Nah, everything’s fine, face is melting like always.

Definitely have to add one of my favourites:

[email protected]

Ah, I just saw the message that the new hardware was installed - but sadly, seconds later now I am getting the 502 error again. Here’s hoping there’s just some updates or smth that need to finish up, and it won’t crash like that again. 🤞

EDIT: Already back again, maybe it doesn’t crash anymore but still has occasional hiccups?

You can watch it for free in the Fediverse, too: https://blurt.media/w/eb13ae59-3eab-4def-abfd-0eca4c872ace

Sunk cost fallacy. Also, admitting to having been wrong is hard. It’s one of the core mechanisms cults use to ensure loyalty. The more embarrassing, absurd and shameful the accepted “truths” become, the harder it is to exit the cult.

Okay, that is fair enough - although one small thing I’d add is “psychological issues not greatly exacerbated by his former employer” - where I also don’t think intentionality is important, as long as they callously don’t consider the potential of that exacerbation.

Thing is: psychological issues don’t exist in a vacuum. For example - let’s say he was robbed of all perspectives to ever work again in a field he was passionate about by his former employer de facto “blacklisting” him - they surely did not explicitly have this outcome in mind, but they accepted it as a possibility. Similar situation with the high suicide rates in countries like South Korea - they don’t exist the way they are because of independently existing, isolated mental illness, but because of a material system that interacts with, and sets the conditions of, psychological development.

So, you are right, it’s true that it could be, that it ends up as the result of a completely unrelated mental illness. But I’d be wary to take reports like “he actually had a diagnosis of depressive disorder” as simply washing OpenAI clean of all responsibility.

Okay, that does make sense, I was a bit impatient, I guess, after I saw other videos in the search that were only hours old - but it makes sense that which ones are indexed first is not as simple as FIFO.

This just as a reminder: Even if this is to turn out to really 100% be a suicide, that just means they were able to silence him by driving him into suicide - basically by all important metrics the same as a corporate assassination with extra steps.

Well, you should have your first donation showing up soon ^^

Oh :D

Well, you are doing a great job, and I like what I have seen so far! Keep up the good work!

I just rejoined PeerTube after I had a quick look years ago, and it’s gotten way better since then, actually. I found out Space Quest Historian is on it, too!

But yeah, discoverability isn’t good. Lack of an algorithm also makes bingewatching impossible - for better and worse, I guess.

As you linked them, I’d also recommend peertube.wtf - they even reacted very quickly when I reported a transphobic german conspiracy channel/server.

My great-grandpa actually had to hide from the Gestapo during those years, and my great-great-uncle died in a Nazi prison, so I have some family bragging rights I guess.

Those bragging rights unfortunately don’t feel nearly as good, when I realise I might end up in the same situation with how things are going…

That’s an important thing to point out: Simply having many users isn’t bad, of course, but for small communities to grow, you mostly need a few power users to push open the doors and lay the groundwork for more passive users to follow.

So, it isn’t the exact same situation, but just as a reminder: von Papen, the conservative guy who ultimately put Hitler into power, initially thought he’d be savvy and cede only “not that important” posts to Hitler and the NSDAP. After all, a silly, comically insane upstart like Hitler would be easily outmanoeuvred by knowing the law and how statecraft works, right?

Well, the Nazis just used those posts in illegal ways, overstepped their official authority and refused to report to von Papen at all (whom they should at that point have been subservient to) - knowing full well no one was going to stop them anyway. Shortly thereafter, von Papen was out and Hitler was chancellor.

Von Papen managed to live until 1969, and wrote an autobiography that was derided by historians for having a terribly naive lack of understanding politics, lack of principles and being full of vanity.

For the games I did made, before I had to do a life restructuring and put that stuff on hiatus, I always went with something.x86_64 - I have no idea when and where I got that idea, but I know I copied that format from somewhere.

If you are German-speaking, your main instance of interest for communities will probably be feddit.org with the main community being [email protected] (and inofficially [email protected]) - check it out if you haven’t yet

EDIT: Hello there, person in the future - I completely forgot about [email protected] - the “landing page” community.

You were there when the ancient texts were written, but remember, some of us were there when the alphabet was conceived.

Actually, I really hate to tread that line, but I still do it all the time, unfortunately.

Those are cute and great! The left-right-L one actually had me chuckle to myself, that’s high praise on the internet.

OF killed good amateur porn

As I have seen it pointed out, it’s not just that, although it is a huge part of it. Another, sadly, is that there was so much uncontrolled porn floating around the internet, much of it was pretty fucked up - involuntarily filmed and/or published without consent, not traceable, even with very unclear ages, etc., etc.

So as a secondary effect, that I think is highly positive, most sites also just don’t allow for non-verified content, or at least are much better at removing anything remotely suspicious. That leaves the OF stuff as the main non-studio-produced source, as it allows for easy, professional verifications.