As others have said, time. Also, the realization and repeated internal reminders to yourself that they were not who you thought they were.

It’s very easy to build up someone in your head to be better than they are and to fill in the gaps with positive assumptions, especially when you’re crushing on them. You have to realize that those fuzzy feelings were in your head. The feelings weren’t based off reality, and they obviously weren’t the same feelings in that person’s head. At the very least, those feelings weren’t based off the full person, because you didn’t know them fully.

The version of them you liked didn’t exist, because that version wouldn’t be (in this specific case) homophobic, ableist, hating special needs students, and making fun of you behind your back.

Yes, it may hurt to remind yourself of the reasoms they are shit, but it’ll hurt less than allowing yourself to pine for a “what could have been” that was based off a version of them that only existed in your head.

Great callout!

I participate in the techtakes community on awful.systems, which is devoted to laughing at tech bro “takes”. HN posts and comments are almost too easy as targets for derision and are common topics for meta-discussion of the reprehensible opinions.

I was just trying to have a light touch here. Start with the facts. We can talk about the literal cults spun off from it later.

The site’s one of the clearest windows into the myriad and shockingly widespread ghoulish opinions that seem to fester in places that consider themselves important to the tech industry or attract people who think they are.

I really should start keeping a tally on shit like “how many times have I seen eugenics suggested on HN this month”.

Heads up, Hacker News is a social media site like here or reddit, it’s not a news outlet. It’s run by Y Combinator, a huge venture capital firm in the SF Bay area, and the users tend to be tech bros or aspiring ones. Many attach their user accounts to their github and professional identity. I think there’s only one admin and they tend to be heavy handed.

Most video playing apps have an option for this, I know VLC does.

It was a way of setting up video to save size while not sacrificing visual quality on old CRT TVs. Got left behind as it looks like this on more modern TVs.

So there are some exceptions to size being quality, and you’ve found the most obvious one. .ISO files are full copies of discs, including blank space or filler garbage data. So a DVD might only have a 1GB game on it, but the disc is 4GB, so the ISO is 4GB. Video discs are usually filled more “fully”, but then there are also limitations with how the video can be encoded for DVD that tends to make the video files larger than they would be using more modern formats.

All that to say, if you aren’t interested in the special features on a DVD, or the experience of switching virtuap discs, you’re probably better off looking for the video files outside of an ISO file, if the ISO is of a DVD.

Blu-ray ISOs are closer to space effective, but it’s still most effective to get just the video files.

There is the (more difficult) option of finding a dev job for an older tech conservative company. My workplace has just barely rolled out access to copilot chat. Our devs are still doing things without the slop.

Look at the more heavily regulated business sectors, they tend to be more resistant to tech fads.

Hearbeat notifications man. “Yes I am online” email once a day or so. Yeah it’s more emails to delete but it can be a lifesaver.

I’m remembering a very not fun discussion my team had about “the monitoring system not sending any alerts doesn’t inherently mean everything is ok” after an outage that was missed by our monitoring system.

You need to make sure you’re monitoring connectivity as well as specific problem states. No data is a problem state often overlooked, and it’s not always considered for every resource type in these systems out of the box.

And you probably want a heartbeat notification. Yes, it’s noise, but if you don’t see anything from monitoring you need to question if monitoring is the thing that broke. It sending out a notification every so often going “yes I am online” is useful.

While their full set of data is 370TB, you can back up quite a bit without taking up too much space depending on what you want. The shit that really seems to eat drive space are the PS3 games and various gaming related bluray rips.

I’d imagine the gaming related bluray rips (mostly special edition behind the scenes disks) are going to be hard to find when it goes down.

Hence my mention about Pirate Bay. There were multiple mainstream news stories about it. Multiple of the founders were unmasked and put on trial, but the site was constructed so that it kept running. It is still running to this day, despite it no longer being the face of piracy that it was long ago.

Edit: In more recent news/sites, Anna’s Archive. They have yet another lawsuit against them that isn’t going to amount to anything but maybe a few more domain names going down because none of the people operating it have been able to be unmasked.

I never said that and you’re wildly missing my point. If the person running your site hasn’t run things in a way that they can tank some news coverage, it was doomed from the start.

Take this very lemmy instance. The public facing load balancer they currently use is hosted in France. They aren’t revealing anything beyond that and anythung further isn’t something that can be reasonably found by anyone not involved with the systems administration side of things for the instance. The admins are careful to practice proper opsec as well, not revealing their home country.

You can find all sorts of writeups about countless less than legal sites and projects, both ones that survived and ones that died. Not a single dead one is dead because of attention. Most are dead because the people running it made some mistake that allowed authorities to find their real identity so they could be prosecuted. Or because of internal drama. Or rising costs, like myrient which is closing the end of this month.

Oh no, the youngins are on their “if no one talks about it, the corpos won’t know” delusion again.

Security through obscurity isn’t security, and plenty of sites have survived longer than most of you have been pirating despite coverage by actual news organizations. Your least (or most) favorite youtuber (or forum, or guide, or wiki) isn’t moving the needle.

If you aren’t part of the actual scene that’s sourcing shit for day 0 (or earlier) upload you have nothing to worry about regarding open discussion through psuedonymous social media. Or people making youtube videos. Or guides etc.

Pirate sites and fan projects that get shut down weren’t going to last anyway. Real ones arr either set up to last or find a way to continue. Like Pirate Bay and AM2R.

Make your own comm for this if you absolutely must pour your slop out on lemmy.

I hope it’s just a joke

Yes, the classic Mozilla April Fools joke, released a full month early.

As I’ve looked through it myself I’m also seeing a decent amount of duplicated items, especially in their “Internet Archive” section for stuff that is at risk of being taken off IA. Multiple different format copies of the same game releases, or dumps of PS3 games by different scene groups.

Oh, well today I learned. I had assumed that even the world’s dumbest government officials wouldn’t refer to themselves as being part of a department that doesn’t actually exist, but here we are.

Thanks for laying it out for me!

I think you missed some news. There is officially a Department of War again.

Edit: I am very wrong.

Also, mass surveillance. Not surveillance itself. And fully autonomous weapons.

Don’t get distracted by the birdy folks, Anthropic is not your friend, or some great protector of the American people. They were already deeply embedded in the US Government as their product was the only one certified for use with classified documents.

They weren’t standing up for us, they were splitting hairs on exactly how far they’d openly go.

I’ve also seen statements that Anthropic’s stance against fully autonomous weapons was simply due to results not yet being as consistent as they were comfortable putting their name on, not due to any opposition towards use in/with weaponry.

OpenAI also claims to have the same limitations. So someone’s lying.

While I’m glad they’re drawing a line, they’re only splitting hairs. Anthropic is already deeply working with the US gov.

You’re spot-on. As some additional context, Anthropic is already working tightly with the US government. Until the recent announcement regarding Grok, Anthropic was the only approved AI for US government work, as it is/was the only one certified for safely woeking with classified data.

I would start with making scripts to reproduce your current customizations on a fresh install, personally.