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Obviously only for important cases, like compiling custom insults into sudo. :)

Work at the tip of your “paygrade” and try to make immersion as fun as possible. Maybe consider using a different disk for Linux, since mistakes are the best way to learn. (Don’t reinstall just because something broke).

Here are some fantastic ways to make mistakes:

1. Install a more involved, but typical, CLI-centric, DIY-friendly distro – from today’s order of difficulty, that’s EndeavourOS, (install is easy, then you can learn one package at a time), Arch Linux (install is hard iff you have trouble with understanding wiki structure, and you’ll want familiarity with what packages you need), and Gentoo (the installation guide is incredible).
2. Try out new CLI software. The terminal is your friend! Are you gonna back up videos with yt-dlp? Perhaps make a shell script for something? Maybe search the AUR for something cool to try out (underrated function of the AUR: test-driving!). With a terminal, who needs file explorer?
3. Play a game. Linux games exist… they’re called CTFs ;). Bandit is pretty fun for beginners (try to keep notes! Maybe use Git?): https://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/
4. Make unnecessary customizations (“rices”). Your shell can be made sexy (ohmyzsh?). Your lockscreen can be made sexy. Your windows can be made sexy. (And if you break something, don’t reinstall :3). Remember: if you build something pretty and see it every day… absolute epic.
5. And of course, flex your hands, get your apron on, have fun popping the engine and fixing! How does one ask questions, put in due diligence, Google, read logs (like journalctl or dmesg or --verbose or whatever)? This is a skill you don’t lose – and we’ll be happy to answer a good question.

Of course all of this depends on where you are (the tip of your paygrade). For pasting commands specifically, as you said… do 'em one at a time – and understand each one.
Like, what is piping |? Why is xargs after it? Why can one stop ping with CTRL+C? What does man curl say about this weird curl command? How does one even read a manpage well, anyway (and is curl cheat.sh/SOME_COMMAND better)? Why is there so much gpg?

And at the end of the day… remember how fun this shit is. The engine is open; we’re allowed to look inside. Woohoo!

That’s an interesting perspective actually

Maybe it’s because of who’s giving them? If my little cousin gave me an AI Christmas card, I’d be happier than if a stranger gave me one on the street. (Though I’d feel bummed if they didn’t even marker in a single custom sentence)

i.e. higher standards of creativity/effort from a stranger than from a family member.

Also the stranger isn’t stuffing a tenner in the card lmao

Whoops, typo! Fixed c:

I forgive 'em cuz watt hours are a disgusting unit in general

Work over time, × time, is just work! kWh are just joules (J) with extra steps! Screw kWh, I will die on this hill!!! Raaah

edit: updated accordingly for clarity

Ah, I mean proper grammar as in formal, largely riskless grammar. For example, AI wouldn’t connect

monolingual + educated + have access to technology

with pluses, like a human would.

Not sure how I’d phrase that though. Maybe “perfect, risklessly formal grammar” as I just tried to call it? (i.e. if AI trainers consider using +‘es a “risk”, as opposed to staying formal and spick n’ span clean).

Perfect grammar is humanly possible but there is some scrutiny that can be applied to GPT-style grammar, especially in the context of the casually-toned web (where 100%ed grammar isn’t strictly necessary!).

I believe Inkscape has some interaction with tkinter, which binds python to Tcl/tk

https://github.com/flathub/org.inkscape.Inkscape

I… I put effort in…

Edit: What about an ivory leg?

I’m not sure I agree but I’m happy to discuss! :)

Why are you calling my statement “selective memory” (am I intentionally excluding something?), and what do you mean by “way worse”? Do you consider unskilled art as not art at all (i.e. “so-called”)?

What I was trying to say, is that on social media, skilled artists formerly dominated attention (likes, upvotes) because viewers wanted well-constructed, pleasing-to-the-eye artwork. I wasn’t trying to say that they were the only art posters (sorry for my wording!). Continuing, now that AI is in the arena, “technically-decent” art is no longer the lower bound for pleasurable-to-see – now, viewers are more partial to knowing that a human was vulnerable when they expressed themselves with art.

It’s an intensification of internet-ugly aesthetic, which Douglas (2014) called "an imposition of messy humanity upon an online world of smooth gradients, blemish correcting Photoshop, and AutoCorrect” (p. 314). Now, online, handmaking art at all is a declaration of humanity, because you could corporately fake something full-colored and intricate, but arguably soulless, with lower effort.

