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- Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon. 2 months ago:
I suppose many of the perpetrators who were there are still alive today. I wonder if they sleep soundly in bed at night.
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 2 months ago:
Not all bad. Git is an incredible system for collaboration and humans have been honing it to improve quality and share work across teams for decades now.
Allowing bots to play a carefully defined role is probably going to end up being a net improvement but there are still kinks.
Masquerading as a human needs to be fixed though - I can see why it’s happening and that’s one of the first problems to solve.
- Comment on Tennessee grandmother wrongly jailed for six months, latest victim of AI-driven misidentification — facial recognition is jailing the wrong people, but police keep using it anyway. 2 months ago:
I thought filing egregiously inaccurate documents with the court was risking contempt of court (in the best of cases).
Ignoring the court itself, I’d think for a prosecutor or cop this would lead to pretty bad performance reviews.
But if the system has no standards…
- Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots 2 months ago:
I don’t automatically have a negative opinion about this, I would need more information before that. Did the terms of service allow for this?
It’s a fascinating case study on crowdsourcing data that is useful to this navigation technology, and reminds me of the first captchas that helped train OCR engines.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
You’re right. I got in the habit of doing that because I’m endlessly tweaking my .env files and I don’t think those reload unless you shut down first
- Comment on AI error jails innocent grandmother for months in North Dakota fraud case 2 months ago:
Yeah the 5 months thing… That’s the difference between having a $400/hour lawyer and no lawyer. The first guy could get you out by 6:00 p.m. on bail. If you have no lawyer, your appointment to be assigned lawyer is scheduled for next month.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Never run:
docker compose down && docker compose up -d ``` Right before the end of your day. Ask me how I know 😂
- Comment on Datacenters are becoming a target in warfare for the first time 2 months ago:
Damn I better check my contracts and see if they have any war or terrorism clauses 😅
- Comment on Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman 2 months ago:
Internet subscription canceled! See you on the other side brother
- Comment on WhatsApp officially names Mullvad and Amnezia VPN as go-to tools for bypassing censorship 2 months ago:
Been with mullvad for a very long time but this scares the crap out of me and I might have to bail soon.
- Comment on Floating turbine towers above — the S1500 hovers to harvest wind at 131 feet 3 months ago:
Didn’t think about the possibility of a kinetic energy unit, thanks for the insight
- Comment on Floating turbine towers above — the S1500 hovers to harvest wind at 131 feet 3 months ago:
The wind at 32,000 ft is 200 times stronger than the wind at the surface?
Ummm… 10 knots * 200 = 2000 knots. I don’t think so lol.
A lot of strange numbers in this article that bring its accuracy into question.
No mention of the weight of a 1 and 1/2 km wire that is also suitable to anchor this thing in place. Or are they going to float batteries and bring them down to discharge?
- Comment on Samsung knows exactly how you'll use Galaxy S26 Ultra's 'Privacy Display' in teaser 3 months ago:
Uh oh… I bet the sound isn’t directional enough to work like this too. Yet.
- Comment on What happens to a car when the company behind its software goes under? 3 months ago:
Been like this forever… Version 1.0 always sucks. Even worse is when a company ships a 0.4.2.1 beta and still calls it 1.0.
Testing costs a lot and hey, why not let your early adopters pay the price in return for having something nobody else has yet.
- Comment on ‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI 3 months ago:
I now avoid all videos showing deaths or serious injuries (if I know that kind of content is coming).
Feels better to not have those images in my mind.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 3 months ago:
This thread is actually really depressing.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 3 months ago:
Wasn’t there an incident where Pelocy was begging for the national guard to be called in? Or maybe one of the cabinet members. And Trump kept declining.
So the only people to do the shooting were the limited number of capital police. I don’t think they’re set up for riot defense and it’s a lot to ask them to individually put their lives on the line by just shooting into the crowd.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 3 months ago:
Once they are following, I’d think you can begin to convert them to higher tiers of support through private channels?
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 3 months ago:
It’s all about control of reach.
