@sturgman Those services serve web content with proper MIME types even if the repo isn't configured to use GH/GL Pages. Also, with some of those you can get served files from specific branches, while GH/GL Pages knows of one branch only. Also, load HTML or JS from GH Gists or GL Snippets as web resources (Gists and Snippets can't do that).
Note to self:
Serve web content from GH/GL repos:
* Simple: [GitHub & BitBucket HTML Preview](https://htmlpreview.github.io/)
* Versatile: [Statically](https://statically.io/)
([More alternatives](https://alternativeto.net/software/rawgit/) to now-defunct #RawGit)
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📣 **PSA:**
Most of the disappointment, outrage and fear that #ChatGPT, #Bing, etc are provoking these days can be cured by internalising this very simple idea:
#Chatbots and #DeepLearning models **do NOT produce truth, knowledge or wisdom**, therefore you should NOT trust them with anything important.
That's it.
Being shocked or alarmed because one of those tools gave the wrong answer to a kindergarten-level question or spat out a racist rant is so naive. If you don't trust politicians, salespeople or TV series, why should you trust ChatGPT? Just don't!
> _“Politicians get elected by telling us we can have our cake and eat it, too. The only thing that’s passed for bipartisanship over the past four decades is reckless spending. Democrats want more social spending, Republicans want lower taxes. OK, let’s compromise — do both and fuck over our grandkids.”_
— [Scott Galloway](https://scribe.froth.zone/@profgalloway/no-mercy-no-malice-e31a5bd8436b)
As I said, I have no temptation to _ban_ MMA. I think individual freedom wins here.
But I do think people should examine why they enjoy participating in that, or supporting that with their attention or their money — what exactly is at the core of the spectacle, what is being celebrated.
I remember #JoeRogan saying something along those lines about his time as a professional fighter (but I can't find the quote now): that his priority as a fighter was to inflict as much damage and pain in another human being as possible, that he was optimising for that and training that skill.
When that maximum pain and damage happens, a fighter is ecstatic, his team cheers, a crowd celebrates, sponsors rub their hands together in happiness. The exact moment when that person gets injured so badly (concussion? brain damage? death?) is replayed, commented on, shown to aspiring fighters, shared and “enjoyed” — sometimes by millions.
> “_An MMA fighter getting KO'd is no different than a marathon runner collapsing_”
It is _very_ different.
A marathoner collapsing is an unfortunate outcome. Nobody wants that, and nobody feels a bit happier when that happens. (The only very extreme and very unlikely exception: a chaser close behind in the race for whom that other runner collapsing is “good news”).
On the other hand, one of the fighters collapsing and being so badly injured that he can't get up is literally the best situation possible for the other fighter and for everyone and everything supporting him.
A fighter hitting so hard (and so “well”) that he literally kills his opponent immediately is arguably the perfect demonstration of his superiority. Even if fighters were so skilled (and so “kind”) as to calibrate their blows to always keep them just right below the “possibly mortal” level (a very generous assumption), inflicting maximum pain and damage to render their opponent unconscious is THE goal of the whole thing.
Yes, a fight between two consenting humans is different from a bull killed in the bullring or a goat being thrown from the top of the church bell tower. I acknowledged that difference.
What they have in common though is _a focus on, and a celebration of, violence and pain_. That's what I can't stand (and what I suspect is ethically dubious, at best).
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i've been learning how animation interpolation works in Godot, so I tell my wife "I spent a bunch of time today studying tweens" and now suddenly I"M the monster
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@kairyssdal I looked it up, and a woman is in her prime at ages 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89 and 97.
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A reminder that if you claim something is end-to-end encrypted and there is a vulnerability, it's quite possible that people will die.
E2E systems are safety critical and shouldn't be taken lightly.
I admit I'm probably more sensitive than most to the suffering of others, specifically to graphical depictions.
eg, I simply can't watch [PETA](https://www.peta.org/) videos or films like [Dominion](https://www.dominionmovement.com/).
I think I could watch an MMA fight, but I doubt I would enjoy it — rather the opposite.
I think that the laws and social norms we have guard against most of that.
eg, talking about people involved in MMA, either as participants or as spectators: only adults, consenting explicitly to that, and “in full possession of their mental faculties”.
Someone tricking you into taking poison is committing murder.
When problems get hairy, we implement more guards: higher minimum age (eg, those below 21 can't drink, those with less than two year's experience riding motorbikes can't ride the most powerful ones), mandatory delays (eg, being forced to wait X days before euthanasia, abortion, gender reassignment).
Gotta love #TwinShadow's web site!
Our amazing hypocrisy:
