Emily Young @eayoung.net

All-tech enthusiast and total retro/Linux geek | She/Her 🏳️‍⚧️ | Newfoundlander | Former host/writer @linusmediagroup.com

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Unexpected upside to the impending Windows 10 EOL: Lots of cheap Linux gaming/home server machines flooding the market!

www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1nw7ebw/i_saw_another_post_office_all_the_devices_getting/
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Feels like I'm seeing a lot of Lumafield stuff showing up on YouTube and socials lately. I'm guessing they're running a campaign?

I mean, obviously, but like, is there something going on?
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... Why do I feel called out by this
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Every time I open a newly installed browser and a search ends up on Google, I'm like "I'm sure I can still find what I'm looking for..."

... I honestly have no idea how anyone uses Google anymore without tearing their hair out. It's so bad.
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People are people.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY00ri_a9y4 And so, one of the longest-running, most well-known mysteries in the history of video games, has been solved.

... All because of an argument between a mom and her adult son.
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hey siri how do I stop living in interesting times
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Randomly looking around wplace, and lo and behold there's a trans flag near where I grew up??

I want to be their friend
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Just missed it
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I'm dangerously close to 100k subs???
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What "NSFW" means is constantly changing; The Witcher, BG3, and Cyberpunk all arguably are.

Besides that, NSFW artists are every bit as legit as SFW artists. There's absolutely NSFW content worth consuming, and if you don't believe me, go check out any given video by speedynoelle.bsky.social.
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The game in the letter sounds sus af to be clear, but that's a moderation issue. Going to the payment processor and spooking them is wild.

Though undeniably effective; I can't blame platforms for overcorrecting. Nothing scares suits more than line-no-go-up.

I fully support scaring them right back.
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I had a whole thing written up about the Collective Shout thing but TL;DR people like this have been around since forever and that they're only now gaining global influence is weird and frankly alarming.

Platforms have their hands tied because the alternative is to not be able to do business.
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So I think the idea that it's going to be the 90s dot-com boom all over again, where anyone who can't use AI is going to fall behind, is asinine. It's an app. I think it's far harder to pick up MS Office or Google Docs than it is to use an AI assistant. AI just needs to prove itself reliable first.
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If it offers to write for me, I decline and write it myself. Ethics of training data and environmental considerations aside, I think that's the way.

At LMG, I always wanted my words to be my own words; Even though I occasionally hosted videos that I didn't write, I did read and edit their scripts.
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Now that I'm on my own, I do use AI, primarily to bounce ideas and to check my work: Does this sentence make sense? Do I understand this concept correctly? Do these paragraphs flow well? AI's great at this - It's all pattern recognition. It's covering for a writing team I no longer have access to.
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That's why I won't begrudge people for using AI to begin with, but I get the feeling that the article implies that AI is going to do the job on its own and only those who know how to use it will have jobs. That fundamentally misunderstands what AI is capable of - And how not-hard it is to use.
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So when I look at people who use AI, one of the common refrains is that it's putting art in the hands of everyone, not just the skilled. Ditto coding or writing or anything else modern ML tools are being pitched to do. And in that sense I get it. It feels like a tool doing stuff they can't or won't.
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Art is looked down on, considered frivolous and unimportant, right up until it's needed. Art is all around us, even a website is a work of art. A car chassis. Video game assets. Even something like a sign or pamphlet. And it sucks that we look at art like it's not valuable or important.
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AI's true capacity for creativity in art and writing is its own question, but for a lot of people, having an outlet for the part of themselves that wants to create something that exists in their mind, but they don't have the skill or feel pressured not to exercise it.
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I don't think it's an intelligence or understanding gap; I think it's a creativity gap. I think men are often seen as weak or girly for creative pursuits, unless they pass a certain threshold of skill. AI is a pressure valve for achieving something creative by doing it in an "acceptable" way.
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I think this is interesting for a different reason: A lot of the same people who are pushing what we call AI are the people who were big on NFTs and crypto. I think there's a difference in how media influences people's perceptions more than we like to think. But there is yet another angle to it.
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youtu.be/6GqDX5_o3X4
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NEW VIDEO: How a simple mistake ruined my new PC (and my YouTube channel)
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Today was Canada Day, but in Newfoundland it was Memorial Day. At Beaumont-Hamel in WWI, the Royal NL Regiment were ordered to follow up a failed attack presumed successful. Left in clear view of German guns, they were decimated.

At school, I recall more WWI history than WWII.
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Today in pointless knowledge: Via 86box, Windows 95 can achieve very high refresh rates, but at least in this configuration it taps out at 1,238 Hz. I can specify higher, but it won't actually switch to it.
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Watching the Switch 2 launch is interesting. I don't really feel a great need to have one, but some people are going nuts for it. From my perspective, it's eerily like a WiiU situation where they launched without any software to back it up.
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Happy pride month! 🏳️‍🌈

Pride is about not just persisting, but taking life back from the fringes of society, thriving in spite of adversity. It isn't vanity; It's solidarity and defiance.

Sometimes protest, sometimes celebration, however the political pendulum swings, we remain.
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