If I was an influencer and using Patreon (I’m neither), it’s a simple decision:
Total reach * conversion rate * platform commission = income
Apple’s app store has a fuckton of desirable reach - they monopolize (arguably literally) all the easy payments from iphones and kill anybody else who tries to redirect eyeballs. They are too strong. But what else are you going to do if you need Patreons or app customers, etc?
You can’t ignore the reach, and you’d have to pay or work harder to get eyeballs another way too unless you can get free publicity by being crazy or something and pull people into your own payment/ download channels.
- Comment on Selfhosted Jira alternative 4 months ago:
Huly is worth checking out. We’ve been on it for about a year. They’re in super active developments so features are coming rapidly, sometimes breaking or requiring migrations.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 4 months ago:
I’d love to see all kinds of resistance to this.
If an armed militia shows up on the same street as ICE, but in greater numbers, there’s a pretty good chance these imposters leave.
I hope somebody’s working on building an app for recording everything possible and centralizing that information - license plates, photos, videos.
Perhaps homemade stingray devices that grab IMEI/IMSI numbers from agent’s phones, so that it’s easier to identify and link these agents between locations.
More people following them around to report on location and activities. Report on where they stay so that protests and obnoxious deterrence can be set up so that fewer businesses are willing to service these people.
There are so many more citizens than there are ICE agents. Doesn’t seem like it takes much to overwhelm them and push them out, so long as it’s coordinated.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 4 months ago:
If the country has another federal election, heck… if the country survives past this at all, I think there’s going to be a major conversation about states rights versus federal rights. What we’re seeing in Minnesota is wild, bordering on something that could spark a localized civil war if people start violently standing up against this. The states should be able to come together and defeat the federal government at any point.
The Constitution grants the federal government the right to exist, and it belongs to the people. Not any one leader. Evidently some of that power needs to be pulled back.
- Comment on Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer 4 months ago:
I wonder if I’ll soon be able to just lean back and bark orders at my PC.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 4 months ago:
I’m no China expert but I lived In South China for a while between 2016 and 2024. The Chinese people I know are mostly hardworking, very motivated to succeed, and well capitalized. In their major cities you might be surprised to learn normal guys who earn half what you do are living a higher quality of life than you are, in terms of access to technology.
Their government is no doubt using uncouth methods to give their country unfair advantages. They don’t play well with others.
But holy shit there is one thing this Chinese government is doing well: effectively driving growth with targeted investments in the economy. They have been focused on that one mission consistently for a long time.
While democracies fuck around trying to decide if they should tax themselves to build public transportation, China installs 10 new ultrafast subway lines in just a few years in every big city. Covers the country in a network of high-speed rail. Drives the price of shipping goods around the country to almost nothing.
A kind of monoparty like China has is very likely a net negative when we look at world history, but for moments of time, if it’s the right one, amazing things can happen.
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 6 months ago:
A lot of FOSS projects are freemium based which seems viable for larger more complex projects.
In these projects it’s common to see the developer get paid for adding features on top of the core version, for a SaaS version, for custom development, or for offering support.
Other projects with a lot of community interest - and a good “community manager” style organizer can attract contributors in the form of pulls, bug testing and reports, and widespread use which generates valuable marketing. These projects only exist because of the labor of love from the whole community.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 8 months ago:
I’ve been self-hosting since the '90s. I used to have an NT 3.51 server in my house. I had a dial in BBS that worked because of an extensive collection of .bat files that would echo AT commands to my COM ports to reset the modems between calls. I remember when we had to compile the slackware kernel from source to get peripherals to work.
But in this last year I took the time to seriously learn docker/podman, and now I’m never going back to running stuff directly on the host OS.
I love it because I can deploy instantly… Oftentimes in a single command line. Docker compose allows for quickly nuking and rebuilding, oftentimes saving your entire config to one or two files.
And if you need to slap in a traefik, or a postgres, or some other service into your group of containers, now it can be done in seconds completely abstracted from any kind of local dependencies. Even more useful, if you need to move them from one VPS to another, or upgrade/downgrade core hardware, it’s now a process that takes minutes. Absolutely beautiful.