I’m sure there’s a combination out there that would get what I’m looking for. I just haven’t found it yet, and a lot of the scene (especially what gets coverage by youtubers) seem to be focused on increasing difficulty by making individual zombies more threatening (night sprinters, randomizers, adding different “zany” zombie types) or adding environmental hazards (nuclear fallout, airborne virus, eternal winter).

You can adjust settings, and I do, but once you clear an area if you stay near the area the options are either “randomly spawn in zombies where you’ve cleared” (ignoring whether a zombie could actually path there or not, last I tested it) or “no more zombies”. There’s no built in way I know of to simulate a glob coming in from the edges of your safe zone if the edges are farther out than the limit of cells it simulates around you.

I could probably get something together with the horde night mod. Just haven’t had time to tinker lately.

Not really related, but it makes me sad that this isn’t easily possible in Project Zomboid. It’s the exact sort of feeling I want from it.

Yeah. Anthropic regularly releases these stories and they almost always boil down to “When we prompted the AI to be mean, it generated output in line with ‘mean’ responses! Oh my god we’re all doomed!”

Good old firebase. Notifications are not entirely device local on android, or something like that.

Especially from Gartner of all places. Maybe this will finally start tempering the hype in the executives.

The solution to that isn’t to post even more blatantly state controlled media just with a different flavor of boot sole.

Come on now.

Yes, you’re correct.

But that rollout doesn’t make headlines like all the ones from the US government telling people to use encrypted messaging like WhatsApp or Signal. That’s what got them to WhatsApp to begin with. FBI tells everyone very loudly to get off standard texting. They jump as a collective to where half of them already are.

As I’ve already alluded to: this has precisely zero to do with the technical aspects of security. Ease of use does matter (why pushing to Signal didn’t work at the time the FBI spooked everyone), but only a little bit, and is overshadowed by momentum of where people already are.

I might be able to get my family off WhatsApp with the recent article about it being banned from (I think it was) Congress’s phones.

But again, this isn’t a technical problem where you can just point at what’s obviously the better choice. There are complications of personal relationships, individual resistance to change, whether or not you’re willing to train your family members, etc.

My grandmother is in her late 80s and it is astonishing that she can even manage WhatsApp to pariticipate in the family group chat. I’m not upending that and causing her the added stress, work, isolation if it fractures the family groip chat, and signing myself up for all that extra work to try and drag people to new platform and hold their hand through the bumps… just so I can be comfortably principled, using the best option, and trying to prevent Meta from getting info about me for a few more years that they likely are getting through other means.

I’ll revisit as the elders age off.

I care about my privacy, but I’ve thought long and hard about my specific threat model and what is and isn’t important enough for me to make a big deal out of. For me, this is an acceptable sacrifice.

Doesn’t have to be that way for anyone else. Just has to work for me and my life. And it does.

Ultimately I’m just trying to give reasons why people are still on these platforms. I took the initial comment I responded to at face value. I’m not really looking to debate here, and my opinions don’t invalidate anyone else’s.

How is that fucking legal?

Give us this very sensitive information, we promise we won’t misuse it, and we’ll let you fiddle our AI as a treat.

Momentum of where friends and family are.

It’s nice to be able to say “well they’re not worth talking to then”, but at some point I need to be able to reach my parents so they can babysit my daughter. Or be able to know that family will be in town and expecting me to be available. Or be able to have any way of knowing what life events are happening to my loved ones without having to wait for it to be brought up in casual conversation months later as if I should already know.

My extended family and friends do a poor job communicating on a good day. If I try to add another hurdle, I’m not the one who wins that fight.

You can block specific posters and communities, but so far keyword filtering is only possible through specific phone apps.

I think an instance admin was working on something for doing that natively though.

If you take nothing else from this thread: That’s not “just autism”.

And the goal of working with a professional wouldn’t be to “delete your autism” like holy shit lmao that is so off base I would think you were a shitposter if I hadn’t met other people like you before.

