lemmylommy
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- Comment on Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote 6 days ago:
“I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”
- John Boehner
„Everyone hates Ted“
- Donald Trump
- Comment on Your TV Is Spying On You 2 weeks ago:
Hundreds of snapshots a second? So my tv has at least 200 Hz? Or do they snap the same frame multiple times just for fun?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I despise ads because they steal time, and their very existence is an insult to the people that are exposed to them. All ads tell me is „your time is worth very little and we believe you are easily manipulated“.
Based on average ad length and cost on YouTube, ChatGPT has calculated that advertisers pay about $9 per hour of ads. While that seems a bit high to me, it is plausible. My time is worth more than that.
Yes, I do pay for YouTube premium. Though in a cheaper country, because the normal price is excessive imho.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 4 weeks ago:
Glados, is that you?
- Comment on Most American headline 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but kids in foster care are easy to abuse, so your tax dollars might be worth it for some.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 5 weeks ago:
How? If authorities seize your computer, don’t you think the recall screenshots is the first they will look at?
- Comment on Putin says services like Microsoft, Zoom should be 'throttled' in Russia 1 month ago:
Putin also.
- Comment on Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t use that kind of power continuously. AFAIK the sockets are supposed to handle 16A for at least six hours, when they are new. When charging your car on Schuko sockets it’s good practice to limit it to 10A and check for the socket temperature after a while. Also, any connections in the cabling can have increased resistance with age and heat up with heavy continuous use. That shouldn’t matter that much when running a kettle or toaster for a few minutes, but charging a car or gaming for hours can become a problem.
- Comment on Can Tesla's Self-Driving Software Handle Bus-Only Lanes? Not Reliably, No. 1 month ago:
„Not reliably, no“ sums up Tesla pretty well.
- Comment on Are standing seats on airliners actually going to be a thing? 1 month ago:
You are right, that’s a problem. Can’t throw out precious cargo.
- Comment on Are standing seats on airliners actually going to be a thing? 1 month ago:
Evacuation time is not a problem. They can just put a trap door under each „seat“.
- Comment on 7 for me 1 month ago:
- When it’s cold 8.
- Comment on I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server 2 months ago:
Before I tell you how to create a zip bomb, I do have to warn you that you can potentially crash and destroy your own device.
LOL. Destroy your device, kill the cat, what else?
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' funeral 2 months ago:
Not a tan suit though.
- Comment on Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box? 2 months ago:
What if they make you pregananant?
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 2 months ago:
The inventor of this method: „he was dead before I hit him. I was totally just checking with my medical hammer, you guys. Believe me.“
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 2 months ago:
I must admit that I am biased in that regard, but still I believe blaming Airbnb is mostly a distraction. Even in the worst of the worst places like Barcelona they reach around 10% of rental properties. Usually it’s a few percent in touristy places and much less everywhere else. Is it good for renters? Of course not. But it’s not the biggest factor, by far.
Now if I look at the whole rental market in my country, Germany, what’s on Airbnb is just a drop in the bucket. And still people are struggling to pay rent, especially in the cities. Even in those places that nobody in their right mind would go as a tourist unless threatened with serious physical harm.
Rents here started increasing uncomfortably after rental properties owned by local governments were privatized for a quick buck. Those new, publicly traded companies quickly raised rents sharply, because of course they have to earn back what they paid for the properties, plus a nice payout to investors. For the last two decades they have continued raising rents, neglecting maintenance and bought each other until now we the biggest company alone has almost half a million rental units, in a country of 80 million people. Of course, they don’t own three houses in villages here and there, but whole blocks in cities, with local market shares of up to 25%. That is much more significant than a few percent that are lost to tourism.
