Yeah. You can also, when presented with a decently well laid out explanation of the negative effects of a situation you brought about and have unique power to rectify, take no action. That’s true.

As a person who volunteered input, I think that’s a great way to hear bad ideas.

You either don’t know that and are going to have no filter between what’s useful input that should be internalized and what shouldn’t, possibly putting you in a dangerous and unnecessary situation or you do know and you are interested in what used to be called pot stirring and is now more often referred to as engagement farming.

But it’s not just a great way for you to hear bad ideas, it’s a great way to give bad ideas somewhere to be heard!

No matter if you know that you’re soliciting bad input or not, since the forum is public, the question by its very nature deals with safety and security and the input is solicited in an unfocused way, the results will not just be heard by you but also by everyone who looks at the thread, which is in the front page of some bigger instances.

Now rather than benignly hearing what people think or creating engagement you’re providing a space for any kind of suggestion to be given equal time, Wolverine claw keyrings get to stand alongside “speak to a lawyer about your local laws” because there is no greater context or detail that can be used to weigh one against the other.

The point of this reply isn’t to make you feel bad or call you out, but to make clear the effect that Just Asking Questions has when applied outside its usual political argument territory.

You in particular could, as the op, take action to change the state of the thread by providing more information, a jurisdiction, some specific details you’re interested in knowing about or just delete the post.

@CaptainMan251@lemmy.world , if you’re hoping to get good input from this thread you really gotta elaborate on the situations you’re worried about in order to differentiate between useful and useless advice.

A barky dog is good advice about some types of home security. It’s no use if you’re worried about walking down the street

Pepper spray is good. Especially for dogs.

Make sure you are aware of how your spray comes out. There’s the traditional type that comes out as an aerosol cone and the recipient can’t really block (it just goes around their hand) but there’s also the kind that comes out as silly string that can be blocked but won’t be affected by a stiff breeze and just blow back into your face.

The nice thing about pepper spray is you and your friends can get together and do jackass routines on each other to figure out how you’ll actually fish it out of your pockets or purse when you need to use it and get comfortable spraying it. You can also subsequently figure out how to counteract the effects so that if it blows back on you or gets smeared on you you’re not experiencing it for the first time in a “I bet you’re wondering how I got here” type freeze frame.

It’s also good to come home to the wife filled with adrenaline smelling like a five pepper curry plate mixed with spoiled milk making your most amorous advances.

Your best non-firearm self defense object though is a gun. I know that sounds crazy, but stay with me. Self defense is staying alive, in most places, legally speaking. When some crap happens and a month later you and the other person are in front of some law authority, that judge is gonna be trying to figure out if one of you claiming self defense can reasonably be considered to be in fear for your life or safety. So it’s not like there’s a legal obligation not to use a gun if you’re allowed to have one and a firearms generally considered status as lethal force acts as support for your claim of life and limb, if you credibly have one.

But didn’t you just fucking say “non firearm”? Yes. Yes you did. At least in the United States, but also in many other jurisdictions, some guns aren’t firearms. In the us, cap and ball revolvers for example, even modern reproductions, are not considered firearms. For the question of viability, see the many YouTube videos of gun influencers dressing up in cosplay and shooting the gel torso man with uberti’s latest product.

So you can generally use a gun in self defense and if for some reason you are barred from carrying a firearm, guns are an option.

Make sure to schedule similar fun time with friends to figure out how to safely carry, draw and reholster your blunderbuss. Do not point guns at people you don’t intend to kill.

Okay here’s the thing to actually read:

If you haven’t been in a situation where you’re scared for your life, don’t go seeking one out. Develop a way to express your emotions and practice everyday saving them up for that release instead of being goaded. Avoid every fight as much as possible. You do not get stronger from fighting, you physically destroy your body and mind. Using a self defense object will cause you to experience deep and lasting trauma whose consequences will have an effect on every relationship you hold.

Retain the services of a lawyer in your area to obtain specific advice for your situation. They will be familiar with the local authorities, laws, training organizations and you will be protected from scrutiny by their client confidentiality.

Again, go directly to your local legal aid agency and locate a lawyer who can advise you. No one knows who or where you are and they will ask questions that are pertinent in your jurisdiction.

I’m not a mod. Idk what their reasoning was.

Your comment was incredibly stupid and historically inaccurate. It condensed down myriad well studied events and factors into some abstract and mercurial human nature. It was also factually inaccurate. Rather than point to examples of other nations militaries forcing civilians to walk through minefields backed up by photographic evidence like the topic of the discussion, you chose to say “they’d do the same if they were in power”. There’s no evidence for that, and that line of argumentation justifies the atrocities committed over and over again by the us empire.

Now how could a mod have interpreted your comment as xenophobic, a component of the cited rule 1?

Very easily. By claiming without any evidence whatsoever that some other people would be just as bloodthirsty and demonic as the American military you condense and dispose of any material or cultural difference. It’s like the mirror inverse of claiming that some group are savages unworthy of life. You claim that this type of atrocity is just what happens, unavoidable, the cost of doing business, that the people who are in a position of power are transformed into inhuman avatars of destruction and chaos and no one could be any different (despite historical examples to the contrary).

