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- Comment on 185k view 11 hours ago:
Shit, can I start an onlyfans on this premise? What an untapped market.
- Comment on As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act 1 day ago:
And all we get in return are chat systems that make up bullshit facts. I mean, I don’t disagree that they can actually do some useful stuff, too. But the proportion of the public that benefits from them in any meaningful way is tiny compared to the cost to the rest of us. I hope a tornado lands on Elon’s gas-powered monstrosity in, where, Tennessee, I think? Destroy that shit, please.
- Comment on ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine 1 day ago:
If you believe that Sam Altman is full of shit and the whole AI hype machine is a bubble (regardless of any real-world uses that do exist) built on lies about where this specific form of the technology can actually go, congratulations. You might enjoy listening to or reading the work of Ed Zitron. He has a podcast and a newsletter and he’s been pointing this out for over a year, among other topics.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 days ago:
It would have been more accurate for me to frame it as file formats only.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 days ago:
What’s awesome is that no one alive today can disprove their marketing. I’ll stick with the tech that we’ve been using for decades. You know, the one about which we have lots of data how it performs and degrades. Because we’ve manufactured hundreds of millions, or perhaps billions, of them. How many people do you know using M-DISCs and how many of them have had them for decades? I can answer the second part: zero, as they came to market in 2009.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 2 days ago:
My sense of humor is dry, dark, and absurdist. I’d go to jail every week for the sorts of things I joke about if I was a kid today. This is complete lunacy.
Example of an average joke on my part: speed up and run over that old lady crossing the street!
It makes my partner laugh. I laugh. We both know I don’t mean it. But a crappy AI tool wouldn’t understand that.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 days ago:
I wouldn’t trust that either.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 days ago:
There was a recent paper on this. The failure rate was higher than expected. You’ll have to search for it; I didn’t save a link.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 days ago:
Don’t bury it. And don’t count on ten years. Thirty years guarantees the media won’t be physically compatible with future devices. How would you read a floppy disk from 1995 today? You’d be able to find a USB floppy drive, probably, online. Good luck having the disk be in a format that a modern OS understands. You’d need specialty software for that.
Get two spinning disk drives from major brands like Western Digital or Toshiba (not Seagate, for sure). Get different brands to reduce risk of failure from a manufacturing issue (as in, two from the same batch are likely to have the same failure if there was a production issue).
Send one somewhere abroad where it can be stored in a safe deposit box (hopefully, you know someone who lives in a free-er country). Plan to exchange it with a freshly written drive every three years. Go back and forth like this, completely rewriting the data each time to minimize the chances of bit-rot (look up this term to understand why you’re rewriting and exchanging the drives).
This will also address files formats that evolve and eventually become incompatible with future software (thinking proprietary things, not plain text, jpegs, or standardized media files). I did something similar having a family member store music that I recorded (my own, not ripped CDs) in a different state in case of natural disaster at home.
All of this can be done pretty cheap. $200 bucks should cover both drives and at least a couple of years of physical storage at a bank. International shipping will probably be the biggest cost, especially over time.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 days ago:
No way. Optical media suffer bitrot at a high rate compared to magnetic media. And the means to read it are quickly going obsolete.
- Comment on Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue. 2 days ago:
Yes, GPL reasons.
- Comment on Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue. 3 days ago:
Why would a platform want a current version of Bash when they can switch to Zsh? /s
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 3 days ago:
Have you considered that you may not know which of the two I’m responding to?
- Comment on I'm not even ooking 4 days ago:
Damn. This hits hard.
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 4 days ago:
Look up “eternal september” on wikipedia. You’re not wrong at all.
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- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 4 days ago:
While I won’t contribute to their defense funds because they have all the money in the world, I do support them in spirit. You can’t beat the porn industry. You can only temporarily inconvenience it.
Suck it, Florida.
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 4 days ago:
“Oh, those disgusting revenge sites. But there are so many! Which ones!!!”
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 4 days ago:
When did I say anything remotely like that? Thanks for calling me stupid for making an observation.
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 5 days ago:
Agreed. It’s one of the only things about the internet where I’m genuinely optimistic.
- Comment on TSMC employees reportedly stole 2nm trade secrets to share with Rapidus — accused are said to have shared 'hundreds of process integration technical photos' 5 days ago:
As someone who has worked under NDAs for trade secrets, this is a real stab in the back to fellow employees. As an enemy of capitalism, I don’t feel bad for the corporation. Sucks for the people who were excited about their engineering achievements, though.
- Comment on 'I won't humiliate myself': Brazil's president sees no point in tariff talks with Trump 5 days ago:
May this man be a beacon of light to other world leaders. Don’t even fuck around with my stupid-ass president. Don’t take his calls. Pretend he’s the crazy ex you blocked on all other platforms and ignore the big baby.
- Comment on Alexa, how do I remove cooties? 5 days ago:
Waitaminute. Are you telling me there are stupid people on the internet talking about things they don’t understand?
The internet is the worst thing we’ve ever done to ourselves. I mean, it was fine at first. But we didn’t have enough cynicism to account for what corporations would do with it and that’s, sadly, our own fault for being too naive.
- Comment on Sad palaeo noises 5 days ago:
Rightly so. Dinos were awesome.
- Comment on ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI 6 days ago:
What a stupid fucking thing to admit. Let’s hope he’s out on his ass next election.
- Comment on Water Snek 6 days ago:
Swimming against the current, I assume.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 6 days ago:
Thanks for showing your true colors, asshole. I guess the git repositories I have to send potential employers to show the projects that I’ve done in my spare time might have to go self-hosted.
- Comment on It must have been a whole lot more difficult to design and build tall buildings before computers existed 6 days ago:
I dunno. I worked at an IT shop that specialized in supporting architecture firms. They had to contend with end-of-life printer drivers on multi-thousand dollar blueprint printers, 3d rendering software conflicts, and license hell for CAD software.
A pencil and a protractor can’t crash and destroy all the work you’ve done this week. Just sayin’. The math hasn’t changed. The tools got better and worse, however.
- Comment on This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband 6 days ago:
One reason is jobs. People with skills in tech can’t always work full-time remote and have to come to the office at least enough to have to be able to drive there (and honestly, the best jobs are here by multiple definitions). Another is the culture. I literally feel absolutely at home here in a way that I might only experience in a few other places in the country (maybe Portland, for example, but there’s a lot of racists in that state). Another is the weather. After living in places with ultra hot summers and ultra cold winters, I don’t have any tolerance for dealing with that shit again. It’s a nice trifecta of what I want / need to live the life that I want to live.
As an aside, living here also exposes me to a ton of live music that isn’t accessible in other parts of the country. Take bands that come from oversees. Where are they almost guaranteed to play? Large coastal cities like NY, SF, LA. There are so many bands that come here that can’t make a profit playing any but the largest cities because they aren’t super popular in the states, but they can draw enough people in large urban areas to make it worth their while. Examples that I’ve seen recently (last few years): Air, Kula Shaker, Lords of Acid, Ladytron, Ott, The Presets. Good luck seeing all of them in Denver or Houston.
- Comment on This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband 6 days ago:
I couldn’t agree more. That’s why people love Luigi so much and why there’s no sympathy for the Blackrock CEO who got killed at random. People are happy to see action; they just aren’t ready to act.