There was a very high profile case of this when Jill Greenberg bragged about intentionally duping John McCain into standing in unflattering light during a shoot for a profile piece in the Atlantic during his presidential campaign. She lit him from below with hard light to look old and and creepy. His team was clearly not that media savvy.

The atalantic disavowed her actions and I think apologized.

That’s just a remarkable level of talent and dedication. Mind blowing considering how much of it she did while working and studying.

I’m going to wait for someone else to figure out a workaround and write a tutorial. Then wait for some indian youtuber to make a video tutorial out of that.

Not every job is a great fit for someone with ADHD, but some of that is a learning curve as well. If you’re worried about it I’d recommend looking into the kinds of work that are more hands on, active, and varied.

Beyond that, you don’t choose a job for life. You don’t even necessarily choose an industry for life. Most people will change jobs, industries, even entire careers once or twice. I’d expect people with ADHD probably more so.

You look for something that aligns pretty well with what you want, while doing that you figure out what parts of it you’re good at or you like, then down the line you steer your career in a direction that aligns more with those things. You do that two or three times and you end up with a fulfilling career you may not have known existed at the outset.

Particularly when so many trans men who have lived as women previously have come forward to validate how much more isolated men feel.

It’s not going to get there. The idea it’s going to turn smart and capable at some undisclosed point in the future as long as we keep giving them billions in investments IS marketing.

Genuinely, there have been many people in my life who have needed help along the way. There’s no shame in this. Depression will tell you not to fix your depression.

You can be living a totally “normal” life while on the cusp of crisis and not realize it. There is no harm in talking to someone about these feelings. I implore you.

With that, you can call me whatever names you want, or talk about how weird or bad or whatever I am… I’m going to bow out here.

I didn’t say anything about deserve, I don’t really understand why you have it in quotes.

I thought it was pretty clearly implied the problem was a mental health issue. I’m not a psychiatrist so I’m not qualified to say what the particular mental health issue is any more than I would be able to qualify or runny nose as a cold or allergies or a flu. I just know a symptom when I see it.

A person that wants to determine what species do and do not “deserve” to exist is outside of my pay grade, but clearly unwell.

“my life is so miserable that I would rather see the continuation of the species voluntarily end that risk someone else suffers like me” is depression. Maybe it’s not suicidal depression, but it probably requires intervention.

Maybe it’s just immature edgelord BS, but if not that’s a serious problem.

I think you may just need to talk to somebody this comment is out of my depth.

It’s getting worse sure. But we have no idea how bad it will get, or what the total effect will be. We have no idea what role technology will play in the future of this crisis, or if recovery would outpace models in the event we decided to take the problem seriously.

Bear in mind that acid rain was a real crisis that was happening in the 80s and the hole in the Ozone was a real crisis that was happening in the 90s. When we made an honest effort to fix those problems… They got fixed.

Also, we can guess at what species will or won’t fare well, but not how they’ll adapt or what else might thrive in a new environment.

And yeah, it’s possible that temps will spike faster than we could ever imagine or deploy solutions and we’ll all bake to death in a sprawling global desert if we don’t all starve from the sweeping famine. I just have more faith in human ingenuity, and will than that.

I had a lot of problems when I’ve used Ubuntu in the past. To be fair that was 2009 - 2012 and it was a much less mature product. But whether it’s snaps, unity, or Ubuntu One integrations, they always seem to be doing their own thing in a way that’s not particularly helpful.

I’ve had a much more “just works” experience with Fedora and Mint.

I’m sure that’s at least part of the idea but I’m yet to see any evidence that it won’t also be dog shit at that. It doesn’t have the context window or foresight to conceive of a decent plot twist in a piece of fiction despite having access to every piece of fiction ever written. I’m not buying that it would be able to build a psychological model and contextualize 40 plus years of lived experience in a way that could get me to buy a $20 Dubai chocolate bar or drive a Chevy.

Of course it did.

If not for the courage and conviction of Vasily Arkhipov, civilization, and potentially humanity, may have ended in 1964. People had kids for 30 years under the very real threat of nuclear extermination. In the end it turned out pretty well.

People had kids during the black plague.

While a climate crisis is more than just a threat, we don’t know what’s going to happen. We have ideas, and models, and educated guesses… But not knowledge.

I wouldn’t tell anyone to have kids if they don’t want to. But no one should plan their life around sparing a hypothetical person from the hypothetical struggles of a slow moving crisis we don’t fully understand.

I’m mostly annoyed that I have to keep explaining to people that 95% of what they hear about AI is marketing. In the years since we bet the whole US economy on AI and were told it’s absolutely the future of all things, it’s yet to produce a really great work of fiction (as far as we know), a groundbreaking piece of software of it’s own production or design, or a blockbuster product that I’m aware of.

We’re betting our whole future on a concept of a product that has yet to reliably profit any of its users or the public as a whole.

I’ve made several good faith efforts at getting it to produce something valuable or helpful to me. I’ve done the legwork on making sure I know how to ask it for what I want, and how I can better communicate with it.

But AI “art” requires an actual artist to clean it up. AI fiction requires a writer to steer it or fix it. AI non-fiction requires a fact cheker. AI code requires a coder. At what point does the public catch on that the emperor has no clothes?

I think I’m 6/10. I’d consider myself an advanced user. I’m capable enough to avoid casual problems, and instead create real serious problems.

I am skilled enough to understand that I don’t know shit.

I’m struggling to connect the dots between “X person used to work in electronic surveillance” and an immediate risk to the open source software being developed by a different employer. Is there some reason to think this person is still working for their old employer? Or is the speculation that they are a idologue out to destroy Linux from the inside?

If there’s something unsafe in the code, especially a rust rewrite of the coreutils I’d expect it’s going to be found immediately. People are going to go over that code with a fine toothed comb.

If the central idea of the article is “I don’t think there’s a place in the FOSS community for people with different ideas/beliefs/history than me” then the author should come out and say that (many have in the past). Claiming we’re at risk because of some wild speculation about a nefarious plot between the military and Microsoft to attack Linux and privacy… it really does require something more firm than this.