lando55
@lando55@lemmy.world
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 5 days ago:
Make sure to wear your favorite Music Band tshirt.
- Comment on SGE, ChatGPT and the likes are the stupidest thing to come from AI 5 days ago:
LLM just autocomplete on steroid. Funny you should say this. I only have anecdotal evidence from me and a few friends, but the general consensus is that autocomplete and predictive text are much worse now than they used to be.
- Comment on Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad 1 week ago:
Why is thinnest ever placed in such high regard? Have you seen how ridiculous the new iPad Pro looks when the Pencil is attached to it for charging?
I think I’m in the vocal minority in that I really don’t give a shit about thin, especially if it affects performance, repairability, or battery life.
- Comment on what lemmy web app do you use and why? 1 week ago:
wefwef 4 lyfe!!
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 3 weeks ago:
For all you know the victims rate it positively as well but they don’t submit feedback
- Comment on Does anyone remember that unsettling image of the creepy blue faced man? 1 month ago:
That’s just a picture of ANUSTART
- Comment on The diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offline 1 month ago:
“Bring it into the shop, we’ll replace the stick for free.”
- Comment on My stupidity saved me from being hacked today! 1 month ago:
One of my home servers was popped once, they stuck a new MOTD on there to let me know how foolish I was and I haven’t made that mistake since. So… yay greyhat?
- Comment on My stupidity saved me from being hacked today! 1 month ago:
For Chiefly reasons of course. Now whether or not that server is active in the cluster is another matter entirely, but hey if it makes him/her feel important /shrug
- Comment on My stupidity saved me from being hacked today! 1 month ago:
Figure ~45 minutes to run to the liquor store for a decent single malt, another ~25 minutes for the pizza rolls, quick power nap, wake up and redeploy. That’s about 2 hours.
- Comment on What is the word for someone who is friends with different groups but doesn't have loyalty to any one group? 1 month ago:
Paimon?
- Comment on The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions 2 months ago:
There is infrastructure involved with monitoring subscription status to make sure you’re not pirating heated seats. Also for taking payments to unlock your adjustable lumbar supports. They gotta pay for it somehow!
- Comment on This tiny, tamper-proof ID tag can authenticate almost anything 2 months ago:
There’s a corporate initiative where I work that we’re going to offer AI in 2024. When I politely asked to expound on that, I was met with blank stares.
Like motherfucker do you realize even MS Teams uses AI for meeting transcription
- Comment on Passkeys might really kill passwords 2 months ago:
BestBuySucksMonkeyDick is the password I use on my luggage!
- Comment on AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt 2 months ago:
True innovation. So brave.
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck May Have A Rust Problem 2 months ago:
Should have repurposed the Apollo 11 source code
- Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* 3 months ago:
I agree, I have seen at least a dozen weird things on the internet
- Comment on Elon Musk’s $56bn Tesla pay package is too much, judge rules 3 months ago:
A town with money is like a mule with a spinning wheel
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 4 months ago:
Heh “cockholster”. I’m going to work that into as many Christmas conversations as I can.
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 4 months ago:
By that time they will start selling monthly subscriptions to use the buttons or they will revert to a regular touchscreen
- Comment on Netflix Resumes Advertising on X After Elon Musk Controversy 4 months ago:
It has been ~1~ 0 days since the last Elon PR disaster
- Comment on Steve Jobs Rigged The First iPhone Demo By Faking Full Signal Strength And Secretly Swapping Devices Because Of Fragile Prototypes And Bug-Riddled Software 5 months ago:
Yeah, and what’s up with these transistors? I want vacuum tubes in my iPhone!
- Comment on X outage breaks all outgoing links, again 5 months ago:
Yeah I get that. But we were operating under the assumption that either a. he is mentally handicapped or b. he is intentionally tanking the company.
There is also the possibility that he is both deliberately destroying the brand while also severely lacking the mental acuity to understand that there are more feasible options available. I don’t personally subscribe to this theory, I can only subjectively say that he has made numerous questionable business decisions, and probably never wanted to buy Twitter in the first place.
- Comment on Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported 5 months ago:
Read this in Scare Tactics voice
- Comment on Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported 5 months ago:
Ordinary fuckin’ people
- Comment on X outage breaks all outgoing links, again 5 months ago:
he could fire everyone, shut the doors and turn off the lights.
Can he? Genuine question, since I’d be interested to know if he’d be subject to litigation from the shareholders
- Comment on Made an enclosure for my beepy. I think enclosures are my favourite part of printing 5 months ago:
I bought my first 3D printer to print a replacement worm gear in my Venetian blinds that I could have bought for like 30¢
Totally justified.
- Comment on Tesla whistleblower calls cars with Autopilot “experiments in public roads” 5 months ago:
It’s peace time though so it doesn’t qualify
/s
- Comment on YSK: The Wadsworth Constant of YouTube videos 5 months ago:
Many popular channels revised their content format as a direct consequence of the Wadsworth constant
- Comment on Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation 5 months ago:
“Yes.”