Okay so if you can’t say that the Chinese are savages and you can’t say that the Americans are savages (but because of special human nature that kicks in when you’re in a position of authority, not for any race related reasons, we’re not doing phrenology here, haha) how can you say that people are just scum and savages without breaking the rules?

You can’t. That’s xenophobic.

It’s definitely the early pc era x1000.

For better or worse.

Another person already wrote this itt, but the cost in time and money of building something that “works” is very low. That cost increases every time you need to fix something. It’s why I’ve switched to deepseek flash instead of the bigger, better coding models. For the same price as a million tokens of Claude for example I can get a hundred million tokens on flash. It takes three times as long and needs a little prodding but it’s thirty times cheaper.

Even if you’re not dealing with ballooning costs when it comes to upkeep, the present environment around ai programming is filled with perverse incentives that reduce the chance something is open sourced. Why preserve the old work and try to carry it into the future when you can just rewrite it? Why create standardized libraries and approaches to specific problems when it’s only gonna be used once? Why make it open when you don’t have time to deal with requests and bug reports you don’t care about? Why use gpl when you don’t intend to make it public anyway?

Those were all arguments against gpl and open sourcing parts of the Unix codebase too, btw.

Harnesses or agents try to address some of this by sharing improvements but that’s three layers removed from directly turning fossil fuels into cpu cycles to make the same program a thousand times slightly different for a thousand different people.

I tend to see the ai programming defense in the same way you described yourself and the “ai is bullshit” crowd. People defending this stuff generally either aren’t looking where they’re walking or haven’t had to use it long.

As a decently prolific user of ai programming, it’s turned computer code into disposable plastic wrappers. Even if they don’t persist and make a giant garbage raft in the ocean or calcify our pineal glands we still wasted a bunch of energy on them.

Blackpink zip hoodie with the plastic choker, baditz maru lunchbox purse: aww, you’re sweet

2xl indecipherable metal tee, greasy hair, visible cutting scars: hello, hr?

What are you thinking of, sweetheart?

Rewriting the lyrics of in the end to be about holding open doors for ppl at the grocery store and then carrying a heavy bag for someone.

Insults, low humor and slurs are screeched at full volume in the cadence and rhyme scheme of a one hit wonder song from thirty years ago and I just smartly choose to not externalize any of it.

Whenever I don’t like the video or the person in it it’s ai.

Because it’s a technology wielded by the most powerful to harm the rest of us.

If I were to buy an Android device now to hold on to for a while it would be a pixel.

Relockable bootloader.

In the future rather than ripping off glued stuff, alcohol and (if you’re very, very careful and understand what you’re doing) acetone can be used to break down glues. A product called “ca release agent” makes cyanoacrylate glues (superglues) come off.

Heat will also loosen glue that’s thick and rubbery and accelerate the chemical reactions above. Be careful and use ventilation.

It’s normal wear and tear, it’s in those particular spots because you wear glasses.

The cushions or pads are a wear part and are user replaceable.

Yeah you gotta specifically prompt for that in great detail though.

The only consistent way I’ve gotten ai disagreement is as part of an agent or harness or with some moe models.

Just so you understand: social media apps (and websites!) measure your linger time (how long the device’s viewport is over specific stuff), the cadence of your typing, correlate the use timing to generate an idea of your sleep/work schedule, use tons of seemingly innocuous device reported metrics and naturally scrape your cookies through cross application “attacks” in addition to paying attention to the interactive parts they surface to you like clicking stuff, liking or favoriting, repeat viewing, friending or whatever.

There’s two reasons I’m saying this: one is because you may not realize that the algorithm is showing you porno because it recognizes that you interacted with porno just by being disgusted by it or by letting the screen rest there long enough to tug one out. It doesn’t know the difference.

The other is to hopefully help make it clear exactly how wrong people were when they called social media the panopticon.

The panopticon isn’t just a word we use to describe surveillance, but a real building design some English guy came up with where all the prisoners cells are in a big circle and so you save on guard costs because one guard in a central tower can look at any particular one.

It’s a stupid idea because prison guards are cheap and provide more than just the threat of observation and it relies on the prisoners all knowing they could be observed, not being certain that they are being observed.

Social media is an unimaginable inversion of the panopticon where the prisoner is in the middle surrounded by manned guard posts all equipped with searchlights pointed at him.

Just bear in mind that when you do bring up this stuff to your brother you’re gonna need to mediate your recognition of how insane the world is.

-14% or -27%

Duh

Break your boy off a piece of the rapidly inflating contents of that bank account and I’ll fill you in on how to get past that feeling and reach a more whole state of being.

E: I am being %100 deadass. This post is not a joke or attempt to get “free” money. I know exactly what you’re describing and when you’re ready I’ll help you figure out why you specifically are experiencing it.

Op pls delete this post