AssPennies
@AssPennies@lemmy.world
- Comment on ‘Overhyped’ generative AI will get a ‘cold shower’ in 2024, analysts predict 1 year ago:
Preacher: Can you read, my son?
Bubbles: Well that depends; can you go fuck yourself?
- Comment on How do we make this happen? 1 year ago:
He’s not our guy, buddy!
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 1 year ago:
OSS’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual, 1944 (declassified)
Good memory, it was the precursor to the CIA.
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 1 year ago:
OSS’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual, 1944
There’s a link at the top for the full pdf. And do note, OSS is Office of Special Services, the WWII precursor to the CIA - not Open Source Software lol.
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 1 year ago:
Subterfuge at work, a fun subject to study.
Some of my favorites from a declassified WWII “simple productivity sabotage” manual:
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Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
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Make “speeches.” Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your “points” by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.
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When possible, refer all matters to committees, for “further study and consideration.” Attempt to make the committee as large as possible — never less than five.
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Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
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Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
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Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
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Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and urge your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable"and avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.
When I first saw these I was like goddamn, psyops got to my executive director!
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- Comment on POV) You use Windows 11 and set up Pihole for the first time. 1 year ago:
I read about some smart tvs computing a hash of what’s on screen to phone home about, in attempt with figuring out what content a user is watching when that content is 3rd party controlled.
We need some privacy laws up in this mother fucker.
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 1 year ago:
stupid clear background thing
In web design that’s called a modal.
- Comment on San Francisco says tiny sleeping 'pods,' which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code 1 year ago:
“And there’s really cool people here!”
Get me a bucket, I’m gonna fucking puke.
- Comment on San Francisco says tiny sleeping 'pods,' which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code 1 year ago:
And living this way isn’t new there, either, it’s an “evolution”.
I can recall a story over a decade ago about google employees renting uhaul trucks to live in, parked on the google campus parking lots. The same article also followed some engineers who were illegally living in rent-a-storage spaces.
So compared to that, it makes these pods look like luxury living, even though they’re all pretty depraved.
Being a software dev myself, I’ll gladly take a lower salary in a low cost-of-living city if it means I can own a house (and not be mortgage poor, either).
- Comment on Windows 12 May Require a Subscription 1 year ago:
If you buy OEM laptop, how would you sell subscription windows with it?
“SomeShittyAntivirus free for 12 months with purchase of this laptop!”
s/SomeShittyAntivirus/Windows/g - Comment on Now that we're finally out of reddit, can we finally get different tag for NSFW and NSFL? 1 year ago:
The first two and the last three are the same
I read that as “all five are the same”. And I’m like damn, don’t want to work in a slaughterhouse if that’s true for you!
- Comment on Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors 1 year ago:
Essentially just setting your intake to -300 calories a day and spending a month in there.
It’s called meth.
- Comment on “Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes 1 year ago:
A moose once bit my sister.
- Comment on Larion Studios forum stores your passwords in unhashed plaintext. 1 year ago:
if you’re using the same password for everything since 91 there’s around a 0% chance that password hasn’t been leaked
Plot twist, they’ve never had their password leaked due to never having a password.
They spend every last waking moment trolling through public or university libraries to find computers that people haven’t logged out of, and are still logged into social media, dialup modems, irc, bbs, mainframes, etc. It’s these accounts they make posts from.
Pretty lonely world when you only ever get to make one comment on one account at max like once a week. And then you never get to check the replies. You never get to check your email either, you don’t know if anyone has sent you and e-card for your birthday.
Oh and not to speak of constantly getting kicked out of those libraries once the librarians recognize you. To the point where you have to move to yet another city to have any online time again.
But hey, they’ve never had their password leak at least!
- Comment on My 3D printed kitchen bags drawer 1 year ago:
I had to squint at the “Quart Bags” one, and was really hoping it said “Queso Bags”.
As in, you had some legit purpose for needing to put Costco brand "Que Bueno’ nacho cheese into a ziploc bag on a regular enough occasion that it warranted 3d printing a dispenser for them.
I think I will ponder this for my nightly meditation as I fall asleep tonight.
- Comment on Starfield, is it getting review bombed? 1 year ago:
That’s how mine are these days. I just noticed that my prescription expires after a year (the paper one), so if I’m tempted to get an updated pair of frames, it’s going to mean an eye exam for me.
- Comment on Starfield, is it getting review bombed? 1 year ago:
They played some minesweeper for 10 minutes.
- Comment on Wyze security camera owners reported that they could briefly see feeds from cameras they didn’t own 1 year ago:
Edit: Tilde
I prefer the call it a floppy hyphen. Though I’m not allowed to use the term in code reviews anymore.
- Comment on According to Elon Musk’s own math, the company formerly known as Twitter has lost 90% of its value and could be worth just $4 billion 1 year ago:
Would you like some making fuck, berzer ker!
- Comment on The cofounder of Google's AI division DeepMind says everybody will have their own AI-powered 'chief of staff' over the next five years 1 year ago:
“The less a man makes declarative statements, the less apt he is to look foolish in retrospect.”
This dude is going to look real foolish in five years (if not already).