shalafi
@shalafi@lemmy.world
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 16 hours ago:
Bruh, I’m digging in my wire drawer or going to the thrift. I cannot imagine how people pay money for new cables of almost any sort.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 16 hours ago:
Same bullshit with guns.
“Hi-tech polymer slide, boolshit, boolshit, boolshit…”
It’s fair-quality plastic, painted silver. My Smith & Wesson EZ is wearing off. :(
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 16 hours ago:
Been 15-years ago, but I bet an audiophile coworker, who had a physics degree, he couldn’t tell the difference in a coat hanger and proper wires.
“Well, yeah, but, bla, bla, bla…”
Now I wish I could shove that article up his butt! 😈
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 16 hours ago:
Installing cable TV at a man’s house, ripped his Monster coax connector off. He was appalled! (I was appalled!) Showed him what I was replacing it with. Parts guide.
“The shield is quad-woven steel. Yours was 1x of angel hair copper. The dielectric is solid, not a noodle. See? (bendy, bendy) Foil shield? Uh, did yours have one? Oh, I see the shredded bit right there!”
Bent the center conductor on his Monster cable with my pinky. “Try that with mine.” Stopped him before he hypodermic-needled himself.
tl;dr: Whatever the cable guy cuts for you is miles above Monster grade.
It’s like Yeti gear. “So you paid $35 for a cup that’s simply a vacuum sealed canister? I got a 6-pack off Amazon for $25. Cute colors too!”
- Comment on Hospital Bill 1961 1 day ago:
I live in America and paid $0 to have both our children. No idea how that worked at the time, but it’s true.
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- Comment on Some billionaires might own yachts so they can get rid of bodies at sea and make people disappear. 3 days ago:
- Comment on The ID_10_ts 3 days ago:
IIT: People who think they’re oh so smart.
Also ITT: Those same people thinking Trump personally hired the people redacting the files.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 4 days ago:
AI code is great for getting over a hump, something you’re stuck on. Used ChatGPT (not the best for coding, I know) to help on a PowerShell script. There was exactly two references on the internet for what I wanted to do (Google Calendar/Sheets integration). Spent hours on the problem.
ChatGPT gave me two things: One solution I didn’t know was a thing, another was a twist I hadn’t thought of. For giggles, I plugged the whole script in. Guess what? Failed instantly. Because of course it did.
No. LLMs don’t write working code. Yes. They can help you, assuming you know what you’re doing in the first place. But here’s the crux of using AI:
It does not, and cannot, give a shit about edge cases, user error and security.
I wrote a simple PS script to swap my TV screens around for work, play and movies. Rolled it out in 30 minutes. Took me 2 more hours to stupid proof it, test it, wrap it an exe, make an icon, deploy it, all that. AI can’t do any of that.
- Comment on Peak technology 4 days ago:
Kids got no imagination these days.
Here’s me, carrying the key to the white castle, while Grundle tries to eat my ass. Thank god it wasn’t Rhindle.
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 5 days ago:
8675309
- Comment on There’s so much stolen data in the world, South Korea will require face scans to buy a SIM 5 days ago:
Changing one’s face enough to fool biometrics is so rare as to be discounted. Those bastard Tleilaxu Face Dancers though!
- Comment on Big Tech Ramps Up Propaganda Blitz As AI Data Centers Become Toxic With Voters 5 days ago:
That’s a small group and composed mainly of younger people who don’t vote. I built my own PCs from 1994 to around 2019. Now few people even own PCs, let alone build and upgrade.
- Comment on YSK about Psyllium husk 5 days ago:
I take a few tablespoons, stir it up in a coffee cup and chug it every night. Even if I miss a day, I’m generally OK, but miss 2 or 3 days, it’s a 2-3 day thing to get back to normal.
- Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation. 5 days ago:
I do that too. genx here… lol
- Comment on We used to drop a couple tabs to find ourselves 5 days ago:
Whenever these stories come out I think I’d be that guy. But once you’re given a description of yourself and your clothing?!
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 5 days ago:
For your detractors, I’d like to point out that nothing stated here in untrue.
The problem is feeding 10’s of thousands of video streams, from a single entity, to the police and government. And now they’re using AI to sort the data, which is a powerful use case for AI.
Were we to magically feed all the webcams and doorbells and security cameras to a single source, it would still be a technological mess to sort out. Flock’s system is purpose built to track us.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 6 days ago:
They’re probably like my little kids. They say they hate onions and eat them anyway. About anything from McDonald’s, chips of nearly every sort, so many foods with onion powder as part of the flavoring.
- Comment on I love Dune! 1 week ago:
Reading it now and you’re exactly on point.
- Comment on I cannot imagine what lawsuit led to this 1 week ago:
You only hear about the ridiculous lawsuits. Local lawyer used to explain it on the radio all the time.
- Media doesn’t report on the 99.98% of boring, and meritorious lawsuits
- Judges toss frivolous cases
- Lawyers are loath to bring frivolous cases due to reputational harm, even disbarment
Our sense of risk is absurdly out of whack with reality.
- Comment on I love Dune! 1 week ago:
Rereading it right now. Fucking bizarre. At this point I just want to see what happens in the last book or two.
- Comment on I love Dune! 1 week ago:
LSD is a whole different game. And you can’t get addicted, impossible. Trip today? Yeah, you’re not tripping again for another couple of days, no matter how much you take.
- Comment on Kevin McCallister and [redacted] 1 week ago:
America was laughing our collective ass off when this hit:
What kills me is GenX and Boomers voting for this conman. We have no excuse not to remember America’s laughing stock, we were there.
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 1 week ago:
Many science fiction stories fall back to using rail for transporting goods. Because it’s efficient. Unless we come up with literal magic like anti-gravity, rail it is.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 1 week ago:
Nothing changed going from IE Edge to Chromium Edge. Say that with a straight face next time.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 1 week ago:
Microsoft: Kills crappy, insecure browser no one used and everyone hated.
Lemmy: BAD!
- Comment on Neanderthals wouldn't be considered a person under U.S law 1 week ago:
That’s what I was taught 35-years ago, but from comments I’ve read, I gather there’s a lot of disagreement in biology these days.
- Comment on Are there supposed to be other options? 1 week ago:
Comments here aren’t helping, are they?
Also, why is everyone wearing 60s clothes?
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 1 week ago:
You’ll love this!
I deployed an open-source chat system at work, just for convenience. Boss was concerned that it didn’t do any logging and we couldn’t tell who said what.
“You don’t have any records of what we say verbally. What’s the difference?”
“…Oh. Well, you’re right.”
He was coming from a legit concern. We didn’t point fingers when someone screwed up, zero blame, but we needed to know exactly what happened so we could fix it.
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 1 week ago:
I’d stand with Big Tech on this one.
“Make me. Dare ya. We’ll pull all UK sales and block your island off the face of the planet. See how that works for ya at the polls. We’re done here.”
