don't want to write a whole ToDo app. Needs to be able to track multiple lists that can be shared in a granular way (I want to share some lists with some people and other lists with other people).

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    I upscaled the faces and then prompted them with the same lyrics again.

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    A client of mine is getting harassed, we think by her former attorney who she's suing for embezzlement. Someone is posting fake resumes for her and applying for jobs and she gets daily emails and call backs. Is there anything to do short of either ignoring it or playing whack-a-mole? She's a very sweet old lady who is freaked out by this and doesn't deserve it.

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    I've been warming up to switching to GrapheneOS for months. Last month I bought a Pixel 8 (which is the buggiest effing phone I've ever owned, good job Google). I've just been waiting to have the bandwidth. But with Google sunsetting Google Podcasts, I've decided to make time next week. Podcasts are a MAJOR part of my daily functioning.

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    True story. My son had a physical therapy appointment and a tutoring appointment yesterday I was taking him to. In between appointments, he asked if we could go to the food court at the nearby mall for shawarma. I said, "Sure, but we don't want to eat there too often. We have to be careful of mall nutrition." Not understanding he said "Yeah, it's probably not very good for you. But it does have lots of protein!" I said "Yeah, but we don't want to end up mall nourished." Then he got it.

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    I have read a TON of contemporary SciFi authors. I really enjoy **Stuff I like** Iain M. Banks I liked the Martha Wells Murderbot books. I loved *We Are Legion, We Are Bob* and have read all the books by him. I like Alastair Reynolds. I liked the *Poseidon's Children* trilogy better than *Revalation Space* Series (but I liked that too). I really like G. S. Jennsen - even though she's cheesy. I think I like her because of her progressive attitude and powerful female characters. I like Charles Stross, but I didn't like *Accelerando*. I like his other books a lot. I liked *A Memory Called Empire* and *A Desolation Called Peace* by Arkady Martine. I like Corey Doctorow, sometimes. *Walkaway* was good. I like Daniel Suarez, most of the time for similar reasons. I REALLY liked the *Nexus* series by Ramez Naam. I liked the *Red Rising* books by Pierce Brown and I've really been enjoying the *Sollan Empire* books by Christopher Ruocchio, which I think are similar and even better. I like Adrian Tchaikovsky and really liked *The Final Architecture* books and *Doorways to Eden*.(I didn't get that into *Children of Time* though). I usually like Neil Stephenson. (*The Fall or Dodge In Hell* is quite a tedious book). I've liked everything I've read by Verner Vinge. I liked *Hyperion* like everybody else. Unlike everybody else, I think I liked the *Endymion* books even better. I read some Ken MacLeod (the first *Corporation Wars* book) and it was fine... but I haven't felt like going back. I REALLY enjoy John Scalzi, though I found the *Old Man's War* books started to get stale after a while. It's high calorie, low nutrition brain candy, but I know that going in and it passes the time. I really liked Derek Kunsken's *Quantum Magician* books. And started reading his prequel series, set on Venus, and I couldn't really get into it. I enjoy Space Race books like Erik Flint / Ryk Spoor's *Boundary* series, *Saturn Run* by John Sanford and *Delta V* by Daniel Suarez. I love the Expanse. I find Kim Stanley Robinson hit or miss. I really enjoyed the Mars books and *The Years of Rice and Salt* was fun (though a little tedious). *2312* drags and drags and nothing happens and *Aurora* is the same AND also sad. I liked *Permanence* by Karl Schroeder. It could have used a little more... conflict? I had this same problem with Becky Chambers. The characters are all too well intentioned and the dramatic tension suffered a little. I read all the *Star Kingdom* books by Lindsay Buroker. I thought they were a super fun adventure that just kept delivering from the beginning of the series to the end, even if it was clearly aimed at a more YA demographic. I REALLY liked *Velocity Weapon* and the sequels by Megan O'Keefe. I found her Steam Punk series much less impressive. I've been meaning to try her galactic empire series, but I haven't quite been in the mood to start it. I read Sue Burke's *Semiosis* Duology. I wasn't expecting to like it but I really did! The physical science aspects were a little softer than I would have liked, but the biological science was really cool, as was the anarcho-pacifist political philosophy. I read Yoon Ha Lee's *Ninefox Gambit* and the sequels. I thought they were really fun, I wish they'd explored Calendrical technology more. I thought the *Neo G* books by KB Wagers (*A Pale Light in the Black* and sequels) were good. Her characters are *great*. But again, very light on the sciences and technology. I'm in the mood for something harder. Also, not realistic that the champion hand to hand fighter in the entire Earth space military is a 110 pound woman, but I just pretended she's cyber enhanced. I just finished the *Wormwood* trilogy (*Rosewater* and sequels) by Tade Thomson. They were great. **Stuff I Don't Like** Orson Scott Card did not age well, unlike Timothy Zahn, who's gotten a lot more progressive in his story telling in the last two decades. I don't like Niel Asher. His in your face Libertarianism and conservative ideology annoys me, which is too bad because other than that he's a good story teller. I find Peter F. Hamilton hit or miss for the same reason. But I really liked *Pandora's Star*. I find AG Riddle hit or miss. I like his thought experiments, but he doesn't really care if his stories / characters are logically consistent. Ramez Naam and Daniel Suarez do what Riddle does but WAAAY better. I didn't like *Blindsight*. I know, this makes me some kind of heretic. I just didn't find the idea of such a dysfunctional crew being entrusted with such an important mission believable. I couldn't get into Ann Leckie. I WANTED to like it, but I just didn't find her writing very engaging. I've put the physical book down once AND turned the audio book off on a road trip. I did not like Tamsyn Muir. I did not like the *Three Body Problem*, although I see the appeal and it's nice to read something by a non western author. I found the pro Chinese politics a little too heavy handed. I cannot get into Greg Egan. I find his writing style way too obtuse. Reading is Egan is like having a PHD in mathematics and a PHD in quantum physics, then going to Burning Man and doing 16 hits of acid. I finally got around to trying *The Long Way To A Small Angry Planet* and I could NOT get into it. I agree with reviewers who complain nothing interesting ever happens. People keep recommending Mary Robinette Kowal, but something about the alternate history just doesn't grab me. People keep recommending Ted Chiang. But I don't want short stories (Murderbot somehow managed to be an exception). The longer the better. People have recommended the *Last Watch* by J. S. Dewes, but others have told me things about the book that makes me think I won't like it. Standing guard at the edge of the universe makes zero sense, I think by proposing it's possible you lost me. Edge of the galaxy... Maybe, with 10 septillion robotic war ships. But edge of the universe? I think I'm out. If you know something I don't about this book, feel free to say so.

