witten
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- Comment on How ICE is watching you: A rundown of some of the tech the government is deploying to identify and spy on us 6 days ago:
Dude, totally. I’m just talking about the playbook they’re using. I’m not saying it’s remotely working for them.
- Comment on How ICE is watching you: A rundown of some of the tech the government is deploying to identify and spy on us 6 days ago:
Hey bud, maybe consider turning off the Fox News from time to time.
- Comment on How ICE is watching you: A rundown of some of the tech the government is deploying to identify and spy on us 6 days ago:
They make examples of a few to cow the rest into submission. Classic authoritarianism playbook.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
If you give up, you are complicit.
- Comment on When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child 1 month ago:
Also, they directly fund fascists.
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 1 month ago:
Ahh gotcha, makes sense.
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 1 month ago:
Got it, thanks.
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 1 month ago:
When you switched, did you lose all of your Gitea data? Or was that somehow importable?
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 1 month ago:
Out of curiosity, how did you switch to Forgejo? I thought Gitea and Forgejo have diverged to the point where you can no longer just switch over without losing stuff.
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 1 month ago:
I dunno. If I had made my livelihood working in someone else’s walled garden for years and years, and they unceremoniously kicked me out one day with zero warning, I might begin to question things a little bit??
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 1 month ago:
It’s pretty clear he’ll go back to Apple like a dog to vomit.
- Comment on Recommendations for data backup solutions ? 1 month ago:
It makes a certain amount of sense. More deduplication means more CPU (and IO) spent on that work.
- Comment on Recommendations for data backup solutions ? 1 month ago:
The only disadvantage I find is that there is no cross system deduplication.
You could achieve this by having all machines write to a single Borg repository, where everything would get deduplicated. But downsides include: 1. You lose everything if something goes wrong with that one repo, and 2. You’d have to schedule backups across all systems so as not to run at the same time, because the single repo can only have a single writer at once.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 2 months ago:
That works during a bubble. What happens though after one when demand presumably plummets?
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 2 months ago:
Now you’re thinking like a capitalist!
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 2 months ago:
In order to maximize revenue. Selling 1,000 units at $50 profit apiece makes you more money than selling 400 units at $100 profit each.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 2 months ago:
Your point still stands, but don’t forget basic inflation. $4,800 in 2022 is like > $5,300 now.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 2 months ago:
But you repeat yourself.
- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 2 months ago:
I dunno. I’m not a big molotov guy, but in general I think protests can lead directly to social and government changes.
- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 2 months ago:
This is a fun thought exercise but also a total strawman argument. There are many more reasonable ways to get rid of an oil company than to burn it all down overnight. Lots of countries have demonstrated examples of phased reductions of subsidies or increases in taxes to achieve a big policy shift in specific industries. A more radical but still not pants-on-head example is to nationalize a company or industry and then slowly and responsibly unwind it until there’s nothing left.
- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 2 months ago:
What would die is the goal of limitless growth (and limitless externalities). And it would presumably put the decision making about the right tradeoff between “industrial mechanisms” and the climate back in the hands of the people… instead of leaving that choice to rich, self-interested billionaires.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 2 months ago:
entire rationale
I’m not sure if you’re sealioning—or just not reading the full page. Here are some other quotes from it about Amazon:
- “and Amazon, for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts”
- “Amazon holds a monopolistic position in the market”
- “contributes to dangerous working conditions for its employees and drivers”
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 2 months ago:
Already did: You’re focusing on a minor detail rather than the bigger picture, and I think that’s kind of silly given the stakes here.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 2 months ago:
Great tip. Getting things used is a great way to give in a little bit less to capitalist wealth pumps.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 2 months ago:
Clearly.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 2 months ago:
That’s your takeaway?
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 2 months ago:
Specifically, Thanksgiving through Sunday, boycott Target, Amazon, and Home Depot even harder than usual: weaintbuyingit.com
- Comment on Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions? 2 months ago:
We’re already living in it. Professional voice actors now have the choice between vying for the dwindling number of voice acting gigs or selling their voice to LLM companies as training data.
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 3 months ago:
But what LLM wrote this?
- Comment on Google flags Immich sites as dangerous 3 months ago:
Also protecting you from the East Wing of the White House.