There are dangerous thought patterns, shit that does nothing but erode your trust in the existence of an external reality. I don’t have the proper words to describe the level of danger to yourself and those around you that you can cause if you don’t believe foundational aspects of external reality.

This is really something you need to discuss with professionals.

Don’t forget “styrofoam walls painted to look like tunnels”. Fucking looney tunes.

Most still are/can be. Enough that I find it hard to believe people are missing out without podcasts through these paid services.

You might have better results working with a doctor and getting perscriptions for the mind altering drugs that assist you.

Trying to trust your own brain to self assess what works and doesn’t while actively messing with its chemistry it uses to do that assessment… it can work, but it’s definitely choosing to do it on hard mode.

If you unironically have trouble believing in the persistance of things outside of your own immediate senses, please go talk with your therapist more.

That’s kind of base level underpinnings of your existence and how you interact with the rest of the world shit.

Edit: This came off intensely aggressive. Sorry.

I’m looking down the barrel of a massive project to shift all of our departments away from network shares to SharePoint. Simultaneously, my team is going to stop supporting “special” permissioned sub-folders, like share/Facilities/Managers/ so people can’t see their co-worker’s yearly review. Each Sharepoint site’s “owner” (read, department manager) will be responsible for access management in their own site.

Also, knowing some of these departments, they will absolutely run up against the limit on amount of files in a single Sharepoint site. My boss seems to refuse to believe that’s possible.

This is going to be such a clusterfuck. I am afraid.

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Sincerely: How the fuck are your users utilizing Sharepoint that they don’t need to navigate the file/folder structure concept? Just using the search bar every time? Maintaining a list of shortcuts or browser favorites?

How does a file being shared from another user’s storage invalidate the need to still know how to get to it?

I can’t speak to Google Drive, as I’ve only used that minorly as an end user. Object based storage is an entirely different use case than document/data organization.

File names and tags with shit chucked in what is effectively a root folder are not adequate for most companies’ data organization and “securing so only the right people have access” needs.

I feel like this analogy is perfect, but not just for the reason you used it.

Car manufacturers making cars easier to use and require less maintenance is great. Your point in regards to people just not needing the old skills because of that is spot on.

But car manufacturers have also been making intentional design decisions to make accessing things under the hood require speciality tools or needlessly complex when it is needed. There are cars where you can’t replace headlights without removing the whole front bumper assembly. That isn’t the fault of the owner/user, and it’s not a case of “improvements make old skills obsolete”. It’s design intentionally hostile to the goal of allowing owners to even attempt it themselves. Scummy as hell, and we should be holding these companies responsible.

Google has done and is doing the same thing with Chromebooks and Android. File system? Folders to organize my files? What?

And now we have people who don’t know how to operate their car’s headlights, and people who can’t find files if they aren’t in the “recent documents” list.

I’ve found that with my “pre gen x” (born in the 60s, does that make her a boomer?) mother, she seems to have really bought in to all the old “computers make everything easy!” marketing, so when whatever she wants to do isn’t she just kind of gives up. Also ties into her not understanding the value of my career (sysadmin).

To her, computers aren’t complex tools that may take some skills and training to utilize properly, they’re “press the button to make it do exactly what I want” and when that doesn’t work she gets very frustrated.

That, plus she has had just enough exposure to computers in the 90s that she still on some level sees them as very easy to irreperably break expensive luxury items, so when she is rarely willing to work for it then she’s afraid to poke around in menus because she thinks she could break it permanently.

And to be fair, if you don’t set up your laptop using “cattle, not pets” strategies, it can be easy to get four levels deep in a menu and tweak some shit that fucks up an entire program. Then your option is to remember what you did to revert it, or just blow the damn thing out and reinstall (if it actually clears settings on uninstall, not a given).

Absolutely, as a slight counter to my ADHD and laziness. I find it harder to say “let me sleep fifteen more minutes” when the timer or alarm isn’t a round number.