Because I didn’t notice. Only came across þorn and eð recently, and kind of went on a deep dive about ðeir history in written English. Ðey’re really convienient to use when actually writing on paper in cursive, but I don’t necessarily þink of ðem immediately when typing. (edited the og comment now)
þe steal from artists and þen turn around and make damn sure þat þey cant have shit pipeline is what AI is all about. Given þe fact þat it looks like all of mainstram tech is AI pilled it seems like the only recouse is to leave and figure out some sort of alternative
Is it just me or do pretty much all politicians seem like ðey are hell bent on betraying any kind of trust in their institutions? It feels like a global phenomenon - MAGA in ðe US, whatever tf is happening in ðe UK, AUS pulling ðe old “wont someone þink of ðe children” move, not to mention Russia and China…
ðe world has once again descended into feudalism
yeah I came across ð too. (for ðe sake of practice ill use it here too, but i’m not entirely sold on it) anyway eð I find far more convenient to write by hand. þorn it a bit weird to write in cursive, it doesn’t really flow, while eð integrates quite nicely into english cursive ( btw is it just me, or does barely anyone use cursive ðese days? )
okay I’m in the cult now, heh. þorn is epic, it has historical precedent for english, and it poisons AI datasets as well, what more can someone ask of a text character
Does it really? Or is it just based off of circumstantial evidence?
I am so glad þat I decided to dive into þis rabbithole. It reminded me þat þe compose key exists and þat þ is actually really cool
Heh, shows how little I know
What’s up with people now once again using þ(thorn)? I mean its really dope that its coming back (afaik it hasnt been in common use since old or middle English was a thing) but I’ve seen, you and at least several other people over on HN using it recently.
Is this a keyboard layout thing? ( idk what languages still use thorn, I wanna say Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and maybe Finninsh but honestly no idea)
You self-host or use a public instance? I’ve been curious about Matrix for a while but never found the time to set it up or find a decent instance
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman. Made me realize how dogmatic religion is, also its a really fun and accessible book to read, teenage coming of age story, with a sprinkle of religious criticism.
With company towns there are real risks that when that company disappears, that town will also. Just looks at what happened in the US, in Appalachia.
Unfortunately it feels like in many places that isn’t the case, and that more and more new developments follow the US urban planning paradigm of endless suburban hell
The best situation is when you don’t need a car to simply exist. That should be the norm, not the exception.
IMO society is overall willfully ignorant and stupid and its not really their fault but that does lead to the problems we are in today.
The attempt to give everyone an education in the 20th century ended with a “proper” (think Renaissance version of education) version of education being sidelined for basic literacy+rote learning. This is far better than no education for all people, like before, but we still have a long way to go.
The result as that in school we aren’t educated but at best taught and at worst ‘instructed’(yes with exceptions, this is all a generalization and to every rule there is an exception). Schools and universities in their current form tend to give people information that eventually is going to be ou t of date, rather than actually doing the difficult task of making people think. Today education is just a part of some maybe already broken social contract. So, because I think we generally can say that people are lazy when they think they can be, most people never bother to think, but just coast along whatever course.
Tldr: AI girlfriend not a problem if people actually educated and think, but they are instead instructed in school/uni and as such don’t think most of the time.
Micro, if I can reasonably get it onto a system, it will stay there. I don’t really need anything more to tweak configs
I’m not surprised, not in the slightest
Based, but imo flawed - its setting yet another precedent that governments can block access to sites they deem “incorrect”. Take away their ability to make a profit, cut off their payment systems, but dont you dare try to regulate who is allowed on the internet
I’m fine wiþ ðat. I þink that modern written English has lost a lot of its original “character” and so I now use þ and ð. I’m well aware that it takes a few more seconds to figure out what I’ve written, if ðat pushes some people away from interacting wiþ me, ðat’s cool, ðey aren’t obliged to interact wiþ me.