Shrimp cocktail counts as vegetarian if there are fewer that 17 prawns in it, since it rounds down to zero souls.

Well you know, it’s not quite perfect. For a movie set in Morocco, not too many Maghrebin in the main cast, which also adds a bit of hypocritical bitterness in the pivotal La Marseillaise scene. It’s a powerful moment of resistance against the nazis, but also they’re singing the French national anthem in a colonial protectorate of France.

It’s an all-time classic, but we shouldn’t get carried away and ignore its flaws.

Oh my god, that is right on the edge between making all of this either a lot more depressing or even funnier.

Actually, I kinda want to say more than that.

It’s a movie about a guy who has grown cynical from years of anti-fascist action, though he’s bit tsundere about his allegiance. In the end he chooses to bear the jealousy over his lover and abandon his life of convenience and comfort to fight for what’s ultimately right.

It’s a movie that resonates all these decades later, forgoing easy answers for a real stance. And it’s amazingly quotable.

Also remembered this video essay about it.

Not to make too hot a take, but Casablanca is a really good movie.

This Adolf guy kinda had me when he was just a dude traumatized by war who liked buildings and was kinda shit at drawing them, but his political takes were full on yikes and he quickly lost me when it came to the arts as well.

Funeral? Poppycock, KPIs are great. Bloodwork is coming in excellent. Perfect cholesterol, low leukocytes, beautiful plumage. So what if he’s braindead?

He’s definitely up there, or at least used to be. The Cathedral and the Bazaar, his attempt to justify why Linux is more successful than GNU or BSD, used to be very much a part of the open source canon. He cofounded OSI. He forked some POP3 client to make his own bad and insecure one called Fetchmail, then refused to improve it.

Personally I’m happy to know he’s become less relevant nowadays.

It amazes me how well SponsorBlock works and how bad YouTube feels without it. I guess the main downside is that it’s a little harder to tell the good 'toobers with strong moral backbone who don’t shill awful shit in the first place from those whose sponsor segments merely get automatically skipped.

@self@awful.systems I would like to report a bug. Sometimes reading, interacting with, or posting a comment costs several times as much as it does other times. Posting this comment was exactly one million times as expensive as the median of my other comments and reading it will cost as much. Please try and equalize the cost of using this free site so I can continue to afford alcohol.

Oh no you misunderstand. Tankies are hijacking the country code anti-imperialistly.

goodlemmy.ml
peoplesfrontoflemmy.ml
shitlemmymlsays.space
lemmy.ac
philthy.ml
lemmymali.org

And so three new Lemmy instances were born.

I am an anti-corpo leftists of Lemmy. I’d like to point out one thing.

We are sure Google will just evaporate tomorrow.

LLMs are quite impressive as chatbots all things considered. The conversations with them are way more realistic and almost as funny as the ones with the IRC markov chain my friend made as a freshman CS student.

Of course, out bot’s training data only included the IRC channel’s logs of a few years and the Finnish Bible we later threw in for shits and giggles. A training set of approximately zero terabytes in total.

LLMs are less a marvel of machine learning algorithms (though I admit they might play a part) and more one of data scraping. Based on their claims, they have already dug through the vast majority of publicly accessible world wide web, so where do you go from there? Sure, there are a lot of books that are not on the web, but feeding them in the machine is about as hard as getting them on the web to begin with.

“Admit” is a strong word, I’d go for “desperately attempt to deny”.

Yea, the artists are about half the reason for me to be on that site to begin with.

I made a sneer about moving from Twitter to yet another Jack Dorsey social network, but after looking into it he apparently left Bluesky and joined Musk’s team instead, because of moderation options. Geez, maybe I should sign up. But creating and keeping track of new accounts to sites is a pain in the aaaaaaassssss.

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I just met with a great-aunt who has been a bit distant until now. A rare time for me meeting with relatives of her generation since I ran out of living grandparents about a decade ago (though thankfully I at least hear from most of them from mom occasionally).

We talked about some of our common relatives of her generation and some have dementia-related anterograde amnesia not quite unlike the OP’s mother. At least some of them can at least remember “new” things like the very fact that their memory doesn’t work right, but a lot of it is down to luck and conditioning, and even then it’s really hard to always consider that something might have happened hours or minutes ago, but you just forgot about it.

Memory is hella complex is what I’m saying.