Boozilla
@Boozilla@lemmy.world
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 13 hours ago:
Talkie Toaster is here. “Howdy-doodly-do, how’s it going?”
- Comment on Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00] 1 day ago:
You’re welcome. There are a few exclusive books that only show up an Amazon but so far 99% of what I have been shopping for has been available on Kobo.
- Comment on Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00] 1 day ago:
I use Calibre with a couple of plugins. KoboUtilities and Obok DeDRM. It is easy.
- Comment on Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00] 1 day ago:
I’m all for people doing this if they can.
Meanwhile, I love my Kobo e-reader and I only purchase e-books from Kobo (since Amazon eliminated “side loading”).
- Comment on Are there really no stupid questions? 1 day ago:
Were you sealioning? There’s little tolerance for that kind of move.
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 2 days ago:
The only time I’ve heard it said like that is when the person is being passive-aggressive and sarcastic. I’m not saying it’s always used in that way, just my experience.
- Comment on Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week 2 days ago:
Good observation. I think part of it is, that’s just how these business douchebags talk about everything.
- Comment on "You exist to make money for us" 2 days ago:
Gilded Age 2.0 has been their goal since the last one didn’t work out.
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 4 days ago:
Let me guess: the article doesn’t mention how the CEO-to-worker pay ratio has grown like cancer over the years.
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 4 days ago:
WSJ motto: always be punching down.
- Comment on How do people get rid of or sell stolen jewelry? I ask cause the news says the the Louve thieves can never sell it because it so known? 4 days ago:
I’m sure you’ve seen how twitchy and coked up he looks in some of the video clips. It’s all too easy to imagine this scenario as real.
- Comment on Why don't police use rubber bullets instead of live rounds? I get if someone is holding a loaded weapon. But wouldn't a rubber bullet have the same effect with out putting holes in another person? 5 days ago:
So much is explained about policing in the USA with a simple one liner an older friend once told me: cops are just guys who want to drive fast and shoot guns.
- Comment on The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds 5 days ago:
The Internet of Shit strikes again.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 6 days ago:
A lot of crafts and trades can be done in small teams or solo. Leather-working, furniture making, blacksmithing, etc. If we’re talking before the printing press, being a scribe could be solitary (or at least quiet, if you were a monk). Tending livestock (especially sheep) was often a solo job. Fishing, trapping, the list is long.
- Comment on Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots 6 days ago:
Using robots for dreary drudge work could be a good thing with something like UBI to go along with it. But instead of fully automated luxury gay space communism, they will implement “Gilded Age 2.0: The Worser Dystopia”, instead.
- Comment on OpenAI will allow mature content, including erotica, to verified adult users as of December 6 days ago:
Well, some of us have niche kinks, like dumping poo from a fighter jet. You won’t find that any ol’ porn hub site.
- Comment on OpenAI will allow mature content, including erotica, to verified adult users as of December 6 days ago:
This is definitely a trap. It’s happening at the same time as the anti-porn crusade.
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 6 days ago:
Dave explains the “long tail” of recovery:
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 1 week ago:
Same with us. Had to reboot/restart a number of things, and resynch clocks.
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 1 week ago:
There are some downstream / knock on effects going on which can be explained…but I can’t help but wonder if today’s story is bigger than just AWS. AWS saying it was an outage of a “few hours” for DynamoDB and DNS…and that doesn’t line up all that great with what people are reporting in the wild . I’m not trying to start a conspiracy theory, just wondering what the post mortems will tell us, if anything. Obviously the suits want to keep embarrassing fuckups downplayed as much as possible.
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 1 week ago:
Yup, and some things which can be moved cannot be done automatically, quickly or easily…even if you are prepared. AWS is a huge suite of products and services, and there’s a lot of old legacy shit running on it. I wouldn’t punch down on the ops for this one. Cybersecurity and disaster recovery are not directly profitable, so they are almost always neglected in your average shop.
- Comment on How, and why, are there so many AI-generated videos of incredibly obscure/niche topics? 1 week ago:
Software that’s easy to use will enable people to crank out content. Most of that content will be bad. But there could be a few gems hidden in the “ocean of gray goo” of cheap content. This has been going on for a long time. People were talking about this happening with music tools decades ago.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Most pet dogs are attracted to humans generally. Some bond with one favored human and don’t care much about other humans. Other pet dogs are more sociable, and enjoy the novelty of a new human and being around lots of humans.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 1 week ago:
They never learn. This is what happens when clueless MBAs make your strategic decisions.
- Comment on What's a bad habit you use to have for a long time but finally fixed? 1 week ago:
Talking more than listening.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
Too many people equate AI with LLMs only. LLMs are mostly bubbled bullshit, with a few limited use cases. But AI is a much broader topic. The really scary AI is the stuff we hear little to nothing about.
People also forget how dramatically tech can advance over time. Spoiled impatient Americans in particular want a finished product or they quickly write it off as “garbage”. They forget every product we own and use was once “garbage”.
- Comment on Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others? 2 weeks ago:
Comfortable clothes for myself. I’m pretty much invisible to most other people, which is fine with me.
- Comment on Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for 10 months ago:
“Dogs and cats sleeping together!”
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 11 months ago:
Because I know that Andre Rush is a passionate chef. He’s well-known. Look him up!
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 11 months ago:
When 45 was in office, the WH kitchen staff complained that they were very under-utilized compared to other presidents.