nickwitha_k

@nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google hit with $314m fine for collecting data from idle Android phones without permission⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Jail them!

  In prison gen pop. Make execs afraid to break the law for profit and/or fund reform for the prison system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica's Original Creators Have Been Removed From Unknown Worlds "Effective Immediately", As Krafton Makes Concerning Leadership Changes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just hope it isn’t The Neptune Protocol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cooking question⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly what I said. But you missed the bit about Virginia-Perique blends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cooking question⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a good idea. Such a broth can be used as a pesticide but it’s also dangerous to humans and animals. Nicotine also absorbs through the skin so, anyone trying this (which I can’t recommend but for it’s dangers and general lack of need for pesticides in home gardens) should be extremely careful and use all PPE (durable waterproof gloves, goggles, long sleeves, trousers, and waterproof footwear, as well as respirator if there’s any chance of aerosolizing) when applying. Seriously. While it has been used historically by home gardeners, the toxicity is no joke.

  And, always remember: Proper PPE is sexy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Powell confirms that the Fed would have cut by now were it not for tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  unless productivity growth itself is negatively impacted by tariffs

  For small to medium businesses, it very clearly was. They got hit by sudden new expenses that they could not have budgeted for and sometimes with very unreasonable payment timetables (ex. a small, US-based electronics manufacturer that I am a frequent customer of was hit with $50k out of the blue with a demand that it be paid in two weeks).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owners of laptops with very cheap aftermarket batteries, is it worth the discount?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah! That’s unfortunate. If adventurous, maybe hunt down a used battery that partially charges and swap sells?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owners of laptops with very cheap aftermarket batteries, is it worth the discount?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What sort of batteries does it use? If it’s just Li-Ion cells like 18650s, it should be fairly easy to DIY. If it’s a proprietary Li-Poly, probably going to be more problematic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In your statement, you provided much more self-awareness and abstract thought than an LLM, by its nature, is capable of. They are not intelligent.

  I don’t disagree that what’s going on in our meat computers (simplification) isn’t terribly special, in the grand scheme of things. And, there’s little reason that similar processes and results can’t be realized in other media. But, LLMs, by themselves, will never be capable of it because of their innate characteristics. Brains have numerous specialized structures that are networked together, so, probably the best bet would be building systems that can fullfill similar functions, and connect them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL: Accelerating global climate change, increasing depletion of available reserved of potable water through use of open-loop cooling, intentionally eroding the ability of people to support themselves by using their own works to compete with them without license or consent to do so, and passing all economic gains upwards, with no financial benefit realized by people doing the actual work is “spurious”.

  Your claim is that “everything” that I previously stated was factually incorrect and have provided exactly nothing but ad hominem attacks to “prove” your point. So, are you going to backup your claims at all, or are you just approaching this in bad faith to troll or reinforce your pseudo-religious faith in LLMs (which will never be sentient nor save us from the problems that they are contributing to).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yeey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s a little heavy metal poisoning between friends?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Prove it. I’m sure you can find some reputable sources to bank your claims.

  luddite

  Maybe you ought to also better understand that comparing one to people who stood up against exploitation isn’t really an insult. Just like the Rednecks were those fighting for the working class when they were gunned down by rent-a-cops with machine guns at Blair Mountain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’ve any shed of evidence to disprove established fact, please share it. Otherwise, jog on, mate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is SPI just "slow"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re welcome!

  However the example code mine is based on also implemented away to set the cursor on an area. And i can then probably just provide more bytes than just two here. I will try this out later!

  That sounds like it could help.

  I don’t think mine is AVR based. It is the architecture of the CPU right? The datasheet says it has two Harvard Architecture Xtensa LX7 CPUs

  Ok. That means that you definitely should be able to get more performance out of an SPI display. If you’re able to access both cores, you could likely improve performance by dedicating one to communicating with the display, which, if the display supports it, may be able to effectively eliminate the connection setup/teardown as a factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is SPI just "slow"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Make sure that you are not writing one pixel per SPI transaction. The connection, whether HW SPI or bit banging, requires some time to open and close. This adds up quickly. Generally, is best to write a frame per transaction (or as close as possible) so that there are fewer open/close delays.

  If you’re using an AVR based Arduino, you’ll likely need to optimize things if you want to do anything like animation so that as little CPU time as possible is used for anything but writing to the SPI bus and minimize blocking operations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Feel like supporting this statement?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is what people did back then⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof! Hey, at least on the bright side it would be an extended repose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is what people did back then⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  First thing? Honestly, probably curl into the fetal position and start bawling for a while as I fully relax for the first time since circa 2007.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, this is what people did back then⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  BBS’s

  You can still do that, if you want.

  • SDF (shameless plug) is still around
  • Tildeverse, a loose association of pubnixes exists
  • Gopher and Gemini (a protocol inspired by Gopher) have had some minor resurgence.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was hacking according to Kevin Mitnick (RIP) so, it’s probably safe to say that your view doesn’t need to be changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone else stated, they are indeed worse than people say. The has been massive consolidation in the industry, to the point where nearly every app is owned by the same company. And that company has been caught, multiple times, catfishing their own users with bots that then ghost them.

  The company is pure Chicago School economics; they don’t care about their users or product, just extracting money from people. Generally, this is men (though not always) as the culture cultivated in the apps is pretty shallow and messed up.

  Overall, it’s a much better time to engage in some sort of social hobby of the like. Success rate will likely be higher and the experience less depressing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pakistan to nominate Donald Trump for Nobel peace prize⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it pisses him off that a black man got the award and that’s a beautiful thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*tap tap tap*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All woodpeckers are just really good at functioning with chronic brain damage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s some eco-fascism-adjacent thinking, at best. You’re using your negative opinion of humanity to justify mass murder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gold Phone and Mobile Service Blasted as Latest 'Trump Family Profiteering'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Leveraging his office for profit? Yes. By definition it absolutely is

  He’s already been violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gold Phone and Mobile Service Blasted as Latest 'Trump Family Profiteering'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The FCC, which licenses radio spectrum and makes the rules for device certification is part of the Executive branch. So are the CFPB and the SEC, or what’s left of them. He’s literally, corruptly leveraging his office to benefit his cons and preventing regulations from applying to himself and his cronies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gold Phone and Mobile Service Blasted as Latest 'Trump Family Profiteering'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides the naked corruption?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tips off the cops⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recommend Kinoite, if you’re doing anything graphical. Gnome support for DRM leases hasn’t been great. Saying that really does pain me as I still think that Gnome 2.x is my favorite DE that I’ve used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In a world not dominated by unfettered capitalism, sure. That’s not the one that we live in however and this tool has both been built on stolen and unlicensed intellectual property as well as being used explicitly to harm people’s livelihoods while replacing their work with objectively inferior plagiaristic amalgams.

  AI companies also refuse to obey the rules of the Internet and continually DDOS sites that request crawlers and scrapers not do so, necessitating creation of whole new types of software to defend against their malicious behavior.

  And on top of all that, they have substantially increased greenhouse gas emissions and are actively consuming potable water in a manner that makes Nestlé execs hard. Putting the planet’s biosphere at greater risk and unnecessarily increasing water scarcity.

  Nah. Simping for AI companies is the irrational take. The value that they provide to humanity is, outside of some niche use cases, marginal at best and will likely never come close to making up for the harms that they are causing to humanity for a quick buck and to increase worker oppression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With GenAI being used primarily as a cudgel against labor, especially organized labor, it’s a pretty accurate take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Mobile launches $47 service and a gold phone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100% guaranteed. The US does not have the manufacturing infrastructure for such products as a result of half a century of off-shoring to avoid organized labor.