BassTurd

@BassTurd@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We hardly remember how our parents raised us when we were newborn/infants. How can we be expected to raise our own kids after they are born ?⁩ ⁨⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  There are more and better resources now than ever to learn about raising a children. I was spanked and I’d imagine most people before me for spanked. Before that you cut a switch and we’re essentially lashed. Those practices are now considered wrong with one being literal legal child abuse. Things like positive reinforcement, physical contact, and just love are shown to raise much better people. As far as nursing, diapers, and all that jazz, there’s endless options to read about and experts to consult with. I’m sure you remember some of your childhood and some of the events that you now know were good and bad. Use that knowledge as well. Nobody was born with all of the knowledge, use the support around to gain it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle tracked via Strava activity in OPSEC failure⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember reading that. My brother is in the AF, and through some system, they can get gear like Garmin Fenix watches that does GPS tracking and uploads to their cloud and can be synced with Strava. It’s wild that stuff like this isn’t strictly monitored to prevent this exact scenario.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we cured all forms of cancer with the ease of taking a pill, what would be the next thing medicine would put the biggest focus on?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, Ivermectin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate AI so much?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  To elaborate on the power consumption a little… Current data centers are running at around 100+mw compared to the average household using around 1kw. A single center uses the power equivalent of town 20k-100k in population size. Meta is planning to build a data center that will run at around 2gw, which is a magnitude larger in power running over 1,000,000 GPUs compared to their current 100k+. So one DC is a larger city worth of power. In the grand scheme of the entire power infrastructure in the US, it may not register as something significant, but in the local areas they operate in, it’s often more than the rest of the city combined.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate AI so much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Energy prices are already rising for people near data centers. Near me, the state is reopening a nuclear plant closed because the maintenance to repair years of use exceeded its value. With DCs moving in, it is now a necessity. As you mentioned, it’s getting worse, but it’s already having an effect.

  There’s also the insane water consumption required to cool their stuff. It’s destroying ecosystems everywhere.

  From a selfish-ish point, it’s also already increased costs of chips used in RAM and GPUs and has taken stick off the market for consumers.

  As far as your open source views, that’s great, but open source projects still get licensed under open source licensing and is at the behest of the creator. Ignoring that is effectively stealing from creators and that’s not okay. It’s one thing to learn from something, and then to cite those sources, and it’s another to take it, regurgitate it and not give credit. AI has been used to impersonate people in music and other media like content creators hurting their income and image with no recourse.

  AI is ass at coding. It’s not a good teacher and struggles with any level of complexity. It is ok for troubleshooting, but it has been shown in almost every case that it’s not capable of replacing even junior devs effectively. AWS just had a coming to Jesus moment recently because AI generated code broke critical services and took down services that millions rely on. It’s not security conscious, and there are breaches of personal data left and right.

  I’m not saying all uses of AI are the devil. It has it’s place for minor tooling, but the ethical implications mentioned above are just what I care to spend time elaborating on, but there are many more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate AI so much?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to check your facts about the power consumption part

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Jensen is a dumb, out of touch motherfucker

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] Group of racist teenagers attack lone black man in Manchester⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless that dude stole mugged one of those bitches or started attacking first, you’re just here defending a hate crime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do young adults (or rich kids in general) from wealthy families engage in illegal street racing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Rich, poors with a car, and everything in between has people that illegally street race. Why? Because they find it exhilarating and don’t have empathy for those around them, assuming there are others on the road.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we eat dessert?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re all dying. Might as well enjoy the ride.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Theoretically speaking, if one wanted to sail the seas while being not very tech savvy – is using a VPN (Mullvad) enough? I would never, of course… but theoretically?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been sailing for a good 20 years now. I run PIA VPN, which I know has concerns with their ownership, but that’s what I’ve always had and purchased before their sale, and have never had any issues. I have received 3 letters from ISPs in my life and all were when my VPN wasn’t running. No I have a kill switch in my workflow that will cut access with no VPN.

  If you look into something like MEGA, all that data is http traffic. I’ve used that without a VPN a lot and have had no issues there, but that’s now my backup for when alternatives aren’t available.

  VPN is almost for sure good enough, but there are other actions you can take if you want to take it further. Do a search for fmhy and follow some advice I there for detailed info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a software method to "rotate" music around my head?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Android and pixel buds to the same. I’m not sure if the buds are required to use it or just android.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somewhere out there, there may be an alien life form imagining how terrible a planet with molten dihydrogen monoxide in the atmosphere might be.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Think of it kind of like small pox blankets. A violent anomaly introduced to an environment that can’t defend against it. I’d imagine that’s the kind of thing OP is talking about, but I may have misinterpreted their comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I did just check and I was wrong. I idle at 1.6GB. I may have been thinking of a single app I had open when I looked the other day. I did just open Firefox and it took about a gig. Opening about 20 tabs and navigating to different sites did Bum it up to about 5gb. So yea, 8 is on the lower end, but it’s usable and I’d bet most people would be fine. Throw in things like swap and high speed storage, I feel most people wouldn’t notice. Definitely not enough for high usage though.

