rob_t_firefly
@rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world
Artist, writer, comic, loud voice, activist, and nerd of all trades from New York City.
- Home: RobVincent.net
- Podcasts: modern.technology
- Toots: hackers.town/@Rob_T_Firefly
- Pronouns: he/him
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 4 days ago:
I live in a major city that’s been carved up by the local monopolists like a turkey, and none of them have even installed coverage in all the areas they’ve claimed and which their “competitors” won’t touch. Some people just can’t have a good connection because of their address.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 4 days ago:
It must me noted that Big Tech is currently engaged in artificially forcing hardware prices upward, along with Microsoft’s constant attempts to deprecate old hardware by forcing new versions of their OS out of compatibility with it.
There are so many ways they’re actively screwing their customers by making things tangibly worse, and then conveniently showing up to “help” by selling us more of their shit.
- Comment on Like when your headphone cords get caught on a door knob. 4 days ago:
And when you smash it through the roof of the Hell in the Cell in 1998 it’s a Mick Foley catheter.
- Comment on prudish mom 4 days ago:
Sarah Beattie was a fun part of Weird Twitter back in the day. I gather she has kind of disappeared from social media since.
- Comment on One for the ignition and one for the trunk 6 days ago:
They’re back, in ALF form!
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 week ago:
That prospect becomes less and less likely the more government is bought and paid for by Big Tech.
- Comment on Word up 1 week ago:
Two of these people are a couple now, but it’s not the two you think.
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 1 week ago:
The straw I’m grasping at here is a reasonably well-accepted scientific consensus, but you do you.
- Comment on Stereotyping is wrong. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Stereotyping is wrong. 1 week ago:
Artist: [Raven Lyn Clemens)[…tumblr.com/…/why-are-they-all-like-this)
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 1 week ago:
Our microorganism ancestors also did all those things, and they were far beyond anything an LLM can do. Turning words into numbers, doing a string of math to those numbers, and turning the resulting numbers back into words is not consciousness or wisdom and never will be.
- Comment on Me touching my big pair of nuts. 1 week ago:
That seems to be the case. As posted at this new instance which appears to be trying to fill the void (heh) left by lemmyNSFW:
Xaeg/Yay was the owner of LemmyNSFW, and he had access to and paid for the domain, server, and everything else related to the site. He has been AWOL for about 6 months now, and suddenly this month, the server and the domain stopped being paid for. I have no access to the server to get the database.
Because of this LemmyNSFW as it was, and all the content on it, much to my dismay, seems to have died.
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 1 week ago:
Except children can experience, learn, and grow. Spicy autocomplete will never do any of these things.
- Comment on Thilk 1 week ago:
That’s it, no more Internet. We’re going back to rotary phones and paper mail.
- Comment on WMD 1 week ago:
¿Tu quiere pao-pao?
- Comment on My only response to Discord 2 weeks ago:
That’s amazing, that’s the same ZIP code I have on my luggage!
- Comment on An ice dance duo skated to AI music at the Olympics | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
Or, they could have reached out to indie bands in their genre of choice. I’ve no doubt there are tons of small bands out there who would love having their work used in the Olympics, it’d be one of the rare “do it free/cheap for the exposure” deals that might be actually worth it.
But that’d take a little bit more work than jerking off the theft slop machine, so fuck it, right?
- Comment on This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE. 3 weeks ago:
Whatever people in power try to stir up about this, it’s literally impossible to legislate and block shapes from being 3D-printed. Any attempts to do so are a fool’s errand, and/or just being used to justify misguided attempts to lock down 3DP technology for other reasons (read DRM/copyright forces in big business.) Blocking parts that might be for a gun from being printed simply cannot be done.
- Comment on Start-up idea 3 weeks ago:
Count pointer:
- Comment on Ţ̴̭̪̥̒̽̋͋̿̄́͊̾̌̓̀̔͝͝͝͝ͅh̵̬̙̩̞̻̰͇̠̭̦̊̽̆̓̍͆̑̓͌̓̋͊e̶̢̡͍̪͕̥̤̬̋͂̑̈́̚̕ͅͅ ̵̛̛͖̌̀́̌̑̃̆͆̈́͒́̌̕̚͠ǵ̸͎̩̭͒̎̉̈́̌͂̇o̸͇̗̙͖͋̚v̵͖̫͕̔̽́̋̀̋̈́̉͌͋̽̈́̓͑̚͝͝e̵̙̦̬͇̭̍̏͊̃ř̸̭͈̼̱̤̻̏̎̚n̸͍̰̠̆͆́̓̚͘͝m̷̏͂̕ͅẹ̸̡̨͎͉̲͍̝̲̌̿̽̔͊ͅṉ̶̬̠̱̩̔̌̈́̒̋͘ 3 weeks ago:
The long-term effects of a pocket-sand attack have not been studied enough.
- Comment on Unexpected dedication (and yes, it is filled with boobs) 3 weeks ago:
I think that means someone else has it borrowed, and you’ll have to wait until they… finish.
- Comment on Did you all know these things can be pickled??? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t like pickled wooden boards.
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 3 weeks ago:
You can remap that key on a hardware level with a little flathead screwdriver. 🪛 🗑️
- Comment on YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories 3 weeks ago:
Great they may be, but sneaking into the Gorgs’ garden to retrieve them is such a hassle.
- Comment on Anyone old enough to have used this before GPS? 3 weeks ago:
“Recalculating.”
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“Recalculating.”
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- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 3 weeks ago:
Someone probably shouldn’t be your teenage son AND your husband.
- Comment on I've Hit The Perfect Weight 3 weeks ago:
It’s not too late to check it out.
- Comment on I've Hit The Perfect Weight 3 weeks ago:
Why didn’t somebody tell me my luggage was so big?!
- Comment on me n the homes not crossing streams cuz were not gay 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t I see you smashing a bunch of eggs on YouTube?
- Comment on Me waiting for the cute Texas girls to DM me at 55 Water St. 4 weeks ago:
For those curious, this is from Cosmopolitan Magazine in July 1980 and the address was the office of Bear Sterns. (source/archived soure)
