@atax1a I'm an even bigger idiot than that. I just remembered I have /.zfs/snapshot/(most_recent_name)/var/db/pkg/ to compare against.
@atax1a UN_GPART_ABLE
Covid and AI
I recognize your right to get infected and suffer. Knock yourself out. Permanently, if you feel like doing us that favor.
But you have no right to infect others. Yet here you are, trying to poison us as you've poisoned yourselves, and you dare to wonder why we're so desperately resisting you, fighting you, and cutting you out of our lives one way or another.
I had to `rm /var/db/pkg/*` and re-bootstrap pkg to stop my installed ports from being randomly uninstalled. I did that a few days ago, and it worked.
Now I have my most needed ports reinstalled (installed anew, according to #FreeBSD), and my system is back to mostly normal again.
But because I wiped out my pkg database, I have a few thousand now-untracked binaries that I need to sort through, finding out the hard way which ports installed them.
@mavica_again Pretty awesomely negatively impressed, oof. Brains make lots of bad things easier than it should be.
ethical AI? of course! it’s always ethical to bamboozle an elderly CS legend into releasing a paper about LLM coding that doesn’t stand up to even basic scrutiny, instead of spending his limited remaining time on this planet finally finishing his book series on algorithms.
it’s ethical because in the future CS will be fucking dead and nobody will be able to afford a computer that isn’t a rented thin client barely capable of accessing cloud resources you pay for by the minute
ethical AI? of course! I deleted my OpenAI account because they’re a multi-billion dollar fashtech corporation run by cynical capitalists willing to use LLMs for war and replaced it with Anthropic, a multi-billion dollar fashtech corporation run by fucking full-fat TESCREAL cultists willing to use LLMs for war as long as they retain sufficient control over what they see as an incipient machine god
why aren’t you clapping
Mozilla's instructions for installing #Firefox on ChromeOS don't mention Firefox ESR.
I forgot that this kind of ESR was an option.
`sudo apt-get install firefox-esr` works just as well as `sudo apt-get install firefox` does. Today, it installed Firefox ESR 140.8, and it seems as stable as 148 should've been.
@atax1a True. But its sloperator is the very small shellscript.
@atax1a The slop machine convinced them that replacing themselves completely with a very small shellscript was anything better than an insult.
RE: https://muffin.industries/@wayback_exe/116172758890535509
We used to have Web search engines, instead of SEO sales & ad engines.
After a dozen years of happily perusing the Web using browsers with decent ad blockers installed, just 15 _minutes_ of trying to find stuff with Google Chrome feels like a dystopian television nightmare. Like, any second now, Google will save me from the sea of animated overlay ads by happily letting some random malvertizer show me a full-screen error message telling me to call Windows Support at 1-800-FLEECE-ME urgently.
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