[–] 1 point 5 hours ago

It's not a term invented by critics of the AI craze, but rather proponents (who apparently don't realize just how insane it sounds). First time I heard it was when an enthusiastic coworker sent this article to me in an email. He was completely serious. Made some off-hand remarks that sounded borderline cultist about people who are "completely misguided" about AI. He's been sending out emails about AI for a couple years now and I realized that I've been watching a case AI psychosis gradually unfold.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Firefox is totally doable on that much RAM. Not going to be pleasant, but usable. You want to strip down as much resource usage as you can: inside Firefox throw in uBlock Origin and Tab Unloader; outside Firefox use a stripped down desktop like XFCE or just a straight low resource window manager with no desktop environment (I was a big fan of WindowMaker back in the day).

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It's a Unicode CJK variant. There are a bunch of characters that Unicode considers to be the same character but with small regional differences (e.g. how it's written in Mainland China vs. Taiwan vs. Japan vs. Korea, etc.). Since the region isn't encoded in the character, you're seeing whatever your system locale and font default to. For web pages, you can specify the region inside the HTML or HTTP headers and hopefully you get the correct character rendering, but that also requires you to have a font installed that includes the variant.

    https://www.typotheque.com/articles/understanding-cjk-regional-character-variants

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Normal grocery shopping. We've got candles and flashlights if the power goes out, and I've got a fully charged camping battery that I can use to power the oil furnace so we at least have heat. If the power goes out, we've also got a camping grill that I can cook on, and if worse comes to worse a box of MREs in the basement that I bought last year as a humorous "this is what Dad had to eat back when he was in the military".

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    When that setting gets checked, the IDFA gets set to all zeroes per the developer docs. So it definitely doesn't stop data collection or attempts to target, it just changes that one data point. Instead of an easy "this specific account is associated with this action", you instead get "someone who clicked the opt-out button is associated with this action - you're going to have to target them using other details"

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Yeah, as a 看得懂汉字的 native English speaker, seeing 族 used to describe both ethnicity and things as mundane as e.g. 开车族 always hits in a weird way. Reading 弱势族群 there would have struck me as the speaker looking down on them. I wouldn't have got the "for good reason", not because it's not literally there, but rather because I probably would have instinctively interpreted the writer as not being sympathetic - something like "all those damn poor people" as if he were to continue on in an ignorant rant about his taxes going to undeserving people on welfare or something. 弱势群体 definitely doesn't have that connotation.

    Anywho, thanks for sharing.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    I hate the default way most browsers handle tabs. Moved over to this setup years ago and I'm definitely never going back.

    Firefox plus either Sideberry or Tree Style Tabs - both will organize your tabs vertically along the side of the window in a tree format. Follow a link in a new tab, it opens up as a new branch under the current one.

    Pair that with Auto Tab Discard to keep memory usage down, and something like Open Link with New Tab to automatically open links across domains in a new child tab.

    Now I tend to just collapse trees of related tabs and further organize broad related subjects in windows.

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