And don’t get me started on cost of construction, the chronic lack of new buildings, empty real estate owned by speculators or money launderers,… or I might rant again 😉
- Comment on This is real 2 months ago:
You are right. Please pm me your name and address and if you are ever deported to a torture camp in a foreign country I will let all senators know that you don’t want them to visit and will only accept help that meets lemmy.ml fever dream standards.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 2 months ago:
Some ads have used browser exploits to infect visitors in the past. So this is a very, very bad idea, if it actually is implemented in a way that is hard to filter for ad networks.
- Comment on DeepSeek's V3 AI model gets a major upgrade - here's what's new 3 months ago:
People are conflating the LLM and the app.
- Comment on Which is the cheapest way to manage my body after death ... 3 months ago:
Depends on where you live. In Germany the government will of course take care of the burial of no one else does it, but parents or children are responsible for whatever burial cost is left after using the estate, even if they refused the inheritance.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 3 months ago:
Ask the guy who had his wife deported and is still supporting Trump.
- Comment on Self-hosted media server to share with 5+ people? 3 months ago:
I am running plex server on a low power i3-7xxx. thanks to the igpu that thing can handle a few 1080p transcodes at once. Even 4K HDR transcoding is possible, though I never get more than one or two of them at the same time. Unless you need it to encode subtitles into the video or you have many simultaneous HDR to SDR conversions going at once any cheap old PC with an intel 7th gen or newer and igpu should do well. Oh, and I don’t think they can handle AV1, but that is still very uncommon.
- Comment on Cellebrite Dumps AI Into Its Cell Phone-Scraping Tool So Cops Can Hallucinate Evidence 3 months ago:
Even less shitty LLMs tend to hallucinate.
- Comment on Are old people usually attracted to other old people? 3 months ago:
As a 40 year old male I find that character becomes a bigger factor, even if it sounds cheesy. Sure, a hot but bland 20 something can be attractive and that will not change, but I would rather spend my time with an interesting 60 year old. Maybe it is because I am no Adonis either. But I also like to believe that a DiCaprio type situation would make me deadly afraid of taking advantage of someone at a much different stage of life.
I would also theorize that as it becomes more difficult to guess the age by looks alone character becomes a more important differentiator. Of course some signs of age can not be hidden, but there are plenty of 18 year olds dressing much older as well as lots of older women not giving off grandma vibes.
- Comment on Microsoft accidentally removed Copilot in the latest Windows 11 update. 3 months ago:
*without this bug
- Comment on What is your favourite way to transfer files in your homelab? 3 months ago:
WinSCP for editing server config
Rsync for manual transfers over slow connections
ZFS send/receive for what it was meant for
Samba for everything else that involves mounting on clients or other servers.
- Comment on Why do most Americans use an iPhone? 4 months ago:
Not an American, but as an iPhone user who has had Android phones since cupcake before: iPhones „just work“, they are a lot less janky than Android, the ecosystem is smooth (although admittedly and intentionally less so when leaving it), they get updated for longer (and at the same time!) and apple has a much better privacy track record than the competition (a low bar).
Yes, I would prefer to install my apps from anywhere I want on the device I should own. An open source phone from top to bottom would be my dream, but Android is about as far removed from that as an iphone. Google took Linux and made it into a Frankenstein nightmare that is wholly dependent on them.
Just try to stick to open source and make your phone respect your privacy and see how far you get. Start at the usually locked bootloader, install a rom without google and see how few apps are left that do not require google services. And even then you are most likely dependent on binary blobs for the drivers, meaning the manufacturers can (and will) pull the rug from under your efforts as soon as they no longer feel like updating their shitty built of Android for the device in time.
I do not have time for that. What I have is enough money to buy a phone that comes as close as possible to my idea of safety, freedom and privacy without constantly jumping through burning hoops. If I am to be in a cage, it better be golden.
- Comment on Microsoft experiments with ‘Drag Tray’ — share menu appears when dragging a file in Windows 11 5 months ago:
Knowing Microsoft it’s probably more like a cloud upload tray.
Did they fix the explorer context menu yet?
- Comment on Good morning I choose making the best of what you have. 5 months ago:
Got a new car there, Ricky?