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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You cannot use a domain name to resolve DNS. Quite literally it's the Domain Name Service, it's the only thing you can't use a domain for. Just set a static IP on your pihole to something memorable like 193.168.1.2 or 10.10.10.10 or something.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Okay that's true I admit, I'm well educated, and I want others to be too. Just like Idiocracy told us though people who don't see how bad it is won't be bothered and will have children anyway. 200 bucks ho boy let's get busy!

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 105 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Very good article. I wish it would have connected the dots just a bit more though. You know what stops me from having children?

  • That daycare is unaffordable so one of us would have to work fulltime just to pay for childcare.
  • The public school system is constantly being underfunded or worse, defunded, and if I had a child they would deserve an education.
  • That PBS is being defunded so the few actually educational programs (the ones I even grew up with) are at risk
  • College is completely unaffordable without massive parental help
  • The job market is at best, iffy over the next few decades
  • Housing is so unaffordable that it would take too much away from my child to pay for mine, let alone if they want to have a home
  • The giant huge fucking elephant in the room of the climate disaster - sitting here in a heatwave that is somehow again "Once in a century" for the umpteenth time while we do absolutely nothing to curb it. I'm not bringing a child into a dying world for their profit.
  • I want us to be able to get an abortion if it comes to that, I don't want to see my spouse die just because she's pregnant and some politician says that the unborn child's life is worth more than hers.

Seriously, all of these are fixable problems and they've been doing the exact opposite! If they implemented even half of these it would completely change my mind about having kids, but no I guess having a 200 dollar annual tax credit bump is enough in their minds after defunding everything else I would depend on.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow this might be the first time I disagree with the anti-AI folks here. The big two arguments I see about using AI is 1) It was generated from stolen art and 2) It takes money out of the hands of real artists.

For 1, Pandora's box is open. It's done. It doesn't make it right, and I'm all for backing lawsuits against companies who did it, but I'm not going to pile onto a person who just had a joke idea and wanted to get it out there. "But he shouldn't use it at all" - yeah, except that gets into 2.

For 2, This was a silly thing that they wanted to make quick. Let's be very real, there was no way they were going to commission an artist to do this for them. In this way I think AI has democratized art a bit more in this sense. No, it's not winning any awards, but I'll admit I've had a lot of ideas to make a joke or meme, and I've felt left out because all I want to do is post it quick but I don't have the ability to draw. I have a lot of other skills, but I can't draw. So yeah, I don't get why this is such a big deal here, no creators lost out on a commission because of this.

Those who went to Art School, I fully believe in your craft and I value it, and I gladly pay for art around my house. This isn't that though, it's a silly comic strip I got a quick 3 second chuckle out of and then could have moved on if it wasn't for the endless comments below that made me want to post this comment. To me, this is a perfectly valid use of AI. Person had a silly joke idea, made a visual for silly joke, put it online.

Yup it's already proven to be cheaper, easier to make, lowe maintenance. It's why even the reddest of states and their electricity concerns have already switched huge chunks over. The Midwest is covered in wind turbines for that exact reason. It's better for them to do it, even if oil is being paid off. At this point we're just handing out subsidies and essentially bailouts to big oil because they're refusing to modernize.

I'm sure it will be just as good as the movie.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 12 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Agreed, also wonder how many people it proves that Linux is now perfectly valid for a gaming pc

Same, the entire point is going into their world. If I want to see a movie in this world I'll watch any of the other 80% of all movies ever

Good modding in my opinion. Let the downvotes do the talking

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

1-3 are all just complaining, not a single solution or idea given out here. Some of the best advice I ever got was "Bring me solutions, not problems". Just complaining like this causes people to skip and say "Well this is a waste of time".

4 is just... what.

Now if this was a post that called out specific things and how you would improve them, that would garner engagement and could make really interesting comment, get upvotes, and maybe even get the attention of people who make changes. Negativity begets negativity

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope st peter reads that line back to him at the pearly gates before pulling the big lever

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 33 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I don't know why they can't just say "sorry visa are a bunch of prudes so you can't buy this game with that card". Rather than the entire site completely

 

After a small bout this weekend, I want to hear what your horrible food poisoning stories are! Embarrassing? Thrilling? Was it a kitchen ignoring safety protocols or did you trust something that was a little iffy out of the fridge? Let me hear it! I'll post my own below.

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How to "Follow" film festivals? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/moviesandtv@lemm.ee
 

General questions, the backstory is I just found out that The Brutalist was at the Savannah Film Festival, and I feel like I really missed out on both seeing it and seeing the panels with the actors. I don't really know how to follow these things though, so as a fairly newby into the film world, what is the best way to follow events?

How do I know that there is a premier near me, or what they're showing? Not saying I want to go to everything, but it'd be nice to know if there are things going on that I would like to attend. Is there a way to do this at a larger/national scale? It's incredibly frustrating, I google something like "Brutalist Film Festivals" and the results are all celebrity rags about past events, how do I find out where they're going to be next?

 

Ironic, just saw the post about ChatGPT launching their own competitor

 

What are your worst interviews you've done? I'm currently going through them myself and want to hear what others are like. Dijkstras algorithm on the whiteboard? Binary Search? My personal favorite "I don't see anything wrong with your architecture, but I'm not a fan of X language/framework so I have to call that out"

Let me hear them!

(Non programmers too please jump in with your horrid interviews, I'm just very fed up with tech screens)

 

cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/1586011

Rider is the best C# IDE IMO, works on linux, mac, and of course Windows. Very happy it's now free!

 

Rider is the best C# IDE IMO, works on linux, mac, and of course Windows. Very happy it's now free!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21141129

From director Brady Corbet, written by Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold, and starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Emma Laird, with Isaach De Bankolé, and Alessandro Nivola. THE BRUTALIST – In Theaters This December.

 

cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/1559544

Fans customized the Wicked movie poster to more closely match the original Broadway poster.

Original Broadway Poster:

Movie poster:

Some fans, disappointed by the poster, altered it to be closer to the original, moving Grande’s hand and lowering the brim of Erivo’s hat to cover her eyes. The edits prompted Erivo to respond. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen

“None of this is funny. None of it is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us,” Erivo continued. “The original poster is an ILLUSTRATION. I am a real life human being, who chose to look right down the barrel of the camera to you, the viewer… because, without words we communicate with our eyes.”

So, this seems like a completely reasonable reaction to fans making fan content.

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