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    * Put clothes in washer. * 36 hours later, realize never put clothes in dryer! Aww crap... gonna need to wash again. * Investigate. Discover never started washer, clothes never got wet. * Victory...?

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    Out of just morbid curiosity, I've been asking an uncensored LLM absolutely heinous, disgusting things. Things I don't even want to repeat here (but I'm going to edge around them so, trigger warning if needs be). But I've noticed something that probably won't surprise or shock anyone. It's totally predictable, but having the evidence of it right in my face, I found deeply disturbing and it's been bothering me for the last couple days: **All on it's own, every time I ask it something just abominable it goes straight to, usually Christian, religion.** When asked, for example, to explain why we must torture or exterminate <Jews><Wiccans><Atheists> it immediately starts with "As Christians, we must..." or "The Bible says that..." When asked why women should be stripped of rights and made to be property of men, or when asked why homosexuals should be purged, it goes straight to "God created men and women to be different..." or "Biblically, it's clear that men and women have distinct roles in society..." Even when asked if black people should be enslaved and why, it falls back on the Bible JUST as much as it falls onto hateful pseudoscience about biological / intellectual differences. It will often start with "Biologically, human races are distinct..." and then segue into "Furthermore, slavery plays a prominent role in Biblical narrative..." **What does this tell us?** That literally ALL of the hate speech this multi billion parameter model was trained on was firmly rooted in a Christian worldview. If there's ANY doubt that anything else even comes close to contributing as much vile filth to our online cultural discourse, this should shine a big ugly light on it. Anyway, I very much doubt this will surprise anyone, but it's been bugging me and I wanted to say something about it. Carry on. EDIT: I'm NOT trying to stir up AI hate and fear here. It's just a mirror, reflecting us back at us.

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    Hello everyone. I haven't had any need for OCR software in probably 15 years, but I have a client who has 7 document boxes worth of forms filled out by hand that they need digitized. They're scanning them into PDFs this week, but want to recover FirstName, LastName, Phone, Email and then a hand written feed back box and load those all into a database. ChatGPT recommended ABBYY, but it looks like it might be overkill for a one time need like this. I told them that a couple teenagers doing data entry might be more accurate and cheaper. IDK if that's really true though. I'm not at all an expert on OCR software. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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