  I miss when 4gb was good enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I got a free, going to be recycled, dell with 8gb of ram from work. I threw in an nvme and installed Linux. It’s not the lightest Linux install, but it is Arch, so definitely on the lighter side. I idle at under 1gb and under normal use don’t break 2. I do some coding which uses more but nothing super crazy. MacOS probably uses a little more ram, but it’s not Windows. I’d wager than the vast majority of people don’t come close to using all of that RAM, and power users are going to get hardware for the task, and this isn’t it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, as long as I’m on the receiving end of the pump and dump. In the end, I’ll only be taking money from people that clearly have too much. I’ll donate some to some good charity so it’s not a bad thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I found value in shitting on people buying them. $0 monetary gain, but at least $10 in schadenfreude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a false equivalency. There’s no identity tied to those numbers on a computer.

  Anything software that I don’t want on my install is a problem. Anything that ties my identity to my computer is potential for mass surveillance. They should just stay the fuck off our shit. Their proposed solutions won’t protect anyone. Quit simping for the government, they don’t have anyone’s best interest in mind. Parent your children or just deal with the fact they may see some tits online.

  I’m done arguing with you because you argue in bad faith for a cause that’s bullshit. Either you don’t know wtf you’re talking about, or you support this bullshit. Either way, I’m done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The simple answer is to not use YT, coming from someone that uses YT. Also, if there isn’t already, there will be something developed that will do the trick. It’s a game of cat and mouse. If they can feed them, then there will be a way to detect them and block them. At least that’s my expectation anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not? It’s exactly the same. You store creds on your computer, then they take them. The info has to be stored somewhere, and a windows update can take it. The point is that they have proved in the recent past to take user’s private information to give to the government. If they can do it with bitlocker, they can do it with stored info.

  But regardless of all of that, it shouldn’t be mandatory anyway. It’s never been about children, it’s always about collecting data. If they are so hard on child safety, then give an optional tool to adults, and let them parent their children. Anything else is an overreach.

  Even if this is all fear mongering, it’s still a dumb idea that has no place in personal electronics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Then I will refer to you first point. CA/CO now, full Id tomorrow. It’s completely unnecessary. If you can’t parent your child, don’t have a child. It’s not some paranoid delusion, it’s how the government operates.

  What is your reason for why this should be required instead of an optional tool that users can enable?

  Another example is how if you setup an MS live account when setting of a new computer, your bitlocker key is saved on MS’s servers. They recently turned some of those codes to the government to unlock user’s devices. It’s not exactly the same, but it just takes one update for an OS to send that stored information instead of just an API response.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To your second point, make it a tool that can be enabled by a parent then, don’t make it a legal requirement for everyone. This is exactly like the latest Ring camera pet tracking debacle. Everyone saw the slippery slope threat and then reports came out that it was indeed planned for expansion. This is the same but worse, because ring cameras are optional.

  Parents should parent and the government should keep their greedy data compiling fingers out of our person tech. They’ve proven time and time again that they can’t be trusted to do the right thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a burley man with lots of facial hair, when I’m out for a run, if I’m passing a woman in an isolated area or if I’m passing someone, I do everything I can to look not threatening and alert people of my presence to not startle them. It’s unfortunate that it’s something I feel I need to do, but I’m not out there trying to scare anyone, but when I do on accident it feels like getting kicked in the nuts.

  I’m very for women being able to make choices to protect themselves, especially when it’s something like this Uber stuff where it doesn’t hurt someone else. One could argue it could hurt a males revenue, but that would be a weak argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many times a year do you wash your jeans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When they appear dirty or smell. A hoodie that I wore on a lazy day may get a couple wears before wash. My comfy sweat pants I treat like my jeans. Everything else gets one wear then washed.

  I don’t see the need to wash something that doesn’t look or smell dirty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh… Two hour old account with this single post. Methinks something stinks in here, like someone that keeps making new accounts to spam bullshit and skirt the rules, regardless of how much truth may be in their opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I built a self-hosted period tracker because I couldn't find one worth using⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck bots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE has spun a massive surveillance web. We talked to people caught in it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eat my ass, ICE. Fuck all of those terrorists who’s lives are now forfeit. Emily should have lured them onto her private residence and setup someone to take pot shots. We ought to honey pot these dumb mother fuckers into rifle speed consequential. Castle law should still apply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of specifically Americans identifying with other cultures if people born there will just make fun of them for it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my best friend’s future in-laws identify as Italian-american but have barely left their home state. Not malicious and they aren’t bigoted about that, but they act like they’re direct deceandeants when they’re a generation or two removed, which is annoying at worst. I won’t be critical of someone identifying with their heritage as long as it doesn’t disparage anyone else. They do make solid raviolis which is nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In hindsight why was/is america upset they elected a leader who constantly lies while making fun of politicians literally and figurativly for years that they lie there ass off? Y B Shocked?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would guess that the majority of the 50% of non voters didn’t vote willingly, but some of that 50%, other than the previously mentioned exceptions, maybe couldn’t due to disenfranchisement from purging voter roles, or since it’s not a government holiday, maybe couldn’t leave work to vote. I believe legally it has to be allowed, but we all know that doesn’t mean that it always is, and some people work a distance from their voting station. For example, I travel an hour for work on Wednesdays, stay remote, then drive back home Thursday evening. If that happened to be on a voting day where early voting isn’t possible, that could disqualify me, or at least make it really difficult to vote.

  But as mentioned, I think the majority is due to apathy or ignorance, willful or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in my 30s and I like most dogs more than most people.