KeepFlying

@KeepFlying@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t support mass deportations but I understand why people do. Id prefer amnesty (especially for children and families who have been here for years) followed by eased legal immigration processes to make it easier to come here legally.

  What bothers me recently though isn’t mass deportations themselves, it’s the way they are being done. Unmarked officers, no oversight, sketchy warrants that prey on people’s lack of knowledge of their rights, strong arming local organizations and governments to hand over info, punishing people who are trying to fix their status or lost it on a technicality, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The biggest privilege rich people have is to be extremely stupid on purpose.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That argument only works to explain and support the existence of millionaires and multimillionaires. With millions of dollars you can hire out most menial tasks easily. Especially if you’re still living in a reasonable home.

  It falls apart when you reach excessive levels of wealth. Your first few million buys you a lot of time to specialize, but your $101st million buys you less. Even moreso when you get to billions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why so much hate toward AI?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On top of everything else people mentioned, it’s so profoundly stupid to me that AI is being pushed to take my summary of a message and turn it into an email, only for AI to then take those emails and spit out a summary again.

  At that point just let me ditch the formality and send over the summary in the first place.

  But more generally, I don’t have an issue with “AI” just generative AI. And I have a huge issue with it being touted as this Oracle of knowledge when it isn’t. It’s dangerous to view it that way. Right now we’re “okay” at differentiating real information from hallucinations, but so many people aren’t and it will just get worse as people get complacent and AI gets better at hiding.

  Part of this is the natural evolution of techology and I’m sure the situation will improve, but it’s being pushed so hard in the meantime and making the problem worse.

  The first Chat GPT models were kept private for being too dangerous, and they weren’t even as “good” as the modern ones. I wish we could go back to those days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know 2026 will suck already, so I am rooting for 2027 to be rad as fuck!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve just opened a wikipedia rabbit hole. Wish me luck I may never return.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know 2026 will suck already, so I am rooting for 2027 to be rad as fuck!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know wrong community but, what year did early civilizations think it was? Was their year zero our 10,000BC? What was their “the big thing that started the calendar”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep up?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I run Debian on most of my systems and run all of my services in docker (with rare exceptions for node_exporter or stable core tools). My base systems get automatic security upgrades, and then I’ll manually check in every few weeks whenever I feel like it.

  My services in docker are version locked to a specific major version (when there’s a tag available) so I can usually re-pull to get minor version updates freely without breaking issues. My few more finnickey services get manual upgrades from me every 6 months or so only.

  I usually stick to an OS version for as long as I can, and to that aim I stick to LTS versions with long support windows.

  4 major versions in 12mo is…a lot. Especially if those include breaking changes for you. Yikes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no mention of meat pies in that story, not even sandwiches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair they weren’t inbred yet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If God created it in that state then they should be curious to understand that creation. They look at rainbows as the beauty of creation but not the fact that lead exists in these crystals. It’s all equally beautifully complex. So why not try to understand it.

  If God made the world look like it was created billions of years ago there must be something worth learning from that, even if you believe it was snapped into existence 6000 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything on credit⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not everyone has access to the financial education that teaches you how bad this is. I see so many people that don’t actually understand how credit cards work because they “just got one” after signing up for a rewards program (basically, got scammed into signing up).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you get better at debate without necessarily doing a debate?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t rely too much on ChatGPT here. It’s not a human and isn’t going to respond the same way a human would.

  If you over practice with that tool you might become great at debating ChatGPT but that may entrench bad habits that hurt you when debating a human.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does US "early voting" works logistically speaking ?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is the strongest protection against this attack. You’d need to identify enough people at enough varied polling locations to be significant enough to sway an election.

  Do too many at one location and it raises flags. Cast a vote with a name that also votes absentee or at another location, raises flags.

  You’d have to distribute enough fake votes over a large enough area and across enough different shifts to not get anyone’s attention. And that’s expensive and hard to keep secret due to how many people would be involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does hair in food carry any health risks?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of food safety laws are built around the highest levels of safety because you never know how vulnerable one of your patrons might be. I have no idea about the actual health impacts but based on that I assume it’s another minor vector for foodbourne illness that alone has a really small impact.

  I’m more worried about what it means about the rest of the kitchen’s cleanliness. Hairnets/hats are easy, so if they can’t do that then what else are they forgetting?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Father horrified by an AI Chatbot that mimicked his murdered daughter⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The alternative isn’t controlling how people use chatbots on their own machines. It’s limiting corporations from profiting off of chatbots that use another person’s likeness.

  You don’t need to jump to assuming regulations would have to control what you do on your computer specifically.