dhork
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- Comment on An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate 4 days ago:
My biggest issue is with how AI is being marketed, particularly by Apple. Every single Apple Intelligence commercial is about a mediocre person who is not up to the task in front of them, but asks their iPhone for help and ends up skating by. Their families are happy, their co-workers are impressed, and they learn nothing about how to handle the task on their own the next time except that their phone bailed their lame ass out.
It seems to be a reflection of our current political climate, though, where expertise is ignored, competence is scorned, and everyone is out for themselves.
- Comment on If no government shall bare arms against its own citizens. Then what is happening in LA? 4 days ago:
- Comment on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback 6 days ago:
But if I remember from back in the day, the DMCA doesn’t have any exception for that. This is why CD ripping was legal, while DVD ripping was not. It had nothing to do with fair use or backups, but rather that DVDs have encryption, and CDs do not. Circumventing that encryption for any reason was illegal.
I don’t think it has changed, but it’s been a hot minute since the Cypherpunks all wore DeCSS T-Shirts…
- Comment on I made a terminal-based hacker simulation game for CLI nerds. It's free. Feedback? 6 days ago:
- Comment on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback 6 days ago:
I think ripping DVDs is still technically illegal, even though CSS has long since been broken. It is still illegal to circumvent encryption in a copy protection scheme, even if it’s for your own personal use and the encryption scheme has been pwned.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
A lot of good advice here! One thing I would add is that large international flights typically board early. So your long-haul flight to Seoul may board 45 minutes or more in advance. And since you are in Business Class, you will board earlier than most.
My advice would be that once you arrive in Munich, check your phone (or look at the departure acreens) to find out what gate your Seoul flight is leaving from, then go there right away. No rush, but don’t hit the gift shop just yet. Once you get there, the screens at the gate should tell you when the boarding time is (or you can ask the gate staff.). Once you confirm that, you can leave for the restroom or to grab a quick snack.
You shouldn’t have to worry about a full meal because they normally feed you well in business class. (Free booze, also, if that is your thing.)
- Comment on Should I just lie on job applications and say I have a college degree? 1 week ago:
Certs and experience are more important for sysadmin type jobs anyway. Besides, if the company values a degree more than your experience, would you really want to work there?
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 1 week ago:
Hurry up and clone that ASAP, this is gonna get taken down once they realize what it is
- Comment on You probably don't remember these but I have a question 1 week ago:
It is likely the car USB port is looking through directories for MP3 files, and thats not now those iPods present themselves when hooked up via USB. You might be able to find an audio-to-bluetooth adapter, but it is likely you will not be able to control the device through the car’s interface, so you would have to press play manually.
(Side note: older cars with USB might have a very low-level relationship with the USB sticks, where they read files in the order they were written to the device, without regard to what folders you put them in. There are utilities that can reorder the files’ physical position on the stick so that albums play in order)
- Comment on Trump Media & Technology Group, the company owned by the President, said Tuesday that it would raise $2.5 billion to invest in Bitcoin 2 weeks ago:
The worst thing that has ever happened to Bitcoin was for its price to skyrocket
- Comment on Trump Media & Technology Group, the company owned by the President, said Tuesday that it would raise $2.5 billion to invest in Bitcoin 2 weeks ago:
Oh. Absolutely, the President shouldn’t be doing this at all. But then again, the President also seems to be using tariffs to directly manipulate the stock market, and Congress is just going to let him.
He’s grabbed the entire Republican party by the pussy…
- Comment on Trump Media & Technology Group, the company owned by the President, said Tuesday that it would raise $2.5 billion to invest in Bitcoin 2 weeks ago:
Bitcoin is pretty widely traded, though. By some accounts, it has a daily trading volume of 50B. 2B is just a drop in that bucket, so it’s not enough to directly manipulate the price.
No, if you want to make money by manipulating prices, you use a shitcoin. $TRUMP has a market cap of $2.5B, and a daily trading volume of 500M. A $2B investment in BTC can then be used on dodgy exchanges to buy and sell $TRUMP anonymously.
- Comment on Trump Media & Technology Group, the company owned by the President, said Tuesday that it would raise $2.5 billion to invest in Bitcoin 2 weeks ago:
This is good for Bitcoin
- Comment on Have You Checked On Your Wii U GamePad Battery Recently? 2 weeks ago:
I hope so too lol. I do keep a spare quart of oil in the car just in case, I party like it’s 1979
- Comment on Have You Checked On Your Wii U GamePad Battery Recently? 2 weeks ago:
I have an old Subaru that burns oil, and coincidentally the light comes on right around when I should be change the oil anyway
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 2 weeks ago:
Furthermore, since it’s very likely that this author is not going to make really complex points, you could just go to the library, skim through it for an hour or two, and take notes on the two or three points worth quoting. (Or go all old-school and make photocopies of a few pages…)
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 2 weeks ago:
The solution is to raise better humans who make better choices, not to use technology to prevent our bad choices from being worse.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It’s definitely something you can learn in just a few lessons, particularly if you are just driving around town here and there. There’s a rhythm and muscle memory to it, and once you get it, it becomes super easy.
I think I traded in my last stick-shift (a Jetta) 13+ years ago, and there are still times when I am driving and my left foot instinctively moves toward an invisible clutch…
- Comment on Shocked to hear ‘prompt engineer’ is not a real job 4 weeks ago:
I am a prompt engineer, I show up to work on time
- Comment on Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost Over $60 Billion Since 2020 - Slashdot 5 weeks ago:
I remembered my login, my UID is in the 200,000s so I’m not as cool as you.
The place doesn’t seem to have changed at all, and that’s not n3cessarily a good thing.
- Comment on Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost Over $60 Billion Since 2020 - Slashdot 5 weeks ago:
Wait, Slashdot is still around?
- Comment on The Anti-Capitalist Case for Standards 1 month ago:
I think these guys are overstating things a bit. The whole reason technical standards exist is to facilitate interoperability, and in most cases this interoperability leads to increased trade. It’s no accident that the first standards were developed during the industrial revolution, where we first started using machines to make parts, and they needed to fit together (like screws and nuts). Then, when the railroads came along, we needed new standards for things like track gague, because without it one countries’ trains couldn’t use the next countries’ track, making cross-border commerce more expensive. It’s also when we started to standardize time (because before the railroads, “noon” was whenever the sun was directly overhead, so varied by region).
These standards weren’t developed altruistically, they were developed to generate more trade. There is a cost to developing them, and companies spend that money in the hopes of making more later. In theory, anyone can access the standards that the ITU or IEEE create, but to participate you need to shiw up at their meetings, and there is a cost to that.
The standards process is anti-monopolist, though. The reason why they are as “open” as they are is to prevent a single entity from patenting key parts of the standard and gate-keeping access. There have been patented things in standards, but the SDO mandates that the parent-holder disclose it up front, and will not let it in the standard unless certain terms are met (which vary by SDO). It is not anti-capitalist, though, but rather it is a cabal of companies agreeing they won’t let any one of them gatekeep the rest.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Fildena Double 200mg Tablets for Erectile Dysfunction: Understanding Its Effects on Liver Health 1 month ago:
Ads? In my Lemmy?
It’s more likely than you think!
- Comment on Why is the NFL draft day so "special"? 1 month ago:
Dude, you live in Green Bay. Shouldnt you have been fully indoctrinated in Packers Football by now? I thought they issued everyone a cheesehead hat at birth.
- Comment on New Jersey sue Software Company RealPage and 10 NJ Landlords for Alleged Collusion in Statewide Rent Raising Scheme; landlords set rents based on RealPage’s algorithmic pricing software. 1 month ago:
In recognition of this awesome development, I promise not to shit talk about NJ for the rest of the day. Hopefully I don’t have to make any left turns…
- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 1 month ago:
Well, justice is supposed to be blind, isn’t it? It’s supposed to deal with everything in a neutral manner. The Court is not supposed to pick sides, and they must operate within the system, because their legitimacy comes from it.
- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 1 month ago:
But that’s the Court’s job, to look at all the technicalities. The Administration sent him there erroneously, but since he is there now neither US courts nor the administration can compel his release. The Courts need to acknowledge that, while also acknowledging that the Administration likely did it this way on purpose, and the whole “administrative error” thing is a crock of shit. But they can’t come out and say that. And that gives Trump a wedge to split the whole thing apart.
Fascists are good at using the fact that their opponents need to uphold the law against them.
- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 1 month ago:
Right. That is why the Administration position on this has some merit which the courts need to defer to. As an El Salvadoran who is back in his home country, the US cannot compel his release. All the US can do is ask nicely.
But, they haven’t even done that. Which is why the courts are so pissed. They know all this, and they know that all the administration has to do is prove they asked, in good faith. They won’t even go that far. They did that performative thing where the El Salvadoran President said “We won’t send him back since he’s a criminal”, but the courts in the US don’t consider him a criminal.
There is no better definition of “contempt of court” then what the US is doing right now.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Do you know if your dad has been snipped? If not, you had better move out if you are able to. Because otherwise you will end up being free child care in about a year …