Of course, I’ll try to take it from your perspective. I’ve seen really bad human art (I like art!), and I’ve seen less-artifacted AI art (have you ever seen Even_Adder’s generations on lemmy.dbzer0? they don’t have the overshading issue at all). Of course, some may disagree that the latter is art (is art only human expression?), but supposing I do consider the latter art, my point still stands – viewers are more on the lookout for genuineness now.

Happy to see what you think!

References

• Douglas, N. (2014). It’s supposed to look like shit: The internet ugly aesthetic. Journal of Visual Culture, 13(3), 314–339. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470412914544516

Lots of downvotes in this reply chain. Not to be a “I don’t wanna be either side” kinda guy but AI isn’t all bad and isn’t all good either. (Greys!)

Merry Christmasing should be a genuine hug. Even if this was made by a homegrown open-weight open-dataset inference model, it’s nearly 100% low-effort generated – holidays need the human aspect, no? Covering yourself up too much in AI takes away from the humanness with corporate diction, and people need evidence of risktaking genuineness nowadays.

On the other hand, AI is definitely useful… but elsewhere. It’s not strictly anti-human even if conglomerates are using it that way, which I think you agree on. Wading through HOA using local NLP setups is human. Looking through a Mandarin thread when typical translation sucks, is human.

But there are domains for its use and there is ethical stuff to work on. This post just doesn’t fit the domain too well, as others agree…

Is that 7/8 time? (12) (3) (12) (12). Stallman’s taking his own path even when compiling a song

Merry chrisatms

I disagree with this sentiment; I’m inclined to believe that AI has actually lowered the bar for meaning.

Before AI, typically only skilled artists drew pictures for the web. But now that AI is making art that’s less meaningful than crayon pictures, there’s the growing sentiment of

I’d rather see a crayon picture than AI slop.

which could actually mean more people have the ability to go on and artify.

Of course this is anecdotal; it’s the reason I started drawing again :)

Only if there’s too many is it a worry. I use it now and then bc I LOVE things in threes (I’m not Ben Affleck I swear), but…

in the above, the tricolon bonanza is insane – how can you fit that many in such a short text?

You probably don’t need to cut down :)

Sorry for the wall of text again c:

Made with no blood, no sweat, and no tears in fucking GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation Program.

AI structure can be pretty obvious if you know which English weapons it loves to spam. Let’s walk it through (sorry for the wall of text lmfao):

1. The image is obviously AI.
   • Mistake on bottom text outline. Cutoff on chimney on the top left. Overdone shading (most common archetype!) on the tree and the glint around it. AI images increase the possibility of AI text, so (ai suspicion +1)
2. Corporate style.
   • “In these unpredictable and often challenging times” – This is very corporate. How many messages have you seen like this during the pandemic? Buuut just because it’s soulless doesn’t mean it’s AI, but I wouldn’t expect it from a community of this archetype. (ai suspicion +1)
3. Tricolons, especially ascending. (source)
   • This is something ChatGPT loves. Essentially, there are three “things” in a sentence, sometimes clauses. Sometimes each one is larger than the last (ascending), e.g. “I honed my skills in research, collaboration, and problem-solving.” And it appears a lot even in this short snippet
   • “…you can step back, breathe, and find some calm amidst the chaos”. The third element is longer. Ascension spotted. (ai suspicion +2)
   • “May your days be filled with joy, your systems stay secure, and your kernels remain stable.” Elements are successively syllabically longer. Ascension spotted. (ai suspicion +2)
   • “Take the opportunity to reconnect, reflect, and perhaps even find inspiration for the year ahead.” Third element is longer. Ascension spotted. How funny – three tricolons! Three three three three (ai suspicion +2)
4. Obsession with superficial positivity.
   • ChatGPT, even when making stories about evil, is very partial to love, friendship, joy, making up, peace, tranquility, (pseudo) “unconventional” friendship. Excessive meaningless positivity is an archetype too, though ChatGPT’s factgivings are usually neutral-positive.
   • “more important than ever to pause and share heartfelt wishes” Share wishes. Would a human on c/linux say something like that without elaborating further about wishing for something, perhaps death to Windows users? (ai suspicion +1)
   • “moment of peace” “find some calm” “positivity” “open-source spirit” but they never talk deeper, again. (ai suspicion +1)

So yeah this is at least 90% OpenAI. Too fuckin’ bad.

just use -f lol.

less $(which zcat) shows us a gzip wrapper. So we look through gzip options and see:

-f --force
Force compression or decompression. If the input data is not in a format recognized by gzip, and if the option --stdout is also given, copy the input data without change to the standard output: let zcat behave